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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 420 549
Rank change year-on-year +25 +129 -205
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 355 257 350
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.59% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.33% 1.70% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 192 158 277
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,063 £61,344 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,588 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £98,438 £100,000
90th Percentile £114,750 £118,750 £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 26,658 15,158 34,355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.40% 34.91% 35.63%
Number of salaries quoted 14,898 10,657 26,678
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
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 14 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 14 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 +27 331 £77,500 +3.33% 90
UK excluding London -2 182 £72,500 +4.49% 62
London +3 154 £86,250 -4.17% 32
North of England +63 125 £75,000 +8.09% 30
Work from Home -41 95 £72,500 +4.49% 50
Yorkshire +22 92 £75,000 - 13
North West +9 31 £80,000 +14.79% 12
Midlands -16 28 £50,000 -28.64% 9
East Midlands -17 15 £52,500 -23.64% 7
West Midlands -14 13 £50,000 -38.51% 2
South West -40 10 £72,500 -14.71% 10
South East -39 8 £70,000 +21.74% 8
Scotland -4 4 £76,783 +39.60% 3
Northern Ireland - 4 £95,000 - 1
East of England -30 2 £82,500 -2.94% 1
North East -37 2 £65,576 -5.49% 5
Wales -33 1 £73,801 +16.68%

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 (5.35%) Apache
2 9 (2.54%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.85%) Confluence
4 3 (0.85%) JBoss
5 1 (0.28%) Drupal
5 1 (0.28%) IIS
5 1 (0.28%) nginx
5 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 338 (95.21%) AWS
2 198 (55.77%) Serverless
3 172 (48.45%) AWS Lambda
4 125 (35.21%) Amazon S3
5 104 (29.30%) Amazon ECS
6 97 (27.32%) Azure
7 93 (26.20%) AWS Step Functions
8 79 (22.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 77 (21.69%) GitHub
10 62 (17.46%) GCP
11 61 (17.18%) GitHub Actions
12 58 (16.34%) Datadog
13 51 (14.37%) Amazon EKS
14 48 (13.52%) Amazon ECR
15 44 (12.39%) Amazon SQS
16 43 (12.11%) Apigee
17 41 (11.55%) Amazon EC2
18 33 (9.30%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 25 (7.04%) OpenShift
20 21 (5.92%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.66%) DSL
1 13 (3.66%) Firewall
2 12 (3.38%) VPN
3 9 (2.54%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.97%) DNS
4 7 (1.97%) Network Security
5 5 (1.41%) AMQP
6 4 (1.13%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.85%) SCCP
8 2 (0.56%) 4G
8 2 (0.56%) 5G
8 2 (0.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (32.39%) DynamoDB
2 78 (21.97%) NoSQL
3 49 (13.80%) Amazon RDS
4 30 (8.45%) Amazon Athena
5 25 (7.04%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (3.94%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (2.82%) SQL Server
8 7 (1.97%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.97%) Big Data
8 7 (1.97%) Redis
9 6 (1.69%) Flink
9 6 (1.69%) MySQL
10 5 (1.41%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (1.41%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.41%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.13%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.85%) Apache Iceberg
12 3 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.85%) Metadata
13 2 (0.56%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 143 (40.28%) Jenkins
2 141 (39.72%) GitLab
3 63 (17.75%) Git
4 49 (13.80%) Maven
5 43 (12.11%) Cypress.io
6 42 (11.83%) SonarQube
7 26 (7.32%) CircleCI
8 19 (5.35%) Cucumber
9 11 (3.10%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.97%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (1.41%) Gradle
11 5 (1.41%) JIRA
12 4 (1.13%) Claude Code
13 3 (0.85%) Selenium
14 2 (0.56%) JMeter
15 1 (0.28%) Eclipse
15 1 (0.28%) MLflow
15 1 (0.28%) Robot Framework
15 1 (0.28%) Vagrant
General
1 106 (29.86%) Social Skills
2 74 (20.85%) Finance
3 31 (8.73%) Banking
4 12 (3.38%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (2.82%) Aerospace
7 9 (2.54%) Advertising
8 7 (1.97%) Public Sector
8 7 (1.97%) Retail
9 6 (1.69%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.41%) Billing
10 5 (1.41%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.13%) Mandarin Language
11 4 (1.13%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.85%) Aviation
12 3 (0.85%) Back Office
12 3 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.85%) Law
12 3 (0.85%) Legal
13 2 (0.56%) Games
Job Titles
1 108 (30.42%) Developer
2 68 (19.15%) Cloud Engineer
3 65 (18.31%) Senior
4 63 (17.75%) Java Developer
5 53 (14.93%) DevOps Engineer
6 37 (10.42%) AWS Engineer
7 32 (9.01%) Senior Developer
8 29 (8.17%) AWS Developer
8 29 (8.17%) Lead
9 25 (7.04%) Platform Engineer
10 22 (6.20%) Security Engineer
11 21 (5.92%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 21 (5.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 19 (5.35%) Java Engineer
13 17 (4.79%) AWS DevOps
14 16 (4.51%) Principal Engineer
14 16 (4.51%) Senior Java Developer
15 15 (4.23%) Architect
15 15 (4.23%) AWS Architect
15 15 (4.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (22.54%) AngularJS
2 78 (21.97%) Spring Boot
3 57 (16.06%) Kafka
3 57 (16.06%) Node.js
4 52 (14.65%) AWS CDK
5 48 (13.52%) Spring
6 42 (11.83%) Gherkin
7 41 (11.55%) Jest
8 39 (10.99%) React
8 39 (10.99%) RESTful
9 22 (6.20%) RabbitMQ
10 21 (5.92%) gRPC
11 20 (5.63%) web3js
12 19 (5.35%) Next.js
13 16 (4.51%) REST
14 14 (3.94%) YAML
15 13 (3.66%) Elastic Stack
16 11 (3.10%) .NET
17 10 (2.82%) JSON
17 10 (2.82%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 105 (29.58%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.17%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (7.32%) Public Cloud
4 22 (6.20%) Security Posture
5 20 (5.63%) Blockchain
5 20 (5.63%) Web3
6 17 (4.79%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (3.94%) e-Learning
7 14 (3.94%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (3.94%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (3.66%) Cloud Security Posture
9 11 (3.10%) PKI
10 8 (2.25%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (2.25%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.69%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.85%) Mobile App
13 3 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 68 (19.15%) Linux
2 21 (5.92%) Windows
3 14 (3.94%) Ubuntu
4 11 (3.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.82%) CentOS
6 7 (1.97%) Unix
7 5 (1.41%) Debian
7 5 (1.41%) Windows Server
8 4 (1.13%) VMS
9 3 (0.85%) Android
9 3 (0.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (71.27%) Infrastructure as Code
2 248 (69.86%) CI/CD
3 219 (61.69%) DevOps
4 148 (41.69%) Agile
5 121 (34.08%) Containerisation
6 82 (23.10%) Microservices
7 77 (21.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 77 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
8 70 (19.72%) Mentoring
9 68 (19.15%) Observability
10 67 (18.87%) DevSecOps
11 65 (18.31%) Cloud Security
12 64 (18.03%) Software Engineering
13 61 (17.18%) Continuous Integration
14 58 (16.34%) Test Automation
15 52 (14.65%) Platform Engineering
16 42 (11.83%) Event-Driven
16 42 (11.83%) Full-Stack Development
17 40 (11.27%) High Availability
18 39 (10.99%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 154 (43.38%) Python
2 140 (39.44%) Java
3 98 (27.61%) TypeScript
4 83 (23.38%) SQL
5 72 (20.28%) Bash
6 51 (14.37%) Groovy
7 47 (13.24%) Go
8 38 (10.70%) Kotlin
9 35 (9.86%) JavaScript
10 21 (5.92%) PowerShell
11 19 (5.35%) C#
12 13 (3.66%) Rust
13 10 (2.82%) Bicep
13 10 (2.82%) C++
14 7 (1.97%) 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 82 (23.10%) AWS Certification
2 79 (22.25%) Security Cleared
3 40 (11.27%) SC Cleared
4 32 (9.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 32 (9.01%) Degree
5 28 (7.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 24 (6.76%) ITIL Certification
7 23 (6.48%) DV Cleared
8 22 (6.20%) AWS Certified Developer
9 16 (4.51%) OSCP
10 10 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (2.54%) Azure Certification
12 7 (1.97%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 5 (1.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (1.13%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.85%) CREST Certified
15 3 (0.85%) Master's Degree
15 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
16 1 (0.28%) CompTIA Security+
16 1 (0.28%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.92%) NIST
2 16 (4.51%) PCI DSS
3 13 (3.66%) GDPR
4 10 (2.82%) SOC 2
5 7 (1.97%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.41%) QA
7 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.28%) HL7
7 1 (0.28%) NCSC
7 1 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 180 (50.70%) Docker
2 7 (1.97%) KVM
2 7 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 234 (65.92%) Terraform
2 140 (39.44%) Kubernetes
3 66 (18.59%) Ansible
4 41 (11.55%) Prometheus
5 40 (11.27%) HP Fortify
6 38 (10.70%) Grafana
7 11 (3.10%) Argo
8 9 (2.54%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (2.54%) Progress Chef
9 8 (2.25%) Docker Swarm
10 7 (1.97%) Istio
10 7 (1.97%) linkerd
10 7 (1.97%) Mesos
10 7 (1.97%) Puppet
11 5 (1.41%) AWS Copilot
12 4 (1.13%) Rancher
13 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.28%) Consul
14 1 (0.28%) Packer
Vendors
1 26 (7.32%) Google
2 17 (4.79%) Microsoft
3 7 (1.97%) VMware
4 6 (1.69%) HubSpot
4 6 (1.69%) Red Hat
5 5 (1.41%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.13%) Splunk
7 3 (0.85%) Databricks
7 3 (0.85%) OpenAI
7 3 (0.85%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.56%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (0.56%) Oracle
8 2 (0.56%) Ping Identity
8 2 (0.56%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.28%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.28%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.28%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.28%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.28%) Tenable
9 1 (0.28%) TOWER Software