AWS CloudFormation Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited AWS CloudFormation over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 442 310
Rank change year-on-year +174 -132 -70
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 155 143 433
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.02% 0.42% 1.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.61% 0.98% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 99 120 290
10th Percentile £52,200 £52,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £59,399 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £118,750 £107,500 £100,375
UK median annual salary £78,500 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +4.67% -6.25% +10.34%

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 5,943 14,646 20,291
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.18% 43.30% 47.66%
Number of salaries quoted 4,636 11,995 14,884
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,640 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +0.78%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £109,375 £97,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £61,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.09% -11.54% +4.00%

AWS CloudFormation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing AWS CloudFormation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS CloudFormation trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

AWS CloudFormation
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing AWS CloudFormation.

AWS CloudFormation salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

AWS CloudFormation
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing AWS CloudFormation over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

AWS CloudFormation salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AWS CloudFormation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (3.23%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.94%) Apache
3 2 (1.29%) Confluence
3 2 (1.29%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 155 (100.00%) AWS
2 73 (47.10%) Azure
3 69 (44.52%) Serverless
4 64 (41.29%) AWS Lambda
5 54 (34.84%) Amazon EKS
6 40 (25.81%) Amazon EC2
6 40 (25.81%) Amazon S3
7 38 (24.52%) Amazon ECS
8 28 (18.06%) Amazon SQS
9 17 (10.97%) GCP
10 15 (9.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 14 (9.03%) AWS CodeBuild
11 14 (9.03%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (8.39%) AWS KMS
13 12 (7.74%) dbt
14 11 (7.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (7.10%) Amazon ECR
14 11 (7.10%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 11 (7.10%) Pulumi
14 11 (7.10%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.68%) TCP/IP
2 13 (8.39%) Network Security
3 7 (4.52%) Firewall
4 5 (3.23%) VPN
5 4 (2.58%) BGP
5 4 (2.58%) Internet
5 4 (2.58%) IPsec
5 4 (2.58%) OSPF
5 4 (2.58%) SSL
5 4 (2.58%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (43.23%) Elasticsearch
2 48 (30.97%) Amazon RDS
3 34 (21.94%) Amazon Redshift
4 15 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (8.39%) Redis
6 8 (5.16%) DynamoDB
7 7 (4.52%) Big Data
7 7 (4.52%) NoSQL
8 5 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (3.23%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.94%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.94%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.29%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.29%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.29%) MySQL
11 1 (0.65%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.65%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 11 (7.10%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.23%) Git
2 5 (3.23%) GitLab
3 4 (2.58%) JIRA
3 4 (2.58%) Storybook
4 2 (1.29%) Checkstyle
4 2 (1.29%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.65%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.65%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.65%) TestRail
General
1 63 (40.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 52 (33.55%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (23.23%) Social Skills
4 32 (20.65%) Finance
5 26 (16.77%) Banking
6 24 (15.48%) Front Office
7 7 (4.52%) Advertising
8 4 (2.58%) Law
9 3 (1.94%) Marketing
9 3 (1.94%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.29%) Local Government
11 1 (0.65%) Electronics
11 1 (0.65%) Games
11 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (34.84%) Developer
2 49 (31.61%) AWS Engineer
2 49 (31.61%) Software Developer
3 41 (26.45%) Senior
4 35 (22.58%) DevOps Engineer
5 31 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
5 31 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 28 (18.06%) Python Engineer
7 24 (15.48%) DevOps Manager
7 24 (15.48%) Finance Manager
8 17 (10.97%) Architect
9 15 (9.68%) AWS Architect
9 15 (9.68%) Cloud Architect
9 15 (9.68%) Senior DevOps
9 15 (9.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 14 (9.03%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
10 14 (9.03%) Senior Manager
11 13 (8.39%) Lead
12 10 (6.45%) Site Engineer
12 10 (6.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (34.84%) .NET
2 52 (33.55%) Node.js
3 49 (31.61%) Pandas
4 20 (12.90%) Elastic Stack
5 18 (11.61%) Kafka
6 11 (7.10%) Django
7 9 (5.81%) AWS CDK
8 7 (4.52%) YAML
9 5 (3.23%) GraphQL
9 5 (3.23%) React
10 4 (2.58%) .NET Framework
10 4 (2.58%) JSON
10 4 (2.58%) Redux
10 4 (2.58%) REST
10 4 (2.58%) Web Services
11 3 (1.94%) AngularJS
11 3 (1.94%) Laravel
11 3 (1.94%) Serverless Framework
11 3 (1.94%) Vue
12 2 (1.29%) AWS SAM
Miscellaneous
1 49 (31.61%) Cyberattack
2 13 (8.39%) Management Information System
3 11 (7.10%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.52%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.58%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.58%) Legacy Code
6 3 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.29%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.29%) IoT
7 2 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.29%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.65%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.65%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 73 (47.10%) Linux
2 49 (31.61%) Android
3 14 (9.03%) Unix
4 4 (2.58%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (74.84%) CI/CD
2 96 (61.94%) Software Engineering
3 91 (58.71%) Agile
4 72 (46.45%) Containerisation
5 68 (43.87%) DevOps
6 62 (40.00%) Design Patterns
7 52 (33.55%) OO
8 51 (32.90%) Collaborative Working
8 51 (32.90%) OOP
9 50 (32.26%) Kanban
9 50 (32.26%) Line Management
9 50 (32.26%) Secure Coding
10 49 (31.61%) Android Development
10 49 (31.61%) Mathematics
10 49 (31.61%) OWASP
10 49 (31.61%) Statistics
11 44 (28.39%) Infrastructure as Code
12 35 (22.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 29 (18.71%) Fintech
13 29 (18.71%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 115 (74.19%) Python
2 85 (54.84%) JavaScript
3 74 (47.74%) Java
4 58 (37.42%) Go
5 49 (31.61%) C++
5 49 (31.61%) Rust
6 12 (7.74%) SQL
7 11 (7.10%) TypeScript
8 10 (6.45%) Bash
9 9 (5.81%) C#
10 5 (3.23%) Scala
11 3 (1.94%) PHP
12 2 (1.29%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.65%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 83 (53.55%) Security Cleared
2 51 (32.90%) DV Cleared
3 26 (16.77%) SC Cleared
4 20 (12.90%) AWS Certification
5 15 (9.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 13 (8.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (8.39%) Degree
7 2 (1.29%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (1.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.29%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (1.29%) CCNP
7 2 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.68%) GDPR
1 15 (9.68%) HIPAA
2 3 (1.94%) QA
3 2 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.29%) SLA
4 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.65%) NIST
4 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.65%) SOC 2
System Software
1 114 (73.55%) Docker
2 2 (1.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.29%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 132 (85.16%) Terraform
2 98 (63.23%) Kubernetes
3 55 (35.48%) Ansible
4 18 (11.61%) Grafana
5 16 (10.32%) Prometheus
6 11 (7.10%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (1.94%) Argo
7 3 (1.94%) Kibana
7 3 (1.94%) logstash
8 2 (1.29%) Puppet
8 2 (1.29%) Salt
9 1 (0.65%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.65%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.65%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.65%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (8.39%) Google
2 5 (3.23%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.29%) Atlassian
3 2 (1.29%) Cisco
3 2 (1.29%) Databricks
3 2 (1.29%) Informatica
3 2 (1.29%) Juniper
3 2 (1.29%) Talend
4 1 (0.65%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.65%) Imperva
4 1 (0.65%) Okta
4 1 (0.65%) PagerDuty
4 1 (0.65%) SAP
4 1 (0.65%) VMware