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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 467 574
Rank change year-on-year +90 +107 -216
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 510 229 251
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.46% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.83% 1.43% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 264 135 193
10th Percentile £49,500 £52,500 £50,507
25th Percentile £61,762 £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 £102,000 £109,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £69,384 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.49% +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 27,829 15,967 26,752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.25% 32.07% 32.02%
Number of salaries quoted 18,416 11,057 19,133
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £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 12 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 12 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 +93 457 £80,000 +6.67% 344
UK excluding London +37 253 £72,500 +4.49% 199
London +55 231 £90,000 +12.50% 190
North of England +54 148 £75,000 +8.09% 67
Work from Home -20 122 £75,000 +8.09% 175
Yorkshire +47 89 £75,000 +5.63% 15
North West +5 48 £72,500 +7.21% 35
Wales -33 27 £72,500 +20.83% 10
South West -39 27 £67,500 -25.00% 50
Midlands -5 24 £62,250 -4.23% 23
South East -37 18 £70,000 -17.65% 20
East Midlands -5 16 £52,500 - 7
North East -46 11 £50,000 -27.94% 17
West Midlands -21 8 £68,496 +5.38% 16
Scotland +12 5 £71,991 +41.16% 18
East of England -45 2 £82,500 +10.00% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £72,896 - 9

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 (3.73%) Apache
2 11 (2.16%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.76%) Confluence
4 8 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.78%) 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 (0.78%) 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
1 491 (96.27%) AWS
2 250 (49.02%) Serverless
3 193 (37.84%) AWS Lambda
4 147 (28.82%) Amazon ECS
5 139 (27.25%) Amazon S3
6 138 (27.06%) Azure
7 109 (21.37%) GitHub
8 107 (20.98%) GCP
9 81 (15.88%) GitHub Actions
10 76 (14.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 74 (14.51%) AWS Step Functions
12 71 (13.92%) Amazon EC2
12 71 (13.92%) Amazon EKS
13 57 (11.18%) Cloud Computing
13 57 (11.18%) Datadog
14 44 (8.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 43 (8.43%) Amazon SQS
16 35 (6.86%) Amazon ECR
17 33 (6.47%) PaaS
18 32 (6.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.49%) TCP/IP
2 26 (5.10%) Network Security
3 13 (2.55%) VPN
4 12 (2.35%) DNS
4 12 (2.35%) Firewall
5 6 (1.18%) HTTP
6 5 (0.98%) DSL
6 5 (0.98%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (0.78%) 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 94 (18.43%) DynamoDB
2 86 (16.86%) NoSQL
3 67 (13.14%) Amazon RDS
4 33 (6.47%) Amazon Athena
5 28 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (2.35%) Redis
8 11 (2.16%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (2.16%) MongoDB
9 10 (1.96%) MySQL
10 9 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.37%) Big Data
11 7 (1.37%) Flink
12 6 (1.18%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.18%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.18%) SQL Server
13 5 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (0.98%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.98%) Metadata
14 4 (0.78%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 134 (26.27%) Jenkins
2 125 (24.51%) GitLab
3 74 (14.51%) Git
4 36 (7.06%) Cucumber
5 29 (5.69%) Cypress.io
5 29 (5.69%) Maven
6 25 (4.90%) SonarQube
7 17 (3.33%) CircleCI
8 13 (2.55%) JIRA
9 12 (2.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 11 (2.16%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.37%) Claude Code
12 6 (1.18%) Selenium
12 6 (1.18%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.98%) Snyk
14 4 (0.78%) Gradle
15 3 (0.59%) git-flow
15 3 (0.59%) JUnit
15 3 (0.59%) NUnit
15 3 (0.59%) Postman
General
1 143 (28.04%) Social Skills
2 126 (24.71%) Finance
3 60 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 44 (8.63%) Banking
5 25 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.94%) Financial Institution
8 12 (2.35%) Law
8 12 (2.35%) Legal
9 11 (2.16%) Aerospace
10 9 (1.76%) Military
11 7 (1.37%) Retail
12 5 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.98%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.78%) Advertising
13 4 (0.78%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.78%) Mandarin Language
13 4 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.59%) Local Government
14 3 (0.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 130 (25.49%) Senior
2 109 (21.37%) Developer
3 83 (16.27%) Cloud Engineer
4 73 (14.31%) DevOps Engineer
5 66 (12.94%) Java Developer
6 49 (9.61%) AWS Engineer
7 46 (9.02%) Lead
8 41 (8.04%) Consultant
9 38 (7.45%) Java Engineer
10 32 (6.27%) Architect
10 32 (6.27%) Senior Consultant
11 31 (6.08%) Platform Engineer
12 26 (5.10%) AWS Developer
12 26 (5.10%) Full-Stack Developer
13 25 (4.90%) Senior Developer
14 22 (4.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 22 (4.31%) Software Engineer
15 20 (3.92%) Principal Engineer
16 19 (3.73%) AWS DevOps
16 19 (3.73%) Professional Services Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (21.18%) Spring Boot
2 86 (16.86%) Node.js
3 85 (16.67%) Spring
4 83 (16.27%) Kafka
5 75 (14.71%) AngularJS
6 65 (12.75%) AWS CDK
7 47 (9.22%) React
8 37 (7.25%) RESTful
9 30 (5.88%) Gherkin
10 28 (5.49%) REST
11 24 (4.71%) RabbitMQ
12 23 (4.51%) Jest
13 22 (4.31%) Web Services
14 17 (3.33%) gRPC
14 17 (3.33%) YAML
15 16 (3.14%) Next.js
16 15 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
16 15 (2.94%) JSON
17 14 (2.75%) web3js
18 13 (2.55%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 184 (36.08%) Cloud Native
2 78 (15.29%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (9.80%) Onboarding
4 45 (8.82%) Public Cloud
5 41 (8.04%) Enterprise Cloud
6 31 (6.08%) e-Learning
7 27 (5.29%) Enterprise Software
8 26 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (5.10%) Mainframe
9 22 (4.31%) Data Centre
9 22 (4.31%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (3.14%) Security Posture
11 15 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
12 14 (2.75%) Blockchain
12 14 (2.75%) Web3
13 13 (2.55%) Distributed Computing
13 13 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
14 12 (2.35%) Blog
14 12 (2.35%) Cloud Security Posture
15 10 (1.96%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 89 (17.45%) Linux
2 21 (4.12%) Windows
3 19 (3.73%) Unix
4 10 (1.96%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.57%) CentOS
7 6 (1.18%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.78%) Debian
9 3 (0.59%) Android
9 3 (0.59%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.39%) VMS
11 1 (0.20%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (74.31%) Infrastructure as Code
2 333 (65.29%) CI/CD
3 272 (53.33%) DevOps
4 215 (42.16%) Agile
5 171 (33.53%) Containerisation
6 136 (26.67%) Mentoring
7 126 (24.71%) Observability
8 120 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 119 (23.33%) Software Engineering
10 108 (21.18%) Microservices
11 100 (19.61%) Cloud Security
12 95 (18.63%) Event-Driven
13 93 (18.24%) Test Automation
14 89 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
15 76 (14.90%) Platform Engineering
16 71 (13.92%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 69 (13.53%) AI
17 69 (13.53%) Migration
18 65 (12.75%) Collaborative Culture
19 61 (11.96%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 238 (46.67%) Python
2 186 (36.47%) Java
3 97 (19.02%) SQL
4 86 (16.86%) Bash
4 86 (16.86%) TypeScript
5 49 (9.61%) Groovy
6 47 (9.22%) Go
7 39 (7.65%) Kotlin
8 35 (6.86%) JavaScript
9 30 (5.88%) PowerShell
9 30 (5.88%) Ruby
10 24 (4.71%) Bicep
11 17 (3.33%) C#
12 16 (3.14%) PHP
13 15 (2.94%) Perl
14 9 (1.76%) C++
15 6 (1.18%) COBOL
16 5 (0.98%) Google Apps Script
16 5 (0.98%) Rust
17 2 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 166 (32.55%) Security Cleared
2 123 (24.12%) AWS Certification
3 101 (19.80%) SC Cleared
4 77 (15.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 42 (8.24%) Degree
6 27 (5.29%) DV Cleared
7 21 (4.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 17 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (2.35%) Master's Degree
11 11 (2.16%) AWS Certified Developer
12 10 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
13 8 (1.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (1.57%) OSCP
14 6 (1.18%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.78%) OCP
15 4 (0.78%) Oracle Certification
15 4 (0.78%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
16 3 (0.59%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (7.06%) GDPR
2 17 (3.33%) NIST
3 16 (3.14%) PCI DSS
4 11 (2.16%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.96%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.96%) NCSC
6 9 (1.76%) HIPAA
6 9 (1.76%) QA
6 9 (1.76%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.18%) Government Security Classifications
7 6 (1.18%) WCAG
8 5 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.39%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.20%) HL7
10 1 (0.20%) SLA
10 1 (0.20%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 215 (42.16%) Docker
2 5 (0.98%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.98%) KVM
2 5 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.59%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 368 (72.16%) Terraform
2 194 (38.04%) Kubernetes
3 90 (17.65%) Ansible
4 53 (10.39%) Grafana
5 48 (9.41%) Prometheus
6 45 (8.82%) Progress Chef
7 32 (6.27%) Puppet
8 21 (4.12%) HP Fortify
9 19 (3.73%) Argo
10 6 (1.18%) Istio
10 6 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.98%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.98%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.78%) linkerd
12 4 (0.78%) 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 (9.22%) Google
2 19 (3.73%) Microsoft
3 15 (2.94%) Oracle
4 13 (2.55%) Red Hat
5 12 (2.35%) Splunk
6 8 (1.57%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.37%) HubSpot
8 6 (1.18%) Salesforce
9 5 (0.98%) Databricks
9 5 (0.98%) VMware
10 4 (0.78%) Avaya
10 4 (0.78%) Cisco
10 4 (0.78%) Genesys
10 4 (0.78%) SaltStack
11 3 (0.59%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.59%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.39%) CrowdStrike
12 2 (0.39%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.39%) OutSystems
12 2 (0.39%) Tenable