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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 457 570
Rank change year-on-year +74 +113 -206
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 466 239 284
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.49% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.70% 1.50% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 240 139 225
10th Percentile £53,449 £51,200 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,188 £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 £91,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,625 £111,250 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £69,384 £66,250
% change year-on-year +4.49% +4.73% -5.36%

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 27,405 15,898 29,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.20% 32.36% 32.61%
Number of salaries quoted 17,887 11,069 21,791
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,497 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £79,225
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 +69 421 £80,000 +6.67% 121
UK excluding London +29 223 £72,500 +4.49% 96
London +56 221 £90,000 +14.65% 61
North of England +61 132 £75,000 +8.09% 34
Work from Home -33 106 £75,000 +8.09% 82
Yorkshire +35 82 £75,000 +5.63% 7
North West +9 43 £74,301 +8.46% 15
Midlands -19 27 £62,000 -4.62% 7
Wales -35 24 £72,500 +20.83% 7
East Midlands -14 18 £52,500 -
South East -49 17 £70,000 -17.65% 14
South West -54 16 £67,500 -25.00% 19
West Midlands -22 9 £62,500 -3.85% 7
North East -45 7 £50,000 -27.94% 12
Scotland +14 4 £71,991 +30.89% 7
East of England -25 2 £82,500 +10.00% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £73,801 - 6

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 (4.08%) Apache
2 10 (2.15%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.72%) Confluence
4 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.64%) JBoss
6 1 (0.21%) Drupal
6 1 (0.21%) IIS
6 1 (0.21%) nginx
6 1 (0.21%) SAS
6 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.86%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.43%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.29%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.64%) Summit
3 1 (0.21%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 448 (96.14%) AWS
2 240 (51.50%) Serverless
3 190 (40.77%) AWS Lambda
4 137 (29.40%) Amazon ECS
5 135 (28.97%) Amazon S3
6 118 (25.32%) Azure
7 96 (20.60%) GitHub
8 87 (18.67%) GCP
9 78 (16.74%) AWS Step Functions
10 73 (15.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 70 (15.02%) GitHub Actions
12 66 (14.16%) Amazon EKS
13 60 (12.88%) Amazon EC2
14 59 (12.66%) Cloud Computing
15 55 (11.80%) Datadog
16 47 (10.09%) Amazon SQS
17 37 (7.94%) Amazon ECR
18 36 (7.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 31 (6.65%) Apigee
20 30 (6.44%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.94%) Network Security
2 16 (3.43%) TCP/IP
2 16 (3.43%) VPN
3 13 (2.79%) Firewall
4 11 (2.36%) DNS
5 7 (1.50%) DSL
6 4 (0.86%) AMQP
6 4 (0.86%) HTTP
7 3 (0.64%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.43%) 4G
8 2 (0.43%) 5G
8 2 (0.43%) MQTT
9 1 (0.21%) DHCP
9 1 (0.21%) DNSSEC
9 1 (0.21%) Internet
9 1 (0.21%) PSTN
9 1 (0.21%) SCCP
9 1 (0.21%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (21.03%) DynamoDB
2 83 (17.81%) NoSQL
3 57 (12.23%) Amazon RDS
4 33 (7.08%) Amazon Athena
5 25 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (2.15%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (2.15%) MongoDB
8 9 (1.93%) MySQL
8 9 (1.93%) Redis
9 7 (1.50%) Big Data
10 6 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.29%) Flink
10 6 (1.29%) SQL Server
11 5 (1.07%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.07%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.86%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.86%) Apache Iceberg
12 4 (0.86%) Metadata
12 4 (0.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 138 (29.61%) Jenkins
2 132 (28.33%) GitLab
3 66 (14.16%) Git
4 34 (7.30%) Maven
5 32 (6.87%) Cucumber
5 32 (6.87%) Cypress.io
6 28 (6.01%) SonarQube
7 22 (4.72%) CircleCI
8 11 (2.36%) JIRA
9 10 (2.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 9 (1.93%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.50%) Claude Code
12 6 (1.29%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.86%) Gradle
13 4 (0.86%) Selenium
14 1 (0.21%) Gatling
14 1 (0.21%) git-flow
14 1 (0.21%) JMeter
14 1 (0.21%) JUnit
14 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 128 (27.47%) Social Skills
2 115 (24.68%) Finance
3 53 (11.37%) Public Sector
4 39 (8.37%) Banking
5 22 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.58%) Financial Institution
8 10 (2.15%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.72%) Law
10 7 (1.50%) Legal
11 6 (1.29%) Advertising
11 6 (1.29%) Military
12 5 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.07%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.86%) Mandarin Language
13 4 (0.86%) Retail
13 4 (0.86%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.64%) Automotive
14 3 (0.64%) Back Office
14 3 (0.64%) Games
Job Titles
1 112 (24.03%) Senior
2 111 (23.82%) Developer
3 75 (16.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 67 (14.38%) Java Developer
5 66 (14.16%) DevOps Engineer
6 44 (9.44%) AWS Engineer
7 42 (9.01%) Lead
8 40 (8.58%) Consultant
9 32 (6.87%) Java Engineer
9 32 (6.87%) Senior Consultant
10 29 (6.22%) Full-Stack Developer
11 28 (6.01%) Architect
11 28 (6.01%) Platform Engineer
12 25 (5.36%) Senior Developer
13 24 (5.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 23 (4.94%) AWS Developer
15 20 (4.29%) Principal Engineer
16 19 (4.08%) AWS DevOps
16 19 (4.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 19 (4.08%) Professional Services Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (23.18%) Spring Boot
2 82 (17.60%) Kafka
3 80 (17.17%) Spring
4 76 (16.31%) AngularJS
4 76 (16.31%) Node.js
5 60 (12.88%) AWS CDK
6 40 (8.58%) React
7 35 (7.51%) Gherkin
8 32 (6.87%) RESTful
9 27 (5.79%) Jest
9 27 (5.79%) REST
10 25 (5.36%) RabbitMQ
11 19 (4.08%) gRPC
11 19 (4.08%) Web Services
12 17 (3.65%) YAML
13 16 (3.43%) web3js
14 15 (3.22%) JSON
14 15 (3.22%) Next.js
15 13 (2.79%) Elastic Stack
15 13 (2.79%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 163 (34.98%) Cloud Native
2 63 (13.52%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (10.73%) Onboarding
4 41 (8.80%) Enterprise Cloud
4 41 (8.80%) Public Cloud
5 27 (5.79%) e-Learning
6 26 (5.58%) Enterprise Software
6 26 (5.58%) Mainframe
7 24 (5.15%) Legacy Systems
8 22 (4.72%) Data Centre
9 19 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (3.43%) Blockchain
10 16 (3.43%) Security Posture
10 16 (3.43%) Web3
11 15 (3.22%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (2.79%) Distributed Computing
13 12 (2.58%) Cloud Security Posture
13 12 (2.58%) Linux Command Line
14 10 (2.15%) Product Ownership
15 7 (1.50%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 71 (15.24%) Linux
2 19 (4.08%) Windows
3 10 (2.15%) Ubuntu
4 9 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (1.93%) Unix
5 8 (1.72%) CentOS
6 6 (1.29%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.86%) Debian
8 3 (0.64%) Android
8 3 (0.64%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.43%) VMS
10 1 (0.21%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (72.10%) Infrastructure as Code
2 298 (63.95%) CI/CD
3 237 (50.86%) DevOps
4 191 (40.99%) Agile
5 161 (34.55%) Containerisation
6 122 (26.18%) Mentoring
7 111 (23.82%) Observability
8 106 (22.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 99 (21.24%) Microservices
9 99 (21.24%) Software Engineering
10 88 (18.88%) Cloud Security
10 88 (18.88%) Event-Driven
11 86 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
12 85 (18.24%) Test Automation
13 70 (15.02%) Platform Engineering
14 67 (14.38%) AI
15 65 (13.95%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 61 (13.09%) DevSecOps
17 57 (12.23%) Continuous Integration
18 56 (12.02%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 215 (46.14%) Python
2 179 (38.41%) Java
3 92 (19.74%) SQL
4 86 (18.45%) TypeScript
5 83 (17.81%) Bash
6 51 (10.94%) Groovy
7 42 (9.01%) Go
8 34 (7.30%) Kotlin
9 30 (6.44%) JavaScript
9 30 (6.44%) PowerShell
10 27 (5.79%) Ruby
11 26 (5.58%) Bicep
12 16 (3.43%) PHP
13 15 (3.22%) Perl
14 13 (2.79%) C#
15 9 (1.93%) C++
16 7 (1.50%) Rust
17 6 (1.29%) COBOL
18 5 (1.07%) Google Apps Script
19 1 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 140 (30.04%) Security Cleared
2 115 (24.68%) AWS Certification
3 76 (16.31%) SC Cleared
4 73 (15.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 44 (9.44%) Degree
6 24 (5.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 24 (5.15%) DV Cleared
7 21 (4.51%) ITIL Certification
8 16 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (2.79%) Master's Degree
10 10 (2.15%) AWS Certified Developer
10 10 (2.15%) OSCP
11 9 (1.93%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (1.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (1.29%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.86%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.64%) CREST Certified
16 2 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
16 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
17 1 (0.21%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.15%) GDPR
2 20 (4.29%) PCI DSS
3 19 (4.08%) NIST
4 12 (2.58%) SOC 2
5 10 (2.15%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.15%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.72%) NCSC
6 8 (1.72%) QA
7 6 (1.29%) Government Security Classifications
7 6 (1.29%) WCAG
8 5 (1.07%) HIPAA
8 5 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.21%) HL7
9 1 (0.21%) SLA
9 1 (0.21%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 201 (43.13%) Docker
2 5 (1.07%) KVM
2 5 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.64%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.64%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 323 (69.31%) Terraform
2 180 (38.63%) Kubernetes
3 77 (16.52%) Ansible
4 53 (11.37%) Prometheus
5 52 (11.16%) Grafana
6 38 (8.15%) Progress Chef
7 27 (5.79%) Puppet
8 26 (5.58%) HP Fortify
9 18 (3.86%) Argo
10 6 (1.29%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.07%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (1.07%) Istio
11 5 (1.07%) linkerd
11 5 (1.07%) Mesos
12 2 (0.43%) Rancher
12 2 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.21%) Consul
13 1 (0.21%) Kibana
13 1 (0.21%) logstash
Vendors
1 36 (7.73%) Google
2 19 (4.08%) Microsoft
3 13 (2.79%) Oracle
4 11 (2.36%) Splunk
5 8 (1.72%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.50%) HubSpot
6 7 (1.50%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.29%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.07%) VMware
9 4 (0.86%) Avaya
9 4 (0.86%) Cisco
9 4 (0.86%) Databricks
9 4 (0.86%) Genesys
9 4 (0.86%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.43%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.43%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.43%) Tenable
11 1 (0.21%) LogicMonitor
11 1 (0.21%) OneLogin
11 1 (0.21%) ServiceNow