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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 446 479
Rank change year-on-year +60 +33 -158
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 305 272 355
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.55% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 1.47% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 192 203 292
10th Percentile £51,600 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £78,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +7.59% -9.38%
75th Percentile £87,500 £112,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,250 £122,250 £116,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £66,250
% change year-on-year +7.41% +1.89% -11.67%

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 22,185 18,453 28,345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.35% 37.02% 38.41%
Number of salaries quoted 11,977 11,035 23,469
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,231 £41,875
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 12 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 12 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 +45 254 £75,000 -5.66% 111
UK excluding London +59 150 £72,500 +7.41% 81
London +11 120 £85,000 -12.82% 47
Work from Home +25 115 £72,500 -7.05% 67
North of England +28 88 £72,500 +7.41% 34
Yorkshire +23 61 £72,500 - 17
North West 0 24 £73,801 +18.08% 16
Midlands +1 20 £50,000 -27.86% 9
West Midlands +26 16 £50,000 -27.86% 8
South East +5 15 £70,000 +16.67% 18
South West -8 10 £71,250 +29.55% 13
Wales 0 7 £68,958 +2.69% 3
Scotland -15 6 £73,801 +6.48% 3
Northern Ireland -17 6 £95,000 +37.07% 1
East Midlands -19 4 £75,000 +15.38% 2
North East -11 3 £73,801 +6.48% 1

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 17 (5.57%) Apache
2 9 (2.95%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.31%) Tomcat
4 4 (1.31%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.31%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.66%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 288 (94.43%) AWS
2 160 (52.46%) Serverless
3 146 (47.87%) AWS Lambda
4 142 (46.56%) Azure
5 104 (34.10%) Amazon S3
6 87 (28.52%) Amazon ECS
7 84 (27.54%) GitHub
8 80 (26.23%) GCP
9 79 (25.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 65 (21.31%) GitHub Actions
11 64 (20.98%) Amazon EKS
12 63 (20.66%) AWS Step Functions
13 50 (16.39%) Amazon ECR
14 43 (14.10%) Amazon EC2
15 36 (11.80%) Azure DevOps
16 35 (11.48%) Amazon SQS
17 31 (10.16%) Datadog
18 30 (9.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 28 (9.18%) Pulumi
20 27 (8.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.56%) TCP/IP
2 15 (4.92%) Firewall
3 13 (4.26%) VPN
4 8 (2.62%) DSL
5 7 (2.30%) Network Security
6 5 (1.64%) AMQP
6 5 (1.64%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (1.31%) SSL
8 3 (0.98%) DNS
8 3 (0.98%) SCCP
9 2 (0.66%) DHCP
9 2 (0.66%) LAN
9 2 (0.66%) WAN
10 1 (0.33%) HTTP
10 1 (0.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (24.26%) DynamoDB
2 59 (19.34%) Amazon RDS
3 56 (18.36%) NoSQL
4 43 (14.10%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (7.87%) Elasticsearch
6 20 (6.56%) Redis
7 17 (5.57%) Amazon Athena
8 15 (4.92%) SQL Server
9 14 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (4.26%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (3.93%) MySQL
12 9 (2.95%) Data Lake
13 7 (2.30%) Big Data
14 6 (1.97%) MongoDB
15 5 (1.64%) Cloudera CDH
15 5 (1.64%) Hadoop
16 4 (1.31%) DB2
17 2 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
17 2 (0.66%) Data Vault
17 2 (0.66%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 112 (36.72%) Jenkins
2 102 (33.44%) GitLab
3 55 (18.03%) Git
4 34 (11.15%) SonarQube
5 27 (8.85%) Maven
6 26 (8.52%) Cypress.io
7 15 (4.92%) CircleCI
8 11 (3.61%) Bitbucket
9 7 (2.30%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.97%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.64%) git-flow
11 5 (1.64%) Robot Framework
12 4 (1.31%) JIRA
13 3 (0.98%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.98%) JMeter
14 2 (0.66%) Selenium
14 2 (0.66%) TestRail
15 1 (0.33%) Artifactory
15 1 (0.33%) Gradle
15 1 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 87 (28.52%) Social Skills
2 58 (19.02%) Finance
3 21 (6.89%) Banking
4 16 (5.25%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.61%) Aerospace
6 7 (2.30%) Advertising
6 7 (2.30%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.30%) Telecoms
7 6 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.97%) Law
8 4 (1.31%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.31%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.31%) Retail
9 3 (0.98%) Aviation
9 3 (0.98%) Billing
9 3 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.66%) Electronics
10 2 (0.66%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.66%) Marketing
11 1 (0.33%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 70 (22.95%) Cloud Engineer
2 69 (22.62%) Senior
3 59 (19.34%) Developer
4 52 (17.05%) DevOps Engineer
5 38 (12.46%) AWS Engineer
6 31 (10.16%) Platform Engineer
7 27 (8.85%) Java Developer
7 27 (8.85%) Lead
8 19 (6.23%) AWS DevOps
9 18 (5.90%) Architect
9 18 (5.90%) AWS Developer
9 18 (5.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 17 (5.57%) Senior Developer
11 16 (5.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 16 (5.25%) Security Engineer
12 15 (4.92%) AWS Architect
13 14 (4.59%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 14 (4.59%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 14 (4.59%) Senior Platform Engineer
14 13 (4.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (16.07%) AWS CDK
2 47 (15.41%) AngularJS
3 42 (13.77%) Spring Boot
4 39 (12.79%) Node.js
5 30 (9.84%) React
6 29 (9.51%) RESTful
7 27 (8.85%) Elastic Stack
8 26 (8.52%) Gherkin
8 26 (8.52%) Jest
8 26 (8.52%) Kafka
9 24 (7.87%) Spring
10 20 (6.56%) Django
11 19 (6.23%) .NET
12 18 (5.90%) RabbitMQ
13 13 (4.26%) .NET Core
13 13 (4.26%) ASP.NET
13 13 (4.26%) ASP.NET Core
13 13 (4.26%) Blazor
13 13 (4.26%) gRPC
13 13 (4.26%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 89 (29.18%) Cloud Native
2 25 (8.20%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (5.57%) Security Posture
4 16 (5.25%) Linux Command Line
4 16 (5.25%) Public Cloud
5 14 (4.59%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.95%) Cloud Security Posture
7 9 (2.95%) PKI
8 8 (2.62%) Blockchain
8 8 (2.62%) Web3
9 7 (2.30%) e-Learning
9 7 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.31%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.98%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (0.98%) Cyber Security Posture
12 3 (0.98%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.66%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 93 (30.49%) Linux
2 39 (12.79%) Windows
3 35 (11.48%) Unix
4 15 (4.92%) Ubuntu
5 12 (3.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.62%) CentOS
7 7 (2.30%) Debian
8 5 (1.64%) VMS
9 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (77.70%) Infrastructure as Code
2 232 (76.07%) CI/CD
3 224 (73.44%) DevOps
4 125 (40.98%) Agile
5 92 (30.16%) Containerisation
5 92 (30.16%) Problem-Solving
6 69 (22.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 63 (20.66%) Microservices
8 62 (20.33%) Cloud Security
8 62 (20.33%) Observability
9 43 (14.10%) Platform Engineering
10 42 (13.77%) DevSecOps
10 42 (13.77%) Mentoring
11 40 (13.11%) Continuous Integration
12 37 (12.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 36 (11.80%) Incident Response
13 36 (11.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 36 (11.80%) Software Engineering
14 35 (11.48%) Root Cause Analysis
15 33 (10.82%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 156 (51.15%) Python
2 90 (29.51%) Bash
3 76 (24.92%) Java
4 58 (19.02%) TypeScript
5 55 (18.03%) SQL
6 39 (12.79%) PowerShell
7 33 (10.82%) Go
8 29 (9.51%) JavaScript
9 26 (8.52%) Groovy
10 21 (6.89%) C#
11 19 (6.23%) Bicep
12 17 (5.57%) Kotlin
13 8 (2.62%) Rust
14 7 (2.30%) C++
15 6 (1.97%) Google Apps Script
16 1 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 92 (30.16%) Security Cleared
2 91 (29.84%) AWS Certification
3 53 (17.38%) SC Cleared
4 31 (10.16%) DV Cleared
5 28 (9.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 27 (8.85%) Degree
7 21 (6.89%) AWS Certified Developer
8 18 (5.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 17 (5.57%) ITIL Certification
10 16 (5.25%) Azure Certification
11 12 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (2.62%) OSCP
13 7 (2.30%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 5 (1.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
16 3 (0.98%) SnowPro
17 2 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
17 2 (0.66%) CISSP
17 2 (0.66%) CRISC
17 2 (0.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.25%) NIST
2 11 (3.61%) GDPR
2 11 (3.61%) PCI DSS
2 11 (3.61%) QA
3 8 (2.62%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.64%) SLA
5 5 (1.64%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.33%) Basel III
6 1 (0.33%) MiFID
System Software
1 164 (53.77%) Docker
2 7 (2.30%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.30%) KVM
3 6 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.33%) QEMU
5 1 (0.33%) vCloud
5 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 225 (73.77%) Terraform
2 131 (42.95%) Kubernetes
3 71 (23.28%) Ansible
4 59 (19.34%) Grafana
5 47 (15.41%) Prometheus
6 26 (8.52%) HP Fortify
7 15 (4.92%) Argo
8 12 (3.93%) AWS Copilot
9 9 (2.95%) Docker Swarm
10 8 (2.62%) Istio
10 8 (2.62%) linkerd
10 8 (2.62%) Mesos
11 7 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (2.30%) Puppet
12 4 (1.31%) Kubeflow
12 4 (1.31%) Rancher
13 2 (0.66%) Nessus
14 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 39 (12.79%) Google
2 20 (6.56%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.25%) Splunk
4 9 (2.95%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.30%) VMware
6 6 (1.97%) SaltStack
7 5 (1.64%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.31%) IBM
8 4 (1.31%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (1.31%) PagerDuty
9 3 (0.98%) AppDynamics
9 3 (0.98%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.98%) Oracle
9 3 (0.98%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.66%) Databricks
10 2 (0.66%) Foundry
10 2 (0.66%) Ping Identity
10 2 (0.66%) SAP
11 1 (0.33%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.33%) Refinitiv