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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 450 591
Rank change year-on-year +73 +141 -230
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 438 235 336
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.50% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.66% 1.52% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 232 134 272
10th Percentile £53,875 £52,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £68,438 £60,000 £63,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £92,188 £93,438 £97,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,250 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,801 £69,384 £67,500
% change year-on-year +6.37% +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 26,355 15,462 35,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.26% 32.72% 33.25%
Number of salaries quoted 17,172 10,773 26,925
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,625 £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% -8.73%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,125
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.69% -7.05%

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 3 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 3 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 +75 399 £80,000 +6.67% 132
London +57 207 £90,000 +9.09% 64
UK excluding London +36 207 £73,801 +6.37% 93
North of England +59 132 £75,000 +8.09% 26
Work from Home -13 112 £74,651 +7.59% 70
Yorkshire +44 87 £75,000 +4.17% 8
North West +12 42 £77,500 +11.70% 16
Midlands -4 27 £52,500 -22.37% 6
East Midlands +2 18 £52,500 -27.59% 3
Wales -32 15 £72,500 +26.09% 4
South East -39 15 £70,000 -12.50% 24
South West -60 11 £72,500 -19.44% 25
West Midlands -20 9 £62,000 -6.50% 3
Scotland +10 3 £76,783 +39.60% 6
North East -48 3 £57,788 -16.71% 2
East of England -25 2 £82,500 +10.00%
Northern Ireland - 2 £84,401 - 2

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 (4.34%) Apache
2 12 (2.74%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.60%) Confluence
4 6 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.68%) JBoss
7 1 (0.23%) Drupal
7 1 (0.23%) IIS
7 1 (0.23%) nginx
7 1 (0.23%) SAS
7 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Lightworks
1 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.91%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.23%) Magento
2 1 (0.23%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 420 (95.89%) AWS
2 222 (50.68%) Serverless
3 183 (41.78%) AWS Lambda
4 130 (29.68%) Amazon S3
5 122 (27.85%) Amazon ECS
6 110 (25.11%) Azure
7 93 (21.23%) GitHub
8 85 (19.41%) AWS Step Functions
9 79 (18.04%) GCP
10 74 (16.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 69 (15.75%) GitHub Actions
12 60 (13.70%) Amazon EKS
13 59 (13.47%) Datadog
14 54 (12.33%) Amazon EC2
15 47 (10.73%) Amazon SQS
16 43 (9.82%) Cloud Computing
17 39 (8.90%) Amazon ECR
18 35 (7.99%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 34 (7.76%) Apigee
20 24 (5.48%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.88%) Network Security
2 16 (3.65%) VPN
3 15 (3.42%) Firewall
4 12 (2.74%) TCP/IP
5 11 (2.51%) DSL
6 10 (2.28%) DNS
7 6 (1.37%) AMQP
8 4 (0.91%) HTTP
9 3 (0.68%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (0.46%) 4G
10 2 (0.46%) 5G
10 2 (0.46%) MQTT
10 2 (0.46%) SCCP
11 1 (0.23%) DHCP
11 1 (0.23%) DNSSEC
11 1 (0.23%) Internet
11 1 (0.23%) PSTN
11 1 (0.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (23.74%) DynamoDB
2 81 (18.49%) NoSQL
3 49 (11.19%) Amazon RDS
4 33 (7.53%) Amazon Athena
5 19 (4.34%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (2.05%) Big Data
8 8 (1.83%) MongoDB
8 8 (1.83%) Redis
9 7 (1.60%) Hadoop
9 7 (1.60%) MySQL
10 6 (1.37%) Cloudera CDH
10 6 (1.37%) Flink
11 5 (1.14%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.14%) SQL Server
12 4 (0.91%) Apache Iceberg
12 4 (0.91%) Metadata
13 3 (0.68%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 153 (34.93%) Jenkins
2 141 (32.19%) GitLab
3 63 (14.38%) Git
4 38 (8.68%) Maven
5 34 (7.76%) Cypress.io
6 32 (7.31%) SonarQube
7 28 (6.39%) Cucumber
8 26 (5.94%) CircleCI
9 11 (2.51%) Bitbucket
10 9 (2.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 9 (2.05%) JIRA
11 6 (1.37%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.37%) TeamCity
12 5 (1.14%) Gradle
13 3 (0.68%) Selenium
14 2 (0.46%) JMeter
15 1 (0.23%) Eclipse
15 1 (0.23%) MLflow
15 1 (0.23%) Robot Framework
15 1 (0.23%) Vagrant
General
1 121 (27.63%) Social Skills
2 107 (24.43%) Finance
3 37 (8.45%) Banking
4 36 (8.22%) Public Sector
5 15 (3.42%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (2.51%) Aerospace
7 9 (2.05%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.60%) Advertising
9 6 (1.37%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.37%) Retail
10 5 (1.14%) Legal
11 4 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.91%) Mandarin Language
11 4 (0.91%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.68%) Back Office
12 3 (0.68%) Billing
12 3 (0.68%) Law
13 2 (0.46%) Games
13 2 (0.46%) Military
Job Titles
1 111 (25.34%) Developer
2 91 (20.78%) Senior
3 77 (17.58%) Cloud Engineer
4 69 (15.75%) Java Developer
5 65 (14.84%) DevOps Engineer
6 44 (10.05%) AWS Engineer
7 37 (8.45%) Lead
8 30 (6.85%) Platform Engineer
9 29 (6.62%) Senior Developer
10 28 (6.39%) Architect
10 28 (6.39%) Java Engineer
11 26 (5.94%) AWS Developer
11 26 (5.94%) Full-Stack Developer
12 22 (5.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 21 (4.79%) AWS DevOps
13 21 (4.79%) Consultant
13 21 (4.79%) Security Engineer
13 21 (4.79%) Software Engineer
14 20 (4.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 20 (4.57%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (22.60%) Spring Boot
2 81 (18.49%) AngularJS
3 75 (17.12%) Kafka
3 75 (17.12%) Node.js
4 70 (15.98%) Spring
5 56 (12.79%) AWS CDK
6 40 (9.13%) React
7 38 (8.68%) Gherkin
8 32 (7.31%) RESTful
9 30 (6.85%) Jest
10 26 (5.94%) RabbitMQ
10 26 (5.94%) REST
11 24 (5.48%) gRPC
12 19 (4.34%) web3js
13 18 (4.11%) Next.js
13 18 (4.11%) YAML
14 16 (3.65%) JSON
14 16 (3.65%) Web Services
15 14 (3.20%) Elastic Stack
16 12 (2.74%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 150 (34.25%) Cloud Native
2 48 (10.96%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (8.90%) Public Cloud
4 30 (6.85%) Onboarding
5 24 (5.48%) Enterprise Cloud
5 24 (5.48%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (5.25%) e-Learning
7 20 (4.57%) Security Posture
8 19 (4.34%) Blockchain
8 19 (4.34%) Web3
9 18 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (3.88%) Mainframe
11 15 (3.42%) Greenfield Project
12 14 (3.20%) Cloud Security Posture
12 14 (3.20%) Data Centre
13 10 (2.28%) Product Ownership
14 9 (2.05%) PKI
15 8 (1.83%) Distributed Computing
15 8 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 75 (17.12%) Linux
2 22 (5.02%) Windows
3 14 (3.20%) Ubuntu
4 12 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.51%) CentOS
6 6 (1.37%) Debian
7 5 (1.14%) Unix
7 5 (1.14%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.68%) Android
8 3 (0.68%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.68%) VMS
9 1 (0.23%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (74.20%) Infrastructure as Code
2 286 (65.30%) CI/CD
3 228 (52.05%) DevOps
4 177 (40.41%) Agile
5 152 (34.70%) Containerisation
6 100 (22.83%) Mentoring
7 97 (22.15%) Observability
8 95 (21.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 94 (21.46%) Microservices
10 93 (21.23%) Software Engineering
11 84 (19.18%) Cloud Security
12 81 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
13 79 (18.04%) Test Automation
14 74 (16.89%) Event-Driven
15 70 (15.98%) DevSecOps
16 69 (15.75%) Platform Engineering
17 64 (14.61%) Continuous Integration
18 52 (11.87%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 51 (11.64%) Full-Stack Development
20 50 (11.42%) AI
Programming Languages
1 201 (45.89%) Python
2 170 (38.81%) Java
3 93 (21.23%) TypeScript
4 89 (20.32%) SQL
5 76 (17.35%) Bash
6 54 (12.33%) Groovy
7 47 (10.73%) Go
8 38 (8.68%) Kotlin
9 36 (8.22%) JavaScript
10 32 (7.31%) PowerShell
11 24 (5.48%) Bicep
12 18 (4.11%) Ruby
13 17 (3.88%) C#
14 11 (2.51%) C++
14 11 (2.51%) Rust
15 10 (2.28%) PHP
16 9 (2.05%) Perl
17 6 (1.37%) Google Apps Script
18 4 (0.91%) COBOL
19 1 (0.23%) Natural
Qualifications
1 123 (28.08%) Security Cleared
2 104 (23.74%) AWS Certification
3 63 (14.38%) SC Cleared
4 59 (13.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 41 (9.36%) Degree
6 28 (6.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (5.48%) ITIL Certification
8 23 (5.25%) DV Cleared
9 14 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (3.20%) OSCP
10 10 (2.28%) Master's Degree
11 9 (2.05%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (1.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (1.83%) Azure Certification
13 7 (1.60%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (1.14%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 4 (0.91%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.68%) CREST Certified
17 2 (0.46%) CompTIA Security+
17 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.79%) NIST
1 21 (4.79%) PCI DSS
2 18 (4.11%) GDPR
3 13 (2.97%) SOC 2
4 9 (2.05%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.60%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.14%) NCSC
8 4 (0.91%) Government Security Classifications
8 4 (0.91%) WCAG
9 3 (0.68%) QA
10 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.23%) HL7
10 1 (0.23%) SLA
10 1 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 194 (44.29%) Docker
2 6 (1.37%) KVM
2 6 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.91%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 302 (68.95%) Terraform
2 175 (39.95%) Kubernetes
3 73 (16.67%) Ansible
4 52 (11.87%) Prometheus
5 48 (10.96%) Grafana
6 29 (6.62%) HP Fortify
7 28 (6.39%) Progress Chef
8 20 (4.57%) Puppet
9 17 (3.88%) Argo
10 8 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (1.37%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (1.14%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (1.14%) Istio
12 5 (1.14%) linkerd
12 5 (1.14%) Mesos
13 3 (0.68%) Rancher
14 2 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
15 1 (0.23%) Consul
15 1 (0.23%) Packer
Vendors
1 34 (7.76%) Google
2 17 (3.88%) Microsoft
3 13 (2.97%) Oracle
4 9 (2.05%) Splunk
5 7 (1.60%) HubSpot
5 7 (1.60%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.37%) OpenAI
6 6 (1.37%) SaltStack
6 6 (1.37%) VMware
7 4 (0.91%) Databricks
7 4 (0.91%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.46%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.46%) Tenable
9 1 (0.23%) Avaya
9 1 (0.23%) Cisco
9 1 (0.23%) Genesys
9 1 (0.23%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.23%) OneLogin
9 1 (0.23%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.23%) TOWER Software