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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 392 521
Rank change year-on-year +10 +129 -176
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 338 253 342
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.62% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.35% 1.67% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 206 201 270
10th Percentile £55,625 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £63,630 £62,500
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 £107,125 £122,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,801 £69,308 £67,500
% change year-on-year +6.48% +2.68% -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 25,022 15,116 32,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.25% 37.24% 37.24%
Number of salaries quoted 13,251 10,963 26,251
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,580 £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 £81,250 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,058 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.17% +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 27 March 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 March 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 +6 291 £77,500 -7.46% 102
UK excluding London +27 177 £73,801 +6.48% 73
London -11 134 £85,000 -12.82% 47
Work from Home -4 112 £72,500 +4.03% 54
North of England +24 106 £73,801 +6.48% 33
Yorkshire +14 74 £72,500 -3.33% 8
North West -19 28 £79,000 +14.03% 16
Midlands -22 22 £50,000 -26.97% 4
West Midlands -1 14 £50,000 -27.86% 3
South East -44 14 £70,000 +16.67% 13
South West -32 11 £70,000 +21.74% 13
Wales -21 8 £71,379 +9.08% 2
Scotland -26 8 £73,801 +6.48% 3
East Midlands -47 8 £75,000 +15.38% 1
Northern Ireland -33 7 £95,000 +37.07%
North East -31 4 £73,801 +6.37% 9
East of England -21 1 £75,000 -11.76% 5

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 (5.62%) Apache
2 8 (2.37%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.89%) JBoss
5 2 (0.59%) Confluence
5 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.59%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.59%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.59%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.30%) Drupal
6 1 (0.30%) IIS
6 1 (0.30%) nginx
6 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 322 (95.27%) AWS
2 193 (57.10%) Serverless
3 169 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
4 143 (42.31%) Azure
5 129 (38.17%) Amazon S3
6 112 (33.14%) Amazon ECS
7 86 (25.44%) GCP
8 85 (25.15%) GitHub
9 83 (24.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 82 (24.26%) AWS Step Functions
11 66 (19.53%) Amazon ECR
12 65 (19.23%) GitHub Actions
13 59 (17.46%) Amazon EKS
14 46 (13.61%) Datadog
15 44 (13.02%) Amazon SQS
16 41 (12.13%) Amazon EC2
17 39 (11.54%) Apigee
18 38 (11.24%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 38 (11.24%) Pulumi
19 28 (8.28%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 27 (7.99%) TCP/IP
2 15 (4.44%) Firewall
3 13 (3.85%) DSL
3 13 (3.85%) VPN
4 7 (2.07%) Network Security
5 5 (1.48%) AMQP
5 5 (1.48%) DNS
5 5 (1.48%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.89%) SCCP
7 2 (0.59%) SSL
8 1 (0.30%) 4G
8 1 (0.30%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (29.29%) DynamoDB
2 72 (21.30%) NoSQL
3 70 (20.71%) Amazon RDS
4 47 (13.91%) PostgreSQL
5 31 (9.17%) Elasticsearch
6 26 (7.69%) Redis
7 24 (7.10%) Amazon Athena
8 15 (4.44%) SQL Server
9 12 (3.55%) MySQL
10 9 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (2.37%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.78%) Big Data
12 6 (1.78%) MongoDB
13 5 (1.48%) Cloudera CDH
13 5 (1.48%) Hadoop
14 4 (1.18%) Data Lake
15 3 (0.89%) Metadata
16 2 (0.59%) Amazon Aurora
16 2 (0.59%) Apache Iceberg
16 2 (0.59%) DB2
Development Applications
1 133 (39.35%) GitLab
2 129 (38.17%) Jenkins
3 59 (17.46%) Git
4 44 (13.02%) SonarQube
5 40 (11.83%) Maven
6 38 (11.24%) Cypress.io
7 23 (6.80%) CircleCI
8 12 (3.55%) Bitbucket
8 12 (3.55%) Cucumber
9 7 (2.07%) JIRA
9 7 (2.07%) TeamCity
10 6 (1.78%) git-flow
11 5 (1.48%) Robot Framework
11 5 (1.48%) Selenium
12 4 (1.18%) JMeter
13 3 (0.89%) Eclipse
14 2 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 2 (0.59%) TestRail
15 1 (0.30%) MLflow
15 1 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 105 (31.07%) Social Skills
2 65 (19.23%) Finance
3 28 (8.28%) Banking
4 19 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (3.25%) Aerospace
7 9 (2.66%) Advertising
8 8 (2.37%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.07%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.78%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.48%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.48%) Retail
12 4 (1.18%) Billing
13 3 (0.89%) Aviation
14 2 (0.59%) Games
14 2 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.59%) Law
14 2 (0.59%) Mandarin Language
14 2 (0.59%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 87 (25.74%) Developer
2 74 (21.89%) Senior
3 68 (20.12%) Cloud Engineer
4 58 (17.16%) DevOps Engineer
5 46 (13.61%) Java Developer
6 35 (10.36%) Platform Engineer
7 33 (9.76%) AWS Engineer
8 30 (8.88%) Lead
9 26 (7.69%) Senior Developer
10 23 (6.80%) AWS Developer
11 21 (6.21%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 21 (6.21%) Security Engineer
12 20 (5.92%) Architect
13 19 (5.62%) AWS DevOps
14 18 (5.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 18 (5.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 17 (5.03%) AWS Architect
16 16 (4.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 13 (3.85%) AWS Security Architect
17 13 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (18.93%) AngularJS
2 58 (17.16%) Spring Boot
3 57 (16.86%) AWS CDK
4 50 (14.79%) Node.js
5 38 (11.24%) Gherkin
5 38 (11.24%) Jest
5 38 (11.24%) React
6 37 (10.95%) Kafka
7 34 (10.06%) RESTful
8 29 (8.58%) Elastic Stack
8 29 (8.58%) Spring
9 25 (7.40%) Django
10 23 (6.80%) RabbitMQ
11 20 (5.92%) .NET
12 17 (5.03%) gRPC
13 15 (4.44%) REST
14 14 (4.14%) web3js
15 13 (3.85%) .NET Core
15 13 (3.85%) Blazor
15 13 (3.85%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 101 (29.88%) Cloud Native
2 28 (8.28%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (6.51%) Security Posture
4 20 (5.92%) Linux Command Line
5 17 (5.03%) Public Cloud
6 15 (4.44%) Product Ownership
7 14 (4.14%) Blockchain
7 14 (4.14%) Web3
8 13 (3.85%) Cloud Security Posture
9 11 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (2.96%) PKI
11 8 (2.37%) e-Learning
11 8 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
15 4 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
16 3 (0.89%) Cyber Defence
16 3 (0.89%) Cyber Security Posture
16 3 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 89 (26.33%) Linux
2 35 (10.36%) Unix
3 30 (8.88%) Windows
4 15 (4.44%) Ubuntu
5 13 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (2.96%) CentOS
7 5 (1.48%) Debian
7 5 (1.48%) VMS
8 4 (1.18%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.30%) Android
9 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (75.74%) Infrastructure as Code
2 254 (75.15%) CI/CD
3 247 (73.08%) DevOps
4 151 (44.67%) Agile
5 112 (33.14%) Containerisation
6 97 (28.70%) Problem-Solving
7 75 (22.19%) Continuous Improvement
8 73 (21.60%) Observability
9 71 (21.01%) Microservices
10 64 (18.93%) Cloud Security
11 59 (17.46%) Mentoring
12 58 (17.16%) DevSecOps
13 54 (15.98%) Continuous Integration
14 52 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
15 48 (14.20%) Clean Code
16 46 (13.61%) Incident Response
17 44 (13.02%) Software Engineering
18 43 (12.72%) Test Automation
19 37 (10.95%) Collaborative Culture
20 36 (10.65%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 159 (47.04%) Python
2 104 (30.77%) Java
3 91 (26.92%) Bash
4 79 (23.37%) TypeScript
5 68 (20.12%) SQL
6 41 (12.13%) Go
7 39 (11.54%) Groovy
8 31 (9.17%) JavaScript
9 30 (8.88%) Kotlin
10 29 (8.58%) PowerShell
11 22 (6.51%) C#
12 13 (3.85%) Rust
13 12 (3.55%) Bicep
14 8 (2.37%) C++
15 7 (2.07%) Google Apps Script
16 1 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.30%) PHP
16 1 (0.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 100 (29.59%) Security Cleared
2 87 (25.74%) AWS Certification
3 60 (17.75%) SC Cleared
4 35 (10.36%) Degree
5 30 (8.88%) DV Cleared
6 29 (8.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 28 (8.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 25 (7.40%) AWS Certified Developer
9 24 (7.10%) ITIL Certification
10 14 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (4.14%) OSCP
11 13 (3.85%) Azure Certification
12 7 (2.07%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 5 (1.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
15 2 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
15 2 (0.59%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.59%) Master's Degree
15 2 (0.59%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.21%) NIST
2 16 (4.73%) PCI DSS
3 15 (4.44%) GDPR
4 12 (3.55%) QA
5 10 (2.96%) SOC 2
6 6 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.89%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.89%) SLA
8 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.30%) Basel III
8 1 (0.30%) HL7
8 1 (0.30%) MiFID
8 1 (0.30%) NCSC
8 1 (0.30%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 190 (56.21%) Docker
2 8 (2.37%) KVM
3 7 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.78%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.30%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 240 (71.01%) Terraform
2 132 (39.05%) Kubernetes
3 68 (20.12%) Ansible
4 58 (17.16%) Grafana
5 52 (15.38%) Prometheus
6 38 (11.24%) HP Fortify
7 17 (5.03%) AWS Copilot
8 15 (4.44%) Argo
9 10 (2.96%) Docker Swarm
10 8 (2.37%) Istio
10 8 (2.37%) linkerd
10 8 (2.37%) Mesos
10 8 (2.37%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (2.07%) Puppet
12 4 (1.18%) Rancher
13 2 (0.59%) Nessus
13 2 (0.59%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.30%) Consul
14 1 (0.30%) Packer
Vendors
1 45 (13.31%) Google
2 19 (5.62%) Microsoft
3 12 (3.55%) Splunk
4 8 (2.37%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.07%) VMware
6 6 (1.78%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.18%) PagerDuty
8 3 (0.89%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.89%) Oracle
8 3 (0.89%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.89%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.59%) IBM
9 2 (0.59%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (0.59%) Ping Identity
9 2 (0.59%) SAP
10 1 (0.30%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.30%) Databricks
10 1 (0.30%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.30%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.30%) TOWER Software