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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 446 583
Rank change year-on-year +69 +137 -205
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 462 237 305
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.48% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.71% 1.49% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 243 136 245
10th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £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 £91,375 £97,500
90th Percentile £109,750 £111,250 £112,500
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 27,094 15,957 31,727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.13% 32.35% 32.99%
Number of salaries quoted 17,745 11,119 23,949
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +2.56% -6.40%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,482 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 +76 418 £80,000 +6.67% 77
London +65 223 £90,000 +15.02% 34
UK excluding London +17 217 £72,500 +4.49% 69
North of England +66 131 £75,000 +8.09% 23
Work from Home -30 109 £75,000 +8.09% 61
Yorkshire +48 84 £75,000 +5.63% 5
North West +13 43 £74,301 +7.09% 9
Midlands -11 26 £62,000 -4.62% 7
Wales -36 23 £72,500 +20.83% 5
East Midlands -3 18 £52,500 - 2
South East -31 18 £70,000 -15.15% 14
South West -54 12 £67,500 -25.00% 11
West Midlands -18 8 £62,250 -4.23% 5
Scotland +10 4 £71,991 +30.89% 3
North East -44 4 £50,000 -27.94% 9
East of England -31 2 £82,500 +10.00%
Northern Ireland - 1 £73,801 - 6

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 19 (4.11%) Apache
2 10 (2.16%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.73%) Confluence
4 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.65%) JBoss
6 1 (0.22%) Drupal
6 1 (0.22%) IIS
6 1 (0.22%) nginx
6 1 (0.22%) SAS
6 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.87%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.43%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.30%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.65%) Summit
3 1 (0.22%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 443 (95.89%) AWS
2 238 (51.52%) Serverless
3 191 (41.34%) AWS Lambda
4 134 (29.00%) Amazon ECS
4 134 (29.00%) Amazon S3
5 112 (24.24%) Azure
6 98 (21.21%) GitHub
7 82 (17.75%) AWS Step Functions
8 80 (17.32%) GCP
9 73 (15.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 72 (15.58%) GitHub Actions
11 66 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
12 60 (12.99%) Cloud Computing
13 59 (12.77%) Datadog
14 58 (12.55%) Amazon EC2
15 47 (10.17%) Amazon SQS
16 38 (8.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 37 (8.01%) Amazon ECR
18 31 (6.71%) Apigee
19 30 (6.49%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.55%) Network Security
2 18 (3.90%) VPN
3 14 (3.03%) TCP/IP
4 13 (2.81%) Firewall
5 10 (2.16%) DNS
6 9 (1.95%) DSL
7 4 (0.87%) AMQP
7 4 (0.87%) HTTP
8 3 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.43%) 4G
9 2 (0.43%) 5G
9 2 (0.43%) MQTT
10 1 (0.22%) DHCP
10 1 (0.22%) DNSSEC
10 1 (0.22%) Internet
10 1 (0.22%) PSTN
10 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (21.43%) DynamoDB
2 84 (18.18%) NoSQL
3 54 (11.69%) Amazon RDS
4 35 (7.58%) Amazon Athena
5 22 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (2.16%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (1.95%) MongoDB
8 9 (1.95%) Redis
9 8 (1.73%) MySQL
10 7 (1.52%) Big Data
11 6 (1.30%) Flink
12 5 (1.08%) Data Lake
12 5 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.08%) Hadoop
12 5 (1.08%) SQL Server
13 4 (0.87%) Apache Iceberg
13 4 (0.87%) Cloudera CDH
13 4 (0.87%) Metadata
13 4 (0.87%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 143 (30.95%) Jenkins
2 137 (29.65%) GitLab
3 65 (14.07%) Git
4 35 (7.58%) Maven
5 31 (6.71%) Cucumber
5 31 (6.71%) Cypress.io
6 27 (5.84%) SonarQube
7 24 (5.19%) CircleCI
8 10 (2.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 10 (2.16%) JIRA
9 9 (1.95%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.52%) Claude Code
11 5 (1.08%) Gradle
11 5 (1.08%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.65%) Selenium
13 1 (0.22%) git-flow
13 1 (0.22%) JMeter
13 1 (0.22%) MLflow
13 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (0.22%) Vagrant
General
1 126 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 114 (24.68%) Finance
3 52 (11.26%) Public Sector
4 38 (8.23%) Banking
5 19 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (2.38%) Aerospace
7 11 (2.38%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.30%) Advertising
8 6 (1.30%) Legal
9 5 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.08%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.08%) Law
9 5 (1.08%) Military
10 4 (0.87%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (0.87%) Retail
10 4 (0.87%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.65%) Automotive
11 3 (0.65%) Back Office
11 3 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 110 (23.81%) Developer
2 109 (23.59%) Senior
3 77 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 68 (14.72%) Java Developer
5 67 (14.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 47 (10.17%) AWS Engineer
7 40 (8.66%) Lead
8 39 (8.44%) Consultant
9 32 (6.93%) Senior Consultant
10 31 (6.71%) Java Engineer
10 31 (6.71%) Platform Engineer
11 29 (6.28%) Architect
12 27 (5.84%) Full-Stack Developer
13 25 (5.41%) AWS Developer
13 25 (5.41%) Senior Developer
14 24 (5.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 21 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
15 21 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
16 20 (4.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 19 (4.11%) Professional Services Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (22.94%) Spring Boot
2 81 (17.53%) Kafka
3 78 (16.88%) Spring
4 76 (16.45%) Node.js
5 75 (16.23%) AngularJS
6 63 (13.64%) AWS CDK
7 38 (8.23%) React
8 35 (7.58%) Gherkin
9 31 (6.71%) RESTful
10 27 (5.84%) Jest
10 27 (5.84%) REST
11 25 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
12 20 (4.33%) gRPC
13 19 (4.11%) Web Services
14 18 (3.90%) YAML
15 17 (3.68%) web3js
16 16 (3.46%) JSON
17 15 (3.25%) Next.js
18 13 (2.81%) Elastic Stack
18 13 (2.81%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 162 (35.06%) Cloud Native
2 59 (12.77%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (10.61%) Onboarding
4 41 (8.87%) Enterprise Cloud
5 40 (8.66%) Public Cloud
6 26 (5.63%) e-Learning
6 26 (5.63%) Enterprise Software
6 26 (5.63%) Mainframe
7 23 (4.98%) Legacy Systems
8 22 (4.76%) Data Centre
9 18 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (3.68%) Blockchain
10 17 (3.68%) Web3
11 15 (3.25%) Greenfield Project
11 15 (3.25%) Security Posture
12 13 (2.81%) Distributed Computing
13 12 (2.60%) Cloud Security Posture
14 10 (2.16%) Linux Command Line
14 10 (2.16%) Product Ownership
15 7 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 71 (15.37%) Linux
2 20 (4.33%) Windows
3 11 (2.38%) Ubuntu
4 9 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.73%) CentOS
6 7 (1.52%) Unix
7 5 (1.08%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.87%) Debian
9 3 (0.65%) Android
9 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.65%) VMS
10 1 (0.22%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (71.65%) Infrastructure as Code
2 294 (63.64%) CI/CD
3 233 (50.43%) DevOps
4 184 (39.83%) Agile
5 158 (34.20%) Containerisation
6 120 (25.97%) Mentoring
7 106 (22.94%) Observability
8 100 (21.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 98 (21.21%) Microservices
10 97 (21.00%) Software Engineering
11 88 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
12 87 (18.83%) Event-Driven
13 85 (18.40%) Cloud Security
14 82 (17.75%) Test Automation
15 73 (15.80%) Platform Engineering
16 66 (14.29%) AI
16 66 (14.29%) DevSecOps
17 64 (13.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 61 (13.20%) Continuous Integration
19 52 (11.26%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 214 (46.32%) Python
2 178 (38.53%) Java
3 94 (20.35%) SQL
4 87 (18.83%) TypeScript
5 81 (17.53%) Bash
6 51 (11.04%) Groovy
7 44 (9.52%) Go
8 37 (8.01%) Kotlin
9 31 (6.71%) PowerShell
10 30 (6.49%) JavaScript
11 28 (6.06%) Ruby
12 27 (5.84%) Bicep
13 16 (3.46%) PHP
14 15 (3.25%) Perl
15 14 (3.03%) C#
16 10 (2.16%) C++
17 9 (1.95%) Rust
18 6 (1.30%) COBOL
19 5 (1.08%) Google Apps Script
20 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 140 (30.30%) Security Cleared
2 113 (24.46%) AWS Certification
3 73 (15.80%) SC Cleared
4 71 (15.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 46 (9.96%) Degree
6 25 (5.41%) DV Cleared
7 24 (5.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 21 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
9 17 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (2.81%) Master's Degree
11 12 (2.60%) OSCP
12 9 (1.95%) AWS Certified Developer
12 9 (1.95%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (1.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (1.52%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.87%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.65%) CREST Certified
16 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 2 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
16 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.55%) PCI DSS
2 19 (4.11%) GDPR
2 19 (4.11%) NIST
3 13 (2.81%) SOC 2
4 10 (2.16%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.16%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.52%) NCSC
6 6 (1.30%) Government Security Classifications
6 6 (1.30%) WCAG
7 5 (1.08%) QA
8 4 (0.87%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.22%) HL7
9 1 (0.22%) SLA
9 1 (0.22%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 200 (43.29%) Docker
2 5 (1.08%) KVM
2 5 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.87%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 317 (68.61%) Terraform
2 183 (39.61%) Kubernetes
3 73 (15.80%) Ansible
4 54 (11.69%) Prometheus
5 51 (11.04%) Grafana
6 37 (8.01%) Progress Chef
7 26 (5.63%) HP Fortify
7 26 (5.63%) Puppet
8 18 (3.90%) Argo
9 7 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (1.30%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (1.08%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (1.08%) Istio
11 5 (1.08%) linkerd
11 5 (1.08%) Mesos
12 2 (0.43%) Rancher
12 2 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.22%) Consul
13 1 (0.22%) logstash
13 1 (0.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 34 (7.36%) Google
2 19 (4.11%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.60%) Oracle
4 10 (2.16%) Splunk
5 8 (1.73%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.52%) HubSpot
7 5 (1.08%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.08%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.08%) VMware
8 4 (0.87%) Avaya
8 4 (0.87%) Cisco
8 4 (0.87%) Databricks
8 4 (0.87%) Genesys
8 4 (0.87%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.43%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.43%) Tenable
10 1 (0.22%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (0.22%) OneLogin
10 1 (0.22%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.22%) ServiceNow