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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 458 568
Rank change year-on-year +66 +110 -190
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 460 239 289
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.49% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.69% 1.50% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 239 138 230
10th Percentile £53,711 £51,175 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,875 £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 £90,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,750 £111,250 £112,500
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 27,240 15,928 30,351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.15% 32.44% 32.78%
Number of salaries quoted 17,815 11,073 22,718
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,063 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%

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 23 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 23 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 +60 414 £80,000 +6.67% 128
London +59 222 £90,000 +17.65% 61
UK excluding London +30 215 £72,500 +4.49% 101
North of England +59 129 £75,000 +8.09% 33
Work from Home -35 105 £75,000 +8.09% 88
Yorkshire +42 82 £75,000 +5.63% 9
North West +17 42 £74,301 +7.09% 15
Midlands -13 26 £62,000 -4.62% 10
Wales -32 24 £72,500 +20.83% 5
East Midlands -10 18 £52,500 - 3
South East -30 17 £70,000 -17.65% 14
South West -52 12 £67,500 -25.00% 20
West Midlands -30 8 £62,250 -4.23% 7
North East -51 5 £52,500 -24.33% 9
Scotland +16 4 £71,991 +30.89% 11
East of England -21 2 £82,500 +10.00% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £73,801 - 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 18 (3.91%) Apache
2 10 (2.17%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.74%) Confluence
4 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.65%) JBoss
6 1 (0.22%) Drupal
6 1 (0.22%) IIS
6 1 (0.22%) nginx
6 1 (0.22%) SAS
6 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.87%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.43%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.30%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.65%) Summit
3 1 (0.22%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 442 (96.09%) AWS
2 237 (51.52%) Serverless
3 189 (41.09%) AWS Lambda
4 134 (29.13%) Amazon S3
5 133 (28.91%) Amazon ECS
6 113 (24.57%) Azure
7 97 (21.09%) GitHub
8 83 (18.04%) GCP
9 78 (16.96%) AWS Step Functions
10 72 (15.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 72 (15.65%) GitHub Actions
11 66 (14.35%) Amazon EKS
12 60 (13.04%) Amazon EC2
13 59 (12.83%) Cloud Computing
14 57 (12.39%) Datadog
15 46 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
16 36 (7.83%) Amazon ECR
16 36 (7.83%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 30 (6.52%) Amazon EventBridge
17 30 (6.52%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.00%) Network Security
2 16 (3.48%) VPN
3 14 (3.04%) TCP/IP
4 13 (2.83%) Firewall
5 10 (2.17%) DNS
6 8 (1.74%) DSL
7 4 (0.87%) AMQP
7 4 (0.87%) HTTP
8 2 (0.43%) 4G
8 2 (0.43%) 5G
8 2 (0.43%) MQTT
8 2 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.22%) DHCP
9 1 (0.22%) DNSSEC
9 1 (0.22%) Internet
9 1 (0.22%) PSTN
9 1 (0.22%) SCCP
9 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (20.87%) DynamoDB
2 84 (18.26%) NoSQL
3 56 (12.17%) Amazon RDS
4 33 (7.17%) Amazon Athena
5 24 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (2.17%) MongoDB
8 9 (1.96%) MySQL
8 9 (1.96%) Redis
9 7 (1.52%) Big Data
10 6 (1.30%) Flink
11 5 (1.09%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.09%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.09%) SQL Server
12 4 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.87%) Cloudera CDH
12 4 (0.87%) Metadata
12 4 (0.87%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 139 (30.22%) Jenkins
2 135 (29.35%) GitLab
3 64 (13.91%) Git
4 33 (7.17%) Cucumber
4 33 (7.17%) Maven
5 30 (6.52%) Cypress.io
6 26 (5.65%) SonarQube
7 23 (5.00%) CircleCI
8 10 (2.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 10 (2.17%) JIRA
9 9 (1.96%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.52%) Claude Code
11 5 (1.09%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.87%) Gradle
13 3 (0.65%) Selenium
14 1 (0.22%) Gatling
14 1 (0.22%) git-flow
14 1 (0.22%) JMeter
14 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
14 1 (0.22%) Vagrant
General
1 124 (26.96%) Social Skills
2 115 (25.00%) Finance
3 53 (11.52%) Public Sector
4 39 (8.48%) Banking
5 21 (4.57%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.61%) Financial Institution
8 11 (2.39%) Aerospace
9 6 (1.30%) Advertising
9 6 (1.30%) Law
9 6 (1.30%) Legal
10 5 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.09%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.09%) Military
11 4 (0.87%) Mandarin Language
11 4 (0.87%) Retail
11 4 (0.87%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.65%) Automotive
12 3 (0.65%) Back Office
12 3 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 110 (23.91%) Senior
2 108 (23.48%) Developer
3 74 (16.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 67 (14.57%) DevOps Engineer
5 66 (14.35%) Java Developer
6 45 (9.78%) AWS Engineer
7 41 (8.91%) Lead
8 40 (8.70%) Consultant
9 33 (7.17%) Java Engineer
10 32 (6.96%) Senior Consultant
11 30 (6.52%) Platform Engineer
12 28 (6.09%) Architect
12 28 (6.09%) Full-Stack Developer
13 25 (5.43%) Senior Developer
14 23 (5.00%) AWS Developer
14 23 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 21 (4.57%) Principal Engineer
16 20 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
17 19 (4.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 19 (4.13%) Principal Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (23.48%) Spring Boot
2 83 (18.04%) Kafka
3 81 (17.61%) Spring
4 74 (16.09%) Node.js
5 73 (15.87%) AngularJS
6 61 (13.26%) AWS CDK
7 38 (8.26%) React
8 34 (7.39%) Gherkin
9 31 (6.74%) RESTful
10 27 (5.87%) REST
11 26 (5.65%) Jest
12 25 (5.43%) RabbitMQ
13 19 (4.13%) gRPC
13 19 (4.13%) Web Services
14 17 (3.70%) YAML
15 16 (3.48%) web3js
16 15 (3.26%) JSON
16 15 (3.26%) Next.js
17 13 (2.83%) Elastic Stack
17 13 (2.83%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 163 (35.43%) Cloud Native
2 62 (13.48%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (10.87%) Onboarding
4 42 (9.13%) Public Cloud
5 41 (8.91%) Enterprise Cloud
6 28 (6.09%) e-Learning
6 28 (6.09%) Enterprise Software
7 26 (5.65%) Mainframe
8 23 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
9 22 (4.78%) Data Centre
10 19 (4.13%) Hybrid Cloud
11 16 (3.48%) Blockchain
11 16 (3.48%) Security Posture
11 16 (3.48%) Web3
12 15 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (2.83%) Distributed Computing
14 12 (2.61%) Cloud Security Posture
15 11 (2.39%) Linux Command Line
16 10 (2.17%) Product Ownership
17 7 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 70 (15.22%) Linux
2 19 (4.13%) Windows
3 10 (2.17%) Ubuntu
4 9 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.74%) CentOS
6 7 (1.52%) Unix
7 5 (1.09%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.87%) Debian
9 3 (0.65%) Android
9 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.43%) VMS
11 1 (0.22%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (71.96%) Infrastructure as Code
2 293 (63.70%) CI/CD
3 232 (50.43%) DevOps
4 185 (40.22%) Agile
5 159 (34.57%) Containerisation
6 123 (26.74%) Mentoring
7 107 (23.26%) Observability
8 100 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 100 (21.74%) Microservices
9 97 (21.09%) Software Engineering
10 89 (19.35%) Event-Driven
11 87 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
12 86 (18.70%) Cloud Security
13 84 (18.26%) Test Automation
14 72 (15.65%) Platform Engineering
15 66 (14.35%) AI
16 65 (14.13%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 62 (13.48%) DevSecOps
18 58 (12.61%) Continuous Integration
19 54 (11.74%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 211 (45.87%) Python
2 178 (38.70%) Java
3 94 (20.43%) SQL
4 85 (18.48%) TypeScript
5 81 (17.61%) Bash
6 50 (10.87%) Groovy
7 41 (8.91%) Go
8 35 (7.61%) Kotlin
9 30 (6.52%) PowerShell
10 29 (6.30%) JavaScript
11 28 (6.09%) Ruby
12 26 (5.65%) Bicep
13 16 (3.48%) PHP
14 15 (3.26%) Perl
15 14 (3.04%) C#
16 10 (2.17%) C++
17 8 (1.74%) Rust
18 6 (1.30%) COBOL
19 5 (1.09%) Google Apps Script
20 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 136 (29.57%) Security Cleared
2 114 (24.78%) AWS Certification
3 74 (16.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 72 (15.65%) SC Cleared
5 44 (9.57%) Degree
6 24 (5.22%) DV Cleared
7 23 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 20 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (2.83%) Master's Degree
11 11 (2.39%) OSCP
12 9 (1.96%) AWS Certified Developer
12 9 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (1.52%) Azure Certification
14 6 (1.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (0.87%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.65%) CREST Certified
17 2 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
17 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
18 1 (0.22%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.00%) GDPR
2 21 (4.57%) PCI DSS
3 18 (3.91%) NIST
4 13 (2.83%) SOC 2
5 10 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.17%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.52%) NCSC
7 6 (1.30%) Government Security Classifications
7 6 (1.30%) QA
7 6 (1.30%) WCAG
8 5 (1.09%) HIPAA
8 5 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.22%) HL7
9 1 (0.22%) SLA
9 1 (0.22%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 199 (43.26%) Docker
2 5 (1.09%) KVM
2 5 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.65%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 317 (68.91%) Terraform
2 180 (39.13%) Kubernetes
3 74 (16.09%) Ansible
4 53 (11.52%) Prometheus
5 52 (11.30%) Grafana
6 37 (8.04%) Progress Chef
7 26 (5.65%) Puppet
8 25 (5.43%) HP Fortify
9 17 (3.70%) Argo
10 7 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.09%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.87%) Istio
12 4 (0.87%) linkerd
12 4 (0.87%) Mesos
13 2 (0.43%) Rancher
13 2 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.22%) Consul
14 1 (0.22%) logstash
14 1 (0.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 35 (7.61%) Google
2 19 (4.13%) Microsoft
3 13 (2.83%) Oracle
4 11 (2.39%) Splunk
5 8 (1.74%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.52%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.30%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.30%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.09%) VMware
9 4 (0.87%) Avaya
9 4 (0.87%) Cisco
9 4 (0.87%) Databricks
9 4 (0.87%) Genesys
9 4 (0.87%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.43%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.43%) Tenable
11 1 (0.22%) LogicMonitor
11 1 (0.22%) OneLogin
11 1 (0.22%) OutSystems
11 1 (0.22%) ServiceNow