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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 441 585
Rank change year-on-year +40 +144 -225
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 383 227 346
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.51% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.54% 1.53% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 213 125 279
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,600 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,677 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.90% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £114,500 £112,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £69,384 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.49% +2.79% -8.47%

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 24,947 14,861 35,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.94% 33.57% 33.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,062 10,210 27,316
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £43,500 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.16%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.96% -8.18%

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 June 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 June 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 +59 356 £80,000 +6.67% 111
UK excluding London +32 192 £72,500 +4.49% 78
London +30 172 £90,000 +9.09% 52
North of England +62 128 £75,000 +8.09% 25
Work from Home -16 106 £72,500 +7.21% 63
Yorkshire +42 89 £75,000 +2.04% 9
North West +33 37 £80,000 +14.79% 15
Midlands +6 32 £50,000 -31.03% 7
East Midlands -16 18 £52,500 -27.59% 4
West Midlands -13 14 £50,000 -38.51% 3
South West -57 9 £72,500 -14.71% 23
Wales -38 8 £73,151 +27.22% 2
South East -48 8 £70,000 +19.15% 16
Scotland +6 3 £76,783 +39.60% 2
East of England -31 2 £82,500 +10.00% 1
North East -40 2 £65,576 -5.49% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £84,401 - 2

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 18 (4.70%) Apache
2 11 (2.87%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.31%) Confluence
5 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.78%) JBoss
7 1 (0.26%) Drupal
7 1 (0.26%) IIS
7 1 (0.26%) nginx
7 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.26%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.26%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 369 (96.34%) AWS
2 206 (53.79%) Serverless
3 175 (45.69%) AWS Lambda
4 127 (33.16%) Amazon S3
5 110 (28.72%) Amazon ECS
6 94 (24.54%) Azure
7 89 (23.24%) AWS Step Functions
8 86 (22.45%) GitHub
9 79 (20.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 65 (16.97%) GitHub Actions
11 64 (16.71%) GCP
12 61 (15.93%) Datadog
13 52 (13.58%) Amazon EC2
14 49 (12.79%) Amazon EKS
15 44 (11.49%) Amazon SQS
16 39 (10.18%) Amazon ECR
17 38 (9.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 34 (8.88%) Apigee
19 22 (5.74%) OpenShift
19 22 (5.74%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.39%) DSL
2 12 (3.13%) Firewall
3 11 (2.87%) VPN
4 10 (2.61%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.83%) DNS
5 7 (1.83%) Network Security
6 5 (1.31%) AMQP
7 3 (0.78%) HTTP
7 3 (0.78%) SCCP
7 3 (0.78%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.52%) 4G
8 2 (0.52%) 5G
9 1 (0.26%) MQTT
9 1 (0.26%) PSTN
9 1 (0.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (27.94%) DynamoDB
2 81 (21.15%) NoSQL
3 52 (13.58%) Amazon RDS
4 35 (9.14%) Amazon Athena
5 17 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (2.09%) Big Data
7 8 (2.09%) Redis
8 6 (1.57%) Flink
8 6 (1.57%) Hadoop
8 6 (1.57%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.31%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (1.31%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.31%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.04%) Apache Iceberg
10 4 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.04%) MySQL
11 3 (0.78%) Metadata
12 2 (0.52%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 148 (38.64%) Jenkins
2 140 (36.55%) GitLab
3 61 (15.93%) Git
4 38 (9.92%) Maven
5 34 (8.88%) Cypress.io
6 31 (8.09%) SonarQube
7 26 (6.79%) CircleCI
7 26 (6.79%) Cucumber
8 9 (2.35%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (1.83%) JIRA
10 6 (1.57%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.31%) Claude Code
11 5 (1.31%) Gradle
12 3 (0.78%) Selenium
13 2 (0.52%) JMeter
14 1 (0.26%) Eclipse
14 1 (0.26%) MLflow
14 1 (0.26%) Robot Framework
14 1 (0.26%) Vagrant
General
1 109 (28.46%) Social Skills
2 82 (21.41%) Finance
3 36 (9.40%) Banking
4 14 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (3.66%) Public Sector
5 11 (2.87%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.61%) Advertising
7 9 (2.35%) Aerospace
7 9 (2.35%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.83%) Investment Banking
8 7 (1.83%) Retail
9 4 (1.04%) Billing
9 4 (1.04%) Legal
9 4 (1.04%) Mandarin Language
9 4 (1.04%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.78%) Aviation
10 3 (0.78%) Back Office
10 3 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.78%) Law
11 2 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 109 (28.46%) Developer
2 74 (19.32%) Cloud Engineer
3 72 (18.80%) Senior
4 68 (17.75%) Java Developer
5 58 (15.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 40 (10.44%) AWS Engineer
7 33 (8.62%) Senior Developer
8 29 (7.57%) Platform Engineer
9 26 (6.79%) AWS Developer
9 26 (6.79%) Java Engineer
10 25 (6.53%) Lead
11 21 (5.48%) Security Engineer
12 20 (5.22%) Architect
12 20 (5.22%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 20 (5.22%) Full-Stack Developer
12 20 (5.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 19 (4.96%) AWS DevOps
14 18 (4.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 18 (4.70%) Principal Engineer
14 18 (4.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (22.45%) Spring Boot
2 78 (20.37%) AngularJS
3 68 (17.75%) Kafka
3 68 (17.75%) Node.js
4 59 (15.40%) Spring
5 51 (13.32%) AWS CDK
6 38 (9.92%) React
7 36 (9.40%) Gherkin
8 30 (7.83%) Jest
8 30 (7.83%) RESTful
9 22 (5.74%) gRPC
9 22 (5.74%) RabbitMQ
10 20 (5.22%) REST
10 20 (5.22%) web3js
11 18 (4.70%) Next.js
11 18 (4.70%) YAML
12 15 (3.92%) JSON
13 12 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
13 12 (3.13%) PySpark
13 12 (3.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 120 (31.33%) Cloud Native
2 37 (9.66%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (8.88%) Public Cloud
4 22 (5.74%) Security Posture
5 21 (5.48%) e-Learning
5 21 (5.48%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (5.22%) Blockchain
6 20 (5.22%) Web3
7 15 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (3.66%) Cloud Security Posture
9 9 (2.35%) PKI
10 8 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (2.09%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (2.09%) Product Ownership
11 7 (1.83%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.31%) Mainframe
13 4 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.04%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 72 (18.80%) Linux
2 19 (4.96%) Windows
3 13 (3.39%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.61%) CentOS
6 5 (1.31%) Debian
6 5 (1.31%) Unix
6 5 (1.31%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.78%) Android
7 3 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.78%) VMS
8 1 (0.26%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (74.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 264 (68.93%) CI/CD
3 216 (56.40%) DevOps
4 152 (39.69%) Agile
5 128 (33.42%) Containerisation
6 84 (21.93%) Continuous Improvement
7 82 (21.41%) Microservices
8 81 (21.15%) Observability
9 79 (20.63%) Software Engineering
10 75 (19.58%) Mentoring
11 74 (19.32%) DevSecOps
12 71 (18.54%) Cloud Security
13 69 (18.02%) Test Automation
14 68 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
15 65 (16.97%) Continuous Integration
16 58 (15.14%) Event-Driven
16 58 (15.14%) Platform Engineering
17 45 (11.75%) Collaborative Culture
17 45 (11.75%) Full-Stack Development
18 42 (10.97%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 170 (44.39%) Python
2 148 (38.64%) Java
3 94 (24.54%) TypeScript
4 89 (23.24%) SQL
5 62 (16.19%) Bash
6 50 (13.05%) Groovy
7 48 (12.53%) Go
8 41 (10.70%) Kotlin
9 34 (8.88%) JavaScript
10 25 (6.53%) PowerShell
11 16 (4.18%) C#
12 15 (3.92%) Bicep
13 13 (3.39%) Rust
14 9 (2.35%) C++
15 6 (1.57%) Google Apps Script
15 6 (1.57%) Ruby
16 2 (0.52%) COBOL
16 2 (0.52%) PHP
17 1 (0.26%) Natural
17 1 (0.26%) Perl
Qualifications
1 88 (22.98%) Security Cleared
2 83 (21.67%) AWS Certification
3 54 (14.10%) SC Cleared
4 42 (10.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 34 (8.88%) Degree
6 26 (6.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 22 (5.74%) ITIL Certification
8 20 (5.22%) DV Cleared
9 16 (4.18%) OSCP
10 11 (2.87%) AWS Certified Developer
11 9 (2.35%) Azure Certification
11 9 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (1.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 7 (1.83%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 6 (1.57%) Master's Degree
14 4 (1.04%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.78%) CREST Certified
15 3 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
16 2 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
16 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.48%) NIST
2 17 (4.44%) PCI DSS
3 15 (3.92%) GDPR
4 11 (2.87%) SOC 2
5 7 (1.83%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.04%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.78%) NCSC
9 2 (0.52%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.52%) WCAG
10 1 (0.26%) HL7
10 1 (0.26%) QA
10 1 (0.26%) SLA
10 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 176 (45.95%) Docker
2 6 (1.57%) KVM
2 6 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 256 (66.84%) Terraform
2 148 (38.64%) Kubernetes
3 64 (16.71%) Ansible
4 44 (11.49%) Prometheus
5 39 (10.18%) Grafana
6 29 (7.57%) HP Fortify
7 14 (3.66%) Argo
7 14 (3.66%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.09%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (1.83%) Puppet
10 6 (1.57%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (1.31%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (1.31%) Istio
11 5 (1.31%) linkerd
11 5 (1.31%) Mesos
12 3 (0.78%) Rancher
13 2 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.26%) Consul
14 1 (0.26%) Packer
Vendors
1 29 (7.57%) Google
2 14 (3.66%) Microsoft
3 9 (2.35%) Oracle
4 7 (1.83%) HubSpot
5 6 (1.57%) Red Hat
5 6 (1.57%) VMware
6 5 (1.31%) SaltStack
6 5 (1.31%) Splunk
7 4 (1.04%) Databricks
7 4 (1.04%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.04%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.26%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.26%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.26%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.26%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.26%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (0.26%) OneLogin
8 1 (0.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.26%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.26%) TOWER Software