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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 452 568
Rank change year-on-year +72 +116 -218
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 513 223 241
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.45% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.86% 1.41% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 259 135 182
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £50,507
25th Percentile £59,125 £60,000 £61,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £103,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,991 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +2.84% +3.70% -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 27,530 15,848 25,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.02% 31.80% 31.70%
Number of salaries quoted 18,555 10,819 17,595
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.18%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% 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 2 September 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 2 September 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 +88 458 £75,000 - 316
UK excluding London +42 257 £71,991 +2.84% 176
London +55 228 £90,000 +10.43% 179
North of England +53 147 £72,500 +3.57% 60
Work from Home -36 115 £77,911 +8.21% 151
Yorkshire +21 86 £75,000 +5.63% 18
North West +10 46 £72,500 +18.37% 32
South West -45 31 £67,500 -25.00% 28
Wales -43 29 £72,500 +26.09% 6
Midlands -26 24 £62,500 +13.64% 32
South East -42 19 £70,000 -20.00% 27
East Midlands -13 16 £52,500 - 16
North East - 15 £48,500 - 10
West Midlands -27 8 £68,496 +24.54% 16
Scotland +5 4 £71,991 - 10
East of England -35 2 £82,500 +10.00% 7
Northern Ireland - 1 £71,991 - 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 20 (3.90%) Apache
2 11 (2.14%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.75%) Confluence
4 7 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.58%) nginx
7 1 (0.19%) Drupal
7 1 (0.19%) IIS
7 1 (0.19%) JBoss
7 1 (0.19%) SAS
7 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.78%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.39%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.17%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.58%) Summit
3 1 (0.19%) Magento
3 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 493 (96.10%) AWS
2 249 (48.54%) Serverless
3 191 (37.23%) AWS Lambda
4 141 (27.49%) Amazon ECS
5 139 (27.10%) Amazon S3
6 135 (26.32%) Azure
7 111 (21.64%) GitHub
8 106 (20.66%) GCP
9 83 (16.18%) GitHub Actions
10 78 (15.20%) Amazon EC2
11 77 (15.01%) Amazon EKS
12 76 (14.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 66 (12.87%) AWS Step Functions
14 55 (10.72%) Datadog
15 50 (9.75%) Cloud Computing
16 40 (7.80%) Amazon SQS
16 40 (7.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 36 (7.02%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 30 (5.85%) Amazon EventBridge
18 30 (5.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.46%) Network Security
2 22 (4.29%) TCP/IP
3 13 (2.53%) VPN
4 11 (2.14%) DNS
4 11 (2.14%) Firewall
5 6 (1.17%) HTTP
6 5 (0.97%) AMQP
6 5 (0.97%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.39%) MQTT
8 1 (0.19%) 4G
8 1 (0.19%) 5G
8 1 (0.19%) DHCP
8 1 (0.19%) DNSSEC
8 1 (0.19%) DSL
8 1 (0.19%) Internet
8 1 (0.19%) PSTN
8 1 (0.19%) SCCP
8 1 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (17.35%) NoSQL
2 85 (16.57%) DynamoDB
3 68 (13.26%) Amazon RDS
4 30 (5.85%) Amazon Athena
5 27 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (2.92%) MongoDB
7 14 (2.73%) MySQL
8 12 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.56%) Big Data
10 8 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (1.56%) Redis
10 8 (1.56%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.36%) Flink
11 7 (1.36%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (1.17%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.17%) Metadata
13 5 (0.97%) Cloudera CDH
13 5 (0.97%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 123 (23.98%) Jenkins
2 114 (22.22%) GitLab
3 80 (15.59%) Git
4 39 (7.60%) Cucumber
5 24 (4.68%) Cypress.io
5 24 (4.68%) Maven
6 22 (4.29%) SonarQube
7 12 (2.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 12 (2.34%) CircleCI
7 12 (2.34%) JIRA
8 11 (2.14%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.36%) Claude Code
10 6 (1.17%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.97%) Snyk
12 4 (0.78%) Gradle
12 4 (0.78%) Selenium
13 3 (0.58%) git-flow
13 3 (0.58%) JUnit
13 3 (0.58%) NUnit
13 3 (0.58%) Postman
General
1 139 (27.10%) Social Skills
2 135 (26.32%) Finance
3 65 (12.67%) Public Sector
4 50 (9.75%) Banking
5 30 (5.85%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.31%) Financial Institution
6 17 (3.31%) Law
7 13 (2.53%) Legal
8 12 (2.34%) Aerospace
8 12 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.75%) Military
10 7 (1.36%) Retail
11 5 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.78%) Advertising
12 4 (0.78%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.78%) Local Government
12 4 (0.78%) Mandarin Language
12 4 (0.78%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.58%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 132 (25.73%) Senior
2 103 (20.08%) Developer
3 88 (17.15%) Cloud Engineer
4 78 (15.20%) DevOps Engineer
5 62 (12.09%) Java Developer
6 54 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
7 45 (8.77%) Lead
8 44 (8.58%) Java Engineer
9 42 (8.19%) Consultant
10 32 (6.24%) Architect
10 32 (6.24%) Senior Consultant
11 28 (5.46%) Platform Engineer
12 26 (5.07%) Software Engineer
13 25 (4.87%) Full-Stack Developer
13 25 (4.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 24 (4.68%) Senior Developer
15 23 (4.48%) AWS Developer
16 22 (4.29%) Principal Engineer
17 21 (4.09%) Cloud Native Engineer
17 21 (4.09%) Principal Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 376 (73.29%) Terraform
2 113 (22.03%) Spring Boot
3 95 (18.52%) Spring
4 90 (17.54%) Node.js
5 87 (16.96%) Kafka
6 71 (13.84%) AngularJS
7 61 (11.89%) AWS CDK
8 44 (8.58%) React
9 41 (7.99%) RESTful
10 29 (5.65%) REST
11 27 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
12 25 (4.87%) Gherkin
13 23 (4.48%) Web Services
14 20 (3.90%) Jest
15 17 (3.31%) YAML
16 16 (3.12%) gRPC
17 15 (2.92%) JSON
18 13 (2.53%) Hibernate
18 13 (2.53%) Next.js
18 13 (2.53%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 193 (37.62%) Cloud Native
2 86 (16.76%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (9.75%) Onboarding
3 50 (9.75%) Public Cloud
4 41 (7.99%) Enterprise Cloud
5 36 (7.02%) e-Learning
6 33 (6.43%) Enterprise Software
7 29 (5.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 26 (5.07%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (5.07%) Mainframe
9 22 (4.29%) Data Centre
10 16 (3.12%) Linux Command Line
11 13 (2.53%) Blog
11 13 (2.53%) Distributed Computing
11 13 (2.53%) Security Posture
11 13 (2.53%) Virtual Team
12 12 (2.34%) Blockchain
12 12 (2.34%) Web3
13 10 (1.95%) Cloud Security Posture
13 10 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 85 (16.57%) Linux
2 22 (4.29%) Windows
3 14 (2.73%) Unix
4 11 (2.14%) Ubuntu
5 10 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.75%) CentOS
7 7 (1.36%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.97%) Debian
9 2 (0.39%) Android
9 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.39%) VMS
10 1 (0.19%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 389 (75.83%) Infrastructure as Code
2 337 (65.69%) CI/CD
3 275 (53.61%) DevOps
4 223 (43.47%) Agile
5 172 (33.53%) Containerisation
6 136 (26.51%) Mentoring
7 130 (25.34%) Software Engineering
8 126 (24.56%) Observability
9 124 (24.17%) Continuous Improvement
10 117 (22.81%) Microservices
11 102 (19.88%) Event-Driven
12 100 (19.49%) Test Automation
13 98 (19.10%) Cloud Security
14 97 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
15 76 (14.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 75 (14.62%) Migration
16 75 (14.62%) Platform Engineering
17 74 (14.42%) AI
18 67 (13.06%) Collaborative Culture
19 62 (12.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 236 (46.00%) Python
2 185 (36.06%) Java
3 100 (19.49%) SQL
4 86 (16.76%) Bash
5 84 (16.37%) TypeScript
6 45 (8.77%) Groovy
7 40 (7.80%) Go
8 36 (7.02%) Kotlin
9 34 (6.63%) JavaScript
10 31 (6.04%) PowerShell
10 31 (6.04%) Ruby
11 24 (4.68%) Bicep
12 18 (3.51%) C#
13 16 (3.12%) PHP
14 15 (2.92%) Perl
15 9 (1.75%) C++
16 6 (1.17%) COBOL
17 5 (0.97%) Google Apps Script
18 2 (0.39%) Shell Script
19 1 (0.19%) Natural
Qualifications
1 168 (32.75%) Security Cleared
2 129 (25.15%) AWS Certification
3 101 (19.69%) SC Cleared
4 84 (16.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 38 (7.41%) Degree
6 32 (6.24%) DV Cleared
7 18 (3.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 16 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (2.73%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (2.34%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.95%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (1.75%) AWS Certified Developer
13 8 (1.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (1.17%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.78%) OCP
15 4 (0.78%) Oracle Certification
15 4 (0.78%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.58%) OSCP
17 2 (0.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.21%) GDPR
2 14 (2.73%) PCI DSS
3 13 (2.53%) NIST
4 12 (2.34%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.14%) HIPAA
5 11 (2.14%) QA
6 10 (1.95%) NCSC
7 9 (1.75%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.36%) SOC 2
9 6 (1.17%) Government Security Classifications
9 6 (1.17%) WCAG
10 5 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.58%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.19%) SLA
System Software
1 215 (41.91%) Docker
2 6 (1.17%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.97%) KVM
3 5 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.58%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 199 (38.79%) Kubernetes
2 97 (18.91%) Ansible
3 55 (10.72%) Grafana
4 49 (9.55%) Progress Chef
5 47 (9.16%) Prometheus
6 35 (6.82%) Puppet
7 20 (3.90%) Argo
8 16 (3.12%) HP Fortify
9 7 (1.36%) Istio
10 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.97%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.97%) linkerd
11 5 (0.97%) Mesos
12 2 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.39%) logstash
12 2 (0.39%) Rancher
13 1 (0.19%) Consul
13 1 (0.19%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.19%) Kibana
Vendors
1 44 (8.58%) Google
2 22 (4.29%) Microsoft
3 16 (3.12%) Oracle
4 15 (2.92%) Red Hat
4 15 (2.92%) Splunk
5 9 (1.75%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.36%) Databricks
6 7 (1.36%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.17%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.17%) VMware
8 5 (0.97%) SaltStack
9 4 (0.78%) AppDynamics
9 4 (0.78%) Avaya
9 4 (0.78%) Cisco
9 4 (0.78%) Genesys
10 3 (0.58%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.58%) OutSystems
11 2 (0.39%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.39%) Informatica
11 2 (0.39%) Tenable