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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 462 564
Rank change year-on-year +83 +102 -212
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 510 224 252
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.45% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.83% 1.41% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 263 132 195
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £50,507
25th Percentile £61,506 £60,000 £62,500
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 £92,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £98,625 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £69,384 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.49% +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 27,830 15,929 26,621
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.17% 31.91% 31.95%
Number of salaries quoted 18,357 11,011 19,014
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £42,532
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -5.51%
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 £54,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% -1.82%

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 14 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 14 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 +99 457 £78,750 +5.00% 190
UK excluding London +41 253 £72,500 +4.49% 127
London +62 229 £90,000 +14.65% 97
North of England +63 149 £75,000 +7.62% 38
Work from Home -30 115 £75,000 +8.09% 103
Yorkshire +39 91 £75,000 +7.14% 11
North West +18 47 £72,500 +7.21% 15
South West -37 29 £67,500 -25.00% 36
Wales -40 26 £72,500 +20.83% 10
Midlands -12 23 £62,250 -4.23% 10
South East -35 18 £70,000 -18.84% 17
East Midlands -12 15 £52,500 - 2
North East -51 11 £48,500 -30.10% 12
West Midlands -25 8 £68,496 +5.38% 8
Scotland +6 5 £71,991 -1.38% 11
East of England -33 2 £82,500 +10.00% 3
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 20 (3.92%) Apache
2 12 (2.35%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.76%) Confluence
4 8 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.59%) JBoss
6 3 (0.59%) nginx
7 1 (0.20%) Drupal
7 1 (0.20%) IIS
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 (1.18%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.59%) Summit
3 1 (0.20%) Magento
3 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 491 (96.27%) AWS
2 256 (50.20%) Serverless
3 199 (39.02%) AWS Lambda
4 144 (28.24%) Amazon ECS
5 143 (28.04%) Amazon S3
6 134 (26.27%) Azure
7 109 (21.37%) GitHub
8 102 (20.00%) GCP
9 81 (15.88%) GitHub Actions
10 78 (15.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 75 (14.71%) Amazon EC2
12 74 (14.51%) AWS Step Functions
13 73 (14.31%) Amazon EKS
14 57 (11.18%) Datadog
15 52 (10.20%) Cloud Computing
16 43 (8.43%) Amazon SQS
17 39 (7.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 36 (7.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 30 (5.88%) Amazon ECR
19 30 (5.88%) Amazon EventBridge
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%) DSL
6 5 (0.98%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.39%) 4G
7 2 (0.39%) 5G
7 2 (0.39%) MQTT
8 1 (0.20%) DHCP
8 1 (0.20%) DNSSEC
8 1 (0.20%) Internet
8 1 (0.20%) PSTN
8 1 (0.20%) SCCP
8 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (18.43%) DynamoDB
2 85 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 66 (12.94%) Amazon RDS
4 33 (6.47%) Amazon Athena
5 23 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (2.16%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (2.16%) MongoDB
7 10 (1.96%) MySQL
8 9 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (1.57%) Big Data
9 8 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (1.37%) Flink
10 7 (1.37%) Hadoop
10 7 (1.37%) Redis
11 6 (1.18%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.18%) SQL Server
12 5 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (0.98%) Cloudera CDH
12 5 (0.98%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.98%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 134 (26.27%) Jenkins
2 124 (24.31%) GitLab
3 74 (14.51%) Git
4 35 (6.86%) Cucumber
5 29 (5.69%) Cypress.io
5 29 (5.69%) Maven
6 25 (4.90%) SonarQube
7 17 (3.33%) CircleCI
8 13 (2.55%) JIRA
9 12 (2.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 11 (2.16%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.37%) Claude Code
12 6 (1.18%) Selenium
12 6 (1.18%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.98%) Snyk
14 4 (0.78%) Gradle
15 3 (0.59%) git-flow
15 3 (0.59%) JUnit
15 3 (0.59%) NUnit
15 3 (0.59%) Postman
General
1 143 (28.04%) Social Skills
2 126 (24.71%) Finance
3 61 (11.96%) Public Sector
4 43 (8.43%) Banking
5 27 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (2.75%) Financial Institution
7 13 (2.55%) Law
7 13 (2.55%) Legal
8 12 (2.35%) Aerospace
8 12 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.76%) Military
10 6 (1.18%) Retail
11 5 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (0.98%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.78%) Advertising
12 4 (0.78%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.78%) Local Government
12 4 (0.78%) Mandarin Language
13 3 (0.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 127 (24.90%) Senior
2 109 (21.37%) Developer
3 87 (17.06%) Cloud Engineer
4 75 (14.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 66 (12.94%) Java Developer
6 51 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
7 46 (9.02%) Lead
8 42 (8.24%) Consultant
9 37 (7.25%) Java Engineer
10 33 (6.47%) Architect
11 32 (6.27%) Senior Consultant
12 26 (5.10%) AWS Developer
12 26 (5.10%) Full-Stack Developer
12 26 (5.10%) Platform Engineer
13 25 (4.90%) Senior Developer
14 24 (4.71%) Software Engineer
15 22 (4.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 19 (3.73%) AWS DevOps
16 19 (3.73%) Principal Engineer
16 19 (3.73%) Professional Services Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (21.18%) Spring Boot
2 87 (17.06%) Node.js
3 85 (16.67%) Spring
4 82 (16.08%) Kafka
5 76 (14.90%) AngularJS
6 64 (12.55%) AWS CDK
7 48 (9.41%) React
8 37 (7.25%) RESTful
9 30 (5.88%) Gherkin
10 29 (5.69%) REST
11 25 (4.90%) RabbitMQ
12 23 (4.51%) Jest
13 22 (4.31%) Web Services
14 18 (3.53%) gRPC
15 17 (3.33%) YAML
16 15 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
16 15 (2.94%) JSON
16 15 (2.94%) Next.js
17 14 (2.75%) web3js
18 13 (2.55%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 185 (36.27%) Cloud Native
2 76 (14.90%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (9.80%) Onboarding
4 44 (8.63%) Public Cloud
5 41 (8.04%) Enterprise Cloud
6 30 (5.88%) e-Learning
7 26 (5.10%) Enterprise Software
7 26 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
7 26 (5.10%) Mainframe
8 25 (4.90%) Hybrid Cloud
9 22 (4.31%) Data Centre
10 17 (3.33%) Security Posture
11 14 (2.75%) Blockchain
11 14 (2.75%) Cloud Security Posture
11 14 (2.75%) Web3
12 13 (2.55%) Blog
12 13 (2.55%) Distributed Computing
13 12 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
13 12 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
14 10 (1.96%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 84 (16.47%) 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
1 378 (74.12%) Infrastructure as Code
2 331 (64.90%) CI/CD
3 275 (53.92%) DevOps
4 212 (41.57%) Agile
5 169 (33.14%) Containerisation
6 136 (26.67%) Mentoring
7 123 (24.12%) Continuous Improvement
8 122 (23.92%) Software Engineering
9 121 (23.73%) Observability
10 109 (21.37%) Microservices
11 103 (20.20%) Cloud Security
12 94 (18.43%) Event-Driven
13 92 (18.04%) Problem-Solving
13 92 (18.04%) Test Automation
14 72 (14.12%) Platform Engineering
15 71 (13.92%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 70 (13.73%) AI
17 68 (13.33%) Migration
18 65 (12.75%) Collaborative Culture
19 61 (11.96%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 238 (46.67%) Python
2 181 (35.49%) Java
3 96 (18.82%) SQL
4 88 (17.25%) Bash
5 85 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 49 (9.61%) Groovy
7 46 (9.02%) Go
8 39 (7.65%) Kotlin
9 36 (7.06%) JavaScript
10 31 (6.08%) Ruby
11 30 (5.88%) PowerShell
12 24 (4.71%) Bicep
13 18 (3.53%) C#
14 16 (3.14%) PHP
15 15 (2.94%) Perl
16 9 (1.76%) C++
17 6 (1.18%) COBOL
18 5 (0.98%) Google Apps Script
18 5 (0.98%) Rust
19 2 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 165 (32.35%) Security Cleared
2 124 (24.31%) AWS Certification
3 99 (19.41%) SC Cleared
4 78 (15.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 42 (8.24%) Degree
6 29 (5.69%) DV Cleared
7 21 (4.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 17 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (2.35%) Master's Degree
11 11 (2.16%) AWS Certified Developer
12 10 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
13 8 (1.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 7 (1.37%) OSCP
15 6 (1.18%) Azure Certification
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 (7.45%) GDPR
2 17 (3.33%) NIST
3 16 (3.14%) PCI DSS
4 12 (2.35%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.16%) HIPAA
6 10 (1.96%) Data Quality
6 10 (1.96%) NCSC
7 9 (1.76%) QA
7 9 (1.76%) SOC 2
8 6 (1.18%) Government Security Classifications
8 6 (1.18%) WCAG
9 5 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.39%) 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
1 212 (41.57%) 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
1 370 (72.55%) Terraform
2 196 (38.43%) Kubernetes
3 94 (18.43%) Ansible
4 53 (10.39%) Grafana
5 48 (9.41%) Prometheus
6 45 (8.82%) Progress Chef
7 33 (6.47%) Puppet
8 21 (4.12%) HP Fortify
9 19 (3.73%) Argo
10 6 (1.18%) Istio
10 6 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.98%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.78%) linkerd
12 4 (0.78%) Mesos
13 2 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.39%) logstash
13 2 (0.39%) Rancher
14 1 (0.20%) Consul
14 1 (0.20%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 43 (8.43%) Google
2 20 (3.92%) Microsoft
3 16 (3.14%) Oracle
4 15 (2.94%) Red Hat
5 12 (2.35%) Splunk
6 8 (1.57%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.37%) HubSpot
8 6 (1.18%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.18%) VMware
9 5 (0.98%) Databricks
9 5 (0.98%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.78%) Avaya
10 4 (0.78%) Cisco
10 4 (0.78%) Genesys
11 3 (0.59%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.59%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.59%) OutSystems
12 2 (0.39%) CrowdStrike
12 2 (0.39%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.39%) Tenable