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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 451 473
Rank change year-on-year +63 +22 -160
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 298 264 362
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.52% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 1.41% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 189 197 298
10th Percentile £51,350 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £79,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +8.97% -9.38%
75th Percentile £87,500 £112,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £108,500 £122,500 £116,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.41% +3.85% -13.33%

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 21,756 18,671 28,580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.28% 36.83% 38.45%
Number of salaries quoted 11,773 11,030 23,744
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,000 £42,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 8 February 2026.

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 8 February 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 +55 246 £75,000 -6.25% 106
UK excluding London +57 144 £72,500 +7.41% 76
London +34 118 £85,000 -11.69% 48
Work from Home +41 112 £72,500 -8.23% 64
North of England +28 85 £72,500 +7.41% 25
Yorkshire +26 58 £72,500 - 11
North West +6 24 £73,801 +18.08% 13
Midlands +17 18 £50,000 -27.86% 11
West Midlands +27 16 £50,000 -27.86% 8
South East -2 15 £70,000 +16.67% 17
South West +8 9 £71,250 +29.55% 14
Wales +5 7 £68,958 +2.69% 3
Scotland -15 6 £73,801 +6.48% 5
Northern Ireland -20 6 £95,000 +37.07% 1
North East -9 3 £73,801 +6.48% 1
East Midlands -21 2 - - 3

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 16 (5.37%) Apache
2 9 (3.02%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.34%) Tomcat
4 4 (1.34%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.34%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.67%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.34%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 281 (94.30%) AWS
2 154 (51.68%) Serverless
3 142 (47.65%) AWS Lambda
4 141 (47.32%) Azure
5 99 (33.22%) Amazon S3
6 83 (27.85%) Amazon ECS
7 82 (27.52%) GitHub
8 79 (26.51%) GCP
9 77 (25.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 64 (21.48%) Amazon EKS
10 64 (21.48%) GitHub Actions
11 60 (20.13%) AWS Step Functions
12 48 (16.11%) Amazon ECR
13 42 (14.09%) Amazon EC2
14 36 (12.08%) Azure DevOps
15 34 (11.41%) Amazon SQS
16 29 (9.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 28 (9.40%) Datadog
17 28 (9.40%) Pulumi
18 27 (9.06%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.71%) TCP/IP
2 14 (4.70%) Firewall
3 12 (4.03%) VPN
4 8 (2.68%) DSL
5 7 (2.35%) Network Security
6 5 (1.68%) AMQP
6 5 (1.68%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (1.34%) SSL
8 3 (1.01%) SCCP
9 2 (0.67%) DHCP
9 2 (0.67%) DNS
9 2 (0.67%) LAN
9 2 (0.67%) WAN
10 1 (0.34%) HTTP
10 1 (0.34%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (23.83%) DynamoDB
2 59 (19.80%) Amazon RDS
3 54 (18.12%) NoSQL
4 43 (14.43%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (8.05%) Elasticsearch
6 20 (6.71%) Redis
7 15 (5.03%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (5.03%) SQL Server
8 14 (4.70%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (4.36%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (4.03%) MySQL
11 9 (3.02%) Data Lake
12 7 (2.35%) Big Data
13 6 (2.01%) MongoDB
14 5 (1.68%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (1.68%) Hadoop
15 4 (1.34%) DB2
16 2 (0.67%) Amazon Aurora
16 2 (0.67%) Data Vault
16 2 (0.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 108 (36.24%) Jenkins
2 99 (33.22%) GitLab
3 54 (18.12%) Git
4 32 (10.74%) SonarQube
5 25 (8.39%) Maven
6 24 (8.05%) Cypress.io
7 14 (4.70%) CircleCI
8 11 (3.69%) Bitbucket
9 7 (2.35%) Cucumber
10 6 (2.01%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.68%) git-flow
11 5 (1.68%) Robot Framework
12 4 (1.34%) JIRA
13 3 (1.01%) Eclipse
13 3 (1.01%) JMeter
14 2 (0.67%) Selenium
14 2 (0.67%) TestRail
15 1 (0.34%) Artifactory
15 1 (0.34%) Gradle
15 1 (0.34%) Subversion
General
1 84 (28.19%) Social Skills
2 57 (19.13%) Finance
3 21 (7.05%) Banking
4 15 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.69%) Aerospace
6 7 (2.35%) Advertising
6 7 (2.35%) Law
6 7 (2.35%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.35%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.34%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.34%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.34%) Retail
9 3 (1.01%) Aviation
9 3 (1.01%) Billing
9 3 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.67%) Electronics
10 2 (0.67%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.67%) Marketing
11 1 (0.34%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 70 (23.49%) Cloud Engineer
2 69 (23.15%) Senior
3 55 (18.46%) Developer
4 50 (16.78%) DevOps Engineer
5 36 (12.08%) AWS Engineer
6 30 (10.07%) Platform Engineer
7 27 (9.06%) Lead
8 24 (8.05%) Java Developer
9 18 (6.04%) Architect
9 18 (6.04%) AWS Developer
10 17 (5.70%) AWS DevOps
11 16 (5.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (5.37%) Security Engineer
11 16 (5.37%) Senior Developer
12 15 (5.03%) AWS Architect
12 15 (5.03%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 14 (4.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 14 (4.70%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 14 (4.70%) Senior Platform Engineer
14 13 (4.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (16.11%) AWS CDK
2 44 (14.77%) AngularJS
3 39 (13.09%) Spring Boot
4 38 (12.75%) Node.js
5 29 (9.73%) React
5 29 (9.73%) RESTful
6 26 (8.72%) Elastic Stack
7 25 (8.39%) Kafka
8 24 (8.05%) Gherkin
8 24 (8.05%) Jest
9 23 (7.72%) Spring
10 20 (6.71%) Django
11 18 (6.04%) .NET
11 18 (6.04%) RabbitMQ
12 13 (4.36%) .NET Core
12 13 (4.36%) ASP.NET
12 13 (4.36%) ASP.NET Core
12 13 (4.36%) Blazor
12 13 (4.36%) gRPC
12 13 (4.36%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 88 (29.53%) Cloud Native
2 25 (8.39%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (5.70%) Security Posture
4 16 (5.37%) Linux Command Line
4 16 (5.37%) Public Cloud
5 15 (5.03%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (3.02%) Cloud Security Posture
7 9 (3.02%) PKI
8 8 (2.68%) Blockchain
8 8 (2.68%) Web3
9 7 (2.35%) e-Learning
9 7 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.34%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.01%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (1.01%) Cyber Security Posture
12 3 (1.01%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 94 (31.54%) Linux
2 40 (13.42%) Windows
3 35 (11.74%) Unix
4 15 (5.03%) Ubuntu
5 12 (4.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.68%) CentOS
7 7 (2.35%) Debian
8 5 (1.68%) VMS
9 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (78.19%) Infrastructure as Code
2 227 (76.17%) CI/CD
3 219 (73.49%) DevOps
4 121 (40.60%) Agile
5 89 (29.87%) Problem-Solving
6 88 (29.53%) Containerisation
7 68 (22.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 63 (21.14%) Microservices
9 62 (20.81%) Cloud Security
10 60 (20.13%) Observability
11 42 (14.09%) Platform Engineering
12 41 (13.76%) DevSecOps
13 40 (13.42%) Mentoring
14 37 (12.42%) Continuous Integration
15 36 (12.08%) Incident Response
15 36 (12.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 36 (12.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 35 (11.74%) Software Engineering
17 34 (11.41%) Root Cause Analysis
18 33 (11.07%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 153 (51.34%) Python
2 86 (28.86%) Bash
3 71 (23.83%) Java
4 55 (18.46%) TypeScript
5 53 (17.79%) SQL
6 39 (13.09%) PowerShell
7 32 (10.74%) Go
8 29 (9.73%) JavaScript
9 24 (8.05%) Groovy
10 20 (6.71%) C#
11 19 (6.38%) Bicep
12 16 (5.37%) Kotlin
13 8 (2.68%) Rust
14 7 (2.35%) C++
15 6 (2.01%) Google Apps Script
16 1 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 92 (30.87%) Security Cleared
2 89 (29.87%) AWS Certification
3 54 (18.12%) SC Cleared
4 30 (10.07%) DV Cleared
5 27 (9.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 26 (8.72%) Degree
7 20 (6.71%) AWS Certified Developer
8 17 (5.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 16 (5.37%) Azure Certification
9 16 (5.37%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (2.68%) OSCP
12 7 (2.35%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 5 (1.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (1.01%) SnowPro
15 2 (0.67%) CISA
15 2 (0.67%) CISM
15 2 (0.67%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.37%) NIST
2 11 (3.69%) QA
3 10 (3.36%) GDPR
3 10 (3.36%) PCI DSS
4 9 (3.02%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.68%) SLA
7 4 (1.34%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.34%) Basel III
8 1 (0.34%) MiFID
System Software
1 159 (53.36%) Docker
2 7 (2.35%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.35%) KVM
3 6 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.34%) QEMU
5 1 (0.34%) vCloud
5 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 223 (74.83%) Terraform
2 130 (43.62%) Kubernetes
3 69 (23.15%) Ansible
4 56 (18.79%) Grafana
5 44 (14.77%) Prometheus
6 24 (8.05%) HP Fortify
7 14 (4.70%) Argo
8 12 (4.03%) AWS Copilot
9 8 (2.68%) Docker Swarm
10 7 (2.35%) Istio
10 7 (2.35%) linkerd
10 7 (2.35%) Mesos
10 7 (2.35%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (2.35%) Puppet
11 5 (1.68%) Kubeflow
12 4 (1.34%) Rancher
13 2 (0.67%) Nessus
14 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 39 (13.09%) Google
2 19 (6.38%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.37%) Splunk
4 9 (3.02%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.35%) VMware
6 6 (2.01%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.34%) IBM
7 4 (1.34%) PagerDuty
7 4 (1.34%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.01%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.01%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.01%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (1.01%) Oracle
8 3 (1.01%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.67%) Databricks
9 2 (0.67%) Foundry
9 2 (0.67%) Ping Identity
9 2 (0.67%) SAP
10 1 (0.34%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.34%) Qualys