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 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 451 503 369
Rank change year-on-year +52 -134 -65
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 172 219 354
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.39% 0.36% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.21% 1.10% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 129 164 311
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £97,750 £118,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £73,801 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +1.79% -3.33% -6.25%

All Cloud 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 14,212 19,947 20,779
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.60% 32.85% 43.44%
Number of salaries quoted 10,031 12,065 17,421
10th Percentile £28,750 £36,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -

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 3 November 2025.

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 3 November 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
London +56 91 £81,500 -9.44% 86
North of England +2 48 £70,000 +12.00% 38
North West +2 25 £61,250 +2.08% 27
Yorkshire +15 20 £70,000 +7.69% 8
Midlands +47 13 £60,000 -17.24% 8
South East +35 12 £86,250 +40.82% 65
West Midlands +38 11 £60,000 -17.24% 8
South West +20 4 £90,000 +63.64% 11
North East +6 3 £73,801 +6.48% 3
East Midlands +29 2 - -
East of England +18 1 £75,000 +20.00% 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 7 (4.07%) Apache
1 7 (4.07%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (4.07%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.49%) Tomcat
2 6 (3.49%) WebSphere
2 6 (3.49%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (1.16%) nginx
3 2 (1.16%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 158 (91.86%) AWS
2 74 (43.02%) Azure
3 68 (39.53%) Serverless
4 62 (36.05%) AWS Lambda
5 56 (32.56%) Amazon S3
6 48 (27.91%) GCP
7 47 (27.33%) Amazon EC2
8 41 (23.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 38 (22.09%) Amazon ECS
9 38 (22.09%) GitHub
10 35 (20.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 31 (18.02%) Amazon EKS
12 26 (15.12%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (11.05%) Datadog
14 17 (9.88%) Amazon ECR
15 16 (9.30%) dbt
15 16 (9.30%) Route 53
16 15 (8.72%) Pulumi
17 13 (7.56%) AWS Step Functions
17 13 (7.56%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.40%) Firewall
1 11 (6.40%) TCP/IP
2 7 (4.07%) VPN
3 6 (3.49%) DNS
3 6 (3.49%) Network Security
3 6 (3.49%) SSL
4 3 (1.74%) LAN
4 3 (1.74%) WAN
5 2 (1.16%) NAS
5 2 (1.16%) SAN
5 2 (1.16%) SNMP
5 2 (1.16%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.58%) AMQP
6 1 (0.58%) DHCP
6 1 (0.58%) HTTP
6 1 (0.58%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.58%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (22.67%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (12.79%) NoSQL
3 21 (12.21%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (11.63%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (10.47%) DynamoDB
6 16 (9.30%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (8.14%) Amazon Athena
8 13 (7.56%) Data Lake
9 11 (6.40%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (6.40%) Redis
10 8 (4.65%) SQL Server
11 7 (4.07%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (3.49%) DB2
13 5 (2.91%) Big Data
13 5 (2.91%) MySQL
14 3 (1.74%) Apache Iceberg
14 3 (1.74%) Data Vault
15 2 (1.16%) Hadoop
15 2 (1.16%) Metadata
16 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 48 (27.91%) Jenkins
2 36 (20.93%) GitLab
3 15 (8.72%) CircleCI
4 9 (5.23%) Git
5 4 (2.33%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.33%) Cucumber
5 4 (2.33%) git-flow
5 4 (2.33%) Spinnaker
6 3 (1.74%) JIRA
6 3 (1.74%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.16%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.58%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.58%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.58%) JMeter
8 1 (0.58%) Selenium
8 1 (0.58%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.58%) TestRail
General
1 50 (29.07%) Social Skills
2 39 (22.67%) Finance
3 16 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (9.30%) Banking
4 12 (6.98%) Law
5 10 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.65%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.91%) Marketing
7 5 (2.91%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.33%) Advertising
8 4 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.74%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.16%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.16%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.58%) Electronics
11 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 56 (32.56%) Senior
2 38 (22.09%) AWS Engineer
3 32 (18.60%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (16.28%) Cloud Engineer
5 26 (15.12%) Platform Engineer
6 16 (9.30%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 15 (8.72%) Data Engineer
8 14 (8.14%) AWS DevOps
8 14 (8.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 13 (7.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 13 (7.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 12 (6.98%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 12 (6.98%) Developer
10 12 (6.98%) Lead
11 9 (5.23%) Architect
11 9 (5.23%) Support Engineer
12 8 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (4.07%) Applications Engineer
13 7 (4.07%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 7 (4.07%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (12.79%) Elastic Stack
2 21 (12.21%) AWS CDK
3 18 (10.47%) Kafka
4 11 (6.40%) Django
5 9 (5.23%) RabbitMQ
5 9 (5.23%) RESTful
6 8 (4.65%) .NET
6 8 (4.65%) React
7 6 (3.49%) ARM Templates
7 6 (3.49%) LAPP Stack
7 6 (3.49%) LDAP
7 6 (3.49%) Pandas
7 6 (3.49%) Spring
7 6 (3.49%) Spring Boot
7 6 (3.49%) WebSphere MQ
8 5 (2.91%) gRPC
8 5 (2.91%) Material-UI
8 5 (2.91%) Node.js
9 4 (2.33%) Loki
9 4 (2.33%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 40 (23.26%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.98%) Linux Command Line
3 11 (6.40%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.81%) Product Ownership
5 9 (5.23%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.49%) AI Agents
6 6 (3.49%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.33%) Blockchain
7 4 (2.33%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.33%) Web3
8 3 (1.74%) e-Learning
8 3 (1.74%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.16%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.16%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.16%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 50 (29.07%) Linux
2 28 (16.28%) Unix
3 18 (10.47%) Windows
4 9 (5.23%) Ubuntu
5 8 (4.65%) Debian
6 7 (4.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.16%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.58%) CentOS
8 1 (0.58%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (84.30%) Infrastructure as Code
2 125 (72.67%) CI/CD
3 117 (68.02%) DevOps
4 54 (31.40%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (27.91%) Containerisation
6 47 (27.33%) Observability
7 44 (25.58%) Agile
8 37 (21.51%) Platform Engineering
9 30 (17.44%) Disaster Recovery
10 29 (16.86%) Microservices
10 29 (16.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 27 (15.70%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (14.53%) AI
13 24 (13.95%) Data Pipeline
14 23 (13.37%) Cloud Security
14 23 (13.37%) Mentoring
14 23 (13.37%) Software Engineering
15 22 (12.79%) Continuous Integration
15 22 (12.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 21 (12.21%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 109 (63.37%) Python
2 56 (32.56%) Bash
3 30 (17.44%) SQL
4 27 (15.70%) PowerShell
5 24 (13.95%) Go
6 17 (9.88%) Java
7 16 (9.30%) JavaScript
8 13 (7.56%) TypeScript
9 9 (5.23%) Bicep
10 7 (4.07%) C#
11 2 (1.16%) Groovy
12 1 (0.58%) C++
12 1 (0.58%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.58%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.58%) PHP
12 1 (0.58%) Scala
Qualifications
1 40 (23.26%) AWS Certification
2 39 (22.67%) Security Cleared
3 27 (15.70%) SC Cleared
4 22 (12.79%) Degree
5 14 (8.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (6.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (6.40%) DV Cleared
7 6 (3.49%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (2.91%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.33%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (2.33%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.58%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.58%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.58%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.40%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.23%) GDPR
2 9 (5.23%) QA
3 7 (4.07%) SLA
4 4 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.33%) NIST
5 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.58%) SOC 2
System Software
1 75 (43.60%) Docker
2 6 (3.49%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (2.33%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.16%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.16%) KVM
5 2 (1.16%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.58%) QEMU
6 1 (0.58%) vCloud
6 1 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.58%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 139 (80.81%) Terraform
2 71 (41.28%) Kubernetes
3 48 (27.91%) Ansible
4 47 (27.33%) Grafana
5 36 (20.93%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.49%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (2.91%) Argo
7 5 (2.91%) Kubeflow
8 3 (1.74%) Istio
8 3 (1.74%) linkerd
8 3 (1.74%) Puppet
9 2 (1.16%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.58%) Mesos
10 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.58%) Nagios
10 1 (0.58%) Nessus
10 1 (0.58%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 22 (12.79%) Splunk
2 21 (12.21%) Google
3 17 (9.88%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.07%) IBM
4 7 (4.07%) Red Hat
5 5 (2.91%) Databricks
6 4 (2.33%) Foundry
6 4 (2.33%) Hitachi
6 4 (2.33%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (2.33%) VMware
7 3 (1.74%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.74%) Citrix
7 3 (1.74%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.16%) F5
8 2 (1.16%) OneLogin
8 2 (1.16%) Rapid7
8 2 (1.16%) SaltStack
9 1 (0.58%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.58%) Informatica
9 1 (0.58%) Qualys