AWS CloudFormation Jobs

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited AWS CloudFormation over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 569 364
Rank change year-on-year +74 -205 -84
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 222 365 900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.35% 0.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.45% 1.02% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 124 275 571
10th Percentile £51,450 £52,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £112,125 £112,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,384 £67,500 £73,750
% change year-on-year +2.79% -8.47% +22.92%

All Cloud 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 15,281 35,941 42,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.58% 34.80% 43.27%
Number of salaries quoted 10,069 26,912 27,490
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £34,723
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £76,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £96,225 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.00% -9.09% +4.76%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS CloudFormation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS CloudFormation in the UK

AWS CloudFormation
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS CloudFormation.

Salary trend for AWS CloudFormation in the UK

AWS CloudFormation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS CloudFormation in the UK

AWS CloudFormation
Top 16 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 30 May 2025. 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 +39 204 £75,000 - 1,080
Work from Home +91 121 £67,626 -9.83% 619
London +68 110 £80,000 -15.79% 145
UK excluding London +104 96 £69,384 +2.79% 1,070
South East +87 29 £58,750 -16.07% 310
North of England +15 29 £70,000 +11.50% 242
North West -7 19 £71,250 +5.56% 104
East of England +52 15 - - 151
Scotland +122 8 £55,000 -37.14% 40
Yorkshire +51 7 £73,500 +40.00% 107
Wales +49 6 £57,500 -11.54% 28
Midlands +54 5 £72,500 +7.41% 184
South West +79 4 £85,000 +51.11% 135
West Midlands +42 3 £81,313 +12.16% 99
North East +35 3 £69,384 +6.74% 33
East Midlands +30 2 £72,500 +7.41% 73

AWS CloudFormation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (4.95%) Apache Spark
2 10 (4.50%) Confluence
3 5 (2.25%) Apache
4 3 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.35%) nginx
5 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (0.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 217 (97.75%) AWS
2 105 (47.30%) Azure
3 85 (38.29%) Amazon EKS
4 76 (34.23%) Serverless
5 73 (32.88%) AWS Lambda
6 42 (18.92%) Amazon S3
7 39 (17.57%) GCP
8 37 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
9 33 (14.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 27 (12.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 26 (11.71%) Amazon ECS
12 25 (11.26%) Cloud Computing
13 24 (10.81%) Pulumi
14 21 (9.46%) GitHub
15 16 (7.21%) AWS CodeBuild
15 16 (7.21%) AWS KMS
16 13 (5.86%) Datadog
17 12 (5.41%) AWS Step Functions
17 12 (5.41%) dbt
18 11 (4.95%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.21%) Firewall
1 16 (7.21%) Network Security
2 15 (6.76%) TCP/IP
3 11 (4.95%) VPN
4 7 (3.15%) DNS
5 5 (2.25%) BGP
5 5 (2.25%) SSL
6 4 (1.80%) Internet
6 4 (1.80%) IPsec
6 4 (1.80%) OSPF
6 4 (1.80%) VoIP
7 2 (0.90%) NAS
7 2 (0.90%) SAN
7 2 (0.90%) SNMP
7 2 (0.90%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (30.18%) Elasticsearch
2 42 (18.92%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (7.66%) NoSQL
3 17 (7.66%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (7.21%) Amazon Redshift
4 16 (7.21%) DynamoDB
5 13 (5.86%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (5.41%) Redis
7 9 (4.05%) Big Data
8 8 (3.60%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (2.70%) MongoDB
10 5 (2.25%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.35%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.35%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.90%) Flink
12 2 (0.90%) MySQL
12 2 (0.90%) SQL Server
13 1 (0.45%) Amazon QuickSight
13 1 (0.45%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 45 (20.27%) Jenkins
2 28 (12.61%) GitLab
3 18 (8.11%) Git
4 17 (7.66%) CircleCI
5 13 (5.86%) JIRA
6 12 (5.41%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.35%) Spinnaker
8 2 (0.90%) Checkstyle
8 2 (0.90%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.45%) Gradle
9 1 (0.45%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.45%) Maven
9 1 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.45%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.45%) TestRail
9 1 (0.45%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.45%) Vagrant
General
1 68 (30.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 68 (30.63%) Social Skills
2 52 (23.42%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (18.02%) Finance
4 13 (5.86%) Banking
5 8 (3.60%) Advertising
6 7 (3.15%) Law
7 6 (2.70%) Marketing
7 6 (2.70%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.80%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.35%) Games
10 2 (0.90%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.90%) Local Government
11 1 (0.45%) Aviation
11 1 (0.45%) Electronics
11 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.45%) Military
11 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (30.63%) Developer
2 62 (27.93%) Senior
3 49 (22.07%) Software Developer
4 45 (20.27%) AWS Engineer
5 33 (14.86%) Architect
6 32 (14.41%) DevOps Engineer
7 22 (9.91%) Platform Engineer
8 21 (9.46%) Lead
9 20 (9.01%) Cloud Architect
10 18 (8.11%) Cloud Engineer
10 18 (8.11%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 17 (7.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 16 (7.21%) AWS Architect
12 16 (7.21%) AWS DevOps
13 15 (6.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 14 (6.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 14 (6.31%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 14 (6.31%) Senior DevOps
14 14 (6.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 12 (5.41%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (25.68%) Node.js
2 50 (22.52%) .NET
2 50 (22.52%) Pandas
3 32 (14.41%) Kafka
4 26 (11.71%) Elastic Stack
5 18 (8.11%) AWS CDK
6 14 (6.31%) RESTful
7 12 (5.41%) Django
8 9 (4.05%) Loki
8 9 (4.05%) REST
8 9 (4.05%) Web Services
9 8 (3.60%) gRPC
9 8 (3.60%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (3.60%) web3js
10 7 (3.15%) YAML
11 6 (2.70%) AngularJS
11 6 (2.70%) ARM Templates
11 6 (2.70%) JSON
12 5 (2.25%) Laravel
12 5 (2.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 49 (22.07%) Cyberattack
2 26 (11.71%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.41%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.05%) Blockchain
4 9 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.60%) Web3
6 7 (3.15%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.70%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.25%) CMDB
9 4 (1.80%) IVR
9 4 (1.80%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.35%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.35%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.90%) Hedge funds
11 2 (0.90%) IoT
11 2 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.45%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 84 (37.84%) Linux
2 49 (22.07%) Android
3 16 (7.21%) Unix
4 5 (2.25%) Windows
5 2 (0.90%) Debian
5 2 (0.90%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (76.13%) CI/CD
2 127 (57.21%) Containerisation
2 127 (57.21%) Infrastructure as Code
3 113 (50.90%) DevOps
4 83 (37.39%) Software Engineering
5 80 (36.04%) Agile
6 63 (28.38%) Design Patterns
7 55 (24.77%) Collaborative Working
8 54 (24.32%) Kanban
9 52 (23.42%) Mathematics
9 52 (23.42%) OO
10 51 (22.97%) Microservices
10 51 (22.97%) OOP
11 50 (22.52%) OWASP
11 50 (22.52%) Secure Coding
12 49 (22.07%) Android Development
12 49 (22.07%) Line Management
12 49 (22.07%) Statistics
13 45 (20.27%) Observability
14 44 (19.82%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 151 (68.02%) Python
2 82 (36.94%) Java
3 80 (36.04%) Go
4 69 (31.08%) JavaScript
5 50 (22.52%) Rust
6 49 (22.07%) C++
7 44 (19.82%) Bash
8 17 (7.66%) SQL
9 15 (6.76%) TypeScript
10 8 (3.60%) Scala
11 7 (3.15%) Bicep
11 7 (3.15%) PowerShell
12 5 (2.25%) PHP
13 4 (1.80%) C#
13 4 (1.80%) Ruby
14 1 (0.45%) Groovy
14 1 (0.45%) R
14 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 95 (42.79%) Security Cleared
2 53 (23.87%) DV Cleared
3 34 (15.32%) SC Cleared
4 26 (11.71%) AWS Certification
5 23 (10.36%) Degree
6 20 (9.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 14 (6.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.90%) CCNP
8 2 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.45%) PhD
9 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.66%) GDPR
2 16 (7.21%) HIPAA
3 9 (4.05%) QA
4 4 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.35%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.90%) SLA
7 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 136 (61.26%) Docker
2 2 (0.90%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.90%) Hyper-V
2 2 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 185 (83.33%) Terraform
2 130 (58.56%) Kubernetes
3 94 (42.34%) Ansible
4 53 (23.87%) Grafana
5 45 (20.27%) Prometheus
6 11 (4.95%) AWS Copilot
7 7 (3.15%) Argo
7 7 (3.15%) Puppet
8 6 (2.70%) Consul
8 6 (2.70%) Istio
9 5 (2.25%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.35%) Kibana
10 3 (1.35%) logstash
10 3 (1.35%) Salt
10 3 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.90%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.90%) linkerd
11 2 (0.90%) Packer
12 1 (0.45%) Check_MK
12 1 (0.45%) Rancher
Vendors
1 19 (8.56%) Google
2 10 (4.50%) Hitachi
2 10 (4.50%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.05%) Splunk
4 5 (2.25%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.35%) Databricks
5 3 (1.35%) New Relic
5 3 (1.35%) Okta
5 3 (1.35%) VMware
6 2 (0.90%) Cisco
6 2 (0.90%) F5
6 2 (0.90%) Informatica
6 2 (0.90%) Juniper
6 2 (0.90%) PagerDuty
6 2 (0.90%) SimCorp
6 2 (0.90%) Talend
7 1 (0.45%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.45%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.45%) Imperva
7 1 (0.45%) SAP