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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 465 580
Rank change year-on-year +82 +115 -197
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 460 239 286
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.49% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.69% 1.50% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 237 138 227
10th Percentile £53,672 £51,175 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -6.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,875 £97,500
90th Percentile £108,000 £111,250 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £69,384 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.49% +2.79% -3.57%

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 27,285 15,896 29,850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.14% 32.38% 32.71%
Number of salaries quoted 17,820 11,065 22,258
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,219 £41,250 £42,001
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +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 24 July 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 24 July 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 +63 415 £80,000 +6.67% 146
UK excluding London +29 220 £72,500 +4.49% 120
London +58 218 £90,000 +15.02% 66
North of England +52 130 £75,000 +8.09% 44
Work from Home -40 105 £75,000 +8.09% 103
Yorkshire +36 81 £75,000 +5.63% 9
North West +13 43 £74,301 +8.46% 19
Midlands -16 27 £62,000 -4.62% 10
Wales -36 24 £72,500 +20.83% 8
East Midlands -9 18 £52,500 - 1
South East -28 17 £70,000 -17.65% 16
South West -50 15 £67,500 -25.00% 24
West Midlands -32 9 £62,500 -3.85% 9
North East -44 6 £52,500 -24.33% 16
Scotland +11 4 £71,991 +30.89% 9
East of England -27 2 £82,500 +10.00% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £73,801 - 7

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 (4.13%) Apache
2 10 (2.17%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.74%) Confluence
4 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.65%) JBoss
6 1 (0.22%) Drupal
6 1 (0.22%) IIS
6 1 (0.22%) nginx
6 1 (0.22%) SAS
6 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.87%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.43%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.30%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.65%) Summit
3 1 (0.22%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 442 (96.09%) AWS
2 236 (51.30%) Serverless
3 188 (40.87%) AWS Lambda
4 135 (29.35%) Amazon ECS
5 133 (28.91%) Amazon S3
6 115 (25.00%) Azure
7 94 (20.43%) GitHub
8 85 (18.48%) GCP
9 77 (16.74%) AWS Step Functions
10 72 (15.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 69 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
12 65 (14.13%) Amazon EKS
13 59 (12.83%) Amazon EC2
13 59 (12.83%) Cloud Computing
14 55 (11.96%) Datadog
15 46 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
16 36 (7.83%) Amazon ECR
16 36 (7.83%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 30 (6.52%) Amazon EventBridge
17 30 (6.52%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.00%) Network Security
2 16 (3.48%) TCP/IP
2 16 (3.48%) VPN
3 13 (2.83%) Firewall
4 11 (2.39%) DNS
5 7 (1.52%) DSL
6 4 (0.87%) AMQP
6 4 (0.87%) HTTP
7 3 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.43%) 4G
8 2 (0.43%) 5G
8 2 (0.43%) MQTT
9 1 (0.22%) DHCP
9 1 (0.22%) DNSSEC
9 1 (0.22%) Internet
9 1 (0.22%) PSTN
9 1 (0.22%) SCCP
9 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (21.09%) DynamoDB
2 83 (18.04%) NoSQL
3 56 (12.17%) Amazon RDS
4 33 (7.17%) Amazon Athena
5 25 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (2.17%) MongoDB
8 9 (1.96%) MySQL
8 9 (1.96%) Redis
9 7 (1.52%) Big Data
10 6 (1.30%) Flink
10 6 (1.30%) SQL Server
11 5 (1.09%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.09%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.87%) Cloudera CDH
12 4 (0.87%) Metadata
12 4 (0.87%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 136 (29.57%) Jenkins
2 130 (28.26%) GitLab
3 66 (14.35%) Git
4 33 (7.17%) Maven
5 32 (6.96%) Cucumber
6 30 (6.52%) Cypress.io
7 26 (5.65%) SonarQube
8 22 (4.78%) CircleCI
9 11 (2.39%) JIRA
10 10 (2.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 9 (1.96%) Bitbucket
12 7 (1.52%) Claude Code
13 6 (1.30%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.87%) Gradle
15 3 (0.65%) Selenium
16 1 (0.22%) Gatling
16 1 (0.22%) git-flow
16 1 (0.22%) JMeter
16 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
16 1 (0.22%) Vagrant
General
1 127 (27.61%) Social Skills
2 115 (25.00%) Finance
3 53 (11.52%) Public Sector
4 39 (8.48%) Banking
5 21 (4.57%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.61%) Financial Institution
8 10 (2.17%) Aerospace
9 7 (1.52%) Legal
10 6 (1.30%) Advertising
10 6 (1.30%) Law
11 5 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.09%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.09%) Military
12 4 (0.87%) Mandarin Language
12 4 (0.87%) Retail
12 4 (0.87%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.65%) Automotive
13 3 (0.65%) Back Office
13 3 (0.65%) Games
Job Titles
1 112 (24.35%) Senior
2 108 (23.48%) Developer
3 74 (16.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 66 (14.35%) DevOps Engineer
4 66 (14.35%) Java Developer
5 43 (9.35%) AWS Engineer
6 41 (8.91%) Lead
7 40 (8.70%) Consultant
8 32 (6.96%) Java Engineer
8 32 (6.96%) Senior Consultant
9 28 (6.09%) Architect
9 28 (6.09%) Full-Stack Developer
9 28 (6.09%) Platform Engineer
10 25 (5.43%) Senior Developer
11 23 (5.00%) AWS Developer
11 23 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 20 (4.35%) Principal Engineer
13 19 (4.13%) AWS DevOps
13 19 (4.13%) Professional Services Consultant
14 18 (3.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (23.26%) Spring Boot
2 82 (17.83%) Kafka
3 80 (17.39%) Spring
4 74 (16.09%) Node.js
5 73 (15.87%) AngularJS
6 60 (13.04%) AWS CDK
7 38 (8.26%) React
8 34 (7.39%) Gherkin
9 31 (6.74%) RESTful
10 27 (5.87%) REST
11 26 (5.65%) Jest
12 25 (5.43%) RabbitMQ
13 19 (4.13%) gRPC
13 19 (4.13%) Web Services
14 17 (3.70%) YAML
15 16 (3.48%) web3js
16 15 (3.26%) JSON
16 15 (3.26%) Next.js
17 13 (2.83%) Ruby on Rails
18 12 (2.61%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 161 (35.00%) Cloud Native
2 63 (13.70%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (10.87%) Onboarding
4 41 (8.91%) Enterprise Cloud
4 41 (8.91%) Public Cloud
5 27 (5.87%) e-Learning
6 26 (5.65%) Enterprise Software
6 26 (5.65%) Mainframe
7 23 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
8 22 (4.78%) Data Centre
9 18 (3.91%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (3.48%) Blockchain
10 16 (3.48%) Security Posture
10 16 (3.48%) Web3
11 15 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (2.83%) Distributed Computing
13 12 (2.61%) Cloud Security Posture
14 11 (2.39%) Linux Command Line
15 10 (2.17%) Product Ownership
16 7 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 71 (15.43%) Linux
2 19 (4.13%) Windows
3 10 (2.17%) Ubuntu
4 9 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (1.96%) Unix
5 8 (1.74%) CentOS
6 6 (1.30%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.87%) Debian
8 3 (0.65%) Android
8 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.43%) VMS
10 1 (0.22%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (71.96%) Infrastructure as Code
2 292 (63.48%) CI/CD
3 232 (50.43%) DevOps
4 186 (40.43%) Agile
5 160 (34.78%) Containerisation
6 122 (26.52%) Mentoring
7 110 (23.91%) Observability
8 103 (22.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 99 (21.52%) Microservices
10 97 (21.09%) Software Engineering
11 88 (19.13%) Event-Driven
12 85 (18.48%) Cloud Security
12 85 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
13 83 (18.04%) Test Automation
14 70 (15.22%) Platform Engineering
15 66 (14.35%) AI
16 65 (14.13%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 61 (13.26%) DevSecOps
18 57 (12.39%) Continuous Integration
19 53 (11.52%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 212 (46.09%) Python
2 176 (38.26%) Java
3 92 (20.00%) SQL
4 85 (18.48%) TypeScript
5 81 (17.61%) Bash
6 50 (10.87%) Groovy
7 41 (8.91%) Go
8 34 (7.39%) Kotlin
9 30 (6.52%) PowerShell
10 29 (6.30%) JavaScript
11 27 (5.87%) Ruby
12 26 (5.65%) Bicep
13 16 (3.48%) PHP
14 15 (3.26%) Perl
15 13 (2.83%) C#
16 9 (1.96%) C++
17 7 (1.52%) Rust
18 6 (1.30%) COBOL
19 5 (1.09%) Google Apps Script
20 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 139 (30.22%) Security Cleared
2 114 (24.78%) AWS Certification
3 75 (16.30%) SC Cleared
4 73 (15.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 43 (9.35%) Degree
6 24 (5.22%) DV Cleared
7 23 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 20 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (2.83%) Master's Degree
11 10 (2.17%) AWS Certified Developer
11 10 (2.17%) OSCP
12 9 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (1.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (1.30%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.87%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.65%) CREST Certified
17 2 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
17 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
18 1 (0.22%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.78%) GDPR
2 20 (4.35%) PCI DSS
3 18 (3.91%) NIST
4 12 (2.61%) SOC 2
5 10 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.17%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.74%) NCSC
7 7 (1.52%) QA
8 6 (1.30%) Government Security Classifications
8 6 (1.30%) WCAG
9 5 (1.09%) HIPAA
9 5 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.22%) HL7
10 1 (0.22%) SLA
10 1 (0.22%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 198 (43.04%) Docker
2 5 (1.09%) KVM
2 5 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.65%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 318 (69.13%) Terraform
2 179 (38.91%) Kubernetes
3 75 (16.30%) Ansible
4 52 (11.30%) Prometheus
5 51 (11.09%) Grafana
6 38 (8.26%) Progress Chef
7 27 (5.87%) Puppet
8 25 (5.43%) HP Fortify
9 18 (3.91%) Argo
10 6 (1.30%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.09%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (1.09%) Istio
11 5 (1.09%) linkerd
11 5 (1.09%) Mesos
12 2 (0.43%) Rancher
12 2 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.22%) Consul
13 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 36 (7.83%) Google
2 19 (4.13%) Microsoft
3 13 (2.83%) Oracle
4 11 (2.39%) Splunk
5 8 (1.74%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.52%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.30%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.30%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.09%) VMware
9 4 (0.87%) Avaya
9 4 (0.87%) Cisco
9 4 (0.87%) Databricks
9 4 (0.87%) Genesys
9 4 (0.87%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.43%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.43%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.43%) Tenable
11 1 (0.22%) LogicMonitor
11 1 (0.22%) OneLogin
11 1 (0.22%) ServiceNow