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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 441 585
Rank change year-on-year +41 +144 -223
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 396 231 345
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.51% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.55% 1.54% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 217 130 275
10th Percentile £52,133 £51,225 £55,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,319 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.43% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,125 £97,500
90th Percentile £113,500 £111,375 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,801 £69,384 £67,500
% change year-on-year +6.37% +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 25,532 15,037 35,942
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.08% 33.44% 32.87%
Number of salaries quoted 16,581 10,397 27,549
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £43,125 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.82%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,125
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.69% -7.05%

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 21 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 21 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 +48 366 £80,000 +6.67% 74
UK excluding London +12 194 £73,801 +6.37% 68
London +44 182 £90,000 +10.77% 33
North of England +67 130 £75,000 +8.09% 21
Work from Home -4 110 £73,151 +5.43% 44
Yorkshire +42 90 £75,000 +4.17% 7
North West +22 38 £80,000 +15.30% 13
Midlands +2 28 £52,500 -27.59% 1
East Midlands -9 18 £52,500 -27.59%
South West -54 11 £72,500 -19.44% 16
West Midlands -17 10 £50,000 -38.51% 1
Wales -46 10 £73,151 +27.22% 2
South East -47 8 £70,000 +3.70% 19
Scotland -2 3 £76,783 +39.60% 1
East of England -28 2 £82,500 +10.00%
North East -48 2 £65,576 -5.49% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £84,401 - 8

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 (4.55%) Apache
2 11 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.52%) Confluence
4 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.76%) JBoss
6 1 (0.25%) Drupal
6 1 (0.25%) IIS
6 1 (0.25%) nginx
6 1 (0.25%) SAS
6 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.25%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.25%) Magento
2 1 (0.25%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 382 (96.46%) AWS
2 204 (51.52%) Serverless
3 172 (43.43%) AWS Lambda
4 127 (32.07%) Amazon S3
5 113 (28.54%) Amazon ECS
6 97 (24.49%) Azure
7 89 (22.47%) AWS Step Functions
7 89 (22.47%) GitHub
8 78 (19.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 68 (17.17%) GCP
10 66 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
11 61 (15.40%) Datadog
12 52 (13.13%) Amazon EC2
13 48 (12.12%) Amazon EKS
14 45 (11.36%) Amazon SQS
15 39 (9.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 38 (9.60%) Amazon ECR
17 33 (8.33%) Apigee
18 28 (7.07%) Cloud Computing
19 23 (5.81%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.28%) Firewall
1 13 (3.28%) VPN
2 12 (3.03%) DSL
3 11 (2.78%) Network Security
4 10 (2.53%) TCP/IP
5 8 (2.02%) DNS
6 5 (1.26%) AMQP
7 3 (0.76%) HTTP
7 3 (0.76%) SCCP
7 3 (0.76%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.51%) 4G
8 2 (0.51%) 5G
9 1 (0.25%) Internet
9 1 (0.25%) MQTT
9 1 (0.25%) PSTN
9 1 (0.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (26.52%) DynamoDB
2 81 (20.45%) NoSQL
3 48 (12.12%) Amazon RDS
4 37 (9.34%) Amazon Athena
5 16 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (2.02%) Big Data
8 8 (2.02%) Redis
9 6 (1.52%) Flink
9 6 (1.52%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.52%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.26%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (1.26%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.26%) MySQL
10 5 (1.26%) SQL Server
11 4 (1.01%) Apache Iceberg
11 4 (1.01%) Metadata
12 2 (0.51%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 149 (37.63%) Jenkins
2 136 (34.34%) GitLab
3 60 (15.15%) Git
4 37 (9.34%) Maven
5 33 (8.33%) Cypress.io
6 30 (7.58%) SonarQube
7 26 (6.57%) CircleCI
7 26 (6.57%) Cucumber
8 10 (2.53%) Bitbucket
9 8 (2.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 8 (2.02%) JIRA
10 6 (1.52%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.26%) Claude Code
11 5 (1.26%) Gradle
12 3 (0.76%) Selenium
13 2 (0.51%) JMeter
14 1 (0.25%) Eclipse
14 1 (0.25%) Gatling
14 1 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
14 1 (0.25%) Vagrant
General
1 108 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 90 (22.73%) Finance
3 36 (9.09%) Banking
4 21 (5.30%) Public Sector
5 15 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.27%) Aerospace
7 9 (2.27%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.77%) Advertising
8 7 (1.77%) Retail
9 6 (1.52%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.01%) Billing
10 4 (1.01%) Legal
10 4 (1.01%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (1.01%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.76%) Aviation
11 3 (0.76%) Back Office
11 3 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.76%) Law
12 2 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 111 (28.03%) Developer
2 77 (19.44%) Senior
3 76 (19.19%) Cloud Engineer
4 71 (17.93%) Java Developer
5 60 (15.15%) DevOps Engineer
6 43 (10.86%) AWS Engineer
7 32 (8.08%) Senior Developer
8 30 (7.58%) Platform Engineer
9 27 (6.82%) AWS Developer
9 27 (6.82%) Lead
10 26 (6.57%) Java Engineer
11 24 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
12 23 (5.81%) Architect
13 21 (5.30%) AWS DevOps
13 21 (5.30%) Security Engineer
14 20 (5.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 20 (5.05%) Cloud Security Engineer
15 19 (4.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 19 (4.80%) Software Engineer
16 18 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (22.22%) Spring Boot
2 81 (20.45%) AngularJS
3 70 (17.68%) Node.js
4 69 (17.42%) Kafka
5 62 (15.66%) Spring
6 48 (12.12%) AWS CDK
7 37 (9.34%) Gherkin
7 37 (9.34%) React
8 29 (7.32%) Jest
8 29 (7.32%) RESTful
9 23 (5.81%) RabbitMQ
10 22 (5.56%) gRPC
11 20 (5.05%) web3js
12 19 (4.80%) REST
13 18 (4.55%) Next.js
13 18 (4.55%) YAML
14 15 (3.79%) JSON
15 14 (3.54%) Elastic Stack
15 14 (3.54%) Web Services
16 12 (3.03%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 127 (32.07%) Cloud Native
2 40 (10.10%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (8.84%) Public Cloud
4 22 (5.56%) Security Posture
5 21 (5.30%) e-Learning
5 21 (5.30%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (5.05%) Blockchain
6 20 (5.05%) Web3
7 16 (4.04%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (3.79%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (3.54%) Cloud Security Posture
10 13 (3.28%) Onboarding
11 10 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (2.27%) Enterprise Cloud
12 9 (2.27%) PKI
12 9 (2.27%) Product Ownership
13 8 (2.02%) Linux Command Line
14 7 (1.77%) Mainframe
14 7 (1.77%) Management Information System
15 5 (1.26%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 71 (17.93%) Linux
2 20 (5.05%) Windows
3 13 (3.28%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.53%) CentOS
6 5 (1.26%) Debian
6 5 (1.26%) Unix
6 5 (1.26%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.76%) Android
7 3 (0.76%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.76%) VMS
8 1 (0.25%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (74.24%) Infrastructure as Code
2 268 (67.68%) CI/CD
3 216 (54.55%) DevOps
4 156 (39.39%) Agile
5 134 (33.84%) Containerisation
6 87 (21.97%) Continuous Improvement
7 85 (21.46%) Observability
8 83 (20.96%) Microservices
9 82 (20.71%) Mentoring
9 82 (20.71%) Software Engineering
10 75 (18.94%) Cloud Security
11 73 (18.43%) DevSecOps
12 70 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
12 70 (17.68%) Test Automation
13 65 (16.41%) Continuous Integration
14 62 (15.66%) Event-Driven
15 60 (15.15%) Platform Engineering
16 47 (11.87%) Collaborative Culture
16 47 (11.87%) Full-Stack Development
17 43 (10.86%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 179 (45.20%) Python
2 155 (39.14%) Java
3 92 (23.23%) TypeScript
4 89 (22.47%) SQL
5 66 (16.67%) Bash
6 52 (13.13%) Groovy
7 48 (12.12%) Go
8 42 (10.61%) Kotlin
9 35 (8.84%) JavaScript
10 28 (7.07%) PowerShell
11 20 (5.05%) Bicep
12 17 (4.29%) C#
13 12 (3.03%) Rust
14 9 (2.27%) C++
15 8 (2.02%) Ruby
16 6 (1.52%) Google Apps Script
17 4 (1.01%) PHP
18 3 (0.76%) Perl
19 2 (0.51%) COBOL
20 1 (0.25%) Natural
Qualifications
1 100 (25.25%) Security Cleared
2 87 (21.97%) AWS Certification
3 59 (14.90%) SC Cleared
4 46 (11.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 37 (9.34%) Degree
6 26 (6.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 23 (5.81%) ITIL Certification
8 19 (4.80%) DV Cleared
9 15 (3.79%) OSCP
10 12 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (2.27%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (2.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (2.02%) Azure Certification
12 8 (2.02%) Master's Degree
13 6 (1.52%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 4 (1.01%) Postgraduate
14 4 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.76%) CREST Certified
16 2 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
16 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.30%) NIST
2 19 (4.80%) PCI DSS
3 16 (4.04%) GDPR
4 12 (3.03%) SOC 2
5 8 (2.02%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.26%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.76%) NCSC
9 2 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.51%) QA
9 2 (0.51%) WCAG
10 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.25%) HL7
10 1 (0.25%) SLA
10 1 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 181 (45.71%) Docker
2 6 (1.52%) KVM
2 6 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.01%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 265 (66.92%) Terraform
2 154 (38.89%) Kubernetes
3 63 (15.91%) Ansible
4 47 (11.87%) Prometheus
5 42 (10.61%) Grafana
6 28 (7.07%) HP Fortify
7 18 (4.55%) Progress Chef
8 16 (4.04%) Argo
9 10 (2.53%) Puppet
10 8 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (1.52%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (1.26%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (1.26%) Istio
12 5 (1.26%) linkerd
12 5 (1.26%) Mesos
13 3 (0.76%) Rancher
14 2 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
15 1 (0.25%) Consul
15 1 (0.25%) Packer
Vendors
1 31 (7.83%) Google
2 15 (3.79%) Microsoft
3 11 (2.78%) Oracle
4 7 (1.77%) HubSpot
4 7 (1.77%) Splunk
5 6 (1.52%) Red Hat
5 6 (1.52%) VMware
6 5 (1.26%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.01%) Databricks
7 4 (1.01%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.01%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.51%) Tenable
9 1 (0.25%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.25%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.25%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.25%) OneLogin
9 1 (0.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.25%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.25%) TOWER Software