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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 470 585
Rank change year-on-year +97 +115 -229
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 511 222 241
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 262 131 184
10th Percentile £47,100 £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 £92,219
90th Percentile £105,000 £98,750 £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 27,768 15,898 26,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.73% 31.90% 31.63%
Number of salaries quoted 18,489 10,916 18,536
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,241 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%
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 22 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 22 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 +71 457 £75,411 +0.55% 206
UK excluding London +48 255 £71,991 +3.30% 131
London +60 228 £90,000 +13.56% 103
North of England +52 148 £73,750 +5.36% 46
Work from Home -35 116 £75,823 +8.32% 106
Yorkshire +38 88 £75,000 +7.14% 12
North West +12 46 £72,500 +11.54% 22
South West -47 30 £67,500 -25.00% 29
Wales -34 27 £72,500 +20.83% 5
Midlands -25 23 £62,250 -4.23% 17
South East -32 19 £70,000 -18.84% 19
East Midlands -9 15 £52,500 - 7
North East -38 14 £50,000 -27.94% 12
West Midlands -26 8 £68,496 +5.38% 10
Scotland +12 5 £71,991 -1.38% 8
East of England -39 2 £82,500 +10.00% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £71,991 - 4

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 (3.72%) Apache
2 11 (2.15%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.76%) Confluence
4 7 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.78%) 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 (0.78%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.39%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.17%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.59%) Summit
3 1 (0.20%) Magento
3 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 491 (96.09%) AWS
2 254 (49.71%) Serverless
3 196 (38.36%) AWS Lambda
4 143 (27.98%) Amazon ECS
5 142 (27.79%) Amazon S3
6 135 (26.42%) Azure
7 113 (22.11%) GitHub
8 105 (20.55%) GCP
9 84 (16.44%) GitHub Actions
10 78 (15.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 77 (15.07%) Amazon EC2
12 75 (14.68%) Amazon EKS
13 71 (13.89%) AWS Step Functions
14 58 (11.35%) Datadog
15 51 (9.98%) Cloud Computing
16 41 (8.02%) Amazon SQS
17 38 (7.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 38 (7.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 30 (5.87%) Amazon EventBridge
18 30 (5.87%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.48%) Network Security
2 22 (4.31%) TCP/IP
3 13 (2.54%) VPN
4 11 (2.15%) DNS
4 11 (2.15%) Firewall
5 6 (1.17%) 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 89 (17.42%) DynamoDB
2 87 (17.03%) NoSQL
3 67 (13.11%) Amazon RDS
4 32 (6.26%) Amazon Athena
5 26 (5.09%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (2.54%) MongoDB
7 12 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (2.35%) 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 (1.37%) Flink
10 7 (1.37%) Hadoop
11 6 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.17%) Data Lake
11 6 (1.17%) Metadata
11 6 (1.17%) SQL Server
12 5 (0.98%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 129 (25.24%) Jenkins
2 118 (23.09%) GitLab
3 78 (15.26%) Git
4 35 (6.85%) Cucumber
5 25 (4.89%) Cypress.io
5 25 (4.89%) Maven
6 23 (4.50%) SonarQube
7 15 (2.94%) CircleCI
8 13 (2.54%) JIRA
9 12 (2.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 11 (2.15%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.37%) Claude Code
12 6 (1.17%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.98%) Snyk
14 4 (0.78%) Gradle
14 4 (0.78%) Selenium
15 3 (0.59%) git-flow
15 3 (0.59%) JUnit
15 3 (0.59%) NUnit
15 3 (0.59%) Postman
General
1 142 (27.79%) Social Skills
2 131 (25.64%) Finance
3 63 (12.33%) Public Sector
4 48 (9.39%) Banking
5 27 (5.28%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.94%) Financial Institution
6 15 (2.94%) Law
7 13 (2.54%) Legal
8 12 (2.35%) Aerospace
8 12 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.76%) Military
10 6 (1.17%) Retail
11 5 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.98%) 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 (0.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 129 (25.24%) Senior
2 106 (20.74%) Developer
3 88 (17.22%) Cloud Engineer
4 78 (15.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 63 (12.33%) Java Developer
6 51 (9.98%) AWS Engineer
7 46 (9.00%) Lead
8 42 (8.22%) Consultant
9 40 (7.83%) Java Engineer
10 33 (6.46%) Architect
11 32 (6.26%) Senior Consultant
12 27 (5.28%) Platform Engineer
13 26 (5.09%) Full-Stack Developer
14 25 (4.89%) Senior Developer
14 25 (4.89%) Software Engineer
15 23 (4.50%) AWS Developer
16 22 (4.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 21 (4.11%) Cloud Native Engineer
18 20 (3.91%) Principal Engineer
19 19 (3.72%) Professional Services Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 374 (73.19%) Terraform
2 109 (21.33%) Spring Boot
3 91 (17.81%) Node.js
4 90 (17.61%) Spring
5 83 (16.24%) Kafka
6 74 (14.48%) AngularJS
7 63 (12.33%) AWS CDK
8 44 (8.61%) React
9 40 (7.83%) RESTful
10 29 (5.68%) REST
11 26 (5.09%) Gherkin
11 26 (5.09%) RabbitMQ
12 23 (4.50%) Web Services
13 21 (4.11%) Jest
14 17 (3.33%) gRPC
14 17 (3.33%) YAML
15 15 (2.94%) JSON
16 14 (2.74%) Elastic Stack
17 13 (2.54%) Next.js
17 13 (2.54%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 189 (36.99%) Cloud Native
2 80 (15.66%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (9.78%) Onboarding
4 46 (9.00%) Public Cloud
5 41 (8.02%) Enterprise Cloud
6 32 (6.26%) e-Learning
7 28 (5.48%) Enterprise Software
8 27 (5.28%) Hybrid Cloud
9 26 (5.09%) Legacy Systems
9 26 (5.09%) Mainframe
10 22 (4.31%) Data Centre
11 15 (2.94%) Security Posture
12 14 (2.74%) Linux Command Line
13 13 (2.54%) Blockchain
13 13 (2.54%) Blog
13 13 (2.54%) Distributed Computing
13 13 (2.54%) Web3
14 12 (2.35%) Cloud Security Posture
15 11 (2.15%) Virtual Team
16 10 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 85 (16.63%) Linux
2 22 (4.31%) Windows
3 14 (2.74%) Unix
4 11 (2.15%) Ubuntu
5 10 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.76%) CentOS
7 7 (1.37%) 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
1 383 (74.95%) Infrastructure as Code
2 336 (65.75%) CI/CD
3 278 (54.40%) DevOps
4 216 (42.27%) Agile
5 171 (33.46%) Containerisation
6 134 (26.22%) Mentoring
7 125 (24.46%) Software Engineering
8 124 (24.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 120 (23.48%) Observability
10 112 (21.92%) Microservices
11 100 (19.57%) Cloud Security
12 97 (18.98%) Event-Driven
13 96 (18.79%) Test Automation
14 94 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
15 73 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 73 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
16 72 (14.09%) Migration
17 71 (13.89%) AI
18 65 (12.72%) Collaborative Culture
19 59 (11.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 238 (46.58%) Python
2 182 (35.62%) Java
3 100 (19.57%) SQL
4 87 (17.03%) Bash
5 84 (16.44%) TypeScript
6 46 (9.00%) Groovy
7 43 (8.41%) Go
8 38 (7.44%) Kotlin
9 33 (6.46%) JavaScript
10 32 (6.26%) PowerShell
11 31 (6.07%) Ruby
12 24 (4.70%) Bicep
13 18 (3.52%) C#
14 16 (3.13%) PHP
15 15 (2.94%) Perl
16 9 (1.76%) C++
17 6 (1.17%) COBOL
18 5 (0.98%) Google Apps Script
19 3 (0.59%) Rust
20 2 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 168 (32.88%) Security Cleared
2 124 (24.27%) AWS Certification
3 102 (19.96%) SC Cleared
4 80 (15.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 41 (8.02%) Degree
6 31 (6.07%) DV Cleared
7 19 (3.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 17 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (2.35%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (1.76%) AWS Certified Developer
13 8 (1.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (1.17%) Azure Certification
15 5 (0.98%) OSCP
16 4 (0.78%) OCP
16 4 (0.78%) Oracle Certification
16 4 (0.78%) Postgraduate
17 3 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
18 2 (0.39%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.44%) GDPR
2 15 (2.94%) NIST
2 15 (2.94%) PCI DSS
3 12 (2.35%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.15%) HIPAA
5 10 (1.96%) NCSC
5 10 (1.96%) QA
6 9 (1.76%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.57%) SOC 2
8 6 (1.17%) Government Security Classifications
8 6 (1.17%) 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
1 215 (42.07%) Docker
2 6 (1.17%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.98%) KVM
3 5 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.59%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 199 (38.94%) Kubernetes
2 97 (18.98%) Ansible
3 54 (10.57%) Grafana
4 48 (9.39%) Progress Chef
5 47 (9.20%) Prometheus
6 35 (6.85%) Puppet
7 19 (3.72%) Argo
8 17 (3.33%) HP Fortify
9 6 (1.17%) Istio
9 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.98%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.78%) linkerd
11 4 (0.78%) Mesos
12 2 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.39%) logstash
12 2 (0.39%) Rancher
13 1 (0.20%) Consul
13 1 (0.20%) Kibana
13 1 (0.20%) Packer
Vendors
1 44 (8.61%) Google
2 22 (4.31%) Microsoft
3 16 (3.13%) Oracle
4 15 (2.94%) Red Hat
5 13 (2.54%) Splunk
6 9 (1.76%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.37%) Databricks
7 7 (1.37%) HubSpot
8 6 (1.17%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.17%) VMware
9 5 (0.98%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.78%) AppDynamics
10 4 (0.78%) Avaya
10 4 (0.78%) Cisco
10 4 (0.78%) 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