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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 449 578
Rank change year-on-year +51 +129 -216
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 387 229 344
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.51% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.54% 1.53% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 216 127 274
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,900 £55,000
25th Percentile £67,188 £60,000 £62,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,338 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £111,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £69,384 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.49% +2.79% -6.90%

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 25,087 14,945 35,747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.89% 33.53% 33.02%
Number of salaries quoted 16,217 10,308 27,353
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £30,250
25th Percentile £43,497 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.16%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £76,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,685
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.58% -7.85%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 +40 359 £80,000 +6.67% 123
UK excluding London +41 196 £72,500 +4.49% 88
London +24 172 £90,000 +9.09% 61
North of England +66 131 £75,000 +8.09% 28
Work from Home -13 108 £72,500 +5.83% 69
Yorkshire +42 92 £75,000 +2.04% 8
North West +23 37 £80,000 +14.79% 18
Midlands +14 32 £50,000 -40.30% 4
East Midlands -6 18 £52,500 -27.59% 1
West Midlands -11 14 £50,000 -47.37% 3
Wales -41 9 £72,500 +26.09% 6
South West -50 9 £72,500 -14.71% 21
South East -40 8 £70,000 +12.00% 22
Scotland -2 3 £76,783 +39.60% 2
East of England -31 2 £82,500 +10.00%
North East -45 2 £65,576 -5.49% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £84,401 - 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 18 (4.65%) Apache
2 11 (2.84%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.29%) Confluence
5 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.78%) JBoss
7 1 (0.26%) Drupal
7 1 (0.26%) IIS
7 1 (0.26%) nginx
7 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.26%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.26%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 373 (96.38%) AWS
2 208 (53.75%) Serverless
3 177 (45.74%) AWS Lambda
4 131 (33.85%) Amazon S3
5 113 (29.20%) Amazon ECS
6 93 (24.03%) Azure
7 92 (23.77%) AWS Step Functions
8 88 (22.74%) GitHub
9 82 (21.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 66 (17.05%) GitHub Actions
11 64 (16.54%) GCP
12 62 (16.02%) Datadog
13 53 (13.70%) Amazon EC2
14 48 (12.40%) Amazon EKS
15 46 (11.89%) Amazon SQS
16 40 (10.34%) Amazon ECR
17 39 (10.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 35 (9.04%) Apigee
19 23 (5.94%) Pulumi
20 22 (5.68%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.10%) DSL
1 12 (3.10%) Firewall
2 11 (2.84%) VPN
3 10 (2.58%) TCP/IP
4 8 (2.07%) Network Security
5 7 (1.81%) DNS
6 5 (1.29%) AMQP
7 3 (0.78%) HTTP
7 3 (0.78%) SCCP
7 3 (0.78%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.52%) 4G
8 2 (0.52%) 5G
9 1 (0.26%) MQTT
9 1 (0.26%) PSTN
9 1 (0.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (27.91%) DynamoDB
2 83 (21.45%) NoSQL
3 53 (13.70%) Amazon RDS
4 37 (9.56%) Amazon Athena
5 17 (4.39%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (2.84%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (2.07%) Big Data
8 8 (2.07%) Redis
9 6 (1.55%) Flink
9 6 (1.55%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.55%) SQL Server
10 5 (1.29%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (1.29%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.29%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.03%) Apache Iceberg
11 4 (1.03%) Metadata
11 4 (1.03%) MySQL
12 2 (0.52%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 153 (39.53%) Jenkins
2 141 (36.43%) GitLab
3 60 (15.50%) Git
4 39 (10.08%) Maven
5 35 (9.04%) Cypress.io
6 32 (8.27%) SonarQube
7 27 (6.98%) CircleCI
8 26 (6.72%) Cucumber
9 8 (2.07%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 7 (1.81%) JIRA
11 5 (1.29%) Claude Code
11 5 (1.29%) Gradle
11 5 (1.29%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.78%) Selenium
13 2 (0.52%) JMeter
14 1 (0.26%) Gatling
14 1 (0.26%) git-flow
14 1 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
14 1 (0.26%) Vagrant
General
1 109 (28.17%) Social Skills
2 83 (21.45%) Finance
3 38 (9.82%) Banking
4 16 (4.13%) Public Sector
5 14 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (3.10%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (2.58%) Advertising
8 9 (2.33%) Aerospace
8 9 (2.33%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.81%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.81%) Retail
10 4 (1.03%) Billing
10 4 (1.03%) Legal
10 4 (1.03%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (1.03%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.78%) Aviation
11 3 (0.78%) Back Office
11 3 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.78%) Law
12 2 (0.52%) Games
Job Titles
1 114 (29.46%) Developer
2 73 (18.86%) Cloud Engineer
3 72 (18.60%) Java Developer
3 72 (18.60%) Senior
4 60 (15.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 43 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
6 33 (8.53%) Senior Developer
7 29 (7.49%) Platform Engineer
8 28 (7.24%) AWS Developer
9 26 (6.72%) Java Engineer
10 25 (6.46%) Lead
11 22 (5.68%) Full-Stack Developer
12 21 (5.43%) AWS DevOps
13 20 (5.17%) Architect
13 20 (5.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 20 (5.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 20 (5.17%) Security Engineer
14 19 (4.91%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 19 (4.91%) Software Engineer
15 18 (4.65%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (23.00%) Spring Boot
2 81 (20.93%) AngularJS
3 70 (18.09%) Kafka
4 68 (17.57%) Node.js
5 61 (15.76%) Spring
6 50 (12.92%) AWS CDK
7 38 (9.82%) Gherkin
7 38 (9.82%) React
8 31 (8.01%) Jest
8 31 (8.01%) RESTful
9 24 (6.20%) RabbitMQ
10 23 (5.94%) gRPC
11 21 (5.43%) web3js
12 19 (4.91%) REST
13 18 (4.65%) Next.js
13 18 (4.65%) YAML
14 15 (3.88%) JSON
15 14 (3.62%) Elastic Stack
16 12 (3.10%) PySpark
16 12 (3.10%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 122 (31.52%) Cloud Native
2 38 (9.82%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (8.27%) Public Cloud
4 22 (5.68%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (5.43%) Blockchain
5 21 (5.43%) e-Learning
5 21 (5.43%) Security Posture
5 21 (5.43%) Web3
6 15 (3.88%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (3.36%) Cloud Security Posture
8 9 (2.33%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (2.07%) PKI
10 7 (1.81%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.29%) Mainframe
12 4 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 70 (18.09%) Linux
2 18 (4.65%) Windows
3 13 (3.36%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.58%) CentOS
6 5 (1.29%) Debian
6 5 (1.29%) Unix
6 5 (1.29%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.78%) Android
7 3 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.78%) VMS
8 1 (0.26%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (74.16%) Infrastructure as Code
2 268 (69.25%) CI/CD
3 221 (57.11%) DevOps
4 154 (39.79%) Agile
5 131 (33.85%) Containerisation
6 86 (22.22%) Observability
7 83 (21.45%) Microservices
8 82 (21.19%) Continuous Improvement
9 81 (20.93%) Software Engineering
10 77 (19.90%) Mentoring
11 73 (18.86%) DevSecOps
12 71 (18.35%) Cloud Security
13 69 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
13 69 (17.83%) Test Automation
14 66 (17.05%) Continuous Integration
15 60 (15.50%) Event-Driven
16 58 (14.99%) Platform Engineering
17 47 (12.14%) Full-Stack Development
18 44 (11.37%) Collaborative Culture
19 43 (11.11%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 167 (43.15%) Python
2 150 (38.76%) Java
3 95 (24.55%) TypeScript
4 89 (23.00%) SQL
5 65 (16.80%) Bash
6 52 (13.44%) Groovy
7 47 (12.14%) Go
8 41 (10.59%) Kotlin
9 33 (8.53%) JavaScript
10 27 (6.98%) PowerShell
11 16 (4.13%) Bicep
12 15 (3.88%) C#
13 12 (3.10%) Rust
14 8 (2.07%) C++
15 6 (1.55%) Ruby
16 5 (1.29%) Google Apps Script
17 2 (0.52%) COBOL
17 2 (0.52%) PHP
18 1 (0.26%) Natural
18 1 (0.26%) Perl
Qualifications
1 92 (23.77%) Security Cleared
2 83 (21.45%) AWS Certification
3 58 (14.99%) SC Cleared
4 42 (10.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 33 (8.53%) Degree
6 27 (6.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 23 (5.94%) ITIL Certification
8 19 (4.91%) DV Cleared
9 15 (3.88%) OSCP
10 10 (2.58%) AWS Certified Developer
11 9 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (2.07%) Azure Certification
13 7 (1.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (1.81%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 6 (1.55%) Master's Degree
15 4 (1.03%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.78%) CREST Certified
16 3 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
17 2 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
17 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.17%) NIST
2 17 (4.39%) PCI DSS
3 15 (3.88%) GDPR
4 11 (2.84%) SOC 2
5 8 (2.07%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.03%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.78%) NCSC
9 2 (0.52%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.52%) QA
9 2 (0.52%) WCAG
10 1 (0.26%) HL7
10 1 (0.26%) SLA
10 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 181 (46.77%) Docker
2 5 (1.29%) KVM
2 5 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 257 (66.41%) Terraform
2 149 (38.50%) Kubernetes
3 63 (16.28%) Ansible
4 48 (12.40%) Prometheus
5 41 (10.59%) Grafana
6 30 (7.75%) HP Fortify
7 16 (4.13%) Argo
8 14 (3.62%) Progress Chef
9 7 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (1.81%) Puppet
10 6 (1.55%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (1.29%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (1.29%) Istio
11 5 (1.29%) linkerd
11 5 (1.29%) Mesos
12 2 (0.52%) Rancher
12 2 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.26%) Consul
13 1 (0.26%) Packer
Vendors
1 28 (7.24%) Google
2 13 (3.36%) Microsoft
3 9 (2.33%) Oracle
4 7 (1.81%) HubSpot
5 6 (1.55%) Red Hat
5 6 (1.55%) Splunk
6 5 (1.29%) SaltStack
6 5 (1.29%) VMware
7 4 (1.03%) Databricks
7 4 (1.03%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.03%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.52%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.52%) Tenable
9 1 (0.26%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.26%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.26%) OneLogin
9 1 (0.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.26%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.26%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.26%) TOWER Software