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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 456 561
Rank change year-on-year +70 +105 -203
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 511 226 245
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.46% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.85% 1.44% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 254 136 182
10th Percentile £46,075 £52,000 £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 £86,406
90th Percentile £105,000 £99,375 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,991 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +2.84% +3.70% -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 27,559 15,732 24,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.30% 31.71% 31.64%
Number of salaries quoted 18,622 10,630 16,115
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,250 £45,000
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 £101,250 £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 12 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 12 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 +68 454 £75,000 - 229
UK excluding London +16 257 £71,991 +2.84% 139
London +59 226 £90,000 +10.43% 137
North of England +48 149 £73,750 +5.36% 40
Work from Home -48 109 £82,500 +14.19% 300
Yorkshire +21 89 £75,000 +5.63% 14
North West +4 45 £72,500 +20.83% 18
Wales -42 31 £72,500 +31.82% 5
South West -53 31 £67,500 -25.00% 14
Midlands -27 21 £62,500 +13.64% 17
South East -39 19 £70,000 -20.00% 32
North East - 15 £48,500 - 8
East Midlands -24 13 £52,500 - 6
West Midlands -40 8 £68,496 +24.54% 11
Scotland +11 4 £71,991 +49.98% 19
East of England -42 1 £90,000 +20.00% 7
Northern Ireland - 1 £71,991 - 6

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 20 (3.91%) Apache
2 11 (2.15%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.76%) Confluence
4 6 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.59%) nginx
7 1 (0.20%) Drupal
7 1 (0.20%) IIS
7 1 (0.20%) JBoss
7 1 (0.20%) SAS
7 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
2 246 (48.14%) Serverless
3 192 (37.57%) AWS Lambda
4 145 (28.38%) Amazon ECS
5 140 (27.40%) Amazon S3
6 134 (26.22%) Azure
7 110 (21.53%) GitHub
8 107 (20.94%) GCP
9 82 (16.05%) GitHub Actions
10 77 (15.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 76 (14.87%) Amazon EC2
11 76 (14.87%) Amazon EKS
12 69 (13.50%) AWS Step Functions
13 54 (10.57%) Datadog
14 49 (9.59%) Cloud Computing
15 41 (8.02%) Amazon SQS
16 39 (7.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 39 (7.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 30 (5.87%) Amazon EventBridge
17 30 (5.87%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.48%) Network Security
2 22 (4.31%) TCP/IP
3 12 (2.35%) VPN
4 10 (1.96%) DNS
4 10 (1.96%) Firewall
5 6 (1.17%) AMQP
5 6 (1.17%) HTTP
6 5 (0.98%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.39%) MQTT
8 1 (0.20%) 4G
8 1 (0.20%) 5G
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 92 (18.00%) NoSQL
2 88 (17.22%) DynamoDB
3 67 (13.11%) Amazon RDS
4 32 (6.26%) Amazon Athena
5 29 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (3.33%) MongoDB
7 16 (3.13%) MySQL
8 11 (2.15%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (1.76%) Redis
10 9 (1.76%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.57%) Big Data
11 8 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (1.57%) Hadoop
12 7 (1.37%) Flink
13 6 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (1.17%) Cloudera CDH
13 6 (1.17%) Data Lake
13 6 (1.17%) Metadata
14 5 (0.98%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 118 (23.09%) Jenkins
2 109 (21.33%) GitLab
3 84 (16.44%) Git
4 41 (8.02%) Cucumber
5 25 (4.89%) Cypress.io
5 25 (4.89%) Maven
6 23 (4.50%) SonarQube
7 12 (2.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 11 (2.15%) Bitbucket
8 11 (2.15%) JIRA
9 9 (1.76%) CircleCI
10 7 (1.37%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.98%) Snyk
11 5 (0.98%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.78%) Gradle
12 4 (0.78%) Selenium
13 3 (0.59%) git-flow
13 3 (0.59%) JUnit
13 3 (0.59%) NUnit
13 3 (0.59%) Postman
General
1 139 (27.20%) Social Skills
2 136 (26.61%) Finance
3 67 (13.11%) Public Sector
4 52 (10.18%) Banking
5 33 (6.46%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (3.52%) Financial Institution
7 17 (3.33%) Law
8 13 (2.54%) Aerospace
8 13 (2.54%) Legal
9 12 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.76%) Military
11 8 (1.57%) Retail
12 5 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.78%) Advertising
13 4 (0.78%) Local Government
13 4 (0.78%) Mandarin Language
13 4 (0.78%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.59%) Automotive
14 3 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 134 (26.22%) Senior
2 108 (21.14%) Developer
3 83 (16.24%) Cloud Engineer
4 72 (14.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 68 (13.31%) Java Developer
6 52 (10.18%) AWS Engineer
7 47 (9.20%) Java Engineer
8 45 (8.81%) Lead
9 42 (8.22%) Consultant
10 33 (6.46%) Architect
11 32 (6.26%) Senior Consultant
12 27 (5.28%) Full-Stack Developer
12 27 (5.28%) Platform Engineer
12 27 (5.28%) Software Engineer
13 26 (5.09%) AWS Developer
14 25 (4.89%) Senior Developer
15 24 (4.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 23 (4.50%) Principal Engineer
17 22 (4.31%) Principal Java Engineer
18 21 (4.11%) Cloud Native Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 371 (72.60%) Terraform
2 120 (23.48%) Spring Boot
3 102 (19.96%) Spring
4 95 (18.59%) Node.js
5 88 (17.22%) Kafka
6 76 (14.87%) AngularJS
7 57 (11.15%) AWS CDK
8 42 (8.22%) React
8 42 (8.22%) RESTful
9 30 (5.87%) REST
10 29 (5.68%) RabbitMQ
11 26 (5.09%) Gherkin
12 23 (4.50%) Web Services
13 21 (4.11%) Jest
14 16 (3.13%) gRPC
15 15 (2.94%) Hibernate
15 15 (2.94%) JSON
15 15 (2.94%) YAML
16 14 (2.74%) JPA
17 13 (2.54%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 196 (38.36%) Cloud Native
2 90 (17.61%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (10.18%) 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 16 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
11 16 (3.13%) Virtual Team
12 13 (2.54%) Blog
12 13 (2.54%) Distributed Computing
13 12 (2.35%) Product Ownership
13 12 (2.35%) Security Posture
14 11 (2.15%) Blockchain
14 11 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (2.15%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 85 (16.63%) Linux
2 21 (4.11%) 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%) Windows Server
8 6 (1.17%) Debian
9 2 (0.39%) Android
9 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.39%) VMS
10 1 (0.20%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (75.15%) Infrastructure as Code
2 337 (65.95%) CI/CD
3 274 (53.62%) DevOps
4 223 (43.64%) Agile
5 169 (33.07%) Containerisation
6 135 (26.42%) Mentoring
6 135 (26.42%) Software Engineering
7 124 (24.27%) Observability
8 121 (23.68%) Microservices
9 118 (23.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 106 (20.74%) Event-Driven
11 99 (19.37%) Test Automation
12 98 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
13 96 (18.79%) Cloud Security
14 79 (15.46%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 77 (15.07%) AI
16 75 (14.68%) Migration
17 71 (13.89%) Platform Engineering
18 65 (12.72%) Collaborative Culture
19 62 (12.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 230 (45.01%) Python
2 194 (37.96%) Java
3 101 (19.77%) SQL
4 86 (16.83%) TypeScript
5 84 (16.44%) Bash
6 46 (9.00%) Groovy
7 39 (7.63%) Kotlin
8 37 (7.24%) Go
9 36 (7.05%) JavaScript
10 31 (6.07%) PowerShell
10 31 (6.07%) Ruby
11 23 (4.50%) Bicep
12 18 (3.52%) C#
13 16 (3.13%) PHP
14 15 (2.94%) Perl
15 9 (1.76%) C++
16 6 (1.17%) COBOL
17 4 (0.78%) Google Apps Script
18 2 (0.39%) Shell Script
19 1 (0.20%) Natural
Qualifications
1 165 (32.29%) Security Cleared
2 131 (25.64%) AWS Certification
3 99 (19.37%) SC Cleared
4 85 (16.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 37 (7.24%) Degree
6 32 (6.26%) DV Cleared
7 17 (3.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 16 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
10 11 (2.15%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (1.76%) AWS Certified Developer
13 8 (1.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (1.17%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.78%) OCP
15 4 (0.78%) Oracle Certification
15 4 (0.78%) 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%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.35%) NIST
3 12 (2.35%) PCI DSS
4 11 (2.15%) HIPAA
5 10 (1.96%) NCSC
6 9 (1.76%) 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
1 216 (42.27%) 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
1 193 (37.77%) Kubernetes
2 93 (18.20%) Ansible
3 52 (10.18%) Grafana
4 49 (9.59%) Progress Chef
5 46 (9.00%) Prometheus
6 36 (7.05%) Puppet
7 20 (3.91%) Argo
8 17 (3.33%) HP Fortify
9 7 (1.37%) Istio
10 6 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.98%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.98%) linkerd
11 5 (0.98%) Mesos
11 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.39%) logstash
12 2 (0.39%) Rancher
13 1 (0.20%) Consul
13 1 (0.20%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.20%) Kibana
Vendors
1 45 (8.81%) Google
2 21 (4.11%) Microsoft
3 17 (3.33%) Splunk
4 16 (3.13%) Oracle
4 16 (3.13%) Red Hat
5 9 (1.76%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.37%) Databricks
6 7 (1.37%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.17%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.17%) SaltStack
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%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.39%) Informatica
11 2 (0.39%) Tenable