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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 489 384
Rank change year-on-year +28 -105 -79
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 216 274 408
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.40% 0.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.22% 1.24% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 161 205 338
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% +3.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £89,375
90th Percentile £97,500 £118,750 £116,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £69,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -6.47% -7.33%

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 17,768 22,140 22,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.54% 32.57% 42.93%
Number of salaries quoted 11,332 13,359 19,033
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -
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 15 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 15 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 +41 174 £75,000 - 293
Work from Home +54 103 £73,151 -2.47% 178
UK excluding London +48 100 £70,000 +7.69% 179
London +26 86 £82,000 -13.68% 159
North of England +41 51 £70,000 +12.00% 78
North West +33 26 £62,500 +4.17% 53
Yorkshire +24 22 £70,000 +7.69% 20
Midlands +48 13 £60,000 -17.24% 8
South East +24 13 £85,000 +36.00% 37
West Midlands +38 11 £60,000 -17.24% 5
Wales +15 9 £68,958 -0.50% 6
South West +16 6 £78,750 +43.18% 15
Scotland -2 6 £73,801 +6.48% 21
North East +3 3 £73,801 +6.48% 5
Northern Ireland 0 3 £73,801 +6.48% 6
East Midlands +23 2 - - 3
East of England +25 1 £75,000 +20.00% 9

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 (3.70%) Apache
1 8 (3.70%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.24%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.78%) Tomcat
3 6 (2.78%) WebSphere
3 6 (2.78%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.93%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.46%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 199 (92.13%) AWS
2 112 (51.85%) Azure
3 86 (39.81%) Serverless
4 79 (36.57%) AWS Lambda
5 64 (29.63%) GCP
6 61 (28.24%) Amazon S3
7 56 (25.93%) GitHub
8 55 (25.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 54 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
10 52 (24.07%) Amazon ECS
11 48 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
12 43 (19.91%) GitHub Actions
13 38 (17.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 26 (12.04%) Amazon ECR
14 26 (12.04%) Azure DevOps
15 25 (11.57%) dbt
16 23 (10.65%) Pulumi
17 19 (8.80%) PaaS
18 18 (8.33%) Datadog
19 16 (7.41%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (9.26%) TCP/IP
2 11 (5.09%) Firewall
3 7 (3.24%) Network Security
3 7 (3.24%) VPN
4 6 (2.78%) SSL
5 5 (2.31%) DNS
6 4 (1.85%) LAN
6 4 (1.85%) WAN
7 2 (0.93%) AMQP
7 2 (0.93%) DHCP
8 1 (0.46%) HTTP
8 1 (0.46%) NAS
8 1 (0.46%) SAN
8 1 (0.46%) SNMP
8 1 (0.46%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.46%) VSAN
8 1 (0.46%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (24.07%) Amazon RDS
2 31 (14.35%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 20 (9.26%) Elasticsearch
4 20 (9.26%) Redis
5 19 (8.80%) DynamoDB
6 18 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (6.02%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (5.56%) Data Lake
10 10 (4.63%) SQL Server
11 7 (3.24%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (3.24%) MySQL
12 6 (2.78%) DB2
13 5 (2.31%) Big Data
14 3 (1.39%) Apache Iceberg
14 3 (1.39%) Data Vault
14 3 (1.39%) Hadoop
15 2 (0.93%) Cloudera CDH
15 2 (0.93%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 65 (30.09%) Jenkins
2 45 (20.83%) GitLab
3 20 (9.26%) Git
4 12 (5.56%) CircleCI
5 6 (2.78%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.78%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.31%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.31%) git-flow
6 5 (2.31%) JIRA
7 4 (1.85%) Robot Framework
7 4 (1.85%) Spinnaker
8 2 (0.93%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.93%) JMeter
8 2 (0.93%) Selenium
8 2 (0.93%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.93%) TestRail
9 1 (0.46%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.46%) Subversion
General
1 58 (26.85%) Social Skills
2 44 (20.37%) Finance
3 18 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.87%) Banking
5 16 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (6.94%) Law
7 11 (5.09%) Public Sector
8 8 (3.70%) Marketing
9 7 (3.24%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.31%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.85%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.39%) Advertising
12 3 (1.39%) Electronics
12 3 (1.39%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.93%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.46%) Military
14 1 (0.46%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 73 (33.80%) Senior
2 47 (21.76%) Cloud Engineer
3 44 (20.37%) DevOps Engineer
4 36 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
5 29 (13.43%) Platform Engineer
6 19 (8.80%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 17 (7.87%) Lead
7 17 (7.87%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 16 (7.41%) AWS DevOps
9 15 (6.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 15 (6.94%) Data Engineer
10 14 (6.48%) Architect
10 14 (6.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 13 (6.02%) Developer
12 11 (5.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 9 (4.17%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 9 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (4.17%) Site Engineer
13 9 (4.17%) Support Engineer
14 8 (3.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (13.43%) Elastic Stack
2 24 (11.11%) AWS CDK
3 20 (9.26%) Django
4 17 (7.87%) Kafka
5 13 (6.02%) React
6 12 (5.56%) Node.js
7 11 (5.09%) .NET
8 9 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
8 9 (4.17%) RESTful
9 8 (3.70%) Spring
9 8 (3.70%) Spring Boot
10 7 (3.24%) ARM Templates
10 7 (3.24%) Material-UI
11 6 (2.78%) LAPP Stack
11 6 (2.78%) LDAP
11 6 (2.78%) WebSphere MQ
12 5 (2.31%) .NET Core
12 5 (2.31%) ASP.NET
12 5 (2.31%) CSS
12 5 (2.31%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 45 (20.83%) Cloud Native
2 19 (8.80%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
4 13 (6.02%) Public Cloud
5 11 (5.09%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.78%) AI Agents
6 6 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.31%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.85%) e-Learning
8 4 (1.85%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.39%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.93%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.93%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.93%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 83 (38.43%) Linux
2 38 (17.59%) Unix
3 33 (15.28%) Windows
4 11 (5.09%) Ubuntu
5 10 (4.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (3.70%) Debian
7 4 (1.85%) CentOS
8 2 (0.93%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (87.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 163 (75.46%) CI/CD
3 158 (73.15%) DevOps
4 65 (30.09%) Problem-Solving
5 62 (28.70%) Agile
5 62 (28.70%) Containerisation
6 55 (25.46%) Observability
7 44 (20.37%) Continuous Improvement
8 40 (18.52%) Platform Engineering
8 40 (18.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 39 (18.06%) Cloud Security
10 34 (15.74%) Disaster Recovery
11 32 (14.81%) Microservices
12 31 (14.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 30 (13.89%) Mentoring
14 26 (12.04%) Migration
15 25 (11.57%) AI
16 23 (10.65%) Clean Code
16 23 (10.65%) Data Pipeline
16 23 (10.65%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 138 (63.89%) Python
2 73 (33.80%) Bash
3 37 (17.13%) PowerShell
4 33 (15.28%) SQL
5 22 (10.19%) Java
6 21 (9.72%) Go
7 19 (8.80%) Bicep
7 19 (8.80%) JavaScript
8 16 (7.41%) TypeScript
9 10 (4.63%) C#
10 2 (0.93%) C++
10 2 (0.93%) Google Apps Script
10 2 (0.93%) Groovy
10 2 (0.93%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.46%) PHP
11 1 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 72 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 57 (26.39%) AWS Certification
3 55 (25.46%) SC Cleared
4 22 (10.19%) Degree
5 20 (9.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 17 (7.87%) DV Cleared
7 16 (7.41%) Azure Certification
8 11 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.78%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.85%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.93%) CISA
11 2 (0.93%) CISM
11 2 (0.93%) CISSP
11 2 (0.93%) CRISC
11 2 (0.93%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.09%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.63%) GDPR
3 9 (4.17%) QA
4 7 (3.24%) SLA
5 4 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.85%) NIST
6 1 (0.46%) Basel III
6 1 (0.46%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.46%) MiFID
6 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 103 (47.69%) Docker
2 7 (3.24%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (2.31%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.39%) KVM
4 3 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.93%) Terminal Server
5 2 (0.93%) 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
1 183 (84.72%) Terraform
2 98 (45.37%) Kubernetes
3 64 (29.63%) Ansible
4 63 (29.17%) Grafana
5 42 (19.44%) Prometheus
6 12 (5.56%) AWS Copilot
7 11 (5.09%) Argo
8 6 (2.78%) Puppet
9 5 (2.31%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.93%) Istio
10 2 (0.93%) linkerd
10 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.93%) Nessus
10 2 (0.93%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.46%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.46%) Mesos
11 1 (0.46%) Nagios
11 1 (0.46%) Rancher
Vendors
1 33 (15.28%) Google
2 23 (10.65%) Splunk
3 18 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.70%) Red Hat
5 7 (3.24%) IBM
6 5 (2.31%) Databricks
6 5 (2.31%) PagerDuty
7 4 (1.85%) Foundry
7 4 (1.85%) LogicMonitor
7 4 (1.85%) SolarWinds
7 4 (1.85%) VMware
8 3 (1.39%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.39%) Citrix
8 3 (1.39%) Hitachi
8 3 (1.39%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.39%) SAP
9 2 (0.93%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.93%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.93%) Oracle
9 2 (0.93%) Rapid7