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 18 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 18 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 393 | 459 | 512 |
| Rank change year-on-year | +66 | +53 | -136 |
| Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation | 519 | 222 | 244 |
| As % of all permanent jobs in the UK | 0.43% | 0.45% | 0.35% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category | 1.94% | 1.43% | 1.08% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 269 | 140 | 184 |
| 10th Percentile | £46,000 | £52,400 | £52,500 |
| 25th Percentile | £59,500 | £57,500 | £62,500 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £75,000 | £73,801 | £72,500 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +1.62% | +1.79% | -3.33% |
| 75th Percentile | £90,000 | £87,500 | £92,500 |
| 90th Percentile | £105,000 | £97,625 | £117,625 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary | £70,000 | £70,000 | £69,308 |
| % change year-on-year | - | +1.00% | -0.99% |
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.
| 6 months to 18 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills | 26,736 | 15,513 | 22,545 |
| As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK | 22.37% | 31.69% | 32.36% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 18,449 | 10,446 | 13,741 |
| 10th Percentile | £31,500 | £29,000 | £35,000 |
| 25th Percentile | £43,750 | £37,500 | £47,500 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £62,500 | £57,500 | £65,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +8.70% | -11.54% | +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 Salary Trend
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 18 October 2026.
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 18 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 | +45 | 453 | £77,500 | +3.33% | 294 |
| UK excluding London | +1 | 254 | £70,000 | - | 156 |
| London | +51 | 235 | £90,000 | +10.43% | 151 |
| North of England | +21 | 137 | £70,000 | - | 68 |
| Work from Home | -74 | 103 | £85,000 | +17.65% | 150 |
| Yorkshire | +29 | 81 | £75,000 | +7.14% | 21 |
| North West | -27 | 37 | £71,991 | +19.99% | 32 |
| Wales | -41 | 37 | £71,991 | +25.20% | 8 |
| South West | -39 | 34 | £68,750 | -23.61% | 13 |
| North East | -49 | 22 | £50,750 | -31.23% | 15 |
| Midlands | -32 | 21 | £62,500 | +4.17% | 22 |
| South East | -59 | 21 | £73,079 | -16.48% | 21 |
| West Midlands | -46 | 11 | £65,000 | +8.33% | 12 |
| East Midlands | -21 | 10 | £52,500 | - | 10 |
| Scotland | +6 | 3 | £71,991 | +18.21% | 13 |
| Northern Ireland | -77 | 1 | £71,991 | -2.45% | 4 |
AWS CloudFormation Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Cloud Services
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AWS | 96.7% | 502 |
| 2 | Serverless | 45.7% | 237 |
| 3 | AWS Lambda | 32.8% | 170 |
| 4 | Azure | 31.6% | 164 |
| 5 | GCP | 25.0% | 130 |
| 6 | Amazon ECS | 24.7% | 128 |
| 7 | Amazon S3 | 24.5% | 127 |
| 8 | GitHub | 23.3% | 121 |
| 9 | GitHub Actions | 17.1% | 89 |
| 10 | Amazon CloudWatch | 15.0% | 78 |
| 11 | Amazon EC2 | 14.5% | 75 |
| 12 | Amazon EKS | 12.5% | 65 |
| 13 | AWS Step Functions | 11.8% | 61 |
| 14 | Cloud Computing | 9.1% | 47 |
| 15 | Datadog | 7.9% | 41 |
| 16 | PaaS | 7.5% | 39 |
| 17 | Amazon OpenSearch | 6.7% | 35 |
| 17 | Virtual Private Cloud | 6.7% | 35 |
| 19 | OpenShift | 6.0% | 31 |
| 20 | Amazon SQS | 5.6% | 29 |