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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 467 570
Rank change year-on-year +87 +103 -206
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 506 237 256
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.48% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.80% 1.48% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 260 142 198
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £50,507
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -6.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £105,125 £102,725 £108,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £69,384 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.49% +2.79% -3.57%

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 28,075 15,965 26,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.68% 32.16% 32.18%
Number of salaries quoted 18,470 11,069 19,256
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £84,975 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% -1.82%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 +60 453 £80,000 +6.67% 209
UK excluding London +39 254 £72,500 +4.49% 128
London +56 226 £90,000 +12.50% 112
North of England +58 148 £75,000 +8.09% 41
Work from Home -35 124 £75,000 +8.09% 111
Yorkshire +37 89 £75,000 +5.63% 10
North West +19 48 £72,500 +7.21% 19
Wales -36 27 £72,500 +20.83% 10
Midlands -11 26 £62,500 -3.85% 11
South West -48 26 £67,500 -25.00% 35
East Midlands -5 18 £52,500 - 1
South East -43 18 £70,000 -17.65% 16
North East -43 11 £50,000 -27.94% 12
West Midlands -23 8 £68,496 +5.38% 10
Scotland +10 5 £71,991 +35.83% 9
East of England -39 2 £82,500 +10.00% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £72,896 - 5

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 20 (3.95%) Apache
2 11 (2.17%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.78%) Confluence
4 8 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.59%) JBoss
6 3 (0.59%) nginx
7 1 (0.20%) Drupal
7 1 (0.20%) IIS
7 1 (0.20%) SAS
7 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.79%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.40%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.19%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.59%) Summit
3 1 (0.20%) Magento
3 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 489 (96.64%) AWS
2 253 (50.00%) Serverless
3 196 (38.74%) AWS Lambda
4 149 (29.45%) Amazon ECS
5 143 (28.26%) Amazon S3
6 138 (27.27%) Azure
7 109 (21.54%) GitHub
8 106 (20.95%) GCP
9 80 (15.81%) GitHub Actions
10 77 (15.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 76 (15.02%) AWS Step Functions
12 72 (14.23%) Amazon EKS
13 70 (13.83%) Amazon EC2
14 57 (11.26%) Cloud Computing
14 57 (11.26%) Datadog
15 44 (8.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 44 (8.70%) Amazon SQS
16 37 (7.31%) Amazon ECR
17 33 (6.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 31 (6.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.14%) Network Security
1 26 (5.14%) TCP/IP
2 14 (2.77%) VPN
3 13 (2.57%) Firewall
4 11 (2.17%) DNS
5 5 (0.99%) DSL
5 5 (0.99%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (0.79%) AMQP
6 4 (0.79%) HTTP
7 2 (0.40%) 4G
7 2 (0.40%) 5G
7 2 (0.40%) MQTT
8 1 (0.20%) DHCP
8 1 (0.20%) DNSSEC
8 1 (0.20%) Internet
8 1 (0.20%) PSTN
8 1 (0.20%) SCCP
8 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (18.97%) DynamoDB
2 84 (16.60%) NoSQL
3 67 (13.24%) Amazon RDS
4 35 (6.92%) Amazon Athena
5 28 (5.53%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (2.57%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (2.17%) MongoDB
8 10 (1.98%) MySQL
8 10 (1.98%) Redis
9 9 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (1.38%) Big Data
10 7 (1.38%) Flink
11 6 (1.19%) Hadoop
11 6 (1.19%) SQL Server
12 5 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (0.99%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.99%) Metadata
12 5 (0.99%) Relational Database
13 4 (0.79%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 137 (27.08%) Jenkins
2 126 (24.90%) GitLab
3 75 (14.82%) Git
4 34 (6.72%) Cucumber
5 31 (6.13%) Cypress.io
5 31 (6.13%) Maven
6 27 (5.34%) SonarQube
7 18 (3.56%) CircleCI
8 13 (2.57%) JIRA
9 12 (2.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 11 (2.17%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.38%) Claude Code
12 6 (1.19%) Selenium
12 6 (1.19%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.99%) Snyk
14 4 (0.79%) Gradle
15 3 (0.59%) git-flow
15 3 (0.59%) JUnit
15 3 (0.59%) NUnit
15 3 (0.59%) Postman
General
1 144 (28.46%) Social Skills
2 122 (24.11%) Finance
3 59 (11.66%) Public Sector
4 40 (7.91%) Banking
5 26 (5.14%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.77%) Financial Institution
8 12 (2.37%) Law
9 11 (2.17%) Aerospace
9 11 (2.17%) Legal
10 9 (1.78%) Military
11 7 (1.38%) Retail
12 5 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.99%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.79%) Advertising
13 4 (0.79%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.79%) Mandarin Language
13 4 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.59%) Automotive
14 3 (0.59%) Games
Job Titles
1 128 (25.30%) Senior
2 112 (22.13%) Developer
3 82 (16.21%) Cloud Engineer
4 74 (14.62%) DevOps Engineer
5 68 (13.44%) Java Developer
6 50 (9.88%) AWS Engineer
7 45 (8.89%) Lead
8 41 (8.10%) Consultant
9 34 (6.72%) Java Engineer
10 32 (6.32%) Senior Consultant
11 31 (6.13%) Architect
12 30 (5.93%) Platform Engineer
13 26 (5.14%) AWS Developer
13 26 (5.14%) Full-Stack Developer
14 25 (4.94%) Senior Developer
15 24 (4.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 21 (4.15%) AWS DevOps
17 20 (3.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 20 (3.95%) Software Engineer
18 19 (3.75%) Professional Services Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (21.34%) Spring Boot
2 84 (16.60%) Node.js
3 83 (16.40%) Spring
4 82 (16.21%) Kafka
5 77 (15.22%) AngularJS
6 65 (12.85%) AWS CDK
7 46 (9.09%) React
8 35 (6.92%) RESTful
9 32 (6.32%) Gherkin
10 28 (5.53%) REST
11 25 (4.94%) Jest
12 24 (4.74%) RabbitMQ
13 20 (3.95%) Web Services
14 17 (3.36%) gRPC
14 17 (3.36%) YAML
15 16 (3.16%) Elastic Stack
16 15 (2.96%) JSON
16 15 (2.96%) Next.js
17 14 (2.77%) web3js
18 13 (2.57%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 179 (35.38%) Cloud Native
2 76 (15.02%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (9.88%) Onboarding
4 43 (8.50%) Public Cloud
5 41 (8.10%) Enterprise Cloud
6 29 (5.73%) e-Learning
7 26 (5.14%) Enterprise Software
7 26 (5.14%) Legacy Systems
7 26 (5.14%) Mainframe
8 22 (4.35%) Data Centre
8 22 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
9 16 (3.16%) Security Posture
10 15 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
10 15 (2.96%) Linux Command Line
11 14 (2.77%) Blockchain
11 14 (2.77%) Web3
12 13 (2.57%) Distributed Computing
13 12 (2.37%) Cloud Security Posture
14 11 (2.17%) Blog
15 10 (1.98%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 87 (17.19%) Linux
2 21 (4.15%) Windows
3 19 (3.75%) Unix
4 10 (1.98%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.58%) CentOS
7 6 (1.19%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.79%) Debian
9 3 (0.59%) Android
9 3 (0.59%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.40%) VMS
11 1 (0.20%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (73.91%) Infrastructure as Code
2 330 (65.22%) CI/CD
3 271 (53.56%) DevOps
4 214 (42.29%) Agile
5 172 (33.99%) Containerisation
6 136 (26.88%) Mentoring
7 129 (25.49%) Observability
8 122 (24.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 113 (22.33%) Software Engineering
10 104 (20.55%) Microservices
11 98 (19.37%) Cloud Security
12 93 (18.38%) Test Automation
13 92 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
14 91 (17.98%) Event-Driven
15 76 (15.02%) Platform Engineering
16 69 (13.64%) AI
17 68 (13.44%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 67 (13.24%) Migration
19 65 (12.85%) Collaborative Culture
20 62 (12.25%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 236 (46.64%) Python
2 186 (36.76%) Java
3 94 (18.58%) SQL
4 89 (17.59%) Bash
5 86 (17.00%) TypeScript
6 49 (9.68%) Groovy
7 43 (8.50%) Go
8 37 (7.31%) Kotlin
9 34 (6.72%) JavaScript
10 31 (6.13%) PowerShell
11 30 (5.93%) Ruby
12 25 (4.94%) Bicep
13 16 (3.16%) C#
13 16 (3.16%) PHP
14 15 (2.96%) Perl
15 9 (1.78%) C++
16 6 (1.19%) COBOL
17 5 (0.99%) Google Apps Script
17 5 (0.99%) Rust
18 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 163 (32.21%) Security Cleared
2 122 (24.11%) AWS Certification
3 97 (19.17%) SC Cleared
4 76 (15.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 41 (8.10%) Degree
6 27 (5.34%) DV Cleared
7 22 (4.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 18 (3.56%) ITIL Certification
9 14 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (2.57%) Master's Degree
11 11 (2.17%) AWS Certified Developer
12 10 (1.98%) TOGAF Certification
13 8 (1.58%) OSCP
14 7 (1.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 7 (1.38%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.79%) OCP
15 4 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
15 4 (0.79%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
16 3 (0.59%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.52%) GDPR
2 17 (3.36%) NIST
2 17 (3.36%) PCI DSS
3 11 (2.17%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.98%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.98%) SOC 2
5 9 (1.78%) HIPAA
5 9 (1.78%) NCSC
5 9 (1.78%) QA
6 6 (1.19%) Government Security Classifications
6 6 (1.19%) WCAG
7 5 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.20%) HL7
8 1 (0.20%) SLA
8 1 (0.20%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 214 (42.29%) Docker
2 5 (0.99%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.99%) KVM
2 5 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.59%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 362 (71.54%) Terraform
2 192 (37.94%) Kubernetes
3 90 (17.79%) Ansible
4 57 (11.26%) Grafana
5 51 (10.08%) Prometheus
6 42 (8.30%) Progress Chef
7 31 (6.13%) Puppet
8 23 (4.55%) HP Fortify
9 20 (3.95%) Argo
10 7 (1.38%) Istio
11 6 (1.19%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.99%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.99%) linkerd
12 5 (0.99%) Mesos
13 4 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.40%) logstash
14 2 (0.40%) Rancher
15 1 (0.20%) Kibana
Vendors
1 47 (9.29%) Google
2 20 (3.95%) Microsoft
3 15 (2.96%) Oracle
4 13 (2.57%) Red Hat
5 12 (2.37%) Splunk
6 8 (1.58%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.38%) HubSpot
8 6 (1.19%) Salesforce
9 5 (0.99%) Databricks
9 5 (0.99%) VMware
10 4 (0.79%) Avaya
10 4 (0.79%) Cisco
10 4 (0.79%) Genesys
10 4 (0.79%) SaltStack
11 3 (0.59%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.40%) CrowdStrike
12 2 (0.40%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.40%) OutSystems
12 2 (0.40%) Tenable
13 1 (0.20%) Sparx