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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 455 589
Rank change year-on-year +76 +134 -230
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 457 237 312
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.48% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.69% 1.49% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 236 136 252
10th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,319 £75,000 £73,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.43% +2.39% -5.48%
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,375 £97,500
90th Percentile £109,375 £111,250 £112,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,151 £69,384 £67,500
% change year-on-year +5.43% +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 26,973 15,896 32,482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.26% 32.36% 33.08%
Number of salaries quoted 17,609 11,064 24,581
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,250 £77,500
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 17 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 17 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 +68 416 £80,000 +6.67% 95
London +64 223 £90,000 +15.02% 36
UK excluding London +26 212 £73,151 +5.43% 90
North of England +63 130 £75,000 +8.09% 29
Work from Home -40 106 £75,000 +8.09% 81
Yorkshire +38 85 £75,000 +5.63% 7
North West +13 42 £74,651 +7.59% 13
Midlands -13 26 £62,000 -4.62% 12
Wales -35 21 £72,500 +20.83% 7
East Midlands +4 18 £52,500 - 5
South East -34 17 £70,000 -15.15% 17
South West -46 12 £67,500 -25.00% 12
West Midlands -19 8 £62,250 -4.23% 7
Scotland +1 3 £76,783 +39.60% 7
North East -57 3 £57,788 -16.71% 9
East of England -26 2 £82,500 +10.00% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £73,801 - 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 (4.16%) Apache
2 10 (2.19%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.75%) Confluence
4 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.66%) 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 (0.88%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.44%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.31%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.66%) Summit
3 1 (0.22%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 439 (96.06%) AWS
2 237 (51.86%) Serverless
3 191 (41.79%) AWS Lambda
4 134 (29.32%) Amazon S3
5 133 (29.10%) Amazon ECS
6 110 (24.07%) Azure
7 98 (21.44%) GitHub
8 84 (18.38%) AWS Step Functions
9 79 (17.29%) GCP
10 73 (15.97%) GitHub Actions
11 72 (15.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 64 (14.00%) Amazon EKS
13 60 (13.13%) Cloud Computing
13 60 (13.13%) Datadog
14 56 (12.25%) Amazon EC2
15 47 (10.28%) Amazon SQS
16 39 (8.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 38 (8.32%) Amazon ECR
18 32 (7.00%) Apigee
19 29 (6.35%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.60%) Network Security
2 17 (3.72%) VPN
3 13 (2.84%) Firewall
4 12 (2.63%) TCP/IP
5 10 (2.19%) DNS
6 9 (1.97%) DSL
7 4 (0.88%) AMQP
7 4 (0.88%) HTTP
8 3 (0.66%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.44%) 4G
9 2 (0.44%) 5G
9 2 (0.44%) MQTT
10 1 (0.22%) DHCP
10 1 (0.22%) DNSSEC
10 1 (0.22%) Internet
10 1 (0.22%) PSTN
10 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (22.10%) DynamoDB
2 85 (18.60%) NoSQL
3 52 (11.38%) Amazon RDS
4 36 (7.88%) Amazon Athena
5 22 (4.81%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (1.97%) MongoDB
8 9 (1.97%) Redis
9 8 (1.75%) MySQL
10 7 (1.53%) Big Data
11 6 (1.31%) Flink
12 5 (1.09%) Data Lake
12 5 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.09%) Hadoop
12 5 (1.09%) SQL Server
13 4 (0.88%) Apache Iceberg
13 4 (0.88%) Cloudera CDH
13 4 (0.88%) Metadata
13 4 (0.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 144 (31.51%) Jenkins
2 137 (29.98%) GitLab
3 65 (14.22%) Git
4 36 (7.88%) Maven
5 32 (7.00%) Cypress.io
6 31 (6.78%) Cucumber
7 28 (6.13%) SonarQube
8 24 (5.25%) CircleCI
9 10 (2.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 10 (2.19%) JIRA
10 9 (1.97%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.53%) Claude Code
12 5 (1.09%) Gradle
12 5 (1.09%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.66%) Selenium
14 1 (0.22%) git-flow
14 1 (0.22%) JMeter
14 1 (0.22%) MLflow
14 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
14 1 (0.22%) Vagrant
General
1 123 (26.91%) Social Skills
2 113 (24.73%) Finance
3 51 (11.16%) Public Sector
4 38 (8.32%) Banking
5 17 (3.72%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (2.41%) Aerospace
7 11 (2.41%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.31%) Advertising
8 6 (1.31%) Legal
9 5 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.09%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.09%) Military
10 4 (0.88%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (0.88%) Retail
10 4 (0.88%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.66%) Automotive
11 3 (0.66%) Back Office
11 3 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.66%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 112 (24.51%) Developer
2 108 (23.63%) Senior
3 72 (15.75%) Cloud Engineer
4 70 (15.32%) Java Developer
5 66 (14.44%) DevOps Engineer
6 45 (9.85%) AWS Engineer
7 39 (8.53%) Consultant
7 39 (8.53%) Lead
8 32 (7.00%) Senior Consultant
9 31 (6.78%) Java Engineer
10 30 (6.56%) Platform Engineer
11 29 (6.35%) Architect
12 28 (6.13%) Full-Stack Developer
13 26 (5.69%) AWS Developer
13 26 (5.69%) Senior Developer
14 24 (5.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 21 (4.60%) AWS DevOps
15 21 (4.60%) Principal Engineer
16 20 (4.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 19 (4.16%) Professional Services Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (23.19%) Spring Boot
2 80 (17.51%) Kafka
3 78 (17.07%) AngularJS
4 77 (16.85%) Node.js
4 77 (16.85%) Spring
5 62 (13.57%) AWS CDK
6 38 (8.32%) React
7 36 (7.88%) Gherkin
8 31 (6.78%) RESTful
9 28 (6.13%) Jest
10 27 (5.91%) REST
11 25 (5.47%) RabbitMQ
12 20 (4.38%) gRPC
13 19 (4.16%) Web Services
14 18 (3.94%) YAML
15 17 (3.72%) web3js
16 16 (3.50%) JSON
16 16 (3.50%) Next.js
17 13 (2.84%) Elastic Stack
18 12 (2.63%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 158 (34.57%) Cloud Native
2 57 (12.47%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (10.72%) Onboarding
4 41 (8.97%) Enterprise Cloud
5 40 (8.75%) Public Cloud
6 26 (5.69%) e-Learning
6 26 (5.69%) Enterprise Software
7 25 (5.47%) Mainframe
8 22 (4.81%) Data Centre
8 22 (4.81%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (3.72%) Blockchain
9 17 (3.72%) Web3
10 16 (3.50%) Hybrid Cloud
11 15 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
11 15 (3.28%) Security Posture
12 13 (2.84%) Distributed Computing
13 12 (2.63%) Cloud Security Posture
14 10 (2.19%) Product Ownership
15 8 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
16 7 (1.53%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 68 (14.88%) Linux
2 20 (4.38%) Windows
3 11 (2.41%) Ubuntu
4 9 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.75%) CentOS
6 5 (1.09%) Unix
6 5 (1.09%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.88%) Debian
8 3 (0.66%) Android
8 3 (0.66%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.66%) VMS
9 1 (0.22%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (71.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 290 (63.46%) CI/CD
3 230 (50.33%) DevOps
4 182 (39.82%) Agile
5 156 (34.14%) Containerisation
6 118 (25.82%) Mentoring
7 103 (22.54%) Observability
8 98 (21.44%) Microservices
9 95 (20.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 95 (20.79%) Software Engineering
10 86 (18.82%) Event-Driven
11 85 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
12 82 (17.94%) Test Automation
13 81 (17.72%) Cloud Security
14 72 (15.75%) Platform Engineering
15 67 (14.66%) AI
16 66 (14.44%) DevSecOps
17 63 (13.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 62 (13.57%) Continuous Integration
19 53 (11.60%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 210 (45.95%) Python
2 180 (39.39%) Java
3 95 (20.79%) SQL
4 90 (19.69%) TypeScript
5 79 (17.29%) Bash
6 52 (11.38%) Groovy
7 44 (9.63%) Go
8 38 (8.32%) Kotlin
9 31 (6.78%) JavaScript
10 30 (6.56%) PowerShell
11 27 (5.91%) Ruby
12 26 (5.69%) Bicep
13 16 (3.50%) PHP
14 15 (3.28%) C#
14 15 (3.28%) Perl
15 10 (2.19%) C++
16 9 (1.97%) Rust
17 6 (1.31%) COBOL
18 5 (1.09%) Google Apps Script
19 1 (0.22%) Natural
Qualifications
1 137 (29.98%) Security Cleared
2 114 (24.95%) AWS Certification
3 71 (15.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 70 (15.32%) SC Cleared
5 45 (9.85%) Degree
6 25 (5.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (5.25%) DV Cleared
8 22 (4.81%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (2.84%) Master's Degree
11 12 (2.63%) OSCP
12 9 (1.97%) AWS Certified Developer
12 9 (1.97%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (1.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (1.53%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.88%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.66%) CREST Certified
16 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 2 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
16 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.38%) PCI DSS
2 19 (4.16%) GDPR
3 18 (3.94%) NIST
4 13 (2.84%) SOC 2
5 10 (2.19%) Data Quality
6 9 (1.97%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.53%) NCSC
8 6 (1.31%) Government Security Classifications
9 5 (1.09%) QA
9 5 (1.09%) WCAG
10 4 (0.88%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.22%) HL7
11 1 (0.22%) SLA
11 1 (0.22%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 198 (43.33%) Docker
2 5 (1.09%) KVM
2 5 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.88%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 311 (68.05%) Terraform
2 180 (39.39%) Kubernetes
3 71 (15.54%) Ansible
4 54 (11.82%) Prometheus
5 51 (11.16%) Grafana
6 37 (8.10%) Progress Chef
7 27 (5.91%) HP Fortify
8 26 (5.69%) Puppet
9 18 (3.94%) Argo
10 7 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (1.31%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (1.09%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (1.09%) Istio
12 5 (1.09%) linkerd
12 5 (1.09%) Mesos
13 2 (0.44%) Rancher
13 2 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.22%) Consul
14 1 (0.22%) logstash
14 1 (0.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 32 (7.00%) Google
2 18 (3.94%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.63%) Oracle
4 10 (2.19%) Splunk
5 8 (1.75%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.53%) HubSpot
7 5 (1.09%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.09%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.09%) VMware
8 4 (0.88%) Avaya
8 4 (0.88%) Cisco
8 4 (0.88%) Databricks
8 4 (0.88%) Genesys
8 4 (0.88%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.44%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.44%) Tenable
10 1 (0.22%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (0.22%) OneLogin
10 1 (0.22%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.22%) ServiceNow