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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 463 571
Rank change year-on-year +84 +108 -222
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 509 224 243
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.45% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.84% 1.40% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 260 133 184
10th Percentile £46,925 £52,500 £50,507
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
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 £92,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,991 £69,692 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.30% +3.25% -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 27,660 15,995 26,367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.50% 31.95% 31.60%
Number of salaries quoted 18,481 10,994 18,466
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
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 24 August 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 August 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 +81 455 £75,411 +0.55% 76
UK excluding London +40 255 £71,991 +3.30% 69
London +64 226 £90,000 +12.50% 26
North of England +67 148 £73,750 +5.36% 24
Work from Home -33 116 £75,823 +8.32% 49
Yorkshire +44 88 £75,000 +7.14% 7
North West +7 46 £72,500 +11.54% 9
South West -43 30 £67,500 -25.00% 21
Wales -35 27 £72,500 +20.83% 5
Midlands -25 23 £62,250 -4.23% 5
South East -36 19 £70,000 -18.84% 11
East Midlands -9 15 £52,500 - 1
North East -42 14 £50,000 -27.94% 8
West Midlands -18 8 £68,496 +5.38% 4
Scotland +10 5 £71,991 -1.38% 1
East of England -41 2 £82,500 +10.00% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £71,991 - 1

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 (3.73%) Apache
2 11 (2.16%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.77%) Confluence
4 7 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.59%) nginx
7 1 (0.20%) Drupal
7 1 (0.20%) IIS
7 1 (0.20%) JBoss
7 1 (0.20%) SAS
7 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.79%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.39%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.18%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.59%) Summit
3 1 (0.20%) Magento
3 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 489 (96.07%) AWS
2 253 (49.71%) Serverless
3 195 (38.31%) AWS Lambda
4 143 (28.09%) Amazon ECS
5 141 (27.70%) Amazon S3
6 134 (26.33%) Azure
7 113 (22.20%) GitHub
8 104 (20.43%) GCP
9 84 (16.50%) GitHub Actions
10 77 (15.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 76 (14.93%) Amazon EC2
12 75 (14.73%) Amazon EKS
13 71 (13.95%) AWS Step Functions
14 57 (11.20%) Datadog
15 50 (9.82%) Cloud Computing
16 41 (8.06%) Amazon SQS
17 38 (7.47%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 38 (7.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 30 (5.89%) Amazon EventBridge
18 30 (5.89%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.50%) Network Security
2 22 (4.32%) TCP/IP
3 13 (2.55%) VPN
4 11 (2.16%) DNS
4 11 (2.16%) Firewall
5 6 (1.18%) HTTP
6 5 (0.98%) AMQP
6 5 (0.98%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.59%) DSL
8 2 (0.39%) MQTT
9 1 (0.20%) 4G
9 1 (0.20%) 5G
9 1 (0.20%) DHCP
9 1 (0.20%) DNSSEC
9 1 (0.20%) Internet
9 1 (0.20%) PSTN
9 1 (0.20%) SCCP
9 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (17.29%) DynamoDB
2 86 (16.90%) NoSQL
3 66 (12.97%) Amazon RDS
4 32 (6.29%) Amazon Athena
5 26 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (2.55%) MongoDB
7 12 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (2.36%) MySQL
8 10 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (1.57%) Big Data
9 8 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (1.57%) Redis
9 8 (1.57%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.38%) Flink
10 7 (1.38%) Hadoop
11 6 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.18%) Data Lake
11 6 (1.18%) Metadata
11 6 (1.18%) SQL Server
12 5 (0.98%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 127 (24.95%) Jenkins
2 116 (22.79%) GitLab
3 78 (15.32%) Git
4 35 (6.88%) Cucumber
5 25 (4.91%) Cypress.io
5 25 (4.91%) Maven
6 23 (4.52%) SonarQube
7 13 (2.55%) CircleCI
7 13 (2.55%) JIRA
8 12 (2.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 11 (2.16%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.38%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.18%) TeamCity
12 5 (0.98%) Snyk
13 4 (0.79%) Gradle
13 4 (0.79%) Selenium
14 3 (0.59%) git-flow
14 3 (0.59%) JUnit
14 3 (0.59%) NUnit
14 3 (0.59%) Postman
General
1 140 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 130 (25.54%) Finance
3 63 (12.38%) Public Sector
4 47 (9.23%) Banking
5 27 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.95%) Financial Institution
6 15 (2.95%) Law
7 13 (2.55%) Legal
8 12 (2.36%) Aerospace
8 12 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.77%) Military
10 6 (1.18%) Retail
11 5 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.79%) Advertising
12 4 (0.79%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.79%) Local Government
12 4 (0.79%) Mandarin Language
12 4 (0.79%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.59%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 127 (24.95%) Senior
2 105 (20.63%) Developer
3 88 (17.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 77 (15.13%) DevOps Engineer
5 63 (12.38%) Java Developer
6 51 (10.02%) AWS Engineer
7 46 (9.04%) Lead
8 42 (8.25%) Consultant
9 40 (7.86%) Java Engineer
10 33 (6.48%) Architect
11 32 (6.29%) Senior Consultant
12 27 (5.30%) Platform Engineer
13 26 (5.11%) Full-Stack Developer
14 25 (4.91%) Software Engineer
15 24 (4.72%) Senior Developer
16 23 (4.52%) AWS Developer
17 22 (4.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 21 (4.13%) Cloud Native Engineer
19 20 (3.93%) Principal Engineer
20 19 (3.73%) Professional Services Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 372 (73.08%) Terraform
2 109 (21.41%) Spring Boot
3 91 (17.88%) Node.js
4 90 (17.68%) Spring
5 82 (16.11%) Kafka
6 74 (14.54%) AngularJS
7 63 (12.38%) AWS CDK
8 44 (8.64%) React
9 39 (7.66%) RESTful
10 29 (5.70%) REST
11 26 (5.11%) Gherkin
12 25 (4.91%) RabbitMQ
13 23 (4.52%) Web Services
14 21 (4.13%) Jest
15 17 (3.34%) YAML
16 16 (3.14%) gRPC
17 15 (2.95%) JSON
18 13 (2.55%) Elastic Stack
18 13 (2.55%) Next.js
18 13 (2.55%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 188 (36.94%) Cloud Native
2 80 (15.72%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (9.82%) Onboarding
4 46 (9.04%) Public Cloud
5 41 (8.06%) Enterprise Cloud
6 32 (6.29%) e-Learning
7 28 (5.50%) Enterprise Software
8 27 (5.30%) Hybrid Cloud
9 26 (5.11%) Legacy Systems
9 26 (5.11%) Mainframe
10 22 (4.32%) Data Centre
11 15 (2.95%) Security Posture
12 14 (2.75%) Linux Command Line
13 13 (2.55%) Blog
13 13 (2.55%) Distributed Computing
14 12 (2.36%) Blockchain
14 12 (2.36%) Cloud Security Posture
14 12 (2.36%) Web3
15 11 (2.16%) Virtual Team
16 10 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 85 (16.70%) Linux
2 22 (4.32%) Windows
3 14 (2.75%) Unix
4 11 (2.16%) Ubuntu
5 10 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.77%) CentOS
7 7 (1.38%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.98%) Debian
9 2 (0.39%) Android
9 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.39%) VMS
10 1 (0.20%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (74.85%) Infrastructure as Code
2 334 (65.62%) CI/CD
3 276 (54.22%) DevOps
4 216 (42.44%) Agile
5 169 (33.20%) Containerisation
6 134 (26.33%) Mentoring
7 124 (24.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 124 (24.36%) Software Engineering
8 119 (23.38%) Observability
9 111 (21.81%) Microservices
10 100 (19.65%) Cloud Security
11 96 (18.86%) Event-Driven
12 94 (18.47%) Test Automation
13 93 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
14 73 (14.34%) Platform Engineering
15 72 (14.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 72 (14.15%) Migration
16 71 (13.95%) AI
17 65 (12.77%) Collaborative Culture
18 59 (11.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 237 (46.56%) Python
2 182 (35.76%) Java
3 100 (19.65%) SQL
4 86 (16.90%) Bash
5 84 (16.50%) TypeScript
6 46 (9.04%) Groovy
7 42 (8.25%) Go
8 38 (7.47%) Kotlin
9 33 (6.48%) JavaScript
10 31 (6.09%) PowerShell
10 31 (6.09%) Ruby
11 24 (4.72%) Bicep
12 18 (3.54%) C#
13 16 (3.14%) PHP
14 15 (2.95%) Perl
15 9 (1.77%) C++
16 6 (1.18%) COBOL
17 5 (0.98%) Google Apps Script
18 3 (0.59%) Rust
19 2 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 168 (33.01%) Security Cleared
2 124 (24.36%) AWS Certification
3 102 (20.04%) SC Cleared
4 80 (15.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 40 (7.86%) Degree
6 31 (6.09%) DV Cleared
7 19 (3.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 16 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (2.95%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (2.36%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (1.77%) AWS Certified Developer
13 8 (1.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (1.18%) Azure Certification
15 5 (0.98%) OSCP
16 4 (0.79%) OCP
16 4 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
16 4 (0.79%) Postgraduate
17 3 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
18 2 (0.39%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.47%) GDPR
2 15 (2.95%) NIST
2 15 (2.95%) PCI DSS
3 12 (2.36%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.16%) HIPAA
5 10 (1.96%) NCSC
6 9 (1.77%) Data Quality
6 9 (1.77%) QA
7 8 (1.57%) SOC 2
8 6 (1.18%) Government Security Classifications
8 6 (1.18%) WCAG
9 5 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.59%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.20%) HL7
11 1 (0.20%) SLA
11 1 (0.20%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 213 (41.85%) Docker
2 6 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.98%) KVM
3 5 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.59%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 197 (38.70%) Kubernetes
2 96 (18.86%) Ansible
3 53 (10.41%) Grafana
4 48 (9.43%) Progress Chef
5 45 (8.84%) Prometheus
6 35 (6.88%) Puppet
7 19 (3.73%) Argo
8 17 (3.34%) HP Fortify
9 6 (1.18%) Istio
9 6 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.79%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.79%) linkerd
10 4 (0.79%) Mesos
11 2 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.39%) logstash
11 2 (0.39%) Rancher
12 1 (0.20%) Consul
12 1 (0.20%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.20%) Kibana
Vendors
1 44 (8.64%) Google
2 22 (4.32%) Microsoft
3 16 (3.14%) Oracle
4 15 (2.95%) Red Hat
5 13 (2.55%) Splunk
6 9 (1.77%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.38%) Databricks
7 7 (1.38%) HubSpot
8 6 (1.18%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.18%) VMware
9 5 (0.98%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.79%) AppDynamics
10 4 (0.79%) Avaya
10 4 (0.79%) Cisco
10 4 (0.79%) Genesys
11 3 (0.59%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.59%) OutSystems
12 2 (0.39%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.39%) Informatica
12 2 (0.39%) Tenable