AWS CloudFormation Jobs

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited AWS CloudFormation over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 509 578 374
Rank change year-on-year +69 -204 -79
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 237 336 722
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.33% 0.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.43% 1.01% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 136 252 522
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £73,250 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% -5.48% +3.33%
75th Percentile £91,375 £97,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £112,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,384 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.79% -3.57% +12.00%

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 16,582 33,341 35,675
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.57% 33.20% 42.11%
Number of salaries quoted 11,096 24,579 26,012
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £80,250 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £101,830 £97,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS CloudFormation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS CloudFormation in the UK

AWS CloudFormation
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS CloudFormation.

Salary trend for AWS CloudFormation in the UK

AWS CloudFormation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS CloudFormation in the UK

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 17 July 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 +55 219 £75,000 +3.45% 206
Work from Home +76 127 £69,384 -7.49% 114
London +95 114 £78,250 -17.63% 128
UK excluding London +57 107 £69,384 +2.79% 91
North of England +30 35 £69,384 +10.51% 26
South East +66 28 £82,500 +22.22% 19
North West -7 23 £69,384 +2.79% 17
East of England +34 16 £75,000 +7.14% 4
Midlands +39 9 £65,000 -10.34% 10
Yorkshire +32 9 £71,000 +35.24% 8
Scotland +95 8 £55,000 -26.67% 6
West Midlands +39 8 £65,000 -10.34% 8
South West +61 6 £90,000 +56.52% 21
Wales +31 5 £60,000 -7.69%
North East +35 3 £69,384 -0.88% 1
East Midlands +27 1 - - 1

AWS CloudFormation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (4.22%) Apache Spark
1 10 (4.22%) Confluence
2 5 (2.11%) Apache
3 4 (1.69%) nginx
4 3 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.84%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (0.84%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.84%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 227 (95.78%) AWS
2 111 (46.84%) Azure
3 90 (37.97%) Amazon EKS
4 82 (34.60%) Serverless
5 77 (32.49%) AWS Lambda
6 47 (19.83%) Amazon S3
7 42 (17.72%) Amazon EC2
8 41 (17.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 41 (17.30%) GCP
9 32 (13.50%) Amazon ECS
10 30 (12.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 27 (11.39%) Cloud Computing
12 23 (9.70%) GitHub
13 22 (9.28%) Pulumi
14 19 (8.02%) AWS CodeBuild
15 17 (7.17%) Datadog
16 16 (6.75%) AWS KMS
17 13 (5.49%) GitHub Actions
18 12 (5.06%) AWS Step Functions
18 12 (5.06%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.59%) Network Security
2 15 (6.33%) Firewall
3 12 (5.06%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.95%) DNS
4 7 (2.95%) VPN
5 4 (1.69%) Internet
6 3 (1.27%) NAS
6 3 (1.27%) SAN
6 3 (1.27%) SNMP
6 3 (1.27%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.84%) BGP
7 2 (0.84%) LAN
7 2 (0.84%) SSL
7 2 (0.84%) WAN
8 1 (0.42%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.42%) IPsec
8 1 (0.42%) OSPF
8 1 (0.42%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (27.00%) Elasticsearch
2 46 (19.41%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (7.17%) DynamoDB
3 17 (7.17%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (6.75%) NoSQL
5 15 (6.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (5.49%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (5.06%) Redis
8 10 (4.22%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (3.80%) Big Data
10 5 (2.11%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.27%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.27%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.27%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.84%) Flink
12 2 (0.84%) MySQL
12 2 (0.84%) SQL Server
13 1 (0.42%) InfluxDB
13 1 (0.42%) Presto
13 1 (0.42%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 51 (21.52%) Jenkins
2 35 (14.77%) GitLab
3 20 (8.44%) CircleCI
4 15 (6.33%) Git
4 15 (6.33%) JIRA
5 12 (5.06%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.69%) Spinnaker
7 2 (0.84%) Checkstyle
7 2 (0.84%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.84%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.42%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.42%) Gradle
8 1 (0.42%) Maven
8 1 (0.42%) TestRail
8 1 (0.42%) Vagrant
General
1 72 (30.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 67 (28.27%) Social Skills
3 54 (22.78%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (20.68%) Finance
5 17 (7.17%) Banking
6 8 (3.38%) Advertising
6 8 (3.38%) Law
6 8 (3.38%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.95%) Marketing
8 4 (1.69%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.84%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.84%) Local Government
9 2 (0.84%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.42%) Aviation
10 1 (0.42%) Electronics
10 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.42%) Military
10 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (29.11%) Developer
2 62 (26.16%) Senior
3 49 (20.68%) Software Developer
4 44 (18.57%) AWS Engineer
5 38 (16.03%) DevOps Engineer
6 31 (13.08%) Architect
7 25 (10.55%) Cloud Engineer
8 21 (8.86%) Lead
8 21 (8.86%) Platform Engineer
9 19 (8.02%) Cloud Architect
10 18 (7.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 17 (7.17%) AWS DevOps
12 16 (6.75%) AWS Architect
12 16 (6.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 16 (6.75%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 15 (6.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 15 (6.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 15 (6.33%) Senior DevOps
13 15 (6.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 12 (5.06%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (22.36%) Node.js
2 52 (21.94%) .NET
3 50 (21.10%) Pandas
4 35 (14.77%) Kafka
5 30 (12.66%) Elastic Stack
6 21 (8.86%) AWS CDK
7 13 (5.49%) RESTful
8 12 (5.06%) Django
9 9 (3.80%) gRPC
9 9 (3.80%) RabbitMQ
9 9 (3.80%) REST
9 9 (3.80%) Web Services
9 9 (3.80%) web3js
10 8 (3.38%) Loki
11 7 (2.95%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.53%) SAML
13 5 (2.11%) Laravel
13 5 (2.11%) OAuth
13 5 (2.11%) SOAP
13 5 (2.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 49 (20.68%) Cyberattack
2 34 (14.35%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.06%) Management Information System
4 11 (4.64%) Public Cloud
5 10 (4.22%) Blockchain
6 9 (3.80%) Web3
7 5 (2.11%) CMDB
7 5 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.69%) IVR
8 4 (1.69%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.27%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.27%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.27%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.84%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.84%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 89 (37.55%) Linux
2 49 (20.68%) Android
3 17 (7.17%) Unix
4 5 (2.11%) Debian
4 5 (2.11%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.11%) Windows
5 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (77.64%) CI/CD
2 146 (61.60%) Infrastructure as Code
3 133 (56.12%) Containerisation
4 132 (55.70%) DevOps
5 85 (35.86%) Software Engineering
6 82 (34.60%) Agile
7 62 (26.16%) Design Patterns
8 55 (23.21%) Collaborative Working
9 54 (22.78%) Kanban
10 52 (21.94%) Mathematics
10 52 (21.94%) OO
10 52 (21.94%) Secure Coding
11 51 (21.52%) OOP
12 50 (21.10%) OWASP
13 49 (20.68%) Android Development
13 49 (20.68%) Line Management
13 49 (20.68%) Statistics
14 48 (20.25%) Microservices
15 45 (18.99%) Observability
16 43 (18.14%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 162 (68.35%) Python
2 84 (35.44%) Go
3 80 (33.76%) Java
4 70 (29.54%) JavaScript
5 50 (21.10%) Bash
5 50 (21.10%) Rust
6 49 (20.68%) C++
7 20 (8.44%) SQL
8 13 (5.49%) TypeScript
9 12 (5.06%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.53%) Bicep
10 6 (2.53%) C#
10 6 (2.53%) Scala
11 5 (2.11%) PHP
12 3 (1.27%) Groovy
13 1 (0.42%) R
13 1 (0.42%) Ruby
13 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 92 (38.82%) Security Cleared
2 52 (21.94%) DV Cleared
3 35 (14.77%) SC Cleared
4 29 (12.24%) AWS Certification
5 26 (10.97%) Degree
6 20 (8.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 16 (6.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.69%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.84%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.42%) CCNP
10 1 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.42%) PhD
10 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.44%) GDPR
2 15 (6.33%) HIPAA
3 10 (4.22%) QA
4 4 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.27%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.84%) NIST
6 2 (0.84%) SLA
7 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 142 (59.92%) Docker
2 4 (1.69%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.27%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.84%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 204 (86.08%) Terraform
2 133 (56.12%) Kubernetes
3 101 (42.62%) Ansible
4 58 (24.47%) Grafana
5 51 (21.52%) Prometheus
6 11 (4.64%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (2.11%) Puppet
8 4 (1.69%) Istio
9 3 (1.27%) Argo
9 3 (1.27%) HAProxy
9 3 (1.27%) Kibana
9 3 (1.27%) linkerd
9 3 (1.27%) logstash
9 3 (1.27%) Salt
9 3 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.84%) Consul
10 2 (0.84%) Packer
10 2 (0.84%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.42%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.42%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 22 (9.28%) Google
2 16 (6.75%) Splunk
3 15 (6.33%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.38%) Hitachi
5 5 (2.11%) Databricks
5 5 (2.11%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.69%) VMware
7 3 (1.27%) Citrix
7 3 (1.27%) F5
7 3 (1.27%) Okta
8 2 (0.84%) Informatica
8 2 (0.84%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (0.84%) OneLogin
8 2 (0.84%) Rapid7
8 2 (0.84%) SimCorp
8 2 (0.84%) Talend
9 1 (0.42%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.42%) Foundry
9 1 (0.42%) Imperva
9 1 (0.42%) SolarWinds