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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 444 485 384
Rank change year-on-year +41 -101 -74
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 174 239 348
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.39% 0.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.09% 1.19% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 127 180 295
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,200
25th Percentile £60,625 £62,188 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -9.38%
75th Percentile £88,750 £100,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £102,750 £120,250 £116,250
UK median annual salary £73,801 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.79% +3.57% -12.50%

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 15,903 20,142 20,520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.57% 33.09% 43.32%
Number of salaries quoted 10,433 12,210 17,172
10th Percentile £28,708 £36,250 £32,750
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 £102,850 £100,750
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 15 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 15 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 +26 86 £82,000 -13.68% 159
North of England +41 51 £70,000 +12.00% 78
North West +33 26 £62,500 +4.17% 53
Yorkshire +24 22 £70,000 +7.69% 20
Midlands +48 13 £60,000 -17.24% 8
South East +24 13 £85,000 +36.00% 37
West Midlands +38 11 £60,000 -17.24% 5
South West +16 6 £78,750 +43.18% 16
North East +3 3 £73,801 +6.48% 5
East Midlands +23 2 - - 3
East of England +25 1 £75,000 +20.00% 9
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 8 (4.60%) Apache
1 8 (4.60%) Apache Spark
2 7 (4.02%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.45%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.45%) WebSphere
3 6 (3.45%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (1.15%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.57%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 158 (90.80%) AWS
2 82 (47.13%) Azure
3 68 (39.08%) Serverless
4 61 (35.06%) AWS Lambda
5 53 (30.46%) Amazon S3
6 50 (28.74%) GCP
7 41 (23.56%) GitHub
8 40 (22.99%) Amazon EC2
9 37 (21.26%) Amazon ECS
10 36 (20.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 32 (18.39%) Amazon EKS
12 31 (17.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 28 (16.09%) GitHub Actions
14 18 (10.34%) Datadog
15 17 (9.77%) Amazon ECR
15 17 (9.77%) Azure DevOps
16 16 (9.20%) dbt
17 14 (8.05%) AWS Step Functions
17 14 (8.05%) Pulumi
17 14 (8.05%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.32%) TCP/IP
2 8 (4.60%) Firewall
3 6 (3.45%) SSL
3 6 (3.45%) VPN
4 5 (2.87%) Network Security
5 4 (2.30%) DNS
6 3 (1.72%) LAN
6 3 (1.72%) WAN
7 2 (1.15%) AMQP
8 1 (0.57%) DHCP
8 1 (0.57%) HTTP
8 1 (0.57%) NAS
8 1 (0.57%) SAN
8 1 (0.57%) SNMP
8 1 (0.57%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.57%) VSAN
8 1 (0.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (20.11%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (13.79%) NoSQL
3 22 (12.64%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (10.92%) DynamoDB
5 18 (10.34%) Amazon Redshift
6 16 (9.20%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (7.47%) Amazon Athena
8 12 (6.90%) Data Lake
9 11 (6.32%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (6.32%) Redis
10 10 (5.75%) SQL Server
11 7 (4.02%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (4.02%) MySQL
12 6 (3.45%) DB2
13 5 (2.87%) Big Data
14 3 (1.72%) Apache Iceberg
14 3 (1.72%) Data Vault
14 3 (1.72%) Hadoop
15 2 (1.15%) Metadata
15 2 (1.15%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 47 (27.01%) Jenkins
2 35 (20.11%) GitLab
3 12 (6.90%) CircleCI
3 12 (6.90%) Git
4 6 (3.45%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.87%) Cucumber
5 5 (2.87%) git-flow
5 5 (2.87%) JIRA
6 4 (2.30%) Robot Framework
6 4 (2.30%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.30%) Spinnaker
7 2 (1.15%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.15%) JMeter
7 2 (1.15%) Selenium
7 2 (1.15%) TestRail
8 1 (0.57%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.57%) Subversion
8 1 (0.57%) TeamCity
General
1 55 (31.61%) Social Skills
2 40 (22.99%) Finance
3 17 (9.77%) Banking
4 16 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (7.47%) Law
6 10 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (5.17%) Public Sector
8 7 (4.02%) Marketing
8 7 (4.02%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.87%) Aerospace
10 4 (2.30%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.72%) Advertising
11 3 (1.72%) Electronics
11 3 (1.72%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.15%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.57%) Military
13 1 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 53 (30.46%) Senior
2 33 (18.97%) AWS Engineer
3 32 (18.39%) DevOps Engineer
4 30 (17.24%) Cloud Engineer
5 23 (13.22%) Platform Engineer
6 15 (8.62%) Data Engineer
7 14 (8.05%) Lead
8 13 (7.47%) AWS DevOps
8 13 (7.47%) Developer
8 13 (7.47%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 12 (6.90%) Architect
9 12 (6.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 11 (6.32%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 11 (6.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 9 (5.17%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 9 (5.17%) Support Engineer
12 8 (4.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (4.60%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 7 (4.02%) Applications Engineer
13 7 (4.02%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (12.64%) AWS CDK
1 22 (12.64%) Elastic Stack
2 17 (9.77%) Kafka
3 12 (6.90%) React
4 11 (6.32%) .NET
4 11 (6.32%) Django
5 9 (5.17%) RabbitMQ
5 9 (5.17%) RESTful
6 8 (4.60%) Spring
6 8 (4.60%) Spring Boot
7 7 (4.02%) ARM Templates
7 7 (4.02%) Material-UI
8 6 (3.45%) LAPP Stack
8 6 (3.45%) LDAP
8 6 (3.45%) Node.js
8 6 (3.45%) WebSphere MQ
9 5 (2.87%) .NET Core
9 5 (2.87%) ASP.NET
9 5 (2.87%) CSS
9 5 (2.87%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 43 (24.71%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (6.90%) Linux Command Line
3 11 (6.32%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.75%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.45%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.87%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.30%) e-Learning
7 4 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.30%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.15%) Blockchain
9 2 (1.15%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.15%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.15%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.15%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 51 (29.31%) Linux
2 27 (15.52%) Unix
3 20 (11.49%) Windows
4 9 (5.17%) Ubuntu
5 8 (4.60%) Debian
5 8 (4.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.15%) CentOS
6 2 (1.15%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (85.06%) Infrastructure as Code
2 128 (73.56%) CI/CD
3 119 (68.39%) DevOps
4 55 (31.61%) Problem-Solving
5 52 (29.89%) Agile
6 47 (27.01%) Containerisation
7 44 (25.29%) Observability
8 33 (18.97%) Platform Engineering
9 32 (18.39%) Microservices
10 30 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (17.24%) Disaster Recovery
11 29 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 25 (14.37%) Cloud Security
13 24 (13.79%) AI
14 23 (13.22%) Data Pipeline
14 23 (13.22%) Mentoring
15 21 (12.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 21 (12.07%) Software Engineering
16 20 (11.49%) Configuration Management
17 19 (10.92%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 105 (60.34%) Python
2 54 (31.03%) Bash
3 32 (18.39%) SQL
4 28 (16.09%) PowerShell
5 19 (10.92%) Go
5 19 (10.92%) Java
6 15 (8.62%) JavaScript
7 13 (7.47%) TypeScript
8 10 (5.75%) Bicep
9 8 (4.60%) C#
10 2 (1.15%) Groovy
11 1 (0.57%) C++
11 1 (0.57%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.57%) PHP
11 1 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 43 (24.71%) AWS Certification
1 43 (24.71%) Security Cleared
2 29 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 22 (12.64%) Degree
4 16 (9.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 16 (9.20%) DV Cleared
5 11 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.45%) AWS Certified Developer
6 6 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (2.87%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.30%) SnowPro
9 2 (1.15%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.32%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.75%) GDPR
3 8 (4.60%) QA
4 7 (4.02%) SLA
5 4 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.30%) NIST
6 1 (0.57%) Basel III
6 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.57%) MiFID
6 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 77 (44.25%) Docker
2 6 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (2.30%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.15%) KVM
4 2 (1.15%) Terminal Server
4 2 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.57%) QEMU
5 1 (0.57%) vCloud
5 1 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 141 (81.03%) Terraform
2 73 (41.95%) Kubernetes
3 50 (28.74%) Ansible
4 42 (24.14%) Grafana
5 33 (18.97%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.45%) Argo
6 6 (3.45%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (2.87%) Kubeflow
7 5 (2.87%) Puppet
8 2 (1.15%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (1.15%) Istio
8 2 (1.15%) linkerd
8 2 (1.15%) Nessus
9 1 (0.57%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.57%) Mesos
9 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.57%) Nagios
9 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.57%) Rancher
Vendors
1 22 (12.64%) Google
2 21 (12.07%) Splunk
3 17 (9.77%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.60%) Red Hat
5 7 (4.02%) IBM
6 5 (2.87%) Databricks
7 4 (2.30%) Foundry
7 4 (2.30%) LogicMonitor
7 4 (2.30%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.72%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.72%) Citrix
8 3 (1.72%) Hitachi
8 3 (1.72%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.72%) SAP
8 3 (1.72%) VMware
9 2 (1.15%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.15%) OneLogin
9 2 (1.15%) Oracle
9 2 (1.15%) Rapid7
10 1 (0.57%) Qualys