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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 453 547
Rank change year-on-year +69 +94 -189
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 511 224 247
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.46% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.86% 1.44% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 252 134 184
10th Percentile £46,025 £51,800 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £99,625 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,991 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.84% +7.69% -7.14%

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 27,488 15,514 24,422
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.13% 31.57% 31.49%
Number of salaries quoted 18,567 10,441 15,780
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £43,965 £39,750 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +57 454 £75,000 - 436
UK excluding London +39 258 £71,991 +2.84% 244
London +53 224 £90,000 +10.43% 254
North of England +44 149 £73,750 +5.36% 77
Work from Home -54 107 £85,000 +17.24% 206
Yorkshire +25 91 £75,000 +6.38% 24
North West -1 43 £72,500 +20.83% 40
South West -51 33 £67,500 -25.00% 20
Wales -44 31 £72,500 +31.82% 8
Midlands -39 21 £62,500 +13.64% 38
South East -46 19 £70,000 -20.00% 46
North East - 15 £48,500 - 13
East Midlands -18 13 £52,500 - 19
West Midlands -39 8 £68,496 +24.54% 19
Scotland +5 3 £71,991 +49.98% 32
East of England -43 1 £90,000 +20.00% 11
Northern Ireland - 1 £71,991 - 13

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 21 (4.11%) Apache
2 12 (2.35%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.76%) Confluence
4 5 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.59%) nginx
6 1 (0.20%) Drupal
6 1 (0.20%) IIS
6 1 (0.20%) JBoss
6 1 (0.20%) SAS
6 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.78%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.39%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.17%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.59%) Summit
3 1 (0.20%) Magento
3 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 490 (95.89%) AWS
2 244 (47.75%) Serverless
3 190 (37.18%) AWS Lambda
4 144 (28.18%) Amazon ECS
5 137 (26.81%) Amazon S3
6 136 (26.61%) Azure
7 114 (22.31%) GitHub
8 110 (21.53%) GCP
9 87 (17.03%) GitHub Actions
10 78 (15.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 76 (14.87%) Amazon EC2
11 76 (14.87%) Amazon EKS
12 69 (13.50%) AWS Step Functions
13 53 (10.37%) Datadog
14 49 (9.59%) Cloud Computing
15 40 (7.83%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 39 (7.63%) Amazon SQS
17 37 (7.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 32 (6.26%) OpenShift
19 30 (5.87%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 27 (5.28%) Network Security
2 21 (4.11%) TCP/IP
3 11 (2.15%) VPN
4 8 (1.57%) DNS
4 8 (1.57%) Firewall
5 7 (1.37%) AMQP
6 6 (1.17%) HTTP
7 5 (0.98%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.39%) MQTT
9 1 (0.20%) 4G
9 1 (0.20%) 5G
9 1 (0.20%) DHCP
9 1 (0.20%) DNSSEC
9 1 (0.20%) Internet
9 1 (0.20%) PSTN
9 1 (0.20%) SCCP
9 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (18.20%) NoSQL
2 88 (17.22%) DynamoDB
3 65 (12.72%) Amazon RDS
4 32 (6.26%) Amazon Athena
5 30 (5.87%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (3.52%) MongoDB
7 17 (3.33%) MySQL
8 11 (2.15%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (1.96%) Redis
10 9 (1.76%) Big Data
10 9 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.76%) Hadoop
10 9 (1.76%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.37%) Cloudera CDH
12 6 (1.17%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.17%) Flink
12 6 (1.17%) Metadata
13 5 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (0.98%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 123 (24.07%) Jenkins
2 111 (21.72%) GitLab
3 84 (16.44%) Git
4 40 (7.83%) Cucumber
5 25 (4.89%) Cypress.io
5 25 (4.89%) Maven
6 23 (4.50%) SonarQube
7 11 (2.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (2.15%) Bitbucket
7 11 (2.15%) JIRA
8 9 (1.76%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.37%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.98%) Snyk
10 5 (0.98%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.78%) Gradle
11 4 (0.78%) Selenium
12 3 (0.59%) git-flow
12 3 (0.59%) JUnit
12 3 (0.59%) NUnit
12 3 (0.59%) Postman
General
1 142 (27.79%) Social Skills
2 135 (26.42%) Finance
3 67 (13.11%) Public Sector
4 52 (10.18%) Banking
5 32 (6.26%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (3.52%) Financial Institution
7 17 (3.33%) Law
8 14 (2.74%) Aerospace
9 13 (2.54%) Legal
10 12 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.76%) Military
12 8 (1.57%) Retail
13 5 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.78%) Local Government
14 4 (0.78%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.59%) Advertising
15 3 (0.59%) Automotive
15 3 (0.59%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 131 (25.64%) Senior
2 107 (20.94%) Developer
3 84 (16.44%) Cloud Engineer
4 72 (14.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 68 (13.31%) Java Developer
6 54 (10.57%) AWS Engineer
7 46 (9.00%) Java Engineer
8 45 (8.81%) Lead
9 42 (8.22%) Consultant
10 33 (6.46%) Architect
11 32 (6.26%) Senior Consultant
12 29 (5.68%) Platform Engineer
13 28 (5.48%) Software Engineer
14 27 (5.28%) Full-Stack Developer
15 26 (5.09%) AWS Developer
16 25 (4.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 24 (4.70%) Senior Developer
18 23 (4.50%) Principal Engineer
19 22 (4.31%) Principal Java Engineer
20 21 (4.11%) Cloud Native Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 372 (72.80%) Terraform
2 120 (23.48%) Spring Boot
3 102 (19.96%) Spring
4 96 (18.79%) Node.js
5 87 (17.03%) Kafka
6 77 (15.07%) AngularJS
7 56 (10.96%) AWS CDK
8 43 (8.41%) React
9 42 (8.22%) RESTful
10 31 (6.07%) REST
11 30 (5.87%) RabbitMQ
12 26 (5.09%) Gherkin
13 25 (4.89%) Web Services
14 21 (4.11%) Jest
15 17 (3.33%) gRPC
16 15 (2.94%) Hibernate
16 15 (2.94%) JSON
16 15 (2.94%) YAML
17 14 (2.74%) JPA
18 13 (2.54%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 199 (38.94%) Cloud Native
2 90 (17.61%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (10.37%) Public Cloud
4 50 (9.78%) Onboarding
5 39 (7.63%) Enterprise Cloud
6 38 (7.44%) e-Learning
7 37 (7.24%) Enterprise Software
8 27 (5.28%) Hybrid Cloud
9 26 (5.09%) Legacy Systems
9 26 (5.09%) Mainframe
10 22 (4.31%) Data Centre
11 17 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (3.13%) Virtual Team
13 13 (2.54%) Blog
13 13 (2.54%) Distributed Computing
14 12 (2.35%) Product Ownership
14 12 (2.35%) Security Posture
15 11 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
16 10 (1.96%) Blockchain
16 10 (1.96%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 88 (17.22%) Linux
2 20 (3.91%) Windows
3 14 (2.74%) Unix
4 12 (2.35%) Ubuntu
5 11 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (1.96%) CentOS
7 7 (1.37%) Debian
8 6 (1.17%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.39%) Android
9 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.39%) VMS
10 1 (0.20%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (75.34%) Infrastructure as Code
2 339 (66.34%) CI/CD
3 275 (53.82%) DevOps
4 225 (44.03%) Agile
5 170 (33.27%) Containerisation
6 137 (26.81%) Software Engineering
7 134 (26.22%) Mentoring
8 124 (24.27%) Observability
9 121 (23.68%) Microservices
10 117 (22.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 104 (20.35%) Event-Driven
12 102 (19.96%) Problem-Solving
13 97 (18.98%) Test Automation
14 96 (18.79%) Cloud Security
15 79 (15.46%) AI
16 78 (15.26%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 75 (14.68%) Migration
18 74 (14.48%) Platform Engineering
19 65 (12.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 64 (12.52%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 234 (45.79%) Python
2 194 (37.96%) Java
3 99 (19.37%) SQL
4 86 (16.83%) TypeScript
5 84 (16.44%) Bash
6 48 (9.39%) Groovy
7 39 (7.63%) Kotlin
8 38 (7.44%) Go
9 37 (7.24%) JavaScript
10 32 (6.26%) PowerShell
11 31 (6.07%) Ruby
12 23 (4.50%) Bicep
13 18 (3.52%) C#
14 16 (3.13%) PHP
15 15 (2.94%) Perl
16 9 (1.76%) C++
17 6 (1.17%) COBOL
18 4 (0.78%) Google Apps Script
19 2 (0.39%) Shell Script
20 1 (0.20%) Natural
Qualifications
1 169 (33.07%) Security Cleared
2 131 (25.64%) AWS Certification
3 102 (19.96%) SC Cleared
4 85 (16.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 35 (6.85%) Degree
5 35 (6.85%) DV Cleared
6 17 (3.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 16 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
9 11 (2.15%) Master's Degree
10 10 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
11 9 (1.76%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (1.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.98%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.78%) OCP
14 4 (0.78%) Oracle Certification
15 3 (0.59%) Postgraduate
16 2 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
16 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (7.05%) GDPR
2 14 (2.74%) QA
3 12 (2.35%) NIST
3 12 (2.35%) PCI DSS
4 11 (2.15%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.15%) HIPAA
5 10 (1.96%) NCSC
6 8 (1.57%) Data Quality
7 6 (1.17%) Government Security Classifications
7 6 (1.17%) WCAG
8 5 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.98%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.78%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 219 (42.86%) Docker
2 6 (1.17%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.98%) KVM
3 5 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.59%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 196 (38.36%) Kubernetes
2 95 (18.59%) Ansible
3 52 (10.18%) Grafana
3 52 (10.18%) Progress Chef
4 48 (9.39%) Prometheus
5 37 (7.24%) Puppet
6 22 (4.31%) Argo
7 17 (3.33%) HP Fortify
8 8 (1.57%) Istio
9 6 (1.17%) Docker Swarm
9 6 (1.17%) linkerd
9 6 (1.17%) Mesos
9 6 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.59%) logstash
11 3 (0.59%) Rancher
12 2 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.20%) Consul
13 1 (0.20%) Kibana
13 1 (0.20%) Packer
Vendors
1 46 (9.00%) Google
2 21 (4.11%) Microsoft
3 17 (3.33%) Red Hat
3 17 (3.33%) Splunk
4 16 (3.13%) Oracle
5 9 (1.76%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.37%) Databricks
6 7 (1.37%) HubSpot
6 7 (1.37%) SaltStack
7 6 (1.17%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.17%) VMware
8 5 (0.98%) AppDynamics
8 5 (0.98%) Cisco
9 4 (0.78%) Avaya
9 4 (0.78%) Genesys
10 3 (0.59%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.59%) OutSystems
11 2 (0.39%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (0.39%) Informatica
11 2 (0.39%) Tenable