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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 549 360 288
Rank change year-on-year -189 -72 -8
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 379 958 2,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.95% 1.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.07% 2.21% 2.90%
Number of salaries quoted 277 619 1,007
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 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £73,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.47% +22.92% +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 35,402 43,277 76,049
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.68% 42.84% 48.35%
Number of salaries quoted 26,746 28,483 41,379
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,790 £33,779
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 £96,250 £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 10 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 10 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 -152 354 £75,000 -6.25% 91
UK excluding London -172 197 £67,500 -8.47% 54
London -75 160 £95,000 +11.76% 37
Work from Home -141 145 £75,000 - 62
North of England -34 63 £62,783 -21.52% 19
South West -21 53 £55,000 -16.98% 10
North West -47 33 £67,500 -15.63% 10
Midlands -19 31 £67,500 - 15
South East -98 30 £68,750 +5.77% 5
East Midlands - 16 £66,250 - 6
Yorkshire +43 15 £52,500 -30.00% 6
North East +1 15 £65,000 -7.14% 3
West Midlands -20 15 £71,250 +5.56% 9
East of England +27 11 £70,000 -
Northern Ireland +25 4 £70,000 -6.67% 2
Wales +8 3 £65,000 +2.52%
Scotland -93 2 £87,500 +20.69% 3

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 39 (10.29%) Apache Spark
2 32 (8.44%) Apache
3 26 (6.86%) Confluence
4 2 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.53%) Drupal
4 2 (0.53%) nginx
4 2 (0.53%) WordPress
5 1 (0.26%) Jetty
5 1 (0.26%) Moodle
5 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 366 (96.57%) AWS
2 187 (49.34%) Serverless
3 168 (44.33%) AWS Lambda
4 143 (37.73%) Amazon S3
4 143 (37.73%) Azure
5 118 (31.13%) Amazon EC2
6 85 (22.43%) GCP
7 79 (20.84%) Amazon ECS
8 77 (20.32%) Amazon EKS
9 70 (18.47%) GitHub
10 64 (16.89%) OpenShift
11 63 (16.62%) Amazon SQS
12 53 (13.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 52 (13.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 43 (11.35%) Azure DevOps
15 35 (9.23%) Route 53
15 35 (9.23%) SaaS
16 34 (8.97%) CloudFront
17 26 (6.86%) AWS Fargate
18 22 (5.80%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (11.08%) DNS
2 32 (8.44%) HTTP
2 32 (8.44%) TCP/IP
3 29 (7.65%) DHCP
4 26 (6.86%) AMQP
5 23 (6.07%) Firewall
6 10 (2.64%) VPN
7 4 (1.06%) Network Security
8 3 (0.79%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.79%) Internet
8 3 (0.79%) SSL
9 2 (0.53%) DKIM
9 2 (0.53%) DMARC
9 2 (0.53%) IPv4
9 2 (0.53%) OSPF
9 2 (0.53%) SMTP
9 2 (0.53%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (25.07%) Amazon RDS
2 44 (11.61%) Amazon Redshift
3 41 (10.82%) DynamoDB
4 30 (7.92%) Big Data
5 26 (6.86%) Cloudera CDH
5 26 (6.86%) Hadoop
6 21 (5.54%) MySQL
7 19 (5.01%) NoSQL
8 12 (3.17%) Redis
9 11 (2.90%) Amazon Aurora
10 10 (2.64%) SQL Server
11 8 (2.11%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (2.11%) Couchbase
12 6 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (1.58%) Relational Database
13 5 (1.32%) MongoDB
14 4 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (1.06%) Neo4j
15 3 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 99 (26.12%) Jenkins
2 50 (13.19%) Git
3 33 (8.71%) Artifactory
4 31 (8.18%) GitLab
5 28 (7.39%) JIRA
6 21 (5.54%) Bitbucket
7 17 (4.49%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (2.64%) Subversion
9 9 (2.37%) TeamCity
10 7 (1.85%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (1.06%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.06%) Spinnaker
12 3 (0.79%) Burp Suite
12 3 (0.79%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.79%) Metasploit
12 3 (0.79%) sqlmap
13 2 (0.53%) Eclipse
13 2 (0.53%) JMeter
13 2 (0.53%) JUnit
13 2 (0.53%) Maven
General
1 97 (25.59%) Social Skills
2 92 (24.27%) Finance
3 41 (10.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 32 (8.44%) Front Office
5 27 (7.12%) Aerospace
6 18 (4.75%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (4.22%) Automotive
8 10 (2.64%) Banking
8 10 (2.64%) Law
8 10 (2.64%) Retail
9 8 (2.11%) Games
9 8 (2.11%) Health Technology
10 7 (1.85%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.32%) Marketing
11 5 (1.32%) Tech for Good
12 4 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.06%) Publishing
13 2 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 121 (31.93%) AWS Engineer
2 108 (28.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 97 (25.59%) Senior
4 78 (20.58%) AWS DevOps
5 67 (17.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 58 (15.30%) Cloud Engineer
7 57 (15.04%) Architect
8 43 (11.35%) Solutions Architect
9 41 (10.82%) Cloud Architect
10 39 (10.29%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 39 (10.29%) Lead
11 38 (10.03%) Software Engineer
12 37 (9.76%) Developer
13 36 (9.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 28 (7.39%) Cloud Solutions Architect
15 26 (6.86%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
15 26 (6.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 25 (6.60%) Senior Architect
17 20 (5.28%) Senior DevOps
17 20 (5.28%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (12.93%) Node.js
2 41 (10.82%) React
3 36 (9.50%) .NET
4 35 (9.23%) AWS CDK
4 35 (9.23%) SAML
5 34 (8.97%) HTML
6 33 (8.71%) OpenAPI
6 33 (8.71%) Swagger
7 32 (8.44%) J2EE
8 31 (8.18%) REST
9 30 (7.92%) AngularJS
10 29 (7.65%) OpenID
11 28 (7.39%) Spring
11 28 (7.39%) Spring Boot
12 27 (7.12%) RabbitMQ
13 26 (6.86%) gRPC
13 26 (6.86%) Material-UI
14 18 (4.75%) Elastic Stack
15 11 (2.90%) PySpark
16 9 (2.37%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 75 (19.79%) Cloud Native
2 32 (8.44%) Tandem
3 29 (7.65%) Cyberattack
4 22 (5.80%) Public Cloud
5 19 (5.01%) IoT
6 18 (4.75%) Mobile App
7 16 (4.22%) Client/Server
8 11 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (2.64%) Data Centre
10 9 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (2.11%) Blog
12 7 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (1.58%) Hedge funds
14 5 (1.32%) PKI
14 5 (1.32%) PropTech
14 5 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (1.32%) Social Media
15 4 (1.06%) Graphic Design
15 4 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 84 (22.16%) Linux
2 29 (7.65%) Ubuntu
3 28 (7.39%) Debian
4 27 (7.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 26 (6.86%) CentOS
6 23 (6.07%) Windows
7 6 (1.58%) Unix
8 5 (1.32%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.79%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.79%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.53%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (70.45%) Infrastructure as Code
2 231 (60.95%) DevOps
3 182 (48.02%) Agile
4 180 (47.49%) CI/CD
5 107 (28.23%) Containerisation
6 98 (25.86%) Software Engineering
7 83 (21.90%) Microservices
8 70 (18.47%) Open Source
9 56 (14.78%) Configuration Management
10 54 (14.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 52 (13.72%) Cloud Security
12 51 (13.46%) DevSecOps
13 50 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
14 48 (12.66%) Deployment Automation
15 45 (11.87%) Decision-Making
16 42 (11.08%) Technical Leadership
17 41 (10.82%) SDLC
18 40 (10.55%) Scrum
19 37 (9.76%) Continuous Integration
19 37 (9.76%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 187 (49.34%) Python
2 121 (31.93%) Java
3 61 (16.09%) JavaScript
4 51 (13.46%) Bash
5 49 (12.93%) Go
6 40 (10.55%) C#
7 33 (8.71%) PowerShell
8 29 (7.65%) SQL
9 20 (5.28%) TypeScript
10 13 (3.43%) PHP
11 12 (3.17%) Shell Script
12 9 (2.37%) Ruby
13 8 (2.11%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.58%) R
15 5 (1.32%) Scala
16 4 (1.06%) C
16 4 (1.06%) C++
16 4 (1.06%) Groovy
17 2 (0.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 97 (25.59%) Security Cleared
2 93 (24.54%) AWS Certification
3 66 (17.41%) SC Cleared
4 64 (16.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 57 (15.04%) DV Cleared
6 38 (10.03%) Degree
7 27 (7.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (4.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 16 (4.22%) AWS Certified Developer
10 14 (3.69%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.32%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 5 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.17%) Accessibility
2 11 (2.90%) NIST
3 8 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.79%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.79%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.53%) QA
6 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.26%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 153 (40.37%) Docker
2 16 (4.22%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (3.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.11%) KVM
5 2 (0.53%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 310 (81.79%) Terraform
2 194 (51.19%) Kubernetes
3 82 (21.64%) Ansible
4 46 (12.14%) Puppet
5 28 (7.39%) Grafana
6 25 (6.60%) Prometheus
7 19 (5.01%) Progress Chef
8 14 (3.69%) Packer
9 8 (2.11%) Salt
10 4 (1.06%) Consul
10 4 (1.06%) Rancher
11 3 (0.79%) Argo
12 2 (0.53%) CSIRT
12 2 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.26%) Istio
13 1 (0.26%) Kibana
Vendors
1 61 (16.09%) Google
2 28 (7.39%) Red Hat
3 26 (6.86%) SaltStack
4 16 (4.22%) ForgeRock
4 16 (4.22%) Microsoft
4 16 (4.22%) Sitecore
4 16 (4.22%) VMware
5 15 (3.96%) Atlassian
6 12 (3.17%) Splunk
7 8 (2.11%) Cisco
8 7 (1.85%) Databricks
9 4 (1.06%) New Relic
10 3 (0.79%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.79%) Rackspace
10 3 (0.79%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.53%) Oracle
12 1 (0.26%) Hitachi
12 1 (0.26%) Okta
12 1 (0.26%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.26%) SAP