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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 446 587
Rank change year-on-year +72 +141 -213
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 459 238 319
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.48% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.70% 1.50% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 233 137 258
10th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,319 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.43% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £108,500 £111,250 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,151 £69,384 £67,500
% change year-on-year +5.43% +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 27,041 15,883 33,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.37% 32.32% 33.11%
Number of salaries quoted 17,570 11,064 25,443
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -7.27%

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 15 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 15 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 +72 418 £80,000 +6.67% 152
London +53 224 £90,000 +15.02% 50
UK excluding London +32 213 £73,151 +5.43% 154
North of England +60 131 £75,000 +8.09% 38
Work from Home -36 107 £75,000 +8.09% 141
Yorkshire +38 84 £75,000 +5.63% 11
North West +13 44 £74,651 +7.59% 18
Midlands -13 26 £62,000 -4.62% 17
Wales -37 21 £72,500 +20.83% 8
East Midlands -7 18 £52,500 - 8
South East -34 17 £70,000 -15.15% 26
South West -58 12 £67,500 -25.00% 27
West Midlands -28 8 £62,250 -4.23% 9
Scotland +12 3 £76,783 +39.60% 19
North East -57 3 £57,788 -16.71% 9
East of England -34 2 £82,500 +10.00% 10
Northern Ireland - 1 £73,801 - 10

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 (4.36%) Apache
2 12 (2.61%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.74%) Confluence
4 7 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.65%) JBoss
7 1 (0.22%) Drupal
7 1 (0.22%) IIS
7 1 (0.22%) nginx
7 1 (0.22%) SAS
7 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.87%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.44%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.31%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.65%) Summit
3 1 (0.22%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 441 (96.08%) AWS
2 236 (51.42%) Serverless
3 190 (41.39%) AWS Lambda
4 132 (28.76%) Amazon S3
5 131 (28.54%) Amazon ECS
6 114 (24.84%) Azure
7 95 (20.70%) GitHub
8 82 (17.86%) AWS Step Functions
9 81 (17.65%) GCP
10 71 (15.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 70 (15.25%) GitHub Actions
12 68 (14.81%) Amazon EKS
13 59 (12.85%) Cloud Computing
14 58 (12.64%) Datadog
15 55 (11.98%) Amazon EC2
16 46 (10.02%) Amazon SQS
17 37 (8.06%) Amazon ECR
18 36 (7.84%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 32 (6.97%) Apigee
20 29 (6.32%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.58%) Network Security
2 18 (3.92%) VPN
3 14 (3.05%) Firewall
4 12 (2.61%) TCP/IP
5 10 (2.18%) DNS
6 9 (1.96%) DSL
7 6 (1.31%) AMQP
8 4 (0.87%) HTTP
8 4 (0.87%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.44%) 4G
9 2 (0.44%) 5G
9 2 (0.44%) MQTT
10 1 (0.22%) DHCP
10 1 (0.22%) DNSSEC
10 1 (0.22%) Internet
10 1 (0.22%) PSTN
10 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (22.00%) DynamoDB
2 86 (18.74%) NoSQL
3 50 (10.89%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (7.41%) Amazon Athena
5 22 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (2.40%) MongoDB
8 10 (2.18%) MySQL
9 9 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (1.96%) Big Data
10 8 (1.74%) Redis
11 7 (1.53%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.31%) Cloudera CDH
12 6 (1.31%) Flink
13 5 (1.09%) Data Lake
13 5 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (1.09%) SQL Server
14 4 (0.87%) Apache Iceberg
14 4 (0.87%) Metadata
14 4 (0.87%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 144 (31.37%) Jenkins
2 139 (30.28%) GitLab
3 64 (13.94%) Git
4 36 (7.84%) Maven
5 32 (6.97%) Cucumber
5 32 (6.97%) Cypress.io
6 30 (6.54%) SonarQube
7 24 (5.23%) CircleCI
8 11 (2.40%) Bitbucket
9 10 (2.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 10 (2.18%) JIRA
10 7 (1.53%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.31%) TeamCity
12 5 (1.09%) Gradle
13 3 (0.65%) Selenium
14 2 (0.44%) JMeter
15 1 (0.22%) Gatling
15 1 (0.22%) git-flow
15 1 (0.22%) MLflow
15 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 122 (26.58%) Social Skills
2 113 (24.62%) Finance
3 50 (10.89%) Public Sector
4 38 (8.28%) Banking
5 17 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.61%) Aerospace
8 11 (2.40%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.31%) Advertising
9 6 (1.31%) 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
12 3 (0.65%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 111 (24.18%) Developer
2 107 (23.31%) Senior
3 75 (16.34%) Cloud Engineer
4 69 (15.03%) Java Developer
5 67 (14.60%) DevOps Engineer
6 43 (9.37%) AWS Engineer
7 38 (8.28%) Consultant
8 37 (8.06%) Lead
9 32 (6.97%) Java Engineer
9 32 (6.97%) Senior Consultant
10 29 (6.32%) Architect
10 29 (6.32%) Platform Engineer
11 27 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
12 26 (5.66%) AWS Developer
12 26 (5.66%) Senior Developer
13 23 (5.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 22 (4.79%) Principal Engineer
15 21 (4.58%) AWS DevOps
16 20 (4.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 19 (4.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (23.75%) Spring Boot
2 81 (17.65%) Kafka
3 80 (17.43%) Spring
4 79 (17.21%) AngularJS
5 77 (16.78%) Node.js
6 62 (13.51%) AWS CDK
7 40 (8.71%) React
8 36 (7.84%) Gherkin
9 32 (6.97%) RESTful
10 29 (6.32%) REST
11 28 (6.10%) Jest
12 27 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
13 22 (4.79%) gRPC
14 19 (4.14%) Web Services
15 18 (3.92%) YAML
16 17 (3.70%) web3js
17 16 (3.49%) JSON
17 16 (3.49%) Next.js
18 14 (3.05%) Elastic Stack
19 12 (2.61%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 160 (34.86%) Cloud Native
2 56 (12.20%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (10.46%) Onboarding
4 42 (9.15%) Public Cloud
5 40 (8.71%) Enterprise Cloud
6 27 (5.88%) e-Learning
6 27 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
7 24 (5.23%) Mainframe
8 22 (4.79%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (4.58%) Data Centre
10 17 (3.70%) Blockchain
10 17 (3.70%) Web3
11 16 (3.49%) Hybrid Cloud
11 16 (3.49%) Security Posture
12 15 (3.27%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (2.83%) Cloud Security Posture
14 12 (2.61%) Distributed Computing
15 11 (2.40%) Product Ownership
16 8 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
16 8 (1.74%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 74 (16.12%) Linux
2 23 (5.01%) Windows
3 15 (3.27%) Ubuntu
4 12 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.40%) CentOS
6 6 (1.31%) Debian
7 5 (1.09%) Unix
7 5 (1.09%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.87%) VMS
9 3 (0.65%) Android
9 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.22%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (72.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 289 (62.96%) CI/CD
3 229 (49.89%) DevOps
4 187 (40.74%) Agile
5 159 (34.64%) Containerisation
6 117 (25.49%) Mentoring
7 102 (22.22%) Microservices
8 100 (21.79%) Observability
9 97 (21.13%) Software Engineering
10 95 (20.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 86 (18.74%) Event-Driven
12 85 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
13 84 (18.30%) Test Automation
14 82 (17.86%) Cloud Security
15 71 (15.47%) Platform Engineering
16 67 (14.60%) DevSecOps
17 65 (14.16%) AI
18 62 (13.51%) Continuous Integration
18 62 (13.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 53 (11.55%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 213 (46.41%) Python
2 184 (40.09%) Java
3 96 (20.92%) SQL
4 89 (19.39%) TypeScript
5 80 (17.43%) Bash
6 52 (11.33%) Groovy
7 44 (9.59%) Go
8 38 (8.28%) Kotlin
9 34 (7.41%) JavaScript
10 31 (6.75%) PowerShell
11 27 (5.88%) Ruby
12 26 (5.66%) Bicep
13 16 (3.49%) C#
13 16 (3.49%) PHP
14 15 (3.27%) Perl
15 11 (2.40%) C++
16 9 (1.96%) Rust
17 6 (1.31%) COBOL
17 6 (1.31%) Google Apps Script
18 1 (0.22%) Natural
Qualifications
1 139 (30.28%) Security Cleared
2 115 (25.05%) AWS Certification
3 73 (15.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 71 (15.47%) SC Cleared
5 46 (10.02%) Degree
6 26 (5.66%) DV Cleared
7 25 (5.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 22 (4.79%) ITIL Certification
9 17 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (2.83%) Master's Degree
11 12 (2.61%) OSCP
12 10 (2.18%) AWS Certified Developer
13 9 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (1.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 7 (1.53%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.87%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.65%) CREST Certified
17 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 2 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
17 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.36%) PCI DSS
2 19 (4.14%) GDPR
2 19 (4.14%) NIST
3 13 (2.83%) SOC 2
4 10 (2.18%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.96%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.53%) NCSC
7 6 (1.31%) Government Security Classifications
8 5 (1.09%) QA
8 5 (1.09%) WCAG
9 4 (0.87%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.22%) HL7
10 1 (0.22%) SLA
10 1 (0.22%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 197 (42.92%) Docker
2 6 (1.31%) KVM
2 6 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.09%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 314 (68.41%) Terraform
2 184 (40.09%) Kubernetes
3 74 (16.12%) Ansible
4 54 (11.76%) Prometheus
5 52 (11.33%) Grafana
6 35 (7.63%) Progress Chef
7 27 (5.88%) HP Fortify
7 27 (5.88%) Puppet
8 18 (3.92%) Argo
9 8 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (1.31%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (1.09%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (1.09%) Istio
11 5 (1.09%) linkerd
11 5 (1.09%) Mesos
12 3 (0.65%) Rancher
13 2 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.22%) Consul
14 1 (0.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 34 (7.41%) Google
2 18 (3.92%) Microsoft
3 13 (2.83%) Oracle
4 12 (2.61%) Splunk
5 8 (1.74%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.53%) HubSpot
6 7 (1.53%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.31%) SaltStack
7 6 (1.31%) VMware
8 5 (1.09%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.87%) Avaya
9 4 (0.87%) Cisco
9 4 (0.87%) Databricks
9 4 (0.87%) Genesys
10 2 (0.44%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.44%) Tenable
11 1 (0.22%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.22%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.22%) LogicMonitor
11 1 (0.22%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud