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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 438 468
Rank change year-on-year +48 +30 -135
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 318 275 348
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.56% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.40% 1.51% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 199 204 283
10th Percentile £52,300 £52,500 £52,100
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £78,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.99% +4.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £87,500 £113,125 £97,500
90th Percentile £108,500 £122,500 £116,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% -3.70% -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 22,684 18,189 28,615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.21% 37.20% 38.45%
Number of salaries quoted 12,284 10,975 23,600
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,115 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 19 February 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS CloudFormation in the UK

AWS CloudFormation
Top 16 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 19 February 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 +27 266 £75,000 -6.25% 101
UK excluding London +45 159 £72,500 +11.54% 68
London +16 125 £85,000 -12.82% 47
Work from Home +37 122 £72,500 -7.05% 63
North of England +15 93 £72,500 +7.41% 30
Yorkshire +28 63 £72,500 - 15
North West -15 26 £73,801 +18.08% 14
Midlands +6 22 £50,000 -27.86% 10
West Midlands +25 16 £50,000 -27.86% 9
South East -4 15 £70,000 +16.67% 14
South West -1 10 £71,250 +29.55% 9
Wales -1 8 £71,379 +9.81% 2
Northern Ireland -23 7 £95,000 +37.07% 1
Scotland -17 6 £73,801 +6.48% 2
East Midlands -23 6 £75,000 +15.38% 1
North East -13 4 £73,801 +6.37% 1

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 (5.66%) Apache
2 10 (3.14%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.26%) Tomcat
4 4 (1.26%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.26%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.63%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.31%) Confluence
6 1 (0.31%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 301 (94.65%) AWS
2 167 (52.52%) Serverless
3 151 (47.48%) AWS Lambda
4 145 (45.60%) Azure
5 108 (33.96%) Amazon S3
6 95 (29.87%) Amazon ECS
7 85 (26.73%) GCP
8 84 (26.42%) GitHub
9 80 (25.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 67 (21.07%) AWS Step Functions
11 65 (20.44%) Amazon EKS
12 64 (20.13%) GitHub Actions
13 57 (17.92%) Amazon ECR
14 43 (13.52%) Amazon EC2
15 36 (11.32%) Amazon SQS
16 35 (11.01%) Azure DevOps
17 34 (10.69%) Pulumi
18 32 (10.06%) Datadog
19 30 (9.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 29 (9.12%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.18%) TCP/IP
2 16 (5.03%) Firewall
3 13 (4.09%) VPN
4 9 (2.83%) DSL
5 7 (2.20%) Network Security
6 5 (1.57%) AMQP
6 5 (1.57%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (1.26%) DNS
7 4 (1.26%) SSL
8 3 (0.94%) SCCP
9 2 (0.63%) DHCP
9 2 (0.63%) LAN
9 2 (0.63%) WAN
10 1 (0.31%) 4G
10 1 (0.31%) 5G
10 1 (0.31%) HTTP
10 1 (0.31%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (24.21%) DynamoDB
2 64 (20.13%) Amazon RDS
3 59 (18.55%) NoSQL
4 48 (15.09%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (9.12%) Elasticsearch
6 25 (7.86%) Redis
7 19 (5.97%) Amazon Athena
8 15 (4.72%) SQL Server
9 14 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (4.09%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (3.77%) MySQL
12 10 (3.14%) Data Lake
13 7 (2.20%) Big Data
14 6 (1.89%) MongoDB
15 5 (1.57%) Cloudera CDH
15 5 (1.57%) Hadoop
16 4 (1.26%) DB2
17 3 (0.94%) Apache Iceberg
17 3 (0.94%) Metadata
18 2 (0.63%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 115 (36.16%) Jenkins
2 108 (33.96%) GitLab
3 55 (17.30%) Git
4 36 (11.32%) SonarQube
5 29 (9.12%) Maven
6 28 (8.81%) Cypress.io
7 16 (5.03%) CircleCI
8 11 (3.46%) Bitbucket
9 9 (2.83%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.89%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.57%) git-flow
11 5 (1.57%) Robot Framework
12 4 (1.26%) JIRA
13 3 (0.94%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.94%) JMeter
13 3 (0.94%) Selenium
14 2 (0.63%) TestRail
15 1 (0.31%) Artifactory
15 1 (0.31%) Gradle
15 1 (0.31%) Subversion
General
1 88 (27.67%) Social Skills
2 61 (19.18%) Finance
3 23 (7.23%) Banking
4 18 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (3.46%) Aerospace
7 8 (2.52%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.20%) Advertising
8 7 (2.20%) Public Sector
9 6 (1.89%) Law
10 5 (1.57%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.57%) Retail
11 4 (1.26%) Billing
11 4 (1.26%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.94%) Aviation
12 3 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.63%) Electronics
13 2 (0.63%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.63%) Marketing
14 1 (0.31%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 73 (22.96%) Senior
2 70 (22.01%) Cloud Engineer
3 63 (19.81%) Developer
4 52 (16.35%) DevOps Engineer
5 39 (12.26%) AWS Engineer
6 36 (11.32%) Platform Engineer
7 30 (9.43%) Java Developer
8 26 (8.18%) Lead
9 19 (5.97%) Architect
9 19 (5.97%) AWS Developer
9 19 (5.97%) AWS DevOps
9 19 (5.97%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 18 (5.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 18 (5.66%) Senior Developer
11 17 (5.35%) Security Engineer
12 16 (5.03%) AWS Architect
12 16 (5.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 15 (4.72%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 13 (4.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 13 (4.09%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (16.04%) AWS CDK
2 50 (15.72%) AngularJS
3 46 (14.47%) Spring Boot
4 41 (12.89%) Node.js
5 32 (10.06%) React
6 30 (9.43%) RESTful
7 29 (9.12%) Kafka
8 28 (8.81%) Gherkin
8 28 (8.81%) Jest
9 27 (8.49%) Elastic Stack
10 26 (8.18%) Spring
11 25 (7.86%) Django
12 19 (5.97%) .NET
12 19 (5.97%) RabbitMQ
13 14 (4.40%) gRPC
14 13 (4.09%) .NET Core
14 13 (4.09%) ASP.NET
14 13 (4.09%) ASP.NET Core
14 13 (4.09%) Blazor
14 13 (4.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 93 (29.25%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.49%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (6.60%) Linux Command Line
4 19 (5.97%) Security Posture
5 17 (5.35%) Public Cloud
6 14 (4.40%) Product Ownership
7 11 (3.46%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (3.14%) Cloud Security Posture
9 9 (2.83%) Blockchain
9 9 (2.83%) PKI
9 9 (2.83%) Web3
10 8 (2.52%) e-Learning
11 7 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.26%) AI Agents
13 4 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (0.94%) Cyber Defence
14 3 (0.94%) Cyber Security Posture
14 3 (0.94%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 98 (30.82%) Linux
2 40 (12.58%) Unix
3 38 (11.95%) Windows
4 15 (4.72%) Ubuntu
5 12 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.52%) CentOS
7 7 (2.20%) Debian
8 5 (1.57%) VMS
9 1 (0.31%) Android
9 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (77.99%) Infrastructure as Code
2 242 (76.10%) CI/CD
3 231 (72.64%) DevOps
4 133 (41.82%) Agile
5 99 (31.13%) Containerisation
6 94 (29.56%) Problem-Solving
7 70 (22.01%) Continuous Improvement
8 69 (21.70%) Observability
9 64 (20.13%) Cloud Security
10 63 (19.81%) Microservices
11 47 (14.78%) Platform Engineering
12 46 (14.47%) Continuous Integration
12 46 (14.47%) DevSecOps
12 46 (14.47%) Mentoring
13 42 (13.21%) Incident Response
14 38 (11.95%) Clean Code
15 37 (11.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 37 (11.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 36 (11.32%) Software Engineering
17 35 (11.01%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 162 (50.94%) Python
2 91 (28.62%) Bash
3 86 (27.04%) Java
4 62 (19.50%) TypeScript
5 56 (17.61%) SQL
6 38 (11.95%) PowerShell
7 36 (11.32%) Go
8 30 (9.43%) JavaScript
9 28 (8.81%) Groovy
10 21 (6.60%) C#
11 19 (5.97%) Kotlin
12 18 (5.66%) Bicep
13 9 (2.83%) Rust
14 7 (2.20%) C++
15 6 (1.89%) Google Apps Script
16 1 (0.31%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 96 (30.19%) Security Cleared
2 92 (28.93%) AWS Certification
3 57 (17.92%) SC Cleared
4 31 (9.75%) DV Cleared
5 30 (9.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 28 (8.81%) Degree
7 22 (6.92%) AWS Certified Developer
8 19 (5.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 18 (5.66%) ITIL Certification
10 15 (4.72%) Azure Certification
11 12 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
12 10 (3.14%) OSCP
13 7 (2.20%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 5 (1.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
16 2 (0.63%) CISA
16 2 (0.63%) CISM
16 2 (0.63%) CRISC
16 2 (0.63%) ISTQB
16 2 (0.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.35%) NIST
2 11 (3.46%) GDPR
2 11 (3.46%) PCI DSS
2 11 (3.46%) QA
3 8 (2.52%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.57%) SLA
5 5 (1.57%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.31%) Basel III
6 1 (0.31%) MiFID
System Software
1 173 (54.40%) Docker
2 7 (2.20%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.20%) KVM
3 6 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.31%) QEMU
5 1 (0.31%) vCloud
5 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 233 (73.27%) Terraform
2 133 (41.82%) Kubernetes
3 70 (22.01%) Ansible
4 58 (18.24%) Grafana
5 48 (15.09%) Prometheus
6 28 (8.81%) HP Fortify
7 17 (5.35%) AWS Copilot
8 15 (4.72%) Argo
9 9 (2.83%) Docker Swarm
10 8 (2.52%) Istio
10 8 (2.52%) linkerd
10 8 (2.52%) Mesos
11 7 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (2.20%) Puppet
12 4 (1.26%) Rancher
13 3 (0.94%) Kubeflow
14 2 (0.63%) Nessus
15 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 44 (13.84%) Google
2 20 (6.29%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.03%) Splunk
4 9 (2.83%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.20%) VMware
6 6 (1.89%) SaltStack
7 5 (1.57%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.26%) IBM
8 4 (1.26%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (1.26%) PagerDuty
9 3 (0.94%) AppDynamics
9 3 (0.94%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.94%) Oracle
9 3 (0.94%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.63%) Foundry
10 2 (0.63%) Ping Identity
10 2 (0.63%) SAP
11 1 (0.31%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.31%) Qualys
11 1 (0.31%) Refinitiv