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

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 273 305 318
Rank change year-on-year +32 +13 +10
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 104 128 146
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.68% 0.74% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.86% 1.61% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 88 114 136
10th Percentile £51,975 £60,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,938 £64,471 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £76,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +13.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £81,750 £97,188 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £118,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £73,801 £78,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -5.38% +7.59% -9.38%

All Cloud 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 5,606 7,947 9,318
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.68% 46.09% 47.37%
Number of salaries quoted 4,070 5,193 7,984
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £103,875 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.80% -3.85%

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 23 December 2025.

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 6 (5.77%) Tomcat
1 6 (5.77%) WebSphere
1 6 (5.77%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (1.92%) Apache
2 2 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.92%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 95 (91.35%) AWS
2 68 (65.38%) Azure
3 51 (49.04%) Serverless
4 49 (47.12%) AWS Lambda
5 39 (37.50%) GitHub
6 34 (32.69%) Amazon S3
7 32 (30.77%) Amazon EKS
8 31 (29.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 31 (29.81%) GitHub Actions
9 27 (25.96%) GCP
10 25 (24.04%) Azure DevOps
11 24 (23.08%) Amazon ECS
12 18 (17.31%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (16.35%) Amazon ECR
14 15 (14.42%) Azure AKS
15 13 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
16 12 (11.54%) AWS Step Functions
16 12 (11.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 11 (10.58%) Amazon SQS
17 11 (10.58%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 6 (5.77%) Firewall
2 6 (5.77%) SSL
3 4 (3.85%) Network Security
3 4 (3.85%) VPN
4 2 (1.92%) DHCP
4 2 (1.92%) DNS
4 2 (1.92%) LAN
4 2 (1.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (24.04%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (19.23%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (17.31%) DynamoDB
4 17 (16.35%) NoSQL
5 11 (10.58%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (9.62%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (7.69%) Data Lake
7 8 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (7.69%) MySQL
7 8 (7.69%) Redis
7 8 (7.69%) SQL Server
8 7 (6.73%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (5.77%) DB2
10 2 (1.92%) Metadata
10 2 (1.92%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.96%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 14 (13.46%) GitLab
3 8 (7.69%) Git
4 7 (6.73%) SonarQube
5 5 (4.81%) git-flow
6 3 (2.88%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.88%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.88%) Maven
7 2 (1.92%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.92%) JMeter
7 2 (1.92%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.96%) JIRA
8 1 (0.96%) Subversion
General
1 28 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 14 (13.46%) Finance
3 8 (7.69%) Telecoms
4 7 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.73%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.77%) Banking
5 6 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.85%) Law
7 3 (2.88%) Electronics
7 3 (2.88%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.88%) Marketing
7 3 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.96%) Billing
8 1 (0.96%) Military
8 1 (0.96%) Publishing
8 1 (0.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (33.65%) Senior
2 25 (24.04%) Cloud Engineer
3 18 (17.31%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (10.58%) Developer
4 11 (10.58%) Lead
4 11 (10.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 10 (9.62%) Architect
5 10 (9.62%) AWS Engineer
5 10 (9.62%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 9 (8.65%) Site Engineer
7 8 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (7.69%) Support Engineer
8 7 (6.73%) AWS DevOps
9 6 (5.77%) Applications Engineer
9 6 (5.77%) Applications Support
9 6 (5.77%) Applications Support Engineer
9 6 (5.77%) AWS Architect
9 6 (5.77%) Cloud Architect
9 6 (5.77%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (5.77%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (16.35%) AWS CDK
2 11 (10.58%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (9.62%) .NET
4 9 (8.65%) ARM Templates
4 9 (8.65%) Node.js
5 8 (7.69%) Django
6 7 (6.73%) React
7 6 (5.77%) Kafka
7 6 (5.77%) LAPP Stack
7 6 (5.77%) LDAP
7 6 (5.77%) WebSphere MQ
8 5 (4.81%) .NET Core
8 5 (4.81%) ASP.NET
8 5 (4.81%) CSS
8 5 (4.81%) Material-UI
8 5 (4.81%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (3.85%) ASP.NET Core
9 4 (3.85%) AWS SAM
9 4 (3.85%) Blazor
9 4 (3.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 24 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 14 (13.46%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.77%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (4.81%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.85%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.88%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.92%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.92%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.92%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.96%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.96%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 48 (46.15%) Linux
2 29 (27.88%) Windows
3 24 (23.08%) Unix
4 8 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.92%) CentOS
5 2 (1.92%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (80.77%) Infrastructure as Code
2 82 (78.85%) DevOps
3 80 (76.92%) CI/CD
4 28 (26.92%) Agile
5 26 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (24.04%) Cloud Security
7 24 (23.08%) Containerisation
7 24 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (19.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 19 (18.27%) Disaster Recovery
9 19 (18.27%) Observability
10 17 (16.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 16 (15.38%) Incident Response
11 16 (15.38%) RBAC
12 14 (13.46%) Mentoring
12 14 (13.46%) Microservices
12 14 (13.46%) Root Cause Analysis
13 13 (12.50%) Cost Management
14 12 (11.54%) ITIL
14 12 (11.54%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 57 (54.81%) Python
2 35 (33.65%) Bash
3 31 (29.81%) PowerShell
4 20 (19.23%) SQL
5 18 (17.31%) Bicep
6 15 (14.42%) TypeScript
7 8 (7.69%) JavaScript
8 6 (5.77%) C#
8 6 (5.77%) Java
9 5 (4.81%) Go
10 3 (2.88%) Groovy
11 1 (0.96%) PHP
Qualifications
1 36 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 35 (33.65%) AWS Certification
3 30 (28.85%) SC Cleared
4 13 (12.50%) Degree
5 11 (10.58%) Azure Certification
6 9 (8.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (6.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (5.77%) DV Cleared
8 6 (5.77%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (3.85%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (3.85%) SnowPro
10 2 (1.92%) CISA
10 2 (1.92%) CISM
10 2 (1.92%) CISSP
10 2 (1.92%) CRISC
11 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.73%) QA
2 6 (5.77%) SLA
3 3 (2.88%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.92%) NIST
4 2 (1.92%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.96%) GDPR
5 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 46 (44.23%) Docker
2 6 (5.77%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.92%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 86 (82.69%) Terraform
2 45 (43.27%) Kubernetes
3 29 (27.88%) Ansible
4 26 (25.00%) Grafana
5 15 (14.42%) Prometheus
6 6 (5.77%) Argo
7 3 (2.88%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.96%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.96%) Puppet
8 1 (0.96%) Rancher
Vendors
1 11 (10.58%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.62%) Google
2 10 (9.62%) Splunk
3 6 (5.77%) IBM
3 6 (5.77%) Red Hat
4 4 (3.85%) Foundry
4 4 (3.85%) LogicMonitor
4 4 (3.85%) PagerDuty
4 4 (3.85%) SolarWinds
5 3 (2.88%) Databricks
5 3 (2.88%) SAP
6 2 (1.92%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.92%) Oracle