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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 427 491
Rank change year-on-year +51 +64 -159
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 325 277 342
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.57% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.43% 1.54% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 204 203 277
10th Percentile £53,250 £52,500 £52,300
25th Percentile £63,052 £61,438 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,051 £79,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.26% +5.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £87,500 £113,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £106,750 £122,500 £116,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% -3.70% -10.00%

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 22,787 18,010 29,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.04% 37.19% 38.52%
Number of salaries quoted 12,310 10,972 23,902
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% +12.61% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 22 February 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS CloudFormation in the UK

AWS CloudFormation
Top 16 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 22 February 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 +39 275 £75,000 -6.25% 103
UK excluding London +31 165 £72,500 +11.54% 68
London +30 128 £85,000 -12.82% 50
Work from Home +39 120 £72,500 -7.64% 63
North of England +28 98 £72,500 +7.41% 29
Yorkshire +36 68 £72,500 - 13
North West -14 26 £74,051 +18.48% 13
Midlands +12 23 £50,000 -27.86% 10
West Midlands +27 16 £50,000 -27.86% 9
South East -12 15 £70,000 +16.67% 14
South West -12 10 £71,250 +29.55% 10
Wales 0 8 £71,379 +9.81% 2
East Midlands -23 7 £75,000 +15.38% 1
Northern Ireland -23 7 £95,000 +37.07% 1
Scotland -5 6 £73,801 +6.48% 2
North East -19 4 £73,801 +6.37% 3

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 (5.54%) Apache
2 10 (3.08%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.23%) Tomcat
4 4 (1.23%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.23%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.62%) JBoss
5 2 (0.62%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.31%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 309 (95.08%) AWS
2 173 (53.23%) Serverless
3 155 (47.69%) AWS Lambda
4 146 (44.92%) Azure
5 113 (34.77%) Amazon S3
6 100 (30.77%) Amazon ECS
7 86 (26.46%) GCP
8 85 (26.15%) GitHub
9 82 (25.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 70 (21.54%) AWS Step Functions
11 65 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
11 65 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
12 59 (18.15%) Amazon ECR
13 43 (13.23%) Amazon EC2
14 37 (11.38%) Amazon SQS
15 35 (10.77%) Pulumi
16 34 (10.46%) Azure DevOps
17 33 (10.15%) Datadog
18 32 (9.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 30 (9.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.00%) TCP/IP
2 14 (4.31%) Firewall
3 13 (4.00%) VPN
4 10 (3.08%) DSL
5 5 (1.54%) AMQP
5 5 (1.54%) Network Security
5 5 (1.54%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (1.23%) DNS
6 4 (1.23%) SSL
7 3 (0.92%) SCCP
8 2 (0.62%) DHCP
8 2 (0.62%) LAN
8 2 (0.62%) WAN
9 1 (0.31%) 4G
9 1 (0.31%) 5G
9 1 (0.31%) HTTP
9 1 (0.31%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (25.23%) DynamoDB
2 64 (19.69%) Amazon RDS
3 60 (18.46%) NoSQL
4 48 (14.77%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (8.92%) Elasticsearch
6 25 (7.69%) Redis
7 22 (6.77%) Amazon Athena
8 15 (4.62%) SQL Server
9 14 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (3.69%) MySQL
12 10 (3.08%) Data Lake
13 7 (2.15%) Big Data
14 6 (1.85%) MongoDB
15 5 (1.54%) Cloudera CDH
15 5 (1.54%) Hadoop
16 4 (1.23%) DB2
17 3 (0.92%) Apache Iceberg
17 3 (0.92%) Metadata
18 2 (0.62%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 119 (36.62%) Jenkins
2 113 (34.77%) GitLab
3 55 (16.92%) Git
4 38 (11.69%) SonarQube
5 31 (9.54%) Maven
6 30 (9.23%) Cypress.io
7 17 (5.23%) CircleCI
8 11 (3.38%) Bitbucket
9 10 (3.08%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.85%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.54%) git-flow
11 5 (1.54%) Robot Framework
12 4 (1.23%) JIRA
12 4 (1.23%) Selenium
13 3 (0.92%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.92%) JMeter
14 2 (0.62%) TestRail
15 1 (0.31%) Artifactory
15 1 (0.31%) Gradle
15 1 (0.31%) Subversion
General
1 92 (28.31%) Social Skills
2 62 (19.08%) Finance
3 23 (7.08%) Banking
4 19 (5.85%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (3.38%) Aerospace
7 8 (2.46%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.15%) Advertising
8 7 (2.15%) Public Sector
9 6 (1.85%) Law
10 5 (1.54%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.54%) Retail
11 4 (1.23%) Billing
11 4 (1.23%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.92%) Aviation
12 3 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.62%) Electronics
13 2 (0.62%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.62%) Marketing
14 1 (0.31%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 74 (22.77%) Senior
2 71 (21.85%) Cloud Engineer
3 68 (20.92%) Developer
4 53 (16.31%) DevOps Engineer
5 40 (12.31%) AWS Engineer
6 36 (11.08%) Platform Engineer
7 34 (10.46%) Java Developer
8 26 (8.00%) Lead
9 22 (6.77%) AWS Developer
10 20 (6.15%) AWS DevOps
11 19 (5.85%) Security Engineer
11 19 (5.85%) Senior Developer
11 19 (5.85%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 18 (5.54%) Architect
12 18 (5.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 17 (5.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 17 (5.23%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 15 (4.62%) AWS Architect
15 13 (4.00%) .NET Developer
15 13 (4.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (16.62%) AWS CDK
2 52 (16.00%) AngularJS
3 48 (14.77%) Spring Boot
4 43 (13.23%) Node.js
5 35 (10.77%) React
6 30 (9.23%) Gherkin
6 30 (9.23%) Jest
6 30 (9.23%) Kafka
6 30 (9.23%) RESTful
7 28 (8.62%) Elastic Stack
8 26 (8.00%) Spring
9 25 (7.69%) Django
10 19 (5.85%) .NET
10 19 (5.85%) RabbitMQ
11 14 (4.31%) gRPC
11 14 (4.31%) REST
12 13 (4.00%) .NET Core
12 13 (4.00%) ASP.NET
12 13 (4.00%) ASP.NET Core
12 13 (4.00%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 94 (28.92%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.31%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (6.46%) Linux Command Line
4 20 (6.15%) Security Posture
5 17 (5.23%) Public Cloud
6 16 (4.92%) Product Ownership
7 11 (3.38%) Cloud Security Posture
7 11 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.77%) Blockchain
8 9 (2.77%) PKI
8 9 (2.77%) Web3
9 8 (2.46%) e-Learning
10 5 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.92%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.92%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (0.92%) Cyber Security Posture
13 2 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 96 (29.54%) Linux
2 40 (12.31%) Unix
3 36 (11.08%) Windows
4 15 (4.62%) Ubuntu
5 12 (3.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.46%) CentOS
7 7 (2.15%) Debian
8 5 (1.54%) VMS
9 1 (0.31%) Android
9 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (76.92%) Infrastructure as Code
2 245 (75.38%) CI/CD
3 236 (72.62%) DevOps
4 137 (42.15%) Agile
5 98 (30.15%) Containerisation
6 96 (29.54%) Problem-Solving
7 72 (22.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 70 (21.54%) Observability
9 65 (20.00%) Microservices
10 64 (19.69%) Cloud Security
11 49 (15.08%) Mentoring
12 48 (14.77%) DevSecOps
13 47 (14.46%) Continuous Integration
13 47 (14.46%) Platform Engineering
14 43 (13.23%) Incident Response
15 40 (12.31%) Clean Code
16 37 (11.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 37 (11.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 37 (11.38%) Software Engineering
17 36 (11.08%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 163 (50.15%) Python
2 94 (28.92%) Bash
3 90 (27.69%) Java
4 66 (20.31%) TypeScript
5 57 (17.54%) SQL
6 38 (11.69%) Go
7 37 (11.38%) PowerShell
8 32 (9.85%) JavaScript
9 30 (9.23%) Groovy
10 22 (6.77%) Kotlin
11 21 (6.46%) C#
12 18 (5.54%) Bicep
13 10 (3.08%) Rust
14 7 (2.15%) C++
15 6 (1.85%) Google Apps Script
16 1 (0.31%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 96 (29.54%) Security Cleared
2 92 (28.31%) AWS Certification
3 57 (17.54%) SC Cleared
4 31 (9.54%) DV Cleared
5 29 (8.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 29 (8.92%) Degree
6 23 (7.08%) AWS Certified Developer
7 20 (6.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 19 (5.85%) ITIL Certification
9 15 (4.62%) Azure Certification
10 12 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (3.38%) OSCP
12 7 (2.15%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 5 (1.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
15 2 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
15 2 (0.62%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.62%) SnowPro
16 1 (0.31%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.54%) NIST
2 12 (3.69%) GDPR
2 12 (3.69%) PCI DSS
3 11 (3.38%) QA
4 8 (2.46%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.85%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.54%) SLA
7 1 (0.31%) Basel III
7 1 (0.31%) MiFID
System Software
1 174 (53.54%) Docker
2 7 (2.15%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.15%) KVM
3 6 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.31%) QEMU
5 1 (0.31%) vCloud
5 1 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 235 (72.31%) Terraform
2 133 (40.92%) Kubernetes
3 71 (21.85%) Ansible
4 59 (18.15%) Grafana
5 48 (14.77%) Prometheus
6 30 (9.23%) HP Fortify
7 17 (5.23%) AWS Copilot
8 15 (4.62%) Argo
9 9 (2.77%) Docker Swarm
10 8 (2.46%) Istio
10 8 (2.46%) linkerd
10 8 (2.46%) Mesos
11 7 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (2.15%) Puppet
12 4 (1.23%) Rancher
13 3 (0.92%) Kubeflow
14 2 (0.62%) Nessus
15 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 44 (13.54%) Google
2 19 (5.85%) Microsoft
3 16 (4.92%) Splunk
4 9 (2.77%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.15%) VMware
6 6 (1.85%) SaltStack
7 5 (1.54%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.23%) IBM
8 4 (1.23%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (1.23%) PagerDuty
9 3 (0.92%) AppDynamics
9 3 (0.92%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.92%) Oracle
9 3 (0.92%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.62%) Ping Identity
10 2 (0.62%) SAP
11 1 (0.31%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.31%) Foundry
11 1 (0.31%) Qualys
11 1 (0.31%) Refinitiv