Hybrid/Remote AWS CloudFormation Job Trends

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 297 432
Rank change year-on-year -31 +135 -136
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 104 127 138
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.49% 0.77% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.25% 2.07% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 69 74 114
10th Percentile £60,000 £50,225 £54,125
25th Percentile £68,813 £58,125 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,384 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.09% -7.49% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £93,375 £107,500
UK median annual salary £76,998 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.66% - -3.23%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8,339 6,148 13,229
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.05% 37.24% 41.59%
Number of salaries quoted 5,923 4,539 10,887
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,720 £36,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AWS CloudFormation and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

AWS CloudFormation job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

AWS CloudFormation
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS CloudFormation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AWS CloudFormation over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

AWS CloudFormation salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

AWS CloudFormation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 3 (2.88%) Apache
1 3 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.96%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.96%) Confluence
2 1 (0.96%) Drupal
2 1 (0.96%) IIS
2 1 (0.96%) nginx
2 1 (0.96%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 93 (89.42%) AWS
2 42 (40.38%) Serverless
3 29 (27.88%) Amazon ECS
4 27 (25.96%) AWS Lambda
5 25 (24.04%) Amazon S3
6 24 (23.08%) Azure
6 24 (23.08%) GitHub
7 23 (22.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 20 (19.23%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (16.35%) Amazon EC2
10 16 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (13.46%) AWS Step Functions
11 14 (13.46%) PaaS
12 13 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 12 (11.54%) GCP
14 11 (10.58%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (10.58%) Datadog
15 9 (8.65%) IaaS
15 9 (8.65%) Pulumi
15 9 (8.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.54%) VPN
2 9 (8.65%) TCP/IP
3 8 (7.69%) DNS
4 6 (5.77%) Firewall
5 2 (1.92%) HTTP
6 1 (0.96%) 4G
6 1 (0.96%) 5G
6 1 (0.96%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.38%) DynamoDB
2 15 (14.42%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (10.58%) Amazon Athena
4 10 (9.62%) NoSQL
5 8 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (5.77%) Redis
7 5 (4.81%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.88%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.88%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.92%) Metadata
10 1 (0.96%) Apache Hudi
10 1 (0.96%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (0.96%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.96%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.96%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (0.96%) Looker
10 1 (0.96%) Power BI
10 1 (0.96%) Redshift Spectrum
10 1 (0.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (26.92%) Jenkins
2 18 (17.31%) GitLab
3 12 (11.54%) Git
4 3 (2.88%) Maven
5 2 (1.92%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.92%) JIRA
5 2 (1.92%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.96%) Gatling
6 1 (0.96%) git-flow
6 1 (0.96%) JMeter
6 1 (0.96%) MLflow
6 1 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.96%) Vagrant
General
1 23 (22.12%) Finance
2 17 (16.35%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (6.73%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.85%) Retail
6 3 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.88%) Back Office
6 3 (2.88%) Banking
6 3 (2.88%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.88%) Law
7 2 (1.92%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.96%) Advertising
8 1 (0.96%) Billing
8 1 (0.96%) Games
8 1 (0.96%) iGaming
8 1 (0.96%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 24 (23.08%) Senior
2 20 (19.23%) Developer
3 19 (18.27%) AWS Engineer
3 19 (18.27%) Cloud Engineer
4 18 (17.31%) Platform Engineer
5 15 (14.42%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (13.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 13 (12.50%) Lead
8 10 (9.62%) Java Developer
8 10 (9.62%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 9 (8.65%) AWS DevOps
9 9 (8.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 9 (8.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 7 (6.73%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 7 (6.73%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (5.77%) Lead Developer
11 6 (5.77%) Technical Leader
12 5 (4.81%) Integration Developer
12 5 (4.81%) Integration Engineer
12 5 (4.81%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (18.27%) AWS CDK
1 19 (18.27%) React
2 15 (14.42%) Node.js
3 14 (13.46%) Next.js
4 10 (9.62%) AngularJS
5 9 (8.65%) Spring Boot
6 8 (7.69%) ARM Templates
7 7 (6.73%) Spring
8 6 (5.77%) Kafka
8 6 (5.77%) Web Services
9 5 (4.81%) Django
9 5 (4.81%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (3.85%) YAML
11 3 (2.88%) OAuth
11 3 (2.88%) REST
11 3 (2.88%) RESTful
12 2 (1.92%) .NET
12 2 (1.92%) Gherkin
12 2 (1.92%) Jest
12 2 (1.92%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 33 (31.73%) Cloud Native
2 15 (14.42%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (10.58%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (9.62%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (6.73%) Public Cloud
6 6 (5.77%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (4.81%) Onboarding
8 4 (3.85%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (2.88%) Data Centre
9 3 (2.88%) Mobile App
9 3 (2.88%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.96%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.96%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.96%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.96%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.96%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 21 (20.19%) Linux
2 5 (4.81%) Unix
3 4 (3.85%) Windows
4 3 (2.88%) Android
4 3 (2.88%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (83.65%) Infrastructure as Code
2 69 (66.35%) CI/CD
3 53 (50.96%) DevOps
4 44 (42.31%) Continuous Improvement
5 42 (40.38%) Containerisation
6 40 (38.46%) Agile
7 35 (33.65%) Observability
8 32 (30.77%) Mentoring
8 32 (30.77%) Platform Engineering
9 26 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (20.19%) Clean Code
11 19 (18.27%) Full-Stack Development
12 18 (17.31%) Performance Optimisation
12 18 (17.31%) Test Automation
13 17 (16.35%) Decision-Making
13 17 (16.35%) DevSecOps
14 16 (15.38%) Cloud Security
15 15 (14.42%) Software Engineering
16 14 (13.46%) Collaborative Working
16 14 (13.46%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 54 (51.92%) Python
2 24 (23.08%) TypeScript
3 20 (19.23%) Java
4 16 (15.38%) Bicep
5 14 (13.46%) SQL
6 13 (12.50%) PowerShell
7 12 (11.54%) Bash
8 9 (8.65%) Groovy
9 8 (7.69%) Kotlin
10 7 (6.73%) JavaScript
11 6 (5.77%) Go
12 3 (2.88%) C#
13 1 (0.96%) Perl
13 1 (0.96%) PHP
Qualifications
1 26 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (19.23%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.58%) Degree
4 10 (9.62%) AWS Certification
5 8 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.88%) CREST Certified
7 3 (2.88%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.88%) OSCP
7 3 (2.88%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.96%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.96%) CISM
9 1 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.96%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (0.96%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.69%) NIST
2 7 (6.73%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.92%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.96%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.96%) HL7
4 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.96%) NCSC
4 1 (0.96%) SLA
4 1 (0.96%) SNOMED CT
4 1 (0.96%) SOC 2
System Software
1 48 (46.15%) Docker
2 1 (0.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 77 (74.04%) Terraform
2 44 (42.31%) Kubernetes
3 17 (16.35%) Ansible
4 12 (11.54%) Grafana
5 8 (7.69%) Progress Chef
5 8 (7.69%) Prometheus
6 5 (4.81%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (3.85%) Argo
8 2 (1.92%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.96%) Consul
9 1 (0.96%) Packer
9 1 (0.96%) Puppet
9 1 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (7.69%) Google
1 8 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.73%) Oracle
3 5 (4.81%) HubSpot
4 1 (0.96%) Databricks
4 1 (0.96%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.96%) TOWER Software