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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 381 488
Rank change year-on-year -5 +107 -142
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 315 258 341
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 0.68% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.26% 1.89% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 179 160 263
10th Percentile £55,000 £59,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £64,125 £63,630 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +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 24,928 13,685 29,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.26% 36.12% 35.56%
Number of salaries quoted 13,208 10,151 24,168
10th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,590 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,000 £61,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.81% +6.96% -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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -13 144 £85,000 -8.11% 28
North of England +31 120 £75,000 +8.09% 24
Yorkshire +17 85 £75,000 - 8
North West -25 33 £80,000 +14.79% 13
Midlands -24 23 £50,000 -26.06% 3
East Midlands -45 12 £63,750 -1.92% 3
West Midlands -25 11 £50,000 -38.51%
South West -39 11 £71,250 -16.18% 8
South East -61 10 £70,000 +16.67% 10
East of England -32 2 £82,500 -2.94% 5
North East -40 2 £65,576 -5.49% 3
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 (5.08%) Apache
2 9 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.95%) JBoss
5 2 (0.63%) Confluence
6 1 (0.32%) Drupal
6 1 (0.32%) IIS
6 1 (0.32%) nginx
6 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 295 (93.65%) AWS
2 178 (56.51%) Serverless
3 153 (48.57%) AWS Lambda
4 114 (36.19%) Amazon S3
5 92 (29.21%) Amazon ECS
6 88 (27.94%) Azure
7 87 (27.62%) AWS Step Functions
8 73 (23.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 71 (22.54%) GitHub
10 56 (17.78%) Datadog
11 54 (17.14%) GitHub Actions
12 49 (15.56%) GCP
13 45 (14.29%) Amazon ECR
13 45 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
14 44 (13.97%) Amazon SQS
15 42 (13.33%) Apigee
16 32 (10.16%) Amazon EC2
17 27 (8.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 24 (7.62%) OpenShift
19 20 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.44%) Firewall
2 13 (4.13%) DSL
3 12 (3.81%) VPN
4 7 (2.22%) DNS
4 7 (2.22%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.90%) Network Security
6 5 (1.59%) AMQP
7 4 (1.27%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.95%) SCCP
9 2 (0.63%) 4G
9 2 (0.63%) 5G
9 2 (0.63%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (34.60%) DynamoDB
2 75 (23.81%) NoSQL
3 42 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
4 27 (8.57%) Amazon Athena
5 20 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (3.49%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (3.17%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.54%) MySQL
9 6 (1.90%) Big Data
9 6 (1.90%) Flink
9 6 (1.90%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.59%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (1.59%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.27%) Redis
12 3 (0.95%) Apache Iceberg
12 3 (0.95%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.95%) Metadata
13 2 (0.63%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 130 (41.27%) Jenkins
2 129 (40.95%) GitLab
3 50 (15.87%) Git
4 46 (14.60%) Maven
5 42 (13.33%) SonarQube
6 41 (13.02%) Cypress.io
7 25 (7.94%) CircleCI
8 14 (4.44%) Cucumber
9 12 (3.81%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.59%) JIRA
11 4 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.27%) Gradle
11 4 (1.27%) Selenium
11 4 (1.27%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.95%) JMeter
12 3 (0.95%) Robot Framework
13 2 (0.63%) Claude Code
13 2 (0.63%) Eclipse
13 2 (0.63%) git-flow
14 1 (0.32%) Vagrant
General
1 103 (32.70%) Social Skills
2 61 (19.37%) Finance
3 29 (9.21%) Banking
4 12 (3.81%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.49%) Aerospace
6 9 (2.86%) Advertising
7 8 (2.54%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.90%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.90%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.90%) Retail
9 6 (1.90%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.59%) Billing
11 4 (1.27%) Law
11 4 (1.27%) Mandarin Language
12 3 (0.95%) Aviation
12 3 (0.95%) Back Office
13 2 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.63%) Electronics
13 2 (0.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 100 (31.75%) Developer
2 63 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 60 (19.05%) Senior
4 57 (18.10%) Java Developer
5 50 (15.87%) DevOps Engineer
6 32 (10.16%) AWS Engineer
7 29 (9.21%) Senior Developer
8 26 (8.25%) AWS Developer
8 26 (8.25%) Lead
9 22 (6.98%) Security Engineer
10 21 (6.67%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 18 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 18 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
12 16 (5.08%) Architect
13 15 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
14 14 (4.44%) AWS Architect
14 14 (4.44%) Full-Stack Developer
14 14 (4.44%) Java Engineer
15 13 (4.13%) Security Architect
15 13 (4.13%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (22.22%) AngularJS
2 69 (21.90%) Spring Boot
3 51 (16.19%) AWS CDK
3 51 (16.19%) Kafka
4 50 (15.87%) Node.js
5 41 (13.02%) Gherkin
6 40 (12.70%) Jest
7 39 (12.38%) Spring
8 38 (12.06%) RESTful
9 34 (10.79%) React
10 22 (6.98%) RabbitMQ
11 20 (6.35%) gRPC
12 19 (6.03%) web3js
13 17 (5.40%) Elastic Stack
14 15 (4.76%) REST
15 14 (4.44%) .NET
15 14 (4.44%) Next.js
16 11 (3.49%) .NET Core
16 11 (3.49%) ASP.NET
16 11 (3.49%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 88 (27.94%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.30%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (6.98%) Security Posture
4 19 (6.03%) Blockchain
4 19 (6.03%) Web3
5 17 (5.40%) Public Cloud
6 14 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (4.13%) Cloud Security Posture
8 12 (3.81%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (3.49%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (3.17%) e-Learning
10 10 (3.17%) Product Ownership
11 8 (2.54%) PKI
12 6 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (1.59%) Management Information System
14 4 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
14 4 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
15 3 (0.95%) Cyber Defence
15 3 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
15 3 (0.95%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 59 (18.73%) Linux
2 20 (6.35%) Windows
3 13 (4.13%) Ubuntu
4 10 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.86%) CentOS
6 7 (2.22%) Unix
7 5 (1.59%) Debian
7 5 (1.59%) Windows Server
8 4 (1.27%) VMS
9 3 (0.95%) Android
9 3 (0.95%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (72.38%) CI/CD
2 225 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 203 (64.44%) DevOps
4 135 (42.86%) Agile
5 106 (33.65%) Containerisation
6 78 (24.76%) Microservices
7 75 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
8 64 (20.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 62 (19.68%) DevSecOps
10 59 (18.73%) Cloud Security
10 59 (18.73%) Mentoring
11 55 (17.46%) Continuous Integration
11 55 (17.46%) Observability
12 51 (16.19%) Test Automation
13 49 (15.56%) Software Engineering
14 40 (12.70%) High Availability
14 40 (12.70%) Platform Engineering
15 38 (12.06%) Event-Driven
16 37 (11.75%) Secure Coding
17 36 (11.43%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 128 (40.63%) Python
2 119 (37.78%) Java
3 87 (27.62%) TypeScript
4 77 (24.44%) Bash
4 77 (24.44%) SQL
5 47 (14.92%) Go
6 46 (14.60%) Groovy
7 32 (10.16%) Kotlin
8 29 (9.21%) JavaScript
9 21 (6.67%) PowerShell
10 13 (4.13%) C#
10 13 (4.13%) Rust
11 8 (2.54%) Bicep
12 6 (1.90%) C++
13 4 (1.27%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.32%) Perl
14 1 (0.32%) PHP
14 1 (0.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 73 (23.17%) AWS Certification
2 66 (20.95%) Security Cleared
3 34 (10.79%) SC Cleared
4 33 (10.48%) Degree
5 28 (8.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 27 (8.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 24 (7.62%) AWS Certified Developer
7 24 (7.62%) ITIL Certification
8 21 (6.67%) DV Cleared
9 16 (5.08%) OSCP
10 12 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (2.22%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 6 (1.90%) Azure Certification
13 5 (1.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (1.27%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.95%) CREST Certified
15 3 (0.95%) Master's Degree
15 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
16 1 (0.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 1 (0.32%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.67%) NIST
2 16 (5.08%) PCI DSS
3 13 (4.13%) GDPR
4 10 (3.17%) SOC 2
5 8 (2.54%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.90%) QA
7 4 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.32%) Basel III
8 1 (0.32%) MiFID
8 1 (0.32%) NCSC
System Software
1 164 (52.06%) Docker
2 5 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.27%) KVM
3 4 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 211 (66.98%) Terraform
2 128 (40.63%) Kubernetes
3 67 (21.27%) Ansible
4 40 (12.70%) HP Fortify
5 37 (11.75%) Prometheus
6 32 (10.16%) Grafana
7 10 (3.17%) Argo
8 7 (2.22%) Docker Swarm
8 7 (2.22%) Puppet
9 6 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (1.90%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.59%) Istio
10 5 (1.59%) linkerd
10 5 (1.59%) Mesos
10 5 (1.59%) Rancher
11 3 (0.95%) AWS Copilot
12 2 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.32%) Consul
13 1 (0.32%) Nessus
13 1 (0.32%) Packer
Vendors
1 22 (6.98%) Google
2 13 (4.13%) Microsoft
3 6 (1.90%) HubSpot
3 6 (1.90%) Red Hat
4 5 (1.59%) SaltStack
5 4 (1.27%) Splunk
5 4 (1.27%) VMware
6 3 (0.95%) Oracle
6 3 (0.95%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.95%) SolarWinds
7 2 (0.63%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.63%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (0.63%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.63%) Ping Identity
7 2 (0.63%) SAP
8 1 (0.32%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.32%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.32%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.32%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.32%) TOWER Software