AWS CloudFormation Jobs

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 15 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 577 368
Rank change year-on-year +83 -209 -82
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 229 376 820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.34% 0.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.46% 1.02% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 127 277 575
10th Percentile £51,900 £55,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £63,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £90,500 £97,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £111,750 £112,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,384 £67,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +2.79% -6.90% +20.83%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,638 36,771 39,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.91% 33.28% 43.07%
Number of salaries quoted 10,340 27,364 26,845
10th Percentile £31,000 £30,250 £34,038
25th Percentile £41,750 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -10.16% +2.40%
75th Percentile £82,250 £77,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% -7.27% +4.76%

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 15 June 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS CloudFormation in the UK

AWS CloudFormation
Top 16 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 15 June 2025. 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 +72 211 £75,000 - 468
Work from Home +117 123 £68,505 -8.66% 286
London +81 113 £82,500 -13.16% 281
UK excluding London +107 100 £69,384 +2.79% 264
South East +91 31 £62,500 -7.41% 116
North of England +35 29 £69,384 +10.51% 51
North West 0 19 £69,692 +7.22% 15
East of England +49 16 £75,000 +7.14% 18
Scotland +119 8 £55,000 -32.31% 14
Yorkshire +54 7 £73,500 +40.00% 29
Wales +46 6 £57,500 -11.54% 3
Midlands +43 6 £83,750 +15.52% 17
South West +84 4 £85,000 +38.78% 32
West Midlands +53 4 £95,000 +31.03% 12
North East +43 3 £69,384 +6.74% 7
East Midlands +41 2 £72,500 +7.41% 4

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 11 (4.80%) Apache Spark
2 10 (4.37%) Confluence
3 5 (2.18%) Apache
4 3 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.31%) nginx
5 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (0.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 223 (97.38%) AWS
2 107 (46.72%) Azure
3 87 (37.99%) Amazon EKS
4 78 (34.06%) Serverless
5 75 (32.75%) AWS Lambda
6 45 (19.65%) Amazon S3
7 39 (17.03%) Amazon EC2
7 39 (17.03%) GCP
8 36 (15.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 28 (12.23%) Amazon ECS
9 28 (12.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 26 (11.35%) Cloud Computing
11 24 (10.48%) Pulumi
12 21 (9.17%) GitHub
13 17 (7.42%) AWS CodeBuild
14 16 (6.99%) Datadog
15 15 (6.55%) AWS KMS
16 12 (5.24%) AWS Step Functions
16 12 (5.24%) dbt
17 11 (4.80%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.42%) Firewall
2 15 (6.55%) Network Security
2 15 (6.55%) TCP/IP
3 11 (4.80%) VPN
4 7 (3.06%) DNS
5 5 (2.18%) BGP
5 5 (2.18%) SSL
6 4 (1.75%) Internet
6 4 (1.75%) IPsec
6 4 (1.75%) OSPF
6 4 (1.75%) VoIP
7 2 (0.87%) NAS
7 2 (0.87%) SAN
7 2 (0.87%) SNMP
7 2 (0.87%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (28.82%) Elasticsearch
2 43 (18.78%) Amazon RDS
3 18 (7.86%) NoSQL
4 17 (7.42%) DynamoDB
4 17 (7.42%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (6.99%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (6.55%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (5.24%) Redis
8 10 (4.37%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (3.93%) Big Data
10 5 (2.18%) MongoDB
10 5 (2.18%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.31%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.31%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.87%) Flink
12 2 (0.87%) MySQL
12 2 (0.87%) SQL Server
13 1 (0.44%) Amazon QuickSight
13 1 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (21.40%) Jenkins
2 32 (13.97%) GitLab
3 19 (8.30%) CircleCI
4 18 (7.86%) Git
5 13 (5.68%) JIRA
6 12 (5.24%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.18%) Spinnaker
8 2 (0.87%) Checkstyle
8 2 (0.87%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.44%) Gradle
9 1 (0.44%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.44%) Maven
9 1 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.44%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.44%) TestRail
9 1 (0.44%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.44%) Vagrant
General
1 72 (31.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 70 (30.57%) Social Skills
3 52 (22.71%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (20.09%) Finance
5 15 (6.55%) Banking
6 8 (3.49%) Advertising
6 8 (3.49%) Law
6 8 (3.49%) Marketing
7 7 (3.06%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.75%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.87%) Games
9 2 (0.87%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.87%) Local Government
10 1 (0.44%) Aviation
10 1 (0.44%) Electronics
10 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.44%) Military
10 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (30.13%) Developer
2 63 (27.51%) Senior
3 49 (21.40%) Software Developer
4 47 (20.52%) AWS Engineer
5 35 (15.28%) DevOps Engineer
6 32 (13.97%) Architect
7 22 (9.61%) Lead
8 21 (9.17%) Platform Engineer
9 19 (8.30%) Cloud Architect
9 19 (8.30%) Cloud Engineer
10 18 (7.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 17 (7.42%) AWS DevOps
11 17 (7.42%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 15 (6.55%) AWS Architect
12 15 (6.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 15 (6.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 15 (6.55%) Senior DevOps
12 15 (6.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 14 (6.11%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 13 (5.68%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (24.45%) Node.js
2 50 (21.83%) .NET
2 50 (21.83%) Pandas
3 33 (14.41%) Kafka
4 28 (12.23%) Elastic Stack
5 20 (8.73%) AWS CDK
6 15 (6.55%) RESTful
7 12 (5.24%) Django
8 9 (3.93%) gRPC
8 9 (3.93%) Loki
8 9 (3.93%) RabbitMQ
8 9 (3.93%) REST
8 9 (3.93%) Web Services
8 9 (3.93%) web3js
9 7 (3.06%) YAML
10 6 (2.62%) AngularJS
10 6 (2.62%) JSON
11 5 (2.18%) ARM Templates
11 5 (2.18%) Laravel
11 5 (2.18%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 49 (21.40%) Cyberattack
2 27 (11.79%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.24%) Management Information System
4 10 (4.37%) Blockchain
4 10 (4.37%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.93%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.93%) Web3
6 6 (2.62%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.18%) CMDB
8 4 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.75%) IVR
8 4 (1.75%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.31%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.31%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.87%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.87%) IoT
10 2 (0.87%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 86 (37.55%) Linux
2 49 (21.40%) Android
3 17 (7.42%) Unix
4 5 (2.18%) Windows
5 3 (1.31%) Debian
5 3 (1.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (76.42%) CI/CD
2 135 (58.95%) Infrastructure as Code
3 130 (56.77%) Containerisation
4 118 (51.53%) DevOps
5 84 (36.68%) Software Engineering
6 80 (34.93%) Agile
7 62 (27.07%) Design Patterns
8 55 (24.02%) Collaborative Working
9 54 (23.58%) Kanban
10 52 (22.71%) Mathematics
10 52 (22.71%) OO
10 52 (22.71%) Secure Coding
11 51 (22.27%) OOP
12 50 (21.83%) Microservices
12 50 (21.83%) OWASP
13 49 (21.40%) Android Development
13 49 (21.40%) Line Management
13 49 (21.40%) Statistics
14 46 (20.09%) Observability
15 44 (19.21%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 156 (68.12%) Python
2 84 (36.68%) Go
3 81 (35.37%) Java
4 69 (30.13%) JavaScript
5 50 (21.83%) Rust
6 49 (21.40%) C++
7 46 (20.09%) Bash
8 18 (7.86%) SQL
9 14 (6.11%) TypeScript
10 8 (3.49%) Scala
11 7 (3.06%) Bicep
11 7 (3.06%) PowerShell
12 5 (2.18%) PHP
13 4 (1.75%) C#
14 3 (1.31%) Groovy
14 3 (1.31%) Ruby
15 1 (0.44%) R
15 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 95 (41.48%) Security Cleared
2 53 (23.14%) DV Cleared
3 34 (14.85%) SC Cleared
4 28 (12.23%) AWS Certification
5 27 (11.79%) Degree
6 20 (8.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 16 (6.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.87%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.87%) CCNP
8 2 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.87%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.44%) PhD
9 1 (0.44%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.86%) GDPR
2 15 (6.55%) HIPAA
3 9 (3.93%) QA
4 4 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.31%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.87%) NIST
6 2 (0.87%) SLA
7 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 140 (61.14%) Docker
2 4 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.87%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 192 (83.84%) Terraform
2 133 (58.08%) Kubernetes
3 98 (42.79%) Ansible
4 56 (24.45%) Grafana
5 48 (20.96%) Prometheus
6 11 (4.80%) AWS Copilot
7 6 (2.62%) Argo
7 6 (2.62%) Puppet
8 5 (2.18%) Consul
8 5 (2.18%) Istio
9 4 (1.75%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.31%) Kibana
10 3 (1.31%) logstash
10 3 (1.31%) Salt
10 3 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.87%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.87%) linkerd
11 2 (0.87%) Packer
12 1 (0.44%) Automic
12 1 (0.44%) Rancher
Vendors
1 20 (8.73%) Google
2 13 (5.68%) Splunk
3 12 (5.24%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.37%) Hitachi
5 5 (2.18%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.31%) Databricks
6 3 (1.31%) Okta
6 3 (1.31%) VMware
7 2 (0.87%) Cisco
7 2 (0.87%) F5
7 2 (0.87%) Informatica
7 2 (0.87%) Juniper
7 2 (0.87%) New Relic
7 2 (0.87%) PagerDuty
7 2 (0.87%) Rapid7
7 2 (0.87%) SimCorp
7 2 (0.87%) Talend
8 1 (0.44%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.44%) IBM
8 1 (0.44%) SAP
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