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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 407 516
Rank change year-on-year +35 +109 -169
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 333 241 335
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.41% 0.62% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.35% 1.73% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 183 145 257
10th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,875 £62,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £119,000 £120,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -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 24,579 13,929 29,689
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.43% 35.76% 35.34%
Number of salaries quoted 13,590 10,031 24,227
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,644 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +7.21% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +4 154 £86,250 -4.17% 36
North of England +25 126 £75,000 +8.09% 34
Yorkshire +27 92 £75,000 - 13
North West -11 32 £80,000 +15.30% 16
Midlands -23 26 £50,000 -28.64% 9
East Midlands -18 13 £63,750 -7.27% 8
West Midlands -25 13 £50,000 -38.51% 1
South East -42 10 £70,000 +16.67% 9
South West -43 10 £72,500 -14.71% 11
East of England -21 2 £82,500 -2.94%
North East -47 2 £65,576 -5.49% 5
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 14 (4.20%) Apache
2 7 (2.10%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.90%) Confluence
4 3 (0.90%) JBoss
5 1 (0.30%) Drupal
5 1 (0.30%) IIS
5 1 (0.30%) nginx
5 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 315 (94.59%) AWS
2 185 (55.56%) Serverless
3 159 (47.75%) AWS Lambda
4 118 (35.44%) Amazon S3
5 97 (29.13%) Amazon ECS
6 91 (27.33%) AWS Step Functions
7 89 (26.73%) Azure
8 77 (23.12%) GitHub
9 75 (22.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 59 (17.72%) GitHub Actions
11 58 (17.42%) Datadog
12 52 (15.62%) GCP
13 46 (13.81%) Amazon ECR
14 44 (13.21%) Amazon SQS
15 43 (12.91%) Amazon EKS
15 43 (12.91%) Apigee
16 37 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
17 30 (9.01%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 23 (6.91%) OpenShift
19 21 (6.31%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.90%) DSL
1 13 (3.90%) Firewall
2 12 (3.60%) VPN
3 7 (2.10%) DNS
3 7 (2.10%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.80%) Network Security
5 4 (1.20%) AMQP
5 4 (1.20%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.90%) SCCP
7 2 (0.60%) 4G
7 2 (0.60%) 5G
7 2 (0.60%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (34.23%) DynamoDB
2 81 (24.32%) NoSQL
3 43 (12.91%) Amazon RDS
4 30 (9.01%) Amazon Athena
5 20 (6.01%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (2.70%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.40%) MySQL
9 6 (1.80%) Flink
9 6 (1.80%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.50%) Big Data
11 4 (1.20%) Cloudera CDH
11 4 (1.20%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.20%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.20%) Redis
12 3 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.90%) Metadata
13 2 (0.60%) Apache Hudi
13 2 (0.60%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 141 (42.34%) Jenkins
2 136 (40.84%) GitLab
3 56 (16.82%) Git
4 48 (14.41%) Maven
5 42 (12.61%) Cypress.io
5 42 (12.61%) SonarQube
6 26 (7.81%) CircleCI
7 19 (5.71%) Cucumber
8 12 (3.60%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.80%) JIRA
10 5 (1.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (1.50%) Gradle
11 4 (1.20%) Claude Code
11 4 (1.20%) Selenium
11 4 (1.20%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.90%) JMeter
12 3 (0.90%) Robot Framework
13 2 (0.60%) Eclipse
13 2 (0.60%) git-flow
14 1 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 104 (31.23%) Social Skills
2 67 (20.12%) Finance
3 33 (9.91%) Banking
4 12 (3.60%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (3.00%) Aerospace
6 9 (2.70%) Advertising
6 9 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.40%) Financial Institution
7 8 (2.40%) Public Sector
8 6 (1.80%) Retail
9 5 (1.50%) Billing
9 5 (1.50%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.50%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.20%) Law
10 4 (1.20%) Mandarin Language
11 3 (0.90%) Aviation
11 3 (0.90%) Back Office
11 3 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.90%) Legal
12 2 (0.60%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 105 (31.53%) Developer
2 66 (19.82%) Cloud Engineer
3 62 (18.62%) Java Developer
3 62 (18.62%) Senior
4 50 (15.02%) DevOps Engineer
5 34 (10.21%) AWS Engineer
6 31 (9.31%) Senior Developer
7 29 (8.71%) AWS Developer
8 25 (7.51%) Lead
9 22 (6.61%) Security Engineer
10 21 (6.31%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 20 (6.01%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (5.71%) Java Engineer
13 18 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 16 (4.80%) Architect
15 15 (4.50%) AWS DevOps
15 15 (4.50%) Senior Java Developer
16 14 (4.20%) AWS Architect
16 14 (4.20%) Full-Stack Developer
16 14 (4.20%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (22.82%) Spring Boot
2 75 (22.52%) AngularJS
3 58 (17.42%) Kafka
4 51 (15.32%) AWS CDK
4 51 (15.32%) Node.js
5 46 (13.81%) Spring
6 42 (12.61%) Gherkin
7 40 (12.01%) Jest
8 39 (11.71%) RESTful
9 33 (9.91%) React
10 22 (6.61%) RabbitMQ
11 20 (6.01%) gRPC
11 20 (6.01%) web3js
12 15 (4.50%) Elastic Stack
12 15 (4.50%) Next.js
13 13 (3.90%) .NET
13 13 (3.90%) REST
14 12 (3.60%) YAML
15 10 (3.00%) .NET Core
15 10 (3.00%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 96 (28.83%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.71%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (6.91%) Public Cloud
4 22 (6.61%) Security Posture
5 20 (6.01%) Blockchain
5 20 (6.01%) Web3
6 16 (4.80%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (4.20%) e-Learning
8 13 (3.90%) Cloud Security Posture
8 13 (3.90%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (3.00%) Product Ownership
10 8 (2.40%) PKI
11 6 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (1.50%) Management Information System
13 4 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (0.90%) Cyber Defence
14 3 (0.90%) Cyber Security Posture
14 3 (0.90%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 62 (18.62%) Linux
2 20 (6.01%) Windows
3 12 (3.60%) Ubuntu
4 9 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.40%) CentOS
6 5 (1.50%) Unix
6 5 (1.50%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.20%) Debian
7 4 (1.20%) VMS
8 3 (0.90%) Android
8 3 (0.90%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (72.37%) CI/CD
2 236 (70.87%) Infrastructure as Code
3 209 (62.76%) DevOps
4 137 (41.14%) Agile
5 109 (32.73%) Containerisation
6 81 (24.32%) Microservices
7 71 (21.32%) Problem-Solving
8 70 (21.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 67 (20.12%) DevSecOps
10 62 (18.62%) Mentoring
11 61 (18.32%) Cloud Security
12 59 (17.72%) Continuous Integration
12 59 (17.72%) Observability
13 57 (17.12%) Test Automation
14 53 (15.92%) Software Engineering
15 44 (13.21%) Platform Engineering
16 43 (12.91%) Event-Driven
17 40 (12.01%) High Availability
18 37 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
18 37 (11.11%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 135 (40.54%) Python
2 129 (38.74%) Java
3 92 (27.63%) TypeScript
4 82 (24.62%) SQL
5 74 (22.22%) Bash
6 50 (15.02%) Groovy
7 47 (14.11%) Go
8 35 (10.51%) Kotlin
9 27 (8.11%) JavaScript
10 23 (6.91%) PowerShell
11 13 (3.90%) C#
11 13 (3.90%) Rust
12 10 (3.00%) Bicep
13 6 (1.80%) C++
14 4 (1.20%) Google Apps Script
15 1 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.30%) Perl
15 1 (0.30%) PHP
15 1 (0.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 76 (22.82%) AWS Certification
2 69 (20.72%) Security Cleared
3 36 (10.81%) SC Cleared
4 31 (9.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 31 (9.31%) Degree
5 28 (8.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 24 (7.21%) ITIL Certification
7 23 (6.91%) AWS Certified Developer
8 21 (6.31%) DV Cleared
9 16 (4.80%) OSCP
10 10 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (2.10%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 6 (1.80%) Azure Certification
13 5 (1.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (1.20%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.90%) CREST Certified
15 3 (0.90%) Master's Degree
15 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
16 1 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
16 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.31%) NIST
2 16 (4.80%) PCI DSS
3 13 (3.90%) GDPR
4 10 (3.00%) SOC 2
5 7 (2.10%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.80%) QA
7 4 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.30%) Basel III
8 1 (0.30%) MiFID
8 1 (0.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 169 (50.75%) Docker
2 5 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.20%) KVM
3 4 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 216 (64.86%) Terraform
2 131 (39.34%) Kubernetes
3 65 (19.52%) Ansible
4 40 (12.01%) HP Fortify
5 36 (10.81%) Prometheus
6 29 (8.71%) Grafana
7 9 (2.70%) Argo
7 9 (2.70%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.10%) Docker Swarm
8 7 (2.10%) Puppet
9 6 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (1.50%) Istio
10 5 (1.50%) linkerd
10 5 (1.50%) Mesos
10 5 (1.50%) Rancher
11 3 (0.90%) AWS Copilot
12 2 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.30%) Consul
13 1 (0.30%) Nessus
13 1 (0.30%) Packer
Vendors
1 21 (6.31%) Google
2 12 (3.60%) Microsoft
3 6 (1.80%) HubSpot
4 5 (1.50%) Red Hat
5 4 (1.20%) SaltStack
5 4 (1.20%) Splunk
5 4 (1.20%) VMware
6 3 (0.90%) OpenAI
6 3 (0.90%) Oracle
6 3 (0.90%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.60%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.60%) Databricks
7 2 (0.60%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (0.60%) Ping Identity
7 2 (0.60%) SAP
7 2 (0.60%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.30%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.30%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.30%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.30%) Refinitiv