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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 466 407
Rank change year-on-year +64 -59 -100
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 263 257 335
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.48% 0.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 1.32% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 179 194 266
10th Percentile £50,750 £52,500 £52,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £78,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +4.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £87,500 £112,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £101,000 £122,500 £118,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,750 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +6.30% - -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 20,588 19,411 22,339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.15% 36.22% 40.28%
Number of salaries quoted 11,279 11,427 18,304
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,331 £46,713 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,625 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS CloudFormation in the UK

AWS CloudFormation
Top 16 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 15 January 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 +46 214 £75,000 -5.66% 148
UK excluding London +45 131 £71,750 +6.30% 118
Work from Home +56 109 £72,500 -7.64% 97
London +37 99 £85,000 -15.00% 49
North of England +40 78 £72,500 +7.41% 28
Yorkshire +36 52 £71,000 +9.23% 18
North West +9 23 £70,000 +9.80% 8
Midlands +22 16 £50,000 -27.86% 11
West Midlands +27 14 £50,000 -27.86% 8
South East +18 13 £72,500 +18.37% 41
Wales +6 7 £68,958 -0.50% 7
South West -2 7 £70,000 +40.00% 14
Scotland +2 6 £73,801 +6.48% 3
Northern Ireland -11 6 £95,000 +37.07% 2
North East +5 3 £73,801 +6.48% 2
East Midlands -18 2 - - 2

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 13 (4.94%) Apache
2 8 (3.04%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.66%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.28%) Tomcat
4 6 (2.28%) WebSphere
4 6 (2.28%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.76%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 246 (93.54%) AWS
2 134 (50.95%) Serverless
3 126 (47.91%) AWS Lambda
4 125 (47.53%) Azure
5 93 (35.36%) Amazon S3
6 76 (28.90%) GitHub
7 74 (28.14%) Amazon ECS
8 71 (27.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 69 (26.24%) GCP
10 59 (22.43%) GitHub Actions
11 57 (21.67%) Amazon EKS
12 49 (18.63%) AWS Step Functions
13 46 (17.49%) Amazon EC2
14 45 (17.11%) Amazon ECR
15 37 (14.07%) Azure DevOps
16 33 (12.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 30 (11.41%) Amazon SQS
18 25 (9.51%) dbt
19 24 (9.13%) Pulumi
20 21 (7.98%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (7.60%) TCP/IP
2 12 (4.56%) Firewall
3 8 (3.04%) Network Security
3 8 (3.04%) VPN
4 6 (2.28%) SSL
5 4 (1.52%) DSL
6 3 (1.14%) AMQP
6 3 (1.14%) SCCP
6 3 (1.14%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.76%) DHCP
7 2 (0.76%) DNS
7 2 (0.76%) LAN
7 2 (0.76%) WAN
8 1 (0.38%) HTTP
8 1 (0.38%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (23.19%) Amazon RDS
2 58 (22.05%) DynamoDB
3 44 (16.73%) PostgreSQL
4 40 (15.21%) NoSQL
5 23 (8.75%) Elasticsearch
6 20 (7.60%) Redis
7 17 (6.46%) Amazon Redshift
7 17 (6.46%) SQL Server
8 16 (6.08%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (4.56%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (4.56%) Data Lake
10 10 (3.80%) MySQL
11 6 (2.28%) DB2
12 5 (1.90%) Big Data
13 4 (1.52%) MongoDB
14 3 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (1.14%) Apache Iceberg
14 3 (1.14%) Cloudera CDH
14 3 (1.14%) Data Vault
14 3 (1.14%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 93 (35.36%) Jenkins
2 74 (28.14%) GitLab
3 48 (18.25%) Git
4 25 (9.51%) SonarQube
5 19 (7.22%) Cypress.io
5 19 (7.22%) Maven
6 9 (3.42%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.42%) CircleCI
7 5 (1.90%) git-flow
7 5 (1.90%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.52%) Robot Framework
9 3 (1.14%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.14%) JIRA
10 2 (0.76%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.76%) JMeter
10 2 (0.76%) Selenium
10 2 (0.76%) TestRail
11 1 (0.38%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.38%) Subversion
General
1 75 (28.52%) Social Skills
2 47 (17.87%) Finance
3 19 (7.22%) Banking
4 18 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.42%) Aerospace
6 8 (3.04%) Law
6 8 (3.04%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.66%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.90%) Advertising
10 4 (1.52%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.52%) Retail
11 3 (1.14%) Aviation
11 3 (1.14%) Billing
11 3 (1.14%) Electronics
11 3 (1.14%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.14%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.14%) Marketing
12 1 (0.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 68 (25.86%) Senior
2 59 (22.43%) Cloud Engineer
3 45 (17.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 42 (15.97%) Developer
5 31 (11.79%) AWS Engineer
6 27 (10.27%) Lead
7 26 (9.89%) Platform Engineer
8 16 (6.08%) Architect
9 15 (5.70%) AWS Developer
9 15 (5.70%) Java Developer
9 15 (5.70%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 14 (5.32%) AWS DevOps
11 13 (4.94%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 12 (4.56%) .NET Developer
12 12 (4.56%) Senior Developer
13 11 (4.18%) AWS Architect
13 11 (4.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 11 (4.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (4.18%) Security Engineer
13 11 (4.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (15.97%) AWS CDK
2 31 (11.79%) AngularJS
3 29 (11.03%) Node.js
4 26 (9.89%) React
4 26 (9.89%) Spring Boot
5 25 (9.51%) Elastic Stack
5 25 (9.51%) RESTful
6 20 (7.60%) Django
7 19 (7.22%) Gherkin
7 19 (7.22%) Jest
8 18 (6.84%) .NET
9 16 (6.08%) Kafka
10 15 (5.70%) Spring
11 13 (4.94%) .NET Core
11 13 (4.94%) ASP.NET
11 13 (4.94%) ASP.NET Core
11 13 (4.94%) Blazor
11 13 (4.94%) RabbitMQ
12 10 (3.80%) REST
13 8 (3.04%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 72 (27.38%) Cloud Native
2 21 (7.98%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.84%) Linux Command Line
4 13 (4.94%) Security Posture
5 12 (4.56%) Product Ownership
6 11 (4.18%) Public Cloud
7 7 (2.66%) PKI
8 6 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.90%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.90%) Blockchain
9 5 (1.90%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (1.90%) Web3
10 3 (1.14%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (1.14%) Cyber Security Posture
10 3 (1.14%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.14%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.76%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 91 (34.60%) Linux
2 38 (14.45%) Unix
2 38 (14.45%) Windows
3 11 (4.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (4.18%) Ubuntu
4 6 (2.28%) Debian
5 5 (1.90%) CentOS
6 3 (1.14%) VMS
7 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (77.19%) Infrastructure as Code
2 197 (74.90%) CI/CD
3 196 (74.52%) DevOps
4 100 (38.02%) Agile
5 79 (30.04%) Problem-Solving
6 71 (27.00%) Containerisation
7 58 (22.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 56 (21.29%) Cloud Security
9 55 (20.91%) Observability
10 51 (19.39%) Microservices
11 37 (14.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 34 (12.93%) Platform Engineering
13 32 (12.17%) Incident Response
13 32 (12.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 31 (11.79%) Root Cause Analysis
15 29 (11.03%) Mentoring
16 28 (10.65%) Continuous Integration
17 27 (10.27%) Clean Code
18 26 (9.89%) DevSecOps
18 26 (9.89%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 137 (52.09%) Python
2 83 (31.56%) Bash
3 51 (19.39%) Java
4 47 (17.87%) TypeScript
5 42 (15.97%) SQL
6 38 (14.45%) PowerShell
7 25 (9.51%) JavaScript
8 22 (8.37%) Go
9 19 (7.22%) Bicep
9 19 (7.22%) Groovy
10 17 (6.46%) C#
11 10 (3.80%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.90%) C++
12 5 (1.90%) Google Apps Script
13 4 (1.52%) Rust
14 1 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 84 (31.94%) Security Cleared
2 82 (31.18%) AWS Certification
3 51 (19.39%) SC Cleared
4 28 (10.65%) DV Cleared
5 23 (8.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 20 (7.60%) AWS Certified Developer
6 20 (7.60%) Degree
7 15 (5.70%) Azure Certification
8 13 (4.94%) ITIL Certification
9 11 (4.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (2.28%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.52%) OSCP
12 4 (1.52%) SnowPro
13 3 (1.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 2 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.76%) CISA
14 2 (0.76%) CRISC
14 2 (0.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.18%) Data Quality
1 11 (4.18%) QA
2 9 (3.42%) NIST
3 8 (3.04%) GDPR
4 7 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.66%) SLA
5 5 (1.90%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.38%) Basel III
6 1 (0.38%) MiFID
6 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 139 (52.85%) Docker
2 6 (2.28%) KVM
3 5 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.38%) QEMU
6 1 (0.38%) vCloud
6 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 199 (75.67%) Terraform
2 111 (42.21%) Kubernetes
3 63 (23.95%) Ansible
4 51 (19.39%) Grafana
5 37 (14.07%) Prometheus
6 19 (7.22%) HP Fortify
7 14 (5.32%) Argo
8 12 (4.56%) AWS Copilot
9 6 (2.28%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (1.90%) Istio
10 5 (1.90%) Kubeflow
10 5 (1.90%) linkerd
10 5 (1.90%) Mesos
10 5 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (1.90%) Puppet
11 3 (1.14%) Rancher
12 2 (0.76%) Nessus
13 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 35 (13.31%) Google
2 18 (6.84%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.70%) Splunk
4 9 (3.42%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.28%) IBM
5 6 (2.28%) VMware
6 4 (1.52%) PagerDuty
6 4 (1.52%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.52%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.14%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.14%) Foundry
7 3 (1.14%) LogicMonitor
7 3 (1.14%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.14%) SAP
8 2 (0.76%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.76%) Databricks
8 2 (0.76%) Oracle
8 2 (0.76%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.38%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.38%) Qualys