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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 443 587
Rank change year-on-year +47 +144 -230
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 389 229 344
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.51% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.55% 1.53% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 216 127 274
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,900 £55,000
25th Percentile £67,188 £60,000 £62,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,338 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £111,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £69,384 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.49% +2.79% -6.90%

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 25,150 14,944 35,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.90% 33.53% 33.00%
Number of salaries quoted 16,275 10,305 27,369
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £30,250
25th Percentile £43,498 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -9.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,685
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.58% -7.85%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 +49 361 £80,000 +6.67% 206
UK excluding London +25 197 £72,500 +4.49% 215
London +20 173 £90,000 +9.09% 53
North of England +68 131 £75,000 +8.09% 51
Work from Home -6 109 £72,500 +5.83% 204
Yorkshire +42 92 £75,000 +2.04% 17
North West +16 37 £80,000 +14.79% 25
Midlands +6 32 £50,000 -40.30% 17
East Midlands -13 18 £52,500 -27.59% 7
West Midlands -7 14 £50,000 -47.37% 10
South West -47 10 £72,500 -14.71% 25
Wales -39 9 £72,500 +26.09% 17
South East -38 8 £70,000 +12.00% 52
Scotland +3 3 £76,783 +39.60% 19
East of England -27 2 £82,500 +10.00% 18
North East -48 2 £65,576 -5.49% 9
Northern Ireland - 2 £84,401 - 17

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 (4.88%) Apache
2 12 (3.08%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.29%) Confluence
5 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.77%) JBoss
7 1 (0.26%) Drupal
7 1 (0.26%) IIS
7 1 (0.26%) nginx
7 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.26%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.26%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 375 (96.40%) AWS
2 209 (53.73%) Serverless
3 178 (45.76%) AWS Lambda
4 131 (33.68%) Amazon S3
5 113 (29.05%) Amazon ECS
6 95 (24.42%) Azure
7 92 (23.65%) AWS Step Functions
8 88 (22.62%) GitHub
9 82 (21.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 66 (16.97%) GitHub Actions
11 65 (16.71%) GCP
12 62 (15.94%) Datadog
13 53 (13.62%) Amazon EC2
14 49 (12.60%) Amazon EKS
15 46 (11.83%) Amazon SQS
16 40 (10.28%) Amazon ECR
17 39 (10.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 35 (9.00%) Apigee
19 23 (5.91%) Pulumi
20 22 (5.66%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.08%) DSL
1 12 (3.08%) Firewall
2 11 (2.83%) VPN
3 10 (2.57%) TCP/IP
4 8 (2.06%) Network Security
5 7 (1.80%) DNS
6 6 (1.54%) AMQP
7 3 (0.77%) HTTP
7 3 (0.77%) SCCP
7 3 (0.77%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.51%) 4G
8 2 (0.51%) 5G
9 1 (0.26%) MQTT
9 1 (0.26%) PSTN
9 1 (0.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (27.76%) DynamoDB
2 83 (21.34%) NoSQL
3 53 (13.62%) Amazon RDS
4 37 (9.51%) Amazon Athena
5 17 (4.37%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (2.31%) Big Data
8 8 (2.06%) Redis
9 7 (1.80%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.54%) Cloudera CDH
10 6 (1.54%) Flink
10 6 (1.54%) SQL Server
11 5 (1.29%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.29%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.03%) Apache Iceberg
12 4 (1.03%) Metadata
12 4 (1.03%) MySQL
13 2 (0.51%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 153 (39.33%) Jenkins
2 141 (36.25%) GitLab
3 61 (15.68%) Git
4 39 (10.03%) Maven
5 35 (9.00%) Cypress.io
6 32 (8.23%) SonarQube
7 27 (6.94%) CircleCI
8 26 (6.68%) Cucumber
9 8 (2.06%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 7 (1.80%) JIRA
11 5 (1.29%) Claude Code
11 5 (1.29%) Gradle
11 5 (1.29%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.77%) Selenium
13 2 (0.51%) JMeter
14 1 (0.26%) Gatling
14 1 (0.26%) git-flow
14 1 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
14 1 (0.26%) Vagrant
General
1 109 (28.02%) Social Skills
2 84 (21.59%) Finance
3 38 (9.77%) Banking
4 16 (4.11%) Public Sector
5 14 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (2.57%) Advertising
7 10 (2.57%) Aerospace
8 9 (2.31%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.80%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.80%) Retail
10 4 (1.03%) Billing
10 4 (1.03%) Legal
10 4 (1.03%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (1.03%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.77%) Aviation
11 3 (0.77%) Back Office
11 3 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.77%) Law
12 2 (0.51%) Games
Job Titles
1 114 (29.31%) Developer
2 73 (18.77%) Cloud Engineer
3 72 (18.51%) Java Developer
3 72 (18.51%) Senior
4 60 (15.42%) DevOps Engineer
5 43 (11.05%) AWS Engineer
6 33 (8.48%) Senior Developer
7 29 (7.46%) Platform Engineer
8 28 (7.20%) AWS Developer
9 26 (6.68%) Java Engineer
9 26 (6.68%) Lead
10 22 (5.66%) Full-Stack Developer
11 21 (5.40%) AWS DevOps
12 20 (5.14%) Architect
12 20 (5.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 20 (5.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 20 (5.14%) Security Engineer
12 20 (5.14%) Software Engineer
13 19 (4.88%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 18 (4.63%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (23.14%) Spring Boot
2 82 (21.08%) AngularJS
3 70 (17.99%) Kafka
4 69 (17.74%) Node.js
5 62 (15.94%) Spring
6 50 (12.85%) AWS CDK
7 39 (10.03%) React
8 38 (9.77%) Gherkin
9 31 (7.97%) Jest
9 31 (7.97%) RESTful
10 25 (6.43%) RabbitMQ
11 24 (6.17%) gRPC
12 21 (5.40%) web3js
13 20 (5.14%) REST
14 18 (4.63%) Next.js
14 18 (4.63%) YAML
15 15 (3.86%) JSON
16 14 (3.60%) Elastic Stack
17 12 (3.08%) PySpark
17 12 (3.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 123 (31.62%) Cloud Native
2 38 (9.77%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (8.48%) Public Cloud
4 22 (5.66%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (5.40%) Blockchain
5 21 (5.40%) e-Learning
5 21 (5.40%) Security Posture
5 21 (5.40%) Web3
6 15 (3.86%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (3.86%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (3.34%) Cloud Security Posture
8 9 (2.31%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (2.06%) PKI
10 7 (1.80%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.29%) Mainframe
11 5 (1.29%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 71 (18.25%) Linux
2 18 (4.63%) Windows
3 14 (3.60%) Ubuntu
4 12 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.83%) CentOS
6 6 (1.54%) Debian
7 5 (1.29%) Unix
7 5 (1.29%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.77%) Android
8 3 (0.77%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.77%) VMS
9 1 (0.26%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (74.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 269 (69.15%) CI/CD
3 221 (56.81%) DevOps
4 155 (39.85%) Agile
5 132 (33.93%) Containerisation
6 86 (22.11%) Observability
7 84 (21.59%) Microservices
8 82 (21.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 82 (21.08%) Software Engineering
9 77 (19.79%) Mentoring
10 73 (18.77%) DevSecOps
11 71 (18.25%) Cloud Security
12 69 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
12 69 (17.74%) Test Automation
13 66 (16.97%) Continuous Integration
14 60 (15.42%) Event-Driven
15 58 (14.91%) Platform Engineering
16 47 (12.08%) Full-Stack Development
17 44 (11.31%) Collaborative Culture
18 43 (11.05%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 169 (43.44%) Python
2 151 (38.82%) Java
3 95 (24.42%) TypeScript
4 89 (22.88%) SQL
5 65 (16.71%) Bash
6 52 (13.37%) Groovy
7 47 (12.08%) Go
8 41 (10.54%) Kotlin
9 34 (8.74%) JavaScript
10 27 (6.94%) PowerShell
11 17 (4.37%) Bicep
12 15 (3.86%) C#
13 12 (3.08%) Rust
14 8 (2.06%) C++
15 6 (1.54%) Ruby
16 5 (1.29%) Google Apps Script
17 2 (0.51%) COBOL
17 2 (0.51%) PHP
18 1 (0.26%) Natural
18 1 (0.26%) Perl
Qualifications
1 93 (23.91%) Security Cleared
2 83 (21.34%) AWS Certification
3 59 (15.17%) SC Cleared
4 42 (10.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 33 (8.48%) Degree
6 27 (6.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 23 (5.91%) ITIL Certification
8 20 (5.14%) DV Cleared
9 15 (3.86%) OSCP
10 10 (2.57%) AWS Certified Developer
11 9 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (2.06%) Azure Certification
13 7 (1.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (1.80%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 6 (1.54%) Master's Degree
15 4 (1.03%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.77%) CREST Certified
16 3 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
17 2 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
17 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.14%) NIST
2 17 (4.37%) PCI DSS
3 15 (3.86%) GDPR
4 11 (2.83%) SOC 2
5 8 (2.06%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.03%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.77%) NCSC
9 2 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.51%) QA
9 2 (0.51%) WCAG
10 1 (0.26%) HL7
10 1 (0.26%) SLA
10 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 181 (46.53%) Docker
2 5 (1.29%) KVM
2 5 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 259 (66.58%) Terraform
2 150 (38.56%) Kubernetes
3 64 (16.45%) Ansible
4 48 (12.34%) Prometheus
5 41 (10.54%) Grafana
6 30 (7.71%) HP Fortify
7 16 (4.11%) Argo
8 14 (3.60%) Progress Chef
9 8 (2.06%) Puppet
10 7 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (1.54%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (1.29%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (1.29%) Istio
12 5 (1.29%) linkerd
12 5 (1.29%) Mesos
13 2 (0.51%) Rancher
13 2 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.26%) Consul
14 1 (0.26%) Packer
Vendors
1 29 (7.46%) Google
2 13 (3.34%) Microsoft
3 10 (2.57%) Oracle
4 7 (1.80%) HubSpot
4 7 (1.80%) Red Hat
5 6 (1.54%) SaltStack
5 6 (1.54%) Splunk
6 5 (1.29%) VMware
7 4 (1.03%) Databricks
7 4 (1.03%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.03%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.51%) Tenable
9 1 (0.26%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.26%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.26%) OneLogin
9 1 (0.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.26%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.26%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.26%) TOWER Software