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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 466 577
Rank change year-on-year +83 +111 -220
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 492 237 260
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.48% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.77% 1.48% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 257 139 202
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,250 £50,707
25th Percentile £65,000 £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 £93,125 £96,250
90th Percentile £106,450 £111,500 £112,250
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 27,806 16,063 26,796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.82% 32.29% 32.19%
Number of salaries quoted 18,260 11,190 19,509
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,500 £52,954
% change year-on-year +6.80% -2.75% -3.72%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 +87 443 £77,911 +3.88% 173
UK excluding London +31 243 £72,500 +4.49% 115
London +52 226 £90,000 +12.50% 86
North of England +60 139 £75,000 +8.09% 41
Work from Home -21 119 £75,000 +8.09% 104
Yorkshire +36 84 £75,000 +7.14% 10
North West +20 45 £73,401 +8.54% 20
Midlands -9 28 £62,000 -4.62% 8
Wales -38 25 £72,500 +20.83% 6
South West -51 23 £67,500 -25.00% 28
South East -25 19 £70,000 -17.65% 15
East Midlands -3 18 £52,500 -
West Midlands -29 10 £63,750 -1.92% 8
North East -47 10 £52,500 -24.33% 11
Scotland +6 5 £71,991 +30.89% 10
East of England -38 2 £82,500 +10.00% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £72,896 - 4

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 (3.86%) Apache
2 10 (2.03%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.63%) Confluence
4 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.61%) JBoss
6 2 (0.41%) nginx
7 1 (0.20%) Drupal
7 1 (0.20%) IIS
7 1 (0.20%) SAS
7 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.81%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.41%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.22%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.61%) Summit
3 1 (0.20%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 474 (96.34%) AWS
2 245 (49.80%) Serverless
3 190 (38.62%) AWS Lambda
4 143 (29.07%) Amazon ECS
5 137 (27.85%) Amazon S3
6 134 (27.24%) Azure
7 104 (21.14%) GitHub
8 101 (20.53%) GCP
9 76 (15.45%) AWS Step Functions
9 76 (15.45%) GitHub Actions
10 75 (15.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 69 (14.02%) Amazon EKS
12 65 (13.21%) Amazon EC2
13 58 (11.79%) Cloud Computing
14 56 (11.38%) Datadog
15 45 (9.15%) Amazon SQS
16 41 (8.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 37 (7.52%) Amazon ECR
18 30 (6.10%) Amazon EventBridge
18 30 (6.10%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.88%) Network Security
1 24 (4.88%) TCP/IP
2 15 (3.05%) VPN
3 13 (2.64%) Firewall
4 11 (2.24%) DNS
5 6 (1.22%) DSL
6 4 (0.81%) AMQP
6 4 (0.81%) HTTP
6 4 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.41%) 4G
7 2 (0.41%) 5G
7 2 (0.41%) MQTT
8 1 (0.20%) DHCP
8 1 (0.20%) DNSSEC
8 1 (0.20%) Internet
8 1 (0.20%) PSTN
8 1 (0.20%) SCCP
8 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (19.31%) DynamoDB
2 83 (16.87%) NoSQL
3 64 (13.01%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (6.91%) Amazon Athena
5 26 (5.28%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (2.03%) MongoDB
8 10 (2.03%) Redis
9 9 (1.83%) MySQL
10 8 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.42%) Big Data
12 6 (1.22%) Flink
12 6 (1.22%) SQL Server
13 5 (1.02%) Data Lake
13 5 (1.02%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (0.81%) Apache Iceberg
14 4 (0.81%) Cloudera CDH
14 4 (0.81%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 139 (28.25%) Jenkins
2 130 (26.42%) GitLab
3 71 (14.43%) Git
4 33 (6.71%) Cucumber
5 32 (6.50%) Cypress.io
5 32 (6.50%) Maven
6 28 (5.69%) SonarQube
7 20 (4.07%) CircleCI
8 11 (2.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 11 (2.24%) JIRA
9 10 (2.03%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.42%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.22%) Selenium
11 6 (1.22%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.81%) Gradle
12 4 (0.81%) Snyk
13 3 (0.61%) JUnit
13 3 (0.61%) NUnit
13 3 (0.61%) Postman
14 2 (0.41%) git-flow
General
1 144 (29.27%) Social Skills
2 120 (24.39%) Finance
3 56 (11.38%) Public Sector
4 39 (7.93%) Banking
5 23 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (2.64%) Financial Institution
8 10 (2.03%) Aerospace
8 10 (2.03%) Law
9 9 (1.83%) Legal
10 8 (1.63%) Military
11 6 (1.22%) Advertising
11 6 (1.22%) Retail
12 5 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.02%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.02%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.81%) Mandarin Language
14 3 (0.61%) Automotive
14 3 (0.61%) Games
14 3 (0.61%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 125 (25.41%) Senior
2 110 (22.36%) Developer
3 80 (16.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 73 (14.84%) DevOps Engineer
5 66 (13.41%) Java Developer
6 47 (9.55%) AWS Engineer
7 43 (8.74%) Lead
8 40 (8.13%) Consultant
9 33 (6.71%) Java Engineer
10 32 (6.50%) Senior Consultant
11 29 (5.89%) Architect
12 28 (5.69%) Platform Engineer
13 27 (5.49%) Full-Stack Developer
14 25 (5.08%) Senior Developer
15 24 (4.88%) AWS Developer
15 24 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 20 (4.07%) AWS DevOps
17 19 (3.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 19 (3.86%) Principal Engineer
17 19 (3.86%) Professional Services Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (21.54%) Spring Boot
2 81 (16.46%) Kafka
3 80 (16.26%) Node.js
3 80 (16.26%) Spring
4 76 (15.45%) AngularJS
5 63 (12.80%) AWS CDK
6 44 (8.94%) React
7 33 (6.71%) Gherkin
7 33 (6.71%) RESTful
8 28 (5.69%) REST
9 25 (5.08%) Jest
10 24 (4.88%) RabbitMQ
11 19 (3.86%) Web Services
12 18 (3.66%) gRPC
13 17 (3.46%) YAML
14 15 (3.05%) Elastic Stack
14 15 (3.05%) JSON
14 15 (3.05%) Next.js
14 15 (3.05%) web3js
15 13 (2.64%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 174 (35.37%) Cloud Native
2 72 (14.63%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (10.16%) Onboarding
4 42 (8.54%) Public Cloud
5 41 (8.33%) Enterprise Cloud
6 28 (5.69%) e-Learning
7 26 (5.28%) Enterprise Software
7 26 (5.28%) Legacy Systems
7 26 (5.28%) Mainframe
8 22 (4.47%) Data Centre
9 20 (4.07%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (3.05%) Blockchain
10 15 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
10 15 (3.05%) Security Posture
10 15 (3.05%) Web3
11 13 (2.64%) Distributed Computing
11 13 (2.64%) Linux Command Line
12 11 (2.24%) Cloud Security Posture
13 10 (2.03%) Product Ownership
14 9 (1.83%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 84 (17.07%) Linux
2 20 (4.07%) Windows
3 17 (3.46%) Unix
4 10 (2.03%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.63%) CentOS
7 6 (1.22%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.81%) Debian
9 3 (0.61%) Android
9 3 (0.61%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.41%) VMS
11 1 (0.20%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (73.37%) Infrastructure as Code
2 321 (65.24%) CI/CD
3 262 (53.25%) DevOps
4 206 (41.87%) Agile
5 167 (33.94%) Containerisation
6 130 (26.42%) Mentoring
7 125 (25.41%) Observability
8 118 (23.98%) Continuous Improvement
9 109 (22.15%) Software Engineering
10 100 (20.33%) Microservices
11 94 (19.11%) Cloud Security
12 90 (18.29%) Test Automation
13 89 (18.09%) Event-Driven
13 89 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
14 73 (14.84%) Platform Engineering
15 69 (14.02%) AI
16 66 (13.41%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 63 (12.80%) Collaborative Culture
17 63 (12.80%) Migration
18 61 (12.40%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 229 (46.54%) Python
2 181 (36.79%) Java
3 93 (18.90%) SQL
4 87 (17.68%) Bash
5 85 (17.28%) TypeScript
6 49 (9.96%) Groovy
7 45 (9.15%) Go
8 35 (7.11%) Kotlin
9 34 (6.91%) JavaScript
10 31 (6.30%) PowerShell
11 28 (5.69%) Ruby
12 26 (5.28%) Bicep
13 16 (3.25%) PHP
14 15 (3.05%) Perl
15 14 (2.85%) C#
16 9 (1.83%) C++
17 6 (1.22%) COBOL
17 6 (1.22%) Rust
18 5 (1.02%) Google Apps Script
19 2 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 155 (31.50%) Security Cleared
2 117 (23.78%) AWS Certification
3 90 (18.29%) SC Cleared
4 74 (15.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 44 (8.94%) Degree
6 26 (5.28%) DV Cleared
7 23 (4.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 19 (3.86%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (2.64%) Master's Degree
11 11 (2.24%) AWS Certified Developer
12 9 (1.83%) OSCP
12 9 (1.83%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (1.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (1.22%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.81%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.61%) CREST Certified
16 3 (0.61%) OCP
16 3 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
17 2 (0.41%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.89%) GDPR
2 19 (3.86%) NIST
2 19 (3.86%) PCI DSS
3 11 (2.24%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.24%) SOC 2
4 10 (2.03%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.83%) NCSC
6 8 (1.63%) QA
7 6 (1.22%) Government Security Classifications
7 6 (1.22%) HIPAA
7 6 (1.22%) WCAG
8 5 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.20%) HL7
9 1 (0.20%) SLA
9 1 (0.20%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 209 (42.48%) Docker
2 5 (1.02%) KVM
2 5 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.81%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.61%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 349 (70.93%) Terraform
2 189 (38.41%) Kubernetes
3 88 (17.89%) Ansible
4 55 (11.18%) Grafana
5 52 (10.57%) Prometheus
6 40 (8.13%) Progress Chef
7 29 (5.89%) Puppet
8 24 (4.88%) HP Fortify
9 19 (3.86%) Argo
10 7 (1.42%) Istio
11 6 (1.22%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (1.02%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (1.02%) linkerd
12 5 (1.02%) Mesos
13 3 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.41%) logstash
14 2 (0.41%) Rancher
15 1 (0.20%) Consul
15 1 (0.20%) Kibana
Vendors
1 45 (9.15%) Google
2 20 (4.07%) Microsoft
3 14 (2.85%) Oracle
4 11 (2.24%) Splunk
5 10 (2.03%) Red Hat
6 8 (1.63%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.42%) HubSpot
8 6 (1.22%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.02%) Databricks
9 5 (1.02%) VMware
10 4 (0.81%) Avaya
10 4 (0.81%) Cisco
10 4 (0.81%) Genesys
10 4 (0.81%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.41%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.41%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (0.41%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.41%) Tenable
12 1 (0.20%) AppDynamics
12 1 (0.20%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud