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

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 558 371 281
Rank change year-on-year -187 -90 -9
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 370 849 2,537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.90% 1.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.02% 2.10% 3.05%
Number of salaries quoted 275 572 1,028
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 36,434 40,499 83,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.05% 43.14% 48.68%
Number of salaries quoted 27,132 27,203 41,657
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,452 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,140 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.35% +2.62% +6.84%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £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 6 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 6 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 -186 342 £75,000 -6.25% 97
UK excluding London -180 192 £67,500 -6.90% 62
London -94 155 £95,000 +11.76% 39
Work from Home -138 151 £75,000 - 63
North of England -43 68 £62,783 -16.29% 17
Midlands +4 38 £70,000 +1.82% 9
North West -49 37 £67,500 -15.63% 9
South West -58 32 £56,250 -13.46% 18
South East -77 31 £68,750 +3.77% 8
West Midlands -25 21 £72,500 +7.41% 7
East Midlands -6 17 £67,500 -3.57% 2
Yorkshire +34 16 £52,500 -30.00% 7
North East -8 15 £65,000 -7.14% 1
East of England -10 10 £70,000 -6.67% 2
Northern Ireland +24 5 £70,000 -6.67%
Wales +12 4 £65,000 +2.52%
Scotland -111 4 £87,500 +16.67% 8

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 (11.89%) Apache Spark
2 35 (9.46%) Apache
3 22 (5.95%) Confluence
4 3 (0.81%) 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
1 354 (95.68%) AWS
2 186 (50.27%) Serverless
3 168 (45.41%) AWS Lambda
4 164 (44.32%) Azure
5 138 (37.30%) Amazon S3
6 114 (30.81%) Amazon EC2
7 104 (28.11%) GCP
8 80 (21.62%) Amazon EKS
9 71 (19.19%) Amazon ECS
10 66 (17.84%) GitHub
11 61 (16.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 60 (16.22%) OpenShift
13 57 (15.41%) Amazon SQS
14 51 (13.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 43 (11.62%) Azure DevOps
16 36 (9.73%) SaaS
17 32 (8.65%) CloudFront
18 28 (7.57%) Route 53
19 27 (7.30%) Cloud Computing
20 26 (7.03%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 29 (7.84%) AMQP
2 23 (6.22%) Firewall
3 11 (2.97%) VPN
4 9 (2.43%) DNS
5 3 (0.81%) HTTP
5 3 (0.81%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.81%) IPv4
5 3 (0.81%) Network Security
5 3 (0.81%) OSPF
5 3 (0.81%) SSL
5 3 (0.81%) VLAN
6 2 (0.54%) DKIM
6 2 (0.54%) DMARC
6 2 (0.54%) Internet
6 2 (0.54%) SMTP
6 2 (0.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (24.05%) Amazon RDS
2 43 (11.62%) DynamoDB
3 38 (10.27%) Amazon Redshift
4 34 (9.19%) Big Data
5 29 (7.84%) Cloudera CDH
5 29 (7.84%) Hadoop
6 22 (5.95%) NoSQL
7 21 (5.68%) MySQL
8 12 (3.24%) Redis
9 10 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
10 9 (2.43%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (2.43%) SQL Server
11 8 (2.16%) Couchbase
11 8 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.62%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.62%) Neo4j
12 6 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
13 5 (1.35%) BigQuery
13 5 (1.35%) Relational Database
14 4 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 102 (27.57%) Jenkins
2 56 (15.14%) Git
3 37 (10.00%) JIRA
4 31 (8.38%) GitLab
5 25 (6.76%) Artifactory
6 19 (5.14%) Bitbucket
7 15 (4.05%) SonarQube
8 13 (3.51%) Sonatype Nexus
8 13 (3.51%) Terragrunt
9 9 (2.43%) TeamCity
10 7 (1.89%) Octopus Deploy
11 6 (1.62%) Spinnaker
11 6 (1.62%) Subversion
12 4 (1.08%) CircleCI
13 3 (0.81%) Burp Suite
13 3 (0.81%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.81%) JMeter
13 3 (0.81%) Maven
13 3 (0.81%) Robot Framework
13 3 (0.81%) sqlmap
General
1 87 (23.51%) Social Skills
2 57 (15.41%) Finance
3 32 (8.65%) Aerospace
4 24 (6.49%) Front Office
5 20 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.32%) Automotive
7 13 (3.51%) Banking
8 12 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.70%) Law
9 10 (2.70%) Retail
10 9 (2.43%) Games
11 7 (1.89%) Health Technology
11 7 (1.89%) Public Sector
12 6 (1.62%) Marketing
13 4 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.08%) Publishing
14 3 (0.81%) Tech for Good
15 2 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 115 (31.08%) AWS Engineer
2 110 (29.73%) DevOps Engineer
3 86 (23.24%) Senior
4 70 (18.92%) AWS DevOps
5 59 (15.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 53 (14.32%) Cloud Engineer
7 45 (12.16%) Architect
8 43 (11.62%) Software Engineer
9 39 (10.54%) Solutions Architect
10 37 (10.00%) Developer
11 36 (9.73%) Lead
12 30 (8.11%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 29 (7.84%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
14 28 (7.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 27 (7.30%) Cloud Architect
16 23 (6.22%) Cloud Solutions Architect
17 22 (5.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 20 (5.41%) Data Engineer
18 20 (5.41%) Senior DevOps
18 20 (5.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (17.57%) Node.js
2 45 (12.16%) React
3 37 (10.00%) .NET
4 36 (9.73%) AWS CDK
4 36 (9.73%) OpenAPI
4 36 (9.73%) Swagger
5 34 (9.19%) REST
6 32 (8.65%) AngularJS
6 32 (8.65%) Spring
6 32 (8.65%) Spring Boot
7 31 (8.38%) RabbitMQ
8 29 (7.84%) gRPC
8 29 (7.84%) Material-UI
9 24 (6.49%) J2EE
10 19 (5.14%) Elastic Stack
11 14 (3.78%) ARM Templates
12 10 (2.70%) PySpark
13 9 (2.43%) JSON
14 8 (2.16%) .NET Core
14 8 (2.16%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 62 (16.76%) Cloud Native
2 24 (6.49%) Tandem
3 22 (5.95%) Public Cloud
4 19 (5.14%) IoT
5 18 (4.86%) Mobile App
6 16 (4.32%) Client/Server
7 12 (3.24%) Product Ownership
8 11 (2.97%) PropTech
9 10 (2.70%) Data Centre
10 9 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (2.16%) Blog
11 8 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
13 6 (1.62%) Hedge funds
14 5 (1.35%) PKI
14 5 (1.35%) Social Media
15 4 (1.08%) Graphic Design
15 4 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
15 4 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 86 (23.24%) Linux
2 31 (8.38%) Ubuntu
3 30 (8.11%) Debian
3 30 (8.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 29 (7.84%) CentOS
5 25 (6.76%) Windows
6 5 (1.35%) Unix
6 5 (1.35%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.81%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (0.81%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.27%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (69.73%) Infrastructure as Code
2 241 (65.14%) DevOps
3 188 (50.81%) CI/CD
4 166 (44.86%) Agile
5 111 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 97 (26.22%) Software Engineering
7 89 (24.05%) Microservices
8 64 (17.30%) Open Source
9 56 (15.14%) Scrum
10 55 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
11 54 (14.59%) Configuration Management
12 46 (12.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 43 (11.62%) Deployment Automation
14 42 (11.35%) Mentoring
15 39 (10.54%) Collaborative Working
16 37 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
16 37 (10.00%) Decision-Making
16 37 (10.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
17 36 (9.73%) Kanban
18 35 (9.46%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 200 (54.05%) Python
2 117 (31.62%) Java
3 76 (20.54%) JavaScript
4 52 (14.05%) Bash
5 41 (11.08%) C#
6 40 (10.81%) Go
7 37 (10.00%) PowerShell
8 30 (8.11%) SQL
9 19 (5.14%) TypeScript
10 14 (3.78%) PHP
11 12 (3.24%) Shell Script
12 9 (2.43%) Ruby
13 8 (2.16%) T-SQL
14 7 (1.89%) Scala
15 5 (1.35%) R
16 4 (1.08%) C
16 4 (1.08%) C++
16 4 (1.08%) Groovy
17 2 (0.54%) Perl
18 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 84 (22.70%) Security Cleared
2 83 (22.43%) AWS Certification
3 80 (21.62%) SC Cleared
4 39 (10.54%) Degree
5 36 (9.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 32 (8.65%) DV Cleared
7 28 (7.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (7.30%) Azure Certification
9 17 (4.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 16 (4.32%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.35%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 5 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.27%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.59%) NIST
2 15 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.24%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.81%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.81%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.81%) 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
5 1 (0.27%) QA
System Software
1 154 (41.62%) Docker
2 16 (4.32%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (3.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.16%) KVM
5 2 (0.54%) Firmware
6 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 290 (78.38%) Terraform
2 198 (53.51%) Kubernetes
3 100 (27.03%) Ansible
4 49 (13.24%) Puppet
5 29 (7.84%) Grafana
6 26 (7.03%) Prometheus
7 17 (4.59%) Progress Chef
8 10 (2.70%) Packer
9 5 (1.35%) Rancher
10 4 (1.08%) Consul
11 3 (0.81%) Argo
11 3 (0.81%) 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 (18.11%) Google
2 31 (8.38%) Red Hat
3 29 (7.84%) SaltStack
4 17 (4.59%) Microsoft
4 17 (4.59%) VMware
5 16 (4.32%) ForgeRock
5 16 (4.32%) Sitecore
6 14 (3.78%) Splunk
7 13 (3.51%) Atlassian
8 12 (3.24%) Black Duck
8 12 (3.24%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.16%) Cisco
10 6 (1.62%) Databricks
11 5 (1.35%) New Relic
12 3 (0.81%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.81%) Oracle
12 3 (0.81%) Rackspace
12 3 (0.81%) SolarWinds
13 2 (0.54%) Cloudera
13 2 (0.54%) Hortonworks