AWS CloudFormation Jobs

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited AWS CloudFormation over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 424 529 355
Rank change year-on-year +105 -174 -62
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 276 396 992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.40% 0.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.83% 1.12% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 172 283 637
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £63,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -6.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £110,313 £98,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £121,125 £112,500 £111,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,384 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.79% -10.00% +25.00%

All Cloud Skills
UK

AWS CloudFormation falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,077 35,358 44,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.91% 35.95% 43.04%
Number of salaries quoted 11,032 26,774 29,301
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,125 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,725 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS CloudFormation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS CloudFormation in the UK

AWS CloudFormation
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS CloudFormation.

Salary trend for AWS CloudFormation in the UK

AWS CloudFormation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS CloudFormation in the UK

AWS CloudFormation
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS CloudFormation within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +91 259 £80,000 +6.67% 238
Work from Home +188 157 £72,500 -2.03% 140
London +83 140 £92,500 -2.63% 143
UK excluding London +125 123 £69,384 +2.79% 104
South East +119 39 £60,000 -14.29% 18
North of England +50 36 £69,384 +10.51% 55
North West +25 26 £69,692 +3.25% 34
East of England +63 16 £85,000 +21.43% 1
Midlands +46 14 £67,626 +0.19% 8
East Midlands +40 8 £65,000 +6.12% 6
Scotland +131 7 £55,000 -37.14% 6
Yorkshire +56 6 £75,000 +42.86% 14
West Midlands +45 6 £81,313 +16.16% 2
South West +68 5 £85,000 +54.55% 8
Wales +40 4 £63,250 -2.69% 2
North East +40 4 £69,384 +6.74% 8
Northern Ireland +33 2 - - 6

AWS CloudFormation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (5.07%) Confluence
2 11 (3.99%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.81%) Apache
4 3 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.72%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.72%) nginx
5 2 (0.72%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 3 (1.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.72%) SimCorp Dimension
2 1 (0.36%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 272 (98.55%) AWS
2 114 (41.30%) Serverless
3 112 (40.58%) Azure
4 109 (39.49%) AWS Lambda
5 76 (27.54%) Amazon EKS
5 76 (27.54%) Amazon S3
6 68 (24.64%) Amazon EC2
7 58 (21.01%) Amazon ECS
8 47 (17.03%) GCP
9 46 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
10 29 (10.51%) GitHub
11 26 (9.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 26 (9.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 25 (9.06%) SaaS
13 23 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
14 21 (7.61%) Pulumi
15 16 (5.80%) AWS CodeBuild
16 14 (5.07%) Amazon Kinesis
17 13 (4.71%) Amazon ECR
17 13 (4.71%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (8.70%) Network Security
2 15 (5.43%) TCP/IP
3 13 (4.71%) Firewall
4 11 (3.99%) VPN
5 5 (1.81%) BGP
5 5 (1.81%) DNS
5 5 (1.81%) SSL
6 4 (1.45%) Internet
6 4 (1.45%) IPsec
6 4 (1.45%) OSPF
6 4 (1.45%) VoIP
7 2 (0.72%) IPv6
7 2 (0.72%) Multicast
7 2 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.36%) NAS
8 1 (0.36%) SAN
8 1 (0.36%) SNMP
8 1 (0.36%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (27.54%) Elasticsearch
2 75 (27.17%) Amazon RDS
3 54 (19.57%) Amazon Redshift
4 26 (9.42%) NoSQL
5 20 (7.25%) DynamoDB
6 17 (6.16%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (5.43%) MongoDB
8 13 (4.71%) Redis
9 12 (4.35%) Relational Database
10 10 (3.62%) Big Data
11 9 (3.26%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (2.90%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (1.81%) Data Lake
14 4 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (1.45%) MySQL
15 3 (1.09%) Hadoop
15 3 (1.09%) SQL Server
16 2 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
16 2 (0.72%) Flink
16 2 (0.72%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 55 (19.93%) Jenkins
2 27 (9.78%) GitLab
3 21 (7.61%) Artifactory
3 21 (7.61%) Git
4 14 (5.07%) CircleCI
5 13 (4.71%) JIRA
6 11 (3.99%) Bitbucket
7 9 (3.26%) Gradle
8 8 (2.90%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.90%) git-flow
9 4 (1.45%) Storybook
10 3 (1.09%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.72%) Apache Archiva
11 2 (0.72%) Checkstyle
11 2 (0.72%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.72%) Spinnaker
12 1 (0.36%) IBM UrbanCode
12 1 (0.36%) TestRail
12 1 (0.36%) Travis CI
General
1 78 (28.26%) Social Skills
2 76 (27.54%) Finance
3 66 (23.91%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (22.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 45 (16.30%) Banking
6 36 (13.04%) Front Office
7 14 (5.07%) Law
8 6 (2.17%) Advertising
9 4 (1.45%) Games
9 4 (1.45%) Marketing
9 4 (1.45%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.09%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.72%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.72%) Local Government
12 1 (0.36%) Aviation
12 1 (0.36%) Electronics
12 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.36%) Military
12 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 82 (29.71%) AWS Engineer
2 68 (24.64%) Senior
3 67 (24.28%) Developer
4 60 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
5 49 (17.75%) Software Developer
6 47 (17.03%) AWS DevOps
7 44 (15.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 39 (14.13%) Architect
9 33 (11.96%) Lead
10 30 (10.87%) Python Engineer
11 27 (9.78%) DevOps Manager
12 26 (9.42%) Finance Manager
13 25 (9.06%) Cloud Architect
14 24 (8.70%) Senior DevOps
14 24 (8.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 24 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 23 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
16 20 (7.25%) AWS Architect
17 18 (6.52%) Kubernetes Engineer
18 16 (5.80%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (22.46%) Node.js
2 57 (20.65%) .NET
3 49 (17.75%) Pandas
4 41 (14.86%) Kafka
5 29 (10.51%) Elastic Stack
6 18 (6.52%) AWS CDK
7 15 (5.43%) RabbitMQ
8 12 (4.35%) Django
8 12 (4.35%) RESTful
9 10 (3.62%) J2EE
10 9 (3.26%) GraphQL
10 9 (3.26%) React
10 9 (3.26%) REST
10 9 (3.26%) Spring Boot
10 9 (3.26%) Web Services
11 8 (2.90%) Drools
12 7 (2.54%) ARM Templates
12 7 (2.54%) YAML
13 6 (2.17%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.17%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 49 (17.75%) Cyberattack
2 35 (12.68%) Cloud Native
3 21 (7.61%) Management Information System
4 13 (4.71%) Legacy Code
5 11 (3.99%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (3.62%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (3.62%) Tandem
7 8 (2.90%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.54%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.17%) Blockchain
9 6 (2.17%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.17%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.81%) CMDB
10 5 (1.81%) Web3
11 4 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.45%) IVR
12 3 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (0.72%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.72%) IoT
13 2 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 78 (28.26%) Linux
2 49 (17.75%) Android
3 14 (5.07%) Unix
4 7 (2.54%) Windows
5 2 (0.72%) VMS
6 1 (0.36%) Debian
6 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (77.54%) CI/CD
2 148 (53.62%) DevOps
3 139 (50.36%) Agile
4 128 (46.38%) Software Engineering
5 121 (43.84%) Infrastructure as Code
6 120 (43.48%) Containerisation
7 74 (26.81%) Design Patterns
8 65 (23.55%) Microservices
9 58 (21.01%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 56 (20.29%) Collaborative Working
10 56 (20.29%) Mentoring
11 54 (19.57%) Kanban
12 52 (18.84%) Mathematics
12 52 (18.84%) OO
13 51 (18.48%) OOP
14 50 (18.12%) Line Management
14 50 (18.12%) OWASP
14 50 (18.12%) Secure Coding
15 49 (17.75%) Android Development
15 49 (17.75%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 189 (68.48%) Python
2 105 (38.04%) Java
2 105 (38.04%) JavaScript
3 83 (30.07%) Go
4 50 (18.12%) Rust
5 49 (17.75%) C++
6 40 (14.49%) Bash
7 26 (9.42%) TypeScript
8 17 (6.16%) SQL
9 13 (4.71%) PowerShell
10 12 (4.35%) C#
11 9 (3.26%) Scala
12 6 (2.17%) Bicep
13 5 (1.81%) PHP
14 4 (1.45%) Ruby
15 1 (0.36%) Groovy
15 1 (0.36%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.36%) R
15 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 92 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 54 (19.57%) DV Cleared
3 42 (15.22%) AWS Certification
4 32 (11.59%) SC Cleared
5 24 (8.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 22 (7.97%) Degree
7 14 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.90%) OCP
8 8 (2.90%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (0.72%) CCNP
9 2 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.36%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.06%) GDPR
2 19 (6.88%) HIPAA
3 8 (2.90%) PCI DSS
3 8 (2.90%) QA
4 7 (2.54%) NIST
5 6 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.09%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 168 (60.87%) Docker
2 2 (0.72%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 223 (80.80%) Terraform
2 178 (64.49%) Kubernetes
3 96 (34.78%) Ansible
4 40 (14.49%) Prometheus
5 39 (14.13%) Grafana
6 11 (3.99%) AWS Copilot
7 9 (3.26%) Argo
8 6 (2.17%) CASB
8 6 (2.17%) Consul
8 6 (2.17%) Puppet
9 5 (1.81%) Istio
10 4 (1.45%) Progress Chef
11 3 (1.09%) Kustomize
11 3 (1.09%) Salt
11 3 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.72%) Kibana
12 2 (0.72%) logstash
12 2 (0.72%) Packer
13 1 (0.36%) Check_MK
13 1 (0.36%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 26 (9.42%) Google
2 10 (3.62%) Microsoft
3 7 (2.54%) Hitachi
4 6 (2.17%) Splunk
5 5 (1.81%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.09%) Databricks
6 3 (1.09%) New Relic
6 3 (1.09%) Okta
7 2 (0.72%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.72%) Cisco
7 2 (0.72%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.72%) Informatica
7 2 (0.72%) Juniper
7 2 (0.72%) SimCorp
7 2 (0.72%) Talend
7 2 (0.72%) VMware
8 1 (0.36%) Adobe
8 1 (0.36%) F5
8 1 (0.36%) Imperva
8 1 (0.36%) SAP