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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 451 575
Rank change year-on-year +68 +124 -202
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 465 242 319
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.49% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.72% 1.52% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 234 140 258
10th Percentile £53,750 £52,375 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,319 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.43% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,375 £97,500
90th Percentile £108,375 £111,250 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,801 £69,384 £67,500
% change year-on-year +6.37% +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 27,046 15,955 33,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.39% 32.40% 33.15%
Number of salaries quoted 17,601 11,123 25,438
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -7.27%

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 July 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 July 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 +78 422 £80,000 +6.67% 136
London +68 227 £90,000 +15.02% 66
UK excluding London +24 213 £73,801 +6.37% 112
North of England +66 132 £75,000 +8.09% 33
Work from Home -29 108 £75,000 +8.09% 92
Yorkshire +38 84 £75,000 +5.63% 5
North West +7 45 £74,651 +7.59% 16
Midlands -18 25 £57,250 -11.92% 8
Wales -34 20 £73,151 +27.22% 7
East Midlands -14 18 £52,500 -27.59% 4
South East -31 18 £70,000 -15.15% 19
South West -56 12 £67,500 -25.00% 29
West Midlands -23 7 £62,000 -4.62% 4
Scotland +3 3 £76,783 +39.60% 9
North East -51 3 £57,788 -16.71% 12
East of England -31 2 £82,500 +10.00%
Northern Ireland - 1 £73,801 - 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 (4.52%) Apache
2 12 (2.58%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.72%) Confluence
4 7 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.65%) JBoss
7 1 (0.22%) Drupal
7 1 (0.22%) IIS
7 1 (0.22%) nginx
7 1 (0.22%) SAS
7 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.86%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.43%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.29%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.65%) Summit
3 1 (0.22%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 446 (95.91%) AWS
2 237 (50.97%) Serverless
3 191 (41.08%) AWS Lambda
4 132 (28.39%) Amazon S3
5 131 (28.17%) Amazon ECS
6 116 (24.95%) Azure
7 96 (20.65%) GitHub
8 83 (17.85%) AWS Step Functions
8 83 (17.85%) GCP
9 71 (15.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 70 (15.05%) Amazon EKS
10 70 (15.05%) GitHub Actions
11 59 (12.69%) Cloud Computing
12 58 (12.47%) Datadog
13 55 (11.83%) Amazon EC2
14 46 (9.89%) Amazon SQS
15 37 (7.96%) Amazon ECR
16 36 (7.74%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 32 (6.88%) Apigee
18 29 (6.24%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.73%) Network Security
2 18 (3.87%) VPN
3 15 (3.23%) Firewall
4 12 (2.58%) TCP/IP
5 10 (2.15%) DNS
5 10 (2.15%) DSL
6 6 (1.29%) AMQP
7 4 (0.86%) HTTP
7 4 (0.86%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.43%) 4G
8 2 (0.43%) 5G
8 2 (0.43%) MQTT
9 1 (0.22%) DHCP
9 1 (0.22%) DNSSEC
9 1 (0.22%) Internet
9 1 (0.22%) PSTN
9 1 (0.22%) SCCP
9 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (21.72%) DynamoDB
2 83 (17.85%) NoSQL
3 51 (10.97%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (7.31%) Amazon Athena
5 21 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (2.15%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (2.15%) MongoDB
8 9 (1.94%) Big Data
8 9 (1.94%) MySQL
9 8 (1.72%) Redis
10 7 (1.51%) Hadoop
11 6 (1.29%) Cloudera CDH
11 6 (1.29%) Flink
12 5 (1.08%) Data Lake
12 5 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.08%) SQL Server
13 4 (0.86%) Apache Iceberg
13 4 (0.86%) Metadata
13 4 (0.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 147 (31.61%) Jenkins
2 138 (29.68%) GitLab
3 66 (14.19%) Git
4 36 (7.74%) Maven
5 32 (6.88%) Cypress.io
6 30 (6.45%) Cucumber
6 30 (6.45%) SonarQube
7 24 (5.16%) CircleCI
8 12 (2.58%) Bitbucket
9 10 (2.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 10 (2.15%) JIRA
10 7 (1.51%) Claude Code
10 7 (1.51%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.08%) Gradle
12 3 (0.65%) Selenium
13 2 (0.43%) JMeter
14 1 (0.22%) Eclipse
14 1 (0.22%) MLflow
14 1 (0.22%) Robot Framework
14 1 (0.22%) Vagrant
General
1 125 (26.88%) Social Skills
2 117 (25.16%) Finance
3 49 (10.54%) Public Sector
4 36 (7.74%) Banking
5 16 (3.44%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (3.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (2.80%) Aerospace
7 10 (2.15%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.29%) Advertising
8 6 (1.29%) Legal
9 5 (1.08%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.08%) Military
9 5 (1.08%) Retail
10 4 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.86%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (0.86%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.65%) Automotive
11 3 (0.65%) Back Office
11 3 (0.65%) Law
11 3 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 110 (23.66%) Developer
2 107 (23.01%) Senior
3 78 (16.77%) Cloud Engineer
4 68 (14.62%) DevOps Engineer
4 68 (14.62%) Java Developer
5 43 (9.25%) AWS Engineer
6 38 (8.17%) Consultant
7 37 (7.96%) Lead
8 32 (6.88%) Senior Consultant
9 31 (6.67%) Architect
10 30 (6.45%) Java Engineer
11 29 (6.24%) Platform Engineer
12 27 (5.81%) Full-Stack Developer
13 26 (5.59%) AWS Developer
13 26 (5.59%) Senior Developer
14 24 (5.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 21 (4.52%) AWS DevOps
15 21 (4.52%) Principal Engineer
15 21 (4.52%) Software Engineer
16 20 (4.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (22.80%) Spring Boot
2 80 (17.20%) Node.js
3 79 (16.99%) AngularJS
4 78 (16.77%) Kafka
5 77 (16.56%) Spring
6 65 (13.98%) AWS CDK
7 40 (8.60%) React
8 36 (7.74%) Gherkin
9 32 (6.88%) REST
9 32 (6.88%) RESTful
10 28 (6.02%) Jest
11 26 (5.59%) RabbitMQ
12 22 (4.73%) gRPC
13 19 (4.09%) Web Services
14 18 (3.87%) YAML
15 17 (3.66%) Next.js
15 17 (3.66%) web3js
16 16 (3.44%) JSON
17 14 (3.01%) Elastic Stack
18 12 (2.58%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 162 (34.84%) Cloud Native
2 53 (11.40%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (10.32%) Onboarding
4 41 (8.82%) Public Cloud
5 40 (8.60%) Enterprise Cloud
6 25 (5.38%) e-Learning
6 25 (5.38%) Enterprise Software
7 24 (5.16%) Mainframe
8 23 (4.95%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (4.52%) Data Centre
10 17 (3.66%) Blockchain
10 17 (3.66%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (3.66%) Security Posture
10 17 (3.66%) Web3
11 15 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (2.80%) Cloud Security Posture
13 12 (2.58%) Distributed Computing
14 11 (2.37%) Product Ownership
15 10 (2.15%) PKI
16 8 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 77 (16.56%) Linux
2 24 (5.16%) Windows
3 15 (3.23%) Ubuntu
4 12 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.37%) CentOS
6 6 (1.29%) Debian
7 5 (1.08%) Unix
7 5 (1.08%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.86%) VMS
9 3 (0.65%) Android
9 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.22%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (72.04%) Infrastructure as Code
2 289 (62.15%) CI/CD
3 231 (49.68%) DevOps
4 192 (41.29%) Agile
5 161 (34.62%) Containerisation
6 117 (25.16%) Mentoring
7 102 (21.94%) Microservices
8 99 (21.29%) Observability
9 98 (21.08%) Software Engineering
10 97 (20.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 89 (19.14%) Cloud Security
12 86 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
13 82 (17.63%) Event-Driven
13 82 (17.63%) Test Automation
14 72 (15.48%) Platform Engineering
15 69 (14.84%) DevSecOps
16 65 (13.98%) AI
17 62 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
18 59 (12.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 53 (11.40%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 216 (46.45%) Python
2 183 (39.35%) Java
3 94 (20.22%) SQL
4 92 (19.78%) TypeScript
5 81 (17.42%) Bash
6 52 (11.18%) Groovy
7 45 (9.68%) Go
8 39 (8.39%) Kotlin
9 37 (7.96%) JavaScript
10 32 (6.88%) PowerShell
11 27 (5.81%) Ruby
12 26 (5.59%) Bicep
13 18 (3.87%) C#
14 16 (3.44%) PHP
15 15 (3.23%) Perl
16 12 (2.58%) C++
17 10 (2.15%) Rust
18 7 (1.51%) Google Apps Script
19 6 (1.29%) COBOL
20 1 (0.22%) Natural
Qualifications
1 143 (30.75%) Security Cleared
2 115 (24.73%) AWS Certification
3 72 (15.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 70 (15.05%) SC Cleared
5 47 (10.11%) Degree
6 27 (5.81%) DV Cleared
7 25 (5.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 22 (4.73%) ITIL Certification
9 17 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (2.80%) Master's Degree
10 13 (2.80%) OSCP
11 10 (2.15%) AWS Certified Developer
12 9 (1.94%) TOGAF Certification
13 8 (1.72%) Azure Certification
14 7 (1.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (0.86%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.65%) CREST Certified
17 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 2 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
17 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.52%) PCI DSS
2 20 (4.30%) GDPR
2 20 (4.30%) NIST
3 13 (2.80%) SOC 2
4 10 (2.15%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.94%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.51%) NCSC
7 6 (1.29%) Government Security Classifications
8 5 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (1.08%) WCAG
9 4 (0.86%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.86%) QA
10 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.22%) HL7
10 1 (0.22%) SLA
10 1 (0.22%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 200 (43.01%) Docker
2 7 (1.51%) KVM
2 7 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.08%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 322 (69.25%) Terraform
2 188 (40.43%) Kubernetes
3 78 (16.77%) Ansible
4 54 (11.61%) Prometheus
5 53 (11.40%) Grafana
6 35 (7.53%) Progress Chef
7 27 (5.81%) HP Fortify
7 27 (5.81%) Puppet
8 18 (3.87%) Argo
9 9 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (1.51%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (1.29%) Istio
11 6 (1.29%) linkerd
11 6 (1.29%) Mesos
12 5 (1.08%) AWS Copilot
13 3 (0.65%) Rancher
14 2 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
15 1 (0.22%) Consul
15 1 (0.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 36 (7.74%) Google
2 19 (4.09%) Microsoft
3 13 (2.80%) Oracle
4 11 (2.37%) Splunk
5 8 (1.72%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.51%) HubSpot
6 7 (1.51%) Red Hat
6 7 (1.51%) VMware
7 6 (1.29%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.29%) SaltStack
8 4 (0.86%) Avaya
8 4 (0.86%) Cisco
8 4 (0.86%) Databricks
8 4 (0.86%) Genesys
9 2 (0.43%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.43%) Tenable
10 1 (0.22%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.22%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.22%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (0.22%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud