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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 451 566
Rank change year-on-year +51 +115 -212
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 378 224 338
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.51% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.43% 1.53% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 205 125 276
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,600 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,677 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.90% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £114,000 £112,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,151 £69,384 £67,500
% change year-on-year +5.43% +2.79% -6.90%

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 26,501 14,679 35,023
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.60% 33.61% 34.09%
Number of salaries quoted 15,679 10,057 26,957
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 £76,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,400
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 4 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 4 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 +59 356 £77,500 +3.33% 123
UK excluding London +23 190 £73,151 +5.43% 80
London +28 168 £90,000 +10.77% 55
North of England +52 131 £75,000 +8.09% 27
Work from Home -5 105 £72,500 +7.21% 87
Yorkshire +39 94 £75,000 +2.04% 10
North West +17 35 £80,000 +14.79% 16
Midlands -12 33 £51,250 -29.31% 6
East Midlands -9 18 £52,500 -27.59% 3
West Midlands -22 15 £50,000 -38.51% 3
South West -47 9 £72,500 -14.71% 16
South East -43 8 £70,000 +19.15% 14
Scotland +5 3 £76,783 +39.60% 6
Northern Ireland - 3 £95,000 - 3
North East -37 2 £65,576 -5.49% 1
East of England -38 2 £82,500 - 2
Wales -42 1 £73,801 +28.35% 6

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 (5.03%) Apache
2 11 (2.91%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.06%) Confluence
4 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.79%) JBoss
6 1 (0.26%) Drupal
6 1 (0.26%) IIS
6 1 (0.26%) nginx
6 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.26%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 363 (96.03%) AWS
2 206 (54.50%) Serverless
3 177 (46.83%) AWS Lambda
4 131 (34.66%) Amazon S3
5 110 (29.10%) Amazon ECS
6 96 (25.40%) AWS Step Functions
6 96 (25.40%) Azure
7 85 (22.49%) GitHub
8 82 (21.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 65 (17.20%) GitHub Actions
10 61 (16.14%) GCP
11 60 (15.87%) Datadog
12 51 (13.49%) Amazon EC2
13 48 (12.70%) Amazon EKS
13 48 (12.70%) Amazon SQS
14 43 (11.38%) Amazon ECR
15 38 (10.05%) Apigee
16 37 (9.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 22 (5.82%) OpenShift
17 22 (5.82%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.44%) DSL
2 11 (2.91%) Firewall
2 11 (2.91%) VPN
3 10 (2.65%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.85%) DNS
5 6 (1.59%) Network Security
6 5 (1.32%) AMQP
7 3 (0.79%) HTTP
7 3 (0.79%) SCCP
7 3 (0.79%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.53%) 4G
8 2 (0.53%) 5G
9 1 (0.26%) MQTT
9 1 (0.26%) PSTN
9 1 (0.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (29.89%) DynamoDB
2 83 (21.96%) NoSQL
3 50 (13.23%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (8.99%) Amazon Athena
5 21 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (2.38%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.12%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (2.12%) Big Data
8 8 (2.12%) Redis
9 6 (1.59%) Flink
9 6 (1.59%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.32%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (1.32%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.32%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.06%) Apache Iceberg
11 4 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.06%) MySQL
12 3 (0.79%) Metadata
13 2 (0.53%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 149 (39.42%) Jenkins
2 142 (37.57%) GitLab
3 65 (17.20%) Git
4 42 (11.11%) Maven
5 38 (10.05%) Cypress.io
6 35 (9.26%) SonarQube
7 26 (6.88%) CircleCI
8 25 (6.61%) Cucumber
9 9 (2.38%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (1.59%) JIRA
10 6 (1.59%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.32%) Claude Code
11 5 (1.32%) Gradle
12 3 (0.79%) Selenium
13 2 (0.53%) JMeter
14 1 (0.26%) git-flow
14 1 (0.26%) MLflow
14 1 (0.26%) Robot Framework
14 1 (0.26%) Vagrant
General
1 107 (28.31%) Social Skills
2 80 (21.16%) Finance
3 36 (9.52%) Banking
4 11 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (2.65%) Advertising
6 9 (2.38%) Aerospace
6 9 (2.38%) Financial Institution
7 7 (1.85%) Investment Banking
7 7 (1.85%) Public Sector
7 7 (1.85%) Retail
8 4 (1.06%) Billing
8 4 (1.06%) Legal
8 4 (1.06%) Mandarin Language
8 4 (1.06%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.79%) Aviation
9 3 (0.79%) Back Office
9 3 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.79%) Law
10 2 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 113 (29.89%) Developer
2 72 (19.05%) Cloud Engineer
3 71 (18.78%) Senior
4 69 (18.25%) Java Developer
5 60 (15.87%) DevOps Engineer
6 40 (10.58%) AWS Engineer
7 33 (8.73%) Senior Developer
8 28 (7.41%) AWS Developer
9 27 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
10 25 (6.61%) Java Engineer
11 23 (6.08%) Lead
12 20 (5.29%) AWS DevOps
12 20 (5.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 20 (5.29%) Security Engineer
13 19 (5.03%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 19 (5.03%) Full-Stack Developer
14 18 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 18 (4.76%) Software Engineer
15 17 (4.50%) Architect
15 17 (4.50%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (21.69%) Spring Boot
2 81 (21.43%) AngularJS
3 65 (17.20%) Kafka
4 60 (15.87%) Node.js
5 55 (14.55%) Spring
6 51 (13.49%) AWS CDK
7 40 (10.58%) Gherkin
8 37 (9.79%) React
9 34 (8.99%) Jest
9 34 (8.99%) RESTful
10 22 (5.82%) gRPC
10 22 (5.82%) RabbitMQ
11 20 (5.29%) web3js
12 19 (5.03%) Next.js
13 18 (4.76%) REST
13 18 (4.76%) YAML
14 15 (3.97%) JSON
15 12 (3.17%) PySpark
16 11 (2.91%) Elastic Stack
16 11 (2.91%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 115 (30.42%) Cloud Native
2 35 (9.26%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (8.47%) Public Cloud
4 21 (5.56%) Security Posture
5 20 (5.29%) Blockchain
5 20 (5.29%) e-Learning
5 20 (5.29%) Enterprise Software
5 20 (5.29%) Web3
6 15 (3.97%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (3.44%) Cloud Security Posture
9 10 (2.65%) PKI
10 8 (2.12%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (2.12%) Product Ownership
11 7 (1.85%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
14 3 (0.79%) Mobile App
14 3 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 70 (18.52%) Linux
2 18 (4.76%) Windows
3 13 (3.44%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.65%) CentOS
6 5 (1.32%) Debian
6 5 (1.32%) Unix
6 5 (1.32%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.79%) Android
7 3 (0.79%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (73.54%) Infrastructure as Code
2 260 (68.78%) CI/CD
3 221 (58.47%) DevOps
4 149 (39.42%) Agile
5 129 (34.13%) Containerisation
6 83 (21.96%) Continuous Improvement
7 82 (21.69%) Microservices
8 77 (20.37%) Observability
9 74 (19.58%) Software Engineering
10 73 (19.31%) Mentoring
10 73 (19.31%) Problem-Solving
11 70 (18.52%) DevSecOps
12 66 (17.46%) Test Automation
13 65 (17.20%) Cloud Security
14 63 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
15 55 (14.55%) Platform Engineering
16 52 (13.76%) Event-Driven
17 45 (11.90%) Full-Stack Development
18 44 (11.64%) Collaborative Culture
19 42 (11.11%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 169 (44.71%) Python
2 145 (38.36%) Java
3 96 (25.40%) TypeScript
4 90 (23.81%) SQL
5 67 (17.72%) Bash
6 53 (14.02%) Groovy
7 47 (12.43%) Go
8 40 (10.58%) Kotlin
9 34 (8.99%) JavaScript
10 26 (6.88%) PowerShell
11 17 (4.50%) C#
12 13 (3.44%) Bicep
12 13 (3.44%) Rust
13 9 (2.38%) C++
14 6 (1.59%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.53%) PHP
16 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.26%) Perl
16 1 (0.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 88 (23.28%) Security Cleared
2 81 (21.43%) AWS Certification
3 52 (13.76%) SC Cleared
4 37 (9.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 33 (8.73%) Degree
6 28 (7.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (6.35%) ITIL Certification
8 22 (5.82%) DV Cleared
9 16 (4.23%) OSCP
10 14 (3.70%) AWS Certified Developer
11 9 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (2.12%) Azure Certification
13 7 (1.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 6 (1.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 5 (1.32%) Master's Degree
16 4 (1.06%) Postgraduate
17 3 (0.79%) CREST Certified
17 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
18 1 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
18 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.56%) NIST
2 16 (4.23%) PCI DSS
3 13 (3.44%) GDPR
4 10 (2.65%) SOC 2
5 7 (1.85%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.53%) QA
8 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.26%) HL7
8 1 (0.26%) NCSC
8 1 (0.26%) SLA
8 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 182 (48.15%) Docker
2 6 (1.59%) KVM
2 6 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 250 (66.14%) Terraform
2 146 (38.62%) Kubernetes
3 62 (16.40%) Ansible
4 44 (11.64%) Prometheus
5 39 (10.32%) Grafana
6 33 (8.73%) HP Fortify
7 15 (3.97%) Argo
8 13 (3.44%) Progress Chef
9 8 (2.12%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (1.85%) Docker Swarm
10 7 (1.85%) Puppet
11 6 (1.59%) Istio
11 6 (1.59%) linkerd
11 6 (1.59%) Mesos
12 5 (1.32%) AWS Copilot
13 3 (0.79%) Rancher
14 2 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
15 1 (0.26%) Consul
15 1 (0.26%) Packer
Vendors
1 26 (6.88%) Google
2 15 (3.97%) Microsoft
3 7 (1.85%) HubSpot
3 7 (1.85%) Oracle
4 6 (1.59%) Red Hat
4 6 (1.59%) VMware
5 5 (1.32%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.06%) Databricks
6 4 (1.06%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.06%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.06%) Splunk
7 2 (0.53%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (0.53%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.26%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.26%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.26%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.26%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.26%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.26%) TOWER Software