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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 421 559
Rank change year-on-year +3 +138 -216
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 367 249 331
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.57% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 1.66% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 199 151 274
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,131 £60,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,677 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.90% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,875 £97,500
90th Percentile £113,000 £116,250 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £69,384 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.49% +2.79% -6.90%

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 26,802 15,010 34,416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.12% 34.07% 35.40%
Number of salaries quoted 15,126 10,547 26,688
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.44% +7.38% -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 19 May 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 19 May 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 +23 342 £77,500 +3.33% 98
UK excluding London +10 187 £72,500 +4.49% 66
London +9 158 £86,250 -1.43% 38
North of England +65 129 £75,000 +8.09% 32
Work from Home -11 98 £72,500 +4.49% 59
Yorkshire +38 96 £75,000 - 13
North West +13 31 £80,000 +14.79% 14
Midlands -7 30 £50,000 -28.64% 7
East Midlands -15 16 £52,500 -23.64% 5
West Midlands -7 14 £50,000 -38.51% 2
South West -50 10 £72,500 -14.71% 13
South East -45 8 £70,000 +16.67% 9
Northern Ireland - 4 £95,000 -
Scotland -6 3 £76,783 +39.60% 4
East of England -31 2 £82,500 -2.94% 1
North East -40 2 £65,576 -5.49% 5
Wales -38 1 £73,801 +19.76%

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 (5.45%) Apache
2 10 (2.72%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.82%) Confluence
4 3 (0.82%) JBoss
5 1 (0.27%) Drupal
5 1 (0.27%) IIS
5 1 (0.27%) nginx
5 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 350 (95.37%) AWS
2 206 (56.13%) Serverless
3 180 (49.05%) AWS Lambda
4 132 (35.97%) Amazon S3
5 108 (29.43%) Amazon ECS
6 98 (26.70%) AWS Step Functions
6 98 (26.70%) Azure
7 83 (22.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 80 (21.80%) GitHub
9 64 (17.44%) GitHub Actions
10 62 (16.89%) GCP
11 60 (16.35%) Datadog
12 52 (14.17%) Amazon EKS
13 49 (13.35%) Amazon ECR
14 47 (12.81%) Amazon SQS
15 45 (12.26%) Amazon EC2
16 44 (11.99%) Apigee
17 35 (9.54%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 25 (6.81%) OpenShift
19 22 (5.99%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.54%) DSL
1 13 (3.54%) Firewall
2 12 (3.27%) VPN
3 9 (2.45%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.91%) DNS
4 7 (1.91%) Network Security
5 5 (1.36%) AMQP
6 4 (1.09%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.82%) SCCP
8 2 (0.54%) 4G
8 2 (0.54%) 5G
8 2 (0.54%) HTTP
9 1 (0.27%) PSTN
9 1 (0.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (32.70%) DynamoDB
2 81 (22.07%) NoSQL
3 51 (13.90%) Amazon RDS
4 31 (8.45%) Amazon Athena
5 25 (6.81%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (3.54%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (3.00%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.18%) Redis
9 7 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.91%) Big Data
10 6 (1.63%) Flink
10 6 (1.63%) MySQL
11 5 (1.36%) Cloudera CDH
11 5 (1.36%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.36%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.09%) Apache Iceberg
12 4 (1.09%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.82%) Metadata
14 2 (0.54%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 147 (40.05%) Jenkins
2 144 (39.24%) GitLab
3 65 (17.71%) Git
4 49 (13.35%) Maven
5 44 (11.99%) Cypress.io
6 42 (11.44%) SonarQube
7 27 (7.36%) CircleCI
8 20 (5.45%) Cucumber
9 11 (3.00%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.91%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (1.36%) Gradle
11 5 (1.36%) JIRA
12 4 (1.09%) Claude Code
13 3 (0.82%) Selenium
14 2 (0.54%) JMeter
15 1 (0.27%) Eclipse
15 1 (0.27%) git-flow
15 1 (0.27%) MLflow
15 1 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 110 (29.97%) Social Skills
2 77 (20.98%) Finance
3 33 (8.99%) Banking
4 13 (3.54%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (2.72%) Advertising
6 10 (2.72%) Aerospace
7 8 (2.18%) Retail
8 7 (1.91%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.91%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.36%) Billing
9 5 (1.36%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.36%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.09%) Mandarin Language
11 3 (0.82%) Aviation
11 3 (0.82%) Back Office
11 3 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.82%) Law
11 3 (0.82%) Legal
12 2 (0.54%) Games
Job Titles
1 113 (30.79%) Developer
2 68 (18.53%) Cloud Engineer
3 67 (18.26%) Senior
4 65 (17.71%) Java Developer
5 55 (14.99%) DevOps Engineer
6 38 (10.35%) AWS Engineer
7 33 (8.99%) Senior Developer
8 30 (8.17%) AWS Developer
8 30 (8.17%) Lead
9 25 (6.81%) Platform Engineer
10 22 (5.99%) Security Engineer
11 21 (5.72%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 21 (5.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 20 (5.45%) Java Engineer
13 17 (4.63%) AWS DevOps
14 16 (4.36%) Architect
14 16 (4.36%) AWS Architect
14 16 (4.36%) Full-Stack Developer
14 16 (4.36%) Senior Java Developer
14 16 (4.36%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (22.62%) AngularJS
2 80 (21.80%) Spring Boot
3 59 (16.08%) Kafka
3 59 (16.08%) Node.js
4 52 (14.17%) AWS CDK
5 50 (13.62%) Spring
6 44 (11.99%) Gherkin
7 41 (11.17%) Jest
8 40 (10.90%) RESTful
9 39 (10.63%) React
10 23 (6.27%) RabbitMQ
11 22 (5.99%) gRPC
12 21 (5.72%) web3js
13 19 (5.18%) Next.js
14 16 (4.36%) REST
14 16 (4.36%) YAML
15 13 (3.54%) Elastic Stack
16 12 (3.27%) JSON
17 11 (3.00%) .NET
17 11 (3.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 110 (29.97%) Cloud Native
2 32 (8.72%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (7.36%) Public Cloud
4 22 (5.99%) Security Posture
5 21 (5.72%) Blockchain
5 21 (5.72%) Web3
6 17 (4.63%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (4.09%) e-Learning
8 14 (3.81%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (3.81%) Hybrid Cloud
9 13 (3.54%) Cloud Security Posture
10 11 (3.00%) PKI
11 8 (2.18%) Linux Command Line
11 8 (2.18%) Product Ownership
12 7 (1.91%) Management Information System
13 5 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
15 3 (0.82%) Cyber Defence
15 3 (0.82%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 70 (19.07%) Linux
2 21 (5.72%) Windows
3 14 (3.81%) Ubuntu
4 11 (3.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.72%) CentOS
6 7 (1.91%) Unix
7 5 (1.36%) Debian
7 5 (1.36%) Windows Server
8 4 (1.09%) VMS
9 3 (0.82%) Android
9 3 (0.82%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (71.66%) Infrastructure as Code
2 256 (69.75%) CI/CD
3 225 (61.31%) DevOps
4 150 (40.87%) Agile
5 124 (33.79%) Containerisation
6 85 (23.16%) Microservices
7 81 (22.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 79 (21.53%) Problem-Solving
9 71 (19.35%) Mentoring
9 71 (19.35%) Observability
10 68 (18.53%) DevSecOps
11 67 (18.26%) Software Engineering
12 66 (17.98%) Cloud Security
13 63 (17.17%) Continuous Integration
14 59 (16.08%) Test Automation
15 53 (14.44%) Platform Engineering
16 46 (12.53%) Event-Driven
17 44 (11.99%) Full-Stack Development
18 43 (11.72%) High Availability
19 41 (11.17%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 157 (42.78%) Python
2 144 (39.24%) Java
3 101 (27.52%) TypeScript
4 85 (23.16%) SQL
5 72 (19.62%) Bash
6 53 (14.44%) Groovy
7 48 (13.08%) Go
8 39 (10.63%) Kotlin
9 36 (9.81%) JavaScript
10 21 (5.72%) PowerShell
11 18 (4.90%) C#
12 13 (3.54%) Rust
13 10 (2.72%) Bicep
13 10 (2.72%) C++
14 7 (1.91%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.54%) PHP
16 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.27%) Perl
16 1 (0.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 83 (22.62%) AWS Certification
2 80 (21.80%) Security Cleared
3 41 (11.17%) SC Cleared
4 33 (8.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 32 (8.72%) Degree
6 28 (7.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (6.54%) ITIL Certification
8 23 (6.27%) DV Cleared
9 22 (5.99%) AWS Certified Developer
10 16 (4.36%) OSCP
11 10 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (2.45%) Azure Certification
13 7 (1.91%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 5 (1.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (1.09%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.82%) CREST Certified
16 3 (0.82%) Master's Degree
16 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
17 1 (0.27%) CompTIA Security+
17 1 (0.27%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.72%) NIST
2 16 (4.36%) PCI DSS
3 13 (3.54%) GDPR
4 10 (2.72%) SOC 2
5 7 (1.91%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.36%) QA
7 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.27%) HL7
7 1 (0.27%) NCSC
7 1 (0.27%) SLA
7 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 185 (50.41%) Docker
2 7 (1.91%) KVM
2 7 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 243 (66.21%) Terraform
2 143 (38.96%) Kubernetes
3 67 (18.26%) Ansible
4 43 (11.72%) Prometheus
5 40 (10.90%) HP Fortify
6 39 (10.63%) Grafana
7 11 (3.00%) Argo
8 9 (2.45%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (2.45%) Progress Chef
9 8 (2.18%) Docker Swarm
10 7 (1.91%) Istio
10 7 (1.91%) linkerd
10 7 (1.91%) Mesos
10 7 (1.91%) Puppet
11 5 (1.36%) AWS Copilot
12 4 (1.09%) Rancher
13 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.27%) Consul
14 1 (0.27%) Packer
Vendors
1 26 (7.08%) Google
2 17 (4.63%) Microsoft
3 7 (1.91%) VMware
4 6 (1.63%) HubSpot
4 6 (1.63%) Red Hat
5 5 (1.36%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.09%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.09%) Splunk
7 3 (0.82%) Databricks
7 3 (0.82%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.54%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (0.54%) Oracle
8 2 (0.54%) Ping Identity
8 2 (0.54%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.27%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.27%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.27%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.27%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.27%) TOWER Software