Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for AWS CloudFormation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited AWS CloudFormation over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 560 351 292
Rank change year-on-year -209 -59 -8
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 365 955 2,258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.95% 1.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.03% 2.22% 2.92%
Number of salaries quoted 276 615 1,013
10th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% +20.83%
75th Percentile £98,125 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +25.00% +4.35%

All Cloud Skills
UK

AWS CloudFormation is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,306 43,046 77,399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.65% 42.90% 48.42%
Number of salaries quoted 26,662 28,295 41,613
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS CloudFormation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS CloudFormation in the UK

AWS CloudFormation
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS CloudFormation.

Salary trend for AWS CloudFormation in the UK

AWS CloudFormation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

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 14 May 2024. 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 -184 340 £75,000 -6.25% 98
UK excluding London -182 185 £67,500 -10.00% 54
London -78 158 £95,000 +11.76% 41
Work from Home -128 146 £75,000 - 66
North of England -50 64 £62,783 -21.52% 20
South West -39 40 £55,000 -16.98% 9
North West -47 34 £67,500 -15.63% 11
Midlands +2 31 £67,500 - 17
South East -103 30 £68,750 +5.77% 5
East Midlands - 16 £66,250 - 7
Yorkshire +43 15 £52,500 -30.00% 6
North East +1 15 £65,000 -7.14% 3
West Midlands -13 15 £71,250 +5.56% 10
East of England +13 11 £70,000 -
Northern Ireland +33 4 £70,000 -6.67% 1
Wales +14 3 £65,000 +2.52%
Scotland -88 2 £87,500 +20.69% 2

AWS CloudFormation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 39 (10.68%) Apache Spark
2 32 (8.77%) Apache
3 26 (7.12%) Confluence
4 2 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.55%) Drupal
4 2 (0.55%) nginx
4 2 (0.55%) WordPress
5 1 (0.27%) Jetty
5 1 (0.27%) Moodle
5 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 352 (96.44%) AWS
2 185 (50.68%) Serverless
3 166 (45.48%) AWS Lambda
4 143 (39.18%) Azure
5 141 (38.63%) Amazon S3
6 116 (31.78%) Amazon EC2
7 86 (23.56%) GCP
8 77 (21.10%) Amazon ECS
8 77 (21.10%) Amazon EKS
9 71 (19.45%) GitHub
10 62 (16.99%) OpenShift
11 61 (16.71%) Amazon SQS
12 53 (14.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 52 (14.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 43 (11.78%) Azure DevOps
15 35 (9.59%) Route 53
15 35 (9.59%) SaaS
16 34 (9.32%) CloudFront
17 26 (7.12%) AWS Fargate
18 22 (6.03%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (7.95%) DNS
2 26 (7.12%) AMQP
3 23 (6.30%) Firewall
4 19 (5.21%) HTTP
4 19 (5.21%) TCP/IP
5 16 (4.38%) DHCP
6 10 (2.74%) VPN
7 4 (1.10%) Network Security
8 3 (0.82%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.82%) Internet
8 3 (0.82%) SSL
9 2 (0.55%) DKIM
9 2 (0.55%) DMARC
9 2 (0.55%) IPv4
9 2 (0.55%) OSPF
9 2 (0.55%) SMTP
9 2 (0.55%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (25.48%) Amazon RDS
2 42 (11.51%) Amazon Redshift
3 41 (11.23%) DynamoDB
4 30 (8.22%) Big Data
5 26 (7.12%) Cloudera CDH
5 26 (7.12%) Hadoop
6 21 (5.75%) MySQL
7 19 (5.21%) NoSQL
8 12 (3.29%) Redis
9 11 (3.01%) Amazon Aurora
10 10 (2.74%) SQL Server
11 8 (2.19%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (2.19%) Couchbase
12 6 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (1.64%) Relational Database
13 5 (1.37%) MongoDB
14 4 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (1.10%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 98 (26.85%) Jenkins
2 50 (13.70%) Git
3 32 (8.77%) GitLab
4 31 (8.49%) Artifactory
5 28 (7.67%) JIRA
6 21 (5.75%) Bitbucket
7 17 (4.66%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (2.74%) Subversion
9 9 (2.47%) TeamCity
10 7 (1.92%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (1.10%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.10%) Spinnaker
12 3 (0.82%) Burp Suite
12 3 (0.82%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.82%) Metasploit
12 3 (0.82%) sqlmap
13 2 (0.55%) git-flow
13 2 (0.55%) Maven
13 2 (0.55%) Robot Framework
13 2 (0.55%) SonarQube
General
1 84 (23.01%) Social Skills
2 77 (21.10%) Finance
3 30 (8.22%) Front Office
4 28 (7.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (7.40%) Aerospace
6 18 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (4.38%) Automotive
8 10 (2.74%) Banking
8 10 (2.74%) Law
8 10 (2.74%) Retail
9 9 (2.47%) Games
10 8 (2.19%) Health Technology
11 7 (1.92%) Public Sector
12 5 (1.37%) Marketing
12 5 (1.37%) Tech for Good
13 4 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.10%) Publishing
14 2 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 119 (32.60%) AWS Engineer
2 107 (29.32%) DevOps Engineer
3 94 (25.75%) Senior
4 76 (20.82%) AWS DevOps
5 65 (17.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 58 (15.89%) Cloud Engineer
7 45 (12.33%) Architect
8 38 (10.41%) Software Engineer
9 37 (10.14%) Developer
9 37 (10.14%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 37 (10.14%) Lead
10 36 (9.86%) Solutions Architect
11 34 (9.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 31 (8.49%) Cloud Architect
13 26 (7.12%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
13 26 (7.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 23 (6.30%) Cloud Solutions Architect
15 22 (6.03%) Senior Architect
16 21 (5.75%) Senior DevOps
16 21 (5.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (13.42%) Node.js
2 41 (11.23%) React
3 36 (9.86%) .NET
4 35 (9.59%) AWS CDK
5 33 (9.04%) OpenAPI
5 33 (9.04%) Swagger
6 31 (8.49%) REST
7 30 (8.22%) AngularJS
7 30 (8.22%) J2EE
8 28 (7.67%) RabbitMQ
8 28 (7.67%) Spring
8 28 (7.67%) Spring Boot
9 26 (7.12%) gRPC
9 26 (7.12%) Material-UI
10 22 (6.03%) SAML
11 21 (5.75%) HTML
12 18 (4.93%) Elastic Stack
13 16 (4.38%) OpenID
14 11 (3.01%) PySpark
15 9 (2.47%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 62 (16.99%) Cloud Native
2 30 (8.22%) Tandem
3 22 (6.03%) Public Cloud
4 19 (5.21%) IoT
5 18 (4.93%) Mobile App
6 16 (4.38%) Client/Server
6 16 (4.38%) Cyberattack
7 11 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.74%) Data Centre
9 9 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (2.19%) Blog
11 7 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.64%) Hedge funds
13 5 (1.37%) PKI
13 5 (1.37%) PropTech
13 5 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.37%) Social Media
14 4 (1.10%) Graphic Design
14 4 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 84 (23.01%) Linux
2 29 (7.95%) Ubuntu
3 28 (7.67%) Debian
4 27 (7.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 26 (7.12%) CentOS
6 23 (6.30%) Windows
7 6 (1.64%) Unix
8 5 (1.37%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.82%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.82%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.55%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (69.59%) Infrastructure as Code
2 230 (63.01%) DevOps
3 179 (49.04%) CI/CD
4 167 (45.75%) Agile
5 107 (29.32%) Containerisation
6 96 (26.30%) Software Engineering
7 83 (22.74%) Microservices
8 68 (18.63%) Open Source
9 56 (15.34%) Configuration Management
10 52 (14.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 50 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
12 46 (12.60%) Deployment Automation
13 43 (11.78%) Decision-Making
14 40 (10.96%) Scrum
15 39 (10.68%) Cloud Security
16 38 (10.41%) DevSecOps
17 37 (10.14%) Continuous Integration
17 37 (10.14%) Migration
18 36 (9.86%) Collaborative Working
19 34 (9.32%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 185 (50.68%) Python
2 119 (32.60%) Java
3 61 (16.71%) JavaScript
4 51 (13.97%) Bash
5 47 (12.88%) Go
6 40 (10.96%) C#
7 33 (9.04%) PowerShell
8 29 (7.95%) SQL
9 20 (5.48%) TypeScript
10 13 (3.56%) PHP
11 12 (3.29%) Shell Script
12 9 (2.47%) Ruby
13 8 (2.19%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.64%) R
15 5 (1.37%) Scala
16 4 (1.10%) C
16 4 (1.10%) C++
16 4 (1.10%) Groovy
17 2 (0.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 84 (23.01%) Security Cleared
2 80 (21.92%) AWS Certification
3 66 (18.08%) SC Cleared
4 51 (13.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 44 (12.05%) DV Cleared
6 38 (10.41%) Degree
7 27 (7.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (4.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 16 (4.38%) AWS Certified Developer
10 14 (3.84%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.37%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.29%) Accessibility
2 11 (3.01%) NIST
3 8 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.82%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.82%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.55%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.55%) QA
6 1 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 152 (41.64%) Docker
2 16 (4.38%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (3.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.19%) KVM
5 2 (0.55%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 296 (81.10%) Terraform
2 193 (52.88%) Kubernetes
3 83 (22.74%) Ansible
4 47 (12.88%) Puppet
5 28 (7.67%) Grafana
6 25 (6.85%) Prometheus
7 20 (5.48%) Progress Chef
8 14 (3.84%) Packer
9 8 (2.19%) Salt
10 4 (1.10%) Consul
10 4 (1.10%) Rancher
11 3 (0.82%) Argo
12 2 (0.55%) CSIRT
12 2 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.27%) Istio
13 1 (0.27%) Kibana
Vendors
1 61 (16.71%) Google
2 28 (7.67%) Red Hat
3 26 (7.12%) SaltStack
4 16 (4.38%) ForgeRock
4 16 (4.38%) Microsoft
4 16 (4.38%) Sitecore
4 16 (4.38%) VMware
5 15 (4.11%) Atlassian
6 12 (3.29%) Splunk
7 8 (2.19%) Cisco
8 7 (1.92%) Databricks
9 4 (1.10%) New Relic
10 3 (0.82%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.82%) Rackspace
10 3 (0.82%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.55%) Oracle
12 1 (0.27%) Hitachi
12 1 (0.27%) Okta
12 1 (0.27%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.27%) SAP