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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 404 521
Rank change year-on-year +13 +117 -171
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 316 269 342
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.61% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 1.64% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 195 204 272
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £51,375
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £61,370
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £78,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% +4.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £112,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £106,500 £122,125 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £67,626 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.21% +0.19% -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 23,560 16,416 31,598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.36% 37.38% 37.80%
Number of salaries quoted 12,567 11,036 25,658
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,906 £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 10 March 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS CloudFormation in the UK

AWS CloudFormation
Top 16 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 10 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 +19 268 £77,500 -7.46% 115
UK excluding London +19 159 £72,500 +7.21% 73
London -4 128 £82,500 -15.38% 37
Work from Home +29 111 £72,500 - 69
North of England +15 93 £72,500 +4.65% 26
Yorkshire +17 66 £72,500 - 8
North West -20 23 £76,651 +13.45% 11
Midlands -8 22 £50,000 -26.97% 8
West Midlands +9 15 £50,000 -27.86% 5
South East -26 14 £70,000 +16.67% 12
South West -25 10 £71,250 +29.55% 18
Wales -7 8 £71,379 +9.08% 3
East Midlands -28 7 £75,000 +15.38% 3
Northern Ireland -28 7 £95,000 +37.07% 1
Scotland -22 6 £73,801 +18.74% 3
North East -26 4 £73,801 +6.37% 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 18 (5.70%) Apache
2 10 (3.16%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.63%) JBoss
4 2 (0.63%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.63%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.63%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.32%) Confluence
5 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 300 (94.94%) AWS
2 180 (56.96%) Serverless
3 160 (50.63%) AWS Lambda
4 139 (43.99%) Azure
5 116 (36.71%) Amazon S3
6 100 (31.65%) Amazon ECS
7 85 (26.90%) GCP
8 82 (25.95%) GitHub
9 81 (25.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 76 (24.05%) AWS Step Functions
11 62 (19.62%) GitHub Actions
12 58 (18.35%) Amazon ECR
12 58 (18.35%) Amazon EKS
13 39 (12.34%) Amazon EC2
14 38 (12.03%) Amazon SQS
14 38 (12.03%) Pulumi
15 37 (11.71%) Datadog
16 34 (10.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 31 (9.81%) Apigee
18 29 (9.18%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.23%) TCP/IP
2 13 (4.11%) DSL
3 12 (3.80%) Firewall
4 11 (3.48%) VPN
5 5 (1.58%) AMQP
5 5 (1.58%) Network Security
5 5 (1.58%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.95%) SCCP
7 2 (0.63%) DNS
7 2 (0.63%) SSL
8 1 (0.32%) 4G
8 1 (0.32%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (27.53%) DynamoDB
2 66 (20.89%) NoSQL
3 65 (20.57%) Amazon RDS
4 47 (14.87%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (9.18%) Elasticsearch
6 25 (7.91%) Redis
7 22 (6.96%) Amazon Athena
8 14 (4.43%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (4.43%) SQL Server
9 12 (3.80%) MySQL
10 11 (3.48%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (2.53%) Data Lake
12 7 (2.22%) Big Data
13 6 (1.90%) MongoDB
14 5 (1.58%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (1.58%) Hadoop
15 3 (0.95%) Apache Iceberg
15 3 (0.95%) Metadata
16 2 (0.63%) Amazon Aurora
16 2 (0.63%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 119 (37.66%) Jenkins
2 118 (37.34%) GitLab
3 56 (17.72%) Git
4 38 (12.03%) SonarQube
5 32 (10.13%) Maven
6 31 (9.81%) Cypress.io
7 20 (6.33%) CircleCI
8 11 (3.48%) Bitbucket
9 10 (3.16%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.90%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.58%) git-flow
11 5 (1.58%) JIRA
11 5 (1.58%) Robot Framework
12 4 (1.27%) Selenium
13 3 (0.95%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.95%) JMeter
14 2 (0.63%) TestRail
15 1 (0.32%) Gradle
15 1 (0.32%) Subversion
General
1 98 (31.01%) Social Skills
2 59 (18.67%) Finance
3 25 (7.91%) Banking
4 20 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (3.48%) Aerospace
7 8 (2.53%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.22%) Public Sector
9 6 (1.90%) Advertising
10 5 (1.58%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.58%) Retail
11 4 (1.27%) Billing
11 4 (1.27%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.95%) Aviation
13 2 (0.63%) Electronics
13 2 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.63%) Law
13 2 (0.63%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.63%) Marketing
14 1 (0.32%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 74 (23.42%) Developer
2 70 (22.15%) Senior
3 66 (20.89%) Cloud Engineer
4 51 (16.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 39 (12.34%) AWS Engineer
6 37 (11.71%) Java Developer
7 34 (10.76%) Platform Engineer
8 27 (8.54%) Lead
9 22 (6.96%) AWS Developer
9 22 (6.96%) Senior Developer
10 21 (6.65%) Architect
11 20 (6.33%) Security Engineer
12 19 (6.01%) AWS DevOps
12 19 (6.01%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 19 (6.01%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 18 (5.70%) AWS Architect
14 16 (5.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 16 (5.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 13 (4.11%) .NET Developer
15 13 (4.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (18.04%) AWS CDK
2 55 (17.41%) AngularJS
3 50 (15.82%) Spring Boot
4 45 (14.24%) Node.js
5 37 (11.71%) React
6 34 (10.76%) Kafka
7 31 (9.81%) Gherkin
7 31 (9.81%) Jest
7 31 (9.81%) RESTful
8 29 (9.18%) Elastic Stack
9 27 (8.54%) Spring
10 25 (7.91%) Django
11 21 (6.65%) RabbitMQ
12 19 (6.01%) .NET
13 16 (5.06%) gRPC
14 14 (4.43%) REST
15 13 (4.11%) .NET Core
15 13 (4.11%) ASP.NET
15 13 (4.11%) ASP.NET Core
15 13 (4.11%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 98 (31.01%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.54%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (7.28%) Security Posture
4 19 (6.01%) Linux Command Line
5 17 (5.38%) Public Cloud
6 14 (4.43%) Cloud Security Posture
6 14 (4.43%) Product Ownership
7 11 (3.48%) Blockchain
7 11 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (3.48%) Web3
8 9 (2.85%) PKI
9 8 (2.53%) e-Learning
10 6 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.95%) Cyber Defence
13 3 (0.95%) Cyber Security Posture
13 3 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
14 2 (0.63%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 85 (26.90%) Linux
2 38 (12.03%) Unix
3 28 (8.86%) Windows
4 13 (4.11%) Ubuntu
5 10 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.53%) CentOS
7 5 (1.58%) Debian
7 5 (1.58%) VMS
8 1 (0.32%) Android
8 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (77.85%) Infrastructure as Code
2 244 (77.22%) CI/CD
3 234 (74.05%) DevOps
4 135 (42.72%) Agile
5 99 (31.33%) Containerisation
6 97 (30.70%) Problem-Solving
7 69 (21.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 67 (21.20%) Microservices
8 67 (21.20%) Observability
9 65 (20.57%) Cloud Security
10 56 (17.72%) DevSecOps
11 49 (15.51%) Continuous Integration
11 49 (15.51%) Mentoring
12 43 (13.61%) Incident Response
12 43 (13.61%) Platform Engineering
13 41 (12.97%) Clean Code
13 41 (12.97%) Software Engineering
14 38 (12.03%) Test Automation
15 34 (10.76%) Root Cause Analysis
16 33 (10.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 158 (50.00%) Python
2 89 (28.16%) Java
3 86 (27.22%) Bash
4 66 (20.89%) TypeScript
5 61 (19.30%) SQL
6 41 (12.97%) Go
7 31 (9.81%) Groovy
7 31 (9.81%) JavaScript
7 31 (9.81%) PowerShell
8 24 (7.59%) Kotlin
9 21 (6.65%) C#
10 14 (4.43%) Bicep
11 13 (4.11%) Rust
12 7 (2.22%) C++
13 6 (1.90%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 91 (28.80%) Security Cleared
2 83 (26.27%) AWS Certification
3 54 (17.09%) SC Cleared
4 31 (9.81%) Degree
5 29 (9.18%) DV Cleared
6 25 (7.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 23 (7.28%) AWS Certified Developer
8 21 (6.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 18 (5.70%) ITIL Certification
10 14 (4.43%) OSCP
11 13 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (3.80%) Azure Certification
13 7 (2.22%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 5 (1.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
16 2 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
16 2 (0.63%) ISTQB
16 2 (0.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 2 (0.63%) SnowPro
17 1 (0.32%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.65%) NIST
2 14 (4.43%) PCI DSS
3 13 (4.11%) GDPR
4 12 (3.80%) QA
5 8 (2.53%) SOC 2
6 6 (1.90%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.95%) SLA
8 1 (0.32%) Basel III
8 1 (0.32%) HL7
8 1 (0.32%) MiFID
8 1 (0.32%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 175 (55.38%) Docker
2 7 (2.22%) KVM
3 6 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.58%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.32%) QEMU
5 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 228 (72.15%) Terraform
2 125 (39.56%) Kubernetes
3 62 (19.62%) Ansible
4 56 (17.72%) Grafana
5 50 (15.82%) Prometheus
6 31 (9.81%) HP Fortify
7 17 (5.38%) AWS Copilot
8 13 (4.11%) Argo
9 10 (3.16%) Docker Swarm
10 8 (2.53%) Istio
10 8 (2.53%) linkerd
10 8 (2.53%) Mesos
11 7 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (1.90%) Puppet
13 4 (1.27%) Rancher
14 2 (0.63%) Nessus
Vendors
1 44 (13.92%) Google
2 19 (6.01%) Microsoft
3 12 (3.80%) Splunk
4 7 (2.22%) Red Hat
5 6 (1.90%) SaltStack
5 6 (1.90%) VMware
6 4 (1.27%) PagerDuty
6 4 (1.27%) SolarWinds
7 3 (0.95%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.95%) LogicMonitor
7 3 (0.95%) Oracle
7 3 (0.95%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.63%) IBM
8 2 (0.63%) Ping Identity
8 2 (0.63%) SAP
9 1 (0.32%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.32%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.32%) Foundry
9 1 (0.32%) Refinitiv