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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 429 481 358
Rank change year-on-year +52 -123 -45
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 214 292 410
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.43% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.20% 1.29% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 161 224 328
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% +3.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £122,125 £116,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% -10.00%

All Cloud 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 17,845 22,707 22,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.48% 33.14% 42.82%
Number of salaries quoted 11,345 13,866 18,740
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -2.73%

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025. 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 +31 173 £73,801 -1.60% 263
Work from Home +70 102 £72,500 -3.33% 148
UK excluding London +30 100 £70,000 +7.69% 154
London +25 86 £81,500 -18.50% 149
North of England +38 52 £70,000 +9.80% 57
North West +33 26 £62,500 - 32
Yorkshire +26 23 £70,000 +7.69% 18
Midlands +59 13 £60,000 -17.24% 11
South East +31 12 £90,000 +44.00% 34
West Midlands +54 11 £60,000 -17.24% 6
Wales +15 8 £68,958 -0.50% 5
South West +20 7 £70,000 +27.27% 16
Scotland +6 6 £73,801 +6.48% 16
North East +12 3 £73,801 +6.48% 7
Northern Ireland +3 3 £73,801 +6.48% 6
East Midlands +24 2 - - 5
East of England +20 1 £75,000 +20.00% 9

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 8 (3.74%) Apache
2 7 (3.27%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.27%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.80%) Tomcat
3 6 (2.80%) WebSphere
3 6 (2.80%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.93%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.47%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 196 (91.59%) AWS
2 112 (52.34%) Azure
3 86 (40.19%) Serverless
4 79 (36.92%) AWS Lambda
5 62 (28.97%) GCP
6 60 (28.04%) Amazon S3
7 58 (27.10%) GitHub
8 56 (26.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 53 (24.77%) Amazon EKS
10 51 (23.83%) Amazon ECS
11 46 (21.50%) Amazon EC2
12 45 (21.03%) GitHub Actions
13 37 (17.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 28 (13.08%) Azure DevOps
15 26 (12.15%) Amazon ECR
16 25 (11.68%) dbt
17 22 (10.28%) Pulumi
18 19 (8.88%) PaaS
19 18 (8.41%) Datadog
20 16 (7.48%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (9.35%) TCP/IP
2 10 (4.67%) Firewall
3 7 (3.27%) Network Security
4 6 (2.80%) SSL
4 6 (2.80%) VPN
5 4 (1.87%) DNS
5 4 (1.87%) LAN
5 4 (1.87%) WAN
6 2 (0.93%) AMQP
6 2 (0.93%) DHCP
7 1 (0.47%) HTTP
7 1 (0.47%) NAS
7 1 (0.47%) SAN
7 1 (0.47%) SNMP
7 1 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.47%) VSAN
7 1 (0.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (23.83%) Amazon RDS
2 33 (15.42%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (11.68%) NoSQL
4 21 (9.81%) DynamoDB
4 21 (9.81%) Elasticsearch
5 20 (9.35%) Redis
6 17 (7.94%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (7.48%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (5.61%) Data Lake
9 11 (5.14%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (5.14%) SQL Server
10 7 (3.27%) MySQL
11 6 (2.80%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (2.80%) DB2
12 4 (1.87%) Big Data
13 3 (1.40%) Apache Iceberg
13 3 (1.40%) Data Vault
14 2 (0.93%) Cloudera CDH
14 2 (0.93%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.93%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 64 (29.91%) Jenkins
2 45 (21.03%) GitLab
3 21 (9.81%) Git
4 12 (5.61%) CircleCI
5 6 (2.80%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.34%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.34%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.34%) git-flow
6 5 (2.34%) JIRA
7 4 (1.87%) Robot Framework
8 3 (1.40%) Spinnaker
9 2 (0.93%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.93%) JMeter
9 2 (0.93%) Selenium
9 2 (0.93%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.93%) TestRail
10 1 (0.47%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.47%) Subversion
General
1 58 (27.10%) Social Skills
2 43 (20.09%) Finance
3 19 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.94%) Banking
5 13 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (6.07%) Law
6 11 (5.14%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.74%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.80%) Marketing
9 5 (2.34%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.87%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.40%) Electronics
11 3 (1.40%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.93%) Advertising
12 2 (0.93%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.47%) Billing
13 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.47%) Military
13 1 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 70 (32.71%) Senior
2 48 (22.43%) Cloud Engineer
3 42 (19.63%) DevOps Engineer
4 31 (14.49%) AWS Engineer
5 29 (13.55%) Platform Engineer
6 17 (7.94%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 17 (7.94%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 16 (7.48%) Lead
8 15 (7.01%) Developer
9 14 (6.54%) AWS DevOps
9 14 (6.54%) Data Engineer
10 13 (6.07%) Architect
10 13 (6.07%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 12 (5.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 10 (4.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 9 (4.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (4.21%) Site Engineer
13 9 (4.21%) Support Engineer
14 8 (3.74%) Cloud Architect
14 8 (3.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (14.02%) Elastic Stack
2 25 (11.68%) AWS CDK
3 20 (9.35%) Django
4 16 (7.48%) Kafka
4 16 (7.48%) React
5 15 (7.01%) Node.js
6 12 (5.61%) .NET
7 11 (5.14%) RESTful
8 9 (4.21%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (3.74%) Spring
9 8 (3.74%) Spring Boot
10 7 (3.27%) ARM Templates
10 7 (3.27%) Material-UI
11 6 (2.80%) .NET Core
11 6 (2.80%) ASP.NET
11 6 (2.80%) LAPP Stack
11 6 (2.80%) LDAP
11 6 (2.80%) WebSphere MQ
12 5 (2.34%) ASP.NET Core
12 5 (2.34%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 45 (21.03%) Cloud Native
2 20 (9.35%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (8.41%) Linux Command Line
4 13 (6.07%) Public Cloud
5 11 (5.14%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.80%) AI Agents
6 6 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.34%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.87%) e-Learning
8 4 (1.87%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.40%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.93%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.93%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 83 (38.79%) Linux
2 39 (18.22%) Unix
3 34 (15.89%) Windows
4 11 (5.14%) Ubuntu
5 10 (4.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (3.74%) Debian
7 4 (1.87%) CentOS
8 2 (0.93%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (86.45%) Infrastructure as Code
2 162 (75.70%) CI/CD
3 156 (72.90%) DevOps
4 64 (29.91%) Agile
5 62 (28.97%) Problem-Solving
6 59 (27.57%) Containerisation
7 54 (25.23%) Observability
8 45 (21.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 40 (18.69%) Cloud Security
10 39 (18.22%) Platform Engineering
10 39 (18.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 35 (16.36%) Microservices
12 33 (15.42%) Disaster Recovery
13 31 (14.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 29 (13.55%) Mentoring
15 27 (12.62%) Migration
16 24 (11.21%) AI
17 23 (10.75%) Clean Code
17 23 (10.75%) Incident Response
18 22 (10.28%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 134 (62.62%) Python
2 71 (33.18%) Bash
3 38 (17.76%) PowerShell
4 33 (15.42%) SQL
5 20 (9.35%) Go
5 20 (9.35%) Java
6 19 (8.88%) Bicep
6 19 (8.88%) JavaScript
7 18 (8.41%) TypeScript
8 11 (5.14%) C#
9 2 (0.93%) C++
9 2 (0.93%) Google Apps Script
9 2 (0.93%) Groovy
9 2 (0.93%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 71 (33.18%) Security Cleared
2 58 (27.10%) AWS Certification
3 53 (24.77%) SC Cleared
4 22 (10.28%) Degree
5 20 (9.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 17 (7.94%) DV Cleared
7 16 (7.48%) Azure Certification
8 11 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (3.27%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (2.80%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.87%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.93%) CISA
12 2 (0.93%) CISM
12 2 (0.93%) CISSP
12 2 (0.93%) CRISC
12 2 (0.93%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.14%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.21%) GDPR
3 8 (3.74%) QA
4 7 (3.27%) SLA
5 4 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.87%) NIST
6 1 (0.47%) Basel III
6 1 (0.47%) MiFID
6 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 101 (47.20%) Docker
2 7 (3.27%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (2.34%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.40%) KVM
4 3 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.93%) Terminal Server
5 2 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.47%) QEMU
6 1 (0.47%) vCloud
6 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 181 (84.58%) Terraform
2 97 (45.33%) Kubernetes
3 62 (28.97%) Ansible
4 59 (27.57%) Grafana
5 40 (18.69%) Prometheus
6 12 (5.61%) AWS Copilot
7 11 (5.14%) Argo
8 5 (2.34%) Kubeflow
8 5 (2.34%) Puppet
9 2 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.93%) Istio
9 2 (0.93%) linkerd
9 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.93%) Nessus
10 1 (0.47%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.47%) Mesos
10 1 (0.47%) Nagios
10 1 (0.47%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.47%) Rancher
Vendors
1 32 (14.95%) Google
2 23 (10.75%) Splunk
3 17 (7.94%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.74%) Red Hat
5 7 (3.27%) IBM
6 5 (2.34%) PagerDuty
7 4 (1.87%) Databricks
7 4 (1.87%) Foundry
7 4 (1.87%) LogicMonitor
7 4 (1.87%) SolarWinds
7 4 (1.87%) VMware
8 3 (1.40%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.40%) Citrix
8 3 (1.40%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.40%) SAP
9 2 (0.93%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.93%) Hitachi
9 2 (0.93%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.93%) Oracle
9 2 (0.93%) Rapid7