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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 451 577
Rank change year-on-year +60 +126 -212
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 405 231 342
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.51% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.58% 1.53% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 217 130 275
10th Percentile £52,133 £51,225 £55,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £63,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,677 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.90% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,125 £97,500
90th Percentile £113,500 £111,375 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,801 £69,384 £67,500
% change year-on-year +6.37% +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 25,657 15,076 35,807
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.09% 33.38% 32.91%
Number of salaries quoted 16,662 10,434 27,447
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.73%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,703 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,364
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.21% -6.61%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +71 372 £80,000 +6.67% 79
UK excluding London +20 197 £73,801 +6.37% 57
London +38 186 £90,000 +10.77% 37
North of England +67 130 £75,000 +8.09% 23
Work from Home -2 110 £73,151 +5.43% 43
Yorkshire +49 90 £75,000 +4.17% 7
North West +27 38 £80,000 +15.30% 14
Midlands -16 28 £52,500 -27.59% 2
East Midlands -7 18 £52,500 -27.59%
Wales -38 11 £72,500 +26.09% 1
South West -52 11 £72,500 -19.44% 11
West Midlands -17 10 £50,000 -38.51% 2
South East -44 10 £70,000 +3.70% 19
Scotland +9 3 £76,783 +39.60% 1
East of England -31 2 £82,500 +10.00%
North East -52 2 £65,576 -5.49% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £84,401 -

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 18 (4.44%) Apache
2 11 (2.72%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.48%) Confluence
4 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.74%) JBoss
6 1 (0.25%) Drupal
6 1 (0.25%) IIS
6 1 (0.25%) nginx
6 1 (0.25%) SAS
6 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.25%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.25%) Magento
2 1 (0.25%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 390 (96.30%) AWS
2 206 (50.86%) Serverless
3 173 (42.72%) AWS Lambda
4 127 (31.36%) Amazon S3
5 116 (28.64%) Amazon ECS
6 99 (24.44%) Azure
7 90 (22.22%) GitHub
8 88 (21.73%) AWS Step Functions
9 78 (19.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 71 (17.53%) GCP
11 66 (16.30%) GitHub Actions
12 61 (15.06%) Datadog
13 52 (12.84%) Amazon EC2
13 52 (12.84%) Amazon EKS
14 45 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
15 39 (9.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 38 (9.38%) Amazon ECR
17 33 (8.15%) Apigee
18 32 (7.90%) Cloud Computing
19 22 (5.43%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.46%) Firewall
2 13 (3.21%) Network Security
2 13 (3.21%) VPN
3 11 (2.72%) DSL
3 11 (2.72%) TCP/IP
4 9 (2.22%) DNS
5 5 (1.23%) AMQP
6 3 (0.74%) HTTP
6 3 (0.74%) SCCP
6 3 (0.74%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.49%) 4G
7 2 (0.49%) 5G
8 1 (0.25%) DHCP
8 1 (0.25%) DNSSEC
8 1 (0.25%) Internet
8 1 (0.25%) MQTT
8 1 (0.25%) PSTN
8 1 (0.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (25.93%) DynamoDB
2 83 (20.49%) NoSQL
3 48 (11.85%) Amazon RDS
4 37 (9.14%) Amazon Athena
5 17 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.96%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (1.98%) Big Data
8 8 (1.98%) Redis
9 7 (1.73%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.48%) Flink
10 6 (1.48%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.48%) MySQL
11 5 (1.23%) Cloudera CDH
11 5 (1.23%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.23%) SQL Server
12 4 (0.99%) Apache Iceberg
12 4 (0.99%) Metadata
13 2 (0.49%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 149 (36.79%) Jenkins
2 136 (33.58%) GitLab
3 62 (15.31%) Git
4 37 (9.14%) Maven
5 33 (8.15%) Cypress.io
6 30 (7.41%) SonarQube
7 27 (6.67%) Cucumber
8 26 (6.42%) CircleCI
9 10 (2.47%) Bitbucket
10 8 (1.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 8 (1.98%) JIRA
11 6 (1.48%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.48%) TeamCity
12 5 (1.23%) Gradle
13 3 (0.74%) Selenium
14 2 (0.49%) JMeter
15 1 (0.25%) Eclipse
15 1 (0.25%) Gatling
15 1 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
15 1 (0.25%) Vagrant
General
1 112 (27.65%) Social Skills
2 94 (23.21%) Finance
3 37 (9.14%) Banking
4 24 (5.93%) Public Sector
5 15 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (3.46%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (2.47%) Aerospace
8 9 (2.22%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.73%) Advertising
9 7 (1.73%) Retail
10 6 (1.48%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.23%) Legal
12 4 (0.99%) Billing
12 4 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.99%) Mandarin Language
12 4 (0.99%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.74%) Aviation
13 3 (0.74%) Back Office
13 3 (0.74%) Law
14 2 (0.49%) Games
Job Titles
1 112 (27.65%) Developer
2 82 (20.25%) Senior
3 75 (18.52%) Cloud Engineer
4 72 (17.78%) Java Developer
5 62 (15.31%) DevOps Engineer
6 43 (10.62%) AWS Engineer
7 32 (7.90%) Senior Developer
8 30 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
9 28 (6.91%) Lead
10 27 (6.67%) AWS Developer
10 27 (6.67%) Java Engineer
11 24 (5.93%) Full-Stack Developer
12 23 (5.68%) Architect
13 21 (5.19%) AWS DevOps
14 20 (4.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 20 (4.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 20 (4.94%) Security Engineer
15 19 (4.69%) Cloud Security Engineer
15 19 (4.69%) Principal Engineer
15 19 (4.69%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (22.22%) Spring Boot
2 81 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 71 (17.53%) Kafka
4 70 (17.28%) Node.js
5 64 (15.80%) Spring
6 49 (12.10%) AWS CDK
7 37 (9.14%) Gherkin
7 37 (9.14%) React
8 30 (7.41%) RESTful
9 29 (7.16%) Jest
10 24 (5.93%) RabbitMQ
11 22 (5.43%) gRPC
12 20 (4.94%) web3js
13 19 (4.69%) REST
14 18 (4.44%) Next.js
14 18 (4.44%) YAML
15 15 (3.70%) JSON
16 14 (3.46%) Elastic Stack
16 14 (3.46%) Web Services
17 12 (2.96%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 131 (32.35%) Cloud Native
2 43 (10.62%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (8.89%) Public Cloud
4 23 (5.68%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (5.43%) e-Learning
6 21 (5.19%) Security Posture
7 20 (4.94%) Blockchain
7 20 (4.94%) Web3
8 17 (4.20%) Onboarding
9 16 (3.95%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (3.21%) Cloud Security Posture
11 13 (3.21%) Enterprise Cloud
12 11 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (2.47%) Product Ownership
14 9 (2.22%) PKI
15 8 (1.98%) Linux Command Line
15 8 (1.98%) Mainframe
16 7 (1.73%) Data Centre
16 7 (1.73%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 72 (17.78%) Linux
2 21 (5.19%) Windows
3 13 (3.21%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.47%) CentOS
6 5 (1.23%) Debian
6 5 (1.23%) Unix
6 5 (1.23%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.74%) Android
7 3 (0.74%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.74%) VMS
8 1 (0.25%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (74.07%) Infrastructure as Code
2 270 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 218 (53.83%) DevOps
4 160 (39.51%) Agile
5 139 (34.32%) Containerisation
6 89 (21.98%) Observability
7 88 (21.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 88 (21.73%) Mentoring
8 86 (21.23%) Microservices
9 84 (20.74%) Software Engineering
10 75 (18.52%) Cloud Security
11 73 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
12 72 (17.78%) Test Automation
13 71 (17.53%) DevSecOps
14 67 (16.54%) Continuous Integration
15 66 (16.30%) Event-Driven
16 62 (15.31%) Platform Engineering
17 47 (11.60%) Collaborative Culture
17 47 (11.60%) Full-Stack Development
18 45 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 183 (45.19%) Python
2 160 (39.51%) Java
3 92 (22.72%) TypeScript
4 90 (22.22%) SQL
5 70 (17.28%) Bash
6 52 (12.84%) Groovy
7 47 (11.60%) Go
8 42 (10.37%) Kotlin
9 35 (8.64%) JavaScript
10 29 (7.16%) PowerShell
11 20 (4.94%) Bicep
12 17 (4.20%) C#
13 11 (2.72%) Rust
14 10 (2.47%) C++
14 10 (2.47%) Ruby
15 6 (1.48%) Google Apps Script
15 6 (1.48%) PHP
16 5 (1.23%) Perl
17 2 (0.49%) COBOL
18 1 (0.25%) Natural
Qualifications
1 108 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 90 (22.22%) AWS Certification
3 60 (14.81%) SC Cleared
4 49 (12.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 36 (8.89%) Degree
6 26 (6.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 23 (5.68%) ITIL Certification
8 19 (4.69%) DV Cleared
9 14 (3.46%) OSCP
10 12 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (2.22%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (1.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (1.98%) Azure Certification
12 8 (1.98%) Master's Degree
13 6 (1.48%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 4 (0.99%) Postgraduate
14 4 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.74%) CREST Certified
16 2 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
16 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.94%) NIST
2 19 (4.69%) PCI DSS
3 16 (3.95%) GDPR
4 12 (2.96%) SOC 2
5 9 (2.22%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.23%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.74%) NCSC
8 3 (0.74%) QA
9 2 (0.49%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.49%) WCAG
10 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.25%) HL7
10 1 (0.25%) SLA
10 1 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 185 (45.68%) Docker
2 6 (1.48%) KVM
2 6 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.99%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 271 (66.91%) Terraform
2 159 (39.26%) Kubernetes
3 65 (16.05%) Ansible
4 49 (12.10%) Prometheus
5 44 (10.86%) Grafana
6 28 (6.91%) HP Fortify
7 20 (4.94%) Progress Chef
8 16 (3.95%) Argo
9 12 (2.96%) Puppet
10 8 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (1.48%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (1.23%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (1.23%) Istio
12 5 (1.23%) linkerd
12 5 (1.23%) Mesos
13 3 (0.74%) Rancher
14 2 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
15 1 (0.25%) Consul
15 1 (0.25%) Packer
Vendors
1 32 (7.90%) Google
2 15 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 11 (2.72%) Oracle
4 8 (1.98%) Splunk
5 7 (1.73%) HubSpot
6 6 (1.48%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.48%) VMware
7 5 (1.23%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.23%) SaltStack
8 4 (0.99%) Databricks
8 4 (0.99%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.49%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.49%) Tenable
10 1 (0.25%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.25%) Infoblox
10 1 (0.25%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (0.25%) OneLogin
10 1 (0.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.25%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.25%) TOWER Software