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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 467 562
Rank change year-on-year +81 +95 -193
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 496 234 262
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.47% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.78% 1.46% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 257 137 203
10th Percentile £52,000 £52,000 £50,906
25th Percentile £66,250 £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 £90,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £106,450 £106,150 £112,000
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 27,899 15,975 26,976
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.66% 32.22% 32.23%
Number of salaries quoted 18,410 11,083 19,465
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,625
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,445 £53,500
% change year-on-year +9.03% -5.71% -2.73%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 +72 444 £80,000 +6.67% 213
UK excluding London +29 243 £72,500 +4.49% 134
London +47 227 £90,000 +12.50% 114
North of England +60 141 £75,000 +8.09% 44
Work from Home -39 121 £75,000 +8.09% 120
Yorkshire +46 85 £75,000 +4.17% 12
North West +18 46 £72,500 +7.21% 20
Midlands -20 26 £62,500 -3.85% 11
Wales -32 26 £72,500 +20.83% 10
South West -43 23 £67,500 -25.00% 35
East Midlands +1 18 £52,500 -
South East -44 18 £70,000 -17.65% 19
North East -45 10 £52,500 -24.33% 12
West Midlands -28 8 £68,496 +5.38% 11
Scotland +23 5 £71,991 +35.83% 9
East of England -39 2 £82,500 +10.00% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £72,896 - 5

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 (3.83%) Apache
2 10 (2.02%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.61%) Confluence
4 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.60%) JBoss
6 2 (0.40%) nginx
7 1 (0.20%) Drupal
7 1 (0.20%) IIS
7 1 (0.20%) SAS
7 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.81%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.40%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.21%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.60%) Summit
3 1 (0.20%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 479 (96.57%) AWS
2 245 (49.40%) Serverless
3 189 (38.10%) AWS Lambda
4 142 (28.63%) Amazon ECS
5 138 (27.82%) Amazon S3
6 135 (27.22%) Azure
7 105 (21.17%) GitHub
8 104 (20.97%) GCP
9 77 (15.52%) GitHub Actions
10 74 (14.92%) AWS Step Functions
11 73 (14.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 70 (14.11%) Amazon EKS
13 68 (13.71%) Amazon EC2
14 58 (11.69%) Cloud Computing
15 57 (11.49%) Datadog
16 44 (8.87%) Amazon SQS
17 42 (8.47%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 36 (7.26%) Amazon ECR
19 31 (6.25%) PaaS
20 30 (6.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.24%) Network Security
1 26 (5.24%) TCP/IP
2 14 (2.82%) VPN
3 13 (2.62%) Firewall
4 11 (2.22%) DNS
5 5 (1.01%) DSL
6 4 (0.81%) AMQP
6 4 (0.81%) HTTP
6 4 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.40%) 4G
7 2 (0.40%) 5G
7 2 (0.40%) MQTT
8 1 (0.20%) DHCP
8 1 (0.20%) DNSSEC
8 1 (0.20%) Internet
8 1 (0.20%) PSTN
8 1 (0.20%) SCCP
8 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (18.95%) DynamoDB
2 83 (16.73%) NoSQL
3 65 (13.10%) Amazon RDS
4 33 (6.65%) Amazon Athena
5 26 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (2.02%) MongoDB
8 10 (2.02%) Redis
9 9 (1.81%) MySQL
10 8 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.41%) Big Data
12 6 (1.21%) Flink
12 6 (1.21%) SQL Server
13 5 (1.01%) Data Lake
13 5 (1.01%) Hadoop
13 5 (1.01%) Relational Database
14 4 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (0.81%) Apache Iceberg
14 4 (0.81%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 134 (27.02%) Jenkins
2 128 (25.81%) GitLab
3 71 (14.31%) Git
4 35 (7.06%) Cucumber
5 31 (6.25%) Cypress.io
5 31 (6.25%) Maven
6 27 (5.44%) SonarQube
7 19 (3.83%) CircleCI
8 11 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 11 (2.22%) JIRA
9 10 (2.02%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.41%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.21%) Selenium
11 6 (1.21%) TeamCity
12 5 (1.01%) Snyk
13 4 (0.81%) Gradle
14 3 (0.60%) JUnit
14 3 (0.60%) NUnit
14 3 (0.60%) Postman
15 2 (0.40%) git-flow
General
1 143 (28.83%) Social Skills
2 122 (24.60%) Finance
3 57 (11.49%) Public Sector
4 40 (8.06%) Banking
5 23 (4.64%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.82%) Financial Institution
8 10 (2.02%) Aerospace
8 10 (2.02%) Law
8 10 (2.02%) Legal
9 8 (1.61%) Military
10 7 (1.41%) Retail
11 5 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.01%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.81%) Advertising
12 4 (0.81%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.81%) Mandarin Language
13 3 (0.60%) Games
13 3 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.60%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 129 (26.01%) Senior
2 109 (21.98%) Developer
3 78 (15.73%) Cloud Engineer
4 73 (14.72%) DevOps Engineer
5 65 (13.10%) Java Developer
6 46 (9.27%) AWS Engineer
7 44 (8.87%) Lead
8 41 (8.27%) Consultant
9 35 (7.06%) Java Engineer
10 32 (6.45%) Senior Consultant
11 29 (5.85%) Architect
11 29 (5.85%) Platform Engineer
12 26 (5.24%) Full-Stack Developer
12 26 (5.24%) Senior Developer
13 24 (4.84%) AWS Developer
14 22 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 20 (4.03%) AWS DevOps
15 20 (4.03%) Principal Engineer
16 19 (3.83%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 19 (3.83%) Principal Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (21.57%) Spring Boot
2 82 (16.53%) Kafka
2 82 (16.53%) Spring
3 81 (16.33%) Node.js
4 75 (15.12%) AngularJS
5 62 (12.50%) AWS CDK
6 45 (9.07%) React
7 33 (6.65%) RESTful
8 32 (6.45%) Gherkin
9 28 (5.65%) REST
10 24 (4.84%) Jest
10 24 (4.84%) RabbitMQ
11 20 (4.03%) Web Services
12 18 (3.63%) gRPC
13 17 (3.43%) YAML
14 15 (3.02%) Elastic Stack
14 15 (3.02%) JSON
14 15 (3.02%) Next.js
14 15 (3.02%) web3js
15 13 (2.62%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 176 (35.48%) Cloud Native
2 76 (15.32%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (10.08%) Onboarding
4 44 (8.87%) Public Cloud
5 41 (8.27%) Enterprise Cloud
6 30 (6.05%) e-Learning
7 26 (5.24%) Enterprise Software
7 26 (5.24%) Legacy Systems
7 26 (5.24%) Mainframe
8 22 (4.44%) Data Centre
9 20 (4.03%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (3.23%) Security Posture
11 15 (3.02%) Blockchain
11 15 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
11 15 (3.02%) Web3
12 13 (2.62%) Distributed Computing
12 13 (2.62%) Linux Command Line
13 12 (2.42%) Cloud Security Posture
14 10 (2.02%) Blog
15 9 (1.81%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 87 (17.54%) Linux
2 20 (4.03%) Windows
3 19 (3.83%) Unix
4 10 (2.02%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.61%) CentOS
7 6 (1.21%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.81%) Debian
9 3 (0.60%) Android
9 3 (0.60%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.40%) VMS
11 1 (0.20%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (73.79%) Infrastructure as Code
2 322 (64.92%) CI/CD
3 264 (53.23%) DevOps
4 211 (42.54%) Agile
5 167 (33.67%) Containerisation
6 135 (27.22%) Mentoring
7 127 (25.60%) Observability
8 119 (23.99%) Continuous Improvement
9 112 (22.58%) Software Engineering
10 103 (20.77%) Microservices
11 96 (19.35%) Cloud Security
12 93 (18.75%) Test Automation
13 91 (18.35%) Event-Driven
14 87 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
15 75 (15.12%) Platform Engineering
16 69 (13.91%) AI
17 67 (13.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 65 (13.10%) Collaborative Culture
18 65 (13.10%) Migration
19 59 (11.90%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 231 (46.57%) Python
2 182 (36.69%) Java
3 93 (18.75%) SQL
4 85 (17.14%) Bash
5 84 (16.94%) TypeScript
6 49 (9.88%) Groovy
7 43 (8.67%) Go
8 35 (7.06%) Kotlin
9 34 (6.85%) JavaScript
10 30 (6.05%) PowerShell
11 29 (5.85%) Ruby
12 25 (5.04%) Bicep
13 16 (3.23%) PHP
14 15 (3.02%) C#
14 15 (3.02%) Perl
15 9 (1.81%) C++
16 6 (1.21%) COBOL
17 5 (1.01%) Google Apps Script
17 5 (1.01%) Rust
18 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 160 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 119 (23.99%) AWS Certification
3 94 (18.95%) SC Cleared
4 77 (15.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 41 (8.27%) Degree
6 27 (5.44%) DV Cleared
7 21 (4.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 18 (3.63%) ITIL Certification
9 14 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (2.62%) Master's Degree
11 11 (2.22%) AWS Certified Developer
12 9 (1.81%) TOGAF Certification
13 8 (1.61%) OSCP
14 7 (1.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 6 (1.21%) Azure Certification
16 4 (0.81%) Postgraduate
17 3 (0.60%) CREST Certified
17 3 (0.60%) OCP
17 3 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
18 2 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.45%) GDPR
2 17 (3.43%) NIST
2 17 (3.43%) PCI DSS
3 11 (2.22%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.02%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.02%) SOC 2
5 9 (1.81%) NCSC
6 8 (1.61%) HIPAA
6 8 (1.61%) QA
7 6 (1.21%) Government Security Classifications
7 6 (1.21%) WCAG
8 5 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.20%) HL7
9 1 (0.20%) SLA
9 1 (0.20%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 207 (41.73%) Docker
2 5 (1.01%) KVM
2 5 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.81%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 353 (71.17%) Terraform
2 188 (37.90%) Kubernetes
3 88 (17.74%) Ansible
4 55 (11.09%) Grafana
5 51 (10.28%) Prometheus
6 41 (8.27%) Progress Chef
7 29 (5.85%) Puppet
8 23 (4.64%) HP Fortify
9 20 (4.03%) Argo
10 7 (1.41%) Istio
11 6 (1.21%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (1.01%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (1.01%) linkerd
12 5 (1.01%) Mesos
13 3 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.40%) logstash
14 2 (0.40%) Rancher
15 1 (0.20%) Fluentd
15 1 (0.20%) Kibana
Vendors
1 47 (9.48%) Google
2 20 (4.03%) Microsoft
3 15 (3.02%) Oracle
4 11 (2.22%) Red Hat
4 11 (2.22%) Splunk
5 8 (1.61%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.41%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.21%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.01%) Databricks
8 5 (1.01%) VMware
9 4 (0.81%) Avaya
9 4 (0.81%) Cisco
9 4 (0.81%) Genesys
9 4 (0.81%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.40%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.40%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.40%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.40%) OutSystems
10 2 (0.40%) Tenable
11 1 (0.20%) LogicMonitor