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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 407 541
Rank change year-on-year +8 +134 -195
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 343 246 364
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.60% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.27% 1.63% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 201 185 282
10th Percentile £53,555 £54,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,250 £62,500 £63,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £79,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% +5.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £112,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £67,626 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.21% +0.19% -10.00%

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 27,086 15,067 33,856
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.72% 36.61% 36.27%
Number of salaries quoted 14,049 11,076 26,635
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 15 April 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 15 April 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 +15 307 £75,000 -6.25% 90
UK excluding London +11 183 £72,500 +7.21% 64
London -14 139 £85,000 -9.33% 33
North of England +12 115 £74,651 +7.59% 26
Work from Home -5 111 £72,500 - 56
Yorkshire +16 80 £73,750 -1.67% 7
North West -18 31 £79,000 +13.86% 12
Midlands -32 23 £50,000 -24.60% 2
West Midlands -11 13 £50,000 -38.51% 1
South East -49 13 £70,000 +16.67% 12
South West -46 11 £71,250 +23.91% 15
East Midlands -46 10 £63,750 -1.92% 1
Wales -22 7 £68,958 +9.02% 1
Scotland -25 7 £73,801 +34.18% 2
Northern Ireland -35 6 £95,000 -
North East -29 4 £73,801 +6.37% 7
East of England -23 1 £75,000 -11.76% 7

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 (5.83%) Apache
2 9 (2.62%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.87%) JBoss
6 2 (0.58%) Confluence
7 1 (0.29%) Drupal
7 1 (0.29%) IIS
7 1 (0.29%) nginx
7 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 321 (93.59%) AWS
2 190 (55.39%) Serverless
3 167 (48.69%) AWS Lambda
4 130 (37.90%) Azure
5 123 (35.86%) Amazon S3
6 104 (30.32%) Amazon ECS
7 86 (25.07%) AWS Step Functions
8 78 (22.74%) GCP
9 77 (22.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 74 (21.57%) GitHub
11 58 (16.91%) Amazon EKS
12 57 (16.62%) Amazon ECR
12 57 (16.62%) GitHub Actions
13 52 (15.16%) Datadog
14 45 (13.12%) Amazon SQS
15 40 (11.66%) Apigee
16 34 (9.91%) Amazon EC2
17 33 (9.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 30 (8.75%) Pulumi
19 29 (8.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.54%) TCP/IP
2 15 (4.37%) Firewall
3 14 (4.08%) VPN
4 13 (3.79%) DSL
5 6 (1.75%) AMQP
5 6 (1.75%) Network Security
6 5 (1.46%) DNS
6 5 (1.46%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.87%) SCCP
8 1 (0.29%) 4G
8 1 (0.29%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (30.90%) DynamoDB
2 73 (21.28%) NoSQL
3 57 (16.62%) Amazon RDS
4 38 (11.08%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (7.87%) Amazon Athena
6 26 (7.58%) Elasticsearch
7 18 (5.25%) Redis
8 13 (3.79%) SQL Server
9 11 (3.21%) MySQL
10 8 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (2.04%) Big Data
11 7 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (2.04%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.75%) Cloudera CDH
12 6 (1.75%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.17%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.17%) Flink
13 4 (1.17%) Metadata
14 2 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.58%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 133 (38.78%) GitLab
2 126 (36.73%) Jenkins
3 58 (16.91%) Git
4 45 (13.12%) SonarQube
5 43 (12.54%) Maven
6 39 (11.37%) Cypress.io
7 23 (6.71%) CircleCI
8 13 (3.79%) Bitbucket
9 12 (3.50%) Cucumber
10 8 (2.33%) TeamCity
11 7 (2.04%) JIRA
12 5 (1.46%) Robot Framework
12 5 (1.46%) Selenium
13 4 (1.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (1.17%) git-flow
13 4 (1.17%) JMeter
14 3 (0.87%) Eclipse
15 2 (0.58%) Gradle
15 2 (0.58%) TestRail
16 1 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 112 (32.65%) Social Skills
2 67 (19.53%) Finance
3 28 (8.16%) Banking
4 16 (4.66%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (3.79%) Aerospace
7 10 (2.92%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.62%) Advertising
9 7 (2.04%) Retail
10 6 (1.75%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.75%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.75%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.17%) Billing
11 4 (1.17%) Law
11 4 (1.17%) Mandarin Language
12 3 (0.87%) Aviation
12 3 (0.87%) Back Office
13 2 (0.58%) Electronics
13 2 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.58%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 96 (27.99%) Developer
2 72 (20.99%) Senior
3 69 (20.12%) Cloud Engineer
4 54 (15.74%) Java Developer
5 53 (15.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 32 (9.33%) AWS Engineer
7 30 (8.75%) Lead
8 29 (8.45%) Senior Developer
9 26 (7.58%) Platform Engineer
10 25 (7.29%) AWS Developer
11 22 (6.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 21 (6.12%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 21 (6.12%) Security Engineer
13 19 (5.54%) Architect
14 18 (5.25%) AWS DevOps
15 17 (4.96%) AWS Architect
16 15 (4.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 13 (3.79%) AWS Security Architect
17 13 (3.79%) Full-Stack Developer
17 13 (3.79%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (20.70%) AngularJS
2 65 (18.95%) Spring Boot
3 57 (16.62%) Node.js
4 55 (16.03%) AWS CDK
5 43 (12.54%) Kafka
6 40 (11.66%) React
7 39 (11.37%) Gherkin
7 39 (11.37%) Jest
8 37 (10.79%) RESTful
9 36 (10.50%) Spring
10 23 (6.71%) RabbitMQ
11 20 (5.83%) Elastic Stack
12 19 (5.54%) gRPC
13 18 (5.25%) .NET
14 17 (4.96%) Django
14 17 (4.96%) REST
14 17 (4.96%) web3js
15 14 (4.08%) Next.js
16 13 (3.79%) .NET Core
16 13 (3.79%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 103 (30.03%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.45%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (6.41%) Security Posture
4 19 (5.54%) Public Cloud
5 17 (4.96%) Blockchain
5 17 (4.96%) Web3
6 13 (3.79%) Cloud Security Posture
6 13 (3.79%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (3.79%) Product Ownership
7 12 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (3.50%) PKI
8 11 (3.21%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (2.33%) e-Learning
11 6 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.46%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (0.87%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 76 (22.16%) Linux
2 27 (7.87%) Windows
3 22 (6.41%) Unix
4 18 (5.25%) Ubuntu
5 14 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (3.79%) CentOS
7 6 (1.75%) Debian
8 5 (1.46%) VMS
8 5 (1.46%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.87%) Android
9 3 (0.87%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (74.64%) Infrastructure as Code
2 251 (73.18%) CI/CD
3 236 (68.80%) DevOps
4 158 (46.06%) Agile
5 116 (33.82%) Containerisation
6 95 (27.70%) Problem-Solving
7 76 (22.16%) Microservices
8 74 (21.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 69 (20.12%) Observability
10 67 (19.53%) Cloud Security
11 64 (18.66%) Mentoring
12 61 (17.78%) DevSecOps
13 57 (16.62%) Continuous Integration
14 50 (14.58%) Software Engineering
15 48 (13.99%) Platform Engineering
16 45 (13.12%) Test Automation
17 41 (11.95%) Clean Code
18 40 (11.66%) Collaborative Culture
18 40 (11.66%) Incident Response
19 38 (11.08%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 150 (43.73%) Python
2 122 (35.57%) Java
3 84 (24.49%) TypeScript
4 81 (23.62%) Bash
5 75 (21.87%) SQL
6 44 (12.83%) Go
7 40 (11.66%) Groovy
8 35 (10.20%) JavaScript
8 35 (10.20%) Kotlin
9 24 (7.00%) PowerShell
10 22 (6.41%) C#
11 13 (3.79%) Rust
12 10 (2.92%) C++
13 9 (2.62%) Bicep
14 8 (2.33%) Google Apps Script
15 1 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.29%) PHP
15 1 (0.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 91 (26.53%) Security Cleared
2 84 (24.49%) AWS Certification
3 48 (13.99%) SC Cleared
4 34 (9.91%) Degree
5 32 (9.33%) DV Cleared
6 29 (8.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 29 (8.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 26 (7.58%) AWS Certified Developer
8 23 (6.71%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (4.66%) OSCP
10 13 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (3.21%) Azure Certification
12 7 (2.04%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 5 (1.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (1.17%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.87%) CREST Certified
15 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
16 2 (0.58%) ISTQB
16 2 (0.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 2 (0.58%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.41%) NIST
2 17 (4.96%) PCI DSS
3 14 (4.08%) GDPR
4 9 (2.62%) QA
4 9 (2.62%) SOC 2
5 5 (1.46%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.29%) Basel III
6 1 (0.29%) HL7
6 1 (0.29%) MiFID
6 1 (0.29%) NCSC
6 1 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 188 (54.81%) Docker
2 9 (2.62%) KVM
3 8 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.75%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.29%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 242 (70.55%) Terraform
2 139 (40.52%) Kubernetes
3 71 (20.70%) Ansible
4 48 (13.99%) Grafana
5 46 (13.41%) Prometheus
6 39 (11.37%) HP Fortify
7 17 (4.96%) Argo
8 10 (2.92%) AWS Copilot
8 10 (2.92%) Docker Swarm
8 10 (2.92%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (2.33%) Istio
9 8 (2.33%) linkerd
9 8 (2.33%) Mesos
9 8 (2.33%) Puppet
10 5 (1.46%) Rancher
11 2 (0.58%) Nessus
11 2 (0.58%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.29%) Consul
12 1 (0.29%) Packer
Vendors
1 40 (11.66%) Google
2 21 (6.12%) Microsoft
3 9 (2.62%) Splunk
4 8 (2.33%) VMware
5 7 (2.04%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.04%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.17%) Oracle
6 4 (1.17%) PagerDuty
7 3 (0.87%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.87%) HubSpot
7 3 (0.87%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.87%) SolarWinds
8 2 (0.58%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (0.58%) Ping Identity
8 2 (0.58%) SAP
9 1 (0.29%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.29%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.29%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.29%) TOWER Software