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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 436 555
Rank change year-on-year +70 +119 -201
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 421 222 294
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.51% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.76% 1.55% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 208 123 240
10th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -9.38%
75th Percentile £95,000 £94,375 £97,500
90th Percentile £113,250 £111,250 £112,500
UK median annual salary £79,160 £75,000 £74,500
% change year-on-year +5.55% +0.67% -3.87%

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 23,933 14,311 29,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.54% 33.12% 33.16%
Number of salaries quoted 15,973 10,243 23,381
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £30,050
25th Percentile £44,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 +68 223 £90,000 +15.02% 52
North of England +60 136 £75,000 +8.09% 24
Yorkshire +46 88 £75,000 +5.63% 3
North West +20 45 £74,651 +7.59% 15
Midlands -15 25 £57,250 -13.67% 7
East Midlands -6 18 £52,500 -27.59% 2
South East -51 17 £70,000 -15.15% 23
South West -51 12 £67,500 -25.00% 27
West Midlands -15 7 £62,000 -4.62% 5
North East -46 3 £57,788 -16.71% 6
East of England -24 2 £82,500 +10.00% 1
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 17 (4.04%) Apache
2 10 (2.38%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.90%) Confluence
4 6 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.71%) JBoss
7 1 (0.24%) Drupal
7 1 (0.24%) IIS
7 1 (0.24%) nginx
7 1 (0.24%) SAS
7 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.48%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Summit
2 1 (0.24%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 402 (95.49%) AWS
2 220 (52.26%) Serverless
3 175 (41.57%) AWS Lambda
4 124 (29.45%) Amazon S3
5 122 (28.98%) Amazon ECS
6 97 (23.04%) Azure
7 86 (20.43%) AWS Step Functions
8 81 (19.24%) GitHub
9 68 (16.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 66 (15.68%) GCP
11 58 (13.78%) Datadog
12 55 (13.06%) GitHub Actions
13 54 (12.83%) Amazon EKS
14 52 (12.35%) Amazon EC2
14 52 (12.35%) Cloud Computing
15 43 (10.21%) Amazon SQS
16 38 (9.03%) Amazon ECR
17 35 (8.31%) Apigee
18 33 (7.84%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 24 (5.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.28%) Network Security
1 18 (4.28%) VPN
2 15 (3.56%) Firewall
3 10 (2.38%) DNS
3 10 (2.38%) DSL
3 10 (2.38%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.43%) AMQP
5 4 (0.95%) HTTP
5 4 (0.95%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (0.48%) 4G
6 2 (0.48%) 5G
6 2 (0.48%) MQTT
7 1 (0.24%) DHCP
7 1 (0.24%) DNSSEC
7 1 (0.24%) Internet
7 1 (0.24%) PSTN
7 1 (0.24%) SCCP
7 1 (0.24%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (25.18%) DynamoDB
2 82 (19.48%) NoSQL
3 39 (9.26%) Amazon RDS
4 35 (8.31%) Amazon Athena
5 12 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (2.14%) Big Data
8 7 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.66%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.43%) Cloudera CDH
9 6 (1.43%) Flink
9 6 (1.43%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.19%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.19%) MySQL
11 4 (0.95%) Metadata
11 4 (0.95%) Redis
12 3 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.71%) Relational Database
13 2 (0.48%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 142 (33.73%) Jenkins
2 136 (32.30%) GitLab
3 56 (13.30%) Git
4 39 (9.26%) Maven
5 35 (8.31%) Cypress.io
6 32 (7.60%) SonarQube
7 30 (7.13%) Cucumber
8 25 (5.94%) CircleCI
9 12 (2.85%) Bitbucket
10 10 (2.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 9 (2.14%) JIRA
12 7 (1.66%) Claude Code
13 6 (1.43%) TeamCity
14 5 (1.19%) Gradle
15 3 (0.71%) Selenium
16 2 (0.48%) JMeter
17 1 (0.24%) Eclipse
17 1 (0.24%) git-flow
17 1 (0.24%) Robot Framework
17 1 (0.24%) Vagrant
General
1 111 (26.37%) Social Skills
2 105 (24.94%) Finance
3 34 (8.08%) Banking
4 26 (6.18%) Public Sector
5 12 (2.85%) Aerospace
5 12 (2.85%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.38%) Financial Institution
6 10 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.43%) Advertising
7 6 (1.43%) Legal
8 5 (1.19%) Investment Banking
9 4 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (0.95%) Mandarin Language
9 4 (0.95%) Military
9 4 (0.95%) Retail
9 4 (0.95%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.71%) Back Office
10 3 (0.71%) Law
11 2 (0.48%) Automotive
11 2 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 104 (24.70%) Developer
2 101 (23.99%) Senior
3 78 (18.53%) Cloud Engineer
4 69 (16.39%) Java Developer
5 62 (14.73%) DevOps Engineer
6 41 (9.74%) AWS Engineer
7 33 (7.84%) Consultant
8 30 (7.13%) Java Engineer
9 28 (6.65%) Lead
10 27 (6.41%) AWS Developer
10 27 (6.41%) Senior Consultant
10 27 (6.41%) Senior Developer
11 26 (6.18%) Full-Stack Developer
12 23 (5.46%) Platform Engineer
13 22 (5.23%) Architect
14 21 (4.99%) Principal Engineer
14 21 (4.99%) Software Engineer
15 20 (4.75%) Security Engineer
16 19 (4.51%) AWS DevOps
16 19 (4.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (22.09%) Spring Boot
2 83 (19.71%) AngularJS
3 70 (16.63%) Kafka
4 67 (15.91%) Spring
5 64 (15.20%) Node.js
6 50 (11.88%) AWS CDK
7 39 (9.26%) Gherkin
8 31 (7.36%) Jest
8 31 (7.36%) React
9 28 (6.65%) RESTful
10 23 (5.46%) gRPC
10 23 (5.46%) RabbitMQ
10 23 (5.46%) REST
11 18 (4.28%) Web Services
11 18 (4.28%) web3js
12 17 (4.04%) Next.js
13 16 (3.80%) YAML
14 14 (3.33%) JSON
15 13 (3.09%) Elastic Stack
16 10 (2.38%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 131 (31.12%) Cloud Native
2 43 (10.21%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (9.98%) Onboarding
4 40 (9.50%) Public Cloud
5 35 (8.31%) Enterprise Cloud
6 25 (5.94%) e-Learning
7 22 (5.23%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (4.51%) Data Centre
9 18 (4.28%) Blockchain
9 18 (4.28%) Web3
10 17 (4.04%) Security Posture
11 15 (3.56%) Greenfield Project
11 15 (3.56%) Hybrid Cloud
12 14 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (3.09%) Cloud Security Posture
14 11 (2.61%) Distributed Computing
14 11 (2.61%) Mainframe
15 9 (2.14%) PKI
16 8 (1.90%) Product Ownership
17 6 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 72 (17.10%) Linux
2 23 (5.46%) Windows
3 14 (3.33%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.38%) CentOS
6 6 (1.43%) Debian
7 5 (1.19%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.95%) VMS
9 3 (0.71%) Android
9 3 (0.71%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (69.36%) Infrastructure as Code
2 263 (62.47%) CI/CD
3 212 (50.36%) DevOps
4 161 (38.24%) Agile
5 132 (31.35%) Containerisation
6 101 (23.99%) Mentoring
7 87 (20.67%) Microservices
8 81 (19.24%) Test Automation
9 80 (19.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 76 (18.05%) Software Engineering
11 75 (17.81%) Observability
12 74 (17.58%) Cloud Security
13 73 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
14 64 (15.20%) DevSecOps
15 61 (14.49%) Continuous Integration
15 61 (14.49%) Event-Driven
16 53 (12.59%) Platform Engineering
17 49 (11.64%) Collaborative Culture
18 46 (10.93%) AI
19 45 (10.69%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 191 (45.37%) Python
2 160 (38.00%) Java
3 92 (21.85%) SQL
4 90 (21.38%) TypeScript
5 77 (18.29%) Bash
6 55 (13.06%) Groovy
7 43 (10.21%) Go
8 39 (9.26%) Kotlin
9 31 (7.36%) JavaScript
9 31 (7.36%) PowerShell
10 20 (4.75%) Bicep
11 14 (3.33%) C#
11 14 (3.33%) PHP
12 13 (3.09%) Perl
12 13 (3.09%) Ruby
13 10 (2.38%) Rust
14 8 (1.90%) C++
15 6 (1.43%) Google Apps Script
16 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 124 (29.45%) Security Cleared
2 102 (24.23%) AWS Certification
3 63 (14.96%) SC Cleared
4 60 (14.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 45 (10.69%) Degree
6 28 (6.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 26 (6.18%) DV Cleared
8 25 (5.94%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (3.09%) OSCP
11 12 (2.85%) Master's Degree
12 10 (2.38%) AWS Certified Developer
13 7 (1.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (1.43%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.95%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.71%) CREST Certified
16 3 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
17 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
18 1 (0.24%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.99%) PCI DSS
2 20 (4.75%) NIST
3 19 (4.51%) GDPR
4 13 (3.09%) SOC 2
5 10 (2.38%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.71%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.24%) NCSC
8 1 (0.24%) QA
8 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 178 (42.28%) Docker
2 6 (1.43%) KVM
2 6 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.19%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.48%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 279 (66.27%) Terraform
2 165 (39.19%) Kubernetes
3 73 (17.34%) Ansible
4 44 (10.45%) Prometheus
5 40 (9.50%) Grafana
6 33 (7.84%) Progress Chef
7 30 (7.13%) HP Fortify
8 25 (5.94%) Puppet
9 17 (4.04%) Argo
10 8 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (1.43%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (1.19%) Istio
12 5 (1.19%) linkerd
12 5 (1.19%) Mesos
13 3 (0.71%) AWS Copilot
13 3 (0.71%) Rancher
14 2 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
15 1 (0.24%) Consul
15 1 (0.24%) Packer
Vendors
1 28 (6.65%) Google
2 16 (3.80%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.85%) Oracle
4 7 (1.66%) HubSpot
4 7 (1.66%) OpenAI
4 7 (1.66%) Red Hat
4 7 (1.66%) Splunk
5 6 (1.43%) SaltStack
5 6 (1.43%) VMware
6 5 (1.19%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.71%) Avaya
7 3 (0.71%) Cisco
7 3 (0.71%) Databricks
7 3 (0.71%) Genesys
8 1 (0.24%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.24%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.24%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (0.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.24%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.24%) TOWER Software