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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 465 431
Rank change year-on-year +90 -34 -123
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 281 252 356
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.48% 0.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.35% 1.31% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 185 189 287
10th Percentile £51,050 £52,500 £52,300
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £79,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +5.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £87,500 £112,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £103,000 £125,000 £116,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.41% - -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 20,886 19,243 24,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.94% 36.33% 39.62%
Number of salaries quoted 11,380 11,285 20,536
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,864
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,900 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.55% +8.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £97,500
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 21 January 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 21 January 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 +64 231 £75,000 -7.69% 114
UK excluding London +72 141 £72,500 +7.41% 81
Work from Home +61 114 £72,500 -8.23% 61
London +34 106 £81,500 -18.50% 45
North of England +50 85 £72,500 +7.41% 28
Yorkshire +40 57 £72,500 - 20
North West +10 25 £70,000 +12.00% 8
Midlands +24 16 £50,000 -27.86% 11
West Midlands +31 14 £50,000 -27.86% 9
South East +15 14 £71,250 +16.33% 23
South West +13 9 £71,250 +29.55% 14
Wales +8 7 £68,958 +2.69% 3
Scotland -4 6 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Northern Ireland -8 6 £95,000 +37.07%
North East +1 3 £73,801 +6.48%
East Midlands -13 2 - - 2

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 (5.69%) Apache
2 10 (3.56%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.14%) Tomcat
4 6 (2.14%) WebSphere
4 6 (2.14%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.71%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 263 (93.59%) AWS
2 144 (51.25%) Serverless
3 136 (48.40%) AWS Lambda
4 135 (48.04%) Azure
5 99 (35.23%) Amazon S3
6 79 (28.11%) Amazon ECS
6 79 (28.11%) GitHub
7 76 (27.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 75 (26.69%) GCP
9 61 (21.71%) Amazon EKS
9 61 (21.71%) GitHub Actions
10 54 (19.22%) AWS Step Functions
11 47 (16.73%) Amazon EC2
11 47 (16.73%) Amazon ECR
12 37 (13.17%) Azure DevOps
13 33 (11.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 32 (11.39%) Amazon SQS
15 26 (9.25%) OpenShift
16 25 (8.90%) dbt
17 24 (8.54%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 20 (7.12%) TCP/IP
2 13 (4.63%) Firewall
3 10 (3.56%) VPN
4 8 (2.85%) Network Security
5 6 (2.14%) SSL
6 5 (1.78%) AMQP
7 4 (1.42%) DSL
7 4 (1.42%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (1.07%) SCCP
9 2 (0.71%) DHCP
9 2 (0.71%) DNS
9 2 (0.71%) LAN
9 2 (0.71%) WAN
10 1 (0.36%) HTTP
10 1 (0.36%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (23.13%) DynamoDB
2 62 (22.06%) Amazon RDS
3 46 (16.37%) NoSQL
4 45 (16.01%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (8.54%) Elasticsearch
6 20 (7.12%) Redis
7 17 (6.05%) Amazon Redshift
7 17 (6.05%) SQL Server
8 16 (5.69%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (5.34%) Amazon Athena
10 12 (4.27%) Data Lake
10 12 (4.27%) MySQL
11 7 (2.49%) Big Data
12 6 (2.14%) DB2
12 6 (2.14%) MongoDB
13 5 (1.78%) Cloudera CDH
13 5 (1.78%) Hadoop
14 3 (1.07%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (1.07%) Apache Iceberg
14 3 (1.07%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 99 (35.23%) Jenkins
2 81 (28.83%) GitLab
3 54 (19.22%) Git
4 29 (10.32%) SonarQube
5 22 (7.83%) Maven
6 21 (7.47%) Cypress.io
7 11 (3.91%) Bitbucket
8 10 (3.56%) CircleCI
9 6 (2.14%) TeamCity
10 5 (1.78%) git-flow
10 5 (1.78%) Robot Framework
11 4 (1.42%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.07%) Eclipse
12 3 (1.07%) JIRA
12 3 (1.07%) JMeter
13 2 (0.71%) Selenium
13 2 (0.71%) TestRail
14 1 (0.36%) Artifactory
14 1 (0.36%) Gradle
14 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 81 (28.83%) Social Skills
2 51 (18.15%) Finance
3 20 (7.12%) Banking
4 18 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (3.56%) Aerospace
6 8 (2.85%) Law
6 8 (2.85%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.49%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.78%) Advertising
10 4 (1.42%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.42%) Retail
11 3 (1.07%) Aviation
11 3 (1.07%) Billing
11 3 (1.07%) Electronics
11 3 (1.07%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.07%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.07%) Marketing
12 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (24.56%) Senior
2 62 (22.06%) Cloud Engineer
3 48 (17.08%) Developer
3 48 (17.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 32 (11.39%) AWS Engineer
5 28 (9.96%) Lead
6 26 (9.25%) Platform Engineer
7 20 (7.12%) Java Developer
8 18 (6.41%) AWS Developer
9 16 (5.69%) Architect
10 15 (5.34%) AWS DevOps
11 14 (4.98%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 14 (4.98%) Senior Developer
12 13 (4.63%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 12 (4.27%) .NET Developer
13 12 (4.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 12 (4.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (3.91%) Data Engineer
14 11 (3.91%) Security Engineer
14 11 (3.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (14.95%) AWS CDK
2 39 (13.88%) AngularJS
3 35 (12.46%) Node.js
4 31 (11.03%) Spring Boot
5 29 (10.32%) React
6 27 (9.61%) RESTful
7 26 (9.25%) Elastic Stack
8 21 (7.47%) Gherkin
8 21 (7.47%) Jest
9 20 (7.12%) Django
10 18 (6.41%) .NET
10 18 (6.41%) Kafka
10 18 (6.41%) Spring
11 16 (5.69%) RabbitMQ
12 13 (4.63%) .NET Core
12 13 (4.63%) ASP.NET
12 13 (4.63%) ASP.NET Core
12 13 (4.63%) Blazor
13 12 (4.27%) REST
14 11 (3.91%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 76 (27.05%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.83%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.41%) Linux Command Line
4 14 (4.98%) Security Posture
5 13 (4.63%) Product Ownership
5 13 (4.63%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.85%) PKI
7 6 (2.14%) Blockchain
7 6 (2.14%) Cloud Security Posture
7 6 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.14%) Web3
8 5 (1.78%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.42%) e-Learning
9 4 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.07%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (1.07%) Cyber Security Posture
10 3 (1.07%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.07%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 99 (35.23%) Linux
2 41 (14.59%) Windows
3 38 (13.52%) Unix
4 15 (5.34%) Ubuntu
5 14 (4.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.85%) CentOS
6 8 (2.85%) Debian
7 4 (1.42%) VMS
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (76.87%) Infrastructure as Code
2 211 (75.09%) CI/CD
3 209 (74.38%) DevOps
4 112 (39.86%) Agile
5 85 (30.25%) Problem-Solving
6 79 (28.11%) Containerisation
7 62 (22.06%) Continuous Improvement
8 57 (20.28%) Cloud Security
9 56 (19.93%) Microservices
9 56 (19.93%) Observability
10 37 (13.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 35 (12.46%) Platform Engineering
12 34 (12.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 33 (11.74%) Continuous Integration
14 32 (11.39%) Incident Response
14 32 (11.39%) Root Cause Analysis
15 31 (11.03%) DevSecOps
15 31 (11.03%) Mentoring
16 29 (10.32%) Clean Code
16 29 (10.32%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 146 (51.96%) Python
2 86 (30.60%) Bash
3 62 (22.06%) Java
4 52 (18.51%) TypeScript
5 48 (17.08%) SQL
6 40 (14.23%) PowerShell
7 28 (9.96%) JavaScript
8 23 (8.19%) Go
9 21 (7.47%) Groovy
10 20 (7.12%) Bicep
11 19 (6.76%) C#
12 14 (4.98%) Kotlin
13 6 (2.14%) C++
13 6 (2.14%) Google Apps Script
14 4 (1.42%) Rust
15 1 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 91 (32.38%) Security Cleared
2 86 (30.60%) AWS Certification
3 54 (19.22%) SC Cleared
4 31 (11.03%) DV Cleared
5 25 (8.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 22 (7.83%) Degree
7 21 (7.47%) AWS Certified Developer
8 15 (5.34%) Azure Certification
8 15 (5.34%) ITIL Certification
9 13 (4.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 10 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (2.14%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.42%) OSCP
12 4 (1.42%) SnowPro
13 3 (1.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 2 (0.71%) CISA
14 2 (0.71%) CISSP
14 2 (0.71%) CRISC
14 2 (0.71%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.91%) Data Quality
1 11 (3.91%) NIST
1 11 (3.91%) QA
2 8 (2.85%) GDPR
3 7 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.49%) SLA
4 6 (2.14%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.36%) Basel III
5 1 (0.36%) MiFID
5 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 150 (53.38%) Docker
2 7 (2.49%) KVM
3 6 (2.14%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.36%) QEMU
6 1 (0.36%) vCloud
6 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 211 (75.09%) Terraform
2 119 (42.35%) Kubernetes
3 69 (24.56%) Ansible
4 54 (19.22%) Grafana
5 40 (14.23%) Prometheus
6 21 (7.47%) HP Fortify
7 15 (5.34%) Argo
8 12 (4.27%) AWS Copilot
9 7 (2.49%) Docker Swarm
9 7 (2.49%) Puppet
10 6 (2.14%) Istio
10 6 (2.14%) linkerd
10 6 (2.14%) Mesos
10 6 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.78%) Kubeflow
12 4 (1.42%) Rancher
13 2 (0.71%) Nessus
14 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 38 (13.52%) Google
2 20 (7.12%) Microsoft
3 17 (6.05%) Splunk
4 11 (3.91%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.49%) VMware
6 6 (2.14%) IBM
6 6 (2.14%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.42%) PagerDuty
7 4 (1.42%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.07%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.07%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.07%) Foundry
8 3 (1.07%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (1.07%) Oracle
8 3 (1.07%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.07%) SAP
9 2 (0.71%) Databricks
9 2 (0.71%) Ping Identity
10 1 (0.36%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.36%) Refinitiv