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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 371 509
Rank change year-on-year -13 +138 -164
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 324 255 337
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 0.67% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.30% 1.87% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 181 156 260
10th Percentile £56,250 £58,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £63,348 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £79,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.63% +6.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £111,563 £100,000
90th Percentile £127,500 £121,875 £112,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £78,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% +4.00% -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 24,980 13,648 29,683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.19% 36.11% 35.56%
Number of salaries quoted 13,255 10,133 24,266
10th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £61,182 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.16% +6.40% -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 2 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 2 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 -3 147 £88,750 -4.05% 38
North of England +26 124 £75,000 +8.09% 31
Yorkshire +17 89 £75,000 - 10
North West -13 33 £80,000 +14.79% 16
Midlands -21 25 £50,000 -26.06% 6
East Midlands -37 13 £63,750 -1.92% 5
West Midlands -15 12 £50,000 -38.51% 1
South West -45 11 £71,250 -16.18% 11
South East -51 10 £70,000 +16.67% 11
East of England -32 2 £82,500 -2.94% 2
North East -40 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 15 (4.63%) Apache
2 8 (2.47%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.93%) JBoss
5 2 (0.62%) Confluence
6 1 (0.31%) Drupal
6 1 (0.31%) IIS
6 1 (0.31%) nginx
6 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 305 (94.14%) AWS
2 179 (55.25%) Serverless
3 153 (47.22%) AWS Lambda
4 115 (35.49%) Amazon S3
5 94 (29.01%) Amazon ECS
6 90 (27.78%) Azure
7 87 (26.85%) AWS Step Functions
8 74 (22.84%) GitHub
9 73 (22.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 58 (17.90%) GitHub Actions
11 57 (17.59%) Datadog
12 51 (15.74%) GCP
13 45 (13.89%) Amazon ECR
13 45 (13.89%) Amazon EKS
14 43 (13.27%) Amazon SQS
15 42 (12.96%) Apigee
16 35 (10.80%) Amazon EC2
17 28 (8.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 24 (7.41%) OpenShift
19 21 (6.48%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.01%) DSL
1 13 (4.01%) Firewall
2 12 (3.70%) VPN
3 7 (2.16%) DNS
3 7 (2.16%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.85%) Network Security
5 5 (1.54%) AMQP
6 4 (1.23%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.93%) SCCP
8 2 (0.62%) 4G
8 2 (0.62%) 5G
8 2 (0.62%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (34.26%) DynamoDB
2 78 (24.07%) NoSQL
3 43 (13.27%) Amazon RDS
4 28 (8.64%) Amazon Athena
5 20 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (3.40%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (3.09%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.47%) MySQL
9 6 (1.85%) Big Data
9 6 (1.85%) Flink
9 6 (1.85%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.54%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (1.54%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.23%) Redis
12 3 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.93%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.93%) Metadata
13 2 (0.62%) Apache Hudi
13 2 (0.62%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 136 (41.98%) Jenkins
2 133 (41.05%) GitLab
3 51 (15.74%) Git
4 46 (14.20%) Maven
5 42 (12.96%) SonarQube
6 41 (12.65%) Cypress.io
7 26 (8.02%) CircleCI
8 16 (4.94%) Cucumber
9 12 (3.70%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.54%) JIRA
11 4 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.23%) Gradle
11 4 (1.23%) Selenium
11 4 (1.23%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.93%) JMeter
12 3 (0.93%) Robot Framework
13 2 (0.62%) Claude Code
13 2 (0.62%) Eclipse
13 2 (0.62%) git-flow
14 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 103 (31.79%) Social Skills
2 67 (20.68%) Finance
3 33 (10.19%) Banking
4 11 (3.40%) Aerospace
5 10 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (2.78%) Advertising
7 8 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.47%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.16%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.85%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.85%) Retail
10 5 (1.54%) Billing
10 5 (1.54%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.23%) Law
11 4 (1.23%) Mandarin Language
12 3 (0.93%) Aviation
12 3 (0.93%) Back Office
13 2 (0.62%) Electronics
13 2 (0.62%) Legal
13 2 (0.62%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 104 (32.10%) Developer
2 64 (19.75%) Cloud Engineer
3 62 (19.14%) Senior
4 60 (18.52%) Java Developer
5 49 (15.12%) DevOps Engineer
6 34 (10.49%) AWS Engineer
7 31 (9.57%) Senior Developer
8 28 (8.64%) AWS Developer
9 26 (8.02%) Lead
10 22 (6.79%) Security Engineer
11 21 (6.48%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 19 (5.86%) Platform Engineer
13 18 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 16 (4.94%) Architect
14 16 (4.94%) AWS DevOps
14 16 (4.94%) Java Engineer
15 15 (4.63%) Senior Java Developer
16 14 (4.32%) AWS Architect
16 14 (4.32%) Full-Stack Developer
17 13 (4.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (22.53%) AngularJS
1 73 (22.53%) Spring Boot
2 55 (16.98%) Kafka
3 52 (16.05%) AWS CDK
4 51 (15.74%) Node.js
5 43 (13.27%) Spring
6 41 (12.65%) Gherkin
7 40 (12.35%) Jest
8 39 (12.04%) RESTful
9 35 (10.80%) React
10 23 (7.10%) RabbitMQ
11 21 (6.48%) gRPC
12 20 (6.17%) web3js
13 15 (4.63%) Elastic Stack
13 15 (4.63%) Next.js
13 15 (4.63%) REST
14 14 (4.32%) .NET
15 11 (3.40%) .NET Core
15 11 (3.40%) ASP.NET
15 11 (3.40%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 95 (29.32%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (6.79%) Security Posture
4 20 (6.17%) Blockchain
4 20 (6.17%) Web3
5 19 (5.86%) Public Cloud
6 15 (4.63%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (4.01%) Cloud Security Posture
7 13 (4.01%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (3.70%) e-Learning
8 12 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (3.09%) Product Ownership
10 8 (2.47%) PKI
11 6 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (1.54%) Management Information System
13 4 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
14 3 (0.93%) Cyber Security Posture
14 3 (0.93%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 59 (18.21%) Linux
2 19 (5.86%) Windows
3 13 (4.01%) Ubuntu
4 10 (3.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.78%) CentOS
6 5 (1.54%) Debian
6 5 (1.54%) Unix
6 5 (1.54%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.23%) VMS
8 3 (0.93%) Android
8 3 (0.93%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (72.22%) CI/CD
2 231 (71.30%) Infrastructure as Code
3 205 (63.27%) DevOps
4 137 (42.28%) Agile
5 110 (33.95%) Containerisation
6 81 (25.00%) Microservices
7 72 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
8 68 (20.99%) Continuous Improvement
9 65 (20.06%) DevSecOps
10 61 (18.83%) Mentoring
11 60 (18.52%) Cloud Security
12 59 (18.21%) Observability
13 57 (17.59%) Continuous Integration
14 55 (16.98%) Test Automation
15 52 (16.05%) Software Engineering
16 43 (13.27%) Platform Engineering
17 41 (12.65%) Event-Driven
18 40 (12.35%) High Availability
19 37 (11.42%) Full-Stack Development
19 37 (11.42%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 128 (39.51%) Python
2 124 (38.27%) Java
3 89 (27.47%) TypeScript
4 78 (24.07%) SQL
5 75 (23.15%) Bash
6 48 (14.81%) Groovy
7 47 (14.51%) Go
8 33 (10.19%) Kotlin
9 28 (8.64%) JavaScript
10 21 (6.48%) PowerShell
11 13 (4.01%) C#
11 13 (4.01%) Rust
12 9 (2.78%) Bicep
13 6 (1.85%) C++
14 4 (1.23%) Google Apps Script
15 1 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.31%) Perl
15 1 (0.31%) PHP
15 1 (0.31%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 75 (23.15%) AWS Certification
2 66 (20.37%) Security Cleared
3 34 (10.49%) SC Cleared
4 32 (9.88%) Degree
5 29 (8.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 28 (8.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (7.41%) AWS Certified Developer
7 24 (7.41%) ITIL Certification
8 21 (6.48%) DV Cleared
9 16 (4.94%) OSCP
10 11 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (2.16%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 6 (1.85%) Azure Certification
13 5 (1.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (1.23%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.93%) CREST Certified
15 3 (0.93%) Master's Degree
15 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
16 1 (0.31%) CompTIA Security+
16 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.48%) NIST
2 16 (4.94%) PCI DSS
3 13 (4.01%) GDPR
4 10 (3.09%) SOC 2
5 7 (2.16%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.85%) QA
7 4 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.31%) Basel III
8 1 (0.31%) MiFID
8 1 (0.31%) NCSC
System Software
1 167 (51.54%) Docker
2 5 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.23%) KVM
3 4 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 214 (66.05%) Terraform
2 131 (40.43%) Kubernetes
3 65 (20.06%) Ansible
4 40 (12.35%) HP Fortify
5 37 (11.42%) Prometheus
6 30 (9.26%) Grafana
7 10 (3.09%) Argo
8 8 (2.47%) Progress Chef
9 7 (2.16%) Docker Swarm
9 7 (2.16%) Puppet
10 6 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.54%) Istio
11 5 (1.54%) linkerd
11 5 (1.54%) Mesos
11 5 (1.54%) Rancher
12 3 (0.93%) AWS Copilot
13 2 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.31%) Consul
14 1 (0.31%) Nessus
14 1 (0.31%) Packer
Vendors
1 22 (6.79%) Google
2 12 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 6 (1.85%) HubSpot
3 6 (1.85%) Red Hat
4 5 (1.54%) SaltStack
5 4 (1.23%) VMware
6 3 (0.93%) Oracle
6 3 (0.93%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.93%) SolarWinds
6 3 (0.93%) Splunk
7 2 (0.62%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.62%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (0.62%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.62%) Ping Identity
7 2 (0.62%) SAP
8 1 (0.31%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.31%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.31%) Databricks
8 1 (0.31%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.31%) Refinitiv