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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 464 561
Rank change year-on-year +83 +97 -208
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 520 225 249
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.46% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.89% 1.44% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 256 135 183
10th Percentile £46,000 £51,900 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £71,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.63% -5.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £99,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,991 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.84% +7.69% -7.14%

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 27,462 15,625 24,603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.07% 31.65% 31.60%
Number of salaries quoted 18,587 10,573 15,690
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £43,983 £39,375 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,400 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +86 461 £75,411 +0.55% 446
UK excluding London +25 262 £71,991 +2.84% 249
London +57 229 £90,000 +10.43% 257
North of England +37 150 £73,750 +5.36% 77
Work from Home -43 109 £85,000 +15.25% 206
Yorkshire +40 92 £75,000 +6.38% 23
North West +1 43 £72,500 +20.83% 42
South West -42 33 £67,500 -25.00% 25
Wales -46 33 £72,246 +31.36% 8
Midlands -20 22 £62,250 +13.18% 38
South East -58 19 £70,000 -20.00% 47
North East - 15 £48,500 - 12
East Midlands -21 13 £52,500 - 19
West Midlands -39 9 £65,000 +18.18% 19
Scotland +8 3 £71,991 +49.98% 31
East of England -47 1 £90,000 +20.00% 11
Northern Ireland - 1 £71,991 - 13

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 20 (3.85%) Apache
2 12 (2.31%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.73%) Confluence
4 5 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.58%) nginx
6 1 (0.19%) Drupal
6 1 (0.19%) IIS
6 1 (0.19%) JBoss
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.19%) SAS
6 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.19%) WebLogic Portal
6 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.77%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.38%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.15%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.58%) Summit
3 1 (0.19%) Magento
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 498 (95.77%) AWS
2 246 (47.31%) Serverless
3 192 (36.92%) AWS Lambda
4 145 (27.88%) Amazon ECS
5 141 (27.12%) Azure
6 139 (26.73%) Amazon S3
7 116 (22.31%) GCP
8 113 (21.73%) GitHub
9 87 (16.73%) GitHub Actions
10 80 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 77 (14.81%) Amazon EC2
12 76 (14.62%) Amazon EKS
13 70 (13.46%) AWS Step Functions
14 54 (10.38%) Datadog
15 49 (9.42%) Cloud Computing
16 40 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 39 (7.50%) Amazon SQS
18 37 (7.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 32 (6.15%) OpenShift
20 30 (5.77%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.00%) Network Security
2 21 (4.04%) TCP/IP
3 12 (2.31%) VPN
4 9 (1.73%) Firewall
5 8 (1.54%) DNS
6 7 (1.35%) AMQP
7 6 (1.15%) HTTP
8 5 (0.96%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.38%) MQTT
10 1 (0.19%) 4G
10 1 (0.19%) 5G
10 1 (0.19%) DHCP
10 1 (0.19%) DNSSEC
10 1 (0.19%) Internet
10 1 (0.19%) PSTN
10 1 (0.19%) SCCP
10 1 (0.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (18.65%) NoSQL
2 89 (17.12%) DynamoDB
3 66 (12.69%) Amazon RDS
4 32 (6.15%) Amazon Athena
4 32 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (3.85%) MongoDB
6 19 (3.65%) MySQL
7 11 (2.12%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (2.12%) Redis
8 10 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (1.73%) Big Data
9 9 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (1.73%) Hadoop
9 9 (1.73%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.35%) Cloudera CDH
11 6 (1.15%) Data Lake
11 6 (1.15%) Flink
11 6 (1.15%) Metadata
12 5 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (0.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 124 (23.85%) Jenkins
2 113 (21.73%) GitLab
3 87 (16.73%) Git
4 42 (8.08%) Cucumber
5 26 (5.00%) Cypress.io
5 26 (5.00%) Maven
6 24 (4.62%) SonarQube
7 11 (2.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (2.12%) Bitbucket
7 11 (2.12%) JIRA
8 9 (1.73%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.35%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.96%) Snyk
10 5 (0.96%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.77%) Gradle
11 4 (0.77%) Selenium
12 3 (0.58%) git-flow
12 3 (0.58%) JUnit
12 3 (0.58%) NUnit
12 3 (0.58%) Postman
General
1 142 (27.31%) Social Skills
2 138 (26.54%) Finance
3 71 (13.65%) Public Sector
4 56 (10.77%) Banking
5 34 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (3.65%) Financial Institution
7 17 (3.27%) Law
8 14 (2.69%) Aerospace
9 13 (2.50%) Legal
10 11 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.12%) Military
11 8 (1.54%) Retail
12 5 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.77%) Local Government
13 4 (0.77%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.58%) Back Office
14 3 (0.58%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.58%) Marketing
14 3 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 134 (25.77%) Senior
2 109 (20.96%) Developer
3 86 (16.54%) Cloud Engineer
4 72 (13.85%) DevOps Engineer
5 70 (13.46%) Java Developer
6 55 (10.58%) AWS Engineer
7 49 (9.42%) Java Engineer
8 45 (8.65%) Lead
9 43 (8.27%) Consultant
10 33 (6.35%) Architect
10 33 (6.35%) Senior Consultant
11 29 (5.58%) Platform Engineer
12 28 (5.38%) Software Engineer
13 27 (5.19%) Full-Stack Developer
14 26 (5.00%) AWS Developer
15 25 (4.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 25 (4.81%) Senior Developer
16 24 (4.62%) Principal Engineer
17 23 (4.42%) Principal Java Engineer
18 21 (4.04%) Cloud Native Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 377 (72.50%) Terraform
2 125 (24.04%) Spring Boot
3 106 (20.38%) Spring
4 97 (18.65%) Node.js
5 90 (17.31%) Kafka
6 78 (15.00%) AngularJS
7 56 (10.77%) AWS CDK
8 44 (8.46%) RESTful
9 43 (8.27%) React
10 31 (5.96%) RabbitMQ
10 31 (5.96%) REST
11 27 (5.19%) Gherkin
12 25 (4.81%) Web Services
13 22 (4.23%) Jest
14 17 (3.27%) gRPC
14 17 (3.27%) Hibernate
15 16 (3.08%) JPA
16 15 (2.88%) JSON
16 15 (2.88%) YAML
17 13 (2.50%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 202 (38.85%) Cloud Native
2 94 (18.08%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (10.58%) Public Cloud
4 51 (9.81%) Onboarding
5 40 (7.69%) e-Learning
5 40 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
6 39 (7.50%) Enterprise Cloud
7 27 (5.19%) Hybrid Cloud
8 26 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (5.00%) Mainframe
9 22 (4.23%) Data Centre
10 19 (3.65%) Virtual Team
11 17 (3.27%) Linux Command Line
12 14 (2.69%) Product Ownership
13 13 (2.50%) Blog
13 13 (2.50%) Distributed Computing
13 13 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (2.31%) Security Posture
15 10 (1.92%) Blockchain
15 10 (1.92%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 89 (17.12%) Linux
2 21 (4.04%) Windows
3 16 (3.08%) Unix
4 12 (2.31%) Ubuntu
5 11 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (1.92%) CentOS
7 7 (1.35%) Debian
7 7 (1.35%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.38%) Android
8 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.38%) VMS
9 1 (0.19%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (75.38%) Infrastructure as Code
2 345 (66.35%) CI/CD
3 281 (54.04%) DevOps
4 231 (44.42%) Agile
5 172 (33.08%) Containerisation
6 141 (27.12%) Mentoring
7 140 (26.92%) Software Engineering
8 127 (24.42%) Observability
9 125 (24.04%) Microservices
10 118 (22.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 109 (20.96%) Event-Driven
12 104 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
13 99 (19.04%) Test Automation
14 95 (18.27%) Cloud Security
15 82 (15.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 81 (15.58%) AI
17 75 (14.42%) Migration
18 73 (14.04%) Platform Engineering
19 65 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
19 65 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 235 (45.19%) Python
2 199 (38.27%) Java
3 102 (19.62%) SQL
4 86 (16.54%) TypeScript
5 85 (16.35%) Bash
6 49 (9.42%) Groovy
7 40 (7.69%) Kotlin
8 39 (7.50%) Go
9 37 (7.12%) JavaScript
10 32 (6.15%) PowerShell
11 31 (5.96%) Ruby
12 23 (4.42%) Bicep
13 18 (3.46%) C#
14 16 (3.08%) PHP
15 15 (2.88%) Perl
16 9 (1.73%) C++
17 6 (1.15%) COBOL
18 4 (0.77%) Google Apps Script
19 2 (0.38%) Shell Script
20 1 (0.19%) Natural
Qualifications
1 172 (33.08%) Security Cleared
2 135 (25.96%) AWS Certification
3 104 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 87 (16.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 36 (6.92%) Degree
5 36 (6.92%) DV Cleared
6 18 (3.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 17 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (3.08%) ITIL Certification
9 11 (2.12%) Master's Degree
10 10 (1.92%) TOGAF Certification
11 9 (1.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 9 (1.73%) AWS Certified Developer
12 6 (1.15%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.77%) OCP
13 4 (0.77%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.58%) Postgraduate
15 2 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.12%) GDPR
2 16 (3.08%) QA
3 12 (2.31%) NIST
3 12 (2.31%) PCI DSS
4 11 (2.12%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.12%) HIPAA
5 10 (1.92%) NCSC
6 8 (1.54%) Data Quality
7 6 (1.15%) Government Security Classifications
7 6 (1.15%) WCAG
8 5 (0.96%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.96%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.19%) SLA
System Software
1 222 (42.69%) Docker
2 6 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.96%) KVM
3 5 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.58%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 198 (38.08%) Kubernetes
2 95 (18.27%) Ansible
3 54 (10.38%) Grafana
4 52 (10.00%) Progress Chef
5 50 (9.62%) Prometheus
6 37 (7.12%) Puppet
7 22 (4.23%) Argo
8 18 (3.46%) HP Fortify
9 8 (1.54%) Istio
10 6 (1.15%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (1.15%) linkerd
10 6 (1.15%) Mesos
10 6 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.58%) logstash
12 3 (0.58%) Rancher
13 2 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.19%) Consul
14 1 (0.19%) Fluentd
14 1 (0.19%) Packer
Vendors
1 47 (9.04%) Google
2 21 (4.04%) Microsoft
3 19 (3.65%) Splunk
4 17 (3.27%) Oracle
4 17 (3.27%) Red Hat
5 9 (1.73%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.35%) Databricks
6 7 (1.35%) HubSpot
6 7 (1.35%) SaltStack
7 6 (1.15%) AppDynamics
7 6 (1.15%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.15%) VMware
8 5 (0.96%) Cisco
9 4 (0.77%) Avaya
9 4 (0.77%) Genesys
10 3 (0.58%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.58%) OutSystems
11 2 (0.38%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.38%) Informatica
11 2 (0.38%) Tenable