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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 427 574
Rank change year-on-year +17 +147 -225
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 376 232 335
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.55% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.38% 1.63% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 205 133 273
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,677 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.90% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,151 £69,384 £67,500
% change year-on-year +5.43% +2.79% -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 27,210 14,221 34,596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.27% 33.46% 34.88%
Number of salaries quoted 15,565 9,782 26,784
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.44% +7.38% -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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +48 353 £77,500 +3.33% 93
UK excluding London +25 190 £73,151 +5.43% 64
London +29 165 £90,000 +9.09% 39
North of England +71 131 £75,000 +7.14% 24
Work from Home -9 102 £72,500 +7.21% 63
Yorkshire +42 94 £75,000 +2.04% 11
North West +3 35 £80,000 +12.28% 11
Midlands -5 32 £51,250 -29.31% 8
East Midlands -19 17 £52,500 -27.59% 4
West Midlands -25 15 £50,000 -38.51% 4
South East -33 9 £70,000 +27.27% 11
South West -54 9 £72,500 -14.71% 12
Scotland -7 3 £76,783 +39.60% 5
Northern Ireland - 3 £95,000 - 2
North East -39 2 £65,576 -5.49% 2
East of England -40 2 £82,500 -2.94%
Wales -44 1 £73,801 +23.00% 2

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 (5.32%) Apache
2 10 (2.66%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.80%) Confluence
4 3 (0.80%) JBoss
5 1 (0.27%) Drupal
5 1 (0.27%) IIS
5 1 (0.27%) nginx
5 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.27%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 360 (95.74%) AWS
2 205 (54.52%) Serverless
3 178 (47.34%) AWS Lambda
4 132 (35.11%) Amazon S3
5 109 (28.99%) Amazon ECS
6 98 (26.06%) Azure
7 96 (25.53%) AWS Step Functions
8 83 (22.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 83 (22.07%) GitHub
9 64 (17.02%) GitHub Actions
10 62 (16.49%) GCP
11 60 (15.96%) Datadog
12 51 (13.56%) Amazon EKS
13 50 (13.30%) Amazon EC2
14 49 (13.03%) Amazon SQS
15 45 (11.97%) Amazon ECR
16 40 (10.64%) Apigee
17 36 (9.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 25 (6.65%) OpenShift
19 22 (5.85%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.46%) DSL
2 12 (3.19%) Firewall
2 12 (3.19%) VPN
3 10 (2.66%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.86%) DNS
4 7 (1.86%) Network Security
5 5 (1.33%) AMQP
6 4 (1.06%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.80%) HTTP
7 3 (0.80%) SCCP
8 2 (0.53%) 4G
8 2 (0.53%) 5G
9 1 (0.27%) MQTT
9 1 (0.27%) PSTN
9 1 (0.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (31.12%) DynamoDB
2 83 (22.07%) NoSQL
3 51 (13.56%) Amazon RDS
4 32 (8.51%) Amazon Athena
5 24 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (3.46%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (2.93%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.13%) Redis
9 7 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.86%) Big Data
10 6 (1.60%) Flink
10 6 (1.60%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.33%) Cloudera CDH
11 5 (1.33%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.33%) MySQL
12 4 (1.06%) Apache Iceberg
12 4 (1.06%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.80%) Metadata
14 2 (0.53%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 150 (39.89%) Jenkins
2 144 (38.30%) GitLab
3 69 (18.35%) Git
4 44 (11.70%) Maven
5 40 (10.64%) Cypress.io
6 37 (9.84%) SonarQube
7 27 (7.18%) CircleCI
8 22 (5.85%) Cucumber
9 10 (2.66%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.86%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (1.33%) Claude Code
11 5 (1.33%) Gradle
11 5 (1.33%) JIRA
12 3 (0.80%) Selenium
13 2 (0.53%) JMeter
14 1 (0.27%) Gatling
14 1 (0.27%) git-flow
14 1 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
14 1 (0.27%) Vagrant
General
1 111 (29.52%) Social Skills
2 79 (21.01%) Finance
3 36 (9.57%) Banking
4 11 (2.93%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (2.66%) Advertising
5 10 (2.66%) Aerospace
6 8 (2.13%) Financial Institution
7 7 (1.86%) Investment Banking
7 7 (1.86%) Public Sector
7 7 (1.86%) Retail
8 4 (1.06%) Billing
8 4 (1.06%) Legal
8 4 (1.06%) Mandarin Language
8 4 (1.06%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.80%) Aviation
9 3 (0.80%) Back Office
9 3 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.80%) Law
10 2 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 115 (30.59%) Developer
2 74 (19.68%) Cloud Engineer
3 69 (18.35%) Senior
4 67 (17.82%) Java Developer
5 61 (16.22%) DevOps Engineer
6 41 (10.90%) AWS Engineer
7 33 (8.78%) Senior Developer
8 29 (7.71%) AWS Developer
9 25 (6.65%) Platform Engineer
10 24 (6.38%) Lead
11 22 (5.85%) Java Engineer
12 21 (5.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 21 (5.59%) Security Engineer
13 20 (5.32%) AWS DevOps
13 20 (5.32%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 18 (4.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 18 (4.79%) Full-Stack Developer
14 18 (4.79%) Software Engineer
15 16 (4.26%) Architect
15 16 (4.26%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (21.28%) AngularJS
2 79 (21.01%) Spring Boot
3 62 (16.49%) Kafka
4 59 (15.69%) Node.js
5 51 (13.56%) AWS CDK
5 51 (13.56%) Spring
6 41 (10.90%) Gherkin
7 39 (10.37%) RESTful
8 38 (10.11%) React
9 36 (9.57%) Jest
10 23 (6.12%) gRPC
10 23 (6.12%) RabbitMQ
11 21 (5.59%) web3js
12 19 (5.05%) REST
13 18 (4.79%) Next.js
13 18 (4.79%) YAML
14 15 (3.99%) JSON
15 11 (2.93%) Elastic Stack
16 10 (2.66%) .NET
16 10 (2.66%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 114 (30.32%) Cloud Native
2 33 (8.78%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (8.24%) Public Cloud
4 21 (5.59%) Blockchain
4 21 (5.59%) Security Posture
4 21 (5.59%) Web3
5 18 (4.79%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (4.52%) e-Learning
7 14 (3.72%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (3.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (3.46%) Cloud Security Posture
9 11 (2.93%) PKI
10 8 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (2.13%) Product Ownership
11 7 (1.86%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
14 3 (0.80%) Cyber Defence
14 3 (0.80%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 73 (19.41%) Linux
2 20 (5.32%) Windows
3 14 (3.72%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.66%) CentOS
6 5 (1.33%) Debian
6 5 (1.33%) Unix
6 5 (1.33%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.06%) VMS
8 3 (0.80%) Android
8 3 (0.80%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (73.40%) Infrastructure as Code
2 258 (68.62%) CI/CD
3 224 (59.57%) DevOps
4 151 (40.16%) Agile
5 132 (35.11%) Containerisation
6 85 (22.61%) Microservices
7 80 (21.28%) Continuous Improvement
8 77 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
9 75 (19.95%) Observability
10 72 (19.15%) DevSecOps
10 72 (19.15%) Software Engineering
11 71 (18.88%) Mentoring
12 67 (17.82%) Cloud Security
13 63 (16.76%) Continuous Integration
13 63 (16.76%) Test Automation
14 54 (14.36%) Platform Engineering
15 49 (13.03%) Event-Driven
16 45 (11.97%) Collaborative Culture
17 43 (11.44%) Full-Stack Development
18 42 (11.17%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 167 (44.41%) Python
2 143 (38.03%) Java
3 96 (25.53%) TypeScript
4 86 (22.87%) SQL
5 69 (18.35%) Bash
6 52 (13.83%) Groovy
7 48 (12.77%) Go
8 40 (10.64%) Kotlin
9 35 (9.31%) JavaScript
10 26 (6.91%) PowerShell
11 18 (4.79%) C#
12 13 (3.46%) Rust
13 12 (3.19%) Bicep
14 10 (2.66%) C++
15 7 (1.86%) Google Apps Script
16 2 (0.53%) PHP
17 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 1 (0.27%) Perl
17 1 (0.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 87 (23.14%) Security Cleared
2 80 (21.28%) AWS Certification
3 49 (13.03%) SC Cleared
4 34 (9.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 32 (8.51%) Degree
6 28 (7.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (6.38%) ITIL Certification
8 23 (6.12%) DV Cleared
9 17 (4.52%) AWS Certified Developer
10 16 (4.26%) OSCP
11 9 (2.39%) Azure Certification
11 9 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (1.86%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 5 (1.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (1.06%) Master's Degree
14 4 (1.06%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.80%) CREST Certified
15 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
16 1 (0.27%) CompTIA Security+
16 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.59%) NIST
2 16 (4.26%) PCI DSS
3 12 (3.19%) GDPR
4 10 (2.66%) SOC 2
5 7 (1.86%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.80%) QA
8 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.27%) HL7
8 1 (0.27%) NCSC
8 1 (0.27%) SLA
8 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 187 (49.73%) Docker
2 7 (1.86%) KVM
2 7 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 253 (67.29%) Terraform
2 150 (39.89%) Kubernetes
3 65 (17.29%) Ansible
4 46 (12.23%) Prometheus
5 41 (10.90%) Grafana
6 35 (9.31%) HP Fortify
7 16 (4.26%) Argo
8 11 (2.93%) Progress Chef
9 9 (2.39%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (2.13%) Docker Swarm
11 7 (1.86%) Istio
11 7 (1.86%) linkerd
11 7 (1.86%) Mesos
11 7 (1.86%) Puppet
12 5 (1.33%) AWS Copilot
13 4 (1.06%) Rancher
14 2 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
15 1 (0.27%) Consul
15 1 (0.27%) Packer
Vendors
1 27 (7.18%) Google
2 16 (4.26%) Microsoft
3 7 (1.86%) HubSpot
3 7 (1.86%) VMware
4 6 (1.60%) Oracle
4 6 (1.60%) Red Hat
5 5 (1.33%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.06%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.06%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.80%) Databricks
7 3 (0.80%) Splunk
8 2 (0.53%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (0.53%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.27%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.27%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.27%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.27%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.27%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.27%) Tenable