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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 452 569
Rank change year-on-year +70 +117 -205
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 459 237 293
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.48% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.69% 1.49% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 239 136 235
10th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,319 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.43% +3.45% -6.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,375 £97,500
90th Percentile £109,000 £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 27,128 15,899 30,681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.11% 32.32% 32.75%
Number of salaries quoted 17,761 11,058 23,014
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,598 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -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 21 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 21 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 +85 415 £80,000 +6.67% 112
London +82 224 £90,000 +15.02% 53
UK excluding London +28 213 £72,500 +4.49% 87
North of England +66 128 £75,000 +8.09% 27
Work from Home -41 107 £75,000 +8.09% 80
Yorkshire +34 81 £75,000 +5.63% 7
North West +15 43 £74,301 +7.09% 13
Midlands -16 26 £62,000 -4.62% 10
Wales -38 23 £72,500 +20.83% 5
East Midlands -5 18 £52,500 - 3
South East -43 17 £70,000 -15.15% 14
South West -52 12 £67,500 -25.00% 16
West Midlands -20 8 £62,250 -4.23% 7
Scotland +10 4 £71,991 +30.89% 9
North East -46 4 £50,000 -27.94% 7
East of England -24 2 £82,500 +10.00%
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 (4.14%) Apache
2 10 (2.18%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.74%) Confluence
4 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.65%) JBoss
6 1 (0.22%) Drupal
6 1 (0.22%) IIS
6 1 (0.22%) nginx
6 1 (0.22%) SAS
6 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.87%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.44%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.31%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.65%) Summit
3 1 (0.22%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 441 (96.08%) AWS
2 234 (50.98%) Serverless
3 186 (40.52%) AWS Lambda
4 131 (28.54%) Amazon ECS
5 130 (28.32%) Amazon S3
6 112 (24.40%) Azure
7 96 (20.92%) GitHub
8 81 (17.65%) GCP
9 79 (17.21%) AWS Step Functions
10 71 (15.47%) GitHub Actions
11 70 (15.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 66 (14.38%) Amazon EKS
13 59 (12.85%) Cloud Computing
14 57 (12.42%) Amazon EC2
14 57 (12.42%) Datadog
15 46 (10.02%) Amazon SQS
16 36 (7.84%) Amazon ECR
16 36 (7.84%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 30 (6.54%) Amazon EventBridge
17 30 (6.54%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.58%) Network Security
2 17 (3.70%) VPN
3 14 (3.05%) TCP/IP
4 13 (2.83%) Firewall
5 10 (2.18%) DNS
6 9 (1.96%) DSL
7 4 (0.87%) AMQP
7 4 (0.87%) HTTP
8 3 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.44%) 4G
9 2 (0.44%) 5G
9 2 (0.44%) MQTT
10 1 (0.22%) DHCP
10 1 (0.22%) DNSSEC
10 1 (0.22%) Internet
10 1 (0.22%) PSTN
10 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (20.70%) DynamoDB
2 83 (18.08%) NoSQL
3 53 (11.55%) Amazon RDS
4 33 (7.19%) Amazon Athena
5 22 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (2.18%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (1.96%) MongoDB
8 9 (1.96%) Redis
9 8 (1.74%) MySQL
10 7 (1.53%) Big Data
11 6 (1.31%) Flink
12 5 (1.09%) Data Lake
12 5 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.09%) Hadoop
12 5 (1.09%) SQL Server
13 4 (0.87%) Apache Iceberg
13 4 (0.87%) Cloudera CDH
13 4 (0.87%) Metadata
13 4 (0.87%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 139 (30.28%) Jenkins
2 137 (29.85%) GitLab
3 62 (13.51%) Git
4 33 (7.19%) Cucumber
4 33 (7.19%) Maven
5 30 (6.54%) Cypress.io
6 26 (5.66%) SonarQube
7 23 (5.01%) CircleCI
8 10 (2.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 10 (2.18%) JIRA
9 9 (1.96%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.53%) Claude Code
11 5 (1.09%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.87%) Gradle
13 3 (0.65%) Selenium
14 1 (0.22%) git-flow
14 1 (0.22%) JMeter
14 1 (0.22%) MLflow
14 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
14 1 (0.22%) Vagrant
General
1 124 (27.02%) Social Skills
2 114 (24.84%) Finance
3 52 (11.33%) Public Sector
4 38 (8.28%) Banking
5 19 (4.14%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.61%) Financial Institution
8 11 (2.40%) Aerospace
9 6 (1.31%) Advertising
9 6 (1.31%) Legal
10 5 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.09%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.09%) Law
10 5 (1.09%) Military
11 4 (0.87%) Mandarin Language
11 4 (0.87%) Retail
11 4 (0.87%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.65%) Automotive
12 3 (0.65%) Back Office
12 3 (0.65%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 109 (23.75%) Senior
2 106 (23.09%) Developer
3 76 (16.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 66 (14.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 65 (14.16%) Java Developer
6 46 (10.02%) AWS Engineer
7 41 (8.93%) Lead
8 39 (8.50%) Consultant
9 33 (7.19%) Java Engineer
10 32 (6.97%) Senior Consultant
11 31 (6.75%) Platform Engineer
12 29 (6.32%) Architect
13 27 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
14 24 (5.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 24 (5.23%) Senior Developer
15 23 (5.01%) AWS Developer
16 22 (4.79%) Principal Engineer
17 20 (4.36%) AWS DevOps
18 19 (4.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 19 (4.14%) Professional Services Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (23.31%) Spring Boot
2 82 (17.86%) Kafka
3 80 (17.43%) Spring
4 74 (16.12%) Node.js
5 72 (15.69%) AngularJS
6 63 (13.73%) AWS CDK
7 38 (8.28%) React
8 34 (7.41%) Gherkin
9 30 (6.54%) RESTful
10 27 (5.88%) REST
11 26 (5.66%) Jest
12 24 (5.23%) RabbitMQ
13 19 (4.14%) gRPC
13 19 (4.14%) Web Services
14 17 (3.70%) YAML
15 16 (3.49%) web3js
16 15 (3.27%) JSON
16 15 (3.27%) Next.js
17 13 (2.83%) Elastic Stack
17 13 (2.83%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 162 (35.29%) Cloud Native
2 61 (13.29%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (10.68%) Onboarding
4 42 (9.15%) Public Cloud
5 41 (8.93%) Enterprise Cloud
6 28 (6.10%) e-Learning
7 27 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
8 26 (5.66%) Mainframe
9 23 (5.01%) Legacy Systems
10 22 (4.79%) Data Centre
11 18 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
12 16 (3.49%) Blockchain
12 16 (3.49%) Web3
13 15 (3.27%) Greenfield Project
13 15 (3.27%) Security Posture
14 13 (2.83%) Distributed Computing
15 12 (2.61%) Cloud Security Posture
16 10 (2.18%) Linux Command Line
16 10 (2.18%) Product Ownership
17 7 (1.53%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 70 (15.25%) Linux
2 20 (4.36%) Windows
3 11 (2.40%) Ubuntu
4 9 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.74%) CentOS
6 7 (1.53%) Unix
7 5 (1.09%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.87%) Debian
9 3 (0.65%) Android
9 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.65%) VMS
10 1 (0.22%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (72.11%) Infrastructure as Code
2 291 (63.40%) CI/CD
3 228 (49.67%) DevOps
4 185 (40.31%) Agile
5 156 (33.99%) Containerisation
6 121 (26.36%) Mentoring
7 105 (22.88%) Observability
8 100 (21.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 99 (21.57%) Microservices
10 96 (20.92%) Software Engineering
11 88 (19.17%) Event-Driven
12 86 (18.74%) Problem-Solving
13 85 (18.52%) Cloud Security
14 83 (18.08%) Test Automation
15 73 (15.90%) Platform Engineering
16 66 (14.38%) AI
17 64 (13.94%) DevSecOps
17 64 (13.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 58 (12.64%) Continuous Integration
19 52 (11.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 212 (46.19%) Python
2 177 (38.56%) Java
3 94 (20.48%) SQL
4 85 (18.52%) TypeScript
5 80 (17.43%) Bash
6 50 (10.89%) Groovy
7 43 (9.37%) Go
8 35 (7.63%) Kotlin
9 30 (6.54%) JavaScript
9 30 (6.54%) PowerShell
10 28 (6.10%) Ruby
11 26 (5.66%) Bicep
12 16 (3.49%) PHP
13 15 (3.27%) Perl
14 14 (3.05%) C#
15 10 (2.18%) C++
16 9 (1.96%) Rust
17 6 (1.31%) COBOL
18 5 (1.09%) Google Apps Script
19 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 138 (30.07%) Security Cleared
2 114 (24.84%) AWS Certification
3 73 (15.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 72 (15.69%) SC Cleared
5 45 (9.80%) Degree
6 25 (5.45%) DV Cleared
7 23 (5.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 20 (4.36%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (2.83%) Master's Degree
11 12 (2.61%) OSCP
12 9 (1.96%) AWS Certified Developer
12 9 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (1.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (1.53%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.87%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.65%) CREST Certified
16 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 2 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
16 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.36%) GDPR
1 20 (4.36%) PCI DSS
2 18 (3.92%) NIST
3 13 (2.83%) SOC 2
4 10 (2.18%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.18%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.53%) NCSC
6 6 (1.31%) Government Security Classifications
6 6 (1.31%) WCAG
7 5 (1.09%) QA
8 4 (0.87%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.22%) HL7
9 1 (0.22%) SLA
9 1 (0.22%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 195 (42.48%) Docker
2 5 (1.09%) KVM
2 5 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.87%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 315 (68.63%) Terraform
2 181 (39.43%) Kubernetes
3 73 (15.90%) Ansible
4 53 (11.55%) Prometheus
5 51 (11.11%) Grafana
6 37 (8.06%) Progress Chef
7 26 (5.66%) Puppet
8 25 (5.45%) HP Fortify
9 18 (3.92%) Argo
10 7 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (1.31%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (1.09%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (1.09%) Istio
12 5 (1.09%) linkerd
12 5 (1.09%) Mesos
13 2 (0.44%) Rancher
13 2 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.22%) Consul
14 1 (0.22%) logstash
14 1 (0.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 34 (7.41%) Google
2 18 (3.92%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.61%) Oracle
4 10 (2.18%) Splunk
5 8 (1.74%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.53%) HubSpot
7 5 (1.09%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.09%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.09%) VMware
8 4 (0.87%) Avaya
8 4 (0.87%) Cisco
8 4 (0.87%) Databricks
8 4 (0.87%) Genesys
8 4 (0.87%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.44%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.44%) Tenable
10 1 (0.22%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (0.22%) OneLogin
10 1 (0.22%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.22%) ServiceNow