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 3 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 347 331
Rank change year-on-year +1 -16 -36
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 104 184 134
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 0.70% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.13% 1.79% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 68 142 95
10th Percentile £56,000 £52,500 £45,250
25th Percentile £62,188 £63,930 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £90,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +24.14% -9.38%
75th Percentile £87,500 £118,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £105,750 £138,750 £138,750
UK median annual salary £73,801 £83,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.88% +19.64% -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 9,195 10,271 9,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.54% 38.91% 43.96%
Number of salaries quoted 5,455 5,967 7,545
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £45,625
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 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 3 months to 29 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 3 months to 29 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 3 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -7 46 £77,500 -26.19% 50
North of England +13 39 £73,801 +13.54% 20
Yorkshire +9 20 £60,000 - 8
North West +14 16 £73,801 +18.08% 8
South East +13 8 £72,500 +11.54% 27
Midlands +33 6 £73,801 +13.54% 7
South West +12 5 £67,500 +35.00% 11
West Midlands +32 4 £73,801 +6.48% 4
North East -1 3 £73,801 +6.48% 4
East Midlands +3 2 - - 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 8 (4.57%) Apache
2 7 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (4.00%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.43%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.43%) WebSphere
3 6 (3.43%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (1.14%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.57%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 159 (90.86%) AWS
2 84 (48.00%) Azure
3 74 (42.29%) Serverless
4 67 (38.29%) AWS Lambda
5 58 (33.14%) Amazon S3
6 49 (28.00%) GCP
7 45 (25.71%) GitHub
8 42 (24.00%) Amazon ECS
9 40 (22.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 36 (20.57%) Amazon EC2
11 32 (18.29%) GitHub Actions
12 31 (17.71%) Amazon EKS
13 28 (16.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 23 (13.14%) Amazon ECR
15 21 (12.00%) AWS Step Functions
15 21 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
16 18 (10.29%) Amazon SQS
17 17 (9.71%) Datadog
18 16 (9.14%) dbt
19 13 (7.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.29%) TCP/IP
2 6 (3.43%) Firewall
2 6 (3.43%) SSL
3 5 (2.86%) Network Security
4 4 (2.29%) VPN
5 3 (1.71%) LAN
5 3 (1.71%) WAN
6 2 (1.14%) AMQP
6 2 (1.14%) DNS
7 1 (0.57%) DHCP
7 1 (0.57%) HTTP
7 1 (0.57%) NAS
7 1 (0.57%) SAN
7 1 (0.57%) SNMP
7 1 (0.57%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.57%) VSAN
7 1 (0.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (18.86%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (16.00%) DynamoDB
3 27 (15.43%) NoSQL
3 27 (15.43%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (9.14%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (8.57%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (7.43%) SQL Server
7 12 (6.86%) Data Lake
7 12 (6.86%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (6.29%) Redis
9 10 (5.71%) Amazon Athena
10 9 (5.14%) MySQL
11 6 (3.43%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (3.43%) DB2
12 4 (2.29%) Big Data
13 3 (1.71%) Apache Iceberg
13 3 (1.71%) Data Vault
13 3 (1.71%) MongoDB
14 2 (1.14%) Cloudera CDH
14 2 (1.14%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 53 (30.29%) Jenkins
2 43 (24.57%) GitLab
3 17 (9.71%) Git
4 11 (6.29%) CircleCI
5 10 (5.71%) SonarQube
6 6 (3.43%) Cypress.io
6 6 (3.43%) Maven
7 5 (2.86%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.86%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.86%) git-flow
7 5 (2.86%) JIRA
8 4 (2.29%) Robot Framework
9 3 (1.71%) Spinnaker
10 2 (1.14%) Eclipse
10 2 (1.14%) JMeter
10 2 (1.14%) Selenium
10 2 (1.14%) TestRail
11 1 (0.57%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.57%) Subversion
11 1 (0.57%) TeamCity
General
1 53 (30.29%) Social Skills
2 36 (20.57%) Finance
3 18 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.14%) Banking
5 12 (6.86%) Law
6 8 (4.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.57%) Telecoms
7 7 (4.00%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.43%) Marketing
9 5 (2.86%) Aerospace
10 4 (2.29%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.71%) Electronics
11 3 (1.71%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.14%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.57%) Advertising
13 1 (0.57%) Billing
13 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.57%) Military
13 1 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 44 (25.14%) Senior
2 30 (17.14%) Cloud Engineer
3 29 (16.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (14.86%) AWS Engineer
5 20 (11.43%) Lead
5 20 (11.43%) Platform Engineer
6 16 (9.14%) Developer
7 14 (8.00%) Data Engineer
8 12 (6.86%) AWS DevOps
9 10 (5.71%) Architect
9 10 (5.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 9 (5.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 9 (5.14%) Support Engineer
11 8 (4.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (4.57%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 7 (4.00%) Applications Engineer
12 7 (4.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 7 (4.00%) Security Engineer
13 6 (3.43%) AWS Data Engineer
13 6 (3.43%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (13.71%) AWS CDK
2 23 (13.14%) Elastic Stack
3 16 (9.14%) React
4 15 (8.57%) Kafka
5 14 (8.00%) .NET
5 14 (8.00%) Spring Boot
6 12 (6.86%) RESTful
6 12 (6.86%) Spring
7 11 (6.29%) Django
8 9 (5.14%) AngularJS
8 9 (5.14%) Node.js
9 8 (4.57%) .NET Core
9 8 (4.57%) ASP.NET
9 8 (4.57%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (4.00%) ARM Templates
10 7 (4.00%) ASP.NET Core
10 7 (4.00%) Blazor
10 7 (4.00%) Material-UI
11 6 (3.43%) Jest
11 6 (3.43%) LAPP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 46 (26.29%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.86%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (6.29%) Product Ownership
4 11 (6.29%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.43%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.86%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.29%) e-Learning
7 4 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.71%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.71%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.14%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.14%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.14%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.57%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 51 (29.14%) Linux
2 28 (16.00%) Unix
3 21 (12.00%) Windows
4 9 (5.14%) Ubuntu
5 8 (4.57%) Debian
5 8 (4.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.14%) CentOS
6 2 (1.14%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (80.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 134 (76.57%) CI/CD
3 123 (70.29%) DevOps
4 61 (34.86%) Agile
5 55 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (26.86%) Containerisation
7 40 (22.86%) Observability
8 37 (21.14%) Microservices
9 34 (19.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
10 28 (16.00%) Platform Engineering
10 28 (16.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 25 (14.29%) Cloud Security
12 23 (13.14%) AI
13 22 (12.57%) Data Pipeline
13 22 (12.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 22 (12.57%) Root Cause Analysis
14 20 (11.43%) Configuration Management
14 20 (11.43%) Mentoring
15 19 (10.86%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 99 (56.57%) Python
2 56 (32.00%) Bash
3 36 (20.57%) SQL
4 28 (16.00%) PowerShell
5 25 (14.29%) Java
6 21 (12.00%) TypeScript
7 16 (9.14%) Go
7 16 (9.14%) JavaScript
8 9 (5.14%) Bicep
9 8 (4.57%) C#
9 8 (4.57%) Groovy
10 1 (0.57%) C++
10 1 (0.57%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 50 (28.57%) AWS Certification
2 40 (22.86%) Security Cleared
3 26 (14.86%) SC Cleared
4 21 (12.00%) Degree
5 17 (9.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 16 (9.14%) DV Cleared
7 13 (7.43%) AWS Certified Developer
8 11 (6.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (3.43%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (2.86%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (2.29%) SnowPro
12 2 (1.14%) ISTQB
12 2 (1.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.29%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.71%) QA
3 8 (4.57%) GDPR
4 7 (4.00%) SLA
5 4 (2.29%) NIST
6 3 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.57%) Basel III
7 1 (0.57%) MiFID
7 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 85 (48.57%) Docker
2 6 (3.43%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (2.29%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.14%) KVM
4 2 (1.14%) Terminal Server
4 2 (1.14%) 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
1 137 (78.29%) Terraform
2 70 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 47 (26.86%) Ansible
4 37 (21.14%) Grafana
5 32 (18.29%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.43%) Argo
6 6 (3.43%) AWS Copilot
6 6 (3.43%) HP Fortify
7 5 (2.86%) Kubeflow
7 5 (2.86%) Puppet
8 2 (1.14%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (1.14%) Istio
8 2 (1.14%) linkerd
8 2 (1.14%) Nessus
8 2 (1.14%) Rancher
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
Vendors
1 21 (12.00%) Google
1 21 (12.00%) Splunk
2 17 (9.71%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.57%) Red Hat
4 7 (4.00%) IBM
5 4 (2.29%) Databricks
5 4 (2.29%) Foundry
5 4 (2.29%) LogicMonitor
5 4 (2.29%) SolarWinds
6 3 (1.71%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.71%) Citrix
6 3 (1.71%) SaltStack
6 3 (1.71%) SAP
6 3 (1.71%) VMware
7 2 (1.14%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.14%) OneLogin
7 2 (1.14%) Oracle
7 2 (1.14%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.57%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.57%) Refinitiv