AWS CloudFormation Job Trends in Durham

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Durham requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 28 17
Rank change year-on-year -2 -11 -
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 3 8 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Durham 1.31% 4.02% 3.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.98% 15.38% 9.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68,813 £64,471 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% -
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £69,800
90th Percentile - £74,144 -
North East median annual salary £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% -10.34%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Durham

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 Durham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 43 52 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 18.78% 26.13% 38.93%
Number of salaries quoted 23 30 42
10th Percentile - £37,775 £31,250
25th Percentile £29,750 £46,713 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £51,750
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +4.35% +29.38%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,608 £61,875
90th Percentile £78,790 £77,260 £69,800
North East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

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

AWS CloudFormation job vacancy trend in Durham

AWS CloudFormation
Salary Trend in Durham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing AWS CloudFormation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation
Job Locations in Durham

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS CloudFormation within the Durham region over the 6 months to 29 December 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
Darlington +5 3 £73,801 +6.48%
AWS CloudFormation
North East

AWS CloudFormation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Durham 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) dbt
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) Pulumi
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (66.67%) PaaS
2 2 (66.67%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Prototyping
3 1 (33.33%) Application Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google