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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 389 541
Rank change year-on-year -15 +152 -200
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 343 275 369
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.65% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.24% 1.83% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 190 173 281
10th Percentile £53,199 £56,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,688 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £92,813 £111,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,500 £121,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £69,384 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.49% +2.79% -10.00%

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 27,721 15,016 34,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.90% 35.45% 35.91%
Number of salaries quoted 14,398 11,000 26,689
10th Percentile £30,625 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,956 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £61,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% +6.96% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -5 315 £80,000 - 79
UK excluding London -17 178 £72,500 +4.49% 55
London -13 144 £85,000 -8.11% 27
North of England +31 120 £75,000 +8.09% 24
Work from Home -59 101 £72,500 - 52
Yorkshire +17 85 £75,000 - 8
North West -25 33 £80,000 +14.79% 13
Midlands -24 23 £50,000 -26.06% 3
East Midlands -45 12 £63,750 -1.92% 3
West Midlands -25 11 £50,000 -38.51%
South West -39 11 £71,250 -16.18% 10
South East -61 10 £70,000 +16.67% 10
Northern Ireland -33 5 £95,000 -
Scotland -26 4 £76,783 +39.60% 2
Wales -31 3 £68,958 +9.02% 2
East of England -32 2 £82,500 -2.94% 5
North East -40 2 £65,576 -5.49% 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 19 (5.54%) Apache
2 9 (2.62%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.87%) JBoss
5 2 (0.58%) Confluence
6 1 (0.29%) Drupal
6 1 (0.29%) IIS
6 1 (0.29%) nginx
6 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 323 (94.17%) AWS
2 193 (56.27%) Serverless
3 168 (48.98%) AWS Lambda
4 122 (35.57%) Amazon S3
5 107 (31.20%) Azure
6 97 (28.28%) Amazon ECS
7 88 (25.66%) AWS Step Functions
8 79 (23.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 74 (21.57%) GitHub
10 63 (18.37%) GCP
11 57 (16.62%) GitHub Actions
12 56 (16.33%) Datadog
13 54 (15.74%) Amazon EKS
14 47 (13.70%) Amazon ECR
15 45 (13.12%) Amazon SQS
16 42 (12.24%) Apigee
17 36 (10.50%) Amazon EC2
18 29 (8.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 28 (8.16%) OpenShift
20 20 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.08%) Firewall
2 13 (3.79%) DSL
3 12 (3.50%) VPN
4 9 (2.62%) TCP/IP
5 7 (2.04%) DNS
5 7 (2.04%) Network Security
6 5 (1.46%) AMQP
7 4 (1.17%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.87%) SCCP
9 2 (0.58%) 4G
9 2 (0.58%) 5G
9 2 (0.58%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (32.07%) DynamoDB
2 75 (21.87%) NoSQL
3 48 (13.99%) Amazon RDS
4 27 (7.87%) Amazon Athena
5 24 (7.00%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (3.21%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.33%) MySQL
9 7 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (1.75%) Big Data
10 6 (1.75%) Flink
10 6 (1.75%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.75%) Redis
11 5 (1.46%) Cloudera CDH
11 5 (1.46%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.87%) Apache Iceberg
13 3 (0.87%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.87%) Metadata
14 2 (0.58%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 136 (39.65%) GitLab
2 134 (39.07%) Jenkins
3 60 (17.49%) Git
4 46 (13.41%) Maven
5 44 (12.83%) SonarQube
6 41 (11.95%) Cypress.io
7 25 (7.29%) CircleCI
8 14 (4.08%) Cucumber
9 12 (3.50%) Bitbucket
10 8 (2.33%) TeamCity
11 6 (1.75%) JIRA
12 4 (1.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (1.17%) Gradle
12 4 (1.17%) Selenium
13 3 (0.87%) JMeter
13 3 (0.87%) Robot Framework
14 2 (0.58%) Claude Code
14 2 (0.58%) Eclipse
14 2 (0.58%) git-flow
15 1 (0.29%) MLflow
General
1 109 (31.78%) Social Skills
2 72 (20.99%) Finance
3 29 (8.45%) Banking
4 14 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.21%) Aerospace
5 11 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (2.62%) Advertising
6 9 (2.62%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.04%) Retail
8 6 (1.75%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.75%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.75%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.46%) Billing
10 4 (1.17%) Law
10 4 (1.17%) Mandarin Language
11 3 (0.87%) Aviation
11 3 (0.87%) Back Office
12 2 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.58%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 103 (30.03%) Developer
2 69 (20.12%) Cloud Engineer
3 63 (18.37%) Senior
4 57 (16.62%) Java Developer
5 55 (16.03%) DevOps Engineer
6 34 (9.91%) AWS Engineer
7 32 (9.33%) Lead
8 30 (8.75%) Senior Developer
9 26 (7.58%) AWS Developer
10 23 (6.71%) Platform Engineer
11 22 (6.41%) Security Engineer
12 21 (6.12%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 21 (6.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 17 (4.96%) Architect
13 17 (4.96%) AWS DevOps
14 15 (4.37%) AWS Architect
14 15 (4.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 15 (4.37%) Full-Stack Developer
15 14 (4.08%) Java Engineer
16 13 (3.79%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (21.57%) AngularJS
2 69 (20.12%) Spring Boot
3 57 (16.62%) Node.js
4 53 (15.45%) AWS CDK
5 51 (14.87%) Kafka
6 41 (11.95%) Gherkin
7 40 (11.66%) Jest
7 40 (11.66%) React
8 39 (11.37%) RESTful
8 39 (11.37%) Spring
9 22 (6.41%) RabbitMQ
10 20 (5.83%) gRPC
11 19 (5.54%) web3js
12 18 (5.25%) Next.js
13 17 (4.96%) Elastic Stack
14 16 (4.66%) REST
15 14 (4.08%) .NET
16 11 (3.21%) .NET Core
16 11 (3.21%) ASP.NET
16 11 (3.21%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 101 (29.45%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.29%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (6.41%) Public Cloud
3 22 (6.41%) Security Posture
4 19 (5.54%) Blockchain
4 19 (5.54%) Web3
5 14 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (3.79%) Cloud Security Posture
7 12 (3.50%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (3.50%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (3.50%) PKI
8 10 (2.92%) e-Learning
8 10 (2.92%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.46%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.87%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 67 (19.53%) Linux
2 24 (7.00%) Windows
3 15 (4.37%) Ubuntu
4 12 (3.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (3.21%) CentOS
6 9 (2.62%) Unix
7 5 (1.46%) Debian
7 5 (1.46%) Windows Server
8 4 (1.17%) VMS
9 3 (0.87%) Android
9 3 (0.87%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (72.89%) Infrastructure as Code
2 243 (70.85%) CI/CD
3 222 (64.72%) DevOps
4 152 (44.31%) Agile
5 121 (35.28%) Containerisation
6 86 (25.07%) Problem-Solving
7 80 (23.32%) Microservices
8 74 (21.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 69 (20.12%) Mentoring
10 67 (19.53%) Cloud Security
11 64 (18.66%) Observability
12 62 (18.08%) DevSecOps
13 59 (17.20%) Continuous Integration
14 57 (16.62%) Software Engineering
15 52 (15.16%) Test Automation
16 48 (13.99%) Platform Engineering
17 42 (12.24%) Full-Stack Development
18 41 (11.95%) High Availability
19 39 (11.37%) Event-Driven
19 39 (11.37%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 148 (43.15%) Python
2 130 (37.90%) Java
3 92 (26.82%) TypeScript
4 80 (23.32%) SQL
5 79 (23.03%) Bash
6 47 (13.70%) Go
7 46 (13.41%) Groovy
8 37 (10.79%) JavaScript
9 36 (10.50%) Kotlin
10 22 (6.41%) C#
11 21 (6.12%) PowerShell
12 13 (3.79%) Rust
13 11 (3.21%) C++
14 9 (2.62%) Bicep
15 8 (2.33%) Google Apps Script
16 1 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.29%) Perl
16 1 (0.29%) PHP
16 1 (0.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 81 (23.62%) AWS Certification
2 80 (23.32%) Security Cleared
3 38 (11.08%) SC Cleared
4 33 (9.62%) Degree
5 29 (8.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 29 (8.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 27 (7.87%) DV Cleared
7 24 (7.00%) AWS Certified Developer
7 24 (7.00%) ITIL Certification
8 16 (4.66%) OSCP
9 12 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (2.92%) Azure Certification
11 7 (2.04%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 5 (1.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (1.17%) Postgraduate
14 3 (0.87%) CREST Certified
14 3 (0.87%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
15 1 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.12%) NIST
2 16 (4.66%) PCI DSS
3 14 (4.08%) GDPR
4 10 (2.92%) SOC 2
5 8 (2.33%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.75%) QA
7 5 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.29%) Basel III
8 1 (0.29%) HL7
8 1 (0.29%) MiFID
8 1 (0.29%) NCSC
8 1 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 182 (53.06%) Docker
2 8 (2.33%) KVM
2 8 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 236 (68.80%) Terraform
2 143 (41.69%) Kubernetes
3 70 (20.41%) Ansible
4 44 (12.83%) Grafana
4 44 (12.83%) Prometheus
5 40 (11.66%) HP Fortify
6 14 (4.08%) Argo
7 10 (2.92%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (2.62%) Docker Swarm
9 7 (2.04%) Istio
9 7 (2.04%) linkerd
9 7 (2.04%) Mesos
9 7 (2.04%) Puppet
10 6 (1.75%) Progress Chef
11 5 (1.46%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (1.46%) Rancher
12 2 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.29%) Consul
13 1 (0.29%) Nessus
13 1 (0.29%) Packer
Vendors
1 28 (8.16%) Google
2 19 (5.54%) Microsoft
3 8 (2.33%) VMware
4 6 (1.75%) HubSpot
4 6 (1.75%) Red Hat
4 6 (1.75%) Splunk
5 5 (1.46%) SaltStack
6 3 (0.87%) Oracle
6 3 (0.87%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.87%) SolarWinds
7 2 (0.58%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.58%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (0.58%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.58%) PagerDuty
7 2 (0.58%) Ping Identity
7 2 (0.58%) SAP
8 1 (0.29%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.29%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.29%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.29%) Tenable