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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 462 537
Rank change year-on-year +80 +75 -180
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 520 222 256
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.45% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.88% 1.44% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 256 131 187
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £71,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.63% -5.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £98,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,991 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.84% +7.69% -7.14%

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 27,639 15,451 24,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.79% 31.57% 31.64%
Number of salaries quoted 18,715 10,447 15,298
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
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 22 September 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 22 September 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 +63 460 £75,411 +0.55% 408
UK excluding London +9 264 £71,991 +2.84% 224
London +45 227 £90,000 +11.46% 228
North of England +37 151 £72,500 +3.57% 77
Work from Home -55 109 £85,000 +13.33% 253
Yorkshire +26 91 £75,000 +7.14% 22
North West -17 44 £73,750 +20.41% 45
Wales -44 33 £72,246 +31.36% 9
South West -49 33 £67,500 -25.00% 23
Midlands -33 23 £62,000 +12.73% 30
South East -49 19 £70,000 -20.00% 45
North East - 17 £50,000 - 10
East Midlands -18 13 £52,500 - 14
West Midlands -47 10 £63,750 +15.91% 16
Scotland +7 3 £71,991 +49.98% 26
East of England -42 1 £90,000 +20.00% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £71,991 - 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 (3.65%) Apache
2 12 (2.31%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.73%) Confluence
4 5 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.58%) nginx
6 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.19%) JBoss
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.19%) SAS
7 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.19%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 4 (0.77%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.38%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 6 (1.15%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.58%) Summit
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 498 (95.77%) AWS
2 245 (47.12%) Serverless
3 188 (36.15%) AWS Lambda
4 144 (27.69%) Amazon ECS
5 143 (27.50%) Azure
6 135 (25.96%) Amazon S3
7 116 (22.31%) GCP
7 116 (22.31%) GitHub
8 89 (17.12%) GitHub Actions
9 81 (15.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 76 (14.62%) Amazon EC2
11 74 (14.23%) Amazon EKS
12 68 (13.08%) AWS Step Functions
13 52 (10.00%) Datadog
14 48 (9.23%) Cloud Computing
15 40 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 38 (7.31%) Amazon SQS
17 36 (6.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 33 (6.35%) OpenShift
19 29 (5.58%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.00%) Network Security
2 21 (4.04%) TCP/IP
3 13 (2.50%) VPN
4 10 (1.92%) Firewall
5 8 (1.54%) DNS
6 7 (1.35%) AMQP
7 6 (1.15%) HTTP
8 5 (0.96%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.38%) MQTT
10 1 (0.19%) 4G
10 1 (0.19%) 5G
10 1 (0.19%) DHCP
10 1 (0.19%) DNSSEC
10 1 (0.19%) Internet
10 1 (0.19%) PSTN
10 1 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.19%) SCCP
10 1 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (18.27%) NoSQL
2 86 (16.54%) DynamoDB
3 65 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
4 33 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
5 31 (5.96%) Amazon Athena
6 20 (3.85%) MongoDB
7 19 (3.65%) MySQL
8 11 (2.12%) Redis
9 10 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (1.73%) Big Data
10 9 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.73%) Hadoop
10 9 (1.73%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.35%) Cloudera CDH
12 6 (1.15%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.15%) Flink
12 6 (1.15%) Metadata
13 5 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (0.77%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 123 (23.65%) Jenkins
2 111 (21.35%) GitLab
3 87 (16.73%) Git
4 42 (8.08%) Cucumber
5 25 (4.81%) Cypress.io
5 25 (4.81%) Maven
6 23 (4.42%) SonarQube
7 11 (2.12%) Bitbucket
7 11 (2.12%) JIRA
8 10 (1.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (1.35%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.35%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.96%) Snyk
10 5 (0.96%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.77%) Gradle
11 4 (0.77%) Selenium
12 3 (0.58%) git-flow
12 3 (0.58%) JUnit
12 3 (0.58%) NUnit
12 3 (0.58%) Postman
General
1 139 (26.73%) Social Skills
2 136 (26.15%) Finance
3 73 (14.04%) Public Sector
4 54 (10.38%) Banking
5 35 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (3.65%) Financial Institution
7 17 (3.27%) Law
8 14 (2.69%) Aerospace
9 13 (2.50%) Legal
10 11 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.12%) Military
11 8 (1.54%) Retail
12 5 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.77%) Local Government
13 4 (0.77%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.58%) Automotive
14 3 (0.58%) Back Office
14 3 (0.58%) Marketing
14 3 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 132 (25.38%) Senior
2 106 (20.38%) Developer
3 89 (17.12%) Cloud Engineer
4 75 (14.42%) DevOps Engineer
5 68 (13.08%) Java Developer
6 53 (10.19%) AWS Engineer
7 49 (9.42%) Java Engineer
8 46 (8.85%) Lead
9 42 (8.08%) Consultant
10 33 (6.35%) Architect
10 33 (6.35%) Senior Consultant
11 28 (5.38%) Platform Engineer
11 28 (5.38%) Software Engineer
12 27 (5.19%) Full-Stack Developer
13 26 (5.00%) AWS Developer
14 24 (4.62%) Cloud Native Engineer
14 24 (4.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 24 (4.62%) Principal Engineer
15 23 (4.42%) Principal Java Engineer
15 23 (4.42%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 380 (73.08%) Terraform
2 124 (23.85%) Spring Boot
3 106 (20.38%) Spring
4 97 (18.65%) Node.js
5 88 (16.92%) Kafka
6 77 (14.81%) AngularJS
7 57 (10.96%) AWS CDK
8 43 (8.27%) React
8 43 (8.27%) RESTful
9 30 (5.77%) RabbitMQ
9 30 (5.77%) REST
10 26 (5.00%) Gherkin
11 25 (4.81%) Web Services
12 21 (4.04%) Jest
13 17 (3.27%) Hibernate
14 16 (3.08%) gRPC
14 16 (3.08%) JPA
15 15 (2.88%) JSON
16 14 (2.69%) YAML
17 13 (2.50%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 205 (39.42%) Cloud Native
2 95 (18.27%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (10.58%) Public Cloud
4 51 (9.81%) Onboarding
5 40 (7.69%) e-Learning
5 40 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
6 38 (7.31%) Enterprise Cloud
7 26 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 26 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
7 26 (5.00%) Mainframe
8 22 (4.23%) Data Centre
9 19 (3.65%) Virtual Team
10 17 (3.27%) Linux Command Line
11 14 (2.69%) Product Ownership
12 13 (2.50%) Blog
12 13 (2.50%) Distributed Computing
12 13 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (2.31%) Security Posture
14 9 (1.73%) Cloud Security Posture
15 8 (1.54%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 89 (17.12%) Linux
2 20 (3.85%) Windows
3 18 (3.46%) Unix
4 11 (2.12%) Ubuntu
5 10 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.73%) CentOS
7 7 (1.35%) Debian
8 6 (1.15%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.38%) Android
9 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.38%) VMS
10 1 (0.19%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (75.58%) Infrastructure as Code
2 344 (66.15%) CI/CD
3 284 (54.62%) DevOps
4 237 (45.58%) Agile
5 169 (32.50%) Containerisation
6 138 (26.54%) Mentoring
6 138 (26.54%) Software Engineering
7 128 (24.62%) Observability
8 123 (23.65%) Microservices
9 120 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 108 (20.77%) Event-Driven
11 104 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
12 99 (19.04%) Test Automation
13 93 (17.88%) Cloud Security
14 82 (15.77%) AI
15 81 (15.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 75 (14.42%) Migration
17 72 (13.85%) Platform Engineering
18 65 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 63 (12.12%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 239 (45.96%) Python
2 197 (37.88%) Java
3 99 (19.04%) SQL
4 88 (16.92%) Bash
5 85 (16.35%) TypeScript
6 48 (9.23%) Groovy
7 39 (7.50%) Kotlin
8 37 (7.12%) Go
8 37 (7.12%) JavaScript
9 36 (6.92%) PowerShell
10 31 (5.96%) Ruby
11 25 (4.81%) Bicep
12 18 (3.46%) C#
13 15 (2.88%) Perl
13 15 (2.88%) PHP
14 9 (1.73%) C++
15 6 (1.15%) COBOL
16 4 (0.77%) Google Apps Script
17 2 (0.38%) Shell Script
18 1 (0.19%) Natural
Qualifications
1 173 (33.27%) Security Cleared
2 134 (25.77%) AWS Certification
3 106 (20.38%) SC Cleared
4 86 (16.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 39 (7.50%) DV Cleared
6 35 (6.73%) Degree
7 17 (3.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 17 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (2.88%) ITIL Certification
9 11 (2.12%) Master's Degree
10 10 (1.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 10 (1.92%) TOGAF Certification
11 9 (1.73%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.96%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.77%) OCP
13 4 (0.77%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.38%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (6.92%) GDPR
2 16 (3.08%) QA
3 12 (2.31%) NIST
4 11 (2.12%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.12%) HIPAA
4 11 (2.12%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.73%) NCSC
6 8 (1.54%) Data Quality
7 6 (1.15%) Government Security Classifications
7 6 (1.15%) WCAG
8 5 (0.96%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.77%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.19%) SLA
System Software
1 218 (41.92%) Docker
2 5 (0.96%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.96%) KVM
2 5 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.58%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 198 (38.08%) Kubernetes
2 95 (18.27%) Ansible
3 56 (10.77%) Grafana
4 51 (9.81%) Progress Chef
4 51 (9.81%) Prometheus
5 36 (6.92%) Puppet
6 21 (4.04%) Argo
7 17 (3.27%) HP Fortify
8 8 (1.54%) Istio
9 6 (1.15%) Docker Swarm
9 6 (1.15%) linkerd
9 6 (1.15%) Mesos
9 6 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.77%) logstash
12 3 (0.58%) Rancher
13 2 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.19%) Fluentd
14 1 (0.19%) Kibana
14 1 (0.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 47 (9.04%) Google
2 20 (3.85%) Splunk
3 19 (3.65%) Microsoft
4 17 (3.27%) Oracle
4 17 (3.27%) Red Hat
5 9 (1.73%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.35%) HubSpot
6 7 (1.35%) SaltStack
7 6 (1.15%) AppDynamics
7 6 (1.15%) Databricks
7 6 (1.15%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.15%) VMware
8 5 (0.96%) Cisco
9 4 (0.77%) Avaya
9 4 (0.77%) Genesys
10 3 (0.58%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.58%) OutSystems
11 2 (0.38%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (0.38%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.38%) Tenable