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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 453 564
Rank change year-on-year +61 +111 -198
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 495 234 260
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.47% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.77% 1.46% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 258 137 202
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,000 £50,707
25th Percentile £66,563 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -6.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £106,400 £111,250 £112,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £69,384 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.49% +2.79% -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 27,935 15,994 27,023
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.78% 32.24% 32.24%
Number of salaries quoted 18,353 11,106 19,504
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,425 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +7.84% -3.77% -3.64%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 +76 444 £80,000 +6.67% 235
UK excluding London +35 242 £72,500 +4.49% 146
London +47 228 £90,000 +12.50% 123
North of England +60 140 £75,000 +8.09% 49
Work from Home -23 120 £75,000 +8.09% 136
Yorkshire +39 84 £75,000 +5.63% 12
North West +22 46 £72,500 +7.21% 24
Midlands -16 26 £62,500 -3.85% 13
Wales -30 26 £72,500 +20.83% 10
South West -41 23 £67,500 -25.00% 41
East Midlands -6 18 £52,500 -
South East -36 18 £70,000 -17.65% 17
North East -46 10 £52,500 -24.33% 13
West Midlands -31 8 £68,496 +5.38% 13
Scotland +8 5 £71,991 +30.89% 9
East of England -39 2 £82,500 +10.00% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £72,896 - 5

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 (3.84%) Apache
2 10 (2.02%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.62%) Confluence
4 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.61%) JBoss
6 2 (0.40%) nginx
7 1 (0.20%) Drupal
7 1 (0.20%) IIS
7 1 (0.20%) SAS
7 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.81%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.40%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.21%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.61%) Summit
3 1 (0.20%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 478 (96.57%) AWS
2 244 (49.29%) Serverless
3 188 (37.98%) AWS Lambda
4 141 (28.48%) Amazon ECS
5 136 (27.47%) Amazon S3
5 136 (27.47%) Azure
6 105 (21.21%) GitHub
7 104 (21.01%) GCP
8 78 (15.76%) GitHub Actions
9 75 (15.15%) AWS Step Functions
10 73 (14.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 69 (13.94%) Amazon EKS
12 66 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
13 58 (11.72%) Cloud Computing
14 56 (11.31%) Datadog
15 44 (8.89%) Amazon SQS
16 41 (8.28%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 36 (7.27%) Amazon ECR
18 31 (6.26%) PaaS
19 30 (6.06%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.25%) TCP/IP
2 25 (5.05%) Network Security
3 14 (2.83%) VPN
4 13 (2.63%) Firewall
5 11 (2.22%) DNS
6 6 (1.21%) DSL
7 4 (0.81%) AMQP
7 4 (0.81%) HTTP
7 4 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.40%) 4G
8 2 (0.40%) 5G
8 2 (0.40%) MQTT
9 1 (0.20%) DHCP
9 1 (0.20%) DNSSEC
9 1 (0.20%) Internet
9 1 (0.20%) PSTN
9 1 (0.20%) SCCP
9 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (18.99%) DynamoDB
2 83 (16.77%) NoSQL
3 63 (12.73%) Amazon RDS
4 33 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
5 26 (5.25%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (2.02%) MongoDB
8 10 (2.02%) Redis
9 9 (1.82%) MySQL
10 8 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.41%) Big Data
12 6 (1.21%) Flink
12 6 (1.21%) SQL Server
13 5 (1.01%) Data Lake
13 5 (1.01%) Hadoop
13 5 (1.01%) Relational Database
14 4 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (0.81%) Apache Iceberg
14 4 (0.81%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 135 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 129 (26.06%) GitLab
3 70 (14.14%) Git
4 35 (7.07%) Cucumber
5 31 (6.26%) Cypress.io
5 31 (6.26%) Maven
6 27 (5.45%) SonarQube
7 19 (3.84%) CircleCI
8 11 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 11 (2.22%) JIRA
9 10 (2.02%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.41%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.21%) Selenium
11 6 (1.21%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.81%) Gradle
12 4 (0.81%) Snyk
13 3 (0.61%) JUnit
13 3 (0.61%) NUnit
13 3 (0.61%) Postman
14 2 (0.40%) git-flow
General
1 143 (28.89%) Social Skills
2 121 (24.44%) Finance
3 56 (11.31%) Public Sector
4 40 (8.08%) Banking
5 23 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.83%) Financial Institution
8 10 (2.02%) Aerospace
8 10 (2.02%) Law
9 9 (1.82%) Legal
10 8 (1.62%) Military
11 7 (1.41%) Retail
12 5 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.01%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.81%) Advertising
13 4 (0.81%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.81%) Mandarin Language
14 3 (0.61%) Automotive
14 3 (0.61%) Back Office
14 3 (0.61%) Games
Job Titles
1 128 (25.86%) Senior
2 109 (22.02%) Developer
3 79 (15.96%) Cloud Engineer
4 72 (14.55%) DevOps Engineer
5 65 (13.13%) Java Developer
6 45 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
7 44 (8.89%) Lead
8 40 (8.08%) Consultant
9 35 (7.07%) Java Engineer
10 32 (6.46%) Senior Consultant
11 30 (6.06%) Architect
12 29 (5.86%) Platform Engineer
13 26 (5.25%) Full-Stack Developer
13 26 (5.25%) Senior Developer
14 24 (4.85%) AWS Developer
15 22 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 20 (4.04%) Principal Engineer
17 19 (3.84%) AWS DevOps
17 19 (3.84%) Principal Java Engineer
17 19 (3.84%) Professional Services Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (21.62%) Spring Boot
2 82 (16.57%) Kafka
2 82 (16.57%) Spring
3 81 (16.36%) Node.js
4 75 (15.15%) AngularJS
5 62 (12.53%) AWS CDK
6 44 (8.89%) React
7 33 (6.67%) RESTful
8 32 (6.46%) Gherkin
9 28 (5.66%) REST
10 24 (4.85%) Jest
10 24 (4.85%) RabbitMQ
11 20 (4.04%) Web Services
12 18 (3.64%) gRPC
13 17 (3.43%) YAML
14 15 (3.03%) JSON
14 15 (3.03%) Next.js
14 15 (3.03%) web3js
15 14 (2.83%) Elastic Stack
16 13 (2.63%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 176 (35.56%) Cloud Native
2 76 (15.35%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (10.10%) Onboarding
4 44 (8.89%) Public Cloud
5 41 (8.28%) Enterprise Cloud
6 30 (6.06%) e-Learning
7 26 (5.25%) Enterprise Software
7 26 (5.25%) Legacy Systems
7 26 (5.25%) Mainframe
8 22 (4.44%) Data Centre
9 20 (4.04%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (3.23%) Security Posture
11 15 (3.03%) Blockchain
11 15 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
11 15 (3.03%) Web3
12 13 (2.63%) Distributed Computing
12 13 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
13 12 (2.42%) Cloud Security Posture
14 9 (1.82%) Blog
14 9 (1.82%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 86 (17.37%) Linux
2 20 (4.04%) Windows
3 19 (3.84%) Unix
4 10 (2.02%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.62%) CentOS
7 6 (1.21%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.81%) Debian
9 3 (0.61%) Android
9 3 (0.61%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.40%) VMS
11 1 (0.20%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (73.74%) Infrastructure as Code
2 322 (65.05%) CI/CD
3 262 (52.93%) DevOps
4 210 (42.42%) Agile
5 165 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 133 (26.87%) Mentoring
7 126 (25.45%) Observability
8 119 (24.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 111 (22.42%) Software Engineering
10 102 (20.61%) Microservices
11 96 (19.39%) Cloud Security
12 92 (18.59%) Test Automation
13 91 (18.38%) Event-Driven
14 86 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
15 74 (14.95%) Platform Engineering
16 69 (13.94%) AI
17 67 (13.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 65 (13.13%) Collaborative Culture
18 65 (13.13%) Migration
19 60 (12.12%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 231 (46.67%) Python
2 181 (36.57%) Java
3 93 (18.79%) SQL
4 85 (17.17%) Bash
5 84 (16.97%) TypeScript
6 49 (9.90%) Groovy
7 44 (8.89%) Go
8 35 (7.07%) Kotlin
9 34 (6.87%) JavaScript
10 30 (6.06%) PowerShell
11 28 (5.66%) Ruby
12 25 (5.05%) Bicep
13 16 (3.23%) PHP
14 15 (3.03%) Perl
15 14 (2.83%) C#
16 9 (1.82%) C++
17 6 (1.21%) COBOL
17 6 (1.21%) Rust
18 5 (1.01%) Google Apps Script
19 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 159 (32.12%) Security Cleared
2 118 (23.84%) AWS Certification
3 93 (18.79%) SC Cleared
4 76 (15.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 42 (8.48%) Degree
6 27 (5.45%) DV Cleared
7 21 (4.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 18 (3.64%) ITIL Certification
9 14 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (2.63%) Master's Degree
11 11 (2.22%) AWS Certified Developer
12 9 (1.82%) OSCP
12 9 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (1.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (1.21%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.81%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.61%) CREST Certified
16 3 (0.61%) OCP
16 3 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
17 2 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.26%) GDPR
2 18 (3.64%) NIST
3 17 (3.43%) PCI DSS
4 11 (2.22%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.02%) Data Quality
5 10 (2.02%) SOC 2
6 9 (1.82%) NCSC
7 8 (1.62%) QA
8 7 (1.41%) HIPAA
9 6 (1.21%) Government Security Classifications
9 6 (1.21%) WCAG
10 5 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.20%) HL7
11 1 (0.20%) SLA
11 1 (0.20%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 206 (41.62%) Docker
2 5 (1.01%) KVM
2 5 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.81%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.61%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 352 (71.11%) Terraform
2 188 (37.98%) Kubernetes
3 88 (17.78%) Ansible
4 54 (10.91%) Grafana
5 51 (10.30%) Prometheus
6 41 (8.28%) Progress Chef
7 29 (5.86%) Puppet
8 23 (4.65%) HP Fortify
9 19 (3.84%) Argo
10 7 (1.41%) Istio
11 6 (1.21%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (1.01%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (1.01%) linkerd
12 5 (1.01%) Mesos
13 3 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.40%) logstash
14 2 (0.40%) Rancher
15 1 (0.20%) Fluentd
15 1 (0.20%) Kibana
Vendors
1 47 (9.49%) Google
2 19 (3.84%) Microsoft
3 14 (2.83%) Oracle
4 11 (2.22%) Splunk
5 10 (2.02%) Red Hat
6 8 (1.62%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.41%) HubSpot
8 6 (1.21%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.01%) Databricks
9 5 (1.01%) VMware
10 4 (0.81%) Avaya
10 4 (0.81%) Cisco
10 4 (0.81%) Genesys
10 4 (0.81%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.40%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.40%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (0.40%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.40%) Tenable
12 1 (0.20%) AppDynamics
12 1 (0.20%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud