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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 441 468 383
Rank change year-on-year +27 -85 -55
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 222 293 375
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.47% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.15% 1.35% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 161 227 303
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,100
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +4.14% -9.38%
75th Percentile £87,500 £110,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £130,000 £116,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,750 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.38% -3.70% -10.00%

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 19,352 21,649 21,597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.31% 34.85% 42.79%
Number of salaries quoted 11,203 13,206 18,135
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -2.73%

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 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 +30 178 £73,801 -6.58% 251
UK excluding London +60 111 £71,750 +10.38% 238
Work from Home +51 102 £73,151 -7.40% 148
London +22 82 £81,500 -18.50% 45
North of England +35 62 £70,000 +9.80% 58
Yorkshire +19 33 £70,000 +7.69% 33
North West +29 26 £62,500 - 18
Midlands +32 13 £60,000 -13.43% 37
South East +33 12 £95,000 +52.00% 66
West Midlands +36 11 £60,000 -17.24% 22
South West +20 7 £70,000 +27.27% 33
Wales +6 7 £68,958 -0.50% 6
Scotland -3 6 £73,801 +6.48% 12
Northern Ireland -4 5 £95,000 +37.07% 6
North East +3 3 £73,801 +6.48% 7
East Midlands +9 2 - - 12
East of England +22 1 £75,000 +20.00% 25

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 9 (4.05%) Apache
2 7 (3.15%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.15%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.70%) Tomcat
3 6 (2.70%) WebSphere
3 6 (2.70%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.90%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.45%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 204 (91.89%) AWS
2 117 (52.70%) Azure
3 95 (42.79%) Serverless
4 88 (39.64%) AWS Lambda
5 67 (30.18%) Amazon S3
6 66 (29.73%) GCP
7 61 (27.48%) GitHub
8 57 (25.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 57 (25.68%) Amazon ECS
9 51 (22.97%) Amazon EKS
10 48 (21.62%) GitHub Actions
11 42 (18.92%) Amazon EC2
12 34 (15.32%) Amazon ECR
12 34 (15.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 31 (13.96%) Azure DevOps
14 25 (11.26%) dbt
15 24 (10.81%) AWS Step Functions
16 20 (9.01%) Pulumi
17 19 (8.56%) Amazon SQS
17 19 (8.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (9.01%) TCP/IP
2 9 (4.05%) Firewall
3 8 (3.60%) Network Security
4 6 (2.70%) SSL
4 6 (2.70%) VPN
5 4 (1.80%) LAN
5 4 (1.80%) WAN
6 3 (1.35%) DNS
7 2 (0.90%) AMQP
7 2 (0.90%) DHCP
7 2 (0.90%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.45%) HTTP
8 1 (0.45%) NAS
8 1 (0.45%) SAN
8 1 (0.45%) SNMP
8 1 (0.45%) VSAN
8 1 (0.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (22.07%) Amazon RDS
2 38 (17.12%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (14.41%) DynamoDB
4 28 (12.61%) NoSQL
5 22 (9.91%) Elasticsearch
6 20 (9.01%) Redis
7 16 (7.21%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (7.21%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (6.31%) SQL Server
9 12 (5.41%) Data Lake
10 9 (4.05%) MySQL
11 8 (3.60%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (2.70%) DB2
13 4 (1.80%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (1.80%) Big Data
14 3 (1.35%) Apache Iceberg
14 3 (1.35%) Data Vault
14 3 (1.35%) MongoDB
15 2 (0.90%) Hadoop
15 2 (0.90%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 69 (31.08%) Jenkins
2 54 (24.32%) GitLab
3 28 (12.61%) Git
4 14 (6.31%) SonarQube
5 10 (4.50%) CircleCI
6 8 (3.60%) Cypress.io
6 8 (3.60%) Maven
7 6 (2.70%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.25%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.25%) git-flow
8 5 (2.25%) JIRA
9 4 (1.80%) Robot Framework
10 3 (1.35%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.90%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.90%) JMeter
11 2 (0.90%) Selenium
11 2 (0.90%) TestRail
12 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.45%) Spinnaker
12 1 (0.45%) Subversion
General
1 59 (26.58%) Social Skills
2 40 (18.02%) Finance
3 20 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.21%) Banking
5 11 (4.95%) Law
6 10 (4.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (4.05%) Public Sector
8 8 (3.60%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.70%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.80%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.80%) Marketing
11 3 (1.35%) Electronics
11 3 (1.35%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.90%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.45%) Advertising
13 1 (0.45%) Billing
13 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (28.83%) Senior
2 49 (22.07%) Cloud Engineer
3 40 (18.02%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (12.16%) AWS Engineer
5 26 (11.71%) Platform Engineer
6 25 (11.26%) Lead
7 19 (8.56%) Developer
8 16 (7.21%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 14 (6.31%) AWS DevOps
9 14 (6.31%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 12 (5.41%) Architect
10 12 (5.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 12 (5.41%) Data Engineer
11 11 (4.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 10 (4.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (4.05%) Site Engineer
13 9 (4.05%) Support Engineer
14 8 (3.60%) Security Engineer
15 7 (3.15%) Applications Engineer
15 7 (3.15%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (12.61%) Elastic Stack
2 26 (11.71%) AWS CDK
3 21 (9.46%) React
4 20 (9.01%) Django
5 18 (8.11%) Node.js
6 16 (7.21%) Spring Boot
7 15 (6.76%) .NET
7 15 (6.76%) Kafka
8 14 (6.31%) AngularJS
8 14 (6.31%) RESTful
9 13 (5.86%) Spring
10 9 (4.05%) .NET Core
10 9 (4.05%) ASP.NET
11 8 (3.60%) ASP.NET Core
11 8 (3.60%) Blazor
11 8 (3.60%) Gherkin
11 8 (3.60%) Jest
11 8 (3.60%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (3.15%) ARM Templates
12 7 (3.15%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 52 (23.42%) Cloud Native
2 23 (10.36%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (8.11%) Linux Command Line
4 15 (6.76%) Public Cloud
5 11 (4.95%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.70%) AI Agents
6 6 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.25%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.80%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.35%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.35%) PKI
9 3 (1.35%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.90%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 84 (37.84%) Linux
2 38 (17.12%) Unix
3 36 (16.22%) Windows
4 11 (4.95%) Ubuntu
5 10 (4.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (3.15%) Debian
7 4 (1.80%) CentOS
8 2 (0.90%) VMS
8 2 (0.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (82.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 171 (77.03%) CI/CD
3 164 (73.87%) DevOps
4 77 (34.68%) Agile
5 65 (29.28%) Problem-Solving
6 60 (27.03%) Containerisation
7 50 (22.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 49 (22.07%) Observability
9 43 (19.37%) Cloud Security
10 41 (18.47%) Microservices
11 36 (16.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 34 (15.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 34 (15.32%) Platform Engineering
13 31 (13.96%) Disaster Recovery
14 29 (13.06%) Mentoring
15 26 (11.71%) Migration
16 25 (11.26%) AI
17 24 (10.81%) Incident Response
18 23 (10.36%) Clean Code
18 23 (10.36%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 131 (59.01%) Python
2 74 (33.33%) Bash
3 37 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 37 (16.67%) SQL
4 32 (14.41%) Java
5 29 (13.06%) TypeScript
6 22 (9.91%) JavaScript
7 18 (8.11%) Bicep
8 16 (7.21%) Go
9 14 (6.31%) C#
10 10 (4.50%) Groovy
11 3 (1.35%) C++
11 3 (1.35%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (1.35%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 71 (31.98%) Security Cleared
2 67 (30.18%) AWS Certification
3 51 (22.97%) SC Cleared
4 21 (9.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 19 (8.56%) Degree
5 19 (8.56%) DV Cleared
6 17 (7.66%) Azure Certification
7 15 (6.76%) AWS Certified Developer
8 9 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.80%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.90%) CISA
11 2 (0.90%) CISM
11 2 (0.90%) CISSP
11 2 (0.90%) CRISC
11 2 (0.90%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.95%) Data Quality
1 11 (4.95%) QA
2 9 (4.05%) GDPR
3 7 (3.15%) SLA
4 4 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.80%) NIST
5 1 (0.45%) Basel III
5 1 (0.45%) MiFID
5 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 112 (50.45%) Docker
2 7 (3.15%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (2.70%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.80%) KVM
4 4 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.90%) Terminal Server
5 2 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.45%) QEMU
6 1 (0.45%) vCloud
6 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 181 (81.53%) Terraform
2 96 (43.24%) Kubernetes
3 59 (26.58%) Ansible
4 53 (23.87%) Grafana
5 37 (16.67%) Prometheus
6 12 (5.41%) AWS Copilot
7 11 (4.95%) Argo
8 8 (3.60%) HP Fortify
9 5 (2.25%) Kubeflow
9 5 (2.25%) Puppet
10 3 (1.35%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (1.35%) Istio
10 3 (1.35%) linkerd
10 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.90%) Mesos
11 2 (0.90%) Nessus
11 2 (0.90%) Rancher
12 1 (0.45%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.45%) Nagios
12 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 33 (14.86%) Google
2 20 (9.01%) Splunk
3 19 (8.56%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.60%) Red Hat
5 7 (3.15%) IBM
6 5 (2.25%) VMware
7 4 (1.80%) Databricks
7 4 (1.80%) Foundry
7 4 (1.80%) LogicMonitor
7 4 (1.80%) PagerDuty
7 4 (1.80%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.35%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.35%) Citrix
8 3 (1.35%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.35%) SAP
9 2 (0.90%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.90%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.90%) Oracle
9 2 (0.90%) Ping Identity
9 2 (0.90%) Rapid7