AWS CloudFormation Job Trends in England

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 387 493
Rank change year-on-year +6 +106 -154
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 285 235 310
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.62% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.29% 1.63% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 176 185 251
10th Percentile £53,500 £56,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £63,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +13.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £130,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -6.25%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 22,166 14,426 28,425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.64% 37.94% 37.17%
Number of salaries quoted 12,075 10,197 23,716
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

AWS CloudFormation job vacancy trend in England

AWS CloudFormation
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing AWS CloudFormation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in England over the 6 months to 23 March 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS CloudFormation in England

AWS CloudFormation
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS CloudFormation within the England region over the 6 months to 23 March 2026. 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
London -1 135 £85,000 -12.82% 47
North of England +17 98 £73,801 +6.48% 41
Yorkshire +18 67 £72,500 -3.33% 20
North West -15 27 £74,051 +6.93% 13
Midlands -32 23 £50,000 -26.97% 5
West Midlands +11 15 £50,000 -27.86% 3
South East -35 14 £70,000 +16.67% 20
South West -18 11 £70,000 +27.27% 16
East Midlands -40 8 £75,000 +15.38% 2
North East -27 4 £73,801 +6.37% 8
East of England -5 1 £75,000 -11.76% 9
AWS CloudFormation
UK

AWS CloudFormation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 16 (5.61%) Apache
2 8 (2.81%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.70%) Confluence
4 2 (0.70%) JBoss
4 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.70%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.70%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.70%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.35%) Drupal
5 1 (0.35%) IIS
5 1 (0.35%) nginx
5 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 269 (94.39%) AWS
2 160 (56.14%) Serverless
3 136 (47.72%) AWS Lambda
4 114 (40.00%) Azure
5 107 (37.54%) Amazon S3
6 85 (29.82%) Amazon ECS
7 74 (25.96%) AWS Step Functions
7 74 (25.96%) GitHub
8 66 (23.16%) GCP
9 65 (22.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 54 (18.95%) GitHub Actions
11 49 (17.19%) Amazon ECR
12 44 (15.44%) Datadog
13 42 (14.74%) Amazon EKS
14 39 (13.68%) Amazon SQS
15 33 (11.58%) Apigee
16 30 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
17 28 (9.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 27 (9.47%) Azure DevOps
18 27 (9.47%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.61%) TCP/IP
2 15 (5.26%) Firewall
3 13 (4.56%) DSL
3 13 (4.56%) VPN
4 7 (2.46%) Network Security
5 5 (1.75%) AMQP
5 5 (1.75%) DNS
5 5 (1.75%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (1.05%) SCCP
7 2 (0.70%) SSL
8 1 (0.35%) 4G
8 1 (0.35%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (31.23%) DynamoDB
2 69 (24.21%) NoSQL
3 47 (16.49%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (11.93%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (7.72%) Amazon Athena
6 19 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
7 15 (5.26%) Redis
8 14 (4.91%) SQL Server
9 12 (4.21%) MySQL
10 10 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (2.11%) Big Data
11 6 (2.11%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.75%) Cloudera CDH
12 5 (1.75%) Data Lake
12 5 (1.75%) Hadoop
13 3 (1.05%) Metadata
14 2 (0.70%) Apache Iceberg
14 2 (0.70%) DB2
14 2 (0.70%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 114 (40.00%) GitLab
2 111 (38.95%) Jenkins
3 42 (14.74%) Git
4 36 (12.63%) SonarQube
5 34 (11.93%) Maven
6 33 (11.58%) Cypress.io
7 23 (8.07%) CircleCI
8 12 (4.21%) Bitbucket
9 11 (3.86%) Cucumber
10 6 (2.11%) JIRA
11 5 (1.75%) git-flow
11 5 (1.75%) Robot Framework
12 4 (1.40%) JMeter
12 4 (1.40%) Selenium
13 3 (1.05%) Eclipse
13 3 (1.05%) TeamCity
14 2 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 2 (0.70%) TestRail
15 1 (0.35%) Gatling
15 1 (0.35%) Gradle
General
1 96 (33.68%) Social Skills
2 54 (18.95%) Finance
3 28 (9.82%) Banking
4 16 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.86%) Aerospace
6 8 (2.81%) Advertising
6 8 (2.81%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.11%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.75%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.75%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.40%) Billing
10 4 (1.40%) Retail
11 3 (1.05%) Aviation
12 2 (0.70%) Electronics
12 2 (0.70%) Games
12 2 (0.70%) Law
12 2 (0.70%) Mandarin Language
12 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 77 (27.02%) Developer
2 60 (21.05%) Cloud Engineer
3 59 (20.70%) Senior
4 45 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
5 41 (14.39%) Java Developer
6 31 (10.88%) AWS Engineer
7 25 (8.77%) Platform Engineer
7 25 (8.77%) Senior Developer
8 22 (7.72%) AWS Developer
9 21 (7.37%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 21 (7.37%) Lead
9 21 (7.37%) Security Engineer
10 20 (7.02%) Architect
11 17 (5.96%) AWS Architect
12 16 (5.61%) AWS DevOps
12 16 (5.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 13 (4.56%) .NET Developer
13 13 (4.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 13 (4.56%) AWS Security Architect
13 13 (4.56%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (18.95%) AWS CDK
2 53 (18.60%) AngularJS
3 52 (18.25%) Spring Boot
4 36 (12.63%) Kafka
4 36 (12.63%) Node.js
5 33 (11.58%) Gherkin
5 33 (11.58%) Jest
6 32 (11.23%) React
6 32 (11.23%) RESTful
7 27 (9.47%) Spring
8 23 (8.07%) Elastic Stack
8 23 (8.07%) RabbitMQ
9 20 (7.02%) .NET
10 17 (5.96%) gRPC
11 14 (4.91%) Django
11 14 (4.91%) REST
11 14 (4.91%) web3js
12 13 (4.56%) .NET Core
12 13 (4.56%) ASP.NET
12 13 (4.56%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 90 (31.58%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.72%) Security Posture
3 20 (7.02%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.91%) Blockchain
4 14 (4.91%) Product Ownership
4 14 (4.91%) Web3
5 13 (4.56%) Cloud Security Posture
6 11 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (3.86%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (3.86%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.81%) e-Learning
7 8 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.11%) PKI
9 5 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.05%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (1.05%) Cyber Security Posture
10 3 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.05%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.70%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 62 (21.75%) Linux
2 24 (8.42%) Windows
3 23 (8.07%) Unix
4 12 (4.21%) Ubuntu
5 9 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.46%) CentOS
7 5 (1.75%) Debian
7 5 (1.75%) VMS
8 4 (1.40%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.35%) Android
9 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (75.44%) CI/CD
2 213 (74.74%) Infrastructure as Code
3 203 (71.23%) DevOps
4 126 (44.21%) Agile
5 88 (30.88%) Containerisation
6 79 (27.72%) Problem-Solving
7 68 (23.86%) Microservices
8 61 (21.40%) Continuous Improvement
9 56 (19.65%) DevSecOps
9 56 (19.65%) Observability
10 55 (19.30%) Cloud Security
11 49 (17.19%) Continuous Integration
12 45 (15.79%) Mentoring
13 41 (14.39%) Incident Response
13 41 (14.39%) Test Automation
14 39 (13.68%) Platform Engineering
15 35 (12.28%) Root Cause Analysis
15 35 (12.28%) Software Engineering
16 34 (11.93%) High Availability
17 33 (11.58%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 122 (42.81%) Python
2 86 (30.18%) Java
3 77 (27.02%) Bash
4 65 (22.81%) TypeScript
5 63 (22.11%) SQL
6 40 (14.04%) Go
7 33 (11.58%) Groovy
8 29 (10.18%) PowerShell
9 23 (8.07%) Kotlin
10 21 (7.37%) JavaScript
11 13 (4.56%) C#
11 13 (4.56%) Rust
12 11 (3.86%) Bicep
13 4 (1.40%) C++
14 3 (1.05%) Google Apps Script
15 1 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.35%) PHP
15 1 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 71 (24.91%) AWS Certification
2 68 (23.86%) Security Cleared
3 37 (12.98%) SC Cleared
4 35 (12.28%) Degree
5 25 (8.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 24 (8.42%) AWS Certified Developer
6 24 (8.42%) DV Cleared
7 22 (7.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 20 (7.02%) ITIL Certification
9 14 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (4.91%) OSCP
10 7 (2.46%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 7 (2.46%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.70%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.70%) Postgraduate
13 2 (0.70%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.37%) NIST
2 16 (5.61%) PCI DSS
3 14 (4.91%) GDPR
4 12 (4.21%) QA
5 10 (3.51%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.05%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.05%) SLA
8 1 (0.35%) Basel III
8 1 (0.35%) MiFID
8 1 (0.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 147 (51.58%) Docker
2 6 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.40%) KVM
4 3 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.35%) QEMU
5 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 196 (68.77%) Terraform
2 107 (37.54%) Kubernetes
3 62 (21.75%) Ansible
4 41 (14.39%) Prometheus
5 39 (13.68%) Grafana
6 33 (11.58%) HP Fortify
7 9 (3.16%) Argo
7 9 (3.16%) AWS Copilot
8 8 (2.81%) Docker Swarm
9 7 (2.46%) Puppet
10 6 (2.11%) Istio
10 6 (2.11%) linkerd
10 6 (2.11%) Mesos
11 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.40%) Rancher
12 2 (0.70%) Nessus
13 1 (0.35%) Consul
13 1 (0.35%) Packer
13 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 31 (10.88%) Google
2 15 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.16%) Splunk
4 7 (2.46%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.11%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.40%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.05%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.05%) LogicMonitor
7 3 (1.05%) Oracle
7 3 (1.05%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.05%) VMware
8 2 (0.70%) IBM
8 2 (0.70%) Ping Identity
8 2 (0.70%) SAP
9 1 (0.35%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.35%) Foundry
9 1 (0.35%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.35%) TOWER Software