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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 402 512
Rank change year-on-year +14 +110 -174
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 324 266 335
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.61% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.36% 1.63% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 198 202 266
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £62,783 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £79,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% +5.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £112,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £106,625 £122,375 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £68,438 £67,500
% change year-on-year +5.94% +1.39% -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 23,896 16,277 31,720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.41% 37.28% 37.79%
Number of salaries quoted 12,850 10,991 25,685
10th Percentile £29,203 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,960 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 13 March 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 13 March 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 +21 277 £77,500 -8.82% 107
UK excluding London +25 165 £72,500 +5.94% 74
London -2 131 £82,500 -15.38% 46
Work from Home +13 115 £72,500 - 61
North of England +11 95 £72,500 +4.61% 33
Yorkshire +10 66 £72,500 - 10
North West -22 25 £74,051 +9.50% 12
Midlands -13 23 £50,000 -26.97% 8
West Midlands +3 15 £50,000 -27.86% 6
South East -28 14 £70,000 +16.67% 8
South West -16 11 £72,500 +31.82% 17
Wales -9 8 £71,379 +9.08% 3
East Midlands -32 8 £75,000 +15.38% 2
Northern Ireland -26 7 £95,000 +37.07% 1
Scotland -21 6 £73,801 +6.48% 3
North East -27 4 £73,801 +6.37% 11
East of England -3 1 £75,000 -11.76% 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 18 (5.56%) Apache
2 10 (3.09%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.62%) JBoss
4 2 (0.62%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.62%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.62%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.31%) Confluence
5 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 308 (95.06%) AWS
2 182 (56.17%) Serverless
3 159 (49.07%) AWS Lambda
4 143 (44.14%) Azure
5 118 (36.42%) Amazon S3
6 100 (30.86%) Amazon ECS
7 87 (26.85%) GitHub
8 84 (25.93%) GCP
9 79 (24.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 76 (23.46%) AWS Step Functions
11 66 (20.37%) GitHub Actions
12 59 (18.21%) Amazon ECR
12 59 (18.21%) Amazon EKS
13 41 (12.65%) Datadog
14 40 (12.35%) Amazon EC2
15 38 (11.73%) Amazon SQS
15 38 (11.73%) Pulumi
16 34 (10.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 32 (9.88%) Apigee
18 30 (9.26%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.02%) TCP/IP
2 14 (4.32%) Firewall
3 13 (4.01%) DSL
3 13 (4.01%) VPN
4 6 (1.85%) Network Security
5 5 (1.54%) AMQP
5 5 (1.54%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (1.23%) DNS
7 3 (0.93%) SCCP
8 2 (0.62%) SSL
9 1 (0.31%) 4G
9 1 (0.31%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (26.54%) DynamoDB
2 67 (20.68%) NoSQL
3 66 (20.37%) Amazon RDS
4 47 (14.51%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (8.95%) Elasticsearch
6 25 (7.72%) Redis
7 21 (6.48%) Amazon Athena
8 14 (4.32%) SQL Server
9 13 (4.01%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (3.70%) MySQL
11 11 (3.40%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (2.16%) Data Lake
13 6 (1.85%) Big Data
13 6 (1.85%) MongoDB
14 5 (1.54%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (1.54%) Hadoop
15 3 (0.93%) Apache Iceberg
15 3 (0.93%) Metadata
16 2 (0.62%) Amazon Aurora
16 2 (0.62%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 123 (37.96%) GitLab
2 122 (37.65%) Jenkins
3 56 (17.28%) Git
4 38 (11.73%) SonarQube
5 33 (10.19%) Maven
6 32 (9.88%) Cypress.io
7 21 (6.48%) CircleCI
8 11 (3.40%) Bitbucket
8 11 (3.40%) Cucumber
9 7 (2.16%) TeamCity
10 6 (1.85%) JIRA
11 5 (1.54%) git-flow
11 5 (1.54%) Robot Framework
12 4 (1.23%) Selenium
13 3 (0.93%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.93%) JMeter
14 2 (0.62%) TestRail
15 1 (0.31%) Gradle
15 1 (0.31%) Subversion
General
1 100 (30.86%) Social Skills
2 63 (19.44%) Finance
3 26 (8.02%) Banking
4 20 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (3.40%) Aerospace
7 8 (2.47%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.16%) Advertising
9 5 (1.54%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.54%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.54%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.54%) Retail
10 4 (1.23%) Billing
11 3 (0.93%) Aviation
12 2 (0.62%) Electronics
12 2 (0.62%) Games
12 2 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.62%) Law
12 2 (0.62%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.62%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 75 (23.15%) Developer
2 72 (22.22%) Senior
3 70 (21.60%) Cloud Engineer
4 54 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 38 (11.73%) Java Developer
6 35 (10.80%) AWS Engineer
6 35 (10.80%) Platform Engineer
7 27 (8.33%) Lead
8 22 (6.79%) AWS Developer
8 22 (6.79%) Senior Developer
9 21 (6.48%) Architect
9 21 (6.48%) Security Engineer
10 20 (6.17%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 18 (5.56%) AWS Architect
11 18 (5.56%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 17 (5.25%) AWS DevOps
12 17 (5.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (4.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 13 (4.01%) .NET Developer
14 13 (4.01%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (17.59%) AWS CDK
2 56 (17.28%) AngularJS
3 52 (16.05%) Spring Boot
4 45 (13.89%) Node.js
5 38 (11.73%) React
6 33 (10.19%) Kafka
7 32 (9.88%) Gherkin
7 32 (9.88%) Jest
8 31 (9.57%) RESTful
9 29 (8.95%) Elastic Stack
10 28 (8.64%) Spring
11 25 (7.72%) Django
12 21 (6.48%) RabbitMQ
13 19 (5.86%) .NET
14 16 (4.94%) gRPC
15 14 (4.32%) REST
16 13 (4.01%) .NET Core
16 13 (4.01%) ASP.NET
16 13 (4.01%) ASP.NET Core
16 13 (4.01%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 101 (31.17%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (7.10%) Security Posture
4 19 (5.86%) Linux Command Line
5 17 (5.25%) Public Cloud
6 14 (4.32%) Cloud Security Posture
6 14 (4.32%) Product Ownership
7 11 (3.40%) Blockchain
7 11 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (3.40%) Web3
8 10 (3.09%) PKI
9 8 (2.47%) e-Learning
9 8 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
13 3 (0.93%) Cyber Security Posture
13 3 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
14 2 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 86 (26.54%) Linux
2 35 (10.80%) Unix
3 29 (8.95%) Windows
4 13 (4.01%) Ubuntu
5 10 (3.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.47%) CentOS
7 5 (1.54%) Debian
7 5 (1.54%) VMS
8 1 (0.31%) Android
8 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (77.78%) Infrastructure as Code
2 248 (76.54%) CI/CD
3 238 (73.46%) DevOps
4 145 (44.75%) Agile
5 103 (31.79%) Containerisation
6 97 (29.94%) Problem-Solving
7 76 (23.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 69 (21.30%) Observability
9 68 (20.99%) Microservices
10 64 (19.75%) Cloud Security
11 57 (17.59%) DevSecOps
12 52 (16.05%) Mentoring
13 51 (15.74%) Continuous Integration
14 47 (14.51%) Platform Engineering
15 46 (14.20%) Incident Response
16 44 (13.58%) Clean Code
17 42 (12.96%) Test Automation
18 40 (12.35%) Software Engineering
19 36 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
20 34 (10.49%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 160 (49.38%) Python
2 93 (28.70%) Java
3 88 (27.16%) Bash
4 68 (20.99%) TypeScript
5 64 (19.75%) SQL
6 39 (12.04%) Go
7 32 (9.88%) Groovy
7 32 (9.88%) PowerShell
8 31 (9.57%) JavaScript
9 25 (7.72%) Kotlin
10 22 (6.79%) C#
11 15 (4.63%) Bicep
12 13 (4.01%) Rust
13 8 (2.47%) C++
14 7 (2.16%) Google Apps Script
15 1 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.31%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 95 (29.32%) Security Cleared
2 83 (25.62%) AWS Certification
3 55 (16.98%) SC Cleared
4 33 (10.19%) Degree
5 31 (9.57%) DV Cleared
6 27 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 24 (7.41%) AWS Certified Developer
8 23 (7.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 19 (5.86%) ITIL Certification
10 14 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (4.32%) OSCP
11 12 (3.70%) Azure Certification
12 7 (2.16%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 5 (1.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
15 2 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
15 2 (0.62%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.62%) Master's Degree
15 2 (0.62%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.48%) NIST
2 15 (4.63%) PCI DSS
3 14 (4.32%) GDPR
4 12 (3.70%) QA
5 9 (2.78%) SOC 2
6 6 (1.85%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.93%) SLA
8 1 (0.31%) Basel III
8 1 (0.31%) HL7
8 1 (0.31%) MiFID
8 1 (0.31%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 175 (54.01%) Docker
2 8 (2.47%) KVM
3 7 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.54%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.31%) QEMU
5 1 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 234 (72.22%) Terraform
2 127 (39.20%) Kubernetes
3 66 (20.37%) Ansible
4 60 (18.52%) Grafana
5 52 (16.05%) Prometheus
6 32 (9.88%) HP Fortify
7 17 (5.25%) AWS Copilot
8 13 (4.01%) Argo
9 10 (3.09%) Docker Swarm
10 8 (2.47%) Istio
10 8 (2.47%) linkerd
10 8 (2.47%) Mesos
10 8 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (1.85%) Puppet
12 4 (1.23%) Rancher
13 2 (0.62%) Nessus
Vendors
1 43 (13.27%) Google
2 20 (6.17%) Microsoft
3 12 (3.70%) Splunk
4 7 (2.16%) Red Hat
4 7 (2.16%) VMware
5 6 (1.85%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.23%) PagerDuty
6 4 (1.23%) SolarWinds
7 3 (0.93%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.93%) LogicMonitor
7 3 (0.93%) Oracle
7 3 (0.93%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.62%) IBM
8 2 (0.62%) Ping Identity
8 2 (0.62%) SAP
9 1 (0.31%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.31%) Foundry
9 1 (0.31%) Refinitiv