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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 463 578
Rank change year-on-year +70 +115 -220
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 383 227 344
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.51% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.53% 1.53% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 213 125 278
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,600 £54,625
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £112,000 £112,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £69,384 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.49% +2.79% -10.00%

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 24,996 14,837 35,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.06% 33.56% 33.38%
Number of salaries quoted 15,994 10,199 27,255
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,250
25th Percentile £43,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.16%
75th Percentile £84,500 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,600
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 11 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 11 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 +55 356 £80,000 +6.67% 87
UK excluding London +42 191 £72,500 +4.49% 63
London +33 172 £90,000 +9.09% 30
North of England +64 126 £75,000 +8.09% 25
Work from Home -6 105 £72,500 +7.21% 62
Yorkshire +37 88 £75,000 +2.04% 10
North West +25 36 £80,000 +14.79% 14
Midlands +9 33 £51,250 -29.31% 6
East Midlands -6 18 £52,500 -27.59% 3
West Midlands -9 15 £50,000 -38.51% 3
South East -42 9 £70,000 +19.15% 12
South West -44 9 £72,500 -14.71% 12
Wales -40 7 £73,801 +28.35% 3
Scotland +10 3 £76,783 +39.60% 3
East of England -30 2 £82,500 +10.00% 1
North East -44 2 £65,576 -5.49% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £84,401 - 1

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 (4.96%) Apache
2 11 (2.87%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.04%) Confluence
4 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.78%) JBoss
6 1 (0.26%) Drupal
6 1 (0.26%) IIS
6 1 (0.26%) nginx
6 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.26%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.26%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 367 (95.82%) AWS
2 204 (53.26%) Serverless
3 173 (45.17%) AWS Lambda
4 126 (32.90%) Amazon S3
5 109 (28.46%) Amazon ECS
6 96 (25.07%) Azure
7 89 (23.24%) AWS Step Functions
8 86 (22.45%) GitHub
9 79 (20.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 66 (17.23%) GitHub Actions
11 65 (16.97%) GCP
12 62 (16.19%) Datadog
13 52 (13.58%) Amazon EC2
14 50 (13.05%) Amazon EKS
15 43 (11.23%) Amazon SQS
16 39 (10.18%) Amazon ECR
17 38 (9.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 34 (8.88%) Apigee
19 22 (5.74%) OpenShift
19 22 (5.74%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.39%) DSL
2 12 (3.13%) Firewall
2 12 (3.13%) VPN
3 10 (2.61%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.83%) DNS
4 7 (1.83%) Network Security
5 5 (1.31%) AMQP
6 3 (0.78%) HTTP
6 3 (0.78%) SCCP
6 3 (0.78%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.52%) 4G
7 2 (0.52%) 5G
8 1 (0.26%) MQTT
8 1 (0.26%) PSTN
8 1 (0.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (27.68%) DynamoDB
2 81 (21.15%) NoSQL
3 52 (13.58%) Amazon RDS
4 35 (9.14%) Amazon Athena
5 17 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (2.09%) Big Data
7 8 (2.09%) Redis
8 6 (1.57%) Flink
8 6 (1.57%) Hadoop
8 6 (1.57%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.31%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (1.31%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.31%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.04%) Apache Iceberg
10 4 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.04%) MySQL
11 3 (0.78%) Metadata
12 2 (0.52%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 150 (39.16%) Jenkins
2 140 (36.55%) GitLab
3 62 (16.19%) Git
4 38 (9.92%) Maven
5 34 (8.88%) Cypress.io
6 31 (8.09%) SonarQube
7 26 (6.79%) CircleCI
7 26 (6.79%) Cucumber
8 9 (2.35%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (1.57%) JIRA
9 6 (1.57%) TeamCity
10 5 (1.31%) Claude Code
10 5 (1.31%) Gradle
11 3 (0.78%) Selenium
12 2 (0.52%) JMeter
13 1 (0.26%) Eclipse
13 1 (0.26%) MLflow
13 1 (0.26%) Robot Framework
13 1 (0.26%) Vagrant
General
1 108 (28.20%) Social Skills
2 83 (21.67%) Finance
3 36 (9.40%) Banking
4 13 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (3.39%) Public Sector
5 11 (2.87%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.61%) Advertising
7 9 (2.35%) Aerospace
7 9 (2.35%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.83%) Investment Banking
8 7 (1.83%) Retail
9 4 (1.04%) Billing
9 4 (1.04%) Legal
9 4 (1.04%) Mandarin Language
9 4 (1.04%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.78%) Aviation
10 3 (0.78%) Back Office
10 3 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.78%) Law
11 2 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 109 (28.46%) Developer
2 75 (19.58%) Cloud Engineer
3 72 (18.80%) Senior
4 68 (17.75%) Java Developer
5 60 (15.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 40 (10.44%) AWS Engineer
7 33 (8.62%) Senior Developer
8 29 (7.57%) Platform Engineer
9 26 (6.79%) AWS Developer
9 26 (6.79%) Java Engineer
10 23 (6.01%) Lead
11 21 (5.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 21 (5.48%) Security Engineer
12 20 (5.22%) Architect
12 20 (5.22%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 19 (4.96%) AWS DevOps
13 19 (4.96%) Full-Stack Developer
14 18 (4.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 18 (4.70%) Principal Engineer
14 18 (4.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (21.93%) Spring Boot
2 77 (20.10%) AngularJS
3 67 (17.49%) Kafka
4 65 (16.97%) Node.js
5 57 (14.88%) Spring
6 50 (13.05%) AWS CDK
7 36 (9.40%) Gherkin
8 35 (9.14%) React
9 30 (7.83%) Jest
9 30 (7.83%) RESTful
10 22 (5.74%) gRPC
10 22 (5.74%) RabbitMQ
11 20 (5.22%) REST
11 20 (5.22%) web3js
12 18 (4.70%) Next.js
12 18 (4.70%) YAML
13 15 (3.92%) JSON
14 12 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
14 12 (3.13%) PySpark
14 12 (3.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 120 (31.33%) Cloud Native
2 36 (9.40%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (8.62%) Public Cloud
4 22 (5.74%) Security Posture
5 21 (5.48%) e-Learning
5 21 (5.48%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (5.22%) Blockchain
6 20 (5.22%) Web3
7 15 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (3.66%) Cloud Security Posture
9 10 (2.61%) PKI
10 8 (2.09%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (2.09%) Product Ownership
11 7 (1.83%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.04%) Mainframe
14 3 (0.78%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 73 (19.06%) Linux
2 19 (4.96%) Windows
3 13 (3.39%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.61%) CentOS
6 5 (1.31%) Debian
6 5 (1.31%) Unix
6 5 (1.31%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.78%) Android
7 3 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.78%) VMS
8 1 (0.26%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (74.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 264 (68.93%) CI/CD
3 219 (57.18%) DevOps
4 152 (39.69%) Agile
5 131 (34.20%) Containerisation
6 86 (22.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 82 (21.41%) Microservices
8 80 (20.89%) Observability
9 77 (20.10%) Software Engineering
10 74 (19.32%) Mentoring
11 73 (19.06%) DevSecOps
12 72 (18.80%) Cloud Security
13 70 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
14 68 (17.75%) Test Automation
15 65 (16.97%) Continuous Integration
16 59 (15.40%) Platform Engineering
17 57 (14.88%) Event-Driven
18 44 (11.49%) Collaborative Culture
19 43 (11.23%) Full-Stack Development
20 42 (10.97%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 172 (44.91%) Python
2 147 (38.38%) Java
3 93 (24.28%) TypeScript
4 88 (22.98%) SQL
5 64 (16.71%) Bash
6 50 (13.05%) Groovy
7 48 (12.53%) Go
8 41 (10.70%) Kotlin
9 34 (8.88%) JavaScript
10 28 (7.31%) PowerShell
11 17 (4.44%) C#
12 16 (4.18%) Bicep
13 13 (3.39%) Rust
14 9 (2.35%) C++
15 6 (1.57%) Google Apps Script
16 5 (1.31%) Ruby
17 2 (0.52%) COBOL
17 2 (0.52%) PHP
18 1 (0.26%) Natural
18 1 (0.26%) Perl
Qualifications
1 90 (23.50%) Security Cleared
2 82 (21.41%) AWS Certification
3 54 (14.10%) SC Cleared
4 42 (10.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 34 (8.88%) Degree
6 26 (6.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 22 (5.74%) DV Cleared
7 22 (5.74%) ITIL Certification
8 16 (4.18%) OSCP
9 11 (2.87%) AWS Certified Developer
10 10 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (2.35%) Azure Certification
12 7 (1.83%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 6 (1.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 5 (1.31%) Master's Degree
15 4 (1.04%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.78%) CREST Certified
16 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
16 3 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
17 2 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.74%) NIST
2 18 (4.70%) PCI DSS
3 15 (3.92%) GDPR
4 11 (2.87%) SOC 2
5 7 (1.83%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.78%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.78%) NCSC
8 2 (0.52%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.26%) HL7
9 1 (0.26%) QA
9 1 (0.26%) SLA
9 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 179 (46.74%) Docker
2 6 (1.57%) KVM
2 6 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 257 (67.10%) Terraform
2 151 (39.43%) Kubernetes
3 66 (17.23%) Ansible
4 45 (11.75%) Prometheus
5 40 (10.44%) Grafana
6 29 (7.57%) HP Fortify
7 15 (3.92%) Argo
8 14 (3.66%) Progress Chef
9 8 (2.09%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (1.83%) Docker Swarm
10 7 (1.83%) Puppet
11 6 (1.57%) Istio
11 6 (1.57%) linkerd
11 6 (1.57%) Mesos
12 5 (1.31%) AWS Copilot
13 3 (0.78%) Rancher
14 2 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
15 1 (0.26%) Consul
15 1 (0.26%) Packer
Vendors
1 29 (7.57%) Google
2 16 (4.18%) Microsoft
3 8 (2.09%) Oracle
4 7 (1.83%) HubSpot
5 6 (1.57%) Red Hat
5 6 (1.57%) VMware
6 5 (1.31%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.04%) Databricks
7 4 (1.04%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.04%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.04%) Splunk
8 2 (0.52%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (0.52%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.26%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.26%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.26%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.26%) OneLogin
9 1 (0.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.26%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.26%) TOWER Software