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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 448 564
Rank change year-on-year +62 +116 -199
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 471 242 281
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.49% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.71% 1.51% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 244 142 222
10th Percentile £52,816 £51,375 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,938 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -6.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,875 £96,250
90th Percentile £107,275 £111,250 £112,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £69,384 £66,250
% change year-on-year +4.49% +4.73% -5.36%

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 27,520 16,006 28,720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.17% 32.38% 32.52%
Number of salaries quoted 17,969 11,160 21,276
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,125 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +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 27 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 27 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 +68 425 £80,000 +6.67% 124
UK excluding London +39 225 £72,500 +4.49% 99
London +72 223 £90,000 +13.56% 61
North of England +61 133 £75,000 +8.09% 35
Work from Home -44 108 £75,000 +8.09% 84
Yorkshire +38 82 £75,000 +7.14% 7
North West +13 44 £73,401 +8.54% 16
Midlands -12 27 £62,000 -4.62% 8
Wales -36 24 £72,500 +20.83% 7
East Midlands -10 18 £52,500 -
South East -32 17 £70,000 -17.65% 13
South West -49 17 £67,500 -25.00% 21
West Midlands -24 9 £62,500 -3.85% 8
North East -46 7 £50,000 -27.94% 12
Scotland +9 4 £71,991 +30.89% 7
East of England -28 2 £82,500 +10.00% 3
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 19 (4.03%) Apache
2 10 (2.12%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.70%) Confluence
4 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.64%) JBoss
6 1 (0.21%) Drupal
6 1 (0.21%) IIS
6 1 (0.21%) nginx
6 1 (0.21%) SAS
6 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.85%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.42%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.27%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.64%) Summit
3 1 (0.21%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 453 (96.18%) AWS
2 243 (51.59%) Serverless
3 191 (40.55%) AWS Lambda
4 137 (29.09%) Amazon ECS
5 136 (28.87%) Amazon S3
6 119 (25.27%) Azure
7 97 (20.59%) GitHub
8 88 (18.68%) GCP
9 77 (16.35%) AWS Step Functions
10 73 (15.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 70 (14.86%) GitHub Actions
12 67 (14.23%) Amazon EKS
13 62 (13.16%) Amazon EC2
14 59 (12.53%) Cloud Computing
15 56 (11.89%) Datadog
16 46 (9.77%) Amazon SQS
17 37 (7.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 36 (7.64%) Amazon ECR
19 30 (6.37%) Amazon EventBridge
19 30 (6.37%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.10%) Network Security
2 17 (3.61%) TCP/IP
3 16 (3.40%) VPN
4 13 (2.76%) Firewall
5 11 (2.34%) DNS
6 7 (1.49%) DSL
7 4 (0.85%) AMQP
7 4 (0.85%) HTTP
8 3 (0.64%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.42%) 4G
9 2 (0.42%) 5G
9 2 (0.42%) MQTT
10 1 (0.21%) DHCP
10 1 (0.21%) DNSSEC
10 1 (0.21%) Internet
10 1 (0.21%) PSTN
10 1 (0.21%) SCCP
10 1 (0.21%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (20.59%) DynamoDB
2 83 (17.62%) NoSQL
3 59 (12.53%) Amazon RDS
4 33 (7.01%) Amazon Athena
5 25 (5.31%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (2.12%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (2.12%) MongoDB
8 9 (1.91%) MySQL
8 9 (1.91%) Redis
9 7 (1.49%) Big Data
10 6 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.27%) Flink
10 6 (1.27%) SQL Server
11 5 (1.06%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.06%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.85%) Apache Iceberg
12 4 (0.85%) Metadata
12 4 (0.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 137 (29.09%) Jenkins
2 132 (28.03%) GitLab
3 67 (14.23%) Git
4 33 (7.01%) Maven
5 32 (6.79%) Cucumber
6 31 (6.58%) Cypress.io
7 27 (5.73%) SonarQube
8 22 (4.67%) CircleCI
9 11 (2.34%) JIRA
10 10 (2.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 9 (1.91%) Bitbucket
12 7 (1.49%) Claude Code
13 6 (1.27%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.85%) Gradle
14 4 (0.85%) Selenium
15 2 (0.42%) Snyk
16 1 (0.21%) git-flow
16 1 (0.21%) MLflow
16 1 (0.21%) Postman
16 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 129 (27.39%) Social Skills
2 116 (24.63%) Finance
3 54 (11.46%) Public Sector
4 39 (8.28%) Banking
5 22 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.55%) Financial Institution
8 10 (2.12%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.70%) Law
9 8 (1.70%) Legal
10 6 (1.27%) Advertising
10 6 (1.27%) Military
11 5 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.06%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.85%) Mandarin Language
12 4 (0.85%) Retail
12 4 (0.85%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.64%) Automotive
13 3 (0.64%) Back Office
13 3 (0.64%) Games
Job Titles
1 114 (24.20%) Senior
2 110 (23.35%) Developer
3 77 (16.35%) Cloud Engineer
4 69 (14.65%) DevOps Engineer
5 66 (14.01%) Java Developer
6 45 (9.55%) AWS Engineer
7 42 (8.92%) Lead
8 40 (8.49%) Consultant
9 32 (6.79%) Java Engineer
9 32 (6.79%) Senior Consultant
10 29 (6.16%) Architect
10 29 (6.16%) Full-Stack Developer
11 28 (5.94%) Platform Engineer
12 25 (5.31%) Senior Developer
13 24 (5.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 23 (4.88%) AWS Developer
15 20 (4.25%) AWS DevOps
15 20 (4.25%) Principal Engineer
16 19 (4.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 19 (4.03%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (22.72%) Spring Boot
2 82 (17.41%) Kafka
3 80 (16.99%) Spring
4 76 (16.14%) Node.js
5 75 (15.92%) AngularJS
6 61 (12.95%) AWS CDK
7 41 (8.70%) React
8 34 (7.22%) Gherkin
9 32 (6.79%) RESTful
10 27 (5.73%) REST
11 26 (5.52%) Jest
12 25 (5.31%) RabbitMQ
13 19 (4.03%) gRPC
13 19 (4.03%) Web Services
14 17 (3.61%) YAML
15 16 (3.40%) web3js
16 15 (3.18%) JSON
16 15 (3.18%) Next.js
17 14 (2.97%) Elastic Stack
18 13 (2.76%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 166 (35.24%) Cloud Native
2 64 (13.59%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (10.62%) Onboarding
4 41 (8.70%) Enterprise Cloud
4 41 (8.70%) Public Cloud
5 27 (5.73%) e-Learning
6 26 (5.52%) Enterprise Software
6 26 (5.52%) Mainframe
7 24 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
8 22 (4.67%) Data Centre
9 19 (4.03%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (3.61%) Security Posture
11 16 (3.40%) Blockchain
11 16 (3.40%) Web3
12 15 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (2.76%) Cloud Security Posture
13 13 (2.76%) Distributed Computing
14 12 (2.55%) Linux Command Line
15 10 (2.12%) Product Ownership
16 8 (1.70%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 73 (15.50%) Linux
2 19 (4.03%) Windows
3 10 (2.12%) Ubuntu
3 10 (2.12%) Unix
4 9 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.70%) CentOS
6 6 (1.27%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.85%) Debian
8 3 (0.64%) Android
8 3 (0.64%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.42%) VMS
10 1 (0.21%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (72.19%) Infrastructure as Code
2 300 (63.69%) CI/CD
3 242 (51.38%) DevOps
4 193 (40.98%) Agile
5 163 (34.61%) Containerisation
6 125 (26.54%) Mentoring
7 113 (23.99%) Observability
8 108 (22.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 101 (21.44%) Software Engineering
10 100 (21.23%) Microservices
11 90 (19.11%) Cloud Security
12 88 (18.68%) Event-Driven
13 87 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
14 86 (18.26%) Test Automation
15 71 (15.07%) Platform Engineering
16 67 (14.23%) AI
17 65 (13.80%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 62 (13.16%) DevSecOps
19 58 (12.31%) Continuous Integration
20 56 (11.89%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 218 (46.28%) Python
2 179 (38.00%) Java
3 92 (19.53%) SQL
4 85 (18.05%) TypeScript
5 82 (17.41%) Bash
6 50 (10.62%) Groovy
7 42 (8.92%) Go
8 34 (7.22%) Kotlin
9 30 (6.37%) JavaScript
9 30 (6.37%) PowerShell
10 28 (5.94%) Ruby
11 26 (5.52%) Bicep
12 16 (3.40%) PHP
13 15 (3.18%) Perl
14 14 (2.97%) C#
15 9 (1.91%) C++
16 7 (1.49%) Rust
17 6 (1.27%) COBOL
18 5 (1.06%) Google Apps Script
19 1 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 144 (30.57%) Security Cleared
2 115 (24.42%) AWS Certification
3 80 (16.99%) SC Cleared
4 74 (15.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 44 (9.34%) Degree
6 26 (5.52%) DV Cleared
7 23 (4.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 20 (4.25%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (2.76%) Master's Degree
11 10 (2.12%) AWS Certified Developer
11 10 (2.12%) OSCP
12 9 (1.91%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (1.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (1.27%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.85%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.64%) CREST Certified
17 2 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
17 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
18 1 (0.21%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.31%) GDPR
2 20 (4.25%) PCI DSS
3 19 (4.03%) NIST
4 12 (2.55%) SOC 2
5 10 (2.12%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.12%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.70%) NCSC
6 8 (1.70%) QA
7 6 (1.27%) Government Security Classifications
7 6 (1.27%) HIPAA
7 6 (1.27%) WCAG
8 5 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.21%) HL7
9 1 (0.21%) SLA
9 1 (0.21%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 201 (42.68%) Docker
2 5 (1.06%) KVM
2 5 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.64%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.64%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 329 (69.85%) Terraform
2 183 (38.85%) Kubernetes
3 79 (16.77%) Ansible
4 53 (11.25%) Grafana
4 53 (11.25%) Prometheus
5 38 (8.07%) Progress Chef
6 27 (5.73%) Puppet
7 25 (5.31%) HP Fortify
8 19 (4.03%) Argo
9 6 (1.27%) Docker Swarm
9 6 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (1.06%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (1.06%) Istio
10 5 (1.06%) linkerd
10 5 (1.06%) Mesos
11 2 (0.42%) Rancher
11 2 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.21%) Consul
12 1 (0.21%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.21%) Packer
Vendors
1 37 (7.86%) Google
2 19 (4.03%) Microsoft
3 13 (2.76%) Oracle
4 11 (2.34%) Splunk
5 8 (1.70%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.49%) HubSpot
6 7 (1.49%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.27%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.06%) VMware
9 4 (0.85%) Avaya
9 4 (0.85%) Cisco
9 4 (0.85%) Databricks
9 4 (0.85%) Genesys
9 4 (0.85%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.42%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.42%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.42%) Tenable
11 1 (0.21%) LogicMonitor
11 1 (0.21%) OneLogin
11 1 (0.21%) ServiceNow