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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 440 573
Rank change year-on-year +42 +133 -213
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 407 232 339
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.51% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.58% 1.54% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 219 132 275
10th Percentile £54,711 £51,375 £55,000
25th Percentile £68,750 £60,000 £63,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,319 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.43% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £92,500 £92,813 £97,500
90th Percentile £113,000 £111,250 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,051 £69,384 £67,500
% change year-on-year +6.73% +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 25,738 15,070 35,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.07% 33.32% 33.04%
Number of salaries quoted 16,750 10,432 27,338
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £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% -8.95%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,703 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +1.94% -6.36%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +47 371 £80,000 +6.67% 75
UK excluding London +34 197 £74,051 +6.73% 58
London +47 188 £90,000 +9.09% 34
North of England +58 128 £75,000 +8.09% 22
Work from Home -4 109 £73,801 +6.37% 41
Yorkshire +35 88 £75,000 +4.17% 6
North West +16 38 £80,000 +15.30% 14
Midlands -3 27 £52,500 -25.07% 2
East Midlands -11 18 £52,500 -27.59%
Wales -38 14 £73,151 +27.22% 1
South West -58 11 £72,500 -19.44% 12
South East -43 10 £70,000 +3.70% 19
West Midlands -9 9 £50,000 -26.06% 2
Scotland +5 3 £76,783 +39.60% 2
East of England -33 2 £82,500 +10.00%
North East -43 2 £65,576 -5.49% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £84,401 -

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 18 (4.42%) Apache
2 11 (2.70%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.47%) Confluence
4 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.74%) JBoss
6 1 (0.25%) Drupal
6 1 (0.25%) IIS
6 1 (0.25%) nginx
6 1 (0.25%) SAS
6 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.25%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 4 (0.98%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.25%) Magento
2 1 (0.25%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 392 (96.31%) AWS
2 208 (51.11%) Serverless
3 175 (43.00%) AWS Lambda
4 129 (31.70%) Amazon S3
5 116 (28.50%) Amazon ECS
6 99 (24.32%) Azure
7 91 (22.36%) GitHub
8 86 (21.13%) AWS Step Functions
9 77 (18.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 71 (17.44%) GCP
11 68 (16.71%) GitHub Actions
12 61 (14.99%) Datadog
13 53 (13.02%) Amazon EC2
13 53 (13.02%) Amazon EKS
14 46 (11.30%) Amazon SQS
15 38 (9.34%) Amazon ECR
16 37 (9.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 33 (8.11%) Apigee
17 33 (8.11%) Cloud Computing
18 22 (5.41%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.44%) Firewall
2 13 (3.19%) Network Security
2 13 (3.19%) VPN
3 11 (2.70%) DSL
3 11 (2.70%) TCP/IP
4 9 (2.21%) DNS
5 5 (1.23%) AMQP
6 3 (0.74%) HTTP
6 3 (0.74%) SCCP
6 3 (0.74%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.49%) 4G
7 2 (0.49%) 5G
8 1 (0.25%) DHCP
8 1 (0.25%) DNSSEC
8 1 (0.25%) Internet
8 1 (0.25%) MQTT
8 1 (0.25%) PSTN
8 1 (0.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (25.80%) DynamoDB
2 82 (20.15%) NoSQL
3 50 (12.29%) Amazon RDS
4 35 (8.60%) Amazon Athena
5 18 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.95%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (1.97%) Big Data
8 8 (1.97%) Redis
9 7 (1.72%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.47%) Flink
10 6 (1.47%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.47%) MySQL
11 5 (1.23%) Cloudera CDH
11 5 (1.23%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.23%) SQL Server
12 4 (0.98%) Apache Iceberg
12 4 (0.98%) Metadata
13 3 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 151 (37.10%) Jenkins
2 137 (33.66%) GitLab
3 61 (14.99%) Git
4 37 (9.09%) Maven
5 33 (8.11%) Cypress.io
6 30 (7.37%) SonarQube
7 27 (6.63%) CircleCI
7 27 (6.63%) Cucumber
8 10 (2.46%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 8 (1.97%) JIRA
10 6 (1.47%) Claude Code
10 6 (1.47%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.23%) Gradle
12 3 (0.74%) Selenium
13 2 (0.49%) JMeter
14 1 (0.25%) git-flow
14 1 (0.25%) MLflow
14 1 (0.25%) Robot Framework
14 1 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 113 (27.76%) Social Skills
2 96 (23.59%) Finance
3 38 (9.34%) Banking
4 27 (6.63%) Public Sector
5 15 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (3.44%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (2.46%) Aerospace
8 9 (2.21%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.72%) Advertising
9 7 (1.72%) Retail
10 6 (1.47%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.23%) Legal
12 4 (0.98%) Billing
12 4 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.98%) Mandarin Language
12 4 (0.98%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.74%) Aviation
13 3 (0.74%) Back Office
13 3 (0.74%) Law
14 2 (0.49%) Games
Job Titles
1 112 (27.52%) Developer
2 81 (19.90%) Senior
3 74 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
4 70 (17.20%) Java Developer
5 61 (14.99%) DevOps Engineer
6 44 (10.81%) AWS Engineer
7 31 (7.62%) Senior Developer
8 30 (7.37%) Platform Engineer
9 29 (7.13%) Lead
10 27 (6.63%) AWS Developer
10 27 (6.63%) Java Engineer
11 25 (6.14%) Architect
11 25 (6.14%) Full-Stack Developer
12 21 (5.16%) AWS DevOps
13 20 (4.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 20 (4.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 20 (4.91%) Security Engineer
13 20 (4.91%) Software Engineer
14 19 (4.67%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 19 (4.67%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (22.85%) Spring Boot
2 80 (19.66%) AngularJS
3 73 (17.94%) Kafka
4 72 (17.69%) Node.js
5 65 (15.97%) Spring
6 51 (12.53%) AWS CDK
7 38 (9.34%) React
8 37 (9.09%) Gherkin
9 31 (7.62%) RESTful
10 29 (7.13%) Jest
11 25 (6.14%) RabbitMQ
12 23 (5.65%) gRPC
13 22 (5.41%) REST
14 20 (4.91%) web3js
15 18 (4.42%) Next.js
15 18 (4.42%) YAML
16 15 (3.69%) JSON
17 14 (3.44%) Elastic Stack
17 14 (3.44%) Web Services
18 12 (2.95%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 135 (33.17%) Cloud Native
2 43 (10.57%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (8.85%) Public Cloud
4 23 (5.65%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (5.41%) e-Learning
6 21 (5.16%) Security Posture
7 20 (4.91%) Blockchain
7 20 (4.91%) Web3
8 18 (4.42%) Onboarding
9 16 (3.93%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (3.69%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (3.19%) Cloud Security Posture
11 13 (3.19%) Enterprise Cloud
12 12 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (2.70%) Mainframe
14 10 (2.46%) Product Ownership
15 9 (2.21%) PKI
16 8 (1.97%) Linux Command Line
17 7 (1.72%) Data Centre
17 7 (1.72%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 72 (17.69%) Linux
2 21 (5.16%) Windows
3 13 (3.19%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.46%) CentOS
6 5 (1.23%) Debian
6 5 (1.23%) Unix
6 5 (1.23%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.74%) Android
7 3 (0.74%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.74%) VMS
8 1 (0.25%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (74.69%) Infrastructure as Code
2 273 (67.08%) CI/CD
3 216 (53.07%) DevOps
4 163 (40.05%) Agile
5 143 (35.14%) Containerisation
6 92 (22.60%) Observability
7 90 (22.11%) Microservices
8 89 (21.87%) Mentoring
9 88 (21.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 88 (21.62%) Software Engineering
10 77 (18.92%) Cloud Security
11 74 (18.18%) Test Automation
12 73 (17.94%) Problem-Solving
13 70 (17.20%) DevSecOps
13 70 (17.20%) Event-Driven
14 66 (16.22%) Continuous Integration
15 64 (15.72%) Platform Engineering
16 49 (12.04%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 49 (12.04%) Full-Stack Development
17 48 (11.79%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 183 (44.96%) Python
2 161 (39.56%) Java
3 92 (22.60%) TypeScript
4 88 (21.62%) SQL
5 70 (17.20%) Bash
6 52 (12.78%) Groovy
7 48 (11.79%) Go
8 40 (9.83%) Kotlin
9 35 (8.60%) JavaScript
10 29 (7.13%) PowerShell
11 20 (4.91%) Bicep
12 17 (4.18%) C#
13 13 (3.19%) Ruby
14 11 (2.70%) Rust
15 10 (2.46%) C++
16 6 (1.47%) Google Apps Script
16 6 (1.47%) PHP
17 5 (1.23%) Perl
18 4 (0.98%) COBOL
19 1 (0.25%) Natural
Qualifications
1 107 (26.29%) Security Cleared
2 92 (22.60%) AWS Certification
3 59 (14.50%) SC Cleared
4 51 (12.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 36 (8.85%) Degree
6 26 (6.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 23 (5.65%) ITIL Certification
8 19 (4.67%) DV Cleared
9 14 (3.44%) OSCP
10 12 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (2.21%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (1.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (1.97%) Azure Certification
12 8 (1.97%) Master's Degree
13 6 (1.47%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 6 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.98%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.74%) CREST Certified
16 2 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
16 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.91%) NIST
2 19 (4.67%) PCI DSS
3 16 (3.93%) GDPR
4 12 (2.95%) SOC 2
5 9 (2.21%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.47%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.23%) NCSC
8 4 (0.98%) Government Security Classifications
9 3 (0.74%) QA
9 3 (0.74%) WCAG
10 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.25%) HL7
10 1 (0.25%) SLA
10 1 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 185 (45.45%) Docker
2 6 (1.47%) KVM
2 6 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.98%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 276 (67.81%) Terraform
2 160 (39.31%) Kubernetes
3 65 (15.97%) Ansible
4 50 (12.29%) Prometheus
5 45 (11.06%) Grafana
6 28 (6.88%) HP Fortify
7 20 (4.91%) Progress Chef
8 16 (3.93%) Argo
9 12 (2.95%) Puppet
10 8 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (1.47%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (1.23%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (1.23%) Istio
12 5 (1.23%) linkerd
12 5 (1.23%) Mesos
13 3 (0.74%) Rancher
14 2 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
15 1 (0.25%) Consul
15 1 (0.25%) Packer
Vendors
1 32 (7.86%) Google
2 15 (3.69%) Microsoft
3 11 (2.70%) Oracle
4 8 (1.97%) Splunk
5 7 (1.72%) HubSpot
6 6 (1.47%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.47%) VMware
7 5 (1.23%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.23%) SaltStack
8 4 (0.98%) Databricks
8 4 (0.98%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.49%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.49%) Tenable
10 1 (0.25%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.25%) Infoblox
10 1 (0.25%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (0.25%) OneLogin
10 1 (0.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.25%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.25%) TOWER Software