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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 405 542
Rank change year-on-year -6 +137 -198
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 357 269 364
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.62% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 1.76% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 195 168 277
10th Percentile £51,422 £56,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,250 £62,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £78,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.27% +4.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £94,375 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £118,000 £120,375 £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 27,966 15,270 34,365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.63% 35.13% 35.85%
Number of salaries quoted 14,636 10,949 26,723
10th Percentile £31,188 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% +6.09% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,738 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,850 £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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +20 329 £78,750 -1.56% 102
UK excluding London 0 185 £72,500 +4.49% 74
London -15 150 £87,500 -5.41% 34
North of England +34 125 £75,000 +8.09% 33
Work from Home -36 102 £72,500 - 73
Yorkshire +29 90 £75,000 - 10
North West -16 33 £80,000 +14.79% 16
Midlands -24 25 £50,000 -26.06% 9
East Midlands -36 13 £63,750 -1.92% 8
West Midlands -15 12 £50,000 -38.51% 1
South West -44 11 £71,250 -16.18% 12
South East -50 10 £70,000 +16.67% 12
Northern Ireland -33 5 £95,000 -
Scotland -18 4 £76,783 +39.60% 6
Wales -29 3 £68,958 +9.02% 1
East of England -27 2 £82,500 -2.94% 2
North East -31 2 £65,576 -5.49% 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 18 (5.04%) Apache
2 8 (2.24%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.84%) Confluence
4 3 (0.84%) JBoss
5 1 (0.28%) Drupal
5 1 (0.28%) IIS
5 1 (0.28%) nginx
5 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 338 (94.68%) AWS
2 197 (55.18%) Serverless
3 171 (47.90%) AWS Lambda
4 124 (34.73%) Amazon S3
5 109 (30.53%) Azure
6 99 (27.73%) Amazon ECS
7 89 (24.93%) AWS Step Functions
8 79 (22.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 78 (21.85%) GitHub
10 66 (18.49%) GCP
11 60 (16.81%) GitHub Actions
12 56 (15.69%) Datadog
13 54 (15.13%) Amazon EKS
14 48 (13.45%) Amazon ECR
15 45 (12.61%) Amazon SQS
16 43 (12.04%) Apigee
17 40 (11.20%) Amazon EC2
18 30 (8.40%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 29 (8.12%) OpenShift
20 21 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.64%) DSL
1 13 (3.64%) Firewall
2 12 (3.36%) VPN
3 9 (2.52%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.96%) DNS
4 7 (1.96%) Network Security
5 5 (1.40%) AMQP
6 4 (1.12%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.84%) SCCP
8 2 (0.56%) 4G
8 2 (0.56%) 5G
8 2 (0.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (31.65%) DynamoDB
2 77 (21.57%) NoSQL
3 50 (14.01%) Amazon RDS
4 28 (7.84%) Amazon Athena
5 24 (6.72%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (2.80%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.24%) MySQL
9 6 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (1.68%) Big Data
9 6 (1.68%) Flink
9 6 (1.68%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.68%) Redis
10 5 (1.40%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (1.40%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.84%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.84%) Metadata
12 2 (0.56%) Apache Hudi
12 2 (0.56%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 143 (40.06%) Jenkins
2 141 (39.50%) GitLab
3 62 (17.37%) Git
4 48 (13.45%) Maven
5 44 (12.32%) SonarQube
6 42 (11.76%) Cypress.io
7 26 (7.28%) CircleCI
8 17 (4.76%) Cucumber
9 13 (3.64%) Bitbucket
10 8 (2.24%) TeamCity
11 7 (1.96%) JIRA
12 5 (1.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (1.40%) Gradle
13 4 (1.12%) Claude Code
13 4 (1.12%) Selenium
14 3 (0.84%) JMeter
14 3 (0.84%) Robot Framework
15 2 (0.56%) Eclipse
15 2 (0.56%) git-flow
16 1 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 111 (31.09%) Social Skills
2 77 (21.57%) Finance
3 32 (8.96%) Banking
4 14 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (3.08%) Aerospace
7 9 (2.52%) Advertising
7 9 (2.52%) Public Sector
8 7 (1.96%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.96%) Retail
9 5 (1.40%) Billing
9 5 (1.40%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.40%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.12%) Law
10 4 (1.12%) Mandarin Language
11 3 (0.84%) Aviation
11 3 (0.84%) Back Office
11 3 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.84%) Legal
12 2 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 107 (29.97%) Developer
2 72 (20.17%) Cloud Engineer
3 65 (18.21%) Senior
4 60 (16.81%) Java Developer
5 54 (15.13%) DevOps Engineer
6 37 (10.36%) AWS Engineer
7 32 (8.96%) Lead
7 32 (8.96%) Senior Developer
8 27 (7.56%) AWS Developer
9 25 (7.00%) Platform Engineer
10 22 (6.16%) Security Engineer
11 21 (5.88%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 21 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 18 (5.04%) AWS DevOps
13 17 (4.76%) Architect
13 17 (4.76%) Java Engineer
14 16 (4.48%) Full-Stack Developer
15 15 (4.20%) AWS Architect
15 15 (4.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 15 (4.20%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (21.85%) AngularJS
2 75 (21.01%) Spring Boot
3 58 (16.25%) Node.js
4 55 (15.41%) Kafka
5 53 (14.85%) AWS CDK
6 45 (12.61%) Spring
7 42 (11.76%) Gherkin
8 40 (11.20%) Jest
8 40 (11.20%) React
8 40 (11.20%) RESTful
9 23 (6.44%) RabbitMQ
10 21 (5.88%) gRPC
11 20 (5.60%) web3js
12 19 (5.32%) Next.js
13 16 (4.48%) REST
14 15 (4.20%) Elastic Stack
15 13 (3.64%) .NET
16 10 (2.80%) .NET Core
16 10 (2.80%) ASP.NET
16 10 (2.80%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 107 (29.97%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.12%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (7.28%) Public Cloud
4 22 (6.16%) Security Posture
5 20 (5.60%) Blockchain
5 20 (5.60%) Web3
6 15 (4.20%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (3.64%) Cloud Security Posture
7 13 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (3.36%) e-Learning
8 12 (3.36%) PKI
9 10 (2.80%) Product Ownership
10 8 (2.24%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.40%) Management Information System
13 4 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (0.84%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 70 (19.61%) Linux
2 24 (6.72%) Windows
3 15 (4.20%) Ubuntu
4 12 (3.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (3.08%) CentOS
6 7 (1.96%) Unix
7 5 (1.40%) Debian
7 5 (1.40%) Windows Server
8 4 (1.12%) VMS
9 3 (0.84%) Android
9 3 (0.84%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (72.55%) Infrastructure as Code
2 249 (69.75%) CI/CD
3 224 (62.75%) DevOps
4 154 (43.14%) Agile
5 125 (35.01%) Containerisation
6 83 (23.25%) Microservices
6 83 (23.25%) Problem-Solving
7 79 (22.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 71 (19.89%) Mentoring
9 68 (19.05%) Cloud Security
9 68 (19.05%) Observability
10 65 (18.21%) DevSecOps
11 62 (17.37%) Software Engineering
12 61 (17.09%) Continuous Integration
13 56 (15.69%) Test Automation
14 52 (14.57%) Platform Engineering
15 44 (12.32%) Full-Stack Development
16 42 (11.76%) Event-Driven
17 41 (11.48%) High Availability
18 40 (11.20%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 152 (42.58%) Python
2 137 (38.38%) Java
3 95 (26.61%) TypeScript
4 81 (22.69%) SQL
5 76 (21.29%) Bash
6 50 (14.01%) Groovy
7 47 (13.17%) Go
8 37 (10.36%) Kotlin
9 36 (10.08%) JavaScript
10 22 (6.16%) C#
10 22 (6.16%) PowerShell
11 13 (3.64%) Rust
12 11 (3.08%) C++
13 10 (2.80%) Bicep
14 8 (2.24%) Google Apps Script
15 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.28%) Perl
15 1 (0.28%) PHP
15 1 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 83 (23.25%) Security Cleared
2 82 (22.97%) AWS Certification
3 40 (11.20%) SC Cleared
4 31 (8.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 31 (8.68%) Degree
5 29 (8.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 28 (7.84%) DV Cleared
7 24 (6.72%) ITIL Certification
8 23 (6.44%) AWS Certified Developer
9 16 (4.48%) OSCP
10 10 (2.80%) Azure Certification
10 10 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.96%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 5 (1.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (1.12%) Postgraduate
14 3 (0.84%) CREST Certified
14 3 (0.84%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.28%) CompTIA Security+
15 1 (0.28%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.88%) NIST
2 16 (4.48%) PCI DSS
3 14 (3.92%) GDPR
4 10 (2.80%) SOC 2
5 7 (1.96%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.68%) QA
7 5 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.28%) Basel III
8 1 (0.28%) HL7
8 1 (0.28%) MiFID
8 1 (0.28%) NCSC
8 1 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 186 (52.10%) Docker
2 8 (2.24%) KVM
2 8 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 241 (67.51%) Terraform
2 148 (41.46%) Kubernetes
3 70 (19.61%) Ansible
4 43 (12.04%) Prometheus
5 41 (11.48%) Grafana
6 40 (11.20%) HP Fortify
7 13 (3.64%) Argo
8 10 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (2.52%) Docker Swarm
9 9 (2.52%) Progress Chef
10 8 (2.24%) Puppet
11 7 (1.96%) Istio
11 7 (1.96%) linkerd
11 7 (1.96%) Mesos
12 5 (1.40%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (1.40%) Rancher
13 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.28%) Consul
14 1 (0.28%) Nessus
14 1 (0.28%) Packer
Vendors
1 28 (7.84%) Google
2 18 (5.04%) Microsoft
3 8 (2.24%) VMware
4 6 (1.68%) HubSpot
4 6 (1.68%) Red Hat
4 6 (1.68%) Splunk
5 5 (1.40%) SaltStack
6 3 (0.84%) OpenAI
6 3 (0.84%) Oracle
6 3 (0.84%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.84%) SolarWinds
7 2 (0.56%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.56%) Databricks
7 2 (0.56%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (0.56%) PagerDuty
7 2 (0.56%) Ping Identity
7 2 (0.56%) SAP
8 1 (0.28%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.28%) Dynatrace