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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 449 587
Rank change year-on-year +58 +138 -218
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 455 237 322
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.48% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.68% 1.49% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 234 136 261
10th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,998 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.66% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,375 £97,500
90th Percentile £108,375 £111,250 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,151 £69,384 £67,500
% change year-on-year +5.43% +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 27,025 15,903 33,344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.36% 32.37% 33.04%
Number of salaries quoted 17,563 11,080 25,330
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,364
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.21% -6.61%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +69 414 £80,000 +6.67% 81
London +54 221 £90,000 +15.02% 35
UK excluding London +14 212 £73,151 +5.43% 78
North of England +61 130 £75,000 +8.09% 25
Work from Home -31 104 £75,000 +8.09% 64
Yorkshire +39 85 £75,000 +5.63% 5
North West +17 42 £74,651 +7.59% 11
Midlands -2 26 £62,000 -4.62% 7
Wales -37 21 £72,500 +20.83% 7
East Midlands -18 18 £52,500 - 2
South East -23 17 £70,000 -15.15% 16
South West -50 12 £67,500 -25.00% 12
West Midlands -29 8 £62,250 -4.23% 5
Scotland +9 3 £76,783 +39.60% 5
North East -54 3 £57,788 -16.71% 9
East of England -26 2 £82,500 +10.00% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £73,801 - 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 18 (3.96%) Apache
2 10 (2.20%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.76%) Confluence
4 7 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.66%) JBoss
7 1 (0.22%) Drupal
7 1 (0.22%) IIS
7 1 (0.22%) nginx
7 1 (0.22%) SAS
7 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.88%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.44%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.32%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.66%) Summit
3 1 (0.22%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 437 (96.04%) AWS
2 235 (51.65%) Serverless
3 189 (41.54%) AWS Lambda
4 133 (29.23%) Amazon ECS
4 133 (29.23%) Amazon S3
5 109 (23.96%) Azure
6 97 (21.32%) GitHub
7 83 (18.24%) AWS Step Functions
8 78 (17.14%) GCP
9 72 (15.82%) GitHub Actions
10 71 (15.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 64 (14.07%) Amazon EKS
12 60 (13.19%) Cloud Computing
12 60 (13.19%) Datadog
13 55 (12.09%) Amazon EC2
14 46 (10.11%) Amazon SQS
15 38 (8.35%) Amazon ECR
15 38 (8.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 32 (7.03%) Apigee
17 29 (6.37%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.62%) Network Security
2 17 (3.74%) VPN
3 13 (2.86%) Firewall
4 12 (2.64%) TCP/IP
5 10 (2.20%) DNS
6 9 (1.98%) DSL
7 4 (0.88%) AMQP
7 4 (0.88%) HTTP
8 3 (0.66%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.44%) 4G
9 2 (0.44%) 5G
9 2 (0.44%) MQTT
10 1 (0.22%) DHCP
10 1 (0.22%) DNSSEC
10 1 (0.22%) Internet
10 1 (0.22%) PSTN
10 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (22.20%) DynamoDB
2 86 (18.90%) NoSQL
3 51 (11.21%) Amazon RDS
4 35 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
5 22 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (1.98%) MongoDB
7 9 (1.98%) Redis
8 8 (1.76%) MySQL
9 7 (1.54%) Big Data
10 6 (1.32%) Flink
11 5 (1.10%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.10%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.10%) SQL Server
12 4 (0.88%) Apache Iceberg
12 4 (0.88%) Cloudera CDH
12 4 (0.88%) Metadata
12 4 (0.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 143 (31.43%) Jenkins
2 137 (30.11%) GitLab
3 64 (14.07%) Git
4 36 (7.91%) Maven
5 32 (7.03%) Cucumber
5 32 (7.03%) Cypress.io
6 28 (6.15%) SonarQube
7 24 (5.27%) CircleCI
8 10 (2.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 10 (2.20%) JIRA
9 9 (1.98%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.54%) Claude Code
11 5 (1.10%) Gradle
11 5 (1.10%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.66%) Selenium
13 1 (0.22%) Gatling
13 1 (0.22%) git-flow
13 1 (0.22%) JMeter
13 1 (0.22%) MLflow
13 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 122 (26.81%) Social Skills
2 114 (25.05%) Finance
3 51 (11.21%) Public Sector
4 38 (8.35%) Banking
5 17 (3.74%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (2.42%) Aerospace
7 11 (2.42%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.32%) Advertising
8 6 (1.32%) Legal
9 5 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.10%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.10%) Military
10 4 (0.88%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (0.88%) Retail
10 4 (0.88%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.66%) Automotive
11 3 (0.66%) Back Office
11 3 (0.66%) Law
11 3 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 112 (24.62%) Developer
2 107 (23.52%) Senior
3 73 (16.04%) Cloud Engineer
4 70 (15.38%) Java Developer
5 65 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
6 43 (9.45%) AWS Engineer
7 39 (8.57%) Consultant
8 38 (8.35%) Lead
9 32 (7.03%) Java Engineer
9 32 (7.03%) Senior Consultant
10 29 (6.37%) Architect
10 29 (6.37%) Platform Engineer
11 28 (6.15%) Full-Stack Developer
12 26 (5.71%) AWS Developer
12 26 (5.71%) Senior Developer
13 23 (5.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 22 (4.84%) Principal Engineer
15 21 (4.62%) AWS DevOps
16 20 (4.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 19 (4.18%) Professional Services Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (23.52%) Spring Boot
2 81 (17.80%) Kafka
3 78 (17.14%) AngularJS
3 78 (17.14%) Spring
4 76 (16.70%) Node.js
5 62 (13.63%) AWS CDK
6 38 (8.35%) React
7 36 (7.91%) Gherkin
8 31 (6.81%) RESTful
9 28 (6.15%) Jest
10 27 (5.93%) REST
11 25 (5.49%) RabbitMQ
12 20 (4.40%) gRPC
13 19 (4.18%) Web Services
14 18 (3.96%) YAML
15 17 (3.74%) web3js
16 16 (3.52%) JSON
16 16 (3.52%) Next.js
17 13 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
18 12 (2.64%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 159 (34.95%) Cloud Native
2 57 (12.53%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (10.77%) Onboarding
4 41 (9.01%) Enterprise Cloud
4 41 (9.01%) Public Cloud
5 27 (5.93%) e-Learning
5 27 (5.93%) Enterprise Software
6 25 (5.49%) Mainframe
7 22 (4.84%) Data Centre
7 22 (4.84%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (3.74%) Blockchain
8 17 (3.74%) Web3
9 16 (3.52%) Hybrid Cloud
9 16 (3.52%) Security Posture
10 15 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (2.86%) Cloud Security Posture
11 13 (2.86%) Distributed Computing
12 10 (2.20%) Product Ownership
13 8 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
14 7 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 67 (14.73%) Linux
2 20 (4.40%) Windows
3 11 (2.42%) Ubuntu
4 9 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.76%) CentOS
6 5 (1.10%) Unix
6 5 (1.10%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.88%) Debian
8 3 (0.66%) Android
8 3 (0.66%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.66%) VMS
9 1 (0.22%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (71.65%) Infrastructure as Code
2 288 (63.30%) CI/CD
3 228 (50.11%) DevOps
4 181 (39.78%) Agile
5 154 (33.85%) Containerisation
6 119 (26.15%) Mentoring
7 102 (22.42%) Observability
8 99 (21.76%) Microservices
9 95 (20.88%) Continuous Improvement
9 95 (20.88%) Software Engineering
10 86 (18.90%) Event-Driven
11 83 (18.24%) Test Automation
12 82 (18.02%) Cloud Security
12 82 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
13 71 (15.60%) Platform Engineering
14 67 (14.73%) DevSecOps
15 66 (14.51%) AI
16 62 (13.63%) Continuous Integration
16 62 (13.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 53 (11.65%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 209 (45.93%) Python
2 181 (39.78%) Java
3 95 (20.88%) SQL
4 90 (19.78%) TypeScript
5 79 (17.36%) Bash
6 52 (11.43%) Groovy
7 43 (9.45%) Go
8 38 (8.35%) Kotlin
9 31 (6.81%) JavaScript
10 30 (6.59%) PowerShell
11 27 (5.93%) Ruby
12 26 (5.71%) Bicep
13 16 (3.52%) PHP
14 15 (3.30%) C#
14 15 (3.30%) Perl
15 10 (2.20%) C++
16 9 (1.98%) Rust
17 6 (1.32%) COBOL
18 5 (1.10%) Google Apps Script
19 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 136 (29.89%) Security Cleared
2 115 (25.27%) AWS Certification
3 72 (15.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 69 (15.16%) SC Cleared
5 45 (9.89%) Degree
6 25 (5.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (5.27%) DV Cleared
8 22 (4.84%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (2.86%) Master's Degree
11 12 (2.64%) OSCP
12 9 (1.98%) AWS Certified Developer
12 9 (1.98%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (1.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (1.54%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.88%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.66%) CREST Certified
16 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 2 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
16 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.40%) PCI DSS
2 19 (4.18%) GDPR
2 19 (4.18%) NIST
3 13 (2.86%) SOC 2
4 10 (2.20%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.98%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.54%) NCSC
7 6 (1.32%) Government Security Classifications
8 5 (1.10%) QA
8 5 (1.10%) WCAG
9 4 (0.88%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.22%) HL7
10 1 (0.22%) SLA
10 1 (0.22%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 196 (43.08%) Docker
2 5 (1.10%) KVM
2 5 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.88%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 308 (67.69%) Terraform
2 178 (39.12%) Kubernetes
3 70 (15.38%) Ansible
4 53 (11.65%) Prometheus
5 50 (10.99%) Grafana
6 36 (7.91%) Progress Chef
7 27 (5.93%) HP Fortify
8 26 (5.71%) Puppet
9 18 (3.96%) Argo
10 7 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (1.32%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (1.10%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (1.10%) Istio
12 5 (1.10%) linkerd
12 5 (1.10%) Mesos
13 2 (0.44%) Rancher
13 2 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.22%) Consul
14 1 (0.22%) logstash
14 1 (0.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 32 (7.03%) Google
2 17 (3.74%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.64%) Oracle
4 10 (2.20%) Splunk
5 8 (1.76%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.54%) HubSpot
7 5 (1.10%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.10%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.10%) VMware
8 4 (0.88%) Avaya
8 4 (0.88%) Cisco
8 4 (0.88%) Databricks
8 4 (0.88%) Genesys
8 4 (0.88%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.44%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.44%) Tenable
10 1 (0.22%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (0.22%) OneLogin
10 1 (0.22%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.22%) ServiceNow