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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 563 352 296
Rank change year-on-year -211 -56 -20
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 349 949 2,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.96% 1.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.99% 2.22% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 274 608 1,000
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 £97,500 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £111,375
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 35,421 42,712 77,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 43.07% 48.42%
Number of salaries quoted 26,675 28,032 41,298
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £34,000
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 £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 18 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 18 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 -193 324 £75,000 -6.25% 102
UK excluding London -210 171 £67,500 -6.90% 62
London -86 156 £95,000 +11.76% 47
Work from Home -135 146 £75,000 - 70
North of England -30 64 £62,783 -18.99% 23
North West -46 34 £67,500 -15.63% 10
Midlands -11 32 £67,500 - 12
South East -104 30 £68,750 +5.77% 11
South West -55 26 £55,000 -16.98% 9
East Midlands +7 16 £66,250 -5.36% 4
West Midlands -5 16 £72,500 +7.41% 8
Yorkshire +40 15 £52,500 -30.00% 8
North East +1 15 £65,000 -7.14% 5
East of England +12 10 £70,000 - 2
Northern Ireland +24 4 £70,000 -6.67%
Wales +8 3 £65,000 +2.52%
Scotland -99 2 £87,500 +16.67% 5

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 40 (11.46%) Apache Spark
2 33 (9.46%) Apache
3 26 (7.45%) Confluence
4 2 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.57%) Drupal
4 2 (0.57%) nginx
4 2 (0.57%) WordPress
5 1 (0.29%) Jetty
5 1 (0.29%) Moodle
5 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 336 (96.28%) AWS
2 185 (53.01%) Serverless
3 166 (47.56%) AWS Lambda
4 143 (40.97%) Azure
5 141 (40.40%) Amazon S3
6 116 (33.24%) Amazon EC2
7 87 (24.93%) GCP
8 78 (22.35%) Amazon EKS
9 77 (22.06%) Amazon ECS
10 70 (20.06%) GitHub
11 64 (18.34%) OpenShift
12 61 (17.48%) Amazon SQS
13 54 (15.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 52 (14.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 42 (12.03%) Azure DevOps
16 34 (9.74%) CloudFront
16 34 (9.74%) Route 53
16 34 (9.74%) SaaS
17 26 (7.45%) AWS Fargate
18 22 (6.30%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (7.74%) AMQP
2 23 (6.59%) Firewall
3 13 (3.72%) DNS
4 10 (2.87%) VPN
5 4 (1.15%) Network Security
6 3 (0.86%) HTTP
6 3 (0.86%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.86%) Internet
6 3 (0.86%) SSL
6 3 (0.86%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.57%) DKIM
7 2 (0.57%) DMARC
7 2 (0.57%) IPv4
7 2 (0.57%) OSPF
7 2 (0.57%) SMTP
7 2 (0.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (26.65%) Amazon RDS
2 42 (12.03%) Amazon Redshift
3 40 (11.46%) DynamoDB
4 30 (8.60%) Big Data
5 27 (7.74%) Cloudera CDH
5 27 (7.74%) Hadoop
6 21 (6.02%) MySQL
7 19 (5.44%) NoSQL
8 12 (3.44%) Redis
9 10 (2.87%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (2.58%) SQL Server
11 8 (2.29%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (2.29%) Couchbase
12 6 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.72%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (1.72%) Relational Database
13 4 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (1.15%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 97 (27.79%) Jenkins
2 49 (14.04%) Git
3 32 (9.17%) GitLab
4 31 (8.88%) Artifactory
5 28 (8.02%) JIRA
6 22 (6.30%) Bitbucket
7 17 (4.87%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (2.87%) Subversion
9 9 (2.58%) TeamCity
10 7 (2.01%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (1.15%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.15%) Spinnaker
12 3 (0.86%) Burp Suite
12 3 (0.86%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.86%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.86%) JMeter
12 3 (0.86%) Metasploit
12 3 (0.86%) Robot Framework
12 3 (0.86%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.86%) sqlmap
General
1 69 (19.77%) Social Skills
2 60 (17.19%) Finance
3 30 (8.60%) Front Office
4 29 (8.31%) Aerospace
5 18 (5.16%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.58%) Automotive
7 12 (3.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.87%) Banking
8 10 (2.87%) Law
8 10 (2.87%) Retail
9 9 (2.58%) Games
10 7 (2.01%) Health Technology
10 7 (2.01%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.43%) Marketing
12 4 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.15%) Publishing
12 4 (1.15%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 120 (34.38%) AWS Engineer
2 105 (30.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 79 (22.64%) Senior
4 76 (21.78%) AWS DevOps
5 65 (18.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 55 (15.76%) Cloud Engineer
7 40 (11.46%) Software Engineer
8 39 (11.17%) Architect
9 37 (10.60%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 36 (10.32%) Developer
11 35 (10.03%) Lead
12 34 (9.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 34 (9.74%) Solutions Architect
13 27 (7.74%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
14 26 (7.45%) Cloud Architect
14 26 (7.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 22 (6.30%) Cloud Solutions Architect
16 20 (5.73%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
16 20 (5.73%) Data Engineer
16 20 (5.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (14.04%) Node.js
2 41 (11.75%) React
3 36 (10.32%) .NET
4 34 (9.74%) AWS CDK
4 34 (9.74%) OpenAPI
4 34 (9.74%) Swagger
5 32 (9.17%) REST
6 30 (8.60%) AngularJS
6 30 (8.60%) J2EE
7 29 (8.31%) RabbitMQ
7 29 (8.31%) Spring
7 29 (8.31%) Spring Boot
8 27 (7.74%) gRPC
8 27 (7.74%) Material-UI
9 19 (5.44%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (2.87%) PySpark
11 9 (2.58%) JSON
12 8 (2.29%) .NET Core
13 7 (2.01%) AWS SAM
13 7 (2.01%) JSON Schema
Miscellaneous
1 47 (13.47%) Cloud Native
2 30 (8.60%) Tandem
3 22 (6.30%) Public Cloud
4 19 (5.44%) IoT
5 18 (5.16%) Mobile App
6 16 (4.58%) Client/Server
7 11 (3.15%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.87%) Data Centre
9 9 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (2.29%) Blog
11 7 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.72%) Hedge funds
12 6 (1.72%) PropTech
13 5 (1.43%) PKI
13 5 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.43%) Social Media
14 4 (1.15%) Graphic Design
14 4 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
15 3 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 85 (24.36%) Linux
2 30 (8.60%) Ubuntu
3 29 (8.31%) Debian
4 28 (8.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 27 (7.74%) CentOS
6 24 (6.88%) Windows
7 6 (1.72%) Unix
8 5 (1.43%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.86%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.86%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.57%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (68.48%) Infrastructure as Code
2 228 (65.33%) DevOps
3 180 (51.58%) CI/CD
4 154 (44.13%) Agile
5 108 (30.95%) Containerisation
6 98 (28.08%) Software Engineering
7 84 (24.07%) Microservices
8 69 (19.77%) Open Source
9 56 (16.05%) Configuration Management
10 52 (14.90%) Problem-Solving
10 52 (14.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 46 (13.18%) Deployment Automation
12 43 (12.32%) Decision-Making
13 40 (11.46%) Scrum
14 38 (10.89%) Collaborative Working
15 37 (10.60%) Migration
16 36 (10.32%) Continuous Integration
17 35 (10.03%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 33 (9.46%) Kanban
19 31 (8.88%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 185 (53.01%) Python
2 121 (34.67%) Java
3 61 (17.48%) JavaScript
4 51 (14.61%) Bash
5 46 (13.18%) Go
6 40 (11.46%) C#
7 34 (9.74%) PowerShell
8 29 (8.31%) SQL
9 19 (5.44%) TypeScript
10 13 (3.72%) PHP
11 12 (3.44%) Shell Script
12 9 (2.58%) Ruby
13 8 (2.29%) T-SQL
14 5 (1.43%) R
14 5 (1.43%) Scala
15 4 (1.15%) C
15 4 (1.15%) C++
15 4 (1.15%) Groovy
16 2 (0.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 70 (20.06%) Security Cleared
2 68 (19.48%) SC Cleared
3 65 (18.62%) AWS Certification
4 39 (11.17%) Degree
5 35 (10.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 29 (8.31%) DV Cleared
7 28 (8.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (4.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 16 (4.58%) AWS Certified Developer
10 14 (4.01%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 5 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.44%) Accessibility
1 12 (3.44%) NIST
2 9 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.86%) HIPAA
3 3 (0.86%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.57%) QA
5 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 152 (43.55%) Docker
2 16 (4.58%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (4.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.29%) KVM
5 2 (0.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 280 (80.23%) Terraform
2 194 (55.59%) Kubernetes
3 83 (23.78%) Ansible
4 47 (13.47%) Puppet
5 28 (8.02%) Grafana
6 25 (7.16%) Prometheus
7 18 (5.16%) Progress Chef
8 14 (4.01%) Packer
9 7 (2.01%) Salt
10 4 (1.15%) Consul
10 4 (1.15%) Rancher
11 3 (0.86%) Argo
12 2 (0.57%) CSIRT
12 2 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.29%) Istio
13 1 (0.29%) Kibana
Vendors
1 62 (17.77%) Google
2 29 (8.31%) Red Hat
3 27 (7.74%) SaltStack
4 17 (4.87%) Microsoft
5 16 (4.58%) Atlassian
5 16 (4.58%) ForgeRock
5 16 (4.58%) Sitecore
5 16 (4.58%) VMware
6 13 (3.72%) Splunk
7 8 (2.29%) Cisco
8 6 (1.72%) Databricks
9 4 (1.15%) New Relic
10 3 (0.86%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.86%) Oracle
10 3 (0.86%) Rackspace
10 3 (0.86%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.29%) Hitachi
11 1 (0.29%) Okta
11 1 (0.29%) SAP
11 1 (0.29%) UiPath