AWS CloudFormation Jobs

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 349 283
Rank change year-on-year -226 -66 -8
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 368 871 2,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.92% 1.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.02% 2.14% 3.03%
Number of salaries quoted 277 578 1,006
10th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +20.83% +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 36,095 40,721 82,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.39% 43.02% 48.78%
Number of salaries quoted 26,995 27,249 41,330
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,452 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.85% +3.20% +7.76%
75th Percentile £77,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,150 £102,500 £98,750
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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -192 340 £75,000 -6.25% 95
UK excluding London -172 191 £67,500 -6.90% 62
London -66 155 £95,000 +11.76% 41
Work from Home -141 149 £75,000 - 59
North of England -37 67 £62,783 -16.29% 19
Midlands 0 39 £70,000 +3.70% 11
North West -47 36 £67,500 -15.63% 10
South West -51 31 £56,250 -13.46% 12
South East -95 31 £68,750 +5.77% 7
West Midlands -18 21 £72,500 +7.41% 10
East Midlands -1 18 £67,500 -3.57% 1
Yorkshire +26 16 £52,500 -30.00% 7
North East -1 15 £65,000 -7.14% 2
East of England +4 10 £70,000 -6.67% 2
Northern Ireland +25 5 £70,000 -6.67%
Wales +11 4 £65,000 +2.52%
Scotland -102 4 £87,500 +16.67% 11

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 44 (11.96%) Apache Spark
2 35 (9.51%) Apache
3 23 (6.25%) Confluence
4 3 (0.82%) nginx
5 2 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.54%) Drupal
5 2 (0.54%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.54%) WordPress
6 1 (0.27%) Jetty
6 1 (0.27%) Moodle
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 352 (95.65%) AWS
2 186 (50.54%) Serverless
3 168 (45.65%) AWS Lambda
4 162 (44.02%) Azure
5 138 (37.50%) Amazon S3
6 115 (31.25%) Amazon EC2
7 103 (27.99%) GCP
8 80 (21.74%) Amazon EKS
9 73 (19.84%) Amazon ECS
10 67 (18.21%) GitHub
11 62 (16.85%) OpenShift
12 59 (16.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 58 (15.76%) Amazon SQS
14 52 (14.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 43 (11.68%) Azure DevOps
16 36 (9.78%) SaaS
17 32 (8.70%) CloudFront
18 29 (7.88%) Route 53
19 27 (7.34%) Cloud Computing
20 26 (7.07%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 29 (7.88%) AMQP
2 23 (6.25%) Firewall
3 10 (2.72%) VPN
4 9 (2.45%) DNS
5 3 (0.82%) HTTP
5 3 (0.82%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.82%) Network Security
5 3 (0.82%) SSL
6 2 (0.54%) DKIM
6 2 (0.54%) DMARC
6 2 (0.54%) Internet
6 2 (0.54%) IPv4
6 2 (0.54%) OSPF
6 2 (0.54%) SMTP
6 2 (0.54%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.54%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (24.46%) Amazon RDS
2 42 (11.41%) DynamoDB
3 40 (10.87%) Amazon Redshift
4 34 (9.24%) Big Data
5 29 (7.88%) Cloudera CDH
5 29 (7.88%) Hadoop
6 22 (5.98%) NoSQL
7 21 (5.71%) MySQL
8 12 (3.26%) Redis
9 10 (2.72%) Amazon Athena
10 9 (2.45%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (2.45%) SQL Server
11 8 (2.17%) Couchbase
11 8 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.90%) MongoDB
13 6 (1.63%) Neo4j
13 6 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
14 5 (1.36%) BigQuery
14 5 (1.36%) Relational Database
15 4 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 105 (28.53%) Jenkins
2 55 (14.95%) Git
3 37 (10.05%) JIRA
4 31 (8.42%) GitLab
5 27 (7.34%) Artifactory
6 20 (5.43%) Bitbucket
7 15 (4.08%) SonarQube
8 14 (3.80%) Sonatype Nexus
9 13 (3.53%) Terragrunt
10 9 (2.45%) TeamCity
11 7 (1.90%) Octopus Deploy
11 7 (1.90%) Subversion
12 6 (1.63%) Spinnaker
13 4 (1.09%) CircleCI
14 3 (0.82%) Burp Suite
14 3 (0.82%) Eclipse
14 3 (0.82%) JMeter
14 3 (0.82%) Maven
14 3 (0.82%) Robot Framework
14 3 (0.82%) sqlmap
General
1 84 (22.83%) Social Skills
2 58 (15.76%) Finance
3 32 (8.70%) Aerospace
4 26 (7.07%) Front Office
5 19 (5.16%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.35%) Automotive
7 13 (3.53%) Banking
8 12 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.72%) Law
9 10 (2.72%) Retail
10 9 (2.45%) Games
11 7 (1.90%) Health Technology
11 7 (1.90%) Public Sector
12 6 (1.63%) Marketing
13 4 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.09%) Publishing
14 3 (0.82%) Tech for Good
15 2 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 117 (31.79%) AWS Engineer
2 112 (30.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 82 (22.28%) Senior
4 72 (19.57%) AWS DevOps
5 61 (16.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 52 (14.13%) Cloud Engineer
7 45 (12.23%) Architect
8 42 (11.41%) Software Engineer
9 39 (10.60%) Solutions Architect
10 37 (10.05%) Developer
11 36 (9.78%) Lead
12 32 (8.70%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 30 (8.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 29 (7.88%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
15 28 (7.61%) Cloud Architect
16 23 (6.25%) Cloud Solutions Architect
17 22 (5.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 20 (5.43%) Data Engineer
18 20 (5.43%) Senior DevOps
18 20 (5.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (17.66%) Node.js
2 45 (12.23%) React
3 37 (10.05%) .NET
4 36 (9.78%) OpenAPI
4 36 (9.78%) Swagger
5 34 (9.24%) AWS CDK
5 34 (9.24%) REST
6 32 (8.70%) AngularJS
6 32 (8.70%) Spring
6 32 (8.70%) Spring Boot
7 31 (8.42%) RabbitMQ
8 29 (7.88%) gRPC
8 29 (7.88%) Material-UI
9 26 (7.07%) J2EE
10 19 (5.16%) Elastic Stack
11 14 (3.80%) ARM Templates
12 10 (2.72%) PySpark
13 9 (2.45%) JSON
14 8 (2.17%) .NET Core
14 8 (2.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 62 (16.85%) Cloud Native
2 26 (7.07%) Tandem
3 22 (5.98%) Public Cloud
4 19 (5.16%) IoT
5 18 (4.89%) Mobile App
6 16 (4.35%) Client/Server
7 12 (3.26%) Product Ownership
8 11 (2.99%) PropTech
9 10 (2.72%) Data Centre
10 9 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (2.17%) Blog
11 8 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.63%) Hedge funds
13 5 (1.36%) PKI
13 5 (1.36%) Social Media
14 4 (1.09%) Graphic Design
14 4 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
14 4 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 85 (23.10%) Linux
2 31 (8.42%) Ubuntu
3 30 (8.15%) Debian
3 30 (8.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 29 (7.88%) CentOS
5 24 (6.52%) Windows
6 5 (1.36%) Unix
6 5 (1.36%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.82%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (0.82%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.27%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (69.84%) Infrastructure as Code
2 241 (65.49%) DevOps
3 189 (51.36%) CI/CD
4 165 (44.84%) Agile
5 111 (30.16%) Containerisation
6 98 (26.63%) Software Engineering
7 89 (24.18%) Microservices
8 66 (17.93%) Open Source
9 55 (14.95%) Scrum
10 53 (14.40%) Configuration Management
10 53 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
11 48 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 45 (12.23%) Deployment Automation
13 41 (11.14%) Mentoring
14 39 (10.60%) Collaborative Working
14 39 (10.60%) Decision-Making
15 37 (10.05%) Continuous Improvement
15 37 (10.05%) Scaled Agile Framework
16 35 (9.51%) Continuous Integration
16 35 (9.51%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 201 (54.62%) Python
2 120 (32.61%) Java
3 76 (20.65%) JavaScript
4 51 (13.86%) Bash
5 42 (11.41%) Go
6 41 (11.14%) C#
7 36 (9.78%) PowerShell
8 30 (8.15%) SQL
9 19 (5.16%) TypeScript
10 14 (3.80%) PHP
11 12 (3.26%) Shell Script
12 9 (2.45%) Ruby
13 8 (2.17%) T-SQL
14 7 (1.90%) Scala
15 5 (1.36%) R
16 4 (1.09%) C
16 4 (1.09%) C++
16 4 (1.09%) Groovy
17 2 (0.54%) Perl
18 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 82 (22.28%) AWS Certification
2 81 (22.01%) Security Cleared
3 79 (21.47%) SC Cleared
4 39 (10.60%) Degree
5 36 (9.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 31 (8.42%) DV Cleared
7 28 (7.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (7.34%) Azure Certification
9 17 (4.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 16 (4.35%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.36%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.62%) NIST
2 14 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.26%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.82%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.82%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.82%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 157 (42.66%) Docker
2 16 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.17%) KVM
5 2 (0.54%) Firmware
6 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 291 (79.08%) Terraform
2 202 (54.89%) Kubernetes
3 99 (26.90%) Ansible
4 48 (13.04%) Puppet
5 29 (7.88%) Grafana
6 26 (7.07%) Prometheus
7 17 (4.62%) Progress Chef
8 11 (2.99%) Packer
9 5 (1.36%) Rancher
10 4 (1.09%) Consul
11 3 (0.82%) Argo
11 3 (0.82%) Salt
12 2 (0.54%) CSIRT
12 2 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.27%) Istio
13 1 (0.27%) Kibana
13 1 (0.27%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.27%) VxRail
Vendors
1 67 (18.21%) Google
2 31 (8.42%) Red Hat
3 29 (7.88%) SaltStack
4 17 (4.62%) Microsoft
4 17 (4.62%) VMware
5 16 (4.35%) ForgeRock
5 16 (4.35%) Sitecore
6 14 (3.80%) Splunk
7 13 (3.53%) Atlassian
8 12 (3.26%) Black Duck
8 12 (3.26%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.17%) Cisco
10 6 (1.63%) Databricks
10 6 (1.63%) New Relic
11 3 (0.82%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.82%) Oracle
11 3 (0.82%) Rackspace
11 3 (0.82%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.54%) Cloudera
12 2 (0.54%) Hortonworks