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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 398 546
Rank change year-on-year -10 +148 -205
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 349 247 368
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.60% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.29% 1.64% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 202 185 284
10th Percentile £53,824 £54,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,688 £62,500 £63,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £79,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% +5.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £112,500 £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 27,137 15,051 34,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.65% 36.29% 36.23%
Number of salaries quoted 14,059 11,050 26,810
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £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 £54,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +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 16 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 16 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 -12 311 £75,000 -6.25% 102
UK excluding London +21 185 £72,500 +7.21% 71
London -1 141 £85,000 -9.33% 40
North of England +24 116 £75,000 +8.09% 31
Work from Home -16 112 £72,500 - 62
Yorkshire +24 80 £73,750 -1.67% 9
North West -21 32 £79,500 +14.58% 15
Midlands -33 23 £50,000 -24.60% 4
South East -51 14 £70,000 +16.67% 11
West Midlands -6 13 £50,000 -38.51% 3
South West -52 11 £71,250 +23.91% 13
East Midlands -50 10 £63,750 -1.92% 1
Scotland -24 7 £73,801 +34.18% 5
Wales -25 7 £68,958 +9.02% 1
Northern Ireland -35 6 £95,000 -
North East -33 4 £73,801 +6.37% 7
East of England -29 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 (5.73%) Apache
2 9 (2.58%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.43%) 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
1 326 (93.41%) AWS
2 192 (55.01%) Serverless
3 169 (48.42%) AWS Lambda
4 132 (37.82%) Azure
5 123 (35.24%) Amazon S3
6 105 (30.09%) Amazon ECS
7 86 (24.64%) AWS Step Functions
8 80 (22.92%) GCP
9 78 (22.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 74 (21.20%) GitHub
11 59 (16.91%) Amazon EKS
12 57 (16.33%) Amazon ECR
12 57 (16.33%) GitHub Actions
13 53 (15.19%) Datadog
14 46 (13.18%) Amazon SQS
15 40 (11.46%) Apigee
16 34 (9.74%) Amazon EC2
17 33 (9.46%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 30 (8.60%) OpenShift
18 30 (8.60%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.44%) TCP/IP
2 15 (4.30%) Firewall
3 14 (4.01%) VPN
4 13 (3.72%) DSL
5 7 (2.01%) Network Security
6 6 (1.72%) AMQP
7 5 (1.43%) DNS
7 5 (1.43%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.86%) SCCP
9 1 (0.29%) 4G
9 1 (0.29%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (30.66%) DynamoDB
2 74 (21.20%) NoSQL
3 58 (16.62%) Amazon RDS
4 38 (10.89%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (7.74%) Amazon Athena
6 26 (7.45%) Elasticsearch
7 18 (5.16%) Redis
8 13 (3.72%) SQL Server
9 11 (3.15%) MySQL
10 8 (2.29%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (2.01%) Big Data
11 7 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (2.01%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.72%) Cloudera CDH
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
1 135 (38.68%) GitLab
2 128 (36.68%) Jenkins
3 60 (17.19%) Git
4 45 (12.89%) SonarQube
5 44 (12.61%) Maven
6 39 (11.17%) Cypress.io
7 23 (6.59%) CircleCI
8 13 (3.72%) Bitbucket
8 13 (3.72%) Cucumber
9 8 (2.29%) TeamCity
10 7 (2.01%) JIRA
11 5 (1.43%) Robot Framework
11 5 (1.43%) Selenium
12 4 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (1.15%) git-flow
12 4 (1.15%) JMeter
13 3 (0.86%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.86%) Gradle
14 2 (0.57%) TestRail
15 1 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 115 (32.95%) Social Skills
2 70 (20.06%) Finance
3 28 (8.02%) Banking
4 16 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (4.01%) Aerospace
7 10 (2.87%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.58%) Advertising
9 7 (2.01%) Retail
10 6 (1.72%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.72%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.72%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.15%) Billing
11 4 (1.15%) Law
11 4 (1.15%) Mandarin Language
12 3 (0.86%) Aviation
12 3 (0.86%) Back Office
13 2 (0.57%) Electronics
13 2 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 97 (27.79%) Developer
2 72 (20.63%) Senior
3 70 (20.06%) Cloud Engineer
4 55 (15.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 54 (15.47%) Java Developer
6 32 (9.17%) AWS Engineer
7 31 (8.88%) Lead
8 29 (8.31%) Senior Developer
9 26 (7.45%) Platform Engineer
10 25 (7.16%) AWS Developer
11 23 (6.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 21 (6.02%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 21 (6.02%) Security Engineer
13 19 (5.44%) Architect
14 18 (5.16%) AWS DevOps
15 17 (4.87%) AWS Architect
16 15 (4.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 13 (3.72%) AWS Security Architect
17 13 (3.72%) Full-Stack Developer
17 13 (3.72%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (20.34%) AngularJS
2 66 (18.91%) Spring Boot
3 58 (16.62%) Node.js
4 55 (15.76%) AWS CDK
5 45 (12.89%) Kafka
6 40 (11.46%) React
7 39 (11.17%) Gherkin
7 39 (11.17%) Jest
8 37 (10.60%) RESTful
8 37 (10.60%) Spring
9 23 (6.59%) RabbitMQ
10 20 (5.73%) Elastic Stack
11 19 (5.44%) gRPC
12 18 (5.16%) .NET
13 17 (4.87%) Django
13 17 (4.87%) REST
13 17 (4.87%) web3js
14 14 (4.01%) Next.js
15 13 (3.72%) .NET Core
15 13 (3.72%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 105 (30.09%) Cloud Native
2 31 (8.88%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (6.30%) Security Posture
4 21 (6.02%) Public Cloud
5 17 (4.87%) Blockchain
5 17 (4.87%) Web3
6 13 (3.72%) Cloud Security Posture
6 13 (3.72%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (3.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (3.72%) Product Ownership
7 12 (3.44%) PKI
8 11 (3.15%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (2.58%) e-Learning
9 9 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.43%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.86%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 78 (22.35%) Linux
2 27 (7.74%) Windows
3 22 (6.30%) Unix
4 18 (5.16%) Ubuntu
5 14 (4.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (3.72%) CentOS
7 6 (1.72%) Debian
8 5 (1.43%) VMS
8 5 (1.43%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.86%) Android
9 3 (0.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (74.79%) Infrastructure as Code
2 254 (72.78%) CI/CD
3 239 (68.48%) DevOps
4 161 (46.13%) Agile
5 118 (33.81%) Containerisation
6 96 (27.51%) Problem-Solving
7 78 (22.35%) Microservices
8 75 (21.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 72 (20.63%) Observability
10 68 (19.48%) Cloud Security
10 68 (19.48%) Mentoring
11 61 (17.48%) DevSecOps
12 58 (16.62%) Continuous Integration
13 50 (14.33%) Platform Engineering
13 50 (14.33%) Software Engineering
14 46 (13.18%) Test Automation
15 41 (11.75%) Clean Code
15 41 (11.75%) Collaborative Culture
16 40 (11.46%) Incident Response
17 38 (10.89%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 153 (43.84%) Python
2 124 (35.53%) Java
3 85 (24.36%) TypeScript
4 82 (23.50%) Bash
5 76 (21.78%) SQL
6 44 (12.61%) Go
7 40 (11.46%) Groovy
8 36 (10.32%) JavaScript
9 35 (10.03%) Kotlin
10 24 (6.88%) PowerShell
11 22 (6.30%) C#
12 13 (3.72%) Rust
13 11 (3.15%) C++
14 10 (2.87%) Bicep
15 8 (2.29%) Google Apps Script
16 1 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.29%) PHP
16 1 (0.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 95 (27.22%) Security Cleared
2 85 (24.36%) AWS Certification
3 49 (14.04%) SC Cleared
4 34 (9.74%) Degree
5 32 (9.17%) DV Cleared
6 30 (8.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 29 (8.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 26 (7.45%) AWS Certified Developer
9 23 (6.59%) ITIL Certification
10 16 (4.58%) OSCP
11 13 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
12 11 (3.15%) Azure Certification
13 7 (2.01%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 5 (1.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (1.15%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.86%) CREST Certified
16 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
17 2 (0.57%) ISTQB
17 2 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 2 (0.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.30%) NIST
2 17 (4.87%) PCI DSS
3 14 (4.01%) GDPR
4 9 (2.58%) QA
4 9 (2.58%) SOC 2
5 5 (1.43%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.29%) Basel III
6 1 (0.29%) HL7
6 1 (0.29%) MiFID
6 1 (0.29%) NCSC
6 1 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 190 (54.44%) Docker
2 9 (2.58%) KVM
3 8 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.72%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.29%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 247 (70.77%) Terraform
2 142 (40.69%) Kubernetes
3 74 (21.20%) Ansible
4 49 (14.04%) Grafana
5 47 (13.47%) Prometheus
6 39 (11.17%) HP Fortify
7 17 (4.87%) Argo
8 10 (2.87%) AWS Copilot
8 10 (2.87%) Docker Swarm
8 10 (2.87%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (2.29%) Istio
9 8 (2.29%) linkerd
9 8 (2.29%) Mesos
9 8 (2.29%) Puppet
10 5 (1.43%) Rancher
11 2 (0.57%) Nessus
11 2 (0.57%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.29%) Consul
12 1 (0.29%) Packer
Vendors
1 40 (11.46%) Google
2 21 (6.02%) Microsoft
3 9 (2.58%) Splunk
4 8 (2.29%) 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