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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 389 530
Rank change year-on-year -6 +141 -184
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 348 247 371
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.59% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 1.64% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 201 184 286
10th Percentile £53,555 £56,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,250 £62,500 £62,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £79,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £113,125 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £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 27,198 15,067 34,240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.59% 36.23% 36.20%
Number of salaries quoted 14,110 11,081 26,851
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,925 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £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 £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,633 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.67% +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 17 April 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 17 April 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 -17 310 £75,338 -5.83% 106
UK excluding London +16 185 £72,500 +7.21% 77
London -6 140 £85,000 -9.33% 38
North of England +28 117 £75,000 +8.09% 32
Work from Home -12 111 £72,500 - 64
Yorkshire +17 81 £73,750 -1.67% 11
North West -11 32 £79,500 +14.58% 16
Midlands -42 23 £50,000 -24.60% 4
South East -46 13 £70,000 +16.67% 11
West Midlands -17 12 £50,000 -38.51% 3
South West -38 11 £71,250 +18.75% 17
East Midlands -44 11 £63,750 -1.92% 1
Scotland -24 7 £73,801 +34.18% 5
Wales -25 7 £68,958 +9.02% 1
Northern Ireland -31 6 £95,000 - 1
North East -37 4 £73,801 +6.37% 5
East of England -24 1 £75,000 -11.76% 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 20 (5.75%) Apache
2 9 (2.59%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.86%) JBoss
6 2 (0.57%) Confluence
7 1 (0.29%) Drupal
7 1 (0.29%) IIS
7 1 (0.29%) nginx
7 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 325 (93.39%) AWS
2 193 (55.46%) Serverless
3 169 (48.56%) AWS Lambda
4 130 (37.36%) Azure
5 123 (35.34%) Amazon S3
6 105 (30.17%) Amazon ECS
7 87 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
8 79 (22.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 78 (22.41%) GCP
10 74 (21.26%) GitHub
11 59 (16.95%) Amazon EKS
12 58 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
13 56 (16.09%) Amazon ECR
14 54 (15.52%) Datadog
15 45 (12.93%) Amazon SQS
16 40 (11.49%) Apigee
17 34 (9.77%) Amazon EC2
17 34 (9.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 30 (8.62%) OpenShift
19 29 (8.33%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.17%) TCP/IP
2 15 (4.31%) Firewall
3 14 (4.02%) VPN
4 13 (3.74%) DSL
5 7 (2.01%) Network Security
6 6 (1.72%) AMQP
7 5 (1.44%) DNS
7 5 (1.44%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.86%) SCCP
9 1 (0.29%) 4G
9 1 (0.29%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (30.75%) DynamoDB
2 73 (20.98%) NoSQL
3 57 (16.38%) Amazon RDS
4 37 (10.63%) PostgreSQL
5 28 (8.05%) Amazon Athena
6 25 (7.18%) Elasticsearch
7 17 (4.89%) Redis
8 13 (3.74%) SQL Server
9 10 (2.87%) MySQL
10 8 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (2.01%) Big Data
11 7 (2.01%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.72%) Cloudera CDH
12 6 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.72%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.15%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.15%) Flink
13 4 (1.15%) Metadata
14 2 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.57%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 134 (38.51%) GitLab
2 128 (36.78%) Jenkins
3 61 (17.53%) Git
4 45 (12.93%) SonarQube
5 44 (12.64%) Maven
6 39 (11.21%) Cypress.io
7 23 (6.61%) CircleCI
8 13 (3.74%) Bitbucket
9 12 (3.45%) Cucumber
10 8 (2.30%) TeamCity
11 7 (2.01%) JIRA
12 5 (1.44%) Robot Framework
12 5 (1.44%) Selenium
13 4 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (1.15%) JMeter
14 3 (0.86%) Eclipse
14 3 (0.86%) git-flow
14 3 (0.86%) Gradle
15 2 (0.57%) TestRail
16 1 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 114 (32.76%) Social Skills
2 69 (19.83%) Finance
3 27 (7.76%) Banking
4 16 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (4.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (4.02%) Aerospace
7 10 (2.87%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.59%) Advertising
9 7 (2.01%) Retail
10 6 (1.72%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.72%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.44%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.15%) Billing
12 4 (1.15%) Law
12 4 (1.15%) Mandarin Language
13 3 (0.86%) Aviation
13 3 (0.86%) Back Office
14 2 (0.57%) Electronics
14 2 (0.57%) Games
14 2 (0.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 97 (27.87%) Developer
2 70 (20.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 69 (19.83%) Senior
4 55 (15.80%) DevOps Engineer
4 55 (15.80%) Java Developer
5 32 (9.20%) AWS Engineer
6 31 (8.91%) Lead
7 28 (8.05%) Senior Developer
8 26 (7.47%) AWS Developer
8 26 (7.47%) Platform Engineer
9 23 (6.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 21 (6.03%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 21 (6.03%) Security Engineer
11 19 (5.46%) Architect
12 18 (5.17%) AWS DevOps
13 17 (4.89%) AWS Architect
14 15 (4.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 13 (3.74%) AWS Security Architect
15 13 (3.74%) Security Architect
15 13 (3.74%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (20.69%) AngularJS
2 65 (18.68%) Spring Boot
3 59 (16.95%) Node.js
4 55 (15.80%) AWS CDK
5 43 (12.36%) Kafka
6 40 (11.49%) React
7 39 (11.21%) Gherkin
7 39 (11.21%) Jest
8 37 (10.63%) RESTful
9 36 (10.34%) Spring
10 22 (6.32%) RabbitMQ
11 20 (5.75%) Elastic Stack
12 19 (5.46%) gRPC
13 17 (4.89%) .NET
13 17 (4.89%) REST
13 17 (4.89%) web3js
14 16 (4.60%) Django
15 15 (4.31%) Next.js
16 13 (3.74%) .NET Core
16 13 (3.74%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 103 (29.60%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (6.32%) Security Posture
4 20 (5.75%) Public Cloud
5 17 (4.89%) Blockchain
5 17 (4.89%) Web3
6 13 (3.74%) Cloud Security Posture
6 13 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (3.74%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (3.45%) PKI
7 12 (3.45%) Product Ownership
8 11 (3.16%) Linux Command Line
9 10 (2.87%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (2.30%) e-Learning
11 6 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.44%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (0.86%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 77 (22.13%) Linux
2 27 (7.76%) Windows
3 21 (6.03%) Unix
4 18 (5.17%) Ubuntu
5 14 (4.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (3.74%) CentOS
7 6 (1.72%) Debian
8 5 (1.44%) VMS
8 5 (1.44%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.86%) Android
9 3 (0.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (74.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 252 (72.41%) CI/CD
3 238 (68.39%) DevOps
4 160 (45.98%) Agile
5 118 (33.91%) Containerisation
6 96 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
7 76 (21.84%) Microservices
8 75 (21.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 72 (20.69%) Observability
10 69 (19.83%) Mentoring
11 68 (19.54%) Cloud Security
12 62 (17.82%) DevSecOps
13 59 (16.95%) Continuous Integration
14 50 (14.37%) Platform Engineering
14 50 (14.37%) Software Engineering
15 46 (13.22%) Test Automation
16 41 (11.78%) Clean Code
17 40 (11.49%) Collaborative Culture
17 40 (11.49%) Incident Response
18 38 (10.92%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 152 (43.68%) Python
2 124 (35.63%) Java
3 86 (24.71%) TypeScript
4 82 (23.56%) Bash
5 76 (21.84%) SQL
6 44 (12.64%) Go
7 40 (11.49%) Groovy
8 36 (10.34%) JavaScript
8 36 (10.34%) Kotlin
9 24 (6.90%) PowerShell
10 21 (6.03%) C#
11 13 (3.74%) Rust
12 11 (3.16%) C++
13 10 (2.87%) Bicep
14 8 (2.30%) Google Apps Script
15 1 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.29%) PHP
15 1 (0.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 94 (27.01%) Security Cleared
2 84 (24.14%) AWS Certification
3 48 (13.79%) SC Cleared
4 34 (9.77%) Degree
5 32 (9.20%) DV Cleared
6 29 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 29 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 26 (7.47%) AWS Certified Developer
8 23 (6.61%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (4.60%) OSCP
10 13 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (3.16%) Azure Certification
12 7 (2.01%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 5 (1.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (1.15%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.86%) CREST Certified
15 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
16 2 (0.57%) ISTQB
16 2 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 2 (0.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.32%) NIST
2 17 (4.89%) PCI DSS
3 14 (4.02%) GDPR
4 9 (2.59%) SOC 2
5 8 (2.30%) QA
6 5 (1.44%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.29%) Basel III
7 1 (0.29%) HL7
7 1 (0.29%) MiFID
7 1 (0.29%) NCSC
7 1 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 190 (54.60%) Docker
2 9 (2.59%) KVM
3 8 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.72%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.29%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 246 (70.69%) Terraform
2 142 (40.80%) Kubernetes
3 74 (21.26%) Ansible
4 49 (14.08%) Grafana
5 47 (13.51%) Prometheus
6 39 (11.21%) HP Fortify
7 17 (4.89%) Argo
8 10 (2.87%) AWS Copilot
8 10 (2.87%) Docker Swarm
8 10 (2.87%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (2.30%) Istio
9 8 (2.30%) linkerd
9 8 (2.30%) Mesos
9 8 (2.30%) Puppet
10 5 (1.44%) Rancher
11 2 (0.57%) Nessus
11 2 (0.57%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.29%) Consul
12 1 (0.29%) Packer
Vendors
1 39 (11.21%) Google
2 21 (6.03%) Microsoft
3 9 (2.59%) Splunk
4 8 (2.30%) VMware
5 7 (2.01%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.01%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.15%) HubSpot
6 4 (1.15%) Oracle
6 4 (1.15%) PagerDuty
7 3 (0.86%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.86%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.86%) SolarWinds
8 2 (0.57%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (0.57%) Ping Identity
8 2 (0.57%) SAP
9 1 (0.29%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.29%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.29%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.29%) Tenable