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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 403 454 372
Rank change year-on-year +51 -82 -50
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 197 244 300
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.48% 0.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.06% 1.31% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 136 188 243
10th Percentile £52,000 £52,500 £52,100
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.75% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £87,500 £116,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £136,125 £119,500
UK median annual salary £73,801 £78,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -5.99% +8.28% -9.38%

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 18,648 18,581 18,796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 36.08% 36.43% 43.40%
Number of salaries quoted 10,432 11,229 15,775
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £47,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.80% -3.85%

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 19 December 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 19 December 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 +15 85 £81,500 -18.50% 47
North of England +49 76 £70,000 +7.69% 36
Yorkshire +21 46 £70,000 +7.69% 22
North West +21 27 £66,250 +6.00% 11
Midlands +18 16 £51,500 -25.69% 34
West Midlands +39 14 £51,500 -25.69% 22
South East +27 12 £72,500 +13.73% 54
South West +17 7 £70,000 +55.56% 15
North East +3 3 £73,801 +6.48% 3
East Midlands -14 2 - - 10
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 11 (5.58%) Apache
2 8 (4.06%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.55%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (3.05%) Tomcat
4 6 (3.05%) WebSphere
4 6 (3.05%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (1.02%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.51%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 178 (90.36%) AWS
2 94 (47.72%) Serverless
3 93 (47.21%) Azure
4 87 (44.16%) AWS Lambda
5 73 (37.06%) Amazon S3
6 52 (26.40%) GCP
6 52 (26.40%) GitHub
7 51 (25.89%) Amazon ECS
8 46 (23.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 39 (19.80%) GitHub Actions
10 38 (19.29%) AWS Step Functions
11 37 (18.78%) Amazon EKS
12 35 (17.77%) Amazon EC2
13 33 (16.75%) Amazon ECR
14 28 (14.21%) Amazon SQS
14 28 (14.21%) Azure DevOps
15 26 (13.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 16 (8.12%) Apigee
16 16 (8.12%) Datadog
16 16 (8.12%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.58%) TCP/IP
2 7 (3.55%) Firewall
2 7 (3.55%) VPN
3 6 (3.05%) Network Security
3 6 (3.05%) SSL
4 3 (1.52%) AMQP
4 3 (1.52%) LAN
4 3 (1.52%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.52%) WAN
5 2 (1.02%) DNS
6 1 (0.51%) DHCP
6 1 (0.51%) DSL
6 1 (0.51%) HTTP
6 1 (0.51%) NAS
6 1 (0.51%) SAN
6 1 (0.51%) SNMP
6 1 (0.51%) VSAN
6 1 (0.51%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (23.86%) DynamoDB
2 37 (18.78%) Amazon RDS
3 34 (17.26%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (16.75%) NoSQL
5 17 (8.63%) SQL Server
6 16 (8.12%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (7.61%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (6.60%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (6.09%) Data Lake
10 11 (5.58%) Redis
11 10 (5.08%) MySQL
12 7 (3.55%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (3.05%) DB2
14 5 (2.54%) Big Data
15 4 (2.03%) MongoDB
16 3 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
16 3 (1.52%) Apache Iceberg
16 3 (1.52%) Cloudera CDH
16 3 (1.52%) Data Vault
16 3 (1.52%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 65 (32.99%) Jenkins
2 56 (28.43%) GitLab
3 28 (14.21%) Git
4 20 (10.15%) SonarQube
5 16 (8.12%) Cypress.io
5 16 (8.12%) Maven
6 9 (4.57%) CircleCI
7 8 (4.06%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.54%) git-flow
9 4 (2.03%) JIRA
9 4 (2.03%) Robot Framework
10 3 (1.52%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.02%) Eclipse
11 2 (1.02%) JMeter
11 2 (1.02%) Selenium
11 2 (1.02%) TestRail
12 1 (0.51%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.51%) Subversion
12 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
General
1 61 (30.96%) Social Skills
2 33 (16.75%) Finance
3 18 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.12%) Banking
5 9 (4.57%) Law
6 8 (4.06%) Aerospace
6 8 (4.06%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.05%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.03%) Advertising
8 4 (2.03%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.52%) Electronics
9 3 (1.52%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.52%) Marketing
9 3 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.02%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.51%) Billing
11 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Military
11 1 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 43 (21.83%) Senior
2 34 (17.26%) Cloud Engineer
3 30 (15.23%) Developer
3 30 (15.23%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (12.69%) AWS Engineer
5 23 (11.68%) Lead
6 20 (10.15%) Platform Engineer
7 13 (6.60%) AWS DevOps
8 12 (6.09%) .NET Developer
8 12 (6.09%) AWS Developer
9 11 (5.58%) Architect
9 11 (5.58%) Data Engineer
9 11 (5.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (5.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 9 (4.57%) Support Engineer
12 8 (4.06%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 8 (4.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 8 (4.06%) Technical Leader
13 7 (3.55%) Java Developer
13 7 (3.55%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (16.24%) AWS CDK
2 23 (11.68%) Spring Boot
3 21 (10.66%) React
3 21 (10.66%) RESTful
4 19 (9.64%) .NET
4 19 (9.64%) AngularJS
4 19 (9.64%) Elastic Stack
5 16 (8.12%) Gherkin
5 16 (8.12%) Jest
6 15 (7.61%) Spring
7 14 (7.11%) .NET Core
7 14 (7.11%) ASP.NET
7 14 (7.11%) Kafka
8 13 (6.60%) ASP.NET Core
8 13 (6.60%) Blazor
9 12 (6.09%) Node.js
10 11 (5.58%) Django
11 10 (5.08%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (4.57%) ARM Templates
13 8 (4.06%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 56 (28.43%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.61%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.09%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (5.58%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.06%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.05%) AI Agents
6 6 (3.05%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.52%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.52%) e-Learning
7 3 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.52%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.02%) Blockchain
8 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.02%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.02%) PKI
8 2 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.02%) Web3
9 1 (0.51%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 58 (29.44%) Linux
2 27 (13.71%) Unix
3 23 (11.68%) Windows
4 10 (5.08%) Ubuntu
5 9 (4.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (3.55%) Debian
7 3 (1.52%) CentOS
7 3 (1.52%) VMS
8 2 (1.02%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (76.65%) CI/CD
2 149 (75.63%) Infrastructure as Code
3 144 (73.10%) DevOps
4 78 (39.59%) Agile
5 61 (30.96%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (26.90%) Containerisation
7 47 (23.86%) Microservices
8 41 (20.81%) Observability
9 37 (18.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (14.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 28 (14.21%) Cloud Security
11 28 (14.21%) Disaster Recovery
11 28 (14.21%) Root Cause Analysis
12 27 (13.71%) Platform Engineering
13 24 (12.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 20 (10.15%) AI
14 20 (10.15%) Infrastructure Automation
14 20 (10.15%) Mentoring
15 19 (9.64%) Data Engineering
15 19 (9.64%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 100 (50.76%) Python
2 65 (32.99%) Bash
3 41 (20.81%) SQL
4 36 (18.27%) Java
5 32 (16.24%) TypeScript
6 31 (15.74%) PowerShell
7 16 (8.12%) Groovy
8 15 (7.61%) Go
8 15 (7.61%) JavaScript
9 11 (5.58%) Bicep
10 8 (4.06%) C#
11 1 (0.51%) C++
11 1 (0.51%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.51%) PHP
11 1 (0.51%) Rust
Qualifications
1 58 (29.44%) AWS Certification
2 46 (23.35%) Security Cleared
3 27 (13.71%) SC Cleared
4 20 (10.15%) AWS Certified Developer
5 19 (9.64%) DV Cleared
6 17 (8.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 17 (8.63%) Degree
7 10 (5.08%) ITIL Certification
8 8 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (2.03%) SnowPro
11 3 (1.52%) Azure Certification
12 2 (1.02%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (1.02%) ISTQB
12 2 (1.02%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.51%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.09%) QA
2 11 (5.58%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.55%) SLA
4 6 (3.05%) GDPR
5 4 (2.03%) NIST
6 3 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.02%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.51%) Basel III
8 1 (0.51%) MiFID
8 1 (0.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 101 (51.27%) Docker
2 6 (3.05%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (2.03%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.02%) KVM
4 2 (1.02%) Terminal Server
4 2 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.51%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.51%) QEMU
5 1 (0.51%) vCloud
5 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.51%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 148 (75.13%) Terraform
2 76 (38.58%) Kubernetes
3 49 (24.87%) Ansible
4 31 (15.74%) Grafana
5 29 (14.72%) Prometheus
6 16 (8.12%) HP Fortify
7 8 (4.06%) Argo
8 6 (3.05%) AWS Copilot
8 6 (3.05%) Puppet
9 5 (2.54%) Kubeflow
10 4 (2.03%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (2.03%) Istio
10 4 (2.03%) linkerd
11 3 (1.52%) Mesos
11 3 (1.52%) Rancher
12 2 (1.02%) Nessus
13 1 (0.51%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 21 (10.66%) Google
2 17 (8.63%) Microsoft
3 15 (7.61%) Splunk
4 9 (4.57%) Red Hat
5 6 (3.05%) IBM
6 5 (2.54%) LogicMonitor
6 5 (2.54%) SolarWinds
7 4 (2.03%) Databricks
7 4 (2.03%) Foundry
7 4 (2.03%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.52%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.52%) Citrix
8 3 (1.52%) SAP
8 3 (1.52%) VMware
9 2 (1.02%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.02%) OneLogin
9 2 (1.02%) Oracle
9 2 (1.02%) Ping Identity
10 1 (0.51%) F5
10 1 (0.51%) Qualys