AWS CloudFormation Job Trends in Cheshire

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 - 56
Rank change year-on-year - - +49
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 6 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 0.76% - 1.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.17% - 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72,000 - £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,000 - £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.76%
75th Percentile £86,000 - £77,500
90th Percentile - - £79,000
North West median annual salary £61,250 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.08% -7.69% -18.75%

All Cloud Skills
Cheshire

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 in Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 276 281 210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 34.76% 30.58% 43.30%
Number of salaries quoted 155 145 186
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,099 £23,850
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £52,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £60,750 £77,500
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AWS CloudFormation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

AWS CloudFormation job vacancy trend in Cheshire

AWS CloudFormation
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing AWS CloudFormation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS CloudFormation within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Knutsford - 6 £79,000 - 1
AWS CloudFormation
North West

AWS CloudFormation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 2 (33.33%) PaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (16.67%) Datadog
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (16.67%) CircleCI
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Engineering Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) DPDK
1 1 (16.67%) eBPF
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) NETCONF
1 1 (16.67%) RESTCONF
1 1 (16.67%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) NVMe
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (33.33%) AI
4 2 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
4 2 (33.33%) Generative AI
4 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
4 2 (33.33%) Observability
4 2 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
4 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 2 (33.33%) SDLC
4 2 (33.33%) TDD
5 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Go
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) KVM
2 1 (16.67%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (33.33%) Ansible
4 1 (16.67%) Grafana
4 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) AppDynamics
2 1 (16.67%) SaltStack