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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 446 580
Rank change year-on-year +75 +134 -218
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 461 241 323
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.49% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.71% 1.52% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 234 139 260
10th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,160 £75,000 £74,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.55% +0.67% -3.87%
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £109,625 £111,250 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,151 £69,384 £67,500
% change year-on-year +5.43% +2.79% -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 26,886 15,833 33,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.46% 32.35% 33.27%
Number of salaries quoted 17,488 11,041 25,867
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,842
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.26% -7.56%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 +70 421 £80,000 +6.67% 138
London +68 223 £90,000 +15.02% 57
UK excluding London +30 213 £73,151 +5.43% 121
North of England +60 136 £75,000 +8.09% 32
Work from Home -10 109 £75,000 +8.09% 81
Yorkshire +46 88 £75,000 +5.63% 3
North West +20 45 £74,651 +7.59% 22
Midlands -15 25 £57,250 -13.67% 7
East Midlands -6 18 £52,500 -27.59% 2
Wales -36 17 £72,500 +26.09% 8
South East -51 17 £70,000 -15.15% 24
South West -51 12 £67,500 -25.00% 33
West Midlands -15 7 £62,000 -4.62% 5
Scotland +10 3 £76,783 +39.60% 8
North East -46 3 £57,788 -16.71% 7
East of England -24 2 £82,500 +10.00% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £73,801 - 6

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 21 (4.56%) Apache
2 12 (2.60%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.74%) Confluence
4 7 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.65%) JBoss
7 1 (0.22%) Drupal
7 1 (0.22%) IIS
7 1 (0.22%) nginx
7 1 (0.22%) SAS
7 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.65%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.43%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.08%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.43%) Summit
3 1 (0.22%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 442 (95.88%) AWS
2 236 (51.19%) Serverless
3 191 (41.43%) AWS Lambda
4 135 (29.28%) Amazon S3
5 131 (28.42%) Amazon ECS
6 113 (24.51%) Azure
7 95 (20.61%) GitHub
8 87 (18.87%) AWS Step Functions
9 81 (17.57%) GCP
10 73 (15.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 69 (14.97%) GitHub Actions
12 66 (14.32%) Amazon EKS
13 59 (12.80%) Datadog
14 55 (11.93%) Amazon EC2
15 54 (11.71%) Cloud Computing
16 48 (10.41%) Amazon SQS
17 40 (8.68%) Amazon ECR
18 37 (8.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 35 (7.59%) Apigee
20 26 (5.64%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.34%) Network Security
2 18 (3.90%) VPN
3 15 (3.25%) Firewall
4 12 (2.60%) TCP/IP
5 10 (2.17%) DNS
5 10 (2.17%) DSL
6 6 (1.30%) AMQP
7 4 (0.87%) HTTP
7 4 (0.87%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.43%) 4G
8 2 (0.43%) 5G
8 2 (0.43%) MQTT
9 1 (0.22%) DHCP
9 1 (0.22%) DNSSEC
9 1 (0.22%) Internet
9 1 (0.22%) PSTN
9 1 (0.22%) SCCP
9 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (22.99%) DynamoDB
2 85 (18.44%) NoSQL
3 50 (10.85%) Amazon RDS
4 35 (7.59%) Amazon Athena
5 20 (4.34%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (1.95%) Big Data
8 9 (1.95%) MongoDB
9 8 (1.74%) MySQL
9 8 (1.74%) Redis
10 7 (1.52%) Hadoop
11 6 (1.30%) Cloudera CDH
11 6 (1.30%) Flink
12 5 (1.08%) Data Lake
12 5 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.08%) SQL Server
13 4 (0.87%) Apache Iceberg
13 4 (0.87%) Metadata
14 3 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 151 (32.75%) Jenkins
2 142 (30.80%) GitLab
3 66 (14.32%) Git
4 39 (8.46%) Maven
5 35 (7.59%) Cypress.io
6 33 (7.16%) SonarQube
7 30 (6.51%) Cucumber
8 25 (5.42%) CircleCI
9 12 (2.60%) Bitbucket
10 10 (2.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 10 (2.17%) JIRA
11 7 (1.52%) Claude Code
11 7 (1.52%) TeamCity
12 5 (1.08%) Gradle
13 3 (0.65%) Selenium
14 2 (0.43%) JMeter
15 1 (0.22%) Eclipse
15 1 (0.22%) git-flow
15 1 (0.22%) Robot Framework
15 1 (0.22%) Vagrant
General
1 124 (26.90%) Social Skills
2 115 (24.95%) Finance
3 43 (9.33%) Public Sector
4 37 (8.03%) Banking
5 16 (3.47%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.60%) Aerospace
8 10 (2.17%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.30%) Advertising
9 6 (1.30%) Legal
10 5 (1.08%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.08%) Retail
11 4 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.87%) Mandarin Language
11 4 (0.87%) Military
11 4 (0.87%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.65%) Back Office
12 3 (0.65%) Law
13 2 (0.43%) Automotive
13 2 (0.43%) Games
Job Titles
1 113 (24.51%) Developer
2 104 (22.56%) Senior
3 79 (17.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 72 (15.62%) Java Developer
5 69 (14.97%) DevOps Engineer
6 43 (9.33%) AWS Engineer
7 36 (7.81%) Lead
8 33 (7.16%) Consultant
9 30 (6.51%) Java Engineer
10 29 (6.29%) Architect
10 29 (6.29%) Platform Engineer
11 28 (6.07%) Senior Developer
12 27 (5.86%) AWS Developer
12 27 (5.86%) Full-Stack Developer
12 27 (5.86%) Senior Consultant
13 24 (5.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 21 (4.56%) AWS DevOps
14 21 (4.56%) Principal Engineer
14 21 (4.56%) Software Engineer
15 20 (4.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (22.99%) Spring Boot
2 83 (18.00%) AngularJS
3 78 (16.92%) Node.js
4 77 (16.70%) Kafka
5 75 (16.27%) Spring
6 60 (13.02%) AWS CDK
7 39 (8.46%) Gherkin
7 39 (8.46%) React
8 32 (6.94%) RESTful
9 31 (6.72%) Jest
10 29 (6.29%) REST
11 26 (5.64%) RabbitMQ
12 23 (4.99%) gRPC
13 18 (3.90%) Web Services
13 18 (3.90%) web3js
13 18 (3.90%) YAML
14 17 (3.69%) Next.js
15 16 (3.47%) JSON
16 14 (3.04%) Elastic Stack
17 12 (2.60%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 160 (34.71%) Cloud Native
2 51 (11.06%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (9.11%) Onboarding
4 41 (8.89%) Public Cloud
5 35 (7.59%) Enterprise Cloud
6 25 (5.42%) e-Learning
6 25 (5.42%) Enterprise Software
7 21 (4.56%) Legacy Systems
7 21 (4.56%) Mainframe
8 19 (4.12%) Data Centre
9 18 (3.90%) Blockchain
9 18 (3.90%) Web3
10 17 (3.69%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (3.69%) Security Posture
11 15 (3.25%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (2.82%) Cloud Security Posture
13 11 (2.39%) Distributed Computing
13 11 (2.39%) Product Ownership
14 10 (2.17%) PKI
15 8 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 77 (16.70%) Linux
2 24 (5.21%) Windows
3 15 (3.25%) Ubuntu
4 12 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.39%) CentOS
6 6 (1.30%) Debian
7 5 (1.08%) Unix
7 5 (1.08%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.87%) VMS
9 3 (0.65%) Android
9 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.22%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (71.58%) Infrastructure as Code
2 291 (63.12%) CI/CD
3 234 (50.76%) DevOps
4 191 (41.43%) Agile
5 159 (34.49%) Containerisation
6 112 (24.30%) Mentoring
7 99 (21.48%) Microservices
7 99 (21.48%) Observability
8 96 (20.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 95 (20.61%) Software Engineering
10 86 (18.66%) Cloud Security
11 85 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
12 82 (17.79%) Test Automation
13 79 (17.14%) Event-Driven
14 71 (15.40%) Platform Engineering
15 69 (14.97%) DevSecOps
16 65 (14.10%) Continuous Integration
17 59 (12.80%) AI
18 56 (12.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 53 (11.50%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 211 (45.77%) Python
2 181 (39.26%) Java
3 95 (20.61%) SQL
4 94 (20.39%) TypeScript
5 81 (17.57%) Bash
6 55 (11.93%) Groovy
7 45 (9.76%) Go
8 40 (8.68%) Kotlin
9 36 (7.81%) JavaScript
10 32 (6.94%) PowerShell
11 25 (5.42%) Bicep
12 23 (4.99%) Ruby
13 17 (3.69%) C#
14 14 (3.04%) PHP
15 13 (2.82%) Perl
16 12 (2.60%) C++
17 10 (2.17%) Rust
18 7 (1.52%) Google Apps Script
19 5 (1.08%) COBOL
20 1 (0.22%) Natural
Qualifications
1 140 (30.37%) Security Cleared
2 114 (24.73%) AWS Certification
3 70 (15.18%) SC Cleared
4 68 (14.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 45 (9.76%) Degree
6 28 (6.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 28 (6.07%) DV Cleared
7 25 (5.42%) ITIL Certification
8 16 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (2.82%) OSCP
10 12 (2.60%) Master's Degree
11 10 (2.17%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (1.74%) Azure Certification
12 8 (1.74%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (1.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (0.87%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.65%) CREST Certified
16 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 2 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
16 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.56%) PCI DSS
2 20 (4.34%) NIST
3 19 (4.12%) GDPR
4 13 (2.82%) SOC 2
5 10 (2.17%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.52%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.30%) NCSC
8 5 (1.08%) Government Security Classifications
8 5 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.87%) QA
9 4 (0.87%) WCAG
10 3 (0.65%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.22%) HL7
11 1 (0.22%) SLA
11 1 (0.22%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 202 (43.82%) Docker
2 7 (1.52%) KVM
2 7 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.08%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 317 (68.76%) Terraform
2 186 (40.35%) Kubernetes
3 78 (16.92%) Ansible
4 55 (11.93%) Prometheus
5 53 (11.50%) Grafana
6 33 (7.16%) Progress Chef
7 30 (6.51%) HP Fortify
8 25 (5.42%) Puppet
9 18 (3.90%) Argo
10 9 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (1.52%) Docker Swarm
12 6 (1.30%) Istio
12 6 (1.30%) linkerd
12 6 (1.30%) Mesos
13 5 (1.08%) AWS Copilot
14 3 (0.65%) Rancher
15 2 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
16 1 (0.22%) Consul
16 1 (0.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 34 (7.38%) Google
2 19 (4.12%) Microsoft
3 13 (2.82%) Oracle
4 11 (2.39%) Splunk
5 7 (1.52%) HubSpot
5 7 (1.52%) OpenAI
5 7 (1.52%) Red Hat
5 7 (1.52%) VMware
6 6 (1.30%) SaltStack
7 5 (1.08%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.87%) Databricks
9 3 (0.65%) Avaya
9 3 (0.65%) Cisco
9 3 (0.65%) Genesys
10 2 (0.43%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.43%) Tenable
11 1 (0.22%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.22%) LogicMonitor
11 1 (0.22%) OneLogin
11 1 (0.22%) TOWER Software