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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 453 553
Rank change year-on-year +69 +100 -201
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 518 227 241
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.46% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.87% 1.44% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 259 138 180
10th Percentile £46,200 £52,200 £50,457
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £61,250
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 £102,375 £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 27,740 15,737 24,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.55% 31.68% 31.60%
Number of salaries quoted 18,793 10,656 16,102
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £102,500
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 10 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 10 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 +65 461 £75,000 - 288
UK excluding London +24 260 £71,991 +2.84% 162
London +48 230 £90,000 +10.43% 169
North of England +50 149 £72,500 +3.57% 49
Work from Home -46 115 £80,000 +14.29% 135
Yorkshire +22 87 £75,000 +5.63% 17
North West +11 47 £72,500 +18.37% 24
Wales -47 31 £72,500 +31.82% 5
South West -53 31 £67,500 -25.00% 18
Midlands -32 23 £62,500 +13.64% 28
South East -27 19 £70,000 -20.00% 30
East Midlands -11 15 £52,500 - 11
North East - 15 £48,500 - 8
West Midlands -29 8 £68,496 +24.54% 17
Scotland +9 4 £71,991 +49.98% 18
East of England -42 2 £82,500 +10.00% 8
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 21 (4.05%) Apache
2 12 (2.32%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.74%) Confluence
4 7 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.77%) 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 (0.77%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.39%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.16%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.58%) Summit
3 1 (0.19%) Magento
3 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 497 (95.95%) AWS
2 249 (48.07%) Serverless
3 192 (37.07%) AWS Lambda
4 143 (27.61%) Amazon ECS
5 140 (27.03%) Amazon S3
6 137 (26.45%) Azure
7 111 (21.43%) GitHub
8 109 (21.04%) GCP
9 83 (16.02%) GitHub Actions
10 78 (15.06%) Amazon EKS
11 77 (14.86%) Amazon EC2
12 76 (14.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 67 (12.93%) AWS Step Functions
14 55 (10.62%) Datadog
15 49 (9.46%) Cloud Computing
16 41 (7.92%) Amazon SQS
17 40 (7.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 37 (7.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 31 (5.98%) OpenShift
20 30 (5.79%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.41%) Network Security
2 22 (4.25%) TCP/IP
3 13 (2.51%) VPN
4 11 (2.12%) DNS
4 11 (2.12%) Firewall
5 6 (1.16%) AMQP
5 6 (1.16%) HTTP
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%) Internet
8 1 (0.19%) PSTN
8 1 (0.19%) SCCP
8 1 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (17.57%) NoSQL
2 86 (16.60%) DynamoDB
3 67 (12.93%) Amazon RDS
4 30 (5.79%) Amazon Athena
5 29 (5.60%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (3.28%) MongoDB
7 16 (3.09%) MySQL
8 12 (2.32%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (1.74%) Big Data
10 9 (1.74%) Redis
10 9 (1.74%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (1.54%) Hadoop
12 7 (1.35%) Flink
13 6 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (1.16%) Cloudera CDH
13 6 (1.16%) Data Lake
13 6 (1.16%) Metadata
14 5 (0.97%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 121 (23.36%) Jenkins
2 113 (21.81%) GitLab
3 82 (15.83%) Git
4 41 (7.92%) Cucumber
5 25 (4.83%) Cypress.io
5 25 (4.83%) Maven
6 23 (4.44%) SonarQube
7 12 (2.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 12 (2.32%) JIRA
8 11 (2.12%) Bitbucket
9 10 (1.93%) CircleCI
10 7 (1.35%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.16%) TeamCity
12 5 (0.97%) Snyk
13 4 (0.77%) Gradle
13 4 (0.77%) Selenium
14 3 (0.58%) git-flow
14 3 (0.58%) JUnit
14 3 (0.58%) NUnit
14 3 (0.58%) Postman
General
1 138 (26.64%) Finance
1 138 (26.64%) Social Skills
2 67 (12.93%) Public Sector
3 53 (10.23%) Banking
4 33 (6.37%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (3.47%) Financial Institution
6 17 (3.28%) Law
7 13 (2.51%) Aerospace
7 13 (2.51%) Legal
8 12 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.74%) Military
10 8 (1.54%) Retail
11 5 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.77%) Advertising
12 4 (0.77%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.77%) Local Government
12 4 (0.77%) Mandarin Language
12 4 (0.77%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.58%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 136 (26.25%) Senior
2 106 (20.46%) Developer
3 87 (16.80%) Cloud Engineer
4 77 (14.86%) DevOps Engineer
5 66 (12.74%) Java Developer
6 53 (10.23%) AWS Engineer
7 47 (9.07%) Java Engineer
8 45 (8.69%) Lead
9 42 (8.11%) Consultant
10 33 (6.37%) Architect
11 32 (6.18%) Senior Consultant
12 28 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
13 27 (5.21%) Software Engineer
14 26 (5.02%) Full-Stack Developer
15 25 (4.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 25 (4.83%) Senior Developer
16 24 (4.63%) AWS Developer
17 23 (4.44%) Principal Engineer
18 22 (4.25%) Principal Java Engineer
19 21 (4.05%) Cloud Native Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 378 (72.97%) Terraform
2 120 (23.17%) Spring Boot
3 102 (19.69%) Spring
4 93 (17.95%) Node.js
5 89 (17.18%) Kafka
6 74 (14.29%) AngularJS
7 59 (11.39%) AWS CDK
8 44 (8.49%) React
9 42 (8.11%) RESTful
10 30 (5.79%) REST
11 29 (5.60%) RabbitMQ
12 26 (5.02%) Gherkin
13 23 (4.44%) Web Services
14 21 (4.05%) Jest
15 17 (3.28%) YAML
16 16 (3.09%) gRPC
17 15 (2.90%) Hibernate
17 15 (2.90%) JSON
18 14 (2.70%) JPA
19 13 (2.51%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 198 (38.22%) Cloud Native
2 90 (17.37%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (10.04%) Public Cloud
4 50 (9.65%) Onboarding
5 41 (7.92%) Enterprise Cloud
6 38 (7.34%) e-Learning
7 37 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
8 29 (5.60%) Hybrid Cloud
9 26 (5.02%) Legacy Systems
9 26 (5.02%) Mainframe
10 22 (4.25%) Data Centre
11 16 (3.09%) Linux Command Line
11 16 (3.09%) Virtual Team
12 13 (2.51%) Blog
12 13 (2.51%) Distributed Computing
13 12 (2.32%) Product Ownership
13 12 (2.32%) Security Posture
14 11 (2.12%) Blockchain
14 11 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (2.12%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 87 (16.80%) Linux
2 22 (4.25%) Windows
3 14 (2.70%) Unix
4 12 (2.32%) Ubuntu
5 11 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (1.93%) CentOS
7 7 (1.35%) Windows Server
8 6 (1.16%) Debian
9 2 (0.39%) Android
9 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.39%) VMS
10 1 (0.19%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (75.68%) Infrastructure as Code
2 341 (65.83%) CI/CD
3 278 (53.67%) DevOps
4 230 (44.40%) Agile
5 173 (33.40%) Containerisation
6 139 (26.83%) Mentoring
7 136 (26.25%) Software Engineering
8 128 (24.71%) Observability
9 123 (23.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 122 (23.55%) Microservices
11 106 (20.46%) Event-Driven
12 102 (19.69%) Test Automation
13 100 (19.31%) Problem-Solving
14 96 (18.53%) Cloud Security
15 79 (15.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 77 (14.86%) AI
17 75 (14.48%) Migration
17 75 (14.48%) Platform Engineering
18 69 (13.32%) Collaborative Culture
19 62 (11.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 235 (45.37%) Python
2 194 (37.45%) Java
3 102 (19.69%) SQL
4 86 (16.60%) Bash
4 86 (16.60%) TypeScript
5 46 (8.88%) Groovy
6 38 (7.34%) Go
6 38 (7.34%) Kotlin
7 37 (7.14%) JavaScript
8 31 (5.98%) PowerShell
8 31 (5.98%) Ruby
9 24 (4.63%) Bicep
10 19 (3.67%) C#
11 16 (3.09%) PHP
12 15 (2.90%) Perl
13 10 (1.93%) C++
14 6 (1.16%) COBOL
15 5 (0.97%) Google Apps Script
16 2 (0.39%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.19%) Natural
Qualifications
1 169 (32.63%) Security Cleared
2 133 (25.68%) AWS Certification
3 102 (19.69%) SC Cleared
4 87 (16.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 38 (7.34%) Degree
6 33 (6.37%) DV Cleared
7 18 (3.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 17 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (2.90%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (2.32%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.93%) AWS Certified Developer
11 10 (1.93%) TOGAF Certification
12 8 (1.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (1.16%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.77%) OCP
14 4 (0.77%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (0.77%) Postgraduate
15 2 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.14%) GDPR
2 14 (2.70%) QA
3 13 (2.51%) PCI DSS
4 12 (2.32%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.32%) NIST
5 11 (2.12%) HIPAA
6 10 (1.93%) NCSC
7 9 (1.74%) Data Quality
8 6 (1.16%) Government Security Classifications
8 6 (1.16%) SOC 2
8 6 (1.16%) WCAG
9 5 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.77%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.19%) SLA
System Software
1 217 (41.89%) Docker
2 6 (1.16%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.16%) KVM
2 6 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.58%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 199 (38.42%) Kubernetes
2 97 (18.73%) Ansible
3 56 (10.81%) Grafana
4 49 (9.46%) Progress Chef
5 47 (9.07%) Prometheus
6 36 (6.95%) Puppet
7 20 (3.86%) Argo
8 17 (3.28%) HP Fortify
9 7 (1.35%) Istio
10 6 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (1.16%) 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%) Kibana
13 1 (0.19%) Packer
Vendors
1 46 (8.88%) Google
2 22 (4.25%) Microsoft
3 17 (3.28%) Splunk
4 16 (3.09%) Oracle
4 16 (3.09%) Red Hat
5 9 (1.74%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.35%) Databricks
6 7 (1.35%) HubSpot
6 7 (1.35%) VMware
7 6 (1.16%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.16%) SaltStack
8 5 (0.97%) AppDynamics
8 5 (0.97%) Cisco
9 4 (0.77%) Avaya
9 4 (0.77%) 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