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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 465 411
Rank change year-on-year +54 -54 -94
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 245 258 333
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.47% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.20% 1.31% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 172 195 265
10th Percentile £50,825 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,938 £62,500 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £79,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +5.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £87,500 £113,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £130,000 £117,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £66,250 £67,500
% change year-on-year +5.66% -1.85% -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 20,417 19,635 21,748
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.58% 36.08% 41.23%
Number of salaries quoted 11,128 11,553 17,840
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 +63 200 £73,801 -7.75% 107
UK excluding London +68 125 £70,000 +5.66% 68
Work from Home +68 108 £72,500 -7.64% 52
London +24 90 £81,500 -18.50% 53
North of England +41 74 £71,000 +9.23% 20
Yorkshire +37 49 £70,000 +7.69% 14
North West +13 22 £70,000 +9.80% 6
Midlands +22 16 £51,500 -25.69% 12
West Midlands +37 14 £51,500 -25.69% 11
South East +13 12 £72,500 +16.00% 23
Wales +9 7 £68,958 -0.50% 3
South West +7 7 £70,000 +55.56% 6
Scotland -3 6 £73,801 +6.48% 3
Northern Ireland -8 5 £95,000 +37.07%
North East +2 3 £73,801 +6.48%
East Midlands -5 2 - - 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 12 (4.90%) Apache
2 8 (3.27%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.45%) Tomcat
4 6 (2.45%) WebSphere
4 6 (2.45%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.82%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 228 (93.06%) AWS
2 125 (51.02%) Serverless
3 123 (50.20%) Azure
4 117 (47.76%) AWS Lambda
5 88 (35.92%) Amazon S3
6 74 (30.20%) GitHub
7 70 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
8 69 (28.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 65 (26.53%) GCP
10 59 (24.08%) GitHub Actions
11 56 (22.86%) Amazon EKS
12 45 (18.37%) Amazon EC2
13 43 (17.55%) AWS Step Functions
14 42 (17.14%) Amazon ECR
15 38 (15.51%) Azure DevOps
16 33 (13.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 27 (11.02%) Amazon SQS
18 25 (10.20%) dbt
19 22 (8.98%) Pulumi
20 21 (8.57%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.16%) TCP/IP
2 10 (4.08%) Firewall
3 8 (3.27%) VPN
4 7 (2.86%) Network Security
5 6 (2.45%) SSL
6 3 (1.22%) AMQP
6 3 (1.22%) LAN
6 3 (1.22%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (1.22%) WAN
7 2 (0.82%) DHCP
7 2 (0.82%) DNS
7 2 (0.82%) DSL
8 1 (0.41%) HTTP
8 1 (0.41%) SCCP
8 1 (0.41%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (23.67%) Amazon RDS
2 53 (21.63%) DynamoDB
3 44 (17.96%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (15.51%) NoSQL
5 23 (9.39%) Elasticsearch
6 20 (8.16%) Redis
7 17 (6.94%) SQL Server
8 16 (6.53%) Amazon Redshift
8 16 (6.53%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (4.90%) Data Lake
10 11 (4.49%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (4.08%) MySQL
12 6 (2.45%) DB2
13 5 (2.04%) Big Data
14 4 (1.63%) MongoDB
15 3 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
15 3 (1.22%) Apache Iceberg
15 3 (1.22%) Cloudera CDH
15 3 (1.22%) Data Vault
15 3 (1.22%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 86 (35.10%) Jenkins
2 67 (27.35%) GitLab
3 43 (17.55%) Git
4 22 (8.98%) SonarQube
5 16 (6.53%) Cypress.io
5 16 (6.53%) Maven
6 9 (3.67%) CircleCI
7 8 (3.27%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.04%) git-flow
9 4 (1.63%) Robot Framework
9 4 (1.63%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.22%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.22%) JIRA
11 2 (0.82%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.82%) JMeter
11 2 (0.82%) Selenium
11 2 (0.82%) TestRail
12 1 (0.41%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.41%) Subversion
General
1 70 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 40 (16.33%) Finance
3 18 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (6.94%) Banking
5 9 (3.67%) Law
6 8 (3.27%) Aerospace
6 8 (3.27%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.86%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.63%) Advertising
9 4 (1.63%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.22%) Billing
10 3 (1.22%) Electronics
10 3 (1.22%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.22%) Marketing
10 3 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.82%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.82%) Retail
12 1 (0.41%) Military
12 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 65 (26.53%) Senior
2 53 (21.63%) Cloud Engineer
3 43 (17.55%) DevOps Engineer
4 37 (15.10%) Developer
5 30 (12.24%) AWS Engineer
6 26 (10.61%) Lead
6 26 (10.61%) Platform Engineer
7 15 (6.12%) AWS DevOps
7 15 (6.12%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 14 (5.71%) AWS Developer
9 13 (5.31%) Architect
9 13 (5.31%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 12 (4.90%) .NET Developer
10 12 (4.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 11 (4.49%) Java Developer
11 11 (4.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 10 (4.08%) Data Engineer
12 10 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (4.08%) Senior Developer
13 9 (3.67%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (15.10%) AWS CDK
2 26 (10.61%) AngularJS
3 25 (10.20%) Elastic Stack
3 25 (10.20%) React
4 24 (9.80%) Node.js
5 23 (9.39%) RESTful
5 23 (9.39%) Spring Boot
6 20 (8.16%) Django
7 18 (7.35%) .NET
8 16 (6.53%) Gherkin
8 16 (6.53%) Jest
9 15 (6.12%) Kafka
9 15 (6.12%) Spring
10 13 (5.31%) .NET Core
10 13 (5.31%) ASP.NET
10 13 (5.31%) ASP.NET Core
10 13 (5.31%) Blazor
11 12 (4.90%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (3.67%) ARM Templates
13 8 (3.27%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 63 (25.71%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (7.35%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (4.49%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.08%) Public Cloud
5 10 (4.08%) Security Posture
6 5 (2.04%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.04%) PKI
7 4 (1.63%) Blockchain
7 4 (1.63%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (1.63%) Web3
8 3 (1.22%) e-Learning
8 3 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.22%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.82%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.82%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 89 (36.33%) Linux
2 38 (15.51%) Unix
3 37 (15.10%) Windows
4 11 (4.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (4.49%) Ubuntu
5 6 (2.45%) Debian
6 5 (2.04%) CentOS
7 3 (1.22%) VMS
8 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (78.37%) Infrastructure as Code
2 188 (76.73%) CI/CD
3 185 (75.51%) DevOps
4 89 (36.33%) Agile
5 75 (30.61%) Problem-Solving
6 67 (27.35%) Containerisation
7 53 (21.63%) Observability
8 52 (21.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 48 (19.59%) Microservices
10 47 (19.18%) Cloud Security
11 37 (15.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 33 (13.47%) Platform Engineering
13 32 (13.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 30 (12.24%) Root Cause Analysis
15 28 (11.43%) Incident Response
16 27 (11.02%) Disaster Recovery
16 27 (11.02%) Mentoring
17 25 (10.20%) Clean Code
17 25 (10.20%) Continuous Integration
18 23 (9.39%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 134 (54.69%) Python
2 82 (33.47%) Bash
3 44 (17.96%) Java
4 42 (17.14%) SQL
5 40 (16.33%) TypeScript
6 39 (15.92%) PowerShell
7 21 (8.57%) JavaScript
8 20 (8.16%) Bicep
9 19 (7.76%) Go
10 16 (6.53%) Groovy
11 14 (5.71%) C#
12 8 (3.27%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.63%) C++
13 4 (1.63%) Google Apps Script
14 2 (0.82%) Rust
15 1 (0.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 79 (32.24%) Security Cleared
2 75 (30.61%) AWS Certification
3 52 (21.22%) SC Cleared
4 25 (10.20%) DV Cleared
5 21 (8.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 20 (8.16%) AWS Certified Developer
7 18 (7.35%) Degree
8 14 (5.71%) Azure Certification
9 10 (4.08%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (2.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 4 (1.63%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 2 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.82%) CISA
14 2 (0.82%) CISM
14 2 (0.82%) CISSP
14 2 (0.82%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.90%) QA
2 11 (4.49%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.86%) GDPR
3 7 (2.86%) SLA
4 6 (2.45%) NIST
5 5 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.22%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.41%) Basel III
7 1 (0.41%) MiFID
7 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 130 (53.06%) Docker
2 5 (2.04%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.04%) KVM
3 4 (1.63%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.41%) QEMU
5 1 (0.41%) Terminal Server
5 1 (0.41%) vCloud
5 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 187 (76.33%) Terraform
2 102 (41.63%) Kubernetes
3 58 (23.67%) Ansible
4 50 (20.41%) Grafana
5 36 (14.69%) Prometheus
6 16 (6.53%) HP Fortify
7 13 (5.31%) Argo
8 12 (4.90%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (2.04%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (2.04%) Kubeflow
9 5 (2.04%) Puppet
10 4 (1.63%) Istio
10 4 (1.63%) linkerd
10 4 (1.63%) Mesos
10 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (1.22%) Rancher
12 2 (0.82%) Nessus
13 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 32 (13.06%) Google
2 18 (7.35%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.12%) Splunk
4 9 (3.67%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.45%) IBM
6 5 (2.04%) SolarWinds
6 5 (2.04%) VMware
7 4 (1.63%) LogicMonitor
7 4 (1.63%) PagerDuty
7 4 (1.63%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.22%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.22%) Databricks
8 3 (1.22%) Foundry
8 3 (1.22%) SAP
9 2 (0.82%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.82%) Oracle
9 2 (0.82%) Ping Identity
10 1 (0.41%) OneLogin
10 1 (0.41%) Qualys
10 1 (0.41%) Refinitiv