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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 437 480 378
Rank change year-on-year +43 -102 -52
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 218 298 392
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.45% 0.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.22% 1.33% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 158 230 315
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £60,100
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +7.14% -12.50%
75th Percentile £87,500 £110,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £130,000 £116,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -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 17,911 22,361 21,948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.10% 33.75% 42.89%
Number of salaries quoted 11,304 13,599 18,363
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% +1.60% -0.79%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,301
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.19% -3.09%

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 29 November 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 29 November 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 +21 175 £73,801 -6.58% 94
UK excluding London +42 107 £70,000 +7.69% 80
Work from Home +55 102 £73,151 -6.81% 53
London +18 82 £81,500 -18.50% 51
North of England +54 60 £70,000 +9.80% 18
Yorkshire +23 30 £70,000 +7.69% 6
North West +43 27 £62,500 - 8
Midlands +51 13 £60,000 -15.38% 7
West Midlands +57 11 £60,000 -17.24% 4
South East +36 11 £95,000 +52.00% 28
South West +17 7 £70,000 +27.27% 11
Wales +11 7 £68,958 -0.50% 5
Scotland -3 6 £73,801 +6.48% 6
Northern Ireland 0 4 £84,401 +21.78% 3
North East +9 3 £73,801 +6.48% 4
East Midlands +21 2 - - 3
East of England +32 1 £75,000 +20.00% 2

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 8 (3.67%) Apache
2 7 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.21%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.75%) Tomcat
3 6 (2.75%) WebSphere
3 6 (2.75%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.92%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.46%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 201 (92.20%) AWS
2 115 (52.75%) Azure
3 93 (42.66%) Serverless
4 86 (39.45%) AWS Lambda
5 66 (30.28%) Amazon S3
6 64 (29.36%) GCP
7 60 (27.52%) GitHub
8 58 (26.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 57 (26.15%) Amazon ECS
10 51 (23.39%) Amazon EKS
11 47 (21.56%) GitHub Actions
12 43 (19.72%) Amazon EC2
13 35 (16.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 32 (14.68%) Amazon ECR
15 30 (13.76%) Azure DevOps
16 25 (11.47%) dbt
17 21 (9.63%) AWS Step Functions
17 21 (9.63%) Pulumi
18 19 (8.72%) PaaS
19 18 (8.26%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (9.17%) TCP/IP
2 9 (4.13%) Firewall
3 7 (3.21%) Network Security
4 6 (2.75%) SSL
5 5 (2.29%) VPN
6 4 (1.83%) LAN
6 4 (1.83%) WAN
7 3 (1.38%) DNS
8 2 (0.92%) AMQP
8 2 (0.92%) DHCP
9 1 (0.46%) HTTP
9 1 (0.46%) NAS
9 1 (0.46%) SAN
9 1 (0.46%) SNMP
9 1 (0.46%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.46%) VSAN
9 1 (0.46%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (22.48%) Amazon RDS
2 37 (16.97%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (13.30%) DynamoDB
4 27 (12.39%) NoSQL
5 22 (10.09%) Elasticsearch
6 20 (9.17%) Redis
7 16 (7.34%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (7.34%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (5.96%) SQL Server
9 12 (5.50%) Data Lake
10 10 (4.59%) Amazon Athena
11 9 (4.13%) MySQL
12 6 (2.75%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (2.75%) DB2
13 4 (1.83%) Big Data
14 3 (1.38%) Apache Iceberg
14 3 (1.38%) Data Vault
14 3 (1.38%) MongoDB
15 2 (0.92%) Cloudera CDH
15 2 (0.92%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 69 (31.65%) Jenkins
2 52 (23.85%) GitLab
3 26 (11.93%) Git
4 12 (5.50%) SonarQube
5 11 (5.05%) CircleCI
6 6 (2.75%) Cypress.io
6 6 (2.75%) Maven
7 5 (2.29%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.29%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.29%) git-flow
7 5 (2.29%) JIRA
8 4 (1.83%) Robot Framework
9 3 (1.38%) Spinnaker
9 3 (1.38%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.92%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.92%) JMeter
10 2 (0.92%) Selenium
10 2 (0.92%) TestRail
11 1 (0.46%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.46%) Subversion
General
1 57 (26.15%) Social Skills
2 41 (18.81%) Finance
3 20 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.34%) Banking
5 13 (5.96%) Law
6 12 (5.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (4.13%) Public Sector
8 8 (3.67%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.75%) Marketing
10 5 (2.29%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.83%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.38%) Electronics
12 3 (1.38%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.92%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.46%) Advertising
14 1 (0.46%) Billing
14 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.46%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (29.36%) Senior
2 47 (21.56%) Cloud Engineer
3 40 (18.35%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (12.84%) AWS Engineer
5 26 (11.93%) Platform Engineer
6 24 (11.01%) Lead
7 17 (7.80%) Developer
8 15 (6.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 14 (6.42%) AWS DevOps
9 14 (6.42%) Data Engineer
9 14 (6.42%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 12 (5.50%) Architect
10 12 (5.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 12 (5.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 9 (4.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (4.13%) Site Engineer
11 9 (4.13%) Support Engineer
12 7 (3.21%) Applications Engineer
12 7 (3.21%) Cloud Architect
12 7 (3.21%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (13.76%) Elastic Stack
2 27 (12.39%) AWS CDK
3 20 (9.17%) Django
4 19 (8.72%) React
5 16 (7.34%) Node.js
6 15 (6.88%) Kafka
7 14 (6.42%) .NET
7 14 (6.42%) Spring Boot
8 12 (5.50%) RESTful
8 12 (5.50%) Spring
9 11 (5.05%) AngularJS
10 8 (3.67%) .NET Core
10 8 (3.67%) ASP.NET
10 8 (3.67%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (3.21%) ARM Templates
11 7 (3.21%) ASP.NET Core
11 7 (3.21%) Blazor
11 7 (3.21%) Material-UI
12 6 (2.75%) Jest
12 6 (2.75%) LAPP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 50 (22.94%) Cloud Native
2 22 (10.09%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (8.26%) Linux Command Line
4 15 (6.88%) Public Cloud
5 11 (5.05%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.75%) AI Agents
6 6 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.29%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.83%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.38%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.38%) PKI
9 3 (1.38%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.92%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 83 (38.07%) Linux
2 39 (17.89%) Unix
3 35 (16.06%) Windows
4 11 (5.05%) Ubuntu
5 10 (4.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (3.67%) Debian
7 4 (1.83%) CentOS
8 2 (0.92%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (83.49%) Infrastructure as Code
2 168 (77.06%) CI/CD
3 161 (73.85%) DevOps
4 71 (32.57%) Agile
5 66 (30.28%) Problem-Solving
6 62 (28.44%) Containerisation
7 51 (23.39%) Observability
8 49 (22.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 41 (18.81%) Cloud Security
10 38 (17.43%) Microservices
11 37 (16.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 34 (15.60%) Platform Engineering
13 33 (15.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 32 (14.68%) Disaster Recovery
15 28 (12.84%) Mentoring
16 26 (11.93%) Migration
17 25 (11.47%) AI
18 23 (10.55%) Clean Code
18 23 (10.55%) Incident Response
19 22 (10.09%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 133 (61.01%) Python
2 74 (33.94%) Bash
3 37 (16.97%) PowerShell
4 36 (16.51%) SQL
5 29 (13.30%) Java
6 26 (11.93%) TypeScript
7 22 (10.09%) JavaScript
8 18 (8.26%) Bicep
8 18 (8.26%) Go
9 13 (5.96%) C#
10 8 (3.67%) Groovy
11 3 (1.38%) C++
11 3 (1.38%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (1.38%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.46%) PHP
Qualifications
1 69 (31.65%) Security Cleared
2 65 (29.82%) AWS Certification
3 51 (23.39%) SC Cleared
4 21 (9.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 21 (9.63%) Degree
5 18 (8.26%) DV Cleared
6 17 (7.80%) Azure Certification
7 13 (5.96%) AWS Certified Developer
8 11 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.75%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.83%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.92%) CISA
11 2 (0.92%) CISM
11 2 (0.92%) CISSP
11 2 (0.92%) CRISC
11 2 (0.92%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.05%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.59%) QA
3 9 (4.13%) GDPR
4 7 (3.21%) SLA
5 4 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.83%) NIST
6 1 (0.46%) Basel III
6 1 (0.46%) MiFID
6 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 111 (50.92%) Docker
2 7 (3.21%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (2.29%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.83%) KVM
4 4 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.92%) Terminal Server
5 2 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.46%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.46%) QEMU
6 1 (0.46%) vCloud
6 1 (0.46%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.46%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 179 (82.11%) Terraform
2 97 (44.50%) Kubernetes
3 60 (27.52%) Ansible
4 57 (26.15%) Grafana
5 39 (17.89%) Prometheus
6 12 (5.50%) AWS Copilot
7 10 (4.59%) Argo
8 6 (2.75%) HP Fortify
9 5 (2.29%) Kubeflow
9 5 (2.29%) Puppet
10 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.92%) Istio
11 2 (0.92%) linkerd
11 2 (0.92%) Nessus
11 2 (0.92%) Rancher
12 1 (0.46%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.46%) Mesos
12 1 (0.46%) Nagios
12 1 (0.46%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 33 (15.14%) Google
2 23 (10.55%) Splunk
3 19 (8.72%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.67%) Red Hat
5 7 (3.21%) IBM
6 5 (2.29%) VMware
7 4 (1.83%) Databricks
7 4 (1.83%) Foundry
7 4 (1.83%) LogicMonitor
7 4 (1.83%) PagerDuty
7 4 (1.83%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.38%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.38%) Citrix
8 3 (1.38%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.38%) SAP
9 2 (0.92%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.92%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.92%) Oracle
9 2 (0.92%) Rapid7
10 1 (0.46%) Refinitiv