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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 461 544
Rank change year-on-year +79 +83 -175
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 522 227 253
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.46% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.89% 1.45% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 259 136 186
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £59,375 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £71,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.63% -5.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £99,375 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,991 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.84% +7.69% -7.14%

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 27,675 15,675 24,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.01% 31.71% 31.62%
Number of salaries quoted 18,698 10,624 15,726
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £43,847 £39,375 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +81 463 £75,000 - 324
UK excluding London +9 266 £71,991 +2.84% 183
London +53 228 £90,000 +10.43% 185
North of England +37 152 £72,500 +7.41% 60
Work from Home -38 110 £85,000 +13.33% 150
Yorkshire +25 93 £75,000 +7.14% 17
North West +5 43 £72,500 +20.83% 32
South West -57 34 £67,500 -25.00% 16
Wales -39 33 £72,246 +31.36% 8
Midlands -32 23 £62,000 +12.73% 25
South East -46 19 £70,000 -20.00% 40
North East - 17 £50,000 - 11
East Midlands -32 13 £52,500 - 12
West Midlands -42 10 £63,750 +15.91% 13
Scotland +5 3 £71,991 +49.98% 19
East of England -44 1 £90,000 +20.00% 6
Northern Ireland - 1 £71,991 - 9

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 (3.83%) Apache
2 12 (2.30%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.72%) Confluence
4 5 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.77%) nginx
6 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.19%) Drupal
7 1 (0.19%) IIS
7 1 (0.19%) JBoss
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.19%) SAS
7 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.19%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.77%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.38%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 6 (1.15%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.57%) Summit
3 1 (0.19%) Magento
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 500 (95.79%) AWS
2 246 (47.13%) Serverless
3 190 (36.40%) AWS Lambda
4 146 (27.97%) Amazon ECS
5 142 (27.20%) Azure
6 138 (26.44%) Amazon S3
7 116 (22.22%) GCP
8 115 (22.03%) GitHub
9 89 (17.05%) GitHub Actions
10 81 (15.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 77 (14.75%) Amazon EC2
12 76 (14.56%) Amazon EKS
13 69 (13.22%) AWS Step Functions
14 52 (9.96%) Datadog
15 48 (9.20%) Cloud Computing
16 40 (7.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 39 (7.47%) Amazon SQS
18 37 (7.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 33 (6.32%) OpenShift
20 29 (5.56%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.98%) Network Security
2 21 (4.02%) TCP/IP
3 13 (2.49%) VPN
4 10 (1.92%) Firewall
5 8 (1.53%) DNS
6 7 (1.34%) AMQP
7 6 (1.15%) HTTP
8 5 (0.96%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.38%) MQTT
10 1 (0.19%) 4G
10 1 (0.19%) 5G
10 1 (0.19%) DHCP
10 1 (0.19%) DNSSEC
10 1 (0.19%) Internet
10 1 (0.19%) PSTN
10 1 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.19%) SCCP
10 1 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (18.20%) NoSQL
2 88 (16.86%) DynamoDB
3 65 (12.45%) Amazon RDS
4 32 (6.13%) Amazon Athena
4 32 (6.13%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (3.83%) MongoDB
6 19 (3.64%) MySQL
7 11 (2.11%) Redis
8 10 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (1.72%) Big Data
9 9 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (1.72%) Hadoop
9 9 (1.72%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.34%) Cloudera CDH
11 6 (1.15%) Data Lake
11 6 (1.15%) Flink
11 6 (1.15%) Metadata
12 5 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (0.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 123 (23.56%) Jenkins
2 112 (21.46%) GitLab
3 87 (16.67%) Git
4 42 (8.05%) Cucumber
5 26 (4.98%) Cypress.io
5 26 (4.98%) Maven
6 24 (4.60%) SonarQube
7 11 (2.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (2.11%) Bitbucket
7 11 (2.11%) JIRA
8 7 (1.34%) CircleCI
8 7 (1.34%) Claude Code
9 5 (0.96%) Snyk
9 5 (0.96%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.77%) Gradle
10 4 (0.77%) Selenium
11 3 (0.57%) git-flow
11 3 (0.57%) JUnit
11 3 (0.57%) NUnit
11 3 (0.57%) Postman
General
1 139 (26.63%) Social Skills
2 136 (26.05%) Finance
3 72 (13.79%) Public Sector
4 54 (10.34%) Banking
5 35 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (3.64%) Financial Institution
7 17 (3.26%) Law
8 14 (2.68%) Aerospace
9 13 (2.49%) Legal
10 11 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.11%) Military
11 8 (1.53%) Retail
12 5 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.77%) Local Government
13 4 (0.77%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.57%) Automotive
14 3 (0.57%) Mandarin Language
14 3 (0.57%) Marketing
14 3 (0.57%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 133 (25.48%) Senior
2 108 (20.69%) Developer
3 89 (17.05%) Cloud Engineer
4 76 (14.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 70 (13.41%) Java Developer
6 54 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
7 49 (9.39%) Java Engineer
8 45 (8.62%) Lead
9 42 (8.05%) Consultant
10 33 (6.32%) Architect
10 33 (6.32%) Senior Consultant
11 28 (5.36%) Platform Engineer
11 28 (5.36%) Software Engineer
12 27 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
13 26 (4.98%) AWS Developer
14 24 (4.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 24 (4.60%) Principal Engineer
14 24 (4.60%) Senior Developer
15 23 (4.41%) Cloud Native Engineer
15 23 (4.41%) Principal Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 380 (72.80%) Terraform
2 125 (23.95%) Spring Boot
3 106 (20.31%) Spring
4 98 (18.77%) Node.js
5 88 (16.86%) Kafka
6 78 (14.94%) AngularJS
7 57 (10.92%) AWS CDK
8 43 (8.24%) React
8 43 (8.24%) RESTful
9 30 (5.75%) RabbitMQ
9 30 (5.75%) REST
10 27 (5.17%) Gherkin
11 25 (4.79%) Web Services
12 22 (4.21%) Jest
13 17 (3.26%) Hibernate
14 16 (3.07%) gRPC
14 16 (3.07%) JPA
15 15 (2.87%) JSON
15 15 (2.87%) YAML
16 13 (2.49%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 204 (39.08%) Cloud Native
2 94 (18.01%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (10.54%) Public Cloud
4 51 (9.77%) Onboarding
5 40 (7.66%) e-Learning
5 40 (7.66%) Enterprise Software
6 39 (7.47%) Enterprise Cloud
7 27 (5.17%) Hybrid Cloud
8 26 (4.98%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (4.98%) Mainframe
9 22 (4.21%) Data Centre
10 19 (3.64%) Virtual Team
11 17 (3.26%) Linux Command Line
12 14 (2.68%) Product Ownership
13 13 (2.49%) Blog
13 13 (2.49%) Distributed Computing
13 13 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (2.30%) Security Posture
15 9 (1.72%) Blockchain
15 9 (1.72%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 90 (17.24%) Linux
2 22 (4.21%) Windows
3 17 (3.26%) Unix
4 12 (2.30%) Ubuntu
5 11 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (1.92%) CentOS
7 8 (1.53%) Windows Server
8 7 (1.34%) Debian
9 2 (0.38%) Android
9 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.38%) VMS
10 1 (0.19%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (75.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 346 (66.28%) CI/CD
3 285 (54.60%) DevOps
4 236 (45.21%) Agile
5 169 (32.38%) Containerisation
6 139 (26.63%) Software Engineering
7 138 (26.44%) Mentoring
8 128 (24.52%) Observability
9 123 (23.56%) Microservices
10 120 (22.99%) Continuous Improvement
11 108 (20.69%) Event-Driven
12 104 (19.92%) Problem-Solving
13 99 (18.97%) Test Automation
14 95 (18.20%) Cloud Security
15 81 (15.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 80 (15.33%) AI
17 75 (14.37%) Migration
18 73 (13.98%) Platform Engineering
19 66 (12.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 64 (12.26%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 237 (45.40%) Python
2 199 (38.12%) Java
3 100 (19.16%) SQL
4 88 (16.86%) Bash
5 87 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 49 (9.39%) Groovy
7 40 (7.66%) Kotlin
8 37 (7.09%) Go
8 37 (7.09%) JavaScript
9 35 (6.70%) PowerShell
10 31 (5.94%) Ruby
11 25 (4.79%) Bicep
12 18 (3.45%) C#
13 16 (3.07%) PHP
14 15 (2.87%) Perl
15 9 (1.72%) C++
16 6 (1.15%) COBOL
17 4 (0.77%) Google Apps Script
18 2 (0.38%) Shell Script
19 1 (0.19%) Natural
Qualifications
1 175 (33.52%) Security Cleared
2 136 (26.05%) AWS Certification
3 107 (20.50%) SC Cleared
4 87 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 38 (7.28%) DV Cleared
6 36 (6.90%) Degree
7 18 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 17 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (3.07%) ITIL Certification
10 11 (2.11%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 10 (1.92%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (1.72%) AWS Certified Developer
13 6 (1.15%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.77%) OCP
14 4 (0.77%) Oracle Certification
15 3 (0.57%) Postgraduate
16 2 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
16 2 (0.38%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (6.90%) GDPR
2 16 (3.07%) QA
3 12 (2.30%) NIST
4 11 (2.11%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.11%) HIPAA
4 11 (2.11%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.92%) NCSC
6 8 (1.53%) Data Quality
7 6 (1.15%) Government Security Classifications
7 6 (1.15%) WCAG
8 5 (0.96%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.77%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.19%) SLA
System Software
1 219 (41.95%) Docker
2 6 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.96%) KVM
3 5 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 198 (37.93%) Kubernetes
2 97 (18.58%) Ansible
3 55 (10.54%) Grafana
4 52 (9.96%) Progress Chef
5 50 (9.58%) Prometheus
6 37 (7.09%) Puppet
7 22 (4.21%) Argo
8 18 (3.45%) HP Fortify
9 8 (1.53%) Istio
10 6 (1.15%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (1.15%) linkerd
10 6 (1.15%) Mesos
10 6 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.57%) logstash
12 3 (0.57%) Rancher
13 2 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.19%) Consul
14 1 (0.19%) Fluentd
14 1 (0.19%) Packer
Vendors
1 47 (9.00%) Google
2 20 (3.83%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.83%) Splunk
3 17 (3.26%) Oracle
3 17 (3.26%) Red Hat
4 9 (1.72%) OpenAI
5 7 (1.34%) HubSpot
5 7 (1.34%) SaltStack
6 6 (1.15%) AppDynamics
6 6 (1.15%) Databricks
6 6 (1.15%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.15%) VMware
7 5 (0.96%) Cisco
8 4 (0.77%) Avaya
8 4 (0.77%) Genesys
9 3 (0.57%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.57%) OutSystems
10 2 (0.38%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.38%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.38%) Tenable