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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 453 583
Rank change year-on-year +51 +130 -223
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 383 229 338
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.52% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.54% 1.54% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 210 126 272
10th Percentile £49,875 £51,750 £53,875
25th Percentile £61,946 £60,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £112,750 £111,875 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £69,384 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.49% +2.79% -8.47%

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 24,878 14,844 35,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.07% 33.55% 33.57%
Number of salaries quoted 15,820 10,207 27,118
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,220
25th Percentile £43,094 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.20%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 9 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 9 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 +53 357 £80,000 +6.67% 85
UK excluding London +12 193 £72,500 +4.49% 65
London +10 170 £90,000 +10.77% 26
North of England +57 130 £75,000 +8.09% 27
Work from Home -8 104 £72,500 +7.21% 64
Yorkshire +39 93 £75,000 +2.04% 11
North West +22 35 £80,000 +14.79% 15
Midlands +6 33 £51,250 -29.31% 6
East Midlands -8 18 £52,500 -27.59% 3
West Midlands -9 15 £50,000 -38.51% 3
South West -38 9 £72,500 -14.71% 14
South East -39 8 £70,000 +19.15% 10
Wales -39 6 £73,151 +27.22% 3
Scotland +4 3 £76,783 +39.60% 3
East of England -21 2 £82,500 +10.00% 1
North East -44 2 £65,576 -5.49% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £84,401 - 1

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 (4.96%) Apache
2 11 (2.87%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.04%) Confluence
4 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.78%) JBoss
6 1 (0.26%) Drupal
6 1 (0.26%) IIS
6 1 (0.26%) nginx
6 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.26%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Magento
1 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 368 (96.08%) AWS
2 208 (54.31%) Serverless
3 177 (46.21%) AWS Lambda
4 130 (33.94%) Amazon S3
5 110 (28.72%) Amazon ECS
6 98 (25.59%) Azure
7 94 (24.54%) AWS Step Functions
8 87 (22.72%) GitHub
9 81 (21.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 67 (17.49%) GitHub Actions
11 64 (16.71%) GCP
12 61 (15.93%) Datadog
13 52 (13.58%) Amazon EC2
14 49 (12.79%) Amazon EKS
15 48 (12.53%) Amazon SQS
16 42 (10.97%) Amazon ECR
17 37 (9.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 37 (9.66%) Apigee
18 22 (5.74%) OpenShift
18 22 (5.74%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.39%) DSL
2 11 (2.87%) Firewall
2 11 (2.87%) VPN
3 10 (2.61%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.83%) DNS
5 6 (1.57%) Network Security
6 5 (1.31%) AMQP
7 3 (0.78%) HTTP
7 3 (0.78%) SCCP
7 3 (0.78%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.52%) 4G
8 2 (0.52%) 5G
9 1 (0.26%) MQTT
9 1 (0.26%) PSTN
9 1 (0.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (28.98%) DynamoDB
2 82 (21.41%) NoSQL
3 51 (13.32%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (8.88%) Amazon Athena
5 20 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (2.09%) Big Data
7 8 (2.09%) Redis
7 8 (2.09%) SQL Server
8 6 (1.57%) Flink
8 6 (1.57%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.31%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (1.31%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.31%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.04%) Apache Iceberg
10 4 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.04%) MySQL
11 3 (0.78%) Metadata
12 2 (0.52%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 151 (39.43%) Jenkins
2 142 (37.08%) GitLab
3 64 (16.71%) Git
4 41 (10.70%) Maven
5 37 (9.66%) Cypress.io
6 34 (8.88%) SonarQube
7 26 (6.79%) CircleCI
8 25 (6.53%) Cucumber
9 9 (2.35%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (1.57%) JIRA
10 6 (1.57%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.31%) Claude Code
11 5 (1.31%) Gradle
12 3 (0.78%) Selenium
13 2 (0.52%) JMeter
14 1 (0.26%) Eclipse
14 1 (0.26%) MLflow
14 1 (0.26%) Robot Framework
14 1 (0.26%) Vagrant
General
1 108 (28.20%) Social Skills
2 80 (20.89%) Finance
3 36 (9.40%) Banking
4 13 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (3.13%) Public Sector
6 11 (2.87%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (2.61%) Advertising
8 9 (2.35%) Aerospace
8 9 (2.35%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.83%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.83%) Retail
10 4 (1.04%) Billing
10 4 (1.04%) Legal
10 4 (1.04%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (1.04%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.78%) Aviation
11 3 (0.78%) Back Office
11 3 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.78%) Law
12 2 (0.52%) Games
Job Titles
1 113 (29.50%) Developer
2 73 (19.06%) Cloud Engineer
3 71 (18.54%) Senior
4 69 (18.02%) Java Developer
5 60 (15.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 40 (10.44%) AWS Engineer
7 33 (8.62%) Senior Developer
8 29 (7.57%) Platform Engineer
9 28 (7.31%) AWS Developer
10 25 (6.53%) Java Engineer
11 24 (6.27%) Lead
12 21 (5.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 20 (5.22%) AWS DevOps
13 20 (5.22%) Security Engineer
14 19 (4.96%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 19 (4.96%) Full-Stack Developer
15 18 (4.70%) Architect
15 18 (4.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 18 (4.70%) Software Engineer
16 17 (4.44%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (21.93%) Spring Boot
2 79 (20.63%) AngularJS
3 66 (17.23%) Kafka
4 63 (16.45%) Node.js
5 56 (14.62%) Spring
6 52 (13.58%) AWS CDK
7 39 (10.18%) Gherkin
8 37 (9.66%) React
9 33 (8.62%) Jest
9 33 (8.62%) RESTful
10 22 (5.74%) gRPC
10 22 (5.74%) RabbitMQ
11 20 (5.22%) web3js
12 19 (4.96%) REST
13 18 (4.70%) Next.js
13 18 (4.70%) YAML
14 15 (3.92%) JSON
15 12 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
15 12 (3.13%) PySpark
15 12 (3.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 119 (31.07%) Cloud Native
2 36 (9.40%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (8.36%) Public Cloud
4 21 (5.48%) Security Posture
5 20 (5.22%) Blockchain
5 20 (5.22%) e-Learning
5 20 (5.22%) Enterprise Software
5 20 (5.22%) Web3
6 15 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (3.66%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (3.39%) Cloud Security Posture
9 10 (2.61%) PKI
10 8 (2.09%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (2.09%) Product Ownership
11 7 (1.83%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
14 3 (0.78%) Cyber Defence
14 3 (0.78%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 72 (18.80%) Linux
2 18 (4.70%) Windows
3 13 (3.39%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.61%) CentOS
6 5 (1.31%) Debian
6 5 (1.31%) Unix
6 5 (1.31%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.78%) Android
7 3 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.78%) VMS
8 1 (0.26%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (74.15%) Infrastructure as Code
2 266 (69.45%) CI/CD
3 222 (57.96%) DevOps
4 155 (40.47%) Agile
5 132 (34.46%) Containerisation
6 85 (22.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 84 (21.93%) Microservices
8 80 (20.89%) Observability
9 76 (19.84%) Software Engineering
10 73 (19.06%) Mentoring
11 72 (18.80%) DevSecOps
11 72 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
12 69 (18.02%) Cloud Security
13 67 (17.49%) Test Automation
14 64 (16.71%) Continuous Integration
15 58 (15.14%) Platform Engineering
16 55 (14.36%) Event-Driven
17 44 (11.49%) Collaborative Culture
17 44 (11.49%) Full-Stack Development
18 42 (10.97%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 171 (44.65%) Python
2 147 (38.38%) Java
3 95 (24.80%) TypeScript
4 89 (23.24%) SQL
5 67 (17.49%) Bash
6 53 (13.84%) Groovy
7 48 (12.53%) Go
8 40 (10.44%) Kotlin
9 34 (8.88%) JavaScript
10 27 (7.05%) PowerShell
11 17 (4.44%) C#
12 15 (3.92%) Bicep
13 13 (3.39%) Rust
14 9 (2.35%) C++
15 6 (1.57%) Google Apps Script
16 4 (1.04%) Ruby
17 2 (0.52%) PHP
18 1 (0.26%) COBOL
18 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 1 (0.26%) Perl
Qualifications
1 90 (23.50%) Security Cleared
2 83 (21.67%) AWS Certification
3 54 (14.10%) SC Cleared
4 39 (10.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 33 (8.62%) Degree
6 28 (7.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (6.27%) ITIL Certification
8 22 (5.74%) DV Cleared
9 16 (4.18%) OSCP
10 13 (3.39%) AWS Certified Developer
11 9 (2.35%) Azure Certification
11 9 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (1.83%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 6 (1.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 5 (1.31%) Master's Degree
15 4 (1.04%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.78%) CREST Certified
16 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
17 2 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
18 1 (0.26%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.48%) NIST
2 16 (4.18%) PCI DSS
3 15 (3.92%) GDPR
4 10 (2.61%) SOC 2
5 7 (1.83%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.78%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.52%) NCSC
8 2 (0.52%) QA
9 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.26%) HL7
9 1 (0.26%) SLA
9 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 183 (47.78%) Docker
2 6 (1.57%) KVM
2 6 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 256 (66.84%) Terraform
2 149 (38.90%) Kubernetes
3 65 (16.97%) Ansible
4 45 (11.75%) Prometheus
5 40 (10.44%) Grafana
6 32 (8.36%) HP Fortify
7 15 (3.92%) Argo
8 14 (3.66%) Progress Chef
9 8 (2.09%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (1.83%) Docker Swarm
10 7 (1.83%) Puppet
11 6 (1.57%) Istio
11 6 (1.57%) linkerd
11 6 (1.57%) Mesos
12 5 (1.31%) AWS Copilot
13 3 (0.78%) Rancher
14 2 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
15 1 (0.26%) Consul
15 1 (0.26%) Packer
Vendors
1 28 (7.31%) Google
2 15 (3.92%) Microsoft
3 8 (2.09%) Oracle
4 7 (1.83%) HubSpot
5 6 (1.57%) Red Hat
5 6 (1.57%) VMware
6 5 (1.31%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.04%) Databricks
7 4 (1.04%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.04%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.04%) Splunk
8 2 (0.52%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (0.52%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.26%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.26%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.26%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.26%) OneLogin
9 1 (0.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.26%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.26%) TOWER Software