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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 431 473
Rank change year-on-year +40 +42 -156
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 301 262 358
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.51% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.39% 1.40% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 193 197 295
10th Percentile £51,700 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £79,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +8.97% -9.38%
75th Percentile £87,500 £112,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £116,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,750 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.30% +3.85% -13.33%

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 21,730 18,713 28,266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.43% 36.67% 38.57%
Number of salaries quoted 11,741 11,079 23,507
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,000 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 6 February 2026.

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 6 February 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 +56 249 £75,000 -6.25% 103
UK excluding London +43 145 £71,750 +6.30% 76
London +24 120 £85,000 -11.69% 46
Work from Home +70 116 £72,500 -8.23% 66
North of England +26 86 £72,500 +7.41% 24
Yorkshire +35 59 £71,750 - 11
North West -1 24 £73,801 +18.08% 12
Midlands +17 18 £50,000 -27.86% 11
West Midlands +35 16 £50,000 -27.86% 8
South East +5 15 £70,000 +16.67% 16
South West +6 9 £71,250 +29.55% 16
Wales +5 7 £68,958 +2.69% 3
Scotland -9 6 £73,801 +6.48% 5
Northern Ireland -17 6 £95,000 +37.07% 1
North East -15 3 £73,801 +6.48% 1
East Midlands -20 2 - - 3

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 16 (5.32%) Apache
2 9 (2.99%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.66%) Tomcat
4 5 (1.66%) WebSphere
4 5 (1.66%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.66%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 284 (94.35%) AWS
2 157 (52.16%) Serverless
3 144 (47.84%) AWS Lambda
4 143 (47.51%) Azure
5 101 (33.55%) Amazon S3
6 83 (27.57%) Amazon ECS
7 82 (27.24%) GitHub
8 80 (26.58%) GCP
9 77 (25.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 66 (21.93%) Amazon EKS
11 64 (21.26%) GitHub Actions
12 60 (19.93%) AWS Step Functions
13 49 (16.28%) Amazon ECR
14 44 (14.62%) Amazon EC2
15 36 (11.96%) Azure DevOps
16 34 (11.30%) Amazon SQS
17 32 (10.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 28 (9.30%) Pulumi
19 27 (8.97%) Datadog
19 27 (8.97%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.64%) TCP/IP
2 14 (4.65%) Firewall
3 12 (3.99%) VPN
4 8 (2.66%) DSL
5 7 (2.33%) Network Security
6 5 (1.66%) AMQP
6 5 (1.66%) Software-Defined Networking
6 5 (1.66%) SSL
7 3 (1.00%) SCCP
8 2 (0.66%) DHCP
8 2 (0.66%) DNS
8 2 (0.66%) LAN
8 2 (0.66%) WAN
9 1 (0.33%) HTTP
9 1 (0.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (23.26%) DynamoDB
2 60 (19.93%) Amazon RDS
3 53 (17.61%) NoSQL
4 44 (14.62%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (7.97%) Elasticsearch
6 20 (6.64%) Redis
7 16 (5.32%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (5.32%) SQL Server
8 14 (4.65%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (3.99%) MySQL
10 10 (3.32%) Data Lake
11 7 (2.33%) Big Data
12 6 (1.99%) MongoDB
13 5 (1.66%) Cloudera CDH
13 5 (1.66%) DB2
13 5 (1.66%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.66%) Data Vault
14 2 (0.66%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 108 (35.88%) Jenkins
2 97 (32.23%) GitLab
3 54 (17.94%) Git
4 32 (10.63%) SonarQube
5 25 (8.31%) Maven
6 24 (7.97%) Cypress.io
7 13 (4.32%) CircleCI
8 11 (3.65%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.99%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.99%) TeamCity
10 5 (1.66%) git-flow
10 5 (1.66%) Robot Framework
11 4 (1.33%) JIRA
12 3 (1.00%) Eclipse
12 3 (1.00%) JMeter
13 2 (0.66%) Selenium
13 2 (0.66%) TestRail
14 1 (0.33%) Artifactory
14 1 (0.33%) Gradle
14 1 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 85 (28.24%) Social Skills
2 57 (18.94%) Finance
3 21 (6.98%) Banking
4 16 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.65%) Aerospace
6 8 (2.66%) Law
6 8 (2.66%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.66%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.33%) Advertising
8 6 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.33%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.33%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.33%) Retail
10 3 (1.00%) Aviation
10 3 (1.00%) Billing
10 3 (1.00%) Electronics
10 3 (1.00%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.00%) Marketing
11 1 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (23.59%) Cloud Engineer
2 69 (22.92%) Senior
3 54 (17.94%) Developer
4 51 (16.94%) DevOps Engineer
5 37 (12.29%) AWS Engineer
6 30 (9.97%) Platform Engineer
7 27 (8.97%) Lead
8 24 (7.97%) Java Developer
9 19 (6.31%) Architect
10 18 (5.98%) AWS Developer
11 17 (5.65%) AWS DevOps
12 16 (5.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 16 (5.32%) Security Engineer
13 15 (4.98%) AWS Architect
13 15 (4.98%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 15 (4.98%) Senior Developer
14 14 (4.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 14 (4.65%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 14 (4.65%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 13 (4.32%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (15.95%) AWS CDK
2 44 (14.62%) AngularJS
3 38 (12.62%) Node.js
3 38 (12.62%) Spring Boot
4 29 (9.63%) React
5 28 (9.30%) RESTful
6 27 (8.97%) Elastic Stack
7 24 (7.97%) Gherkin
7 24 (7.97%) Jest
8 23 (7.64%) Kafka
9 22 (7.31%) Spring
10 20 (6.64%) Django
11 18 (5.98%) .NET
12 17 (5.65%) RabbitMQ
13 13 (4.32%) .NET Core
13 13 (4.32%) ASP.NET
13 13 (4.32%) ASP.NET Core
13 13 (4.32%) Blazor
13 13 (4.32%) REST
14 12 (3.99%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 87 (28.90%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.97%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (5.98%) Security Posture
4 17 (5.65%) Linux Command Line
5 15 (4.98%) Product Ownership
5 15 (4.98%) Public Cloud
6 10 (3.32%) Cloud Security Posture
7 9 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.99%) PKI
8 7 (2.33%) Blockchain
8 7 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.33%) Web3
9 6 (1.99%) e-Learning
10 5 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.33%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.00%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (1.00%) Cyber Security Posture
12 3 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (1.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 96 (31.89%) Linux
2 41 (13.62%) Windows
3 37 (12.29%) Unix
4 15 (4.98%) Ubuntu
5 13 (4.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.66%) CentOS
7 7 (2.33%) Debian
8 5 (1.66%) VMS
9 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (77.74%) Infrastructure as Code
2 228 (75.75%) CI/CD
3 219 (72.76%) DevOps
4 120 (39.87%) Agile
5 92 (30.56%) Problem-Solving
6 87 (28.90%) Containerisation
7 70 (23.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 64 (21.26%) Cloud Security
9 61 (20.27%) Microservices
10 59 (19.60%) Observability
11 42 (13.95%) DevSecOps
11 42 (13.95%) Platform Engineering
12 39 (12.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 39 (12.96%) Mentoring
13 37 (12.29%) Incident Response
14 36 (11.96%) Continuous Integration
14 36 (11.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 34 (11.30%) Root Cause Analysis
15 34 (11.30%) Software Engineering
16 33 (10.96%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 157 (52.16%) Python
2 88 (29.24%) Bash
3 70 (23.26%) Java
4 55 (18.27%) TypeScript
5 53 (17.61%) SQL
6 39 (12.96%) PowerShell
7 31 (10.30%) Go
8 30 (9.97%) JavaScript
9 24 (7.97%) Groovy
10 20 (6.64%) Bicep
10 20 (6.64%) C#
11 16 (5.32%) Kotlin
12 8 (2.66%) Rust
13 7 (2.33%) C++
14 6 (1.99%) Google Apps Script
15 1 (0.33%) PHP
15 1 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 94 (31.23%) Security Cleared
2 91 (30.23%) AWS Certification
3 55 (18.27%) SC Cleared
4 32 (10.63%) DV Cleared
5 27 (8.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 27 (8.97%) Degree
6 20 (6.64%) AWS Certified Developer
7 17 (5.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 17 (5.65%) ITIL Certification
8 16 (5.32%) Azure Certification
9 12 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (2.66%) OSCP
11 7 (2.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 5 (1.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (1.00%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.66%) CISA
14 2 (0.66%) CISM
14 2 (0.66%) CRISC
14 2 (0.66%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.32%) NIST
2 11 (3.65%) QA
3 10 (3.32%) GDPR
3 10 (3.32%) PCI DSS
4 9 (2.99%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.99%) SLA
6 4 (1.33%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.33%) Basel III
7 1 (0.33%) MiFID
System Software
1 159 (52.82%) Docker
2 7 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.33%) KVM
3 6 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.33%) QEMU
5 1 (0.33%) vCloud
5 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 226 (75.08%) Terraform
2 131 (43.52%) Kubernetes
3 70 (23.26%) Ansible
4 56 (18.60%) Grafana
5 43 (14.29%) Prometheus
6 24 (7.97%) HP Fortify
7 15 (4.98%) Argo
8 12 (3.99%) AWS Copilot
9 8 (2.66%) Docker Swarm
10 7 (2.33%) Istio
10 7 (2.33%) linkerd
10 7 (2.33%) Mesos
10 7 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (2.33%) Puppet
11 5 (1.66%) Kubeflow
12 4 (1.33%) Rancher
13 2 (0.66%) Nessus
14 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 39 (12.96%) Google
2 19 (6.31%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.32%) Splunk
4 10 (3.32%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.33%) VMware
6 6 (1.99%) SaltStack
7 5 (1.66%) IBM
8 4 (1.33%) PagerDuty
8 4 (1.33%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.00%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.00%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.00%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (1.00%) Oracle
9 3 (1.00%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.00%) SAP
10 2 (0.66%) Databricks
10 2 (0.66%) Foundry
10 2 (0.66%) Ping Identity
11 1 (0.33%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.33%) Qualys