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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 544 352 294
Rank change year-on-year -192 -58 -18
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 393 979 2,164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.94% 1.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.11% 2.21% 2.87%
Number of salaries quoted 280 627 1,028
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 £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £111,625
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 35,382 44,396 75,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.88% 42.78% 48.26%
Number of salaries quoted 26,757 29,121 41,951
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,788 £33,750
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 £96,000 £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 3 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 3 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 -153 361 £75,000 -6.25% 91
UK excluding London -144 202 £67,500 -10.00% 49
London -77 164 £95,000 +11.76% 39
Work from Home -125 143 £75,000 - 55
North of England -40 65 £62,783 -21.52% 20
South West -25 52 £55,000 -18.52% 8
North West -44 33 £66,250 -18.46% 11
South East -93 32 £68,750 +5.77% 4
Midlands +7 29 £67,500 - 12
East Midlands - 17 £61,250 - 4
Yorkshire +28 16 £52,500 -30.00% 6
North East +4 16 £65,000 -7.14% 3
West Midlands -7 12 £70,000 +3.70% 8
East of England +25 11 £70,000 -
Northern Ireland +33 5 £70,000 -6.67% 4
Wales +9 4 £65,000 +2.52%
Scotland -96 4 £87,500 +20.69% 1

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 38 (9.67%) Apache Spark
2 32 (8.14%) Apache
3 26 (6.62%) Confluence
4 3 (0.76%) Drupal
4 3 (0.76%) nginx
4 3 (0.76%) WordPress
5 2 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.25%) Jetty
6 1 (0.25%) Moodle
6 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Magento
1 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 367 (93.38%) AWS
2 187 (47.58%) Serverless
3 166 (42.24%) AWS Lambda
4 155 (39.44%) Azure
5 143 (36.39%) Amazon S3
6 120 (30.53%) Amazon EC2
7 85 (21.63%) GCP
8 80 (20.36%) Amazon ECS
9 77 (19.59%) Amazon EKS
10 69 (17.56%) GitHub
11 64 (16.28%) Amazon SQS
11 64 (16.28%) OpenShift
12 55 (13.99%) Azure DevOps
13 52 (13.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 51 (12.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 36 (9.16%) Route 53
16 34 (8.65%) SaaS
17 33 (8.40%) CloudFront
18 25 (6.36%) AWS Fargate
19 21 (5.34%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (10.69%) DNS
2 32 (8.14%) HTTP
2 32 (8.14%) TCP/IP
3 29 (7.38%) DHCP
4 25 (6.36%) AMQP
5 23 (5.85%) Firewall
6 10 (2.54%) VPN
7 4 (1.02%) Network Security
8 3 (0.76%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.76%) Internet
8 3 (0.76%) SSL
9 2 (0.51%) DKIM
9 2 (0.51%) DMARC
9 2 (0.51%) IPv4
9 2 (0.51%) OSPF
9 2 (0.51%) SMTP
9 2 (0.51%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (24.43%) Amazon RDS
2 46 (11.70%) Amazon Redshift
3 41 (10.43%) DynamoDB
4 29 (7.38%) Big Data
5 25 (6.36%) Cloudera CDH
5 25 (6.36%) Hadoop
6 20 (5.09%) MySQL
7 19 (4.83%) NoSQL
8 13 (3.31%) InfluxDB
9 12 (3.05%) Redis
10 11 (2.80%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (2.54%) SQL Server
12 8 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (2.04%) Couchbase
13 6 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (1.53%) Relational Database
14 4 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (1.02%) MongoDB
14 4 (1.02%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 115 (29.26%) Jenkins
2 49 (12.47%) Git
3 45 (11.45%) GitLab
4 35 (8.91%) Artifactory
5 28 (7.12%) JIRA
6 20 (5.09%) Bitbucket
7 17 (4.33%) Sonatype Nexus
8 13 (3.31%) SonarQube
9 10 (2.54%) Subversion
10 9 (2.29%) TeamCity
11 7 (1.78%) Octopus Deploy
12 5 (1.27%) CircleCI
13 4 (1.02%) Spinnaker
14 3 (0.76%) Cucumber
15 2 (0.51%) Burp Suite
15 2 (0.51%) git-flow
15 2 (0.51%) JMeter
15 2 (0.51%) Maven
15 2 (0.51%) Metasploit
15 2 (0.51%) sqlmap
General
1 96 (24.43%) Social Skills
2 95 (24.17%) Finance
3 41 (10.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 34 (8.65%) Front Office
5 25 (6.36%) Aerospace
6 18 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (3.82%) Automotive
8 10 (2.54%) Banking
8 10 (2.54%) Law
9 9 (2.29%) Retail
10 8 (2.04%) Games
10 8 (2.04%) Health Technology
10 8 (2.04%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.27%) Marketing
11 5 (1.27%) Tech for Good
12 4 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.02%) Publishing
13 2 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 126 (32.06%) DevOps Engineer
2 121 (30.79%) AWS Engineer
3 99 (25.19%) Senior
4 79 (20.10%) AWS DevOps
5 68 (17.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 57 (14.50%) Cloud Engineer
7 56 (14.25%) Architect
8 42 (10.69%) Solutions Architect
9 41 (10.43%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 40 (10.18%) Cloud Architect
11 38 (9.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 37 (9.41%) Developer
12 37 (9.41%) Lead
12 37 (9.41%) Software Engineer
13 27 (6.87%) Cloud Solutions Architect
13 27 (6.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 25 (6.36%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
14 25 (6.36%) Senior Architect
15 22 (5.60%) Senior DevOps
15 22 (5.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (12.21%) Node.js
2 40 (10.18%) React
3 35 (8.91%) .NET
3 35 (8.91%) AWS CDK
3 35 (8.91%) SAML
4 34 (8.65%) HTML
4 34 (8.65%) J2EE
5 32 (8.14%) OpenAPI
5 32 (8.14%) Swagger
6 30 (7.63%) Elastic Stack
6 30 (7.63%) REST
7 29 (7.38%) AngularJS
7 29 (7.38%) OpenID
8 27 (6.87%) Spring
8 27 (6.87%) Spring Boot
9 26 (6.62%) RabbitMQ
10 25 (6.36%) gRPC
10 25 (6.36%) Material-UI
11 11 (2.80%) PySpark
12 9 (2.29%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 74 (18.83%) Cloud Native
2 34 (8.65%) Public Cloud
2 34 (8.65%) Tandem
3 29 (7.38%) Cyberattack
4 23 (5.85%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (4.83%) IoT
6 17 (4.33%) Mobile App
7 16 (4.07%) Client/Server
8 11 (2.80%) Data Centre
9 10 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (2.04%) Blog
12 7 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (1.53%) Hedge funds
14 5 (1.27%) PKI
14 5 (1.27%) Social Media
15 4 (1.02%) Blockchain
15 4 (1.02%) Graphic Design
15 4 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
15 4 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 96 (24.43%) Linux
2 35 (8.91%) Windows
3 29 (7.38%) Ubuntu
4 28 (7.12%) Debian
5 26 (6.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 25 (6.36%) CentOS
7 6 (1.53%) Unix
7 6 (1.53%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.76%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.76%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.51%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (71.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 248 (63.10%) DevOps
3 200 (50.89%) CI/CD
4 193 (49.11%) Agile
5 122 (31.04%) Containerisation
6 111 (28.24%) Software Engineering
7 92 (23.41%) Microservices
8 71 (18.07%) Open Source
9 56 (14.25%) Configuration Management
10 55 (13.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 53 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
12 51 (12.98%) Cloud Security
13 50 (12.72%) Scrum
14 49 (12.47%) Deployment Automation
14 49 (12.47%) DevSecOps
15 47 (11.96%) Decision-Making
16 45 (11.45%) Scaled Agile Framework
17 43 (10.94%) Kanban
17 43 (10.94%) Technical Leadership
18 42 (10.69%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 192 (48.85%) Python
2 122 (31.04%) Java
3 63 (16.03%) Bash
4 60 (15.27%) JavaScript
5 51 (12.98%) Go
6 45 (11.45%) PowerShell
7 39 (9.92%) C#
8 29 (7.38%) SQL
9 20 (5.09%) TypeScript
10 14 (3.56%) PHP
11 12 (3.05%) Shell Script
12 9 (2.29%) Ruby
13 8 (2.04%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.53%) R
15 5 (1.27%) Scala
16 4 (1.02%) C
16 4 (1.02%) C++
16 4 (1.02%) Groovy
17 2 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 98 (24.94%) Security Cleared
2 94 (23.92%) AWS Certification
3 65 (16.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 65 (16.54%) SC Cleared
4 56 (14.25%) DV Cleared
5 41 (10.43%) Degree
6 29 (7.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (4.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 16 (4.07%) AWS Certified Developer
9 14 (3.56%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.27%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.76%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.05%) Accessibility
2 8 (2.04%) NIST
3 6 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.76%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.76%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.51%) QA
6 1 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.25%) GDPR
6 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 172 (43.77%) Docker
2 15 (3.82%) Virtual Machines
2 15 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.04%) KVM
4 2 (0.51%) Firmware
5 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 328 (83.46%) Terraform
2 210 (53.44%) Kubernetes
3 95 (24.17%) Ansible
4 46 (11.70%) Puppet
5 41 (10.43%) Grafana
6 37 (9.41%) Prometheus
7 19 (4.83%) Progress Chef
8 14 (3.56%) Packer
9 8 (2.04%) Salt
10 4 (1.02%) Consul
10 4 (1.02%) Rancher
11 3 (0.76%) Argo
12 2 (0.51%) CSIRT
12 2 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.25%) Cacti
13 1 (0.25%) Istio
13 1 (0.25%) Kibana
13 1 (0.25%) Nagios
13 1 (0.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 60 (15.27%) Google
2 27 (6.87%) Red Hat
3 25 (6.36%) SaltStack
4 17 (4.33%) Microsoft
4 17 (4.33%) VMware
5 15 (3.82%) ForgeRock
5 15 (3.82%) Sitecore
6 14 (3.56%) Atlassian
7 11 (2.80%) Splunk
8 8 (2.04%) Cisco
9 7 (1.78%) Databricks
10 4 (1.02%) New Relic
11 3 (0.76%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.76%) Rackspace
11 3 (0.76%) SolarWinds
12 1 (0.25%) Citrix
12 1 (0.25%) Hitachi
12 1 (0.25%) Okta
12 1 (0.25%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.25%) UiPath