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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 450 563
Rank change year-on-year +68 +113 -194
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 486 239 268
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.48% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.75% 1.50% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 255 140 210
10th Percentile £51,750 £52,375 £52,301
25th Percentile £65,625 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -6.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,813 £96,250
90th Percentile £105,750 £111,375 £110,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £69,384 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.49% +2.79% -3.57%

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 27,731 15,939 28,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.95% 32.25% 32.32%
Number of salaries quoted 18,198 11,095 20,714
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,497 £40,903 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £84,079 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £98,474
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,550 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.69% -1.81% -4.55%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 +74 437 £80,000 +6.67% 141
UK excluding London +43 236 £72,500 +4.49% 101
London +58 227 £90,000 +14.65% 72
North of England +66 138 £75,000 +8.09% 36
Work from Home -27 114 £75,000 +8.09% 87
Yorkshire +41 84 £75,000 +7.14% 8
North West +21 44 £73,401 +8.54% 17
Midlands -23 27 £62,000 -4.62% 7
Wales -38 25 £72,500 +20.83% 6
South West -49 19 £67,500 -25.00% 23
East Midlands -6 18 £52,500 -
South East -44 18 £70,000 -17.65% 11
North East -42 10 £52,500 -24.33% 11
West Midlands -20 9 £62,500 -3.85% 7
Scotland +6 5 £71,991 +30.89% 8
East of England -33 2 £82,500 +10.00% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £72,896 - 7

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 (3.91%) Apache
2 10 (2.06%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.85%) Confluence
4 8 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.62%) JBoss
7 2 (0.41%) nginx
8 1 (0.21%) Drupal
8 1 (0.21%) IIS
8 1 (0.21%) SAS
8 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.82%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.41%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.23%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.62%) Summit
3 1 (0.21%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 468 (96.30%) AWS
2 247 (50.82%) Serverless
3 192 (39.51%) AWS Lambda
4 142 (29.22%) Amazon ECS
5 137 (28.19%) Amazon S3
6 129 (26.54%) Azure
7 103 (21.19%) GitHub
8 97 (19.96%) GCP
9 77 (15.84%) AWS Step Functions
10 75 (15.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 75 (15.43%) GitHub Actions
11 67 (13.79%) Amazon EKS
12 64 (13.17%) Amazon EC2
13 58 (11.93%) Cloud Computing
14 56 (11.52%) Datadog
15 45 (9.26%) Amazon SQS
16 40 (8.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 37 (7.61%) Amazon ECR
18 30 (6.17%) Amazon EventBridge
18 30 (6.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.94%) Network Security
2 22 (4.53%) TCP/IP
3 15 (3.09%) VPN
4 13 (2.67%) Firewall
5 11 (2.26%) DNS
6 7 (1.44%) DSL
7 4 (0.82%) AMQP
7 4 (0.82%) HTTP
8 3 (0.62%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.41%) 4G
9 2 (0.41%) 5G
9 2 (0.41%) MQTT
10 1 (0.21%) DHCP
10 1 (0.21%) DNSSEC
10 1 (0.21%) Internet
10 1 (0.21%) PSTN
10 1 (0.21%) SCCP
10 1 (0.21%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (19.75%) DynamoDB
2 83 (17.08%) NoSQL
3 63 (12.96%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (7.00%) Amazon Athena
5 26 (5.35%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (2.06%) MongoDB
7 10 (2.06%) Redis
8 9 (1.85%) MySQL
9 7 (1.44%) Big Data
10 6 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.23%) Flink
10 6 (1.23%) SQL Server
11 5 (1.03%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.03%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.82%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.82%) Apache Iceberg
12 4 (0.82%) Cloudera CDH
12 4 (0.82%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 138 (28.40%) Jenkins
2 130 (26.75%) GitLab
3 71 (14.61%) Git
4 33 (6.79%) Cucumber
5 32 (6.58%) Maven
6 30 (6.17%) Cypress.io
7 26 (5.35%) SonarQube
8 20 (4.12%) CircleCI
9 12 (2.47%) JIRA
10 11 (2.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 10 (2.06%) Bitbucket
12 7 (1.44%) Claude Code
13 6 (1.23%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.82%) Gradle
14 4 (0.82%) Selenium
15 2 (0.41%) git-flow
15 2 (0.41%) Snyk
16 1 (0.21%) MLflow
16 1 (0.21%) Postman
16 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 138 (28.40%) Social Skills
2 118 (24.28%) Finance
3 54 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 39 (8.02%) Banking
5 23 (4.73%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (2.67%) Financial Institution
8 10 (2.06%) Aerospace
9 9 (1.85%) Law
10 8 (1.65%) Legal
11 6 (1.23%) Advertising
11 6 (1.23%) Military
12 5 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.03%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.03%) Retail
13 4 (0.82%) Mandarin Language
13 4 (0.82%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.62%) Automotive
14 3 (0.62%) Back Office
14 3 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 120 (24.69%) Senior
2 109 (22.43%) Developer
3 79 (16.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 71 (14.61%) DevOps Engineer
5 66 (13.58%) Java Developer
6 47 (9.67%) AWS Engineer
7 43 (8.85%) Lead
8 40 (8.23%) Consultant
9 33 (6.79%) Java Engineer
10 32 (6.58%) Senior Consultant
11 30 (6.17%) Architect
12 28 (5.76%) Full-Stack Developer
12 28 (5.76%) Platform Engineer
13 24 (4.94%) AWS Developer
13 24 (4.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 24 (4.94%) Senior Developer
14 20 (4.12%) AWS DevOps
15 19 (3.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 19 (3.91%) Principal Engineer
15 19 (3.91%) Professional Services Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (22.02%) Spring Boot
2 81 (16.67%) Kafka
2 81 (16.67%) Spring
3 79 (16.26%) Node.js
4 75 (15.43%) AngularJS
5 63 (12.96%) AWS CDK
6 42 (8.64%) React
7 33 (6.79%) Gherkin
8 31 (6.38%) RESTful
9 28 (5.76%) REST
10 25 (5.14%) Jest
11 24 (4.94%) RabbitMQ
12 19 (3.91%) Web Services
13 18 (3.70%) gRPC
14 17 (3.50%) YAML
15 15 (3.09%) JSON
15 15 (3.09%) Next.js
15 15 (3.09%) web3js
16 13 (2.67%) Elastic Stack
16 13 (2.67%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 170 (34.98%) Cloud Native
2 70 (14.40%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (10.29%) Onboarding
4 42 (8.64%) Public Cloud
5 41 (8.44%) Enterprise Cloud
6 28 (5.76%) e-Learning
7 27 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
8 26 (5.35%) Mainframe
9 24 (4.94%) Legacy Systems
10 22 (4.53%) Data Centre
11 20 (4.12%) Hybrid Cloud
12 16 (3.29%) Security Posture
13 15 (3.09%) Blockchain
13 15 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
13 15 (3.09%) Web3
14 13 (2.67%) Distributed Computing
14 13 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
15 12 (2.47%) Cloud Security Posture
16 10 (2.06%) Product Ownership
17 8 (1.65%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 81 (16.67%) Linux
2 20 (4.12%) Windows
3 15 (3.09%) Unix
4 10 (2.06%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.65%) CentOS
7 6 (1.23%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.82%) Debian
9 3 (0.62%) Android
9 3 (0.62%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.41%) VMS
11 1 (0.21%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (72.84%) Infrastructure as Code
2 315 (64.81%) CI/CD
3 255 (52.47%) DevOps
4 202 (41.56%) Agile
5 163 (33.54%) Containerisation
6 129 (26.54%) Mentoring
7 119 (24.49%) Observability
8 114 (23.46%) Continuous Improvement
9 103 (21.19%) Software Engineering
10 100 (20.58%) Microservices
11 96 (19.75%) Cloud Security
12 89 (18.31%) Event-Driven
12 89 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
13 87 (17.90%) Test Automation
14 72 (14.81%) Platform Engineering
15 68 (13.99%) AI
16 66 (13.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 62 (12.76%) DevSecOps
17 62 (12.76%) Migration
18 60 (12.35%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 224 (46.09%) Python
2 180 (37.04%) Java
3 93 (19.14%) SQL
4 85 (17.49%) TypeScript
5 84 (17.28%) Bash
6 49 (10.08%) Groovy
7 42 (8.64%) Go
8 35 (7.20%) Kotlin
9 31 (6.38%) JavaScript
9 31 (6.38%) PowerShell
10 28 (5.76%) Ruby
11 26 (5.35%) Bicep
12 16 (3.29%) PHP
13 15 (3.09%) Perl
14 14 (2.88%) C#
15 9 (1.85%) C++
16 7 (1.44%) Rust
17 6 (1.23%) COBOL
18 5 (1.03%) Google Apps Script
19 2 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 148 (30.45%) Security Cleared
2 116 (23.87%) AWS Certification
3 84 (17.28%) SC Cleared
4 75 (15.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 44 (9.05%) Degree
6 26 (5.35%) DV Cleared
7 23 (4.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 19 (3.91%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (2.67%) Master's Degree
11 10 (2.06%) AWS Certified Developer
11 10 (2.06%) OSCP
12 9 (1.85%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (1.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (1.23%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.82%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.62%) CREST Certified
17 2 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
17 2 (0.41%) CompTIA Security+
17 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.97%) GDPR
2 19 (3.91%) PCI DSS
3 18 (3.70%) NIST
4 11 (2.26%) SOC 2
5 10 (2.06%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.06%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.65%) NCSC
6 8 (1.65%) QA
7 6 (1.23%) Government Security Classifications
7 6 (1.23%) HIPAA
7 6 (1.23%) WCAG
8 5 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.21%) HL7
9 1 (0.21%) SLA
9 1 (0.21%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 206 (42.39%) Docker
2 5 (1.03%) KVM
2 5 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.82%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.62%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 342 (70.37%) Terraform
2 184 (37.86%) Kubernetes
3 86 (17.70%) Ansible
4 52 (10.70%) Grafana
5 50 (10.29%) Prometheus
6 39 (8.02%) Progress Chef
7 28 (5.76%) Puppet
8 24 (4.94%) HP Fortify
9 19 (3.91%) Argo
10 6 (1.23%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (1.23%) Istio
10 6 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.03%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (1.03%) linkerd
11 5 (1.03%) Mesos
12 3 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.41%) logstash
13 2 (0.41%) Rancher
14 1 (0.21%) Kibana
14 1 (0.21%) Packer
Vendors
1 42 (8.64%) Google
2 20 (4.12%) Microsoft
3 13 (2.67%) Oracle
4 11 (2.26%) Splunk
5 8 (1.65%) OpenAI
5 8 (1.65%) Red Hat
6 7 (1.44%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.23%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.03%) VMware
9 4 (0.82%) Avaya
9 4 (0.82%) Cisco
9 4 (0.82%) Databricks
9 4 (0.82%) Genesys
9 4 (0.82%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.41%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.41%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.41%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.41%) Tenable
11 1 (0.21%) Infoblox
11 1 (0.21%) SolarWinds