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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 412 451 399
Rank change year-on-year +39 -52 -90
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 242 269 335
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.48% 0.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.17% 1.33% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 169 205 268
10th Percentile £52,300 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £78,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +7.59% -9.38%
75th Percentile £87,500 £112,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £97,750 £127,000 £116,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -13.33%

All Cloud 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 20,640 20,274 20,823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.85% 36.18% 42.89%
Number of salaries quoted 11,332 12,122 17,195
10th Percentile £28,750 £34,750 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £101,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 23 December 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS CloudFormation in the UK

AWS CloudFormation
Top 16 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 23 December 2025. 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 +39 196 £73,801 -7.75% 180
UK excluding London +51 124 £70,000 +7.69% 137
Work from Home +32 104 £72,500 -5.23% 115
London +7 87 £81,500 -18.50% 66
North of England +36 75 £70,000 +7.69% 38
Yorkshire +30 45 £70,000 +7.69% 25
North West +23 27 £66,250 +6.00% 10
Midlands +27 16 £51,500 -25.69% 21
West Midlands +43 14 £51,500 -25.69% 16
South East +20 12 £72,500 +16.00% 46
Wales +3 7 £68,958 -0.50% 4
Scotland +2 6 £73,801 +6.48% 4
South West +2 5 £67,500 +50.00% 16
Northern Ireland -4 5 £95,000 +37.07% 1
North East +4 3 £73,801 +6.48% 3
East Midlands -11 2 - - 5

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 12 (4.96%) Apache
2 8 (3.31%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.89%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.48%) Tomcat
4 6 (2.48%) WebSphere
4 6 (2.48%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.83%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.41%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 222 (91.74%) AWS
2 127 (52.48%) Azure
3 115 (47.52%) Serverless
4 108 (44.63%) AWS Lambda
5 81 (33.47%) Amazon S3
6 70 (28.93%) GCP
7 68 (28.10%) GitHub
8 66 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
9 64 (26.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 55 (22.73%) Amazon EKS
10 55 (22.73%) GitHub Actions
11 42 (17.36%) Amazon EC2
11 42 (17.36%) Amazon ECR
12 39 (16.12%) AWS Step Functions
13 37 (15.29%) Azure DevOps
14 33 (13.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 28 (11.57%) Amazon SQS
16 25 (10.33%) dbt
17 22 (9.09%) Pulumi
18 21 (8.68%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.26%) TCP/IP
2 10 (4.13%) Firewall
3 8 (3.31%) Network Security
3 8 (3.31%) VPN
4 6 (2.48%) SSL
5 4 (1.65%) LAN
5 4 (1.65%) WAN
6 3 (1.24%) AMQP
6 3 (1.24%) DNS
6 3 (1.24%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.83%) DHCP
7 2 (0.83%) DSL
8 1 (0.41%) HTTP
8 1 (0.41%) NAS
8 1 (0.41%) SAN
8 1 (0.41%) SNMP
8 1 (0.41%) VSAN
8 1 (0.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (21.90%) Amazon RDS
2 48 (19.83%) DynamoDB
3 44 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (13.64%) NoSQL
5 23 (9.50%) Elasticsearch
6 20 (8.26%) Redis
7 17 (7.02%) SQL Server
8 16 (6.61%) Amazon Redshift
8 16 (6.61%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (4.96%) Data Lake
10 10 (4.13%) MySQL
11 7 (2.89%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (2.48%) DB2
13 5 (2.07%) Big Data
14 4 (1.65%) MongoDB
15 3 (1.24%) Amazon Aurora
15 3 (1.24%) Apache Iceberg
15 3 (1.24%) Cloudera CDH
15 3 (1.24%) Data Vault
15 3 (1.24%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 82 (33.88%) Jenkins
2 67 (27.69%) GitLab
3 39 (16.12%) Git
4 22 (9.09%) SonarQube
5 16 (6.61%) Cypress.io
5 16 (6.61%) Maven
6 9 (3.72%) CircleCI
7 8 (3.31%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.07%) git-flow
9 4 (1.65%) JIRA
9 4 (1.65%) Robot Framework
9 4 (1.65%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.24%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.83%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.83%) JMeter
11 2 (0.83%) Selenium
11 2 (0.83%) TestRail
12 1 (0.41%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.41%) Subversion
General
1 66 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 40 (16.53%) Finance
3 20 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.61%) Banking
5 10 (4.13%) Law
6 8 (3.31%) Aerospace
6 8 (3.31%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.31%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.65%) Advertising
8 4 (1.65%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.24%) Electronics
9 3 (1.24%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.24%) Marketing
9 3 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.83%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.41%) Billing
11 1 (0.41%) Military
11 1 (0.41%) Publishing
11 1 (0.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 63 (26.03%) Senior
2 53 (21.90%) Cloud Engineer
3 39 (16.12%) DevOps Engineer
4 31 (12.81%) Developer
5 27 (11.16%) AWS Engineer
5 27 (11.16%) Lead
6 26 (10.74%) Platform Engineer
7 16 (6.61%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 15 (6.20%) AWS DevOps
9 14 (5.79%) Architect
9 14 (5.79%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 13 (5.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (4.96%) .NET Developer
11 12 (4.96%) AWS Developer
11 12 (4.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 11 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 10 (4.13%) Data Engineer
14 9 (3.72%) AWS Architect
14 9 (3.72%) Site Engineer
14 9 (3.72%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (14.88%) AWS CDK
2 26 (10.74%) Elastic Stack
3 25 (10.33%) React
4 23 (9.50%) Spring Boot
5 22 (9.09%) AngularJS
6 21 (8.68%) RESTful
7 20 (8.26%) Django
7 20 (8.26%) Node.js
8 19 (7.85%) .NET
9 16 (6.61%) Gherkin
9 16 (6.61%) Jest
10 15 (6.20%) Spring
11 14 (5.79%) .NET Core
11 14 (5.79%) ASP.NET
11 14 (5.79%) Kafka
12 13 (5.37%) ASP.NET Core
12 13 (5.37%) Blazor
13 10 (4.13%) RabbitMQ
14 9 (3.72%) ARM Templates
15 8 (3.31%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 63 (26.03%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (7.44%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.55%) Public Cloud
5 7 (2.89%) Security Posture
6 6 (2.48%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.07%) PKI
8 4 (1.65%) Cloud Security Posture
8 4 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.24%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.24%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.83%) Blockchain
10 2 (0.83%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 91 (37.60%) Linux
2 38 (15.70%) Unix
2 38 (15.70%) Windows
3 12 (4.96%) Ubuntu
4 11 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.89%) Debian
6 5 (2.07%) CentOS
7 3 (1.24%) VMS
8 2 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (79.34%) Infrastructure as Code
2 187 (77.27%) CI/CD
3 181 (74.79%) DevOps
4 89 (36.78%) Agile
5 74 (30.58%) Problem-Solving
6 68 (28.10%) Containerisation
7 54 (22.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 53 (21.90%) Observability
9 48 (19.83%) Microservices
10 47 (19.42%) Cloud Security
11 38 (15.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 36 (14.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 34 (14.05%) Platform Engineering
14 32 (13.22%) Disaster Recovery
15 28 (11.57%) Mentoring
15 28 (11.57%) Root Cause Analysis
16 26 (10.74%) Incident Response
17 25 (10.33%) Clean Code
18 24 (9.92%) Migration
19 23 (9.50%) AI
Programming Languages
1 136 (56.20%) Python
2 83 (34.30%) Bash
3 40 (16.53%) Java
3 40 (16.53%) PowerShell
3 40 (16.53%) SQL
4 38 (15.70%) TypeScript
5 21 (8.68%) JavaScript
6 20 (8.26%) Bicep
7 18 (7.44%) Go
8 16 (6.61%) Groovy
9 15 (6.20%) C#
10 4 (1.65%) C++
10 4 (1.65%) Google Apps Script
10 4 (1.65%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.83%) Rust
12 1 (0.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 77 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 74 (30.58%) AWS Certification
3 52 (21.49%) SC Cleared
4 23 (9.50%) DV Cleared
5 21 (8.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 20 (8.26%) AWS Certified Developer
7 18 (7.44%) Degree
8 16 (6.61%) Azure Certification
9 10 (4.13%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (2.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.65%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 2 (0.83%) CISA
14 2 (0.83%) CISM
14 2 (0.83%) CISSP
14 2 (0.83%) CRISC
14 2 (0.83%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.83%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.96%) QA
2 11 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.89%) GDPR
3 7 (2.89%) SLA
4 5 (2.07%) NIST
5 4 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.83%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.41%) Basel III
7 1 (0.41%) MiFID
7 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 127 (52.48%) Docker
2 7 (2.89%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (2.07%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.07%) KVM
3 5 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.83%) Terminal Server
4 2 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.41%) QEMU
5 1 (0.41%) vCloud
5 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 192 (79.34%) Terraform
2 104 (42.98%) Kubernetes
3 61 (25.21%) Ansible
4 53 (21.90%) Grafana
5 37 (15.29%) Prometheus
6 16 (6.61%) HP Fortify
7 13 (5.37%) Argo
8 12 (4.96%) AWS Copilot
9 6 (2.48%) Puppet
10 5 (2.07%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (2.07%) Istio
10 5 (2.07%) Kubeflow
10 5 (2.07%) linkerd
11 4 (1.65%) Mesos
11 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (1.24%) Rancher
13 2 (0.83%) Nessus
14 1 (0.41%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 34 (14.05%) Google
2 20 (8.26%) Microsoft
3 17 (7.02%) Splunk
4 9 (3.72%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.48%) IBM
5 6 (2.48%) VMware
6 5 (2.07%) LogicMonitor
6 5 (2.07%) SolarWinds
7 4 (1.65%) Foundry
7 4 (1.65%) PagerDuty
7 4 (1.65%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.24%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.24%) Citrix
8 3 (1.24%) Databricks
8 3 (1.24%) SAP
9 2 (0.83%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.83%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.83%) Oracle
9 2 (0.83%) Ping Identity
10 1 (0.41%) Qualys