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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 472 573
Rank change year-on-year +99 +101 -216
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 510 225 240
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.45% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.84% 1.41% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 258 137 182
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £50,507
25th Percentile £59,500 £60,000 £61,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -6.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £102,750 £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 27,651 16,009 25,787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.15% 31.95% 31.70%
Number of salaries quoted 18,548 10,944 17,588
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,750 £44,998
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.53%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,750
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 31 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 31 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 +91 456 £75,000 - 178
UK excluding London +23 258 £71,991 +2.84% 120
London +60 225 £90,000 +10.43% 87
North of England +37 149 £72,500 +3.57% 46
Work from Home -46 115 £75,823 +6.79% 111
Yorkshire +31 88 £75,000 +5.63% 14
North West +14 46 £72,500 +16.00% 21
South West -45 30 £67,500 -25.00% 24
Wales -42 29 £72,500 +26.09% 4
Midlands -19 24 £62,500 +13.64% 18
South East -35 19 £70,000 -20.00% 17
East Midlands -10 16 £52,500 - 6
North East - 15 £48,500 - 11
West Midlands -27 8 £68,496 +24.54% 12
Scotland +2 4 £71,991 - 2
East of England -27 2 £82,500 +10.00% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £71,991 - 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 (3.73%) Apache
2 11 (2.16%) 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
3 1 (0.20%) 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
1 490 (96.08%) AWS
2 251 (49.22%) Serverless
3 193 (37.84%) AWS Lambda
4 143 (28.04%) Amazon ECS
5 141 (27.65%) Amazon S3
6 133 (26.08%) Azure
7 112 (21.96%) GitHub
8 105 (20.59%) GCP
9 83 (16.27%) GitHub Actions
10 78 (15.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 78 (15.29%) Amazon EC2
11 76 (14.90%) Amazon EKS
12 68 (13.33%) AWS Step Functions
13 56 (10.98%) Datadog
14 50 (9.80%) Cloud Computing
15 40 (7.84%) Amazon SQS
15 40 (7.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 38 (7.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 30 (5.88%) Amazon EventBridge
17 30 (5.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.49%) Network Security
2 22 (4.31%) 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 2 (0.39%) MQTT
8 1 (0.20%) 4G
8 1 (0.20%) 5G
8 1 (0.20%) DHCP
8 1 (0.20%) DNSSEC
8 1 (0.20%) DSL
8 1 (0.20%) Internet
8 1 (0.20%) PSTN
8 1 (0.20%) SCCP
8 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (17.45%) NoSQL
2 87 (17.06%) DynamoDB
3 68 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
4 32 (6.27%) Amazon Athena
5 27 (5.29%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (2.94%) MongoDB
7 14 (2.75%) MySQL
8 12 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.57%) Big Data
10 8 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (1.57%) Redis
10 8 (1.57%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.37%) Flink
11 7 (1.37%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (1.18%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.18%) Metadata
13 5 (0.98%) Cloudera CDH
13 5 (0.98%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 123 (24.12%) Jenkins
2 111 (21.76%) GitLab
3 80 (15.69%) Git
4 37 (7.25%) Cucumber
5 24 (4.71%) Cypress.io
5 24 (4.71%) Maven
6 22 (4.31%) SonarQube
7 12 (2.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 12 (2.35%) CircleCI
7 12 (2.35%) JIRA
8 11 (2.16%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.37%) Claude Code
10 6 (1.18%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.98%) Snyk
12 4 (0.78%) Gradle
12 4 (0.78%) Selenium
13 3 (0.59%) git-flow
13 3 (0.59%) JUnit
13 3 (0.59%) NUnit
13 3 (0.59%) Postman
General
1 138 (27.06%) Social Skills
2 132 (25.88%) Finance
3 65 (12.75%) Public Sector
4 49 (9.61%) Banking
5 30 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.33%) Law
7 16 (3.14%) Financial Institution
8 13 (2.55%) Legal
9 12 (2.35%) Aerospace
9 12 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.76%) Military
11 7 (1.37%) Retail
12 5 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.78%) Advertising
13 4 (0.78%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.78%) Local Government
13 4 (0.78%) Mandarin Language
13 4 (0.78%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.59%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 131 (25.69%) Senior
2 105 (20.59%) Developer
3 88 (17.25%) Cloud Engineer
4 76 (14.90%) DevOps Engineer
5 64 (12.55%) Java Developer
6 53 (10.39%) AWS Engineer
7 45 (8.82%) Lead
8 42 (8.24%) Consultant
8 42 (8.24%) Java Engineer
9 32 (6.27%) Architect
9 32 (6.27%) Senior Consultant
10 28 (5.49%) Platform Engineer
11 26 (5.10%) Software Engineer
12 25 (4.90%) Full-Stack Developer
12 25 (4.90%) Senior Developer
13 24 (4.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 23 (4.51%) AWS Developer
15 21 (4.12%) Cloud Native Engineer
15 21 (4.12%) Principal Engineer
16 20 (3.92%) Principal Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 373 (73.14%) Terraform
2 112 (21.96%) Spring Boot
3 94 (18.43%) Spring
4 91 (17.84%) Node.js
5 85 (16.67%) Kafka
6 73 (14.31%) AngularJS
7 61 (11.96%) AWS CDK
8 44 (8.63%) React
9 41 (8.04%) RESTful
10 29 (5.69%) REST
11 27 (5.29%) RabbitMQ
12 25 (4.90%) Gherkin
13 23 (4.51%) Web Services
14 20 (3.92%) Jest
15 17 (3.33%) YAML
16 16 (3.14%) gRPC
17 15 (2.94%) JSON
18 13 (2.55%) Hibernate
18 13 (2.55%) Next.js
18 13 (2.55%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 189 (37.06%) Cloud Native
2 84 (16.47%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (9.80%) Onboarding
4 48 (9.41%) Public Cloud
5 41 (8.04%) Enterprise Cloud
6 34 (6.67%) e-Learning
7 32 (6.27%) Enterprise Software
8 29 (5.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 26 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
9 26 (5.10%) Mainframe
10 22 (4.31%) Data Centre
11 16 (3.14%) Linux Command Line
12 13 (2.55%) Blog
12 13 (2.55%) Distributed Computing
12 13 (2.55%) Security Posture
12 13 (2.55%) Virtual Team
13 12 (2.35%) Blockchain
13 12 (2.35%) Web3
14 10 (1.96%) Cloud Security Posture
14 10 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 85 (16.67%) Linux
2 22 (4.31%) Windows
3 14 (2.75%) Unix
4 11 (2.16%) 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
1 384 (75.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 335 (65.69%) CI/CD
3 275 (53.92%) DevOps
4 219 (42.94%) Agile
5 171 (33.53%) Containerisation
6 135 (26.47%) Mentoring
7 129 (25.29%) Software Engineering
8 123 (24.12%) Continuous Improvement
8 123 (24.12%) Observability
9 115 (22.55%) Microservices
10 100 (19.61%) Event-Driven
11 98 (19.22%) Cloud Security
12 97 (19.02%) Test Automation
13 95 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
14 75 (14.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 74 (14.51%) Migration
15 74 (14.51%) Platform Engineering
16 72 (14.12%) AI
17 66 (12.94%) Collaborative Culture
18 61 (11.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 234 (45.88%) Python
2 185 (36.27%) Java
3 100 (19.61%) SQL
4 86 (16.86%) Bash
5 85 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 45 (8.82%) Groovy
7 39 (7.65%) Go
8 38 (7.45%) Kotlin
9 34 (6.67%) JavaScript
10 31 (6.08%) PowerShell
10 31 (6.08%) Ruby
11 24 (4.71%) Bicep
12 18 (3.53%) C#
13 16 (3.14%) PHP
14 15 (2.94%) Perl
15 9 (1.76%) C++
16 6 (1.18%) COBOL
17 5 (0.98%) Google Apps Script
18 2 (0.39%) Shell Script
19 1 (0.20%) Natural
Qualifications
1 167 (32.75%) Security Cleared
2 127 (24.90%) AWS Certification
3 101 (19.80%) SC Cleared
4 82 (16.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 38 (7.45%) Degree
6 31 (6.08%) DV Cleared
7 18 (3.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 16 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (2.75%) 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 (1.18%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.78%) OCP
15 4 (0.78%) Oracle Certification
15 4 (0.78%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
16 3 (0.59%) OSCP
17 2 (0.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.25%) GDPR
2 14 (2.75%) PCI DSS
3 13 (2.55%) NIST
4 12 (2.35%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.16%) HIPAA
5 11 (2.16%) QA
6 10 (1.96%) NCSC
7 9 (1.76%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.37%) SOC 2
9 6 (1.18%) Government Security Classifications
9 6 (1.18%) WCAG
10 5 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.59%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 215 (42.16%) 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 (38.63%) Kubernetes
2 95 (18.63%) Ansible
3 54 (10.59%) Grafana
4 48 (9.41%) Progress Chef
5 46 (9.02%) Prometheus
6 35 (6.86%) Puppet
7 19 (3.73%) Argo
8 16 (3.14%) HP Fortify
9 6 (1.18%) Istio
9 6 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.78%) linkerd
10 4 (0.78%) 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 (8.63%) Google
2 21 (4.12%) Microsoft
3 16 (3.14%) Oracle
4 15 (2.94%) Red Hat
4 15 (2.94%) Splunk
5 9 (1.76%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.37%) Databricks
6 7 (1.37%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.18%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.18%) VMware
8 5 (0.98%) SaltStack
9 4 (0.78%) AppDynamics
9 4 (0.78%) Avaya
9 4 (0.78%) Cisco
9 4 (0.78%) Genesys
10 3 (0.59%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.59%) OutSystems
11 2 (0.39%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.39%) Informatica
11 2 (0.39%) Tenable