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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 438 562
Rank change year-on-year +49 +124 -190
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 477 241 280
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.49% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.73% 1.51% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 247 141 221
10th Percentile £53,133 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -6.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £107,050 £111,250 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £69,384 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.49% +2.79% -3.57%

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 27,598 15,937 28,667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.16% 32.32% 32.50%
Number of salaries quoted 18,038 11,098 21,231
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,319 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.77% -0.95% -4.55%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 +84 430 £80,000 +6.67% 128
London +55 227 £90,000 +14.65% 59
UK excluding London +32 227 £72,500 +4.49% 103
North of England +55 133 £75,000 +8.09% 37
Work from Home -42 110 £75,000 +8.09% 84
Yorkshire +33 82 £75,000 +7.14% 7
North West +22 44 £73,401 +8.54% 18
Midlands -17 27 £62,000 -4.62% 8
Wales -40 25 £72,500 +20.83% 7
East Midlands -6 18 £52,500 -
South West -46 18 £67,500 -25.00% 21
South East -21 17 £70,000 -17.65% 15
West Midlands -14 9 £62,500 -3.85% 8
North East -42 7 £50,000 -27.94% 12
Scotland +11 4 £71,991 +30.89% 7
East of England -29 2 £82,500 +10.00% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £73,801 - 6

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 19 (3.98%) Apache
2 10 (2.10%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.68%) Confluence
4 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.63%) JBoss
6 1 (0.21%) Drupal
6 1 (0.21%) IIS
6 1 (0.21%) nginx
6 1 (0.21%) SAS
6 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.84%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.42%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.26%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.63%) Summit
3 1 (0.21%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 459 (96.23%) AWS
2 244 (51.15%) Serverless
3 190 (39.83%) AWS Lambda
4 138 (28.93%) Amazon ECS
5 135 (28.30%) Amazon S3
6 122 (25.58%) Azure
7 98 (20.55%) GitHub
8 91 (19.08%) GCP
9 77 (16.14%) AWS Step Functions
10 72 (15.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 70 (14.68%) GitHub Actions
12 67 (14.05%) Amazon EKS
13 61 (12.79%) Amazon EC2
14 58 (12.16%) Cloud Computing
15 55 (11.53%) Datadog
16 46 (9.64%) Amazon SQS
17 37 (7.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 36 (7.55%) Amazon ECR
19 30 (6.29%) Amazon EventBridge
19 30 (6.29%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.03%) Network Security
2 18 (3.77%) TCP/IP
3 16 (3.35%) VPN
4 13 (2.73%) Firewall
5 11 (2.31%) DNS
6 7 (1.47%) DSL
7 4 (0.84%) AMQP
7 4 (0.84%) HTTP
8 3 (0.63%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.42%) 4G
9 2 (0.42%) 5G
9 2 (0.42%) MQTT
10 1 (0.21%) DHCP
10 1 (0.21%) DNSSEC
10 1 (0.21%) Internet
10 1 (0.21%) PSTN
10 1 (0.21%) SCCP
10 1 (0.21%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (20.13%) DynamoDB
2 84 (17.61%) NoSQL
3 58 (12.16%) Amazon RDS
4 33 (6.92%) Amazon Athena
5 25 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (2.10%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (2.10%) MongoDB
8 9 (1.89%) MySQL
8 9 (1.89%) Redis
9 7 (1.47%) Big Data
10 6 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.26%) Flink
10 6 (1.26%) SQL Server
11 5 (1.05%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.05%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.84%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.84%) Apache Iceberg
12 4 (0.84%) Cloudera CDH
12 4 (0.84%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 136 (28.51%) Jenkins
2 134 (28.09%) GitLab
3 68 (14.26%) Git
4 34 (7.13%) Cucumber
5 33 (6.92%) Maven
6 31 (6.50%) Cypress.io
7 27 (5.66%) SonarQube
8 21 (4.40%) CircleCI
9 11 (2.31%) JIRA
10 10 (2.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 9 (1.89%) Bitbucket
12 7 (1.47%) Claude Code
13 6 (1.26%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.84%) Gradle
14 4 (0.84%) Selenium
15 2 (0.42%) Snyk
16 1 (0.21%) git-flow
16 1 (0.21%) MLflow
16 1 (0.21%) Postman
16 1 (0.21%) Vagrant
General
1 129 (27.04%) Social Skills
2 117 (24.53%) Finance
3 54 (11.32%) Public Sector
4 39 (8.18%) Banking
5 22 (4.61%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (2.73%) Financial Institution
8 10 (2.10%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.68%) Law
9 8 (1.68%) Legal
10 6 (1.26%) Advertising
10 6 (1.26%) Military
11 5 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.05%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.05%) Retail
12 4 (0.84%) Mandarin Language
12 4 (0.84%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.63%) Automotive
13 3 (0.63%) Games
13 3 (0.63%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 115 (24.11%) Senior
2 109 (22.85%) Developer
3 78 (16.35%) Cloud Engineer
4 69 (14.47%) DevOps Engineer
5 66 (13.84%) Java Developer
6 45 (9.43%) AWS Engineer
7 42 (8.81%) Lead
8 40 (8.39%) Consultant
9 34 (7.13%) Java Engineer
10 32 (6.71%) Senior Consultant
11 29 (6.08%) Architect
11 29 (6.08%) Full-Stack Developer
12 28 (5.87%) Platform Engineer
13 24 (5.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 24 (5.03%) Senior Developer
14 23 (4.82%) AWS Developer
15 21 (4.40%) Principal Engineer
16 20 (4.19%) AWS DevOps
17 19 (3.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 19 (3.98%) Principal Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (22.85%) Spring Boot
2 83 (17.40%) Kafka
3 82 (17.19%) Spring
4 77 (16.14%) Node.js
5 75 (15.72%) AngularJS
6 61 (12.79%) AWS CDK
7 42 (8.81%) React
8 34 (7.13%) Gherkin
9 31 (6.50%) RESTful
10 28 (5.87%) REST
11 26 (5.45%) Jest
12 24 (5.03%) RabbitMQ
13 19 (3.98%) Web Services
14 18 (3.77%) gRPC
15 17 (3.56%) YAML
16 15 (3.14%) JSON
16 15 (3.14%) Next.js
16 15 (3.14%) web3js
17 14 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
18 13 (2.73%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 168 (35.22%) Cloud Native
2 67 (14.05%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (10.48%) Onboarding
4 43 (9.01%) Public Cloud
5 41 (8.60%) Enterprise Cloud
6 29 (6.08%) e-Learning
7 28 (5.87%) Enterprise Software
8 26 (5.45%) Mainframe
9 24 (5.03%) Legacy Systems
10 22 (4.61%) Data Centre
11 19 (3.98%) Hybrid Cloud
12 17 (3.56%) Security Posture
13 15 (3.14%) Blockchain
13 15 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
13 15 (3.14%) Web3
14 13 (2.73%) Cloud Security Posture
14 13 (2.73%) Distributed Computing
15 12 (2.52%) Linux Command Line
16 10 (2.10%) Product Ownership
17 8 (1.68%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 75 (15.72%) Linux
2 19 (3.98%) Windows
3 11 (2.31%) Unix
4 10 (2.10%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.68%) CentOS
7 6 (1.26%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.84%) Debian
9 3 (0.63%) Android
9 3 (0.63%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.42%) VMS
11 1 (0.21%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (72.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 306 (64.15%) CI/CD
3 245 (51.36%) DevOps
4 198 (41.51%) Agile
5 163 (34.17%) Containerisation
6 128 (26.83%) Mentoring
7 113 (23.69%) Observability
8 110 (23.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 102 (21.38%) Microservices
9 102 (21.38%) Software Engineering
10 93 (19.50%) Cloud Security
11 89 (18.66%) Event-Driven
12 87 (18.24%) Problem-Solving
12 87 (18.24%) Test Automation
13 71 (14.88%) Platform Engineering
14 67 (14.05%) AI
15 65 (13.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 62 (13.00%) DevSecOps
17 58 (12.16%) Migration
18 57 (11.95%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 219 (45.91%) Python
2 181 (37.95%) Java
3 94 (19.71%) SQL
4 85 (17.82%) TypeScript
5 83 (17.40%) Bash
6 50 (10.48%) Groovy
7 41 (8.60%) Go
8 34 (7.13%) Kotlin
9 31 (6.50%) JavaScript
10 30 (6.29%) PowerShell
11 28 (5.87%) Ruby
12 26 (5.45%) Bicep
13 16 (3.35%) PHP
14 15 (3.14%) Perl
15 14 (2.94%) C#
16 9 (1.89%) C++
17 7 (1.47%) Rust
18 6 (1.26%) COBOL
19 5 (1.05%) Google Apps Script
20 1 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 145 (30.40%) Security Cleared
2 118 (24.74%) AWS Certification
3 81 (16.98%) SC Cleared
4 76 (15.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 44 (9.22%) Degree
6 26 (5.45%) DV Cleared
7 23 (4.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 20 (4.19%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (2.73%) Master's Degree
11 10 (2.10%) AWS Certified Developer
11 10 (2.10%) OSCP
12 9 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (1.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (1.26%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.84%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.63%) CREST Certified
17 2 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
17 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
18 1 (0.21%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.66%) GDPR
2 20 (4.19%) PCI DSS
3 19 (3.98%) NIST
4 12 (2.52%) SOC 2
5 10 (2.10%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.10%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.68%) NCSC
6 8 (1.68%) QA
7 6 (1.26%) Government Security Classifications
7 6 (1.26%) HIPAA
7 6 (1.26%) WCAG
8 5 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.21%) HL7
9 1 (0.21%) SLA
9 1 (0.21%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 202 (42.35%) Docker
2 5 (1.05%) KVM
2 5 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.63%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 332 (69.60%) Terraform
2 184 (38.57%) Kubernetes
3 82 (17.19%) Ansible
4 53 (11.11%) Grafana
5 52 (10.90%) Prometheus
6 38 (7.97%) Progress Chef
7 27 (5.66%) Puppet
8 25 (5.24%) HP Fortify
9 19 (3.98%) Argo
10 6 (1.26%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.05%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (1.05%) Istio
11 5 (1.05%) linkerd
11 5 (1.05%) Mesos
12 2 (0.42%) Rancher
12 2 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.21%) Consul
13 1 (0.21%) logstash
13 1 (0.21%) Packer
Vendors
1 38 (7.97%) Google
2 19 (3.98%) Microsoft
3 13 (2.73%) Oracle
4 11 (2.31%) Splunk
5 8 (1.68%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.47%) HubSpot
6 7 (1.47%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.26%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.05%) VMware
9 4 (0.84%) Avaya
9 4 (0.84%) Cisco
9 4 (0.84%) Databricks
9 4 (0.84%) Genesys
9 4 (0.84%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.42%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.42%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.42%) Tenable
11 1 (0.21%) LogicMonitor
11 1 (0.21%) OneLogin
11 1 (0.21%) OutSystems