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

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 448 502 373
Rank change year-on-year +54 -129 -72
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 209 253 408
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.37% 0.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.31% 1.15% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 161 189 351
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,100
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £89,375
90th Percentile £97,500 £118,750 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.46% -7.14% -6.67%

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 16,014 21,907 22,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.85% 32.39% 43.07%
Number of salaries quoted 10,930 13,184 19,242
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £33,000
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 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -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 4 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 4 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 +53 172 £75,000 +3.45% 165
Work from Home +52 98 £73,801 +1.79% 85
UK excluding London +26 92 £70,500 +8.46% 146
London +44 91 £81,500 -9.44% 87
North of England +5 48 £70,000 +12.00% 32
North West -2 25 £61,250 +2.08% 19
Yorkshire +18 20 £70,000 +7.69% 9
Midlands +44 13 £60,000 -17.24% 9
South East +27 12 £86,250 +40.82% 69
West Midlands +44 11 £60,000 -17.24% 8
Wales +12 8 £64,479 -6.97% 8
Scotland -11 6 £73,801 +6.48% 14
South West +19 4 £90,000 +63.64% 10
North East +4 3 £73,801 +6.48% 4
East Midlands +26 2 - - 1
Northern Ireland -3 2 £73,801 +6.48% 2
East of England +31 1 £75,000 +20.00% 3

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 7 (3.35%) Apache
1 7 (3.35%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (3.35%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.87%) Tomcat
2 6 (2.87%) WebSphere
2 6 (2.87%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (0.96%) nginx
3 2 (0.96%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 194 (92.82%) AWS
2 99 (47.37%) Azure
3 83 (39.71%) Serverless
4 77 (36.84%) AWS Lambda
5 64 (30.62%) Amazon S3
6 60 (28.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 60 (28.71%) GCP
7 55 (26.32%) Amazon EC2
8 54 (25.84%) Amazon ECS
8 54 (25.84%) GitHub
9 51 (24.40%) Amazon EKS
10 42 (20.10%) GitHub Actions
11 41 (19.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 26 (12.44%) Amazon ECR
13 25 (11.96%) dbt
14 24 (11.48%) Pulumi
15 22 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
16 19 (9.09%) Datadog
16 19 (9.09%) PaaS
17 16 (7.66%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 20 (9.57%) TCP/IP
2 14 (6.70%) Firewall
3 8 (3.83%) Network Security
3 8 (3.83%) VPN
4 7 (3.35%) DNS
5 6 (2.87%) SSL
6 4 (1.91%) LAN
6 4 (1.91%) WAN
7 2 (0.96%) DHCP
7 2 (0.96%) NAS
7 2 (0.96%) SAN
7 2 (0.96%) SNMP
7 2 (0.96%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.48%) AMQP
8 1 (0.48%) HTTP
8 1 (0.48%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.48%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (26.79%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (14.35%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (10.53%) NoSQL
4 20 (9.57%) Amazon Redshift
4 20 (9.57%) Elasticsearch
4 20 (9.57%) Redis
5 18 (8.61%) DynamoDB
6 16 (7.66%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (6.70%) Amazon Athena
8 13 (6.22%) Data Lake
9 8 (3.83%) SQL Server
10 7 (3.35%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (2.87%) DB2
12 5 (2.39%) Big Data
12 5 (2.39%) MySQL
13 3 (1.44%) Apache Iceberg
13 3 (1.44%) Data Vault
14 2 (0.96%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.96%) Metadata
15 1 (0.48%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 66 (31.58%) Jenkins
2 44 (21.05%) GitLab
3 15 (7.18%) CircleCI
3 15 (7.18%) Git
4 4 (1.91%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.91%) Cucumber
4 4 (1.91%) git-flow
4 4 (1.91%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.91%) Spinnaker
5 3 (1.44%) JIRA
6 2 (0.96%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.48%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.48%) JMeter
7 1 (0.48%) Selenium
7 1 (0.48%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.48%) TestRail
General
1 53 (25.36%) Social Skills
2 41 (19.62%) Finance
3 17 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.66%) Banking
5 14 (6.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (6.70%) Law
6 10 (4.78%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.87%) Marketing
8 5 (2.39%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.91%) Advertising
9 4 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.44%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.96%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.96%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.48%) Electronics
12 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 76 (36.36%) Senior
2 43 (20.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 42 (20.10%) AWS Engineer
3 42 (20.10%) Cloud Engineer
4 32 (15.31%) Platform Engineer
5 22 (10.53%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 18 (8.61%) AWS DevOps
7 17 (8.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 16 (7.66%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 16 (7.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 15 (7.18%) Data Engineer
10 14 (6.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 14 (6.70%) Lead
11 12 (5.74%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 12 (5.74%) Developer
12 11 (5.26%) Architect
13 10 (4.78%) Site Engineer
14 9 (4.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 9 (4.31%) Support Engineer
15 8 (3.83%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (13.88%) Elastic Stack
2 23 (11.00%) AWS CDK
3 20 (9.57%) Django
4 18 (8.61%) Kafka
5 9 (4.31%) RabbitMQ
5 9 (4.31%) RESTful
6 8 (3.83%) .NET
6 8 (3.83%) Node.js
6 8 (3.83%) React
7 6 (2.87%) ARM Templates
7 6 (2.87%) LAPP Stack
7 6 (2.87%) LDAP
7 6 (2.87%) Pandas
7 6 (2.87%) Spring
7 6 (2.87%) Spring Boot
7 6 (2.87%) WebSphere MQ
8 5 (2.39%) gRPC
8 5 (2.39%) Material-UI
9 4 (1.91%) AWS SAM
9 4 (1.91%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 40 (19.14%) Cloud Native
2 18 (8.61%) Linux Command Line
3 16 (7.66%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.78%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.78%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.87%) AI Agents
5 6 (2.87%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.91%) Blockchain
7 4 (1.91%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.91%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.91%) Web3
8 3 (1.44%) e-Learning
8 3 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.96%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.96%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 81 (38.76%) Linux
2 39 (18.66%) Unix
3 30 (14.35%) Windows
4 10 (4.78%) Ubuntu
5 8 (3.83%) Debian
5 8 (3.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.96%) CentOS
6 2 (0.96%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (86.60%) Infrastructure as Code
2 158 (75.60%) CI/CD
3 152 (72.73%) DevOps
4 62 (29.67%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (29.19%) Containerisation
6 58 (27.75%) Observability
7 49 (23.44%) Agile
8 44 (21.05%) Platform Engineering
9 40 (19.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 39 (18.66%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (16.75%) Cloud Security
12 34 (16.27%) Disaster Recovery
13 32 (15.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 29 (13.88%) Microservices
15 27 (12.92%) Mentoring
16 25 (11.96%) AI
16 25 (11.96%) Software Engineering
17 24 (11.48%) Data Pipeline
18 23 (11.00%) Clean Code
18 23 (11.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 140 (66.99%) Python
2 75 (35.89%) Bash
3 36 (17.22%) PowerShell
4 31 (14.83%) SQL
5 26 (12.44%) Go
6 18 (8.61%) Bicep
6 18 (8.61%) Java
6 18 (8.61%) JavaScript
7 15 (7.18%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.35%) C#
9 2 (0.96%) Groovy
10 1 (0.48%) C++
10 1 (0.48%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.48%) PHP
10 1 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 65 (31.10%) Security Cleared
2 52 (24.88%) AWS Certification
2 52 (24.88%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.53%) Degree
4 17 (8.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 15 (7.18%) Azure Certification
6 11 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (5.26%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.87%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.91%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.91%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.96%) CISA
9 2 (0.96%) CISM
9 2 (0.96%) CISSP
9 2 (0.96%) CRISC
10 1 (0.48%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.48%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.48%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.26%) Data Quality
1 11 (5.26%) QA
2 9 (4.31%) GDPR
3 7 (3.35%) SLA
4 4 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.91%) NIST
5 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 99 (47.37%) Docker
2 7 (3.35%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (2.39%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.96%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.96%) KVM
5 2 (0.96%) Terminal Server
5 2 (0.96%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.48%) QEMU
6 1 (0.48%) vCloud
6 1 (0.48%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 176 (84.21%) Terraform
2 93 (44.50%) Kubernetes
3 67 (32.06%) Grafana
4 62 (29.67%) Ansible
5 45 (21.53%) Prometheus
6 12 (5.74%) AWS Copilot
7 8 (3.83%) Argo
8 5 (2.39%) Kubeflow
9 4 (1.91%) Puppet
10 3 (1.44%) Istio
10 3 (1.44%) linkerd
11 2 (0.96%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.96%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.48%) Mesos
12 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.48%) Nagios
12 1 (0.48%) Nessus
Vendors
1 31 (14.83%) Google
2 23 (11.00%) Splunk
3 17 (8.13%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.35%) IBM
4 7 (3.35%) Red Hat
5 5 (2.39%) Databricks
6 4 (1.91%) Foundry
6 4 (1.91%) Hitachi
6 4 (1.91%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (1.91%) VMware
7 3 (1.44%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.44%) Citrix
7 3 (1.44%) PagerDuty
7 3 (1.44%) SolarWinds
8 2 (0.96%) F5
8 2 (0.96%) OneLogin
8 2 (0.96%) Rapid7
8 2 (0.96%) SaltStack
9 1 (0.48%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.48%) Talend