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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 419 576
Rank change year-on-year +23 +157 -230
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 365 249 331
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.57% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.36% 1.65% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 198 151 274
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,946 £60,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,338 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £113,250 £116,250 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £69,384 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.49% +2.79% -6.90%

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 26,775 15,094 34,371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.32% 34.49% 35.61%
Number of salaries quoted 15,020 10,570 26,680
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £43,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,441 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.03% +8.88% -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 16 May 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 16 May 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 +27 339 £76,588 +2.12% 91
UK excluding London +13 185 £72,500 +4.49% 64
London +20 158 £86,250 -4.17% 34
North of England +60 127 £75,000 +8.09% 32
Work from Home -16 97 £72,500 +4.49% 113
Yorkshire +33 94 £75,000 - 14
North West +10 31 £80,000 +15.30% 13
Midlands -3 29 £50,000 -28.64% 8
East Midlands -17 16 £52,500 -23.64% 6
West Midlands -28 13 £50,000 -38.51% 2
South West -44 10 £72,500 -14.71% 11
South East -44 8 £70,000 +16.67% 7
Scotland -7 4 £76,783 +39.60% 6
Northern Ireland - 4 £95,000 -
East of England -26 2 £82,500 -2.94%
North East -41 2 £65,576 -5.49% 5
Wales -31 1 £73,801 +16.68%

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 (5.48%) Apache
2 10 (2.74%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.82%) Confluence
4 3 (0.82%) JBoss
5 1 (0.27%) Drupal
5 1 (0.27%) IIS
5 1 (0.27%) nginx
5 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 348 (95.34%) AWS
2 204 (55.89%) Serverless
3 178 (48.77%) AWS Lambda
4 130 (35.62%) Amazon S3
5 107 (29.32%) Amazon ECS
6 98 (26.85%) Azure
7 95 (26.03%) AWS Step Functions
8 82 (22.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 79 (21.64%) GitHub
10 63 (17.26%) GitHub Actions
11 62 (16.99%) GCP
12 59 (16.16%) Datadog
13 52 (14.25%) Amazon EKS
14 48 (13.15%) Amazon ECR
15 46 (12.60%) Amazon SQS
16 45 (12.33%) Amazon EC2
17 43 (11.78%) Apigee
18 34 (9.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 25 (6.85%) OpenShift
20 22 (6.03%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.56%) DSL
1 13 (3.56%) Firewall
2 12 (3.29%) VPN
3 9 (2.47%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.92%) DNS
4 7 (1.92%) Network Security
5 5 (1.37%) AMQP
6 4 (1.10%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.82%) SCCP
8 2 (0.55%) 4G
8 2 (0.55%) 5G
8 2 (0.55%) HTTP
9 1 (0.27%) PSTN
9 1 (0.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (32.60%) DynamoDB
2 80 (21.92%) NoSQL
3 51 (13.97%) Amazon RDS
4 30 (8.22%) Amazon Athena
5 26 (7.12%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (3.84%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (3.01%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.19%) Redis
9 7 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.92%) Big Data
10 6 (1.64%) Flink
10 6 (1.64%) MySQL
11 5 (1.37%) Cloudera CDH
11 5 (1.37%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.37%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.10%) Apache Iceberg
12 4 (1.10%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.82%) Metadata
14 2 (0.55%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 146 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 143 (39.18%) GitLab
3 64 (17.53%) Git
4 49 (13.42%) Maven
5 43 (11.78%) Cypress.io
6 42 (11.51%) SonarQube
7 27 (7.40%) CircleCI
8 20 (5.48%) Cucumber
9 11 (3.01%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.92%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (1.37%) Gradle
11 5 (1.37%) JIRA
12 4 (1.10%) Claude Code
13 3 (0.82%) Selenium
14 2 (0.55%) JMeter
15 1 (0.27%) Eclipse
15 1 (0.27%) MLflow
15 1 (0.27%) Robot Framework
15 1 (0.27%) Vagrant
General
1 110 (30.14%) Social Skills
2 77 (21.10%) Finance
3 33 (9.04%) Banking
4 13 (3.56%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (2.74%) Advertising
6 10 (2.74%) Aerospace
7 8 (2.19%) Retail
8 7 (1.92%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.92%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.37%) Billing
9 5 (1.37%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.37%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.10%) Mandarin Language
11 3 (0.82%) Aviation
11 3 (0.82%) Back Office
11 3 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.82%) Law
11 3 (0.82%) Legal
12 2 (0.55%) Games
Job Titles
1 111 (30.41%) Developer
2 68 (18.63%) Cloud Engineer
3 67 (18.36%) Senior
4 64 (17.53%) Java Developer
5 55 (15.07%) DevOps Engineer
6 38 (10.41%) AWS Engineer
7 33 (9.04%) Senior Developer
8 29 (7.95%) AWS Developer
8 29 (7.95%) Lead
9 25 (6.85%) Platform Engineer
10 22 (6.03%) Security Engineer
11 21 (5.75%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 21 (5.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 20 (5.48%) Java Engineer
13 17 (4.66%) AWS DevOps
14 16 (4.38%) Architect
14 16 (4.38%) AWS Architect
14 16 (4.38%) Principal Engineer
14 16 (4.38%) Senior Java Developer
14 16 (4.38%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (22.19%) AngularJS
2 79 (21.64%) Spring Boot
3 59 (16.16%) Kafka
3 59 (16.16%) Node.js
4 52 (14.25%) AWS CDK
5 49 (13.42%) Spring
6 43 (11.78%) Gherkin
7 41 (11.23%) Jest
8 40 (10.96%) React
8 40 (10.96%) RESTful
9 23 (6.30%) RabbitMQ
10 22 (6.03%) gRPC
11 21 (5.75%) web3js
12 19 (5.21%) Next.js
13 16 (4.38%) REST
13 16 (4.38%) YAML
14 13 (3.56%) Elastic Stack
15 12 (3.29%) JSON
16 11 (3.01%) .NET
16 11 (3.01%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 110 (30.14%) Cloud Native
2 31 (8.49%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (7.40%) Public Cloud
4 22 (6.03%) Security Posture
5 21 (5.75%) Blockchain
5 21 (5.75%) Web3
6 17 (4.66%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (4.11%) e-Learning
8 14 (3.84%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (3.84%) Hybrid Cloud
9 13 (3.56%) Cloud Security Posture
10 11 (3.01%) PKI
11 8 (2.19%) Linux Command Line
11 8 (2.19%) Product Ownership
12 7 (1.92%) Management Information System
13 6 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
15 4 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
16 3 (0.82%) Cyber Defence
16 3 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 70 (19.18%) Linux
2 21 (5.75%) Windows
3 14 (3.84%) Ubuntu
4 11 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.74%) CentOS
6 7 (1.92%) Unix
7 5 (1.37%) Debian
7 5 (1.37%) Windows Server
8 4 (1.10%) VMS
9 3 (0.82%) Android
9 3 (0.82%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (71.78%) Infrastructure as Code
2 254 (69.59%) CI/CD
3 224 (61.37%) DevOps
4 150 (41.10%) Agile
5 124 (33.97%) Containerisation
6 85 (23.29%) Microservices
7 81 (22.19%) Continuous Improvement
8 79 (21.64%) Problem-Solving
9 71 (19.45%) Mentoring
9 71 (19.45%) Observability
10 68 (18.63%) Software Engineering
11 67 (18.36%) DevSecOps
12 66 (18.08%) Cloud Security
13 62 (16.99%) Continuous Integration
14 60 (16.44%) Test Automation
15 52 (14.25%) Platform Engineering
16 45 (12.33%) Event-Driven
17 43 (11.78%) Full-Stack Development
17 43 (11.78%) High Availability
18 41 (11.23%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 157 (43.01%) Python
2 142 (38.90%) Java
3 100 (27.40%) TypeScript
4 84 (23.01%) SQL
5 72 (19.73%) Bash
6 52 (14.25%) Groovy
7 48 (13.15%) Go
8 38 (10.41%) Kotlin
9 36 (9.86%) JavaScript
10 21 (5.75%) PowerShell
11 19 (5.21%) C#
12 13 (3.56%) Rust
13 10 (2.74%) Bicep
13 10 (2.74%) C++
14 7 (1.92%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.55%) PHP
16 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.27%) Perl
16 1 (0.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 83 (22.74%) AWS Certification
2 80 (21.92%) Security Cleared
3 41 (11.23%) SC Cleared
4 33 (9.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 32 (8.77%) Degree
6 28 (7.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (6.58%) ITIL Certification
8 23 (6.30%) DV Cleared
9 22 (6.03%) AWS Certified Developer
10 16 (4.38%) OSCP
11 10 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (2.47%) Azure Certification
13 7 (1.92%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 5 (1.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (1.10%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.82%) CREST Certified
16 3 (0.82%) Master's Degree
16 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
17 1 (0.27%) CISM
17 1 (0.27%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.75%) NIST
2 16 (4.38%) PCI DSS
3 13 (3.56%) GDPR
4 10 (2.74%) SOC 2
5 7 (1.92%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.37%) QA
7 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.27%) HL7
7 1 (0.27%) NCSC
7 1 (0.27%) SLA
7 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 183 (50.14%) Docker
2 7 (1.92%) KVM
2 7 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 242 (66.30%) Terraform
2 144 (39.45%) Kubernetes
3 67 (18.36%) Ansible
4 43 (11.78%) Prometheus
5 40 (10.96%) HP Fortify
6 39 (10.68%) Grafana
7 11 (3.01%) Argo
8 9 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (2.47%) Progress Chef
9 8 (2.19%) Docker Swarm
10 7 (1.92%) Istio
10 7 (1.92%) linkerd
10 7 (1.92%) Mesos
10 7 (1.92%) Puppet
11 5 (1.37%) AWS Copilot
12 4 (1.10%) Rancher
13 2 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.27%) Consul
14 1 (0.27%) Packer
Vendors
1 26 (7.12%) Google
2 17 (4.66%) Microsoft
3 7 (1.92%) VMware
4 6 (1.64%) HubSpot
4 6 (1.64%) Red Hat
5 5 (1.37%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.10%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.10%) Splunk
7 3 (0.82%) Databricks
7 3 (0.82%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.55%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (0.55%) Oracle
8 2 (0.55%) Ping Identity
8 2 (0.55%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.27%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.27%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.27%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.27%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.27%) TOWER Software