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 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 398 531
Rank change year-on-year -2 +133 -196
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 347 257 362
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.62% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.30% 1.70% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 205 196 281
10th Percentile £54,633 £56,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £63,348 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £76,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +1.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £111,563 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £121,875 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £69,308 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.61% +2.68% -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 26,789 15,099 33,803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.59% 36.66% 36.34%
Number of salaries quoted 14,030 11,109 26,621
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,950 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 14 April 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 14 April 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 -5 309 £75,000 -5.06% 117
UK excluding London +1 183 £72,500 +4.61% 76
London -20 141 £83,750 -9.46% 50
North of England +28 115 £74,651 +7.59% 36
Work from Home -8 114 £72,500 +4.49% 68
Yorkshire +16 80 £73,750 -1.67% 12
North West -22 31 £79,000 +13.92% 17
Midlands -31 23 £50,000 -26.97% 3
West Midlands -11 13 £50,000 -27.86% 1
South East -51 13 £70,000 +16.67% 13
South West -41 11 £71,250 +23.91% 13
East Midlands -51 10 £63,750 -1.92% 2
Scotland -18 7 £73,801 +6.48% 3
Wales -25 7 £68,958 +5.38% 1
Northern Ireland -40 6 £95,000 +37.07%
North East -34 4 £73,801 +6.37% 7
East of England -29 1 £75,000 -11.76% 8

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 (5.76%) Apache
2 9 (2.59%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.86%) JBoss
6 2 (0.58%) Confluence
7 1 (0.29%) Drupal
7 1 (0.29%) IIS
7 1 (0.29%) nginx
7 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 325 (93.66%) AWS
2 192 (55.33%) Serverless
3 169 (48.70%) AWS Lambda
4 132 (38.04%) Azure
5 124 (35.73%) Amazon S3
6 105 (30.26%) Amazon ECS
7 86 (24.78%) AWS Step Functions
8 81 (23.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 80 (23.05%) GCP
10 77 (22.19%) GitHub
11 60 (17.29%) GitHub Actions
12 59 (17.00%) Amazon EKS
13 57 (16.43%) Amazon ECR
14 54 (15.56%) Datadog
15 45 (12.97%) Amazon SQS
16 40 (11.53%) Apigee
17 35 (10.09%) Amazon EC2
18 33 (9.51%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 30 (8.65%) Pulumi
20 29 (8.36%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.48%) TCP/IP
2 15 (4.32%) Firewall
3 14 (4.03%) VPN
4 13 (3.75%) DSL
5 6 (1.73%) AMQP
5 6 (1.73%) Network Security
6 5 (1.44%) DNS
6 5 (1.44%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.86%) SCCP
8 1 (0.29%) 4G
8 1 (0.29%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (30.55%) DynamoDB
2 75 (21.61%) NoSQL
3 58 (16.71%) Amazon RDS
4 38 (10.95%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (7.78%) Amazon Athena
6 26 (7.49%) Elasticsearch
7 18 (5.19%) Redis
8 13 (3.75%) SQL Server
9 11 (3.17%) MySQL
10 8 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (2.02%) Big Data
11 7 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (2.02%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.73%) Cloudera CDH
12 6 (1.73%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.15%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.15%) Flink
13 4 (1.15%) Metadata
14 2 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.58%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 136 (39.19%) GitLab
2 129 (37.18%) Jenkins
3 59 (17.00%) Git
4 45 (12.97%) SonarQube
5 43 (12.39%) Maven
6 39 (11.24%) Cypress.io
7 23 (6.63%) CircleCI
8 13 (3.75%) Bitbucket
9 12 (3.46%) Cucumber
10 8 (2.31%) TeamCity
11 7 (2.02%) JIRA
12 5 (1.44%) Robot Framework
12 5 (1.44%) Selenium
13 4 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (1.15%) git-flow
13 4 (1.15%) JMeter
14 3 (0.86%) Eclipse
15 2 (0.58%) Gradle
15 2 (0.58%) TestRail
16 1 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 114 (32.85%) Social Skills
2 67 (19.31%) Finance
3 28 (8.07%) Banking
4 18 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (4.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (3.75%) Aerospace
7 11 (3.17%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.59%) Advertising
9 8 (2.31%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.02%) Retail
11 6 (1.73%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.73%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.15%) Billing
12 4 (1.15%) Law
12 4 (1.15%) Mandarin Language
13 3 (0.86%) Aviation
13 3 (0.86%) Back Office
14 2 (0.58%) Electronics
14 2 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.58%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 96 (27.67%) Developer
2 73 (21.04%) Senior
3 69 (19.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 55 (15.85%) DevOps Engineer
5 54 (15.56%) Java Developer
6 33 (9.51%) AWS Engineer
7 30 (8.65%) Lead
8 29 (8.36%) Senior Developer
9 28 (8.07%) Platform Engineer
10 25 (7.20%) AWS Developer
11 22 (6.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 21 (6.05%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 21 (6.05%) Security Engineer
13 19 (5.48%) Architect
13 19 (5.48%) AWS DevOps
14 17 (4.90%) AWS Architect
15 16 (4.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 13 (3.75%) AWS Security Architect
16 13 (3.75%) Full-Stack Developer
16 13 (3.75%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (20.46%) AngularJS
2 65 (18.73%) Spring Boot
3 57 (16.43%) Node.js
4 56 (16.14%) AWS CDK
5 43 (12.39%) Kafka
6 40 (11.53%) React
7 39 (11.24%) Gherkin
7 39 (11.24%) Jest
8 37 (10.66%) RESTful
9 36 (10.37%) Spring
10 24 (6.92%) Elastic Stack
11 23 (6.63%) RabbitMQ
12 19 (5.48%) gRPC
13 18 (5.19%) .NET
14 17 (4.90%) Django
14 17 (4.90%) REST
14 17 (4.90%) web3js
15 14 (4.03%) Next.js
16 13 (3.75%) .NET Core
16 13 (3.75%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 103 (29.68%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.36%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (6.34%) Security Posture
4 19 (5.48%) Public Cloud
5 17 (4.90%) Blockchain
5 17 (4.90%) Web3
6 13 (3.75%) Cloud Security Posture
6 13 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (3.75%) Product Ownership
7 12 (3.46%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (3.46%) PKI
8 11 (3.17%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (2.31%) e-Learning
11 6 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.44%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (0.86%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 80 (23.05%) Linux
2 29 (8.36%) Windows
3 25 (7.20%) Unix
4 18 (5.19%) Ubuntu
5 14 (4.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (3.75%) CentOS
7 6 (1.73%) Debian
8 5 (1.44%) VMS
8 5 (1.44%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.86%) Android
9 3 (0.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (74.93%) Infrastructure as Code
2 255 (73.49%) CI/CD
3 240 (69.16%) DevOps
4 158 (45.53%) Agile
5 119 (34.29%) Containerisation
6 97 (27.95%) Problem-Solving
7 76 (21.90%) Microservices
8 74 (21.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 70 (20.17%) Observability
10 67 (19.31%) Cloud Security
11 65 (18.73%) Mentoring
12 61 (17.58%) DevSecOps
13 57 (16.43%) Continuous Integration
14 50 (14.41%) Software Engineering
15 48 (13.83%) Platform Engineering
16 46 (13.26%) Test Automation
17 42 (12.10%) Incident Response
18 41 (11.82%) Clean Code
19 40 (11.53%) Collaborative Culture
20 38 (10.95%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 154 (44.38%) Python
2 122 (35.16%) Java
3 85 (24.50%) Bash
3 85 (24.50%) TypeScript
4 77 (22.19%) SQL
5 45 (12.97%) Go
6 40 (11.53%) Groovy
7 36 (10.37%) JavaScript
8 35 (10.09%) Kotlin
9 26 (7.49%) PowerShell
10 22 (6.34%) C#
11 13 (3.75%) Rust
12 10 (2.88%) C++
13 9 (2.59%) Bicep
14 8 (2.31%) Google Apps Script
15 1 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.29%) PHP
15 1 (0.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 92 (26.51%) Security Cleared
2 84 (24.21%) AWS Certification
3 49 (14.12%) SC Cleared
4 36 (10.37%) Degree
5 32 (9.22%) DV Cleared
6 29 (8.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 29 (8.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 26 (7.49%) AWS Certified Developer
8 23 (6.63%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (4.61%) OSCP
10 15 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (3.17%) Azure Certification
12 7 (2.02%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 5 (1.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (1.15%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.86%) CREST Certified
15 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
16 2 (0.58%) ISTQB
16 2 (0.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 2 (0.58%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.34%) NIST
2 17 (4.90%) PCI DSS
3 14 (4.03%) GDPR
4 9 (2.59%) QA
4 9 (2.59%) SOC 2
5 5 (1.44%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.29%) Basel III
6 1 (0.29%) HL7
6 1 (0.29%) MiFID
6 1 (0.29%) NCSC
6 1 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 192 (55.33%) Docker
2 9 (2.59%) KVM
3 8 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.73%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.29%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 246 (70.89%) Terraform
2 143 (41.21%) Kubernetes
3 74 (21.33%) Ansible
4 52 (14.99%) Grafana
5 49 (14.12%) Prometheus
6 39 (11.24%) HP Fortify
7 17 (4.90%) Argo
8 10 (2.88%) AWS Copilot
8 10 (2.88%) Docker Swarm
8 10 (2.88%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (2.31%) Istio
9 8 (2.31%) linkerd
9 8 (2.31%) Mesos
9 8 (2.31%) Puppet
10 5 (1.44%) Rancher
11 2 (0.58%) Nessus
11 2 (0.58%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.29%) Consul
12 1 (0.29%) Packer
Vendors
1 40 (11.53%) Google
2 21 (6.05%) Microsoft
3 11 (3.17%) Splunk
4 8 (2.31%) VMware
5 7 (2.02%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.02%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.15%) Oracle
6 4 (1.15%) PagerDuty
7 3 (0.86%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.86%) HubSpot
7 3 (0.86%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.86%) SolarWinds
8 2 (0.58%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (0.58%) Ping Identity
8 2 (0.58%) SAP
9 1 (0.29%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.29%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.29%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.29%) TOWER Software