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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 414 501
Rank change year-on-year +27 +87 -166
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 321 274 340
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.60% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 1.61% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 199 204 271
10th Percentile £54,500 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,250 £62,500 £61,410
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £78,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £87,500 £113,125 £97,500
90th Percentile £103,000 £122,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £67,563 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.31% +0.09% -10.00%

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 23,515 17,043 29,913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.75% 37.28% 38.09%
Number of salaries quoted 12,639 10,876 24,338
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,539
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 5 March 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 5 March 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 +18 271 £75,000 -7.69% 119
UK excluding London +36 163 £72,500 +7.31% 71
London +14 128 £82,500 -15.38% 62
Work from Home +16 115 £72,500 - 73
North of England +19 97 £72,500 +4.69% 31
Yorkshire +25 68 £72,500 - 10
North West -22 25 £74,301 +10.08% 15
Midlands +6 22 £50,000 -26.97% 6
West Midlands +12 15 £50,000 -27.86% 4
South East -31 14 £70,000 +16.67% 13
South West -13 10 £71,250 +29.55% 15
Wales -7 8 £71,379 +5.55% 3
Scotland -16 7 £73,801 +6.48% 1
East Midlands -25 7 £75,000 +15.38% 2
Northern Ireland -30 7 £95,000 +37.07% 1
North East -20 4 £73,801 +6.37% 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 18 (5.61%) Apache
2 10 (3.12%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.25%) Tomcat
4 4 (1.25%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.25%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.62%) JBoss
5 2 (0.62%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.31%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 305 (95.02%) AWS
2 179 (55.76%) Serverless
3 161 (50.16%) AWS Lambda
4 142 (44.24%) Azure
5 117 (36.45%) Amazon S3
6 101 (31.46%) Amazon ECS
7 87 (27.10%) GCP
8 83 (25.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 82 (25.55%) GitHub
10 75 (23.36%) AWS Step Functions
11 62 (19.31%) Amazon EKS
11 62 (19.31%) GitHub Actions
12 60 (18.69%) Amazon ECR
13 42 (13.08%) Amazon EC2
14 38 (11.84%) Amazon SQS
15 37 (11.53%) Pulumi
16 35 (10.90%) Datadog
17 34 (10.59%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 31 (9.66%) Apigee
19 30 (9.35%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.10%) TCP/IP
2 14 (4.36%) Firewall
3 13 (4.05%) VPN
4 12 (3.74%) DSL
5 5 (1.56%) AMQP
5 5 (1.56%) Network Security
5 5 (1.56%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (1.25%) DNS
6 4 (1.25%) SSL
7 3 (0.93%) SCCP
8 2 (0.62%) DHCP
8 2 (0.62%) LAN
8 2 (0.62%) WAN
9 1 (0.31%) 4G
9 1 (0.31%) 5G
9 1 (0.31%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (26.79%) DynamoDB
2 66 (20.56%) Amazon RDS
3 64 (19.94%) NoSQL
4 49 (15.26%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (9.03%) Elasticsearch
6 25 (7.79%) Redis
7 22 (6.85%) Amazon Athena
8 16 (4.98%) SQL Server
9 14 (4.36%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (3.74%) MySQL
11 11 (3.43%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (2.49%) Data Lake
13 7 (2.18%) Big Data
14 6 (1.87%) MongoDB
15 5 (1.56%) Cloudera CDH
15 5 (1.56%) Hadoop
16 4 (1.25%) DB2
17 3 (0.93%) Apache Iceberg
17 3 (0.93%) Metadata
18 2 (0.62%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 120 (37.38%) Jenkins
2 117 (36.45%) GitLab
3 56 (17.45%) Git
4 39 (12.15%) SonarQube
5 32 (9.97%) Maven
6 31 (9.66%) Cypress.io
7 19 (5.92%) CircleCI
8 11 (3.43%) Bitbucket
9 10 (3.12%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.87%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.56%) git-flow
11 5 (1.56%) JIRA
11 5 (1.56%) Robot Framework
12 4 (1.25%) Selenium
13 3 (0.93%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.93%) JMeter
14 2 (0.62%) TestRail
15 1 (0.31%) Gradle
15 1 (0.31%) Subversion
General
1 97 (30.22%) Social Skills
2 61 (19.00%) Finance
3 25 (7.79%) Banking
4 20 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (3.43%) Aerospace
7 8 (2.49%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.18%) Public Sector
9 6 (1.87%) Advertising
10 5 (1.56%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.56%) Law
10 5 (1.56%) Retail
11 4 (1.25%) Billing
11 4 (1.25%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.93%) Aviation
13 2 (0.62%) Electronics
13 2 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.62%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.62%) Marketing
14 1 (0.31%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 73 (22.74%) Developer
2 70 (21.81%) Senior
3 69 (21.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 52 (16.20%) DevOps Engineer
5 39 (12.15%) AWS Engineer
6 37 (11.53%) Java Developer
7 35 (10.90%) Platform Engineer
8 27 (8.41%) Lead
9 22 (6.85%) AWS Developer
10 21 (6.54%) Senior Developer
11 20 (6.23%) Architect
12 19 (5.92%) AWS DevOps
12 19 (5.92%) Security Engineer
12 19 (5.92%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 18 (5.61%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 18 (5.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 17 (5.30%) AWS Architect
15 16 (4.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 13 (4.05%) .NET Developer
16 13 (4.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (17.45%) AWS CDK
2 55 (17.13%) AngularJS
3 50 (15.58%) Spring Boot
4 45 (14.02%) Node.js
5 36 (11.21%) React
6 32 (9.97%) Kafka
7 31 (9.66%) Gherkin
7 31 (9.66%) Jest
8 30 (9.35%) RESTful
9 29 (9.03%) Elastic Stack
10 27 (8.41%) Spring
11 25 (7.79%) Django
12 20 (6.23%) RabbitMQ
13 19 (5.92%) .NET
14 15 (4.67%) gRPC
15 14 (4.36%) REST
16 13 (4.05%) .NET Core
16 13 (4.05%) ASP.NET
16 13 (4.05%) ASP.NET Core
16 13 (4.05%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 96 (29.91%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.41%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (6.85%) Security Posture
4 21 (6.54%) Linux Command Line
5 17 (5.30%) Public Cloud
6 15 (4.67%) Product Ownership
7 13 (4.05%) Cloud Security Posture
8 11 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (3.12%) Blockchain
9 10 (3.12%) Web3
10 9 (2.80%) PKI
11 8 (2.49%) e-Learning
12 5 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
14 3 (0.93%) Cyber Security Posture
14 3 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
15 2 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 91 (28.35%) Linux
2 40 (12.46%) Unix
3 33 (10.28%) Windows
4 14 (4.36%) Ubuntu
5 12 (3.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.49%) CentOS
7 6 (1.87%) Debian
8 5 (1.56%) VMS
9 1 (0.31%) Android
9 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (76.95%) Infrastructure as Code
2 246 (76.64%) CI/CD
3 237 (73.83%) DevOps
4 136 (42.37%) Agile
5 100 (31.15%) Containerisation
6 99 (30.84%) Problem-Solving
7 71 (22.12%) Continuous Improvement
8 67 (20.87%) Observability
9 66 (20.56%) Microservices
10 64 (19.94%) Cloud Security
11 54 (16.82%) DevSecOps
12 49 (15.26%) Continuous Integration
13 48 (14.95%) Mentoring
14 45 (14.02%) Platform Engineering
15 43 (13.40%) Incident Response
16 40 (12.46%) Clean Code
17 39 (12.15%) Software Engineering
18 37 (11.53%) Test Automation
19 35 (10.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 34 (10.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 160 (49.84%) Python
2 91 (28.35%) Java
3 88 (27.41%) Bash
4 66 (20.56%) TypeScript
5 60 (18.69%) SQL
6 39 (12.15%) Go
7 33 (10.28%) PowerShell
8 31 (9.66%) Groovy
8 31 (9.66%) JavaScript
9 24 (7.48%) Kotlin
10 21 (6.54%) C#
11 15 (4.67%) Bicep
12 12 (3.74%) Rust
13 7 (2.18%) C++
14 6 (1.87%) Google Apps Script
15 1 (0.31%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 92 (28.66%) Security Cleared
2 87 (27.10%) AWS Certification
3 55 (17.13%) SC Cleared
4 32 (9.97%) Degree
5 29 (9.03%) DV Cleared
6 26 (8.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 23 (7.17%) AWS Certified Developer
8 21 (6.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 20 (6.23%) ITIL Certification
10 13 (4.05%) Azure Certification
10 13 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (4.05%) OSCP
11 7 (2.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 5 (1.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.62%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.62%) SnowPro
15 1 (0.31%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.23%) NIST
2 13 (4.05%) PCI DSS
3 12 (3.74%) GDPR
3 12 (3.74%) QA
4 7 (2.18%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.18%) SOC 2
5 6 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.56%) SLA
7 1 (0.31%) Basel III
7 1 (0.31%) HL7
7 1 (0.31%) MiFID
7 1 (0.31%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 177 (55.14%) Docker
2 7 (2.18%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.18%) KVM
3 6 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.31%) QEMU
5 1 (0.31%) vCloud
5 1 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 231 (71.96%) Terraform
2 128 (39.88%) Kubernetes
3 66 (20.56%) Ansible
4 57 (17.76%) Grafana
5 49 (15.26%) Prometheus
6 31 (9.66%) HP Fortify
7 17 (5.30%) AWS Copilot
8 13 (4.05%) Argo
9 10 (3.12%) Docker Swarm
10 8 (2.49%) Istio
10 8 (2.49%) linkerd
10 8 (2.49%) Mesos
11 7 (2.18%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (1.87%) Puppet
13 4 (1.25%) Rancher
14 2 (0.62%) Nessus
15 1 (0.31%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 44 (13.71%) Google
2 19 (5.92%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.05%) Splunk
4 9 (2.80%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.18%) VMware
6 6 (1.87%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.25%) IBM
7 4 (1.25%) PagerDuty
7 4 (1.25%) SolarWinds
8 3 (0.93%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.93%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (0.93%) Oracle
8 3 (0.93%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.62%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.62%) Ping Identity
9 2 (0.62%) SAP
10 1 (0.31%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.31%) Foundry
10 1 (0.31%) Refinitiv