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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 449 577
Rank change year-on-year +53 +128 -221
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 385 229 345
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.52% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.54% 1.54% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 215 127 276
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,900 £55,000
25th Percentile £66,875 £60,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £114,000 £111,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £69,384 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.49% +2.79% -8.47%

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 24,958 14,897 35,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.92% 33.54% 33.30%
Number of salaries quoted 16,098 10,253 27,328
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £30,463
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.16%
75th Percentile £84,750 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.96% -8.18%

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 13 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 13 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 +43 357 £80,000 +6.67% 80
UK excluding London +23 194 £72,500 +4.49% 67
London +38 172 £90,000 +9.09% 30
North of England +55 129 £75,000 +8.09% 22
Work from Home -14 106 £72,500 +5.83% 47
Yorkshire +40 90 £75,000 +2.04% 7
North West +24 37 £80,000 +14.79% 14
Midlands +8 32 £50,000 -40.30% 5
East Midlands -5 18 £52,500 -27.59% 2
West Midlands -12 14 £50,000 -47.37% 3
Wales -42 9 £72,500 +26.09% 1
South West -50 9 £72,500 -14.71% 19
South East -36 8 £70,000 +12.00% 16
Scotland +11 3 £76,783 +39.60% 2
East of England -29 2 £82,500 +10.00%
North East -40 2 £65,576 -5.49% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £84,401 - 2

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 (4.68%) Apache
2 11 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.30%) Confluence
5 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.78%) JBoss
7 1 (0.26%) Drupal
7 1 (0.26%) IIS
7 1 (0.26%) nginx
7 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.26%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.26%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 371 (96.36%) AWS
2 206 (53.51%) Serverless
3 175 (45.45%) AWS Lambda
4 127 (32.99%) Amazon S3
5 111 (28.83%) Amazon ECS
6 94 (24.42%) Azure
7 90 (23.38%) AWS Step Functions
8 88 (22.86%) GitHub
9 80 (20.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 67 (17.40%) GitHub Actions
11 64 (16.62%) GCP
12 61 (15.84%) Datadog
13 52 (13.51%) Amazon EC2
14 48 (12.47%) Amazon EKS
15 45 (11.69%) Amazon SQS
16 40 (10.39%) Amazon ECR
17 38 (9.87%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 35 (9.09%) Apigee
19 24 (6.23%) Pulumi
20 21 (5.45%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.38%) DSL
2 12 (3.12%) Firewall
3 11 (2.86%) VPN
4 10 (2.60%) TCP/IP
5 8 (2.08%) Network Security
6 7 (1.82%) DNS
7 5 (1.30%) AMQP
8 3 (0.78%) HTTP
8 3 (0.78%) SCCP
8 3 (0.78%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.52%) 4G
9 2 (0.52%) 5G
10 1 (0.26%) MQTT
10 1 (0.26%) PSTN
10 1 (0.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (27.53%) DynamoDB
2 81 (21.04%) NoSQL
3 52 (13.51%) Amazon RDS
4 35 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
5 17 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (2.08%) Big Data
7 8 (2.08%) Redis
8 6 (1.56%) Flink
8 6 (1.56%) Hadoop
8 6 (1.56%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.30%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (1.30%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.30%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.04%) Apache Iceberg
10 4 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.04%) MySQL
11 3 (0.78%) Metadata
12 2 (0.52%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 151 (39.22%) Jenkins
2 142 (36.88%) GitLab
3 60 (15.58%) Git
4 39 (10.13%) Maven
5 35 (9.09%) Cypress.io
6 32 (8.31%) SonarQube
7 26 (6.75%) CircleCI
7 26 (6.75%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.08%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (1.82%) JIRA
10 5 (1.30%) Claude Code
10 5 (1.30%) Gradle
10 5 (1.30%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.78%) Selenium
12 2 (0.52%) JMeter
13 1 (0.26%) Gatling
13 1 (0.26%) git-flow
13 1 (0.26%) MLflow
13 1 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 108 (28.05%) Social Skills
2 82 (21.30%) Finance
3 37 (9.61%) Banking
4 15 (3.90%) Public Sector
5 14 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (3.12%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (2.60%) Advertising
8 9 (2.34%) Aerospace
8 9 (2.34%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.82%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.82%) Retail
10 4 (1.04%) Billing
10 4 (1.04%) Legal
10 4 (1.04%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (1.04%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.78%) Aviation
11 3 (0.78%) Back Office
11 3 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.78%) Law
12 2 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 111 (28.83%) Developer
2 74 (19.22%) Cloud Engineer
3 72 (18.70%) Senior
4 70 (18.18%) Java Developer
5 60 (15.58%) DevOps Engineer
6 42 (10.91%) AWS Engineer
7 33 (8.57%) Senior Developer
8 29 (7.53%) Platform Engineer
9 26 (6.75%) AWS Developer
9 26 (6.75%) Java Engineer
10 25 (6.49%) Lead
11 21 (5.45%) AWS DevOps
11 21 (5.45%) Full-Stack Developer
11 21 (5.45%) Security Engineer
12 20 (5.19%) Architect
12 20 (5.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 20 (5.19%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 20 (5.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 18 (4.68%) Principal Engineer
13 18 (4.68%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (22.86%) Spring Boot
2 79 (20.52%) AngularJS
3 69 (17.92%) Kafka
4 67 (17.40%) Node.js
5 60 (15.58%) Spring
6 50 (12.99%) AWS CDK
7 38 (9.87%) React
8 37 (9.61%) Gherkin
9 31 (8.05%) Jest
10 30 (7.79%) RESTful
11 23 (5.97%) RabbitMQ
12 22 (5.71%) gRPC
13 20 (5.19%) web3js
14 19 (4.94%) REST
15 18 (4.68%) Next.js
15 18 (4.68%) YAML
16 15 (3.90%) JSON
17 14 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
18 12 (3.12%) PySpark
18 12 (3.12%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 122 (31.69%) Cloud Native
2 38 (9.87%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (8.31%) Public Cloud
4 22 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (5.71%) Security Posture
5 21 (5.45%) e-Learning
6 20 (5.19%) Blockchain
6 20 (5.19%) Web3
7 15 (3.90%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (3.64%) Cloud Security Posture
9 9 (2.34%) Product Ownership
10 8 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (2.08%) PKI
11 7 (1.82%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.30%) Mainframe
13 4 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 70 (18.18%) Linux
2 18 (4.68%) Windows
3 13 (3.38%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.60%) CentOS
6 5 (1.30%) Debian
6 5 (1.30%) Unix
6 5 (1.30%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.78%) Android
7 3 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.78%) VMS
8 1 (0.26%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (74.55%) Infrastructure as Code
2 267 (69.35%) CI/CD
3 220 (57.14%) DevOps
4 154 (40.00%) Agile
5 129 (33.51%) Containerisation
6 85 (22.08%) Observability
7 83 (21.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 82 (21.30%) Microservices
9 80 (20.78%) Software Engineering
10 77 (20.00%) Mentoring
11 74 (19.22%) DevSecOps
12 73 (18.96%) Cloud Security
13 69 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
14 68 (17.66%) Test Automation
15 65 (16.88%) Continuous Integration
16 59 (15.32%) Event-Driven
17 58 (15.06%) Platform Engineering
18 46 (11.95%) Full-Stack Development
19 44 (11.43%) Collaborative Culture
20 42 (10.91%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 169 (43.90%) Python
2 148 (38.44%) Java
3 95 (24.68%) TypeScript
4 88 (22.86%) SQL
5 65 (16.88%) Bash
6 51 (13.25%) Groovy
7 47 (12.21%) Go
8 40 (10.39%) Kotlin
9 33 (8.57%) JavaScript
10 27 (7.01%) PowerShell
11 16 (4.16%) Bicep
12 15 (3.90%) C#
13 13 (3.38%) Rust
14 8 (2.08%) C++
15 6 (1.56%) Ruby
16 5 (1.30%) Google Apps Script
17 2 (0.52%) COBOL
17 2 (0.52%) PHP
18 1 (0.26%) Natural
18 1 (0.26%) Perl
Qualifications
1 91 (23.64%) Security Cleared
2 82 (21.30%) AWS Certification
3 57 (14.81%) SC Cleared
4 41 (10.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 34 (8.83%) Degree
6 27 (7.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 23 (5.97%) ITIL Certification
8 19 (4.94%) DV Cleared
9 16 (4.16%) OSCP
10 10 (2.60%) AWS Certified Developer
11 9 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (2.08%) Azure Certification
13 7 (1.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (1.82%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 6 (1.56%) Master's Degree
15 4 (1.04%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.78%) CREST Certified
16 3 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
17 2 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
17 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.45%) NIST
2 17 (4.42%) PCI DSS
3 15 (3.90%) GDPR
4 11 (2.86%) SOC 2
5 7 (1.82%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.04%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.78%) NCSC
9 2 (0.52%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.52%) QA
9 2 (0.52%) WCAG
10 1 (0.26%) HL7
10 1 (0.26%) SLA
10 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 179 (46.49%) Docker
2 5 (1.30%) KVM
2 5 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 257 (66.75%) Terraform
2 149 (38.70%) Kubernetes
3 63 (16.36%) Ansible
4 47 (12.21%) Prometheus
5 41 (10.65%) Grafana
6 30 (7.79%) HP Fortify
7 16 (4.16%) Argo
8 14 (3.64%) Progress Chef
9 7 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (1.82%) Puppet
10 6 (1.56%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (1.30%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (1.30%) Istio
11 5 (1.30%) linkerd
11 5 (1.30%) Mesos
12 2 (0.52%) Rancher
12 2 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.26%) Consul
13 1 (0.26%) Packer
Vendors
1 28 (7.27%) Google
2 13 (3.38%) Microsoft
3 9 (2.34%) Oracle
4 7 (1.82%) HubSpot
5 6 (1.56%) Red Hat
5 6 (1.56%) Splunk
6 5 (1.30%) SaltStack
6 5 (1.30%) VMware
7 4 (1.04%) Databricks
7 4 (1.04%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.04%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.52%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.52%) Tenable
9 1 (0.26%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.26%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.26%) OneLogin
9 1 (0.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.26%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.26%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.26%) TOWER Software