Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for AWS CloudFormation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited AWS CloudFormation over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 349 300
Rank change year-on-year -186 -49 -26
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 394 1,009 2,111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.96% 1.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.12% 2.24% 2.85%
Number of salaries quoted 281 647 1,048
10th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% +20.83%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,125 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +25.00% +4.35%

All Cloud Skills
UK

AWS CloudFormation is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,208 45,118 74,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.91% 43.11% 48.06%
Number of salaries quoted 26,662 29,500 41,930
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 -159 363 £75,000 -6.25% 81
UK excluding London -155 207 £67,500 -10.00% 57
London -81 162 £95,000 +11.76% 34
Work from Home -135 142 £72,000 -7.10% 69
North of England -42 70 £62,783 -21.52% 18
South West -7 52 £55,000 -16.98% 9
North West -41 34 £67,500 -16.92% 9
South East -71 33 £70,000 +7.69% 5
Midlands -2 28 £67,500 - 9
Yorkshire +41 20 £52,500 -30.00% 5
East Midlands - 17 £61,250 - 4
North East +6 16 £65,000 -7.14% 4
East of England +21 11 £70,000 - 1
West Midlands -1 11 £68,750 +1.85% 5
Northern Ireland +35 5 £70,000 -6.67% 6
Wales +14 4 £65,000 +2.12% 1
Scotland -93 4 £87,500 +16.67% 9

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 37 (9.39%) Apache Spark
2 31 (7.87%) Apache
3 26 (6.60%) Confluence
4 3 (0.76%) Drupal
4 3 (0.76%) nginx
4 3 (0.76%) WordPress
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.25%) CMS
5 1 (0.25%) Jetty
5 1 (0.25%) Moodle
5 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Magento
1 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 367 (93.15%) AWS
2 187 (47.46%) Serverless
3 168 (42.64%) AWS Lambda
4 151 (38.32%) Azure
5 145 (36.80%) Amazon S3
6 124 (31.47%) Amazon EC2
7 82 (20.81%) Amazon ECS
8 81 (20.56%) GCP
9 75 (19.04%) Amazon EKS
10 67 (17.01%) GitHub
11 65 (16.50%) Amazon SQS
11 65 (16.50%) OpenShift
12 55 (13.96%) Azure DevOps
13 53 (13.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 53 (13.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 37 (9.39%) Route 53
15 32 (8.12%) CloudFront
15 32 (8.12%) SaaS
16 23 (5.84%) AWS Fargate
17 21 (5.33%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 42 (10.66%) DNS
2 32 (8.12%) HTTP
2 32 (8.12%) TCP/IP
3 29 (7.36%) DHCP
4 24 (6.09%) AMQP
5 23 (5.84%) Firewall
6 10 (2.54%) VPN
7 4 (1.02%) Network Security
8 3 (0.76%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.76%) Internet
8 3 (0.76%) SSL
9 2 (0.51%) DKIM
9 2 (0.51%) DMARC
9 2 (0.51%) IPv4
9 2 (0.51%) OSPF
9 2 (0.51%) SMTP
9 2 (0.51%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (24.87%) Amazon RDS
2 47 (11.93%) Amazon Redshift
3 41 (10.41%) DynamoDB
4 28 (7.11%) Big Data
5 24 (6.09%) Cloudera CDH
5 24 (6.09%) Hadoop
6 20 (5.08%) MySQL
7 19 (4.82%) NoSQL
8 13 (3.30%) InfluxDB
9 12 (3.05%) Redis
10 11 (2.79%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (2.54%) SQL Server
12 9 (2.28%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (2.03%) Couchbase
14 6 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
14 6 (1.52%) Relational Database
15 5 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
16 4 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
16 4 (1.02%) MongoDB
16 4 (1.02%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 120 (30.46%) Jenkins
2 49 (12.44%) Git
3 46 (11.68%) GitLab
4 37 (9.39%) Artifactory
5 27 (6.85%) JIRA
6 20 (5.08%) Bitbucket
7 17 (4.31%) Sonatype Nexus
8 13 (3.30%) SonarQube
9 10 (2.54%) Subversion
10 9 (2.28%) TeamCity
11 7 (1.78%) CircleCI
11 7 (1.78%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (1.02%) Spinnaker
13 3 (0.76%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.76%) git-flow
14 2 (0.51%) Burp Suite
14 2 (0.51%) JMeter
14 2 (0.51%) JUnit
14 2 (0.51%) Maven
14 2 (0.51%) Metasploit
General
1 98 (24.87%) Finance
2 97 (24.62%) Social Skills
3 41 (10.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (9.14%) Front Office
5 24 (6.09%) Aerospace
6 16 (4.06%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (3.55%) Automotive
8 11 (2.79%) Banking
9 10 (2.54%) Law
10 9 (2.28%) Retail
11 8 (2.03%) Games
11 8 (2.03%) Public Sector
12 7 (1.78%) Health Technology
12 7 (1.78%) Tech for Good
13 5 (1.27%) Marketing
14 4 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.02%) Publishing
15 2 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
16 1 (0.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 132 (33.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 122 (30.96%) AWS Engineer
3 97 (24.62%) Senior
4 80 (20.30%) AWS DevOps
5 70 (17.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 56 (14.21%) Cloud Engineer
7 55 (13.96%) Architect
8 43 (10.91%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 42 (10.66%) Solutions Architect
10 40 (10.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 39 (9.90%) Cloud Architect
12 38 (9.64%) Lead
13 36 (9.14%) Developer
13 36 (9.14%) Software Engineer
14 27 (6.85%) Cloud Solutions Architect
14 27 (6.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 25 (6.35%) Senior Architect
16 24 (6.09%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
17 22 (5.58%) Senior DevOps
17 22 (5.58%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (11.68%) Node.js
2 39 (9.90%) React
3 36 (9.14%) J2EE
4 35 (8.88%) SAML
5 34 (8.63%) .NET
5 34 (8.63%) AWS CDK
5 34 (8.63%) HTML
6 31 (7.87%) Elastic Stack
7 30 (7.61%) OpenAPI
7 30 (7.61%) Swagger
8 29 (7.36%) OpenID
8 29 (7.36%) REST
9 28 (7.11%) AngularJS
10 26 (6.60%) Spring
10 26 (6.60%) Spring Boot
11 25 (6.35%) RabbitMQ
12 24 (6.09%) gRPC
12 24 (6.09%) Material-UI
13 11 (2.79%) PySpark
14 8 (2.03%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 73 (18.53%) Cloud Native
2 36 (9.14%) Tandem
3 34 (8.63%) Public Cloud
4 29 (7.36%) Cyberattack
5 23 (5.84%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (4.57%) IoT
7 16 (4.06%) Client/Server
7 16 (4.06%) Mobile App
8 11 (2.79%) Data Centre
9 10 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (2.03%) Blog
12 7 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (1.52%) Hedge funds
14 5 (1.27%) PKI
14 5 (1.27%) Social Media
15 4 (1.02%) Blockchain
15 4 (1.02%) Graphic Design
15 4 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
15 4 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 99 (25.13%) Linux
2 35 (8.88%) Windows
3 29 (7.36%) Ubuntu
4 28 (7.11%) Debian
5 25 (6.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (6.09%) CentOS
7 6 (1.52%) Unix
7 6 (1.52%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.76%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.76%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.51%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (71.32%) Infrastructure as Code
2 251 (63.71%) DevOps
3 206 (52.28%) CI/CD
4 195 (49.49%) Agile
5 121 (30.71%) Containerisation
6 113 (28.68%) Software Engineering
7 90 (22.84%) Microservices
8 71 (18.02%) Open Source
9 58 (14.72%) Configuration Management
10 56 (14.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 54 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
12 51 (12.94%) Deployment Automation
13 49 (12.44%) Scrum
14 48 (12.18%) Cloud Security
14 48 (12.18%) Decision-Making
15 47 (11.93%) DevSecOps
16 44 (11.17%) Continuous Integration
16 44 (11.17%) Scaled Agile Framework
17 43 (10.91%) SDLC
17 43 (10.91%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 194 (49.24%) Python
2 122 (30.96%) Java
3 64 (16.24%) Bash
4 59 (14.97%) JavaScript
5 54 (13.71%) Go
6 45 (11.42%) PowerShell
7 38 (9.64%) C#
8 28 (7.11%) SQL
9 19 (4.82%) TypeScript
10 14 (3.55%) PHP
11 12 (3.05%) Shell Script
12 11 (2.79%) Ruby
13 8 (2.03%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.52%) R
15 5 (1.27%) Scala
16 4 (1.02%) C
16 4 (1.02%) C++
16 4 (1.02%) Groovy
17 2 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 97 (24.62%) Security Cleared
2 93 (23.60%) AWS Certification
3 65 (16.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 64 (16.24%) SC Cleared
5 55 (13.96%) DV Cleared
6 39 (9.90%) Degree
7 28 (7.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (4.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 16 (4.06%) AWS Certified Developer
10 14 (3.55%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.27%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.76%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.05%) Accessibility
2 7 (1.78%) NIST
3 5 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.76%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.76%) QA
4 3 (0.76%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.25%) GDPR
6 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 176 (44.67%) Docker
2 15 (3.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (3.55%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (2.03%) KVM
5 2 (0.51%) Firmware
6 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 332 (84.26%) Terraform
2 213 (54.06%) Kubernetes
3 96 (24.37%) Ansible
4 46 (11.68%) Puppet
5 45 (11.42%) Grafana
6 40 (10.15%) Prometheus
7 20 (5.08%) Progress Chef
8 14 (3.55%) Packer
9 8 (2.03%) Salt
10 4 (1.02%) Consul
10 4 (1.02%) Rancher
11 3 (0.76%) Argo
12 2 (0.51%) CSIRT
12 2 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.25%) Cacti
13 1 (0.25%) Istio
13 1 (0.25%) Kibana
13 1 (0.25%) Nagios
13 1 (0.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 58 (14.72%) Google
2 26 (6.60%) Red Hat
3 24 (6.09%) SaltStack
4 17 (4.31%) Microsoft
4 17 (4.31%) VMware
5 14 (3.55%) Atlassian
5 14 (3.55%) ForgeRock
5 14 (3.55%) Sitecore
5 14 (3.55%) Splunk
6 8 (2.03%) Cisco
7 7 (1.78%) Databricks
8 4 (1.02%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.02%) New Relic
9 3 (0.76%) Rackspace
9 3 (0.76%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.25%) Citrix
10 1 (0.25%) Hitachi
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle
10 1 (0.25%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.25%) SAP