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

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 448 495 382
Rank change year-on-year +47 -113 -77
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 216 260 400
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.39% 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.24% 1.20% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 162 194 341
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,313 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% - -9.38%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £118,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £69,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -6.47% -7.33%

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 17,417 21,709 22,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.51% 32.33% 42.88%
Number of salaries quoted 11,117 12,973 19,148
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £32,799
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 £79,750 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%

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 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 11 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 +23 174 £75,000 +3.45% 267
Work from Home +58 102 £73,801 +1.79% 158
UK excluding London +38 99 £70,000 +7.69% 168
London +33 88 £82,000 -11.35% 146
North of England +31 51 £70,000 +12.00% 69
North West +15 27 £62,500 +4.17% 47
Yorkshire +20 21 £70,000 +7.69% 19
Midlands +51 13 £60,000 -17.24% 8
South East +29 13 £86,250 +40.82% 36
West Midlands +44 11 £60,000 -17.24% 5
Wales +12 10 £64,479 -6.97% 7
Scotland -3 6 £73,801 +6.48% 23
South West +14 5 £90,000 +63.64% 13
North East +4 3 £73,801 +6.48% 3
East Midlands +26 2 - - 3
Northern Ireland -2 2 £73,801 +6.48% 6
East of England +14 1 £75,000 +20.00% 6

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 8 (3.70%) Apache
1 8 (3.70%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.24%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.78%) Tomcat
3 6 (2.78%) WebSphere
3 6 (2.78%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.93%) nginx
4 2 (0.93%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 199 (92.13%) AWS
2 109 (50.46%) Azure
3 85 (39.35%) Serverless
4 79 (36.57%) AWS Lambda
5 62 (28.70%) Amazon S3
5 62 (28.70%) GCP
6 58 (26.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 55 (25.46%) Amazon EKS
7 55 (25.46%) GitHub
8 53 (24.54%) Amazon ECS
9 52 (24.07%) Amazon EC2
10 43 (19.91%) GitHub Actions
11 40 (18.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 26 (12.04%) Amazon ECR
13 25 (11.57%) Azure DevOps
13 25 (11.57%) dbt
14 24 (11.11%) Pulumi
15 19 (8.80%) Datadog
15 19 (8.80%) PaaS
16 16 (7.41%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (9.26%) TCP/IP
2 13 (6.02%) Firewall
3 8 (3.70%) Network Security
3 8 (3.70%) VPN
4 7 (3.24%) DNS
5 6 (2.78%) SSL
6 4 (1.85%) LAN
6 4 (1.85%) WAN
7 2 (0.93%) AMQP
7 2 (0.93%) DHCP
7 2 (0.93%) NAS
7 2 (0.93%) SAN
7 2 (0.93%) SNMP
7 2 (0.93%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.46%) HTTP
8 1 (0.46%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.46%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (25.46%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (9.72%) NoSQL
4 20 (9.26%) Elasticsearch
4 20 (9.26%) Redis
5 18 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (8.33%) DynamoDB
6 15 (6.94%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (6.02%) Amazon Athena
8 12 (5.56%) Data Lake
9 9 (4.17%) SQL Server
10 7 (3.24%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (2.78%) DB2
11 6 (2.78%) MySQL
12 5 (2.31%) Big Data
13 3 (1.39%) Apache Iceberg
13 3 (1.39%) Data Vault
13 3 (1.39%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.93%) Metadata
14 2 (0.93%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 67 (31.02%) Jenkins
2 46 (21.30%) GitLab
3 18 (8.33%) Git
4 14 (6.48%) CircleCI
5 6 (2.78%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.78%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.31%) JIRA
7 4 (1.85%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.85%) git-flow
7 4 (1.85%) Robot Framework
7 4 (1.85%) Spinnaker
8 2 (0.93%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.93%) JMeter
8 2 (0.93%) Selenium
8 2 (0.93%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.93%) TestRail
9 1 (0.46%) Artifactory
General
1 56 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 42 (19.44%) Finance
3 18 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.41%) Banking
4 16 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (6.94%) Law
6 9 (4.17%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.78%) Marketing
8 5 (2.31%) Aerospace
8 5 (2.31%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.39%) Advertising
9 3 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.93%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.93%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.46%) Electronics
11 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 74 (34.26%) Senior
2 46 (21.30%) Cloud Engineer
2 46 (21.30%) DevOps Engineer
3 39 (18.06%) AWS Engineer
4 30 (13.89%) Platform Engineer
5 20 (9.26%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 18 (8.33%) Lead
7 17 (7.87%) AWS DevOps
7 17 (7.87%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 16 (7.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 16 (7.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 15 (6.94%) Data Engineer
10 12 (5.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 12 (5.56%) Developer
11 11 (5.09%) Architect
12 10 (4.63%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 10 (4.63%) Site Engineer
13 9 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (4.17%) Support Engineer
14 8 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (13.89%) Elastic Stack
2 23 (10.65%) AWS CDK
3 20 (9.26%) Django
4 16 (7.41%) Kafka
5 12 (5.56%) Node.js
6 10 (4.63%) React
7 9 (4.17%) .NET
7 9 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
7 9 (4.17%) RESTful
8 7 (3.24%) ARM Templates
8 7 (3.24%) Spring
8 7 (3.24%) Spring Boot
9 6 (2.78%) LAPP Stack
9 6 (2.78%) LDAP
9 6 (2.78%) Material-UI
9 6 (2.78%) WebSphere MQ
10 5 (2.31%) gRPC
10 5 (2.31%) Pandas
11 4 (1.85%) .NET Core
11 4 (1.85%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 42 (19.44%) Cloud Native
2 18 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
3 12 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 11 (5.09%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.78%) AI Agents
5 6 (2.78%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.85%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.39%) Blockchain
8 3 (1.39%) e-Learning
8 3 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.39%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.39%) Web3
9 2 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.93%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 84 (38.89%) Linux
2 38 (17.59%) Unix
3 32 (14.81%) Windows
4 12 (5.56%) Ubuntu
5 10 (4.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (4.17%) Debian
7 4 (1.85%) CentOS
8 2 (0.93%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (87.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 161 (74.54%) CI/CD
3 157 (72.69%) DevOps
4 65 (30.09%) Containerisation
4 65 (30.09%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (27.31%) Agile
6 58 (26.85%) Observability
7 43 (19.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 42 (19.44%) Platform Engineering
8 42 (19.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 37 (17.13%) Cloud Security
10 34 (15.74%) Disaster Recovery
11 31 (14.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 31 (14.35%) Microservices
12 30 (13.89%) Mentoring
13 25 (11.57%) Software Engineering
14 24 (11.11%) AI
14 24 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
14 24 (11.11%) Migration
15 23 (10.65%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 140 (64.81%) Python
2 76 (35.19%) Bash
3 37 (17.13%) PowerShell
4 30 (13.89%) SQL
5 23 (10.65%) Go
6 20 (9.26%) Java
7 19 (8.80%) JavaScript
8 18 (8.33%) Bicep
9 15 (6.94%) TypeScript
10 8 (3.70%) C#
11 2 (0.93%) C++
11 2 (0.93%) Google Apps Script
11 2 (0.93%) Groovy
11 2 (0.93%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.46%) PHP
12 1 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 71 (32.87%) Security Cleared
2 55 (25.46%) SC Cleared
3 54 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 22 (10.19%) Degree
5 18 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 16 (7.41%) Azure Certification
7 15 (6.94%) DV Cleared
8 11 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (2.31%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.85%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.93%) CISA
12 2 (0.93%) CISM
12 2 (0.93%) CISSP
12 2 (0.93%) CRISC
12 2 (0.93%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.09%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.17%) GDPR
2 9 (4.17%) QA
3 7 (3.24%) SLA
4 4 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.85%) NIST
5 1 (0.46%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 103 (47.69%) Docker
2 7 (3.24%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (2.31%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.39%) KVM
6 2 (0.93%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.93%) Terminal Server
6 2 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.46%) QEMU
7 1 (0.46%) vCloud
7 1 (0.46%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.46%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 185 (85.65%) Terraform
2 98 (45.37%) Kubernetes
3 67 (31.02%) Grafana
4 65 (30.09%) Ansible
5 46 (21.30%) Prometheus
6 12 (5.56%) AWS Copilot
7 11 (5.09%) Argo
8 5 (2.31%) Kubeflow
8 5 (2.31%) Puppet
9 3 (1.39%) Istio
9 3 (1.39%) linkerd
10 2 (0.93%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.93%) Nessus
10 2 (0.93%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.46%) Mesos
11 1 (0.46%) Nagios
Vendors
1 33 (15.28%) Google
2 25 (11.57%) Splunk
3 18 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.70%) Red Hat
5 7 (3.24%) IBM
6 5 (2.31%) Databricks
6 5 (2.31%) PagerDuty
6 5 (2.31%) VMware
7 4 (1.85%) Foundry
7 4 (1.85%) Hitachi
7 4 (1.85%) LogicMonitor
7 4 (1.85%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.39%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.39%) Citrix
8 3 (1.39%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.93%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.93%) F5
9 2 (0.93%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.93%) Oracle
9 2 (0.93%) Rapid7