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 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 480 517 374
Rank change year-on-year +37 -143 -81
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 183 242 437
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.35% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.18% 1.08% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 140 182 370
10th Percentile £52,400 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £88,438
90th Percentile £97,625 £118,375 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £69,308 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.00% -0.99% -

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 15,452 22,363 24,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.65% 32.35% 42.68%
Number of salaries quoted 10,399 13,604 20,073
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £33,024
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.91% - -

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 20 October 2025.

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 20 October 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 +40 156 £75,000 +3.45% 168
London +65 84 £81,500 -11.89% 72
Work from Home +25 79 £72,250 -0.34% 130
UK excluding London +14 75 £70,000 +1.00% 131
North of England +4 43 £70,000 +12.00% 48
North West +4 23 £60,000 - 35
Yorkshire +28 19 £70,000 +7.69% 10
Midlands +22 12 £60,000 -17.24% 12
West Midlands +43 10 £60,000 -17.24% 12
South East +35 9 £87,500 +40.00% 48
South West +28 4 £90,000 +60.00% 10
Wales +15 4 £57,500 -17.04% 6
Scotland -14 3 £60,901 -12.13% 2
East Midlands +18 2 - - 1
East of England +7 1 £75,000 +20.00% 4
North East +6 1 £73,801 +6.48% 3
Northern Ireland +5 1 £73,801 +6.48% 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 6 (3.28%) Apache Spark
1 6 (3.28%) Tomcat
1 6 (3.28%) WebSphere
1 6 (3.28%) WebSphere Application Server
2 5 (2.73%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.19%) Apache
4 3 (1.64%) Confluence
5 2 (1.09%) nginx
5 2 (1.09%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 170 (92.90%) AWS
2 75 (40.98%) Azure
2 75 (40.98%) Serverless
3 69 (37.70%) AWS Lambda
4 58 (31.69%) Amazon S3
5 55 (30.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 53 (28.96%) Amazon EC2
7 49 (26.78%) GitHub
8 45 (24.59%) Amazon EKS
9 44 (24.04%) GCP
10 42 (22.95%) Amazon ECS
11 39 (21.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 36 (19.67%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (9.84%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (9.29%) Datadog
15 16 (8.74%) Route 53
16 15 (8.20%) Amazon ECR
16 15 (8.20%) Azure Monitor
17 14 (7.65%) Azure AKS
17 14 (7.65%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.56%) Firewall
2 9 (4.92%) TCP/IP
3 8 (4.37%) Network Security
4 7 (3.83%) DNS
5 6 (3.28%) SSL
5 6 (3.28%) VPN
6 4 (2.19%) LAN
6 4 (2.19%) WAN
7 2 (1.09%) DHCP
7 2 (1.09%) NAS
7 2 (1.09%) SAN
7 2 (1.09%) SNMP
7 2 (1.09%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.55%) HTTP
8 1 (0.55%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (23.50%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (9.84%) Amazon Redshift
2 18 (9.84%) NoSQL
3 17 (9.29%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (8.74%) DynamoDB
5 13 (7.10%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (6.56%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (5.46%) Data Lake
7 10 (5.46%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (4.92%) Redis
9 6 (3.28%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (3.28%) DB2
9 6 (3.28%) SQL Server
10 4 (2.19%) Big Data
10 4 (2.19%) MySQL
11 2 (1.09%) Apache Iceberg
11 2 (1.09%) Data Vault
12 1 (0.55%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.55%) Presto
12 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 60 (32.79%) Jenkins
2 39 (21.31%) GitLab
3 15 (8.20%) CircleCI
4 13 (7.10%) Git
5 6 (3.28%) JIRA
6 4 (2.19%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.19%) Spinnaker
7 3 (1.64%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.64%) git-flow
8 2 (1.09%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.55%) Artifactory
General
1 41 (22.40%) Social Skills
2 40 (21.86%) Finance
3 16 (8.74%) Banking
4 14 (7.65%) Law
5 12 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (5.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (5.46%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.28%) Marketing
8 5 (2.73%) Advertising
9 4 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.64%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.64%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.09%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.55%) Electronics
12 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 64 (34.97%) Senior
2 41 (22.40%) AWS Engineer
3 40 (21.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 38 (20.77%) Cloud Engineer
5 25 (13.66%) Platform Engineer
6 18 (9.84%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 17 (9.29%) AWS DevOps
7 17 (9.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 15 (8.20%) Data Engineer
8 15 (8.20%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 13 (7.10%) Lead
10 12 (6.56%) Developer
11 11 (6.01%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 11 (6.01%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 10 (5.46%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 10 (5.46%) Support Engineer
13 9 (4.92%) Architect
14 8 (4.37%) Applications Engineer
14 8 (4.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 7 (3.83%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.66%) Elastic Stack
2 21 (11.48%) AWS CDK
3 17 (9.29%) Kafka
4 9 (4.92%) Django
5 7 (3.83%) RabbitMQ
5 7 (3.83%) RESTful
6 6 (3.28%) LAPP Stack
6 6 (3.28%) LDAP
6 6 (3.28%) WebSphere MQ
7 5 (2.73%) .NET
7 5 (2.73%) Loki
7 5 (2.73%) Pandas
7 5 (2.73%) Spring
7 5 (2.73%) Spring Boot
8 4 (2.19%) Node.js
8 4 (2.19%) OAuth
8 4 (2.19%) React
8 4 (2.19%) REST
8 4 (2.19%) SAML
8 4 (2.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 34 (18.58%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.10%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (4.92%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.92%) Public Cloud
4 8 (4.37%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.28%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.73%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.19%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.19%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.19%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.19%) Web3
8 3 (1.64%) CMDB
8 3 (1.64%) e-Learning
8 3 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.09%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.09%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 64 (34.97%) Linux
2 25 (13.66%) Unix
2 25 (13.66%) Windows
3 7 (3.83%) Debian
3 7 (3.83%) Ubuntu
4 6 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (84.15%) Infrastructure as Code
2 136 (74.32%) CI/CD
3 128 (69.95%) DevOps
4 53 (28.96%) Containerisation
5 50 (27.32%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (24.59%) Observability
7 39 (21.31%) Agile
8 37 (20.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 36 (19.67%) Platform Engineering
10 33 (18.03%) Cloud Security
11 31 (16.94%) Disaster Recovery
11 31 (16.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 27 (14.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 26 (14.21%) AI
14 25 (13.66%) Mentoring
14 25 (13.66%) Microservices
15 24 (13.11%) Software Engineering
16 22 (12.02%) Continuous Integration
16 22 (12.02%) Data Pipeline
17 20 (10.93%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 122 (66.67%) Python
2 69 (37.70%) Bash
3 32 (17.49%) PowerShell
4 28 (15.30%) SQL
5 26 (14.21%) Go
6 18 (9.84%) JavaScript
7 17 (9.29%) Bicep
7 17 (9.29%) Java
8 13 (7.10%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.73%) C#
10 2 (1.09%) Groovy
11 1 (0.55%) PHP
11 1 (0.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 46 (25.14%) Security Cleared
2 45 (24.59%) AWS Certification
3 39 (21.31%) SC Cleared
4 19 (10.38%) Degree
5 14 (7.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (7.65%) Azure Certification
6 8 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.28%) DV Cleared
7 6 (3.28%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.09%) CISA
9 2 (1.09%) CISM
9 2 (1.09%) CISSP
9 2 (1.09%) CRISC
9 2 (1.09%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.01%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.46%) QA
3 9 (4.92%) GDPR
4 8 (4.37%) SLA
5 3 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.09%) NIST
7 1 (0.55%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 77 (42.08%) Docker
2 7 (3.83%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (2.19%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.09%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.09%) Terminal Server
4 2 (1.09%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.55%) KVM
5 1 (0.55%) QEMU
5 1 (0.55%) vCloud
5 1 (0.55%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 148 (80.87%) Terraform
2 83 (45.36%) Kubernetes
3 60 (32.79%) Grafana
4 57 (31.15%) Ansible
5 40 (21.86%) Prometheus
6 7 (3.83%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (2.73%) Argo
7 5 (2.73%) Kubeflow
8 3 (1.64%) Puppet
9 2 (1.09%) HAProxy
9 2 (1.09%) Istio
9 2 (1.09%) linkerd
9 2 (1.09%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.55%) Kibana
10 1 (0.55%) logstash
10 1 (0.55%) Nagios
Vendors
1 20 (10.93%) Splunk
2 18 (9.84%) Google
3 14 (7.65%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.83%) IBM
5 6 (3.28%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.73%) Databricks
6 5 (2.73%) Hitachi
7 4 (2.19%) Foundry
7 4 (2.19%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (1.64%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.64%) Citrix
8 3 (1.64%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.64%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.64%) VMware
9 2 (1.09%) F5
9 2 (1.09%) OneLogin
9 2 (1.09%) Rapid7
10 1 (0.55%) Qualys
10 1 (0.55%) SaltStack
10 1 (0.55%) Talend