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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 457 577
Rank change year-on-year +86 +120 -220
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 507 231 251
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.46% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.81% 1.45% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 261 137 193
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,000 £50,507
25th Percentile £62,500 £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 £96,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £101,750 £109,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £68,505 £67,500
% change year-on-year +5.83% +1.49% -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 27,968 15,935 26,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.35% 32.01% 32.05%
Number of salaries quoted 18,446 11,065 19,145
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £43,847 £40,000 £42,500
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 £54,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% -1.82%

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 11 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 11 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 +77 454 £80,000 +6.67% 208
UK excluding London +49 252 £72,500 +5.83% 131
London +65 229 £90,000 +12.50% 111
North of England +59 149 £75,000 +8.09% 41
Work from Home -30 121 £75,000 +8.09% 110
Yorkshire +42 90 £75,000 +5.63% 10
North West +9 48 £72,500 +9.33% 19
Wales -36 27 £72,500 +20.83% 10
South West -50 25 £67,500 -25.00% 37
Midlands -33 24 £62,250 -4.23% 10
South East -44 18 £70,000 -17.65% 15
East Midlands -9 16 £52,500 - 1
North East -48 11 £50,000 -27.94% 12
West Midlands -36 8 £68,496 +5.38% 9
Scotland +8 5 £71,991 +35.83% 12
East of England -43 2 £82,500 +10.00% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £72,896 - 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 19 (3.75%) Apache
2 11 (2.17%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.78%) Confluence
4 8 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.59%) JBoss
6 3 (0.59%) nginx
7 1 (0.20%) Drupal
7 1 (0.20%) IIS
7 1 (0.20%) SAS
7 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.79%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.39%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.18%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.59%) Summit
3 1 (0.20%) Magento
3 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 489 (96.45%) AWS
2 252 (49.70%) Serverless
3 195 (38.46%) AWS Lambda
4 148 (29.19%) Amazon ECS
5 141 (27.81%) Amazon S3
6 137 (27.02%) Azure
7 108 (21.30%) GitHub
8 106 (20.91%) GCP
9 79 (15.58%) GitHub Actions
10 76 (14.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 76 (14.99%) AWS Step Functions
11 71 (14.00%) Amazon EKS
12 70 (13.81%) Amazon EC2
13 57 (11.24%) Cloud Computing
14 55 (10.85%) Datadog
15 44 (8.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 44 (8.68%) Amazon SQS
16 37 (7.30%) Amazon ECR
17 33 (6.51%) PaaS
18 32 (6.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (5.33%) TCP/IP
2 26 (5.13%) Network Security
3 13 (2.56%) VPN
4 12 (2.37%) Firewall
5 11 (2.17%) DNS
6 5 (0.99%) DSL
6 5 (0.99%) HTTP
6 5 (0.99%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (0.79%) AMQP
8 2 (0.39%) 4G
8 2 (0.39%) 5G
8 2 (0.39%) MQTT
9 1 (0.20%) DHCP
9 1 (0.20%) DNSSEC
9 1 (0.20%) Internet
9 1 (0.20%) PSTN
9 1 (0.20%) SCCP
9 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (18.93%) DynamoDB
2 86 (16.96%) NoSQL
3 67 (13.21%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (6.71%) Amazon Athena
5 28 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (2.17%) MongoDB
7 11 (2.17%) Redis
8 10 (1.97%) MySQL
9 9 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (1.38%) Big Data
10 7 (1.38%) Flink
11 6 (1.18%) Hadoop
11 6 (1.18%) SQL Server
12 5 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (0.99%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.99%) Metadata
12 5 (0.99%) Relational Database
13 4 (0.79%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 136 (26.82%) Jenkins
2 127 (25.05%) GitLab
3 74 (14.60%) Git
4 36 (7.10%) Cucumber
5 31 (6.11%) Cypress.io
5 31 (6.11%) Maven
6 27 (5.33%) SonarQube
7 17 (3.35%) CircleCI
8 13 (2.56%) JIRA
9 12 (2.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 11 (2.17%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.38%) Claude Code
12 6 (1.18%) Selenium
12 6 (1.18%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.99%) Snyk
14 4 (0.79%) Gradle
15 3 (0.59%) git-flow
15 3 (0.59%) JUnit
15 3 (0.59%) NUnit
15 3 (0.59%) Postman
General
1 142 (28.01%) Social Skills
2 124 (24.46%) Finance
3 59 (11.64%) Public Sector
4 42 (8.28%) Banking
5 25 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.96%) Financial Institution
8 12 (2.37%) Law
9 11 (2.17%) Aerospace
9 11 (2.17%) Legal
10 9 (1.78%) Military
11 7 (1.38%) Retail
12 5 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.99%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.79%) Advertising
13 4 (0.79%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.79%) Mandarin Language
13 4 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.59%) Local Government
14 3 (0.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 129 (25.44%) Senior
2 111 (21.89%) Developer
3 81 (15.98%) Cloud Engineer
4 72 (14.20%) DevOps Engineer
5 68 (13.41%) Java Developer
6 48 (9.47%) AWS Engineer
7 46 (9.07%) Lead
8 41 (8.09%) Consultant
9 37 (7.30%) Java Engineer
10 32 (6.31%) Architect
10 32 (6.31%) Senior Consultant
11 30 (5.92%) Platform Engineer
12 26 (5.13%) AWS Developer
12 26 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
13 25 (4.93%) Senior Developer
14 22 (4.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 21 (4.14%) Software Engineer
16 20 (3.94%) Principal Engineer
17 19 (3.75%) AWS DevOps
17 19 (3.75%) Professional Services Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (21.70%) Spring Boot
2 85 (16.77%) Node.js
2 85 (16.77%) Spring
3 83 (16.37%) Kafka
4 77 (15.19%) AngularJS
5 64 (12.62%) AWS CDK
6 46 (9.07%) React
7 36 (7.10%) RESTful
8 32 (6.31%) Gherkin
9 28 (5.52%) REST
10 25 (4.93%) Jest
11 24 (4.73%) RabbitMQ
12 21 (4.14%) Web Services
13 17 (3.35%) gRPC
13 17 (3.35%) YAML
14 15 (2.96%) Elastic Stack
14 15 (2.96%) JSON
14 15 (2.96%) Next.js
15 14 (2.76%) web3js
16 13 (2.56%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 181 (35.70%) Cloud Native
2 78 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (9.86%) Onboarding
4 45 (8.88%) Public Cloud
5 41 (8.09%) Enterprise Cloud
6 31 (6.11%) e-Learning
7 27 (5.33%) Enterprise Software
8 26 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (5.13%) Mainframe
9 22 (4.34%) Data Centre
9 22 (4.34%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (3.16%) Security Posture
11 15 (2.96%) Linux Command Line
12 14 (2.76%) Blockchain
12 14 (2.76%) Web3
13 13 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
13 13 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
14 12 (2.37%) Cloud Security Posture
15 11 (2.17%) Blog
16 10 (1.97%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 88 (17.36%) Linux
2 21 (4.14%) Windows
3 19 (3.75%) Unix
4 10 (1.97%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.58%) CentOS
7 6 (1.18%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.79%) Debian
9 3 (0.59%) Android
9 3 (0.59%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.39%) VMS
11 1 (0.20%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (73.96%) Infrastructure as Code
2 332 (65.48%) CI/CD
3 271 (53.45%) DevOps
4 215 (42.41%) Agile
5 170 (33.53%) Containerisation
6 135 (26.63%) Mentoring
7 126 (24.85%) Observability
8 120 (23.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 115 (22.68%) Software Engineering
10 106 (20.91%) Microservices
11 99 (19.53%) Cloud Security
12 94 (18.54%) Event-Driven
13 93 (18.34%) Test Automation
14 89 (17.55%) Problem-Solving
15 75 (14.79%) Platform Engineering
16 70 (13.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 69 (13.61%) AI
17 69 (13.61%) Migration
18 65 (12.82%) Collaborative Culture
19 62 (12.23%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 234 (46.15%) Python
2 187 (36.88%) Java
3 96 (18.93%) SQL
4 86 (16.96%) Bash
4 86 (16.96%) TypeScript
5 50 (9.86%) Groovy
6 44 (8.68%) Go
7 38 (7.50%) Kotlin
8 34 (6.71%) JavaScript
9 30 (5.92%) PowerShell
9 30 (5.92%) Ruby
10 24 (4.73%) Bicep
11 16 (3.16%) C#
11 16 (3.16%) PHP
12 15 (2.96%) Perl
13 9 (1.78%) C++
14 6 (1.18%) COBOL
15 5 (0.99%) Google Apps Script
15 5 (0.99%) Rust
16 2 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 163 (32.15%) Security Cleared
2 123 (24.26%) AWS Certification
3 98 (19.33%) SC Cleared
4 77 (15.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 41 (8.09%) Degree
6 26 (5.13%) DV Cleared
7 22 (4.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 18 (3.55%) ITIL Certification
9 15 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (2.37%) Master's Degree
11 11 (2.17%) AWS Certified Developer
12 10 (1.97%) TOGAF Certification
13 8 (1.58%) OSCP
14 7 (1.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 6 (1.18%) Azure Certification
16 4 (0.79%) OCP
16 4 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
16 4 (0.79%) Postgraduate
17 3 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
17 3 (0.59%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.90%) GDPR
2 17 (3.35%) NIST
3 16 (3.16%) PCI DSS
4 11 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.97%) Data Quality
6 9 (1.78%) HIPAA
6 9 (1.78%) NCSC
6 9 (1.78%) QA
6 9 (1.78%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.18%) Government Security Classifications
7 6 (1.18%) WCAG
8 5 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.20%) HL7
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.20%) SLA
9 1 (0.20%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 214 (42.21%) Docker
2 5 (0.99%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.99%) KVM
2 5 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.59%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 363 (71.60%) Terraform
2 191 (37.67%) Kubernetes
3 89 (17.55%) Ansible
4 53 (10.45%) Grafana
5 48 (9.47%) Prometheus
6 43 (8.48%) Progress Chef
7 31 (6.11%) Puppet
8 23 (4.54%) HP Fortify
9 19 (3.75%) Argo
10 6 (1.18%) Istio
10 6 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.99%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.99%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.79%) linkerd
12 4 (0.79%) Mesos
13 2 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.39%) logstash
13 2 (0.39%) Rancher
14 1 (0.20%) Kibana
Vendors
1 47 (9.27%) Google
2 19 (3.75%) Microsoft
3 15 (2.96%) Oracle
4 13 (2.56%) Red Hat
5 12 (2.37%) Splunk
6 8 (1.58%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.38%) HubSpot
8 6 (1.18%) Salesforce
9 5 (0.99%) Databricks
9 5 (0.99%) VMware
10 4 (0.79%) Avaya
10 4 (0.79%) Cisco
10 4 (0.79%) Genesys
10 4 (0.79%) SaltStack
11 3 (0.59%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.39%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.39%) CrowdStrike
12 2 (0.39%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.39%) OutSystems
12 2 (0.39%) Tenable