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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 459 536
Rank change year-on-year +70 +77 -170
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 519 228 242
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.46% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.94% 1.46% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 260 136 177
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,401 £73,801 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% +1.79% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,125 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,500 £99,375 £113,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

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 26,705 15,573 23,302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.65% 31.29% 32.12%
Number of salaries quoted 18,286 10,453 14,260
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,091 £38,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £59,186 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.60% -8.94% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +55 453 £77,500 +3.33% 387
UK excluding London -6 254 £70,000 - 183
London +61 234 £90,000 +9.09% 226
North of England +18 138 £70,000 - 71
Work from Home -46 108 £85,000 +17.65% 149
Yorkshire +25 82 £75,000 +7.14% 22
North West -9 38 £71,991 +17.54% 37
Wales -44 35 £71,991 +25.20% 7
South West -47 34 £67,500 -25.00% 17
Midlands -36 22 £62,250 +13.18% 26
North East -45 21 £50,750 -31.23% 12
South East -57 20 £68,750 -21.43% 30
East Midlands -25 12 £52,500 - 12
West Midlands -41 10 £63,750 +15.91% 14
Scotland +11 3 £71,991 +18.21% 21
East of England -55 1 £90,000 +20.00% 7
Northern Ireland -79 1 £71,991 -2.45% 4

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 22 (4.24%) Apache
2 15 (2.89%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.12%) Confluence
4 7 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.96%) nginx
6 2 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.39%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.39%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.77%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.39%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 6 (1.16%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.58%) Summit
3 2 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.39%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 500 (96.34%) AWS
2 240 (46.24%) Serverless
3 174 (33.53%) AWS Lambda
4 159 (30.64%) Azure
5 131 (25.24%) Amazon ECS
6 127 (24.47%) Amazon S3
6 127 (24.47%) GCP
7 118 (22.74%) GitHub
8 88 (16.96%) GitHub Actions
9 77 (14.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 75 (14.45%) Amazon EC2
11 71 (13.68%) Amazon EKS
12 61 (11.75%) AWS Step Functions
13 47 (9.06%) Cloud Computing
14 43 (8.29%) Datadog
15 38 (7.32%) PaaS
16 36 (6.94%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 34 (6.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 33 (6.36%) OpenShift
19 31 (5.97%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.01%) Network Security
2 21 (4.05%) TCP/IP
3 14 (2.70%) VPN
4 11 (2.12%) Firewall
5 8 (1.54%) AMQP
5 8 (1.54%) DNS
6 6 (1.16%) HTTP
7 5 (0.96%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.39%) MQTT
10 1 (0.19%) 4G
10 1 (0.19%) 5G
10 1 (0.19%) DHCP
10 1 (0.19%) DNSSEC
10 1 (0.19%) Internet
10 1 (0.19%) PSTN
10 1 (0.19%) SCCP
10 1 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (18.69%) NoSQL
2 70 (13.49%) DynamoDB
3 63 (12.14%) Amazon RDS
4 35 (6.74%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (5.59%) Amazon Athena
6 22 (4.24%) MongoDB
7 21 (4.05%) MySQL
8 12 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (2.12%) Redis
10 10 (1.93%) Big Data
10 10 (1.93%) Hadoop
11 8 (1.54%) Cloudera CDH
11 8 (1.54%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (1.16%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (0.96%) Metadata
15 4 (0.77%) Power BI
15 4 (0.77%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 113 (21.77%) GitLab
2 112 (21.58%) Jenkins
3 89 (17.15%) Git
4 46 (8.86%) Cucumber
5 19 (3.66%) Cypress.io
6 17 (3.28%) SonarQube
7 16 (3.08%) Maven
8 13 (2.50%) JIRA
9 11 (2.12%) Bitbucket
10 8 (1.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (1.35%) Claude Code
12 6 (1.16%) CircleCI
13 5 (0.96%) Snyk
13 5 (0.96%) TeamCity
14 3 (0.58%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.58%) Gradle
14 3 (0.58%) JUnit
14 3 (0.58%) NUnit
14 3 (0.58%) Postman
14 3 (0.58%) Selenium
General
1 138 (26.59%) Finance
2 133 (25.63%) Social Skills
3 82 (15.80%) Public Sector
4 57 (10.98%) Banking
5 38 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (4.05%) Financial Institution
7 16 (3.08%) Law
8 14 (2.70%) Aerospace
8 14 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (2.50%) Legal
10 11 (2.12%) Military
11 7 (1.35%) Retail
12 5 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.77%) Local Government
13 4 (0.77%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.58%) Automotive
14 3 (0.58%) Marketing
14 3 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.58%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 126 (24.28%) Senior
2 93 (17.92%) Developer
3 88 (16.96%) Cloud Engineer
4 78 (15.03%) DevOps Engineer
5 60 (11.56%) Java Developer
6 56 (10.79%) AWS Engineer
7 51 (9.83%) Java Engineer
8 49 (9.44%) Lead
9 42 (8.09%) Consultant
10 38 (7.32%) Architect
11 33 (6.36%) Senior Consultant
12 30 (5.78%) Platform Engineer
13 27 (5.20%) Software Engineer
14 26 (5.01%) Principal Engineer
15 25 (4.82%) Full-Stack Developer
15 25 (4.82%) Principal Java Engineer
16 24 (4.62%) AWS Developer
16 24 (4.62%) Cloud Native Engineer
17 22 (4.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 20 (3.85%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 385 (74.18%) Terraform
2 122 (23.51%) Spring Boot
3 108 (20.81%) Spring
4 89 (17.15%) Kafka
4 89 (17.15%) Node.js
5 67 (12.91%) AngularJS
6 57 (10.98%) AWS CDK
7 43 (8.29%) React
8 42 (8.09%) RESTful
9 32 (6.17%) RabbitMQ
10 31 (5.97%) REST
11 25 (4.82%) Web Services
12 20 (3.85%) Gherkin
12 20 (3.85%) Hibernate
13 18 (3.47%) JPA
14 16 (3.08%) gRPC
15 15 (2.89%) Jest
16 14 (2.70%) JSON
17 13 (2.50%) Ruby on Rails
18 12 (2.31%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 214 (41.23%) Cloud Native
2 100 (19.27%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (11.37%) Public Cloud
4 52 (10.02%) Onboarding
5 45 (8.67%) e-Learning
6 44 (8.48%) Enterprise Software
7 37 (7.13%) Enterprise Cloud
8 26 (5.01%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (5.01%) Mainframe
9 23 (4.43%) Hybrid Cloud
10 22 (4.24%) Data Centre
11 21 (4.05%) Virtual Team
12 16 (3.08%) Linux Command Line
13 15 (2.89%) Product Ownership
13 15 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
14 13 (2.50%) Blog
14 13 (2.50%) Distributed Computing
15 11 (2.12%) Security Posture
16 9 (1.73%) Cloud Security Posture
17 8 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 89 (17.15%) Linux
2 21 (4.05%) Unix
3 18 (3.47%) Windows
4 10 (1.93%) Ubuntu
5 8 (1.54%) CentOS
5 8 (1.54%) Debian
5 8 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.96%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.39%) VMS
8 1 (0.19%) AIX
8 1 (0.19%) Android
8 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.19%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 405 (78.03%) Infrastructure as Code
2 352 (67.82%) CI/CD
3 295 (56.84%) DevOps
4 255 (49.13%) Agile
5 170 (32.76%) Containerisation
6 141 (27.17%) Mentoring
7 140 (26.97%) Software Engineering
8 129 (24.86%) Observability
9 128 (24.66%) Microservices
10 126 (24.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 111 (21.39%) Problem-Solving
12 109 (21.00%) Event-Driven
13 106 (20.42%) Test Automation
14 102 (19.65%) Cloud Security
15 88 (16.96%) AI
16 87 (16.76%) Migration
17 82 (15.80%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 78 (15.03%) Platform Engineering
19 66 (12.72%) Collaborative Culture
19 66 (12.72%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 237 (45.66%) Python
2 187 (36.03%) Java
3 97 (18.69%) SQL
4 86 (16.57%) Bash
5 72 (13.87%) TypeScript
6 41 (7.90%) Groovy
7 39 (7.51%) PowerShell
8 35 (6.74%) Go
9 34 (6.55%) JavaScript
10 33 (6.36%) Kotlin
11 31 (5.97%) Ruby
12 27 (5.20%) Bicep
13 17 (3.28%) C#
14 15 (2.89%) Perl
14 15 (2.89%) PHP
15 8 (1.54%) C++
16 6 (1.16%) COBOL
17 4 (0.77%) Google Apps Script
18 2 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 2 (0.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 172 (33.14%) Security Cleared
2 133 (25.63%) AWS Certification
3 106 (20.42%) SC Cleared
4 90 (17.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 39 (7.51%) DV Cleared
6 33 (6.36%) Degree
7 18 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (2.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (2.12%) Master's Degree
10 10 (1.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 10 (1.93%) ITIL Certification
10 10 (1.93%) TOGAF Certification
11 8 (1.54%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.77%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.77%) OCP
12 4 (0.77%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (8.67%) GDPR
2 18 (3.47%) QA
3 13 (2.50%) NIST
4 12 (2.31%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.31%) PCI DSS
5 11 (2.12%) HIPAA
6 9 (1.73%) NCSC
7 8 (1.54%) Data Quality
8 6 (1.16%) Government Security Classifications
8 6 (1.16%) WCAG
9 5 (0.96%) ISO 20022
9 5 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.77%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.19%) SLA
System Software
1 209 (40.27%) Docker
2 6 (1.16%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.96%) KVM
3 5 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.58%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 198 (38.15%) Kubernetes
2 102 (19.65%) Ansible
3 62 (11.95%) Grafana
4 56 (10.79%) Prometheus
5 51 (9.83%) Progress Chef
6 37 (7.13%) Puppet
7 19 (3.66%) Argo
8 11 (2.12%) HP Fortify
9 8 (1.54%) Istio
10 6 (1.16%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (1.16%) linkerd
10 6 (1.16%) Mesos
10 6 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.77%) logstash
11 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.58%) Rancher
13 2 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 2 (0.39%) Oracle RMAN
14 1 (0.19%) Kibana
Vendors
1 47 (9.06%) Google
2 23 (4.43%) Splunk
3 20 (3.85%) Microsoft
4 17 (3.28%) Oracle
4 17 (3.28%) Red Hat
5 9 (1.73%) OpenAI
6 8 (1.54%) Databricks
6 8 (1.54%) SaltStack
7 7 (1.35%) VMware
8 6 (1.16%) AppDynamics
8 6 (1.16%) Cisco
8 6 (1.16%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.77%) Avaya
9 4 (0.77%) Genesys
9 4 (0.77%) HubSpot
10 3 (0.58%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.58%) OutSystems
10 3 (0.58%) YouTube
11 2 (0.39%) Informatica
11 2 (0.39%) Tenable