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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 441 480 354
Rank change year-on-year +39 -126 -41
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 213 275 415
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.41% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.20% 1.25% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 158 206 333
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% +3.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £119,375 £116,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.46% -3.70% -10.00%

All Cloud 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 17,783 21,945 22,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.78% 32.77% 42.92%
Number of salaries quoted 11,246 13,161 18,911
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -2.73%

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 18 November 2025.

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 18 November 2025. 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 +34 172 £75,000 - 296
Work from Home +62 101 £73,151 -2.47% 223
UK excluding London +50 99 £70,500 +8.46% 174
London +16 85 £81,500 -15.32% 162
North of England +48 51 £70,000 +12.00% 79
North West +33 26 £62,500 +4.17% 52
Yorkshire +27 22 £70,000 +7.69% 22
Midlands +42 13 £60,000 -17.24% 9
South East +38 13 £85,000 +36.00% 27
West Midlands +50 11 £60,000 -17.24% 5
Wales +15 8 £68,958 -0.50% 5
South West +21 6 £78,750 +43.18% 15
Scotland -5 6 £73,801 +6.48% 23
North East +1 3 £73,801 +6.48% 5
Northern Ireland -2 3 £73,801 +6.48% 8
East Midlands +22 2 - - 4
East of England +16 1 £75,000 +20.00% 9

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 8 (3.76%) Apache
2 7 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.29%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.82%) Tomcat
3 6 (2.82%) WebSphere
3 6 (2.82%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.94%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.47%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 196 (92.02%) AWS
2 111 (52.11%) Azure
3 84 (39.44%) Serverless
4 77 (36.15%) AWS Lambda
5 63 (29.58%) GCP
6 59 (27.70%) Amazon S3
7 55 (25.82%) GitHub
8 53 (24.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 53 (24.88%) Amazon EKS
9 51 (23.94%) Amazon ECS
10 46 (21.60%) Amazon EC2
11 42 (19.72%) GitHub Actions
12 37 (17.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 26 (12.21%) Amazon ECR
13 26 (12.21%) Azure DevOps
14 25 (11.74%) dbt
15 23 (10.80%) Pulumi
16 19 (8.92%) PaaS
17 18 (8.45%) Datadog
18 16 (7.51%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (9.39%) TCP/IP
2 11 (5.16%) Firewall
3 7 (3.29%) Network Security
3 7 (3.29%) VPN
4 6 (2.82%) SSL
5 5 (2.35%) DNS
6 4 (1.88%) LAN
6 4 (1.88%) WAN
7 2 (0.94%) AMQP
7 2 (0.94%) DHCP
8 1 (0.47%) HTTP
8 1 (0.47%) NAS
8 1 (0.47%) SAN
8 1 (0.47%) SNMP
8 1 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.47%) VSAN
8 1 (0.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (23.94%) Amazon RDS
2 31 (14.55%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (10.80%) NoSQL
4 20 (9.39%) Elasticsearch
4 20 (9.39%) Redis
5 19 (8.92%) DynamoDB
6 16 (7.51%) Amazon Redshift
6 16 (7.51%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (5.63%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (5.63%) Data Lake
8 10 (4.69%) SQL Server
9 7 (3.29%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (3.29%) MySQL
10 6 (2.82%) DB2
11 4 (1.88%) Big Data
12 3 (1.41%) Apache Iceberg
12 3 (1.41%) Data Vault
13 2 (0.94%) Cloudera CDH
13 2 (0.94%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.94%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 64 (30.05%) Jenkins
2 45 (21.13%) GitLab
3 20 (9.39%) Git
4 12 (5.63%) CircleCI
5 6 (2.82%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.82%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.35%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.35%) git-flow
6 5 (2.35%) JIRA
7 4 (1.88%) Robot Framework
7 4 (1.88%) Spinnaker
8 2 (0.94%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.94%) JMeter
8 2 (0.94%) Selenium
8 2 (0.94%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.94%) TestRail
9 1 (0.47%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.47%) Subversion
General
1 57 (26.76%) Social Skills
2 43 (20.19%) Finance
3 18 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.98%) Banking
5 15 (7.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (7.04%) Law
6 11 (5.16%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.76%) Marketing
8 7 (3.29%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.35%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.88%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.41%) Electronics
11 3 (1.41%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.94%) Advertising
12 2 (0.94%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.47%) Military
13 1 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 71 (33.33%) Senior
2 47 (22.07%) Cloud Engineer
3 43 (20.19%) DevOps Engineer
4 34 (15.96%) AWS Engineer
5 28 (13.15%) Platform Engineer
6 18 (8.45%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 17 (7.98%) Lead
7 17 (7.98%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 15 (7.04%) AWS DevOps
8 15 (7.04%) Data Engineer
9 14 (6.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 14 (6.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 13 (6.10%) Architect
10 13 (6.10%) Developer
11 10 (4.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 9 (4.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (4.23%) Site Engineer
12 9 (4.23%) Support Engineer
13 8 (3.76%) Cloud Architect
13 8 (3.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (13.62%) Elastic Stack
2 24 (11.27%) AWS CDK
3 20 (9.39%) Django
4 16 (7.51%) Kafka
5 13 (6.10%) React
6 12 (5.63%) Node.js
7 11 (5.16%) .NET
8 9 (4.23%) RabbitMQ
8 9 (4.23%) RESTful
9 8 (3.76%) Spring
9 8 (3.76%) Spring Boot
10 7 (3.29%) ARM Templates
10 7 (3.29%) Material-UI
11 6 (2.82%) LAPP Stack
11 6 (2.82%) LDAP
11 6 (2.82%) WebSphere MQ
12 5 (2.35%) .NET Core
12 5 (2.35%) ASP.NET
12 5 (2.35%) CSS
12 5 (2.35%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 44 (20.66%) Cloud Native
2 19 (8.92%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (8.45%) Linux Command Line
4 13 (6.10%) Public Cloud
5 11 (5.16%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.82%) AI Agents
6 6 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.35%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.88%) e-Learning
8 4 (1.88%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.41%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.94%) Blockchain
10 2 (0.94%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.94%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 82 (38.50%) Linux
2 38 (17.84%) Unix
3 33 (15.49%) Windows
4 11 (5.16%) Ubuntu
5 10 (4.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (3.76%) Debian
7 4 (1.88%) CentOS
8 2 (0.94%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (87.32%) Infrastructure as Code
2 161 (75.59%) CI/CD
3 155 (72.77%) DevOps
4 64 (30.05%) Problem-Solving
5 62 (29.11%) Agile
6 61 (28.64%) Containerisation
7 55 (25.82%) Observability
8 44 (20.66%) Continuous Improvement
9 40 (18.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 39 (18.31%) Platform Engineering
11 38 (17.84%) Cloud Security
12 34 (15.96%) Disaster Recovery
13 32 (15.02%) Microservices
14 31 (14.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 30 (14.08%) Mentoring
16 26 (12.21%) Migration
17 25 (11.74%) AI
18 23 (10.80%) Clean Code
18 23 (10.80%) Data Pipeline
19 22 (10.33%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 135 (63.38%) Python
2 71 (33.33%) Bash
3 37 (17.37%) PowerShell
4 32 (15.02%) SQL
5 21 (9.86%) Go
5 21 (9.86%) Java
6 19 (8.92%) Bicep
6 19 (8.92%) JavaScript
7 16 (7.51%) TypeScript
8 10 (4.69%) C#
9 2 (0.94%) C++
9 2 (0.94%) Google Apps Script
9 2 (0.94%) Groovy
9 2 (0.94%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 72 (33.80%) Security Cleared
2 57 (26.76%) AWS Certification
3 55 (25.82%) SC Cleared
4 22 (10.33%) Degree
5 20 (9.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 17 (7.98%) DV Cleared
7 16 (7.51%) Azure Certification
8 11 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.82%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (2.82%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.88%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.94%) CISA
11 2 (0.94%) CISM
11 2 (0.94%) CISSP
11 2 (0.94%) CRISC
11 2 (0.94%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.16%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.23%) GDPR
3 8 (3.76%) QA
4 7 (3.29%) SLA
5 4 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.88%) NIST
6 1 (0.47%) Basel III
6 1 (0.47%) MiFID
6 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 102 (47.89%) Docker
2 7 (3.29%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (2.35%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.41%) KVM
4 3 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.94%) Terminal Server
5 2 (0.94%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.47%) QEMU
6 1 (0.47%) vCloud
6 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 181 (84.98%) Terraform
2 98 (46.01%) Kubernetes
3 64 (30.05%) Ansible
4 61 (28.64%) Grafana
5 41 (19.25%) Prometheus
6 12 (5.63%) AWS Copilot
7 11 (5.16%) Argo
8 6 (2.82%) Puppet
9 5 (2.35%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.94%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.94%) Istio
10 2 (0.94%) linkerd
10 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.94%) Nessus
10 2 (0.94%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.47%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.47%) Mesos
11 1 (0.47%) Nagios
11 1 (0.47%) Rancher
Vendors
1 32 (15.02%) Google
2 23 (10.80%) Splunk
3 17 (7.98%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.76%) Red Hat
5 7 (3.29%) IBM
6 5 (2.35%) PagerDuty
7 4 (1.88%) Databricks
7 4 (1.88%) Foundry
7 4 (1.88%) LogicMonitor
7 4 (1.88%) SolarWinds
7 4 (1.88%) VMware
8 3 (1.41%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.41%) Citrix
8 3 (1.41%) Hitachi
8 3 (1.41%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.41%) SAP
9 2 (0.94%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.94%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.94%) Oracle
9 2 (0.94%) Rapid7