Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

cloudformation

366 live US technical postings name cloudformation in September 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 366 postings naming cloudformation that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer47.3%
  2. 2Software Engineer31.1%
  3. 3Data Engineer7.9%
  4. 4Security Engineer7.7%
  5. 5Full-Stack Engineer3.8%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where cloudformation is named
n = 190
10th
$108k
25th
$140k
Median
$174k
75th
$200k
90th
$232k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote14.5%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA9%
  3. 3New York, NY6.8%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA6.6%
  5. 5Washington, DC6.6%
  6. 6Boston, MA3.3%
  7. 7Seattle, WA2.7%
  8. 8Chicago, IL2.5%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.