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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 438 525
Rank change year-on-year +59 +87 -165
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 457 203 226
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 0.47% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.88% 1.45% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 212 115 160
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £58,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,411 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.55% +3.45% -6.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,313
90th Percentile £105,000 £103,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.60% +3.45% -3.33%

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 24,357 13,960 21,926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 23.54% 32.30% 32.24%
Number of salaries quoted 17,060 9,758 13,786
10th Percentile £31,750 £29,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,901 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% +0.15%
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 26 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 26 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 +47 231 £90,000 +10.43% 200
North of England +39 144 £72,500 +7.41% 65
Yorkshire +21 85 £75,000 +7.14% 20
North West -5 43 £72,500 +18.37% 35
South West -48 33 £67,500 -25.00% 24
Midlands -37 23 £62,000 +12.73% 31
South East -41 19 £70,000 -20.00% 35
North East - 18 £50,000 - 10
East Midlands -20 13 £52,500 - 15
West Midlands -36 10 £63,750 +15.91% 16
East of England -44 1 £90,000 +20.00% 6
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 (3.94%) Apache
2 11 (2.41%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.97%) Confluence
4 6 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.88%) nginx
6 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.22%) SAS
7 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.22%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 4 (0.88%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.44%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 3 (0.66%) Summit
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
1 436 (95.40%) AWS
2 219 (47.92%) Serverless
3 161 (35.23%) AWS Lambda
4 126 (27.57%) Amazon ECS
5 117 (25.60%) Amazon S3
6 112 (24.51%) Azure
7 96 (21.01%) GitHub
8 86 (18.82%) GCP
9 77 (16.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 70 (15.32%) Amazon EC2
11 69 (15.10%) GitHub Actions
12 66 (14.44%) Amazon EKS
13 63 (13.79%) AWS Step Functions
14 48 (10.50%) Cloud Computing
15 44 (9.63%) Datadog
16 33 (7.22%) OpenShift
17 31 (6.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 29 (6.35%) PaaS
18 29 (6.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 28 (6.13%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.94%) Network Security
2 14 (3.06%) TCP/IP
3 13 (2.84%) VPN
4 10 (2.19%) Firewall
5 8 (1.75%) DNS
6 7 (1.53%) AMQP
7 6 (1.31%) HTTP
8 5 (1.09%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.44%) MQTT
9 2 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
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 81 (17.72%) NoSQL
2 77 (16.85%) DynamoDB
3 47 (10.28%) Amazon RDS
4 29 (6.35%) Amazon Athena
5 14 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (1.97%) Big Data
7 9 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (1.97%) Hadoop
7 9 (1.97%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.53%) Cloudera CDH
8 7 (1.53%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.31%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.31%) Flink
9 6 (1.31%) Metadata
9 6 (1.31%) MySQL
10 5 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.09%) Redis
11 3 (0.66%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 110 (24.07%) GitLab
1 110 (24.07%) Jenkins
2 71 (15.54%) Git
3 43 (9.41%) Cucumber
4 21 (4.60%) Cypress.io
5 20 (4.38%) Maven
6 19 (4.16%) SonarQube
7 11 (2.41%) Bitbucket
7 11 (2.41%) JIRA
8 10 (2.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (1.53%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.53%) Claude Code
10 5 (1.09%) Snyk
10 5 (1.09%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.88%) Gradle
12 3 (0.66%) JUnit
12 3 (0.66%) NUnit
12 3 (0.66%) Postman
12 3 (0.66%) Selenium
13 2 (0.44%) git-flow
General
1 128 (28.01%) Finance
2 115 (25.16%) Social Skills
3 44 (9.63%) Public Sector
4 42 (9.19%) Banking
5 22 (4.81%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (4.38%) Financial Institution
7 17 (3.72%) Law
8 14 (3.06%) Aerospace
9 13 (2.84%) Legal
10 11 (2.41%) Military
11 8 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.53%) Retail
13 5 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.88%) Local Government
14 4 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.88%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.66%) Automotive
15 3 (0.66%) Back Office
15 3 (0.66%) Marketing
15 3 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 122 (26.70%) Senior
2 88 (19.26%) Cloud Engineer
3 82 (17.94%) Developer
4 69 (15.10%) DevOps Engineer
5 52 (11.38%) AWS Engineer
6 51 (11.16%) Java Developer
7 50 (10.94%) Java Engineer
8 39 (8.53%) Consultant
9 33 (7.22%) Lead
9 33 (7.22%) Senior Consultant
10 27 (5.91%) Platform Engineer
10 27 (5.91%) Software Engineer
11 26 (5.69%) AWS Developer
12 25 (5.47%) Full-Stack Developer
12 25 (5.47%) Principal Engineer
13 24 (5.25%) Architect
13 24 (5.25%) Cloud Native Engineer
13 24 (5.25%) Principal Java Engineer
14 20 (4.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 19 (4.16%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 321 (70.24%) Terraform
2 96 (21.01%) Spring Boot
3 87 (19.04%) Spring
4 73 (15.97%) Node.js
5 71 (15.54%) AngularJS
5 71 (15.54%) Kafka
6 44 (9.63%) AWS CDK
7 34 (7.44%) React
8 30 (6.56%) RESTful
9 25 (5.47%) Web Services
10 24 (5.25%) REST
11 22 (4.81%) Gherkin
12 17 (3.72%) Jest
12 17 (3.72%) RabbitMQ
13 16 (3.50%) gRPC
14 13 (2.84%) JSON
15 12 (2.63%) YAML
16 11 (2.41%) OpenAPI
17 10 (2.19%) ARM Templates
17 10 (2.19%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 170 (37.20%) Cloud Native
2 67 (14.66%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (12.47%) Public Cloud
4 51 (11.16%) Onboarding
5 42 (9.19%) e-Learning
6 38 (8.32%) Enterprise Cloud
7 29 (6.35%) Enterprise Software
8 25 (5.47%) Hybrid Cloud
9 22 (4.81%) Data Centre
10 19 (4.16%) Legacy Systems
11 16 (3.50%) Linux Command Line
12 13 (2.84%) Distributed Computing
12 13 (2.84%) Mainframe
13 10 (2.19%) Blog
14 8 (1.75%) Blockchain
14 8 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
14 8 (1.75%) Web3
15 7 (1.53%) AI Agents
15 7 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
16 6 (1.31%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 80 (17.51%) Linux
2 20 (4.38%) Windows
3 11 (2.41%) Ubuntu
3 11 (2.41%) Unix
4 9 (1.97%) CentOS
4 9 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.53%) Debian
6 6 (1.31%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.44%) Android
7 2 (0.44%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (73.96%) Infrastructure as Code
2 298 (65.21%) CI/CD
3 241 (52.74%) DevOps
4 200 (43.76%) Agile
5 134 (29.32%) Containerisation
6 102 (22.32%) Mentoring
6 102 (22.32%) Microservices
6 102 (22.32%) Software Engineering
7 101 (22.10%) Test Automation
8 98 (21.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 88 (19.26%) Observability
9 88 (19.26%) Problem-Solving
10 78 (17.07%) Cloud Security
10 78 (17.07%) Event-Driven
11 70 (15.32%) Migration
12 69 (15.10%) AI
13 60 (13.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 60 (13.13%) Platform Engineering
14 56 (12.25%) Collaborative Culture
15 51 (11.16%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 210 (45.95%) Python
2 160 (35.01%) Java
3 98 (21.44%) SQL
4 80 (17.51%) Bash
5 72 (15.75%) TypeScript
6 43 (9.41%) Groovy
7 35 (7.66%) Kotlin
8 34 (7.44%) Go
8 34 (7.44%) PowerShell
9 31 (6.78%) JavaScript
10 18 (3.94%) Bicep
10 18 (3.94%) Ruby
11 15 (3.28%) C#
11 15 (3.28%) Perl
11 15 (3.28%) PHP
12 6 (1.31%) C++
13 4 (0.88%) Google Apps Script
14 2 (0.44%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.22%) Korn
Qualifications
1 154 (33.70%) Security Cleared
2 118 (25.82%) AWS Certification
3 93 (20.35%) SC Cleared
4 73 (15.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 39 (8.53%) DV Cleared
6 35 (7.66%) Degree
7 17 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (3.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 12 (2.63%) ITIL Certification
10 11 (2.41%) Master's Degree
11 10 (2.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (1.75%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.88%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.88%) OCP
13 4 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.44%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.00%) GDPR
2 12 (2.63%) NIST
3 11 (2.41%) PCI DSS
4 9 (1.97%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.09%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.09%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.88%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.66%) NCSC
7 3 (0.66%) QA
8 2 (0.44%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 181 (39.61%) Docker
2 5 (1.09%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.09%) KVM
2 5 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 171 (37.42%) Kubernetes
2 93 (20.35%) Ansible
3 50 (10.94%) Progress Chef
4 40 (8.75%) Grafana
5 36 (7.88%) Puppet
6 35 (7.66%) Prometheus
7 21 (4.60%) Argo
8 13 (2.84%) HP Fortify
9 8 (1.75%) Istio
10 6 (1.31%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (1.31%) linkerd
10 6 (1.31%) Mesos
10 6 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.66%) Rancher
13 2 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
14 1 (0.22%) Kibana
14 1 (0.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 1 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 33 (7.22%) Google
2 16 (3.50%) Microsoft
3 13 (2.84%) Oracle
3 13 (2.84%) Red Hat
4 9 (1.97%) OpenAI
5 7 (1.53%) Databricks
5 7 (1.53%) SaltStack
5 7 (1.53%) Splunk
6 6 (1.31%) AppDynamics
6 6 (1.31%) HubSpot
6 6 (1.31%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.31%) VMware
7 5 (1.09%) Cisco
8 4 (0.88%) Avaya
8 4 (0.88%) Genesys
9 3 (0.66%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.44%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.44%) Informatica
11 1 (0.22%) Sparx
11 1 (0.22%) YouTube