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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 442 573
Rank change year-on-year +31 +131 -218
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 376 222 337
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.51% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.38% 1.52% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 206 124 275
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,450 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £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 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,125 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,151 £69,384 £67,500
% change year-on-year +5.43% +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 27,266 14,584 34,901
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.28% 33.63% 34.69%
Number of salaries quoted 15,707 10,034 26,917
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £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 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,100
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% +6.00% -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 30 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 30 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 +52 354 £77,500 +3.33% 90
UK excluding London +27 187 £73,151 +5.43% 63
London +20 169 £87,500 +9.38% 40
North of England +44 129 £75,000 +7.14% 25
Work from Home -1 103 £72,500 +7.21% 60
Yorkshire +36 93 £75,000 +2.04% 11
North West +15 34 £80,000 +12.28% 12
Midlands -8 32 £51,250 -29.31% 6
East Midlands -6 17 £52,500 -27.59% 3
West Midlands -21 15 £50,000 -38.51% 3
South West -48 9 £72,500 -14.71% 14
South East -40 8 £70,000 +19.15% 9
Scotland +2 3 £76,783 +39.60% 6
Northern Ireland - 3 £95,000 - 2
East of England -28 2 £82,500 -
North East -44 2 £65,576 -5.49% 2
Wales -38 1 £73,801 +28.35% 1

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 19 (5.05%) Apache
2 11 (2.93%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.80%) Confluence
5 3 (0.80%) JBoss
6 1 (0.27%) Drupal
6 1 (0.27%) IIS
6 1 (0.27%) nginx
6 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.27%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 361 (96.01%) AWS
2 205 (54.52%) Serverless
3 178 (47.34%) AWS Lambda
4 132 (35.11%) Amazon S3
5 110 (29.26%) Amazon ECS
6 96 (25.53%) AWS Step Functions
7 94 (25.00%) Azure
8 83 (22.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 82 (21.81%) GitHub
10 63 (16.76%) GitHub Actions
11 61 (16.22%) Datadog
12 60 (15.96%) GCP
13 50 (13.30%) Amazon EC2
14 49 (13.03%) Amazon EKS
15 47 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
16 45 (11.97%) Amazon ECR
17 40 (10.64%) Apigee
18 37 (9.84%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 22 (5.85%) OpenShift
19 22 (5.85%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.46%) DSL
2 11 (2.93%) Firewall
2 11 (2.93%) VPN
3 10 (2.66%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.86%) DNS
4 7 (1.86%) Network Security
5 5 (1.33%) AMQP
6 3 (0.80%) HTTP
6 3 (0.80%) SCCP
6 3 (0.80%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.53%) 4G
7 2 (0.53%) 5G
8 1 (0.27%) MQTT
8 1 (0.27%) PSTN
8 1 (0.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (30.59%) DynamoDB
2 83 (22.07%) NoSQL
3 51 (13.56%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (9.04%) Amazon Athena
5 21 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (3.19%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (2.39%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (2.13%) Big Data
8 8 (2.13%) Redis
9 6 (1.60%) Flink
9 6 (1.60%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.33%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (1.33%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.33%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.06%) Apache Iceberg
11 4 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.06%) MySQL
12 3 (0.80%) Metadata
13 2 (0.53%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 149 (39.63%) Jenkins
2 144 (38.30%) GitLab
3 65 (17.29%) Git
4 44 (11.70%) Maven
5 40 (10.64%) Cypress.io
6 37 (9.84%) SonarQube
7 27 (7.18%) CircleCI
8 24 (6.38%) Cucumber
9 9 (2.39%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.60%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (1.33%) Claude Code
11 5 (1.33%) Gradle
11 5 (1.33%) JIRA
12 3 (0.80%) Selenium
13 2 (0.53%) JMeter
14 1 (0.27%) Gatling
14 1 (0.27%) git-flow
14 1 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
14 1 (0.27%) Vagrant
General
1 107 (28.46%) Social Skills
2 80 (21.28%) Finance
3 37 (9.84%) Banking
4 11 (2.93%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (2.66%) Advertising
6 9 (2.39%) Aerospace
6 9 (2.39%) Financial Institution
7 7 (1.86%) Investment Banking
7 7 (1.86%) Public Sector
7 7 (1.86%) Retail
8 4 (1.06%) Billing
8 4 (1.06%) Legal
8 4 (1.06%) Mandarin Language
8 4 (1.06%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.80%) Aviation
9 3 (0.80%) Back Office
9 3 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.80%) Law
10 2 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 114 (30.32%) Developer
2 72 (19.15%) Cloud Engineer
3 70 (18.62%) Senior
4 68 (18.09%) Java Developer
5 61 (16.22%) DevOps Engineer
6 42 (11.17%) AWS Engineer
7 33 (8.78%) Senior Developer
8 30 (7.98%) AWS Developer
9 25 (6.65%) Platform Engineer
10 24 (6.38%) Java Engineer
10 24 (6.38%) Lead
11 21 (5.59%) AWS DevOps
11 21 (5.59%) Security Engineer
12 20 (5.32%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 20 (5.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 19 (5.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 18 (4.79%) Full-Stack Developer
14 18 (4.79%) Software Engineer
15 17 (4.52%) Architect
16 16 (4.26%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (21.81%) Spring Boot
2 81 (21.54%) AngularJS
3 65 (17.29%) Kafka
4 60 (15.96%) Node.js
5 54 (14.36%) Spring
6 50 (13.30%) AWS CDK
7 41 (10.90%) Gherkin
8 36 (9.57%) Jest
8 36 (9.57%) React
8 36 (9.57%) RESTful
9 23 (6.12%) gRPC
9 23 (6.12%) RabbitMQ
10 21 (5.59%) web3js
11 19 (5.05%) REST
12 18 (4.79%) Next.js
12 18 (4.79%) YAML
13 15 (3.99%) JSON
14 11 (2.93%) Elastic Stack
14 11 (2.93%) PySpark
15 9 (2.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 115 (30.59%) Cloud Native
2 35 (9.31%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (8.24%) Public Cloud
4 21 (5.59%) Blockchain
4 21 (5.59%) Security Posture
4 21 (5.59%) Web3
5 19 (5.05%) e-Learning
5 19 (5.05%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (3.72%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (3.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (3.46%) Cloud Security Posture
8 10 (2.66%) PKI
9 8 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (2.13%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.86%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
13 3 (0.80%) Cyber Defence
13 3 (0.80%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 69 (18.35%) Linux
2 18 (4.79%) Windows
3 13 (3.46%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.66%) CentOS
6 5 (1.33%) Debian
6 5 (1.33%) Unix
6 5 (1.33%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.80%) Android
7 3 (0.80%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.80%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (73.40%) Infrastructure as Code
2 260 (69.15%) CI/CD
3 224 (59.57%) DevOps
4 148 (39.36%) Agile
5 128 (34.04%) Containerisation
6 84 (22.34%) Microservices
7 83 (22.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 76 (20.21%) Observability
9 74 (19.68%) Software Engineering
10 73 (19.41%) Problem-Solving
11 72 (19.15%) DevSecOps
12 71 (18.88%) Mentoring
13 66 (17.55%) Cloud Security
14 64 (17.02%) Test Automation
15 63 (16.76%) Continuous Integration
16 53 (14.10%) Platform Engineering
17 52 (13.83%) Event-Driven
18 44 (11.70%) Full-Stack Development
19 43 (11.44%) Collaborative Culture
19 43 (11.44%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 166 (44.15%) Python
2 144 (38.30%) Java
3 97 (25.80%) TypeScript
4 87 (23.14%) SQL
5 70 (18.62%) Bash
6 52 (13.83%) Groovy
7 48 (12.77%) Go
8 40 (10.64%) Kotlin
9 34 (9.04%) JavaScript
10 26 (6.91%) PowerShell
11 17 (4.52%) C#
12 13 (3.46%) Rust
13 12 (3.19%) Bicep
14 9 (2.39%) C++
15 6 (1.60%) Google Apps Script
16 2 (0.53%) PHP
17 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 1 (0.27%) Perl
17 1 (0.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 87 (23.14%) Security Cleared
2 80 (21.28%) AWS Certification
3 51 (13.56%) SC Cleared
4 36 (9.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 32 (8.51%) Degree
6 28 (7.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (6.38%) ITIL Certification
8 22 (5.85%) DV Cleared
9 16 (4.26%) OSCP
10 15 (3.99%) AWS Certified Developer
11 9 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (2.13%) Azure Certification
13 7 (1.86%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 5 (1.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (1.06%) Master's Degree
15 4 (1.06%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.80%) CREST Certified
16 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
17 1 (0.27%) CompTIA Security+
17 1 (0.27%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.59%) NIST
2 16 (4.26%) PCI DSS
3 12 (3.19%) GDPR
4 10 (2.66%) SOC 2
5 7 (1.86%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.80%) QA
8 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.27%) HL7
8 1 (0.27%) NCSC
8 1 (0.27%) SLA
8 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 184 (48.94%) Docker
2 6 (1.60%) KVM
2 6 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 250 (66.49%) Terraform
2 146 (38.83%) Kubernetes
3 62 (16.49%) Ansible
4 45 (11.97%) Prometheus
5 39 (10.37%) Grafana
6 35 (9.31%) HP Fortify
7 15 (3.99%) Argo
8 11 (2.93%) Progress Chef
9 8 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (1.86%) Docker Swarm
10 7 (1.86%) Puppet
11 6 (1.60%) Istio
11 6 (1.60%) linkerd
11 6 (1.60%) Mesos
12 5 (1.33%) AWS Copilot
13 3 (0.80%) Rancher
14 2 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
15 1 (0.27%) Consul
15 1 (0.27%) Packer
Vendors
1 26 (6.91%) Google
2 15 (3.99%) Microsoft
3 7 (1.86%) HubSpot
3 7 (1.86%) Oracle
4 6 (1.60%) Red Hat
4 6 (1.60%) VMware
5 5 (1.33%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.06%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.06%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.80%) Databricks
7 3 (0.80%) Splunk
8 2 (0.53%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (0.53%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.27%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.27%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.27%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.27%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.27%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.27%) Tenable