AWS CloudFormation Job Trends

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 460 552 364
Rank change year-on-year +92 -188 -76
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 227 248 513
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.32% 0.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.45% 1.00% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 136 183 430
10th Percentile £52,000 £50,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.63% -5.33% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,625 £107,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -

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 15,669 24,694 25,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.68% 31.62% 42.43%
Number of salaries quoted 10,603 15,772 21,307
10th Percentile £29,750 £34,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £45,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS CloudFormation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS CloudFormation in the UK

AWS CloudFormation
Top 15 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 18 September 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 +95 210 £75,000 +7.14% 158
Work from Home +93 125 £75,000 - 57
London +95 103 £81,500 -10.68% 85
UK excluding London +67 103 £70,000 +7.69% 106
North of England +8 44 £67,500 +12.50% 31
South East +58 24 £87,500 +40.00% 36
North West 0 24 £60,000 -4.00% 17
Yorkshire +28 20 £70,000 +33.33% 10
East of England +1 16 £75,000 +20.00% 1
Midlands +27 11 £55,000 -24.14% 15
West Midlands +34 8 £55,000 -24.14% 5
South West +57 5 £90,000 +56.52% 12
East Midlands +21 3 - - 10
Wales +17 3 £55,000 -18.10%
Scotland +36 2 £48,000 -36.00% 7

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 11 (4.85%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.52%) Apache
3 7 (3.08%) Confluence
4 6 (2.64%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.76%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.76%) WebSphere
5 4 (1.76%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (1.32%) nginx
7 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 215 (94.71%) AWS
2 111 (48.90%) Azure
3 86 (37.89%) Amazon EKS
4 78 (34.36%) Serverless
5 74 (32.60%) AWS Lambda
6 52 (22.91%) Amazon S3
7 49 (21.59%) Amazon EC2
8 47 (20.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 36 (15.86%) GCP
9 36 (15.86%) GitHub
10 35 (15.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 25 (11.01%) Amazon ECS
11 25 (11.01%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (7.93%) AWS Step Functions
13 15 (6.61%) Route 53
14 14 (6.17%) Datadog
15 12 (5.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 12 (5.29%) Azure DevOps
16 10 (4.41%) AWS KMS
16 10 (4.41%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.61%) Firewall
2 13 (5.73%) Network Security
3 7 (3.08%) DNS
3 7 (3.08%) VPN
4 5 (2.20%) SSL
5 4 (1.76%) LAN
5 4 (1.76%) WAN
6 2 (0.88%) DHCP
6 2 (0.88%) NAS
6 2 (0.88%) SAN
6 2 (0.88%) SNMP
6 2 (0.88%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.44%) HTTP
7 1 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.44%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (22.91%) Elasticsearch
2 31 (13.66%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (8.37%) Amazon Redshift
4 17 (7.49%) Amazon Athena
5 15 (6.61%) DynamoDB
6 11 (4.85%) NoSQL
7 10 (4.41%) Big Data
7 10 (4.41%) Data Lake
8 8 (3.52%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (1.76%) DB2
11 4 (1.76%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.88%) Apache Iceberg
12 2 (0.88%) Data Vault
12 2 (0.88%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.88%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.88%) Relational Database
13 1 (0.44%) Presto
13 1 (0.44%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 55 (24.23%) Jenkins
2 33 (14.54%) GitLab
3 16 (7.05%) CircleCI
4 11 (4.85%) JIRA
5 8 (3.52%) Git
6 5 (2.20%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.76%) Spinnaker
8 2 (0.88%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.88%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.44%) Gradle
9 1 (0.44%) Maven
9 1 (0.44%) Vagrant
General
1 59 (25.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 56 (24.67%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (19.38%) Social Skills
4 41 (18.06%) Finance
5 14 (6.17%) Law
6 12 (5.29%) Banking
7 9 (3.96%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.08%) Advertising
9 6 (2.64%) Marketing
10 4 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.88%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.44%) Aviation
12 1 (0.44%) Electronics
12 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (27.75%) Developer
2 59 (25.99%) Senior
3 49 (21.59%) Software Developer
4 44 (19.38%) AWS Engineer
5 37 (16.30%) DevOps Engineer
6 32 (14.10%) Cloud Engineer
7 19 (8.37%) Platform Engineer
8 18 (7.93%) AWS DevOps
8 18 (7.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 18 (7.93%) Data Engineer
9 16 (7.05%) Lead
10 15 (6.61%) Architect
11 13 (5.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 13 (5.73%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 12 (5.29%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 12 (5.29%) Cloud Architect
12 12 (5.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 10 (4.41%) Senior DevOps
13 10 (4.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 9 (3.96%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (23.79%) Pandas
2 53 (23.35%) Node.js
3 52 (22.91%) .NET
4 24 (10.57%) Elastic Stack
5 20 (8.81%) Kafka
6 19 (8.37%) AWS CDK
7 8 (3.52%) Loki
8 7 (3.08%) REST
9 6 (2.64%) RESTful
9 6 (2.64%) Web Services
10 5 (2.20%) OAuth
10 5 (2.20%) SAML
10 5 (2.20%) SOAP
11 4 (1.76%) AngularJS
11 4 (1.76%) LAPP Stack
11 4 (1.76%) LDAP
11 4 (1.76%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (1.76%) Spring
11 4 (1.76%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.76%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 50 (22.03%) Cyberattack
2 30 (13.22%) Cloud Native
3 9 (3.96%) Public Cloud
4 7 (3.08%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.08%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.20%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.20%) Blockchain
5 5 (2.20%) CMDB
5 5 (2.20%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.76%) Web3
7 3 (1.32%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.32%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 98 (43.17%) Linux
2 49 (21.59%) Android
3 17 (7.49%) Windows
4 13 (5.73%) Unix
5 8 (3.52%) Debian
5 8 (3.52%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (75.77%) CI/CD
2 140 (61.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 116 (51.10%) DevOps
4 109 (48.02%) Containerisation
5 85 (37.44%) Agile
6 76 (33.48%) Software Engineering
7 55 (24.23%) Design Patterns
8 54 (23.79%) Collaborative Working
8 54 (23.79%) Problem-Solving
9 53 (23.35%) Secure Coding
10 52 (22.91%) Kanban
10 52 (22.91%) OO
11 50 (22.03%) Line Management
11 50 (22.03%) OWASP
12 49 (21.59%) Android Development
12 49 (21.59%) Mathematics
12 49 (21.59%) OOP
12 49 (21.59%) Statistics
13 39 (17.18%) Observability
14 35 (15.42%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 160 (70.48%) Python
2 80 (35.24%) Go
3 75 (33.04%) Java
4 70 (30.84%) JavaScript
5 63 (27.75%) Bash
6 49 (21.59%) C++
6 49 (21.59%) Rust
7 28 (12.33%) SQL
8 22 (9.69%) PowerShell
9 13 (5.73%) TypeScript
10 11 (4.85%) Bicep
11 6 (2.64%) C#
12 5 (2.20%) Scala
13 3 (1.32%) PHP
14 2 (0.88%) Groovy
15 1 (0.44%) R
15 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 82 (36.12%) Security Cleared
2 55 (24.23%) DV Cleared
3 43 (18.94%) AWS Certification
4 24 (10.57%) SC Cleared
5 19 (8.37%) Degree
6 18 (7.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (3.96%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.76%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (0.88%) CISA
10 2 (0.88%) CISM
10 2 (0.88%) CISSP
10 2 (0.88%) CRISC
10 2 (0.88%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.17%) GDPR
2 10 (4.41%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.52%) QA
4 7 (3.08%) HIPAA
5 6 (2.64%) SLA
6 4 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.88%) NIST
7 2 (0.88%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 123 (54.19%) Docker
2 7 (3.08%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.76%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.88%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.88%) Terminal Server
4 2 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.44%) vCloud
5 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 193 (85.02%) Terraform
2 133 (58.59%) Kubernetes
3 103 (45.37%) Ansible
4 59 (25.99%) Grafana
5 40 (17.62%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.64%) Argo
7 5 (2.20%) Kubeflow
7 5 (2.20%) Puppet
8 3 (1.32%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.88%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.88%) Istio
9 2 (0.88%) Kibana
9 2 (0.88%) linkerd
9 2 (0.88%) logstash
9 2 (0.88%) Salt
10 1 (0.44%) Bugsnag
10 1 (0.44%) Consul
10 1 (0.44%) Nagios
10 1 (0.44%) Packer
10 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (8.81%) Splunk
2 14 (6.17%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.85%) Google
4 8 (3.52%) Hitachi
5 6 (2.64%) Databricks
6 5 (2.20%) IBM
6 5 (2.20%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.76%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.32%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.32%) Citrix
8 3 (1.32%) Foundry
8 3 (1.32%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (1.32%) VMware
9 2 (0.88%) F5
9 2 (0.88%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.88%) Rapid7
9 2 (0.88%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.44%) Qualys
10 1 (0.44%) SAP
10 1 (0.44%) Talend