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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 449 537
Rank change year-on-year +86 +88 -178
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 461 208 219
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 0.48% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.89% 1.48% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 214 121 158
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,411 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.55% +7.14% -9.68%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £101,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £71,000
% change year-on-year - +5.63% -5.33%

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 24,350 14,058 21,850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 24.19% 32.57% 31.80%
Number of salaries quoted 16,922 9,812 14,213
10th Percentile £31,522 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,331 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,335 £60,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% -4.76% -3.08%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +57 229 £90,000 +10.43% 257
North of England +37 150 £73,750 +5.36% 77
Yorkshire +40 92 £75,000 +6.38% 24
North West +1 43 £72,500 +20.83% 40
South West -42 33 £67,500 -25.00% 21
Midlands -20 22 £62,250 +13.18% 38
South East -58 19 £70,000 -20.00% 48
North East - 15 £48,500 - 13
East Midlands -21 13 £52,500 - 19
West Midlands -39 9 £65,000 +18.18% 19
East of England -47 1 £90,000 +20.00% 11
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 18 (3.90%) Apache
2 10 (2.17%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.95%) Confluence
4 5 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.65%) nginx
6 1 (0.22%) Drupal
6 1 (0.22%) IIS
6 1 (0.22%) JBoss
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.22%) SAS
6 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.22%) WebLogic Portal
6 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.87%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.43%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 3 (0.65%) Summit
2 1 (0.22%) Magento
2 1 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 439 (95.23%) AWS
2 226 (49.02%) Serverless
3 172 (37.31%) AWS Lambda
4 136 (29.50%) Amazon ECS
5 126 (27.33%) Amazon S3
6 110 (23.86%) Azure
7 97 (21.04%) GitHub
8 85 (18.44%) GCP
9 80 (17.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 71 (15.40%) Amazon EC2
10 71 (15.40%) GitHub Actions
11 69 (14.97%) AWS Step Functions
12 68 (14.75%) Amazon EKS
13 50 (10.85%) Datadog
14 49 (10.63%) Cloud Computing
15 35 (7.59%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 33 (7.16%) Amazon SQS
17 32 (6.94%) OpenShift
18 31 (6.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 27 (5.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.90%) Network Security
2 14 (3.04%) TCP/IP
3 12 (2.60%) VPN
4 9 (1.95%) Firewall
5 8 (1.74%) DNS
6 7 (1.52%) AMQP
7 6 (1.30%) HTTP
8 5 (1.08%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.43%) MQTT
10 1 (0.22%) 4G
10 1 (0.22%) 5G
10 1 (0.22%) DHCP
10 1 (0.22%) DNSSEC
10 1 (0.22%) Internet
10 1 (0.22%) PSTN
10 1 (0.22%) SCCP
10 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (19.31%) DynamoDB
2 84 (18.22%) NoSQL
3 50 (10.85%) Amazon RDS
4 32 (6.94%) Amazon Athena
5 14 (3.04%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (1.95%) Big Data
6 9 (1.95%) Hadoop
6 9 (1.95%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.52%) Cloudera CDH
8 7 (1.52%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.30%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.30%) Flink
9 6 (1.30%) Metadata
9 6 (1.30%) MySQL
9 6 (1.30%) Redis
10 5 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 117 (25.38%) Jenkins
2 111 (24.08%) GitLab
3 71 (15.40%) Git
4 42 (9.11%) Cucumber
5 26 (5.64%) Cypress.io
5 26 (5.64%) Maven
6 24 (5.21%) SonarQube
7 11 (2.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (2.39%) Bitbucket
7 11 (2.39%) JIRA
8 9 (1.95%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.52%) Claude Code
10 5 (1.08%) Snyk
10 5 (1.08%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.87%) Gradle
11 4 (0.87%) Selenium
12 3 (0.65%) git-flow
12 3 (0.65%) JUnit
12 3 (0.65%) NUnit
12 3 (0.65%) Postman
General
1 129 (27.98%) Finance
2 120 (26.03%) Social Skills
3 43 (9.33%) Banking
4 40 (8.68%) Public Sector
5 21 (4.56%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (4.12%) Financial Institution
7 17 (3.69%) Law
8 14 (3.04%) Aerospace
9 13 (2.82%) Legal
10 11 (2.39%) Military
11 7 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.52%) Retail
12 5 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.87%) Local Government
13 4 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.87%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.65%) Automotive
14 3 (0.65%) Back Office
14 3 (0.65%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 124 (26.90%) Senior
2 91 (19.74%) Developer
3 86 (18.66%) Cloud Engineer
4 67 (14.53%) DevOps Engineer
5 57 (12.36%) Java Developer
6 54 (11.71%) AWS Engineer
7 49 (10.63%) Java Engineer
8 40 (8.68%) Consultant
9 34 (7.38%) Lead
10 33 (7.16%) Senior Consultant
11 28 (6.07%) Software Engineer
12 27 (5.86%) Full-Stack Developer
12 27 (5.86%) Platform Engineer
13 26 (5.64%) AWS Developer
14 24 (5.21%) Principal Engineer
15 23 (4.99%) Architect
15 23 (4.99%) Principal Java Engineer
16 22 (4.77%) Senior Developer
17 21 (4.56%) Cloud Native Engineer
17 21 (4.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 319 (69.20%) Terraform
2 99 (21.48%) Spring Boot
3 86 (18.66%) Spring
4 79 (17.14%) Node.js
5 78 (16.92%) AngularJS
6 71 (15.40%) Kafka
7 44 (9.54%) AWS CDK
8 34 (7.38%) React
9 31 (6.72%) RESTful
10 27 (5.86%) Gherkin
11 25 (5.42%) Web Services
12 24 (5.21%) REST
13 22 (4.77%) Jest
14 18 (3.90%) RabbitMQ
15 17 (3.69%) gRPC
16 13 (2.82%) JSON
16 13 (2.82%) YAML
17 11 (2.39%) OpenAPI
17 11 (2.39%) OpenTelemetry
18 10 (2.17%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 164 (35.57%) Cloud Native
2 66 (14.32%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (11.93%) Public Cloud
4 51 (11.06%) Onboarding
5 40 (8.68%) e-Learning
6 39 (8.46%) Enterprise Cloud
7 27 (5.86%) Enterprise Software
8 26 (5.64%) Hybrid Cloud
9 22 (4.77%) Data Centre
10 19 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
11 17 (3.69%) Linux Command Line
12 13 (2.82%) Distributed Computing
12 13 (2.82%) Mainframe
13 10 (2.17%) Blockchain
13 10 (2.17%) Blog
13 10 (2.17%) Web3
14 7 (1.52%) AI Agents
14 7 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
15 6 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 81 (17.57%) Linux
2 21 (4.56%) Windows
3 12 (2.60%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.17%) CentOS
6 9 (1.95%) Unix
7 7 (1.52%) Debian
7 7 (1.52%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.43%) Android
8 2 (0.43%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (72.45%) Infrastructure as Code
2 300 (65.08%) CI/CD
3 241 (52.28%) DevOps
4 192 (41.65%) Agile
5 138 (29.93%) Containerisation
6 106 (22.99%) Mentoring
7 104 (22.56%) Software Engineering
8 102 (22.13%) Microservices
9 97 (21.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 97 (21.04%) Test Automation
10 87 (18.87%) Observability
10 87 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
11 78 (16.92%) Cloud Security
11 78 (16.92%) Event-Driven
12 67 (14.53%) AI
12 67 (14.53%) Migration
13 59 (12.80%) Platform Engineering
14 58 (12.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 56 (12.15%) Collaborative Culture
16 52 (11.28%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 207 (44.90%) Python
2 167 (36.23%) Java
3 101 (21.91%) SQL
4 81 (17.57%) Bash
4 81 (17.57%) TypeScript
5 49 (10.63%) Groovy
6 40 (8.68%) Kotlin
7 36 (7.81%) Go
8 32 (6.94%) JavaScript
9 31 (6.72%) PowerShell
10 18 (3.90%) Ruby
11 17 (3.69%) Bicep
12 16 (3.47%) PHP
13 15 (3.25%) C#
13 15 (3.25%) Perl
14 6 (1.30%) C++
15 4 (0.87%) Google Apps Script
16 2 (0.43%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.22%) Korn
17 1 (0.22%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 156 (33.84%) Security Cleared
2 120 (26.03%) AWS Certification
3 94 (20.39%) SC Cleared
4 73 (15.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 36 (7.81%) Degree
5 36 (7.81%) DV Cleared
6 18 (3.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 17 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (3.47%) ITIL Certification
9 11 (2.39%) Master's Degree
10 9 (1.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 9 (1.95%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.08%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.87%) OCP
12 4 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.65%) Postgraduate
14 2 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.72%) GDPR
2 12 (2.60%) NIST
2 12 (2.60%) PCI DSS
3 8 (1.74%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.08%) HIPAA
4 5 (1.08%) ISO 20022
4 5 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.08%) SOC 2
5 4 (0.87%) NCSC
6 3 (0.65%) QA
7 2 (0.43%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 192 (41.65%) Docker
2 6 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.08%) KVM
3 5 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 171 (37.09%) Kubernetes
2 91 (19.74%) Ansible
3 52 (11.28%) Progress Chef
4 37 (8.03%) Grafana
4 37 (8.03%) Puppet
5 33 (7.16%) Prometheus
6 22 (4.77%) Argo
7 18 (3.90%) HP Fortify
8 8 (1.74%) Istio
9 6 (1.30%) Docker Swarm
9 6 (1.30%) linkerd
9 6 (1.30%) Mesos
9 6 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.65%) Rancher
12 2 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.22%) Consul
13 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.22%) Kibana
13 1 (0.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 34 (7.38%) Google
2 17 (3.69%) Microsoft
3 14 (3.04%) Red Hat
4 13 (2.82%) Oracle
5 9 (1.95%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.52%) HubSpot
6 7 (1.52%) SaltStack
7 6 (1.30%) AppDynamics
7 6 (1.30%) Databricks
7 6 (1.30%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.30%) Splunk
7 6 (1.30%) VMware
8 5 (1.08%) Cisco
9 4 (0.87%) Avaya
9 4 (0.87%) Genesys
10 3 (0.65%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.43%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.43%) Informatica
12 1 (0.22%) Infoblox
12 1 (0.22%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud