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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 417 498
Rank change year-on-year +44 +81 -158
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 324 283 337
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.59% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.41% 1.60% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 203 209 271
10th Percentile £53,000 £52,500 £52,000
25th Percentile £63,243 £62,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,301 £75,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% +0.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £87,500 £112,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £104,000 £122,500 £116,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.41% - -10.00%

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 23,002 17,739 28,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.02% 37.26% 38.52%
Number of salaries quoted 12,409 10,932 23,674
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,805 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% +11.74% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 26 February 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS CloudFormation in the UK

AWS CloudFormation
Top 16 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 26 February 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 +33 274 £75,000 -5.66% 79
UK excluding London +34 163 £72,500 +7.41% 46
London +23 130 £85,000 -12.82% 38
Work from Home +30 119 £72,500 -3.33% 57
North of England +25 97 £72,500 +7.41% 20
Yorkshire +18 68 £72,500 - 4
North West -20 25 £74,301 +14.31% 13
Midlands +16 23 £50,000 -26.97% 8
West Midlands +27 16 £50,000 -27.86% 6
South East -21 14 £70,000 +16.67% 3
South West -6 10 £71,250 +29.55% 11
Wales -1 8 £71,379 +7.64% 2
East Midlands -22 7 £75,000 +15.38% 2
Northern Ireland -24 7 £95,000 +37.07% 1
Scotland -19 6 £73,801 +6.48% 1
North East -9 4 £73,801 +6.37% 3

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 (5.56%) Apache
2 10 (3.09%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.23%) Tomcat
4 4 (1.23%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.23%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.62%) JBoss
5 2 (0.62%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.31%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 308 (95.06%) AWS
2 175 (54.01%) Serverless
3 157 (48.46%) AWS Lambda
4 146 (45.06%) Azure
5 114 (35.19%) Amazon S3
6 100 (30.86%) Amazon ECS
7 87 (26.85%) GCP
8 83 (25.62%) GitHub
9 81 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 71 (21.91%) AWS Step Functions
11 63 (19.44%) Amazon EKS
11 63 (19.44%) GitHub Actions
12 59 (18.21%) Amazon ECR
13 43 (13.27%) Amazon EC2
14 37 (11.42%) Amazon SQS
15 36 (11.11%) Pulumi
16 34 (10.49%) Datadog
17 33 (10.19%) Azure DevOps
18 32 (9.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 30 (9.26%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.02%) TCP/IP
2 14 (4.32%) Firewall
3 13 (4.01%) VPN
4 11 (3.40%) DSL
5 5 (1.54%) AMQP
5 5 (1.54%) Network Security
5 5 (1.54%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (1.23%) DNS
6 4 (1.23%) SSL
7 3 (0.93%) SCCP
8 2 (0.62%) DHCP
8 2 (0.62%) LAN
8 2 (0.62%) WAN
9 1 (0.31%) 4G
9 1 (0.31%) 5G
9 1 (0.31%) HTTP
9 1 (0.31%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (25.62%) DynamoDB
2 66 (20.37%) Amazon RDS
3 61 (18.83%) NoSQL
4 49 (15.12%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (8.95%) Elasticsearch
6 25 (7.72%) Redis
7 21 (6.48%) Amazon Athena
8 16 (4.94%) SQL Server
9 14 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (3.70%) MySQL
11 9 (2.78%) Data Lake
12 7 (2.16%) Big Data
13 6 (1.85%) MongoDB
14 5 (1.54%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (1.54%) Hadoop
15 4 (1.23%) DB2
16 3 (0.93%) Apache Iceberg
16 3 (0.93%) Metadata
17 2 (0.62%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 120 (37.04%) Jenkins
2 116 (35.80%) GitLab
3 56 (17.28%) Git
4 38 (11.73%) SonarQube
5 31 (9.57%) Maven
6 30 (9.26%) Cypress.io
7 18 (5.56%) CircleCI
8 11 (3.40%) Bitbucket
9 10 (3.09%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.85%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.54%) git-flow
11 5 (1.54%) JIRA
11 5 (1.54%) Robot Framework
12 4 (1.23%) Selenium
13 3 (0.93%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.93%) JMeter
14 2 (0.62%) TestRail
15 1 (0.31%) Artifactory
15 1 (0.31%) Gradle
15 1 (0.31%) Subversion
General
1 94 (29.01%) Social Skills
2 63 (19.44%) Finance
3 24 (7.41%) Banking
4 19 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (3.40%) Aerospace
7 8 (2.47%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.16%) Advertising
8 7 (2.16%) Public Sector
9 6 (1.85%) Law
10 5 (1.54%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.54%) Retail
11 4 (1.23%) Billing
11 4 (1.23%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.93%) Aviation
13 2 (0.62%) Electronics
13 2 (0.62%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.62%) Marketing
13 2 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.31%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 71 (21.91%) Senior
2 70 (21.60%) Cloud Engineer
2 70 (21.60%) Developer
3 54 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 40 (12.35%) AWS Engineer
5 35 (10.80%) Platform Engineer
6 34 (10.49%) Java Developer
7 27 (8.33%) Lead
8 22 (6.79%) AWS Developer
9 20 (6.17%) AWS DevOps
9 20 (6.17%) Senior Developer
10 19 (5.86%) Architect
10 19 (5.86%) Security Engineer
10 19 (5.86%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 18 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 17 (5.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 17 (5.25%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 16 (4.94%) AWS Architect
14 13 (4.01%) .NET Developer
14 13 (4.01%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (16.98%) AWS CDK
2 52 (16.05%) AngularJS
3 48 (14.81%) Spring Boot
4 43 (13.27%) Node.js
5 36 (11.11%) React
6 31 (9.57%) Kafka
7 30 (9.26%) Gherkin
7 30 (9.26%) Jest
7 30 (9.26%) RESTful
8 28 (8.64%) Elastic Stack
9 26 (8.02%) Spring
10 25 (7.72%) Django
11 20 (6.17%) RabbitMQ
12 19 (5.86%) .NET
13 15 (4.63%) gRPC
14 14 (4.32%) REST
15 13 (4.01%) .NET Core
15 13 (4.01%) ASP.NET
15 13 (4.01%) ASP.NET Core
15 13 (4.01%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 96 (29.63%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (6.48%) Linux Command Line
3 21 (6.48%) Security Posture
4 17 (5.25%) Public Cloud
5 16 (4.94%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.70%) Cloud Security Posture
7 11 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (3.09%) Blockchain
8 10 (3.09%) Web3
9 9 (2.78%) PKI
10 8 (2.47%) e-Learning
11 5 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
13 3 (0.93%) Cyber Security Posture
14 2 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
14 2 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 94 (29.01%) Linux
2 40 (12.35%) Unix
3 35 (10.80%) Windows
4 14 (4.32%) Ubuntu
5 12 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.47%) CentOS
7 6 (1.85%) Debian
8 5 (1.54%) VMS
9 1 (0.31%) Android
9 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (76.85%) Infrastructure as Code
2 246 (75.93%) CI/CD
3 238 (73.46%) DevOps
4 138 (42.59%) Agile
5 99 (30.56%) Containerisation
6 97 (29.94%) Problem-Solving
7 72 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 69 (21.30%) Observability
9 66 (20.37%) Microservices
10 63 (19.44%) Cloud Security
11 50 (15.43%) DevSecOps
11 50 (15.43%) Mentoring
12 48 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
13 46 (14.20%) Platform Engineering
14 43 (13.27%) Incident Response
15 40 (12.35%) Clean Code
16 38 (11.73%) Software Engineering
16 38 (11.73%) Test Automation
17 37 (11.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 36 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 161 (49.69%) Python
2 91 (28.09%) Bash
3 90 (27.78%) Java
4 66 (20.37%) TypeScript
5 58 (17.90%) SQL
6 37 (11.42%) Go
6 37 (11.42%) PowerShell
7 31 (9.57%) JavaScript
8 30 (9.26%) Groovy
9 22 (6.79%) Kotlin
10 21 (6.48%) C#
11 17 (5.25%) Bicep
12 11 (3.40%) Rust
13 7 (2.16%) C++
14 6 (1.85%) Google Apps Script
15 1 (0.31%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 93 (28.70%) Security Cleared
2 90 (27.78%) AWS Certification
3 55 (16.98%) SC Cleared
4 31 (9.57%) Degree
5 30 (9.26%) DV Cleared
6 28 (8.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 23 (7.10%) AWS Certified Developer
8 20 (6.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 19 (5.86%) ITIL Certification
10 14 (4.32%) Azure Certification
11 13 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (3.70%) OSCP
13 7 (2.16%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 5 (1.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
16 2 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
16 2 (0.62%) ISTQB
16 2 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 2 (0.62%) SnowPro
17 1 (0.31%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.86%) NIST
2 12 (3.70%) GDPR
2 12 (3.70%) PCI DSS
2 12 (3.70%) QA
3 8 (2.47%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.85%) SOC 2
5 5 (1.54%) SLA
6 1 (0.31%) Basel III
6 1 (0.31%) HL7
6 1 (0.31%) MiFID
6 1 (0.31%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 174 (53.70%) Docker
2 7 (2.16%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.16%) KVM
3 6 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.31%) QEMU
5 1 (0.31%) vCloud
5 1 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 233 (71.91%) Terraform
2 131 (40.43%) Kubernetes
3 70 (21.60%) Ansible
4 58 (17.90%) Grafana
5 49 (15.12%) Prometheus
6 30 (9.26%) HP Fortify
7 17 (5.25%) AWS Copilot
8 13 (4.01%) Argo
9 10 (3.09%) Docker Swarm
10 8 (2.47%) Istio
10 8 (2.47%) linkerd
10 8 (2.47%) Mesos
11 7 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (2.16%) Puppet
12 4 (1.23%) Rancher
13 2 (0.62%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.62%) Nessus
14 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 44 (13.58%) Google
2 19 (5.86%) Microsoft
3 15 (4.63%) Splunk
4 9 (2.78%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.16%) VMware
6 6 (1.85%) SaltStack
7 5 (1.54%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.23%) IBM
8 4 (1.23%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (1.23%) PagerDuty
9 3 (0.93%) AppDynamics
9 3 (0.93%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.93%) Oracle
9 3 (0.93%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.62%) Ping Identity
10 2 (0.62%) SAP
11 1 (0.31%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.31%) Foundry
11 1 (0.31%) Qualys
11 1 (0.31%) Refinitiv