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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 478 570
Rank change year-on-year +100 +92 -223
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 515 222 243
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.44% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.85% 1.39% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 266 130 186
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £50,507
25th Percentile £60,000 £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 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £99,000 £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 27,792 15,944 26,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.85% 31.95% 31.64%
Number of salaries quoted 18,451 10,976 18,640
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,250
25th Percentile £44,500 £40,000 £43,528
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
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 20 August 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 20 August 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 +83 461 £75,411 +0.55% 76
UK excluding London +46 258 £71,991 +2.84% 64
London +52 229 £90,000 +13.56% 27
North of England +75 150 £72,500 +3.57% 22
Work from Home -25 117 £75,823 +8.32% 40
Yorkshire +41 90 £75,000 +7.14% 5
North West +9 46 £72,500 +9.33% 9
South West -45 30 £67,500 -25.00% 19
Wales -40 27 £72,500 +20.83% 5
Midlands -11 24 £62,250 -4.23% 5
South East -37 19 £70,000 -18.84% 11
East Midlands -11 16 £52,500 - 1
North East -46 14 £50,000 -27.94% 8
West Midlands -28 8 £68,496 +5.38% 4
Scotland 0 5 £71,991 -1.38% 1
East of England -34 2 £82,500 +10.00% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £71,991 -

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 (3.69%) Apache
2 11 (2.14%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.75%) Confluence
4 7 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.58%) nginx
7 2 (0.39%) JBoss
8 1 (0.19%) Drupal
8 1 (0.19%) IIS
8 1 (0.19%) SAS
8 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.78%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.39%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.17%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.58%) Summit
3 1 (0.19%) Magento
3 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 495 (96.12%) AWS
2 258 (50.10%) Serverless
3 199 (38.64%) AWS Lambda
4 145 (28.16%) Amazon ECS
5 144 (27.96%) Amazon S3
6 136 (26.41%) Azure
7 112 (21.75%) GitHub
8 105 (20.39%) GCP
9 83 (16.12%) GitHub Actions
10 80 (15.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 76 (14.76%) Amazon EC2
12 75 (14.56%) Amazon EKS
13 73 (14.17%) AWS Step Functions
14 58 (11.26%) Datadog
15 51 (9.90%) Cloud Computing
16 41 (7.96%) Amazon SQS
17 40 (7.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 38 (7.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 30 (5.83%) Amazon EventBridge
19 30 (5.83%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.44%) Network Security
2 22 (4.27%) TCP/IP
3 13 (2.52%) VPN
4 11 (2.14%) DNS
4 11 (2.14%) Firewall
5 6 (1.17%) HTTP
6 5 (0.97%) AMQP
6 5 (0.97%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (0.78%) DSL
8 2 (0.39%) MQTT
9 1 (0.19%) 4G
9 1 (0.19%) 5G
9 1 (0.19%) DHCP
9 1 (0.19%) DNSSEC
9 1 (0.19%) Internet
9 1 (0.19%) PSTN
9 1 (0.19%) SCCP
9 1 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (17.67%) DynamoDB
2 87 (16.89%) NoSQL
3 67 (13.01%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (6.60%) Amazon Athena
5 25 (4.85%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (2.52%) MongoDB
7 12 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (2.33%) MySQL
8 10 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (1.55%) Big Data
9 8 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (1.55%) Redis
9 8 (1.55%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.36%) Flink
10 7 (1.36%) Hadoop
11 6 (1.17%) Data Lake
11 6 (1.17%) Metadata
11 6 (1.17%) SQL Server
12 5 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (0.97%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 130 (25.24%) Jenkins
2 121 (23.50%) GitLab
3 77 (14.95%) Git
4 36 (6.99%) Cucumber
5 26 (5.05%) Cypress.io
5 26 (5.05%) Maven
6 24 (4.66%) SonarQube
7 15 (2.91%) CircleCI
8 13 (2.52%) JIRA
9 12 (2.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 11 (2.14%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.36%) Claude Code
12 6 (1.17%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.97%) Selenium
13 5 (0.97%) Snyk
14 4 (0.78%) Gradle
15 3 (0.58%) git-flow
15 3 (0.58%) JUnit
15 3 (0.58%) NUnit
15 3 (0.58%) Postman
General
1 144 (27.96%) Social Skills
2 130 (25.24%) Finance
3 63 (12.23%) Public Sector
4 48 (9.32%) Banking
5 28 (5.44%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.91%) Financial Institution
6 15 (2.91%) Law
7 13 (2.52%) Legal
8 12 (2.33%) Aerospace
8 12 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.75%) Military
10 6 (1.17%) Retail
11 5 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.78%) Advertising
12 4 (0.78%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.78%) Local Government
12 4 (0.78%) Mandarin Language
12 4 (0.78%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.58%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 128 (24.85%) Senior
2 108 (20.97%) Developer
3 89 (17.28%) Cloud Engineer
4 78 (15.15%) DevOps Engineer
5 66 (12.82%) Java Developer
6 51 (9.90%) AWS Engineer
7 46 (8.93%) Lead
8 42 (8.16%) Consultant
9 40 (7.77%) Java Engineer
10 34 (6.60%) Architect
11 32 (6.21%) Senior Consultant
12 26 (5.05%) AWS Developer
12 26 (5.05%) Full-Stack Developer
12 26 (5.05%) Platform Engineer
13 25 (4.85%) Software Engineer
14 24 (4.66%) Senior Developer
15 22 (4.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 21 (4.08%) Cloud Native Engineer
17 20 (3.88%) Principal Engineer
18 19 (3.69%) Professional Services Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 375 (72.82%) Terraform
2 110 (21.36%) Spring Boot
3 91 (17.67%) Node.js
4 90 (17.48%) Spring
5 83 (16.12%) Kafka
6 75 (14.56%) AngularJS
7 64 (12.43%) AWS CDK
8 47 (9.13%) React
9 39 (7.57%) RESTful
10 29 (5.63%) REST
11 27 (5.24%) Gherkin
12 26 (5.05%) RabbitMQ
13 22 (4.27%) Web Services
14 21 (4.08%) Jest
15 17 (3.30%) gRPC
15 17 (3.30%) YAML
16 15 (2.91%) JSON
17 14 (2.72%) Elastic Stack
17 14 (2.72%) Next.js
18 13 (2.52%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 190 (36.89%) Cloud Native
2 80 (15.53%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (9.71%) Onboarding
4 46 (8.93%) Public Cloud
5 41 (7.96%) Enterprise Cloud
6 32 (6.21%) e-Learning
7 28 (5.44%) Enterprise Software
8 27 (5.24%) Hybrid Cloud
9 26 (5.05%) Legacy Systems
9 26 (5.05%) Mainframe
10 22 (4.27%) Data Centre
11 16 (3.11%) Security Posture
12 14 (2.72%) Linux Command Line
13 13 (2.52%) Blockchain
13 13 (2.52%) Blog
13 13 (2.52%) Cloud Security Posture
13 13 (2.52%) Distributed Computing
13 13 (2.52%) Web3
14 11 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
14 11 (2.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 84 (16.31%) Linux
2 22 (4.27%) Windows
3 14 (2.72%) Unix
4 11 (2.14%) Ubuntu
5 10 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.75%) CentOS
7 7 (1.36%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.97%) Debian
9 2 (0.39%) Android
9 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.39%) VMS
10 1 (0.19%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (74.56%) Infrastructure as Code
2 337 (65.44%) CI/CD
3 281 (54.56%) DevOps
4 218 (42.33%) Agile
5 170 (33.01%) Containerisation
6 136 (26.41%) Mentoring
7 126 (24.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 124 (24.08%) Software Engineering
9 120 (23.30%) Observability
10 111 (21.55%) Microservices
11 102 (19.81%) Cloud Security
12 97 (18.83%) Event-Driven
13 96 (18.64%) Test Automation
14 95 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
15 73 (14.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 72 (13.98%) Migration
16 72 (13.98%) Platform Engineering
17 71 (13.79%) AI
18 65 (12.62%) Collaborative Culture
19 60 (11.65%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 239 (46.41%) Python
2 185 (35.92%) Java
3 100 (19.42%) SQL
4 88 (17.09%) Bash
5 85 (16.50%) TypeScript
6 46 (8.93%) Groovy
7 44 (8.54%) Go
8 41 (7.96%) Kotlin
9 34 (6.60%) JavaScript
10 32 (6.21%) PowerShell
11 31 (6.02%) Ruby
12 24 (4.66%) Bicep
13 18 (3.50%) C#
14 16 (3.11%) PHP
15 15 (2.91%) Perl
16 9 (1.75%) C++
17 6 (1.17%) COBOL
18 5 (0.97%) Google Apps Script
19 4 (0.78%) Rust
20 2 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 167 (32.43%) Security Cleared
2 125 (24.27%) AWS Certification
3 101 (19.61%) SC Cleared
4 81 (15.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 42 (8.16%) Degree
6 31 (6.02%) DV Cleared
7 19 (3.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 17 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (2.91%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (2.33%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.94%) AWS Certified Developer
11 10 (1.94%) TOGAF Certification
12 8 (1.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (1.17%) Azure Certification
13 6 (1.17%) OSCP
14 4 (0.78%) OCP
14 4 (0.78%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (0.78%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
16 2 (0.39%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.38%) GDPR
2 16 (3.11%) NIST
3 15 (2.91%) PCI DSS
4 12 (2.33%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.14%) HIPAA
6 10 (1.94%) NCSC
6 10 (1.94%) QA
7 9 (1.75%) Data Quality
8 8 (1.55%) SOC 2
9 6 (1.17%) Government Security Classifications
9 6 (1.17%) WCAG
10 5 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.58%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.19%) HL7
12 1 (0.19%) SLA
12 1 (0.19%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 215 (41.75%) Docker
2 6 (1.17%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.97%) KVM
3 5 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.58%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 199 (38.64%) Kubernetes
2 97 (18.83%) Ansible
3 53 (10.29%) Grafana
4 47 (9.13%) Progress Chef
4 47 (9.13%) Prometheus
5 35 (6.80%) Puppet
6 19 (3.69%) Argo
7 18 (3.50%) HP Fortify
8 6 (1.17%) Istio
8 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.97%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.78%) linkerd
10 4 (0.78%) Mesos
11 2 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.39%) logstash
11 2 (0.39%) Rancher
12 1 (0.19%) Consul
12 1 (0.19%) Kibana
12 1 (0.19%) Packer
Vendors
1 44 (8.54%) Google
2 22 (4.27%) Microsoft
3 16 (3.11%) Oracle
4 15 (2.91%) Red Hat
5 13 (2.52%) Splunk
6 9 (1.75%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.36%) Databricks
7 7 (1.36%) HubSpot
8 6 (1.17%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.17%) VMware
9 5 (0.97%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.78%) AppDynamics
10 4 (0.78%) Avaya
10 4 (0.78%) Cisco
10 4 (0.78%) Genesys
11 3 (0.58%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.58%) OutSystems
12 2 (0.39%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.39%) Informatica
12 2 (0.39%) Tenable