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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 380 534
Rank change year-on-year -24 +154 -191
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 348 285 370
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.68% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.26% 1.88% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 202 183 284
10th Percentile £53,824 £56,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,688 £62,500 £63,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £112,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £109,750 £122,250 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,151 £69,250 £67,500
% change year-on-year +5.63% +2.59% -10.00%

All Cloud Computing 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 27,603 15,173 34,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.44% 36.18% 36.10%
Number of salaries quoted 14,250 11,138 26,661
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,188 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AWS CloudFormation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

AWS CloudFormation job vacancy trend 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 22 April 2026.

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 22 April 2026. 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 -29 312 £77,500 -3.13% 99
UK excluding London -21 187 £73,151 +5.63% 69
London -6 140 £85,000 -8.11% 38
North of England +32 120 £75,000 +8.09% 25
Work from Home -42 110 £72,500 -1.69% 57
Yorkshire +19 84 £73,750 -1.67% 9
North West -20 32 £80,000 +14.79% 13
Midlands -39 23 £50,000 -24.60% 5
East Midlands -44 12 £63,750 -1.92% 2
West Midlands -20 11 £50,000 -38.51% 3
South West -49 11 £71,250 -1.72% 15
South East -70 11 £70,000 +16.67% 13
Wales -17 7 £68,958 +9.02% 1
Scotland -17 7 £73,801 +34.18% 4
Northern Ireland -34 6 £95,000 - 1
North East -42 4 £73,801 +6.37% 3
East of England -42 2 £82,500 -2.94% 6

AWS CloudFormation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 19 (5.46%) Apache
2 8 (2.30%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.86%) JBoss
5 2 (0.57%) Confluence
6 1 (0.29%) Drupal
6 1 (0.29%) IIS
6 1 (0.29%) nginx
6 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 328 (94.25%) AWS
2 193 (55.46%) Serverless
3 168 (48.28%) AWS Lambda
4 124 (35.63%) Azure
5 122 (35.06%) Amazon S3
6 107 (30.75%) Amazon ECS
7 88 (25.29%) AWS Step Functions
8 80 (22.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 76 (21.84%) GCP
9 76 (21.84%) GitHub
10 59 (16.95%) GitHub Actions
11 57 (16.38%) Amazon ECR
11 57 (16.38%) Amazon EKS
12 56 (16.09%) Datadog
13 47 (13.51%) Amazon SQS
14 41 (11.78%) Apigee
15 36 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
16 34 (9.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 29 (8.33%) Pulumi
18 27 (7.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.75%) TCP/IP
2 15 (4.31%) Firewall
3 13 (3.74%) DSL
3 13 (3.74%) VPN
4 7 (2.01%) DNS
4 7 (2.01%) Network Security
5 5 (1.44%) AMQP
5 5 (1.44%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.86%) SCCP
7 2 (0.57%) HTTP
8 1 (0.29%) 4G
8 1 (0.29%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (31.61%) DynamoDB
2 76 (21.84%) NoSQL
3 58 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
4 37 (10.63%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (7.47%) Amazon Athena
6 25 (7.18%) Elasticsearch
7 17 (4.89%) Redis
8 13 (3.74%) SQL Server
9 9 (2.59%) MySQL
10 6 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (1.72%) Big Data
10 6 (1.72%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.44%) Cloudera CDH
11 5 (1.44%) Flink
11 5 (1.44%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (0.57%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.57%) Metadata
13 2 (0.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 133 (38.22%) GitLab
2 129 (37.07%) Jenkins
3 60 (17.24%) Git
4 45 (12.93%) Maven
5 44 (12.64%) SonarQube
6 40 (11.49%) Cypress.io
7 24 (6.90%) CircleCI
8 12 (3.45%) Bitbucket
8 12 (3.45%) Cucumber
9 7 (2.01%) TeamCity
10 6 (1.72%) JIRA
11 4 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.15%) Selenium
12 3 (0.86%) git-flow
12 3 (0.86%) Gradle
12 3 (0.86%) JMeter
12 3 (0.86%) Robot Framework
13 2 (0.57%) Eclipse
14 1 (0.29%) Subversion
14 1 (0.29%) Vagrant
General
1 114 (32.76%) Social Skills
2 68 (19.54%) Finance
3 27 (7.76%) Banking
4 14 (4.02%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (3.16%) Aerospace
7 9 (2.59%) Advertising
7 9 (2.59%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.01%) Retail
9 6 (1.72%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.72%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.44%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.15%) Billing
11 4 (1.15%) Law
11 4 (1.15%) Mandarin Language
12 3 (0.86%) Aviation
12 3 (0.86%) Back Office
13 2 (0.57%) Electronics
13 2 (0.57%) Games
13 2 (0.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 102 (29.31%) Developer
2 70 (20.11%) Senior
3 68 (19.54%) Cloud Engineer
4 56 (16.09%) Java Developer
5 53 (15.23%) DevOps Engineer
6 33 (9.48%) AWS Engineer
7 31 (8.91%) Lead
8 29 (8.33%) Senior Developer
9 28 (8.05%) Platform Engineer
10 27 (7.76%) AWS Developer
11 22 (6.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 22 (6.32%) Security Engineer
12 21 (6.03%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 18 (5.17%) AWS DevOps
14 17 (4.89%) Architect
15 15 (4.31%) AWS Architect
15 15 (4.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 15 (4.31%) Full-Stack Developer
16 13 (3.74%) AWS Security Architect
16 13 (3.74%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (20.69%) AngularJS
2 65 (18.68%) Spring Boot
3 59 (16.95%) Node.js
4 56 (16.09%) AWS CDK
5 46 (13.22%) Kafka
6 43 (12.36%) React
7 40 (11.49%) Gherkin
7 40 (11.49%) Jest
7 40 (11.49%) RESTful
8 35 (10.06%) Spring
9 22 (6.32%) RabbitMQ
10 19 (5.46%) gRPC
11 18 (5.17%) Elastic Stack
11 18 (5.17%) Next.js
11 18 (5.17%) web3js
12 17 (4.89%) .NET
13 16 (4.60%) Django
13 16 (4.60%) REST
14 13 (3.74%) ASP.NET
14 13 (3.74%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 101 (29.02%) Cloud Native
2 30 (8.62%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (6.32%) Security Posture
4 20 (5.75%) Public Cloud
5 18 (5.17%) Blockchain
5 18 (5.17%) Web3
6 13 (3.74%) Cloud Security Posture
6 13 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (3.16%) PKI
8 11 (3.16%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.30%) e-Learning
10 6 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.44%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.86%) Cyber Security Posture
13 3 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 75 (21.55%) Linux
2 25 (7.18%) Windows
3 21 (6.03%) Unix
4 16 (4.60%) Ubuntu
5 12 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (3.16%) CentOS
7 5 (1.44%) Debian
7 5 (1.44%) VMS
7 5 (1.44%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.86%) Android
8 3 (0.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (74.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 253 (72.70%) CI/CD
3 235 (67.53%) DevOps
4 154 (44.25%) Agile
5 120 (34.48%) Containerisation
6 93 (26.72%) Problem-Solving
7 79 (22.70%) Microservices
8 75 (21.55%) Observability
9 73 (20.98%) Continuous Improvement
10 69 (19.83%) Mentoring
11 67 (19.25%) Cloud Security
12 63 (18.10%) DevSecOps
13 58 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
14 54 (15.52%) Software Engineering
15 53 (15.23%) Platform Engineering
16 48 (13.79%) Test Automation
17 43 (12.36%) Clean Code
18 42 (12.07%) Full-Stack Development
19 39 (11.21%) Incident Response
19 39 (11.21%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 152 (43.68%) Python
2 124 (35.63%) Java
3 91 (26.15%) TypeScript
4 81 (23.28%) Bash
5 79 (22.70%) SQL
6 45 (12.93%) Go
7 43 (12.36%) Groovy
8 35 (10.06%) JavaScript
8 35 (10.06%) Kotlin
9 22 (6.32%) C#
9 22 (6.32%) PowerShell
10 13 (3.74%) Rust
11 10 (2.87%) C++
12 9 (2.59%) Bicep
13 7 (2.01%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.29%) PHP
14 1 (0.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 88 (25.29%) Security Cleared
2 80 (22.99%) AWS Certification
3 46 (13.22%) SC Cleared
4 34 (9.77%) Degree
5 29 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 28 (8.05%) DV Cleared
7 26 (7.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 25 (7.18%) AWS Certified Developer
9 24 (6.90%) ITIL Certification
10 16 (4.60%) OSCP
11 13 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
12 10 (2.87%) Azure Certification
13 7 (2.01%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 5 (1.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (1.15%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.86%) CREST Certified
16 3 (0.86%) Master's Degree
16 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
17 1 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
17 1 (0.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.32%) NIST
2 16 (4.60%) PCI DSS
3 14 (4.02%) GDPR
4 10 (2.87%) SOC 2
5 7 (2.01%) QA
6 6 (1.72%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.29%) Basel III
7 1 (0.29%) HL7
7 1 (0.29%) MiFID
7 1 (0.29%) NCSC
7 1 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 191 (54.89%) Docker
2 7 (2.01%) KVM
2 7 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 244 (70.11%) Terraform
2 140 (40.23%) Kubernetes
3 71 (20.40%) Ansible
4 46 (13.22%) Grafana
4 46 (13.22%) Prometheus
5 40 (11.49%) HP Fortify
6 17 (4.89%) Argo
7 10 (2.87%) AWS Copilot
7 10 (2.87%) Docker Swarm
8 9 (2.59%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (2.30%) Istio
9 8 (2.30%) linkerd
9 8 (2.30%) Mesos
10 7 (2.01%) Puppet
11 5 (1.44%) Rancher
12 4 (1.15%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.29%) Consul
14 1 (0.29%) Nessus
14 1 (0.29%) Packer
Vendors
1 38 (10.92%) Google
2 18 (5.17%) Microsoft
3 7 (2.01%) Splunk
3 7 (2.01%) VMware
4 6 (1.72%) Red Hat
5 5 (1.44%) HubSpot
5 5 (1.44%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.15%) PagerDuty
7 3 (0.86%) Oracle
7 3 (0.86%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.86%) SolarWinds
8 2 (0.57%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.57%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (0.57%) Ping Identity
8 2 (0.57%) SAP
9 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.29%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.29%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.29%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.29%) Tenable