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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 381 500
Rank change year-on-year +2 +119 -163
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 305 226 321
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.43% 0.62% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 1.64% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 185 181 257
10th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,677 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.40% +3.23% -3.13%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £111,500 £122,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £76,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -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 23,134 13,795 28,810
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.54% 37.74% 36.64%
Number of salaries quoted 12,524 10,138 23,956
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £82,500 £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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -4 140 £85,000 -10.53% 47
North of England +10 113 £73,801 +6.37% 33
Yorkshire +19 77 £72,500 -3.33% 8
North West -22 32 £76,651 +10.59% 16
Midlands -27 23 £50,000 -26.97% 4
West Midlands -11 14 £50,000 -27.86% 3
South East -44 13 £70,000 +16.67% 13
South West -32 11 £70,000 +21.74% 13
East Midlands -42 9 £63,750 -1.92% 1
North East -24 4 £73,801 +6.37% 9
East of England -25 1 £75,000 -11.76% 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 16 (5.25%) Apache
2 8 (2.62%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.98%) JBoss
4 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.66%) Confluence
5 2 (0.66%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.66%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.66%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.33%) Drupal
6 1 (0.33%) IIS
6 1 (0.33%) nginx
6 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 287 (94.10%) AWS
2 173 (56.72%) Serverless
3 149 (48.85%) AWS Lambda
4 118 (38.69%) Amazon S3
5 112 (36.72%) Azure
6 98 (32.13%) Amazon ECS
7 85 (27.87%) AWS Step Functions
8 75 (24.59%) GitHub
9 72 (23.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 66 (21.64%) GCP
11 56 (18.36%) Amazon ECR
11 56 (18.36%) GitHub Actions
12 51 (16.72%) Datadog
13 44 (14.43%) Amazon SQS
14 43 (14.10%) Amazon EKS
15 40 (13.11%) Apigee
16 33 (10.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 31 (10.16%) Amazon EC2
18 27 (8.85%) Pulumi
19 25 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.25%) TCP/IP
2 15 (4.92%) Firewall
3 13 (4.26%) DSL
3 13 (4.26%) VPN
4 7 (2.30%) Network Security
5 5 (1.64%) AMQP
5 5 (1.64%) DNS
5 5 (1.64%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.98%) SCCP
7 2 (0.66%) SSL
8 1 (0.33%) 4G
8 1 (0.33%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (34.10%) DynamoDB
2 75 (24.59%) NoSQL
3 50 (16.39%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (11.15%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (8.85%) Amazon Athena
6 20 (6.56%) Elasticsearch
7 15 (4.92%) Redis
8 14 (4.59%) SQL Server
9 11 (3.61%) MySQL
10 8 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.97%) Big Data
11 6 (1.97%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.64%) Cloudera CDH
12 5 (1.64%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.31%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.31%) Flink
13 4 (1.31%) Metadata
14 2 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.66%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 123 (40.33%) GitLab
2 120 (39.34%) Jenkins
3 46 (15.08%) Git
4 42 (13.77%) SonarQube
5 41 (13.44%) Maven
6 39 (12.79%) Cypress.io
7 24 (7.87%) CircleCI
8 12 (3.93%) Bitbucket
8 12 (3.93%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.97%) JIRA
10 5 (1.64%) git-flow
10 5 (1.64%) Robot Framework
10 5 (1.64%) Selenium
11 4 (1.31%) JMeter
12 3 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.98%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.98%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.66%) TestRail
14 1 (0.33%) Gatling
14 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 103 (33.77%) Social Skills
2 57 (18.69%) Finance
3 30 (9.84%) Banking
4 15 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.93%) Aerospace
6 9 (2.95%) Advertising
7 8 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.62%) Telecoms
8 6 (1.97%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.97%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.97%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.64%) Retail
10 4 (1.31%) Billing
11 3 (0.98%) Aviation
11 3 (0.98%) Law
11 3 (0.98%) Mandarin Language
12 2 (0.66%) Back Office
12 2 (0.66%) Electronics
12 2 (0.66%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.66%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 90 (29.51%) Developer
2 65 (21.31%) Senior
3 60 (19.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 51 (16.72%) Java Developer
5 47 (15.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 30 (9.84%) AWS Engineer
7 27 (8.85%) Senior Developer
8 25 (8.20%) AWS Developer
9 24 (7.87%) Platform Engineer
10 23 (7.54%) Lead
11 21 (6.89%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 21 (6.89%) Security Engineer
12 18 (5.90%) Architect
13 17 (5.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 16 (5.25%) AWS Architect
14 16 (5.25%) AWS DevOps
15 13 (4.26%) .NET Developer
15 13 (4.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 13 (4.26%) AWS Security Architect
15 13 (4.26%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (20.98%) AngularJS
2 60 (19.67%) Spring Boot
3 53 (17.38%) AWS CDK
4 46 (15.08%) Node.js
5 41 (13.44%) Kafka
6 39 (12.79%) Gherkin
6 39 (12.79%) Jest
7 35 (11.48%) RESTful
8 31 (10.16%) React
8 31 (10.16%) Spring
9 23 (7.54%) Elastic Stack
9 23 (7.54%) RabbitMQ
10 19 (6.23%) .NET
11 18 (5.90%) gRPC
12 16 (5.25%) web3js
13 14 (4.59%) Django
13 14 (4.59%) REST
14 13 (4.26%) .NET Core
14 13 (4.26%) ASP.NET Core
14 13 (4.26%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 90 (29.51%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.54%) Security Posture
3 22 (7.21%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (5.25%) Blockchain
4 16 (5.25%) Web3
5 14 (4.59%) Product Ownership
6 13 (4.26%) Cloud Security Posture
7 12 (3.93%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (3.93%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (3.61%) Public Cloud
9 9 (2.95%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (2.62%) e-Learning
10 8 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (2.30%) PKI
12 5 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.31%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.31%) Management Information System
14 3 (0.98%) Cyber Defence
14 3 (0.98%) Cyber Security Posture
14 3 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 65 (21.31%) Linux
2 26 (8.52%) Windows
3 23 (7.54%) Unix
4 13 (4.26%) Ubuntu
5 11 (3.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.62%) CentOS
7 5 (1.64%) Debian
7 5 (1.64%) VMS
7 5 (1.64%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.66%) Android
8 2 (0.66%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (74.75%) CI/CD
2 221 (72.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 213 (69.84%) DevOps
4 133 (43.61%) Agile
5 94 (30.82%) Containerisation
6 81 (26.56%) Problem-Solving
7 70 (22.95%) Microservices
8 64 (20.98%) Continuous Improvement
9 61 (20.00%) DevSecOps
10 59 (19.34%) Observability
11 56 (18.36%) Cloud Security
12 52 (17.05%) Continuous Integration
13 48 (15.74%) Mentoring
14 42 (13.77%) Platform Engineering
14 42 (13.77%) Test Automation
15 41 (13.44%) Incident Response
16 40 (13.11%) Software Engineering
17 38 (12.46%) ITIL
18 36 (11.80%) Clean Code
19 35 (11.48%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 129 (42.30%) Python
2 104 (34.10%) Java
3 83 (27.21%) Bash
4 78 (25.57%) TypeScript
5 72 (23.61%) SQL
6 42 (13.77%) Go
7 40 (13.11%) Groovy
8 30 (9.84%) Kotlin
9 28 (9.18%) PowerShell
10 22 (7.21%) JavaScript
11 13 (4.26%) C#
11 13 (4.26%) Rust
12 10 (3.28%) Bicep
13 5 (1.64%) C++
14 3 (0.98%) Google Apps Script
15 1 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.33%) PHP
15 1 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 78 (25.57%) AWS Certification
2 73 (23.93%) Security Cleared
3 41 (13.44%) SC Cleared
4 37 (12.13%) Degree
5 27 (8.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 25 (8.20%) AWS Certified Developer
6 25 (8.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 25 (8.20%) DV Cleared
6 25 (8.20%) ITIL Certification
7 15 (4.92%) OSCP
8 14 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (2.62%) Azure Certification
10 7 (2.30%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 5 (1.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.98%) Postgraduate
13 2 (0.66%) CREST Certified
13 2 (0.66%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.66%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.89%) NIST
2 16 (5.25%) PCI DSS
3 14 (4.59%) GDPR
4 11 (3.61%) QA
5 10 (3.28%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.64%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.98%) SLA
8 1 (0.33%) Basel III
8 1 (0.33%) MiFID
8 1 (0.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 163 (53.44%) Docker
2 6 (1.97%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.31%) KVM
4 3 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.33%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 207 (67.87%) Terraform
2 114 (37.38%) Kubernetes
3 66 (21.64%) Ansible
4 41 (13.44%) Prometheus
5 39 (12.79%) HP Fortify
6 38 (12.46%) Grafana
7 10 (3.28%) Argo
8 9 (2.95%) AWS Copilot
9 8 (2.62%) Docker Swarm
10 7 (2.30%) Puppet
11 6 (1.97%) Istio
11 6 (1.97%) linkerd
11 6 (1.97%) Mesos
12 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.31%) Rancher
14 2 (0.66%) Nessus
14 2 (0.66%) Progress Chef
15 1 (0.33%) Consul
15 1 (0.33%) Packer
Vendors
1 31 (10.16%) Google
2 13 (4.26%) Microsoft
3 9 (2.95%) Splunk
4 8 (2.62%) Red Hat
5 6 (1.97%) SaltStack
6 3 (0.98%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.98%) Oracle
6 3 (0.98%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.98%) SolarWinds
6 3 (0.98%) VMware
7 2 (0.66%) HubSpot
7 2 (0.66%) IBM
7 2 (0.66%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (0.66%) Ping Identity
7 2 (0.66%) SAP
8 1 (0.33%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.33%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.33%) TOWER Software