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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 426 578
Rank change year-on-year +18 +152 -232
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 376 231 331
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.54% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.39% 1.61% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 202 133 273
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £112,250 £115,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,301 £69,384 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.09% +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 27,075 14,304 34,427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.19% 33.56% 35.34%
Number of salaries quoted 15,348 9,803 26,671
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% +9.00% -9.09%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 +21 351 £77,500 +3.33% 113
UK excluding London +35 191 £74,301 +7.09% 73
London +24 163 £87,500 +6.06% 46
North of England +47 133 £75,000 +7.14% 33
Work from Home -24 100 £72,500 +7.21% 67
Yorkshire +45 98 £75,000 +2.04% 14
North West +9 33 £80,000 +12.28% 15
Midlands -6 31 £50,000 -31.03% 7
East Midlands -17 17 £52,500 -27.59% 5
West Midlands -24 14 £50,000 -38.51% 2
South West -50 9 £72,500 -14.71% 14
South East -42 8 £70,000 +27.27% 10
Northern Ireland - 4 £95,000 - 2
Scotland -1 3 £76,783 +39.60% 6
East of England -23 2 £82,500 -2.94% 1
North East -42 2 £65,576 -5.49% 4
Wales -40 1 £73,801 +23.00%

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 20 (5.32%) Apache
2 10 (2.66%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.80%) Confluence
4 3 (0.80%) JBoss
5 1 (0.27%) Drupal
5 1 (0.27%) IIS
5 1 (0.27%) nginx
5 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 360 (95.74%) AWS
2 211 (56.12%) Serverless
3 184 (48.94%) AWS Lambda
4 134 (35.64%) Amazon S3
5 113 (30.05%) Amazon ECS
6 100 (26.60%) AWS Step Functions
7 96 (25.53%) Azure
8 83 (22.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 82 (21.81%) GitHub
10 64 (17.02%) GitHub Actions
11 62 (16.49%) GCP
12 60 (15.96%) Datadog
13 51 (13.56%) Amazon EKS
14 49 (13.03%) Amazon ECR
15 48 (12.77%) Amazon EC2
15 48 (12.77%) Amazon SQS
16 44 (11.70%) Apigee
17 36 (9.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 25 (6.65%) OpenShift
19 22 (5.85%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.46%) DSL
2 12 (3.19%) Firewall
2 12 (3.19%) VPN
3 9 (2.39%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.86%) DNS
4 7 (1.86%) Network Security
5 5 (1.33%) AMQP
6 4 (1.06%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.80%) SCCP
8 2 (0.53%) 4G
8 2 (0.53%) 5G
8 2 (0.53%) HTTP
9 1 (0.27%) PSTN
9 1 (0.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (32.45%) DynamoDB
2 82 (21.81%) NoSQL
3 51 (13.56%) Amazon RDS
4 32 (8.51%) Amazon Athena
5 25 (6.65%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (3.46%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (2.93%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.13%) Redis
9 7 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.86%) Big Data
10 6 (1.60%) Flink
10 6 (1.60%) MySQL
11 5 (1.33%) Cloudera CDH
11 5 (1.33%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.33%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.06%) Apache Iceberg
12 4 (1.06%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.80%) Metadata
13 3 (0.80%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 153 (40.69%) Jenkins
2 147 (39.10%) GitLab
3 67 (17.82%) Git
4 49 (13.03%) Maven
5 44 (11.70%) Cypress.io
6 42 (11.17%) SonarQube
7 27 (7.18%) CircleCI
8 22 (5.85%) Cucumber
9 11 (2.93%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.86%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (1.33%) Claude Code
11 5 (1.33%) Gradle
11 5 (1.33%) JIRA
12 3 (0.80%) Selenium
13 2 (0.53%) JMeter
14 1 (0.27%) Eclipse
14 1 (0.27%) MLflow
14 1 (0.27%) Robot Framework
14 1 (0.27%) Vagrant
General
1 111 (29.52%) Social Skills
2 77 (20.48%) Finance
3 35 (9.31%) Banking
4 12 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (2.66%) Advertising
6 10 (2.66%) Aerospace
7 8 (2.13%) Financial Institution
7 8 (2.13%) Retail
8 7 (1.86%) Public Sector
9 6 (1.60%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.06%) Billing
10 4 (1.06%) Legal
10 4 (1.06%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (1.06%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.80%) Aviation
11 3 (0.80%) Back Office
11 3 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.80%) Law
12 2 (0.53%) Games
Job Titles
1 115 (30.59%) Developer
2 70 (18.62%) Cloud Engineer
3 67 (17.82%) Java Developer
3 67 (17.82%) Senior
4 58 (15.43%) DevOps Engineer
5 39 (10.37%) AWS Engineer
6 33 (8.78%) Senior Developer
7 31 (8.24%) Lead
8 29 (7.71%) AWS Developer
9 25 (6.65%) Platform Engineer
10 22 (5.85%) Java Engineer
11 21 (5.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 21 (5.59%) Security Engineer
12 20 (5.32%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 18 (4.79%) AWS DevOps
14 17 (4.52%) Full-Stack Developer
14 17 (4.52%) Software Engineer
15 16 (4.26%) Architect
15 16 (4.26%) Principal Engineer
15 16 (4.26%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (22.61%) AngularJS
2 83 (22.07%) Spring Boot
3 62 (16.49%) Kafka
4 60 (15.96%) Node.js
5 53 (14.10%) Spring
6 51 (13.56%) AWS CDK
7 45 (11.97%) Gherkin
8 41 (10.90%) Jest
9 38 (10.11%) RESTful
10 37 (9.84%) React
11 23 (6.12%) RabbitMQ
12 22 (5.85%) gRPC
13 21 (5.59%) web3js
14 19 (5.05%) Next.js
15 18 (4.79%) YAML
16 16 (4.26%) REST
17 14 (3.72%) JSON
18 11 (2.93%) Elastic Stack
19 10 (2.66%) .NET
19 10 (2.66%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 114 (30.32%) Cloud Native
2 34 (9.04%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (7.71%) Public Cloud
4 21 (5.59%) Blockchain
4 21 (5.59%) Security Posture
4 21 (5.59%) Web3
5 18 (4.79%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (4.52%) e-Learning
7 14 (3.72%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (3.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (3.46%) Cloud Security Posture
9 11 (2.93%) PKI
10 8 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (2.13%) Product Ownership
11 7 (1.86%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
14 3 (0.80%) Mobile App
14 3 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 73 (19.41%) Linux
2 20 (5.32%) Windows
3 14 (3.72%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.66%) CentOS
6 5 (1.33%) Debian
6 5 (1.33%) Unix
6 5 (1.33%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.06%) VMS
8 3 (0.80%) Android
8 3 (0.80%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 271 (72.07%) Infrastructure as Code
2 260 (69.15%) CI/CD
3 227 (60.37%) DevOps
4 152 (40.43%) Agile
5 128 (34.04%) Containerisation
6 86 (22.87%) Microservices
7 82 (21.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 77 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
9 73 (19.41%) Observability
10 72 (19.15%) Mentoring
11 71 (18.88%) Software Engineering
12 70 (18.62%) DevSecOps
13 66 (17.55%) Cloud Security
14 63 (16.76%) Continuous Integration
15 61 (16.22%) Test Automation
16 54 (14.36%) Platform Engineering
17 49 (13.03%) Event-Driven
18 44 (11.70%) Full-Stack Development
19 43 (11.44%) Collaborative Culture
20 42 (11.17%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 163 (43.35%) Python
2 148 (39.36%) Java
3 101 (26.86%) TypeScript
4 86 (22.87%) SQL
5 72 (19.15%) Bash
6 56 (14.89%) Groovy
7 47 (12.50%) Go
8 40 (10.64%) Kotlin
9 36 (9.57%) JavaScript
10 22 (5.85%) PowerShell
11 19 (5.05%) C#
12 13 (3.46%) Rust
13 10 (2.66%) Bicep
13 10 (2.66%) C++
14 7 (1.86%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.53%) PHP
16 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.27%) Perl
16 1 (0.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 85 (22.61%) Security Cleared
2 84 (22.34%) AWS Certification
3 47 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 35 (9.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 31 (8.24%) Degree
6 28 (7.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (6.38%) ITIL Certification
8 23 (6.12%) DV Cleared
9 21 (5.59%) AWS Certified Developer
10 16 (4.26%) OSCP
11 9 (2.39%) Azure Certification
11 9 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (1.86%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 5 (1.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (1.06%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.80%) CREST Certified
15 3 (0.80%) Master's Degree
15 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
16 1 (0.27%) CISM
16 1 (0.27%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.59%) NIST
2 16 (4.26%) PCI DSS
3 13 (3.46%) GDPR
4 10 (2.66%) SOC 2
5 7 (1.86%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.33%) QA
7 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.27%) HL7
7 1 (0.27%) NCSC
7 1 (0.27%) SLA
7 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 189 (50.27%) Docker
2 7 (1.86%) KVM
2 7 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 248 (65.96%) Terraform
2 147 (39.10%) Kubernetes
3 65 (17.29%) Ansible
4 44 (11.70%) Prometheus
5 40 (10.64%) HP Fortify
6 39 (10.37%) Grafana
7 13 (3.46%) Argo
8 11 (2.93%) Progress Chef
9 9 (2.39%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (2.13%) Docker Swarm
11 7 (1.86%) Istio
11 7 (1.86%) linkerd
11 7 (1.86%) Mesos
11 7 (1.86%) Puppet
12 5 (1.33%) AWS Copilot
13 4 (1.06%) Rancher
14 2 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
15 1 (0.27%) Consul
15 1 (0.27%) Packer
Vendors
1 27 (7.18%) Google
2 17 (4.52%) Microsoft
3 7 (1.86%) HubSpot
3 7 (1.86%) VMware
4 6 (1.60%) Red Hat
5 5 (1.33%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.06%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.06%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.80%) Databricks
7 3 (0.80%) Oracle
7 3 (0.80%) Splunk
8 2 (0.53%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (0.53%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.27%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.27%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.27%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.27%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.27%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.27%) Tenable