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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 424 466 399
Rank change year-on-year +42 -67 -83
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 234 275 343
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.48% 0.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.13% 1.33% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 165 212 276
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,625
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £60,150
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £78,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.99% +8.28% -9.38%
75th Percentile £87,500 £113,125 £90,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £130,000 £116,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% -10.00%

All Cloud 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 20,624 20,647 20,946
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.12% 36.01% 43.06%
Number of salaries quoted 11,349 12,480 17,362
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% +1.60% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,253 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 2025. 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 +28 188 £73,801 -7.75% 91
UK excluding London +37 118 £70,000 +7.69% 87
Work from Home +61 104 £72,500 -7.05% 64
London +12 85 £81,500 -18.50% 39
North of England +40 71 £70,000 +7.69% 24
Yorkshire +24 41 £70,000 +7.69% 14
North West +25 27 £62,500 - 8
Midlands +26 13 £57,500 -17.04% 11
West Midlands +31 11 £57,500 -17.04% 10
South East +25 11 £72,500 +13.73% 22
Wales +6 7 £68,958 -0.50% 5
South West +5 7 £70,000 +40.00% 9
Scotland -2 6 £73,801 +6.48% 15
Northern Ireland -4 5 £95,000 +37.07% 1
North East -1 3 £73,801 +6.48% 2
East Midlands -2 2 - - 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 11 (4.70%) Apache
2 7 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.99%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.56%) Tomcat
3 6 (2.56%) WebSphere
3 6 (2.56%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.85%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.43%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 215 (91.88%) AWS
2 124 (52.99%) Azure
3 104 (44.44%) Serverless
4 97 (41.45%) AWS Lambda
5 75 (32.05%) Amazon S3
6 69 (29.49%) GCP
7 66 (28.21%) GitHub
8 61 (26.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 61 (26.07%) Amazon ECS
9 53 (22.65%) GitHub Actions
10 52 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
11 42 (17.95%) Amazon EC2
12 39 (16.67%) Amazon ECR
13 35 (14.96%) Azure DevOps
14 34 (14.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 33 (14.10%) AWS Step Functions
16 25 (10.68%) Amazon SQS
16 25 (10.68%) dbt
17 21 (8.97%) Pulumi
18 20 (8.55%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.55%) TCP/IP
2 10 (4.27%) Firewall
3 8 (3.42%) Network Security
3 8 (3.42%) VPN
4 6 (2.56%) SSL
5 4 (1.71%) LAN
5 4 (1.71%) WAN
6 3 (1.28%) DNS
6 3 (1.28%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.85%) AMQP
7 2 (0.85%) DHCP
8 1 (0.43%) DSL
8 1 (0.43%) HTTP
8 1 (0.43%) NAS
8 1 (0.43%) SAN
8 1 (0.43%) SNMP
8 1 (0.43%) VSAN
8 1 (0.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (20.94%) Amazon RDS
2 42 (17.95%) DynamoDB
2 42 (17.95%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (13.25%) NoSQL
4 23 (9.83%) Elasticsearch
5 20 (8.55%) Redis
6 16 (6.84%) Amazon Redshift
6 16 (6.84%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (6.84%) SQL Server
7 12 (5.13%) Data Lake
8 10 (4.27%) MySQL
9 7 (2.99%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (2.56%) DB2
11 4 (1.71%) Big Data
11 4 (1.71%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.28%) Apache Iceberg
12 3 (1.28%) Data Vault
13 2 (0.85%) Cloudera CDH
13 2 (0.85%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 75 (32.05%) Jenkins
2 60 (25.64%) GitLab
3 36 (15.38%) Git
4 19 (8.12%) SonarQube
5 13 (5.56%) Cypress.io
5 13 (5.56%) Maven
6 9 (3.85%) CircleCI
7 8 (3.42%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.14%) git-flow
8 5 (2.14%) JIRA
9 4 (1.71%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.71%) Robot Framework
9 4 (1.71%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.85%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.85%) JMeter
10 2 (0.85%) Selenium
10 2 (0.85%) TestRail
11 1 (0.43%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.43%) Subversion
General
1 62 (26.50%) Social Skills
2 40 (17.09%) Finance
3 20 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.41%) Banking
5 10 (4.27%) Law
6 8 (3.42%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.42%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.56%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.71%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.28%) Electronics
10 3 (1.28%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.28%) Marketing
10 3 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Advertising
11 1 (0.43%) Billing
11 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.43%) Retail
11 1 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 63 (26.92%) Senior
2 52 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
3 41 (17.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (11.54%) Lead
5 26 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
5 26 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
6 25 (10.68%) Developer
7 16 (6.84%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 15 (6.41%) AWS DevOps
9 14 (5.98%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 13 (5.56%) Architect
11 12 (5.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 12 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (4.70%) AWS Developer
12 11 (4.70%) Data Engineer
12 11 (4.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 10 (4.27%) .NET Developer
14 9 (3.85%) Site Engineer
14 9 (3.85%) Support Engineer
15 8 (3.42%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (12.82%) AWS CDK
2 27 (11.54%) Elastic Stack
3 23 (9.83%) React
4 20 (8.55%) Django
4 20 (8.55%) Spring Boot
5 19 (8.12%) AngularJS
5 19 (8.12%) Node.js
6 18 (7.69%) .NET
6 18 (7.69%) RESTful
7 14 (5.98%) Kafka
7 14 (5.98%) Spring
8 13 (5.56%) Gherkin
8 13 (5.56%) Jest
9 12 (5.13%) .NET Core
9 12 (5.13%) ASP.NET
10 11 (4.70%) ASP.NET Core
10 11 (4.70%) Blazor
11 9 (3.85%) ARM Templates
12 8 (3.42%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (2.99%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 59 (25.21%) Cloud Native
2 23 (9.83%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
4 14 (5.98%) Public Cloud
5 11 (4.70%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.56%) AI Agents
6 6 (2.56%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.14%) PKI
8 4 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.28%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (1.28%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.28%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.85%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.85%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 88 (37.61%) Linux
2 38 (16.24%) Unix
2 38 (16.24%) Windows
3 12 (5.13%) Ubuntu
4 10 (4.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.99%) Debian
6 4 (1.71%) CentOS
7 3 (1.28%) VMS
8 2 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (80.34%) Infrastructure as Code
2 180 (76.92%) CI/CD
3 174 (74.36%) DevOps
4 87 (37.18%) Agile
5 72 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
6 67 (28.63%) Containerisation
7 55 (23.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 50 (21.37%) Observability
9 45 (19.23%) Cloud Security
9 45 (19.23%) Microservices
10 36 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 35 (14.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 34 (14.53%) Platform Engineering
13 32 (13.68%) Disaster Recovery
14 28 (11.97%) Mentoring
15 27 (11.54%) Root Cause Analysis
16 25 (10.68%) Clean Code
17 24 (10.26%) Migration
18 23 (9.83%) AI
18 23 (9.83%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 138 (58.97%) Python
2 81 (34.62%) Bash
3 40 (17.09%) PowerShell
3 40 (17.09%) SQL
4 39 (16.67%) Java
5 34 (14.53%) TypeScript
6 23 (9.83%) JavaScript
7 20 (8.55%) Bicep
8 16 (6.84%) C#
8 16 (6.84%) Go
9 13 (5.56%) Groovy
10 4 (1.71%) C++
10 4 (1.71%) Google Apps Script
10 4 (1.71%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.43%) PHP
11 1 (0.43%) Rust
Qualifications
1 75 (32.05%) Security Cleared
2 71 (30.34%) AWS Certification
3 51 (21.79%) SC Cleared
4 22 (9.40%) DV Cleared
5 21 (8.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 18 (7.69%) AWS Certified Developer
7 17 (7.26%) Degree
8 16 (6.84%) Azure Certification
9 9 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (2.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.71%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.85%) CISA
13 2 (0.85%) CISM
13 2 (0.85%) CISSP
13 2 (0.85%) CRISC
13 2 (0.85%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.13%) QA
2 11 (4.70%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.99%) GDPR
3 7 (2.99%) SLA
4 4 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.71%) NIST
5 2 (0.85%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.43%) Basel III
6 1 (0.43%) MiFID
6 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 123 (52.56%) Docker
2 7 (2.99%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (2.14%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.14%) KVM
3 5 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.85%) Terminal Server
4 2 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.43%) QEMU
5 1 (0.43%) vCloud
5 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 189 (80.77%) Terraform
2 101 (43.16%) Kubernetes
3 61 (26.07%) Ansible
4 54 (23.08%) Grafana
5 37 (15.81%) Prometheus
6 13 (5.56%) Argo
6 13 (5.56%) HP Fortify
7 12 (5.13%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (2.14%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (2.14%) Istio
8 5 (2.14%) Kubeflow
8 5 (2.14%) linkerd
8 5 (2.14%) Puppet
9 4 (1.71%) Mesos
9 4 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (1.28%) Rancher
11 2 (0.85%) Nessus
12 1 (0.43%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 33 (14.10%) Google
2 20 (8.55%) Microsoft
3 18 (7.69%) Splunk
4 8 (3.42%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.56%) IBM
5 6 (2.56%) VMware
6 5 (2.14%) LogicMonitor
6 5 (2.14%) SolarWinds
7 4 (1.71%) Databricks
7 4 (1.71%) Foundry
7 4 (1.71%) PagerDuty
8 3 (1.28%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.28%) Citrix
8 3 (1.28%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.28%) SAP
9 2 (0.85%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.85%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.85%) Oracle
9 2 (0.85%) Ping Identity
10 1 (0.43%) Refinitiv