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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 386 496
Rank change year-on-year -5 +110 -155
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 285 232 310
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.63% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.29% 1.66% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 175 184 251
10th Percentile £52,950 £56,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £63,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +13.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £111,500 £131,250 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -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 22,165 13,994 28,448
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.61% 37.81% 37.17%
Number of salaries quoted 12,052 10,095 23,720
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 24 March 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 24 March 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 -1 133 £85,000 -12.82% 45
North of England +23 100 £73,801 +6.48% 35
Yorkshire +21 68 £72,500 -3.33% 15
North West -16 28 £74,301 +7.29% 12
Midlands -20 23 £50,000 -26.97% 3
West Midlands +4 15 £50,000 -27.86% 2
South East -34 14 £70,000 +16.67% 14
South West -22 11 £70,000 +27.27% 16
East Midlands -39 8 £75,000 +15.38% 1
North East -25 4 £73,801 +6.37% 8
East of England -17 1 £75,000 -11.76% 6
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 16 (5.61%) Apache
2 8 (2.81%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.70%) Confluence
4 2 (0.70%) JBoss
4 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.70%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.70%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.70%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.35%) Drupal
5 1 (0.35%) IIS
5 1 (0.35%) nginx
5 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 268 (94.04%) AWS
2 161 (56.49%) Serverless
3 137 (48.07%) AWS Lambda
4 114 (40.00%) Azure
5 108 (37.89%) Amazon S3
6 85 (29.82%) Amazon ECS
7 75 (26.32%) AWS Step Functions
8 73 (25.61%) GitHub
9 65 (22.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 65 (22.81%) GCP
10 54 (18.95%) GitHub Actions
11 50 (17.54%) Amazon ECR
12 44 (15.44%) Datadog
13 41 (14.39%) Amazon EKS
14 40 (14.04%) Amazon SQS
15 34 (11.93%) Apigee
16 30 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
17 28 (9.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 27 (9.47%) Azure DevOps
18 27 (9.47%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.61%) TCP/IP
2 15 (5.26%) Firewall
3 13 (4.56%) DSL
3 13 (4.56%) VPN
4 7 (2.46%) Network Security
5 5 (1.75%) AMQP
5 5 (1.75%) DNS
5 5 (1.75%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (1.05%) SCCP
7 2 (0.70%) SSL
8 1 (0.35%) 4G
8 1 (0.35%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (31.58%) DynamoDB
2 70 (24.56%) NoSQL
3 47 (16.49%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (11.93%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (7.72%) Amazon Athena
6 19 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
7 15 (5.26%) Redis
8 14 (4.91%) SQL Server
9 12 (4.21%) MySQL
10 9 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (2.11%) Big Data
11 6 (2.11%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.75%) Cloudera CDH
12 5 (1.75%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.40%) Data Lake
14 3 (1.05%) Metadata
15 2 (0.70%) Amazon Aurora
15 2 (0.70%) Apache Iceberg
15 2 (0.70%) DB2
Development Applications
1 115 (40.35%) GitLab
2 112 (39.30%) Jenkins
3 42 (14.74%) Git
4 37 (12.98%) SonarQube
5 35 (12.28%) Maven
6 34 (11.93%) Cypress.io
7 23 (8.07%) CircleCI
8 12 (4.21%) Bitbucket
9 11 (3.86%) Cucumber
10 6 (2.11%) JIRA
11 5 (1.75%) git-flow
11 5 (1.75%) Robot Framework
12 4 (1.40%) JMeter
12 4 (1.40%) Selenium
13 3 (1.05%) Eclipse
13 3 (1.05%) TeamCity
14 2 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 2 (0.70%) TestRail
15 1 (0.35%) Gatling
15 1 (0.35%) Gradle
General
1 96 (33.68%) Social Skills
2 54 (18.95%) Finance
3 28 (9.82%) Banking
4 15 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.86%) Aerospace
6 8 (2.81%) Advertising
6 8 (2.81%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.11%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.75%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.75%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.40%) Billing
10 4 (1.40%) Retail
11 3 (1.05%) Aviation
12 2 (0.70%) Electronics
12 2 (0.70%) Games
12 2 (0.70%) Law
12 2 (0.70%) Mandarin Language
12 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 78 (27.37%) Developer
2 59 (20.70%) Cloud Engineer
2 59 (20.70%) Senior
3 45 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 42 (14.74%) Java Developer
5 30 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
6 25 (8.77%) Senior Developer
7 24 (8.42%) Platform Engineer
8 22 (7.72%) AWS Developer
9 21 (7.37%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 21 (7.37%) Lead
9 21 (7.37%) Security Engineer
10 19 (6.67%) Architect
11 16 (5.61%) AWS Architect
11 16 (5.61%) AWS DevOps
11 16 (5.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (4.56%) .NET Developer
12 13 (4.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 13 (4.56%) AWS Security Architect
12 13 (4.56%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (18.95%) AngularJS
2 53 (18.60%) AWS CDK
2 53 (18.60%) Spring Boot
3 37 (12.98%) Node.js
4 36 (12.63%) Kafka
5 34 (11.93%) Gherkin
5 34 (11.93%) Jest
6 33 (11.58%) RESTful
7 32 (11.23%) React
8 28 (9.82%) Spring
9 23 (8.07%) Elastic Stack
9 23 (8.07%) RabbitMQ
10 20 (7.02%) .NET
11 17 (5.96%) gRPC
12 14 (4.91%) Django
12 14 (4.91%) REST
12 14 (4.91%) web3js
13 13 (4.56%) .NET Core
13 13 (4.56%) ASP.NET
13 13 (4.56%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 90 (31.58%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.72%) Security Posture
3 20 (7.02%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.91%) Blockchain
4 14 (4.91%) Product Ownership
4 14 (4.91%) Web3
5 13 (4.56%) Cloud Security Posture
6 11 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (3.86%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (3.86%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.81%) e-Learning
7 8 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.11%) PKI
9 5 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.05%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (1.05%) Cyber Security Posture
10 3 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.05%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.35%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 62 (21.75%) Linux
2 24 (8.42%) Windows
3 23 (8.07%) Unix
4 12 (4.21%) Ubuntu
5 9 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.46%) CentOS
7 5 (1.75%) Debian
7 5 (1.75%) VMS
8 4 (1.40%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.35%) Android
9 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (75.79%) CI/CD
2 212 (74.39%) Infrastructure as Code
3 204 (71.58%) DevOps
4 127 (44.56%) Agile
5 88 (30.88%) Containerisation
6 79 (27.72%) Problem-Solving
7 68 (23.86%) Microservices
8 61 (21.40%) Continuous Improvement
9 56 (19.65%) DevSecOps
10 55 (19.30%) Cloud Security
10 55 (19.30%) Observability
11 49 (17.19%) Continuous Integration
12 45 (15.79%) Mentoring
13 41 (14.39%) Incident Response
13 41 (14.39%) Test Automation
14 38 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
15 36 (12.63%) Software Engineering
16 35 (12.28%) Root Cause Analysis
17 34 (11.93%) Clean Code
17 34 (11.93%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 121 (42.46%) Python
2 88 (30.88%) Java
3 78 (27.37%) Bash
4 67 (23.51%) TypeScript
5 63 (22.11%) SQL
6 40 (14.04%) Go
7 34 (11.93%) Groovy
8 29 (10.18%) PowerShell
9 23 (8.07%) Kotlin
10 21 (7.37%) JavaScript
11 13 (4.56%) C#
11 13 (4.56%) Rust
12 11 (3.86%) Bicep
13 4 (1.40%) C++
14 3 (1.05%) Google Apps Script
15 1 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.35%) PHP
15 1 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 72 (25.26%) AWS Certification
2 67 (23.51%) Security Cleared
3 36 (12.63%) SC Cleared
4 35 (12.28%) Degree
5 25 (8.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 24 (8.42%) AWS Certified Developer
6 24 (8.42%) DV Cleared
7 23 (8.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 21 (7.37%) ITIL Certification
9 14 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (4.91%) OSCP
10 7 (2.46%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 7 (2.46%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.70%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.70%) Postgraduate
13 2 (0.70%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.37%) NIST
2 16 (5.61%) PCI DSS
3 14 (4.91%) GDPR
4 12 (4.21%) QA
5 10 (3.51%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.05%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.05%) SLA
8 1 (0.35%) Basel III
8 1 (0.35%) MiFID
8 1 (0.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 148 (51.93%) Docker
2 6 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.40%) KVM
4 3 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.35%) QEMU
5 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 195 (68.42%) Terraform
2 107 (37.54%) Kubernetes
3 62 (21.75%) Ansible
4 41 (14.39%) Prometheus
5 38 (13.33%) Grafana
6 34 (11.93%) HP Fortify
7 9 (3.16%) Argo
7 9 (3.16%) AWS Copilot
8 8 (2.81%) Docker Swarm
9 7 (2.46%) Puppet
10 6 (2.11%) Istio
10 6 (2.11%) linkerd
10 6 (2.11%) Mesos
11 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.40%) Rancher
12 2 (0.70%) Nessus
13 1 (0.35%) Consul
13 1 (0.35%) Packer
13 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 30 (10.53%) Google
2 15 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.16%) Splunk
4 7 (2.46%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.11%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.40%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.05%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.05%) LogicMonitor
7 3 (1.05%) Oracle
7 3 (1.05%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.05%) VMware
8 2 (0.70%) IBM
8 2 (0.70%) Ping Identity
8 2 (0.70%) SAP
9 1 (0.35%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.35%) Foundry
9 1 (0.35%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.35%) TOWER Software