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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 460 563
Rank change year-on-year +79 +103 -220
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 518 224 241
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.45% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.86% 1.43% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 261 136 180
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,000 £50,457
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £103,125 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,991 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +2.84% +3.70% -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 27,838 15,677 24,728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.75% 31.62% 31.56%
Number of salaries quoted 18,777 10,595 16,042
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,300 £102,400
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 9 September 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 9 September 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 +68 461 £75,000 - 316
UK excluding London +32 258 £71,991 +2.84% 170
London +51 232 £90,000 +10.43% 187
North of England +41 147 £72,500 +3.57% 52
Work from Home -48 114 £77,911 +11.30% 276
Yorkshire +19 86 £75,000 +5.63% 20
North West +10 46 £72,500 +18.37% 25
Wales -42 31 £72,500 +31.82% 5
South West -44 31 £67,500 -25.00% 20
Midlands -35 23 £62,500 +13.64% 33
South East -36 19 £70,000 -20.00% 29
East Midlands -19 15 £52,500 - 16
North East - 15 £48,500 - 7
West Midlands -34 8 £68,496 +24.54% 17
Scotland +10 4 £71,991 +49.98% 16
East of England -49 2 £82,500 +10.00% 9
Northern Ireland - 1 £71,991 - 7

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 (3.86%) Apache
2 11 (2.12%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.74%) Confluence
4 7 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.58%) nginx
7 1 (0.19%) Drupal
7 1 (0.19%) IIS
7 1 (0.19%) JBoss
7 1 (0.19%) SAS
7 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.77%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.39%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.16%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.58%) Summit
3 1 (0.19%) Magento
3 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 498 (96.14%) AWS
2 250 (48.26%) Serverless
3 192 (37.07%) AWS Lambda
4 142 (27.41%) Amazon ECS
5 140 (27.03%) Amazon S3
6 137 (26.45%) Azure
7 111 (21.43%) GitHub
8 108 (20.85%) GCP
9 83 (16.02%) GitHub Actions
10 78 (15.06%) Amazon EC2
11 77 (14.86%) Amazon EKS
12 76 (14.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 67 (12.93%) AWS Step Functions
14 55 (10.62%) Datadog
15 50 (9.65%) Cloud Computing
16 41 (7.92%) Amazon SQS
17 40 (7.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 36 (6.95%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 30 (5.79%) Amazon EventBridge
19 30 (5.79%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.41%) Network Security
2 22 (4.25%) TCP/IP
3 13 (2.51%) VPN
4 11 (2.12%) DNS
4 11 (2.12%) Firewall
5 6 (1.16%) HTTP
6 5 (0.97%) AMQP
6 5 (0.97%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.39%) MQTT
8 1 (0.19%) 4G
8 1 (0.19%) 5G
8 1 (0.19%) DHCP
8 1 (0.19%) DNSSEC
8 1 (0.19%) DSL
8 1 (0.19%) Internet
8 1 (0.19%) PSTN
8 1 (0.19%) SCCP
8 1 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (17.95%) NoSQL
2 86 (16.60%) DynamoDB
3 68 (13.13%) Amazon RDS
4 30 (5.79%) Amazon Athena
5 29 (5.60%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (3.28%) MongoDB
7 16 (3.09%) MySQL
8 12 (2.32%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.54%) Big Data
10 8 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (1.54%) Redis
10 8 (1.54%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.35%) Flink
11 7 (1.35%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (1.16%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.16%) Metadata
13 5 (0.97%) Cloudera CDH
13 5 (0.97%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 124 (23.94%) Jenkins
2 117 (22.59%) GitLab
3 82 (15.83%) Git
4 41 (7.92%) Cucumber
5 25 (4.83%) Cypress.io
5 25 (4.83%) Maven
6 23 (4.44%) SonarQube
7 12 (2.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 12 (2.32%) CircleCI
7 12 (2.32%) JIRA
8 11 (2.12%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.35%) Claude Code
10 6 (1.16%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.97%) Snyk
12 4 (0.77%) Gradle
12 4 (0.77%) Selenium
13 3 (0.58%) git-flow
13 3 (0.58%) JUnit
13 3 (0.58%) NUnit
13 3 (0.58%) Postman
General
1 139 (26.83%) Social Skills
2 137 (26.45%) Finance
3 67 (12.93%) Public Sector
4 53 (10.23%) Banking
5 33 (6.37%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (3.47%) Financial Institution
7 17 (3.28%) Law
8 13 (2.51%) Legal
9 12 (2.32%) Aerospace
9 12 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.74%) Military
11 8 (1.54%) Retail
12 5 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.77%) Advertising
13 4 (0.77%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.77%) Local Government
13 4 (0.77%) Mandarin Language
13 4 (0.77%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 135 (26.06%) Senior
2 106 (20.46%) Developer
3 88 (16.99%) Cloud Engineer
4 78 (15.06%) DevOps Engineer
5 65 (12.55%) Java Developer
6 54 (10.42%) AWS Engineer
7 46 (8.88%) Java Engineer
8 45 (8.69%) Lead
9 42 (8.11%) Consultant
10 33 (6.37%) Architect
11 32 (6.18%) Senior Consultant
12 28 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
13 26 (5.02%) Full-Stack Developer
13 26 (5.02%) Software Engineer
14 25 (4.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 25 (4.83%) Senior Developer
15 24 (4.63%) AWS Developer
16 23 (4.44%) Principal Engineer
17 22 (4.25%) Principal Java Engineer
18 21 (4.05%) Cloud Native Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 379 (73.17%) Terraform
2 118 (22.78%) Spring Boot
3 100 (19.31%) Spring
4 91 (17.57%) Kafka
5 90 (17.37%) Node.js
6 72 (13.90%) AngularJS
7 60 (11.58%) AWS CDK
8 43 (8.30%) React
8 43 (8.30%) RESTful
9 29 (5.60%) RabbitMQ
9 29 (5.60%) REST
10 26 (5.02%) Gherkin
11 23 (4.44%) Web Services
12 21 (4.05%) Jest
13 17 (3.28%) YAML
14 16 (3.09%) gRPC
15 15 (2.90%) Hibernate
15 15 (2.90%) JSON
16 14 (2.70%) JPA
17 13 (2.51%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 198 (38.22%) Cloud Native
2 90 (17.37%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (10.04%) Public Cloud
4 50 (9.65%) Onboarding
5 41 (7.92%) Enterprise Cloud
6 38 (7.34%) e-Learning
7 37 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
8 29 (5.60%) Hybrid Cloud
9 26 (5.02%) Legacy Systems
9 26 (5.02%) Mainframe
10 22 (4.25%) Data Centre
11 16 (3.09%) Linux Command Line
12 15 (2.90%) Virtual Team
13 13 (2.51%) Blog
13 13 (2.51%) Distributed Computing
13 13 (2.51%) Security Posture
14 12 (2.32%) Blockchain
14 12 (2.32%) Product Ownership
14 12 (2.32%) Web3
15 11 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 85 (16.41%) Linux
2 22 (4.25%) Windows
3 14 (2.70%) Unix
4 11 (2.12%) Ubuntu
5 10 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.74%) CentOS
7 7 (1.35%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.97%) Debian
9 2 (0.39%) Android
9 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.39%) VMS
10 1 (0.19%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (75.87%) Infrastructure as Code
2 343 (66.22%) CI/CD
3 279 (53.86%) DevOps
4 227 (43.82%) Agile
5 174 (33.59%) Containerisation
6 138 (26.64%) Mentoring
7 135 (26.06%) Software Engineering
8 129 (24.90%) Observability
9 124 (23.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 122 (23.55%) Microservices
11 106 (20.46%) Event-Driven
12 103 (19.88%) Test Automation
13 100 (19.31%) Problem-Solving
14 98 (18.92%) Cloud Security
15 79 (15.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 76 (14.67%) AI
17 75 (14.48%) Migration
17 75 (14.48%) Platform Engineering
18 68 (13.13%) Collaborative Culture
19 62 (11.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 236 (45.56%) Python
2 190 (36.68%) Java
3 102 (19.69%) SQL
4 87 (16.80%) Bash
5 85 (16.41%) TypeScript
6 46 (8.88%) Groovy
7 40 (7.72%) Go
8 36 (6.95%) Kotlin
9 35 (6.76%) JavaScript
10 31 (5.98%) PowerShell
10 31 (5.98%) Ruby
11 24 (4.63%) Bicep
12 18 (3.47%) C#
13 16 (3.09%) PHP
14 15 (2.90%) Perl
15 9 (1.74%) C++
16 6 (1.16%) COBOL
17 5 (0.97%) Google Apps Script
18 2 (0.39%) Shell Script
19 1 (0.19%) Natural
Qualifications
1 168 (32.43%) Security Cleared
2 132 (25.48%) AWS Certification
3 101 (19.50%) SC Cleared
4 86 (16.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 38 (7.34%) Degree
6 32 (6.18%) DV Cleared
7 18 (3.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 16 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (2.90%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (2.32%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.93%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (1.74%) AWS Certified Developer
13 8 (1.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (1.16%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.77%) OCP
15 4 (0.77%) Oracle Certification
15 4 (0.77%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.58%) OSCP
17 2 (0.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.14%) GDPR
2 14 (2.70%) PCI DSS
2 14 (2.70%) QA
3 13 (2.51%) NIST
4 12 (2.32%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.12%) HIPAA
6 10 (1.93%) NCSC
7 9 (1.74%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.35%) SOC 2
9 6 (1.16%) Government Security Classifications
9 6 (1.16%) WCAG
10 5 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.58%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.19%) SLA
System Software
1 218 (42.08%) Docker
2 6 (1.16%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.97%) KVM
3 5 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.58%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 201 (38.80%) Kubernetes
2 97 (18.73%) Ansible
3 57 (11.00%) Grafana
4 49 (9.46%) Progress Chef
4 49 (9.46%) Prometheus
5 35 (6.76%) Puppet
6 20 (3.86%) Argo
7 17 (3.28%) HP Fortify
8 7 (1.35%) Istio
9 6 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.97%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (0.97%) linkerd
10 5 (0.97%) Mesos
11 2 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.39%) logstash
11 2 (0.39%) Rancher
12 1 (0.19%) Consul
12 1 (0.19%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.19%) Kibana
Vendors
1 44 (8.49%) Google
2 22 (4.25%) Microsoft
3 17 (3.28%) Splunk
4 16 (3.09%) Oracle
5 15 (2.90%) Red Hat
6 9 (1.74%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.35%) Databricks
7 7 (1.35%) HubSpot
8 6 (1.16%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.16%) VMware
9 5 (0.97%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.77%) AppDynamics
10 4 (0.77%) Avaya
10 4 (0.77%) Cisco
10 4 (0.77%) Genesys
11 3 (0.58%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.58%) OutSystems
12 2 (0.39%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.39%) Informatica
12 2 (0.39%) Tenable