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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 451 578
Rank change year-on-year +54 +127 -215
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 380 226 339
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.52% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.44% 1.54% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 207 125 274
10th Percentile £49,500 £51,600 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,131 £60,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £113,500 £112,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £69,384 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.49% +2.79% -8.47%

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 26,349 14,711 35,104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.43% 33.58% 34.04%
Number of salaries quoted 15,694 10,086 26,982
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% -11.12%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £77,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +67 356 £77,500 +3.33% 121
UK excluding London +28 192 £72,500 +4.49% 83
London +32 168 £90,000 +10.77% 50
North of England +47 131 £75,000 +8.09% 30
Work from Home -5 105 £72,500 +7.21% 82
Yorkshire +38 94 £75,000 +2.04% 12
North West +10 35 £80,000 +14.79% 17
Midlands -5 33 £51,250 -29.31% 6
East Midlands -10 18 £52,500 -27.59% 3
West Midlands -23 15 £50,000 -38.51% 3
South West -45 9 £72,500 -14.71% 16
South East -57 8 £70,000 +19.15% 13
Wales -42 4 £73,151 +27.22% 7
Scotland +3 3 £76,783 +39.60% 6
East of England -33 2 £82,500 - 2
North East -48 2 £65,576 -5.49% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £84,401 - 3

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 (5.00%) Apache
2 11 (2.89%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.05%) Confluence
4 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.79%) JBoss
6 1 (0.26%) Drupal
6 1 (0.26%) IIS
6 1 (0.26%) nginx
6 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.26%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Magento
1 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 365 (96.05%) AWS
2 207 (54.47%) Serverless
3 178 (46.84%) AWS Lambda
4 131 (34.47%) Amazon S3
5 111 (29.21%) Amazon ECS
6 95 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
7 94 (24.74%) Azure
8 86 (22.63%) GitHub
9 81 (21.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 66 (17.37%) GitHub Actions
11 60 (15.79%) Datadog
11 60 (15.79%) GCP
12 52 (13.68%) Amazon EC2
13 49 (12.89%) Amazon EKS
14 48 (12.63%) Amazon SQS
15 43 (11.32%) Amazon ECR
16 38 (10.00%) Apigee
17 37 (9.74%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 22 (5.79%) OpenShift
18 22 (5.79%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.42%) DSL
2 11 (2.89%) Firewall
2 11 (2.89%) VPN
3 10 (2.63%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.84%) DNS
5 6 (1.58%) Network Security
6 5 (1.32%) AMQP
7 3 (0.79%) HTTP
7 3 (0.79%) SCCP
7 3 (0.79%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.53%) 4G
8 2 (0.53%) 5G
9 1 (0.26%) MQTT
9 1 (0.26%) PSTN
9 1 (0.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (29.47%) DynamoDB
2 82 (21.58%) NoSQL
3 51 (13.42%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (8.95%) Amazon Athena
5 20 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (3.16%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (2.11%) Big Data
7 8 (2.11%) Redis
7 8 (2.11%) SQL Server
8 6 (1.58%) Flink
8 6 (1.58%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.32%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (1.32%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.32%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.05%) Apache Iceberg
10 4 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.05%) MySQL
11 3 (0.79%) Metadata
12 2 (0.53%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 151 (39.74%) Jenkins
2 142 (37.37%) GitLab
3 64 (16.84%) Git
4 42 (11.05%) Maven
5 38 (10.00%) Cypress.io
6 35 (9.21%) SonarQube
7 26 (6.84%) CircleCI
8 25 (6.58%) Cucumber
9 9 (2.37%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (1.58%) JIRA
10 6 (1.58%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.32%) Claude Code
11 5 (1.32%) Gradle
12 3 (0.79%) Selenium
13 2 (0.53%) JMeter
14 1 (0.26%) Eclipse
14 1 (0.26%) MLflow
14 1 (0.26%) Robot Framework
14 1 (0.26%) Vagrant
General
1 107 (28.16%) Social Skills
2 80 (21.05%) Finance
3 36 (9.47%) Banking
4 11 (2.89%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (2.63%) Advertising
5 10 (2.63%) Public Sector
6 9 (2.37%) Aerospace
6 9 (2.37%) Financial Institution
7 7 (1.84%) Investment Banking
7 7 (1.84%) Retail
8 4 (1.05%) Billing
8 4 (1.05%) Legal
8 4 (1.05%) Mandarin Language
8 4 (1.05%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.79%) Aviation
9 3 (0.79%) Back Office
9 3 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.79%) Law
10 2 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 112 (29.47%) Developer
2 72 (18.95%) Cloud Engineer
3 71 (18.68%) Senior
4 69 (18.16%) Java Developer
5 60 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
6 40 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
7 33 (8.68%) Senior Developer
8 28 (7.37%) AWS Developer
8 28 (7.37%) Platform Engineer
9 25 (6.58%) Java Engineer
10 23 (6.05%) Lead
11 21 (5.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 20 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
12 20 (5.26%) Security Engineer
13 19 (5.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 19 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
14 18 (4.74%) Architect
14 18 (4.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 18 (4.74%) Software Engineer
15 17 (4.47%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (22.37%) Spring Boot
2 80 (21.05%) AngularJS
3 66 (17.37%) Kafka
4 62 (16.32%) Node.js
5 57 (15.00%) Spring
6 52 (13.68%) AWS CDK
7 40 (10.53%) Gherkin
8 37 (9.74%) React
9 34 (8.95%) Jest
10 33 (8.68%) RESTful
11 22 (5.79%) gRPC
11 22 (5.79%) RabbitMQ
12 20 (5.26%) web3js
13 19 (5.00%) REST
14 18 (4.74%) Next.js
14 18 (4.74%) YAML
15 15 (3.95%) JSON
16 12 (3.16%) PySpark
16 12 (3.16%) Web Services
17 11 (2.89%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 117 (30.79%) Cloud Native
2 35 (9.21%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (8.42%) Public Cloud
4 21 (5.53%) Security Posture
5 20 (5.26%) Blockchain
5 20 (5.26%) e-Learning
5 20 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
5 20 (5.26%) Web3
6 15 (3.95%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (3.68%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (3.42%) Cloud Security Posture
9 10 (2.63%) PKI
10 8 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (2.11%) Product Ownership
11 7 (1.84%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
14 3 (0.79%) Mainframe
14 3 (0.79%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 71 (18.68%) Linux
2 18 (4.74%) Windows
3 13 (3.42%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.63%) CentOS
6 5 (1.32%) Debian
6 5 (1.32%) Unix
6 5 (1.32%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.79%) Android
7 3 (0.79%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.79%) VMS
8 1 (0.26%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (73.68%) Infrastructure as Code
2 262 (68.95%) CI/CD
3 219 (57.63%) DevOps
4 151 (39.74%) Agile
5 130 (34.21%) Containerisation
6 83 (21.84%) Continuous Improvement
6 83 (21.84%) Microservices
7 79 (20.79%) Observability
8 75 (19.74%) Software Engineering
9 72 (18.95%) Mentoring
9 72 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
10 71 (18.68%) DevSecOps
11 67 (17.63%) Test Automation
12 66 (17.37%) Cloud Security
13 64 (16.84%) Continuous Integration
14 57 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
15 54 (14.21%) Event-Driven
16 45 (11.84%) Full-Stack Development
17 44 (11.58%) Collaborative Culture
18 42 (11.05%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 169 (44.47%) Python
2 147 (38.68%) Java
3 95 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 89 (23.42%) SQL
5 67 (17.63%) Bash
6 54 (14.21%) Groovy
7 47 (12.37%) Go
8 40 (10.53%) Kotlin
9 33 (8.68%) JavaScript
10 26 (6.84%) PowerShell
11 16 (4.21%) C#
12 13 (3.42%) Bicep
12 13 (3.42%) Rust
13 9 (2.37%) C++
14 6 (1.58%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (1.05%) Ruby
16 2 (0.53%) PHP
17 1 (0.26%) COBOL
17 1 (0.26%) Natural
17 1 (0.26%) Perl
Qualifications
1 90 (23.68%) Security Cleared
2 82 (21.58%) AWS Certification
3 54 (14.21%) SC Cleared
4 39 (10.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 33 (8.68%) Degree
6 28 (7.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (6.32%) ITIL Certification
8 22 (5.79%) DV Cleared
9 16 (4.21%) OSCP
10 13 (3.42%) AWS Certified Developer
11 9 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (2.11%) Azure Certification
13 7 (1.84%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 6 (1.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 5 (1.32%) Master's Degree
16 4 (1.05%) Postgraduate
17 3 (0.79%) CREST Certified
17 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
18 2 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
19 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.53%) NIST
2 16 (4.21%) PCI DSS
3 13 (3.42%) GDPR
4 10 (2.63%) SOC 2
5 7 (1.84%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.53%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.53%) NCSC
7 2 (0.53%) QA
8 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.26%) HL7
8 1 (0.26%) SLA
8 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 182 (47.89%) Docker
2 6 (1.58%) KVM
2 6 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 252 (66.32%) Terraform
2 147 (38.68%) Kubernetes
3 63 (16.58%) Ansible
4 44 (11.58%) Prometheus
5 39 (10.26%) Grafana
6 33 (8.68%) HP Fortify
7 15 (3.95%) Argo
8 14 (3.68%) Progress Chef
9 8 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (1.84%) Docker Swarm
10 7 (1.84%) Puppet
11 6 (1.58%) Istio
11 6 (1.58%) linkerd
11 6 (1.58%) Mesos
12 5 (1.32%) AWS Copilot
13 3 (0.79%) Rancher
14 2 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
15 1 (0.26%) Consul
15 1 (0.26%) Packer
Vendors
1 26 (6.84%) Google
2 15 (3.95%) Microsoft
3 8 (2.11%) Oracle
4 7 (1.84%) HubSpot
5 6 (1.58%) Red Hat
5 6 (1.58%) VMware
6 5 (1.32%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.05%) Databricks
7 4 (1.05%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.05%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.05%) Splunk
8 2 (0.53%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (0.53%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.26%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.26%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.26%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.26%) OneLogin
9 1 (0.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.26%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.26%) TOWER Software