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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 463 557
Rank change year-on-year +77 +94 -195
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 513 225 244
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.45% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.85% 1.43% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 258 135 182
10th Percentile £46,175 £51,900 £50,051
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £86,406
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,250 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,991 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +2.84% +3.70% -3.57%

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 27,734 15,741 24,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.43% 31.69% 31.66%
Number of salaries quoted 18,772 10,635 16,170
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,649 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 September 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 September 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 +64 456 £75,000 - 183
UK excluding London +24 257 £71,991 +2.84% 134
London +52 228 £90,000 +10.43% 90
North of England +61 147 £72,500 +3.57% 41
Work from Home -44 112 £82,500 +16.20% 112
Yorkshire +20 86 £75,000 +5.63% 14
North West +2 46 £72,500 +20.83% 18
Wales -40 31 £72,500 +31.82% 6
South West -49 31 £67,500 -25.00% 13
Midlands -35 22 £62,500 +13.64% 18
South East -48 19 £70,000 -20.00% 26
North East - 15 £48,500 - 9
East Midlands -21 14 £52,500 - 7
West Midlands -31 8 £68,496 +24.54% 11
Scotland +11 4 £71,991 +49.98% 13
East of England -43 2 £82,500 +10.00% 11
Northern Ireland - 1 £71,991 - 7

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 21 (4.09%) Apache
2 12 (2.34%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.75%) Confluence
4 7 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.58%) nginx
7 1 (0.19%) Drupal
7 1 (0.19%) IIS
7 1 (0.19%) JBoss
7 1 (0.19%) SAS
7 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.78%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.39%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.17%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.58%) Summit
3 1 (0.19%) Magento
3 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 492 (95.91%) AWS
2 246 (47.95%) Serverless
3 190 (37.04%) AWS Lambda
4 142 (27.68%) Amazon ECS
5 138 (26.90%) Amazon S3
6 136 (26.51%) Azure
7 110 (21.44%) GitHub
8 108 (21.05%) GCP
9 82 (15.98%) GitHub Actions
10 77 (15.01%) Amazon EKS
11 76 (14.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 76 (14.81%) Amazon EC2
12 66 (12.87%) AWS Step Functions
13 54 (10.53%) Datadog
14 49 (9.55%) Cloud Computing
15 40 (7.80%) Amazon SQS
16 39 (7.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 37 (7.21%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 30 (5.85%) Amazon EventBridge
18 30 (5.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.46%) Network Security
2 22 (4.29%) TCP/IP
3 12 (2.34%) VPN
4 10 (1.95%) DNS
4 10 (1.95%) Firewall
5 6 (1.17%) AMQP
5 6 (1.17%) HTTP
6 5 (0.97%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.39%) MQTT
8 1 (0.19%) 4G
8 1 (0.19%) 5G
8 1 (0.19%) DHCP
8 1 (0.19%) DNSSEC
8 1 (0.19%) Internet
8 1 (0.19%) PSTN
8 1 (0.19%) SCCP
8 1 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (17.74%) NoSQL
2 85 (16.57%) DynamoDB
3 67 (13.06%) Amazon RDS
4 30 (5.85%) Amazon Athena
5 29 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (3.31%) MongoDB
7 16 (3.12%) MySQL
8 12 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (1.75%) Big Data
10 9 (1.75%) Redis
10 9 (1.75%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (1.56%) Hadoop
12 7 (1.36%) Flink
13 6 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (1.17%) Cloudera CDH
13 6 (1.17%) Data Lake
13 6 (1.17%) Metadata
14 5 (0.97%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 120 (23.39%) Jenkins
2 111 (21.64%) GitLab
3 82 (15.98%) Git
4 41 (7.99%) Cucumber
5 24 (4.68%) Cypress.io
5 24 (4.68%) Maven
6 22 (4.29%) SonarQube
7 12 (2.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 12 (2.34%) JIRA
8 11 (2.14%) Bitbucket
9 10 (1.95%) CircleCI
10 7 (1.36%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.97%) Snyk
11 5 (0.97%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.78%) Gradle
12 4 (0.78%) Selenium
13 3 (0.58%) git-flow
13 3 (0.58%) JUnit
13 3 (0.58%) NUnit
13 3 (0.58%) Postman
General
1 138 (26.90%) Finance
1 138 (26.90%) Social Skills
2 67 (13.06%) Public Sector
3 53 (10.33%) Banking
4 33 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (3.51%) Financial Institution
6 17 (3.31%) Law
7 13 (2.53%) Aerospace
7 13 (2.53%) Legal
8 12 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.75%) Military
10 8 (1.56%) Retail
11 5 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.78%) Advertising
12 4 (0.78%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.78%) Local Government
12 4 (0.78%) Mandarin Language
12 4 (0.78%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.58%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 136 (26.51%) Senior
2 105 (20.47%) Developer
3 85 (16.57%) Cloud Engineer
4 76 (14.81%) DevOps Engineer
5 65 (12.67%) Java Developer
6 53 (10.33%) AWS Engineer
7 47 (9.16%) Java Engineer
8 45 (8.77%) Lead
9 42 (8.19%) Consultant
10 33 (6.43%) Architect
11 32 (6.24%) Senior Consultant
12 27 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
12 27 (5.26%) Software Engineer
13 26 (5.07%) Full-Stack Developer
14 25 (4.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 25 (4.87%) Senior Developer
15 24 (4.68%) AWS Developer
16 23 (4.48%) Principal Engineer
17 22 (4.29%) Principal Java Engineer
18 21 (4.09%) Cloud Native Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 375 (73.10%) Terraform
2 119 (23.20%) Spring Boot
3 102 (19.88%) Spring
4 93 (18.13%) Node.js
5 89 (17.35%) Kafka
6 73 (14.23%) AngularJS
7 58 (11.31%) AWS CDK
8 43 (8.38%) React
9 42 (8.19%) RESTful
10 30 (5.85%) REST
11 29 (5.65%) RabbitMQ
12 25 (4.87%) Gherkin
13 23 (4.48%) Web Services
14 20 (3.90%) Jest
15 16 (3.12%) gRPC
15 16 (3.12%) YAML
16 15 (2.92%) Hibernate
16 15 (2.92%) JSON
17 14 (2.73%) JPA
18 13 (2.53%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 198 (38.60%) Cloud Native
2 90 (17.54%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (10.14%) Public Cloud
4 50 (9.75%) Onboarding
5 40 (7.80%) Enterprise Cloud
6 38 (7.41%) e-Learning
7 37 (7.21%) Enterprise Software
8 28 (5.46%) Hybrid Cloud
9 26 (5.07%) Legacy Systems
9 26 (5.07%) Mainframe
10 22 (4.29%) Data Centre
11 16 (3.12%) Linux Command Line
11 16 (3.12%) Virtual Team
12 13 (2.53%) Blog
12 13 (2.53%) Distributed Computing
13 12 (2.34%) Product Ownership
13 12 (2.34%) Security Posture
14 11 (2.14%) Blockchain
14 11 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (2.14%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 86 (16.76%) Linux
2 21 (4.09%) Windows
3 14 (2.73%) Unix
4 12 (2.34%) Ubuntu
5 11 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (1.95%) CentOS
7 7 (1.36%) Windows Server
8 6 (1.17%) Debian
9 2 (0.39%) Android
9 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.39%) VMS
10 1 (0.19%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 388 (75.63%) Infrastructure as Code
2 338 (65.89%) CI/CD
3 275 (53.61%) DevOps
4 225 (43.86%) Agile
5 172 (33.53%) Containerisation
6 138 (26.90%) Mentoring
7 136 (26.51%) Software Engineering
8 127 (24.76%) Observability
9 122 (23.78%) Microservices
10 120 (23.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 106 (20.66%) Event-Driven
12 100 (19.49%) Test Automation
13 99 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
14 96 (18.71%) Cloud Security
15 79 (15.40%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 77 (15.01%) AI
17 75 (14.62%) Migration
18 73 (14.23%) Platform Engineering
19 66 (12.87%) Collaborative Culture
20 62 (12.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 233 (45.42%) Python
2 192 (37.43%) Java
3 102 (19.88%) SQL
4 84 (16.37%) Bash
4 84 (16.37%) TypeScript
5 45 (8.77%) Groovy
6 38 (7.41%) Go
7 37 (7.21%) Kotlin
8 36 (7.02%) JavaScript
9 31 (6.04%) PowerShell
9 31 (6.04%) Ruby
10 24 (4.68%) Bicep
11 18 (3.51%) C#
12 16 (3.12%) PHP
13 15 (2.92%) Perl
14 9 (1.75%) C++
15 6 (1.17%) COBOL
16 4 (0.78%) Google Apps Script
17 2 (0.39%) Shell Script
18 1 (0.19%) Natural
Qualifications
1 166 (32.36%) Security Cleared
2 131 (25.54%) AWS Certification
3 100 (19.49%) SC Cleared
4 86 (16.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 38 (7.41%) Degree
6 33 (6.43%) DV Cleared
7 17 (3.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 17 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.73%) ITIL Certification
9 12 (2.34%) Master's Degree
10 10 (1.95%) TOGAF Certification
11 9 (1.75%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (1.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (1.17%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.78%) OCP
14 4 (0.78%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (0.78%) Postgraduate
15 2 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.21%) GDPR
2 14 (2.73%) QA
3 13 (2.53%) PCI DSS
4 12 (2.34%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.34%) NIST
5 11 (2.14%) HIPAA
6 10 (1.95%) NCSC
7 9 (1.75%) Data Quality
8 6 (1.17%) Government Security Classifications
8 6 (1.17%) SOC 2
8 6 (1.17%) WCAG
9 5 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.78%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.19%) SLA
System Software
1 215 (41.91%) Docker
2 6 (1.17%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.97%) KVM
3 5 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.58%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 197 (38.40%) Kubernetes
2 95 (18.52%) Ansible
3 54 (10.53%) Grafana
4 49 (9.55%) Progress Chef
5 47 (9.16%) Prometheus
6 36 (7.02%) Puppet
7 20 (3.90%) Argo
8 16 (3.12%) HP Fortify
9 7 (1.36%) Istio
10 6 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.97%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.97%) linkerd
11 5 (0.97%) Mesos
11 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.39%) logstash
12 2 (0.39%) Rancher
13 1 (0.19%) Consul
13 1 (0.19%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.19%) Kibana
Vendors
1 45 (8.77%) Google
2 21 (4.09%) Microsoft
3 17 (3.31%) Splunk
4 16 (3.12%) Oracle
4 16 (3.12%) Red Hat
5 9 (1.75%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.36%) Databricks
6 7 (1.36%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.17%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.17%) SaltStack
7 6 (1.17%) VMware
8 5 (0.97%) AppDynamics
8 5 (0.97%) Cisco
9 4 (0.78%) Avaya
9 4 (0.78%) Genesys
10 3 (0.58%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.58%) OutSystems
11 2 (0.39%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.39%) Informatica
11 2 (0.39%) Tenable