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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 437 551
Rank change year-on-year +60 +114 -180
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 414 221 260
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 0.51% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.71% 1.53% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 204 123 209
10th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £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 £93,125 £97,500
90th Percentile £111,750 £111,250 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -6.45%

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 24,202 14,408 26,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.20% 33.29% 32.70%
Number of salaries quoted 16,233 10,274 20,457
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,500 £41,250 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £98,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%

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 23 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 23 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 +59 222 £90,000 +17.65% 59
North of England +59 129 £75,000 +8.09% 29
Yorkshire +42 82 £75,000 +5.63% 7
North West +17 42 £74,301 +7.09% 14
Midlands -13 26 £62,000 -4.62% 10
East Midlands -10 18 £52,500 - 3
South East -30 17 £70,000 -17.65% 14
South West -52 12 £67,500 -25.00% 16
West Midlands -30 8 £62,250 -4.23% 7
North East -51 5 £52,500 -24.33% 8
East of England -21 2 £82,500 +10.00% 2
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 (3.62%) Apache
2 8 (1.93%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.93%) Confluence
3 7 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.72%) JBoss
6 1 (0.24%) Drupal
6 1 (0.24%) IIS
6 1 (0.24%) nginx
6 1 (0.24%) SAS
6 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.48%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Summit
2 1 (0.24%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 396 (95.65%) AWS
2 217 (52.42%) Serverless
3 169 (40.82%) AWS Lambda
4 122 (29.47%) Amazon ECS
5 121 (29.23%) Amazon S3
6 94 (22.71%) Azure
7 81 (19.57%) GitHub
8 77 (18.60%) AWS Step Functions
9 68 (16.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 64 (15.46%) GCP
11 57 (13.77%) Cloud Computing
12 56 (13.53%) Amazon EC2
12 56 (13.53%) GitHub Actions
13 55 (13.29%) Amazon EKS
13 55 (13.29%) Datadog
14 39 (9.42%) Amazon SQS
15 33 (7.97%) Amazon ECR
16 31 (7.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 30 (7.25%) Apigee
18 23 (5.56%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.83%) Network Security
2 16 (3.86%) VPN
3 13 (3.14%) Firewall
4 10 (2.42%) DNS
4 10 (2.42%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.93%) DSL
6 4 (0.97%) AMQP
6 4 (0.97%) HTTP
7 2 (0.48%) 4G
7 2 (0.48%) 5G
7 2 (0.48%) MQTT
7 2 (0.48%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.24%) DHCP
8 1 (0.24%) DNSSEC
8 1 (0.24%) Internet
8 1 (0.24%) PSTN
8 1 (0.24%) SCCP
8 1 (0.24%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (23.19%) DynamoDB
2 79 (19.08%) NoSQL
3 43 (10.39%) Amazon RDS
4 33 (7.97%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (1.93%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.69%) Big Data
9 6 (1.45%) Flink
10 5 (1.21%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.21%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.21%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.97%) Cloudera CDH
11 4 (0.97%) Metadata
11 4 (0.97%) MySQL
11 4 (0.97%) Redis
11 4 (0.97%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.48%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 130 (31.40%) GitLab
2 129 (31.16%) Jenkins
3 54 (13.04%) Git
4 33 (7.97%) Cucumber
4 33 (7.97%) Maven
5 30 (7.25%) Cypress.io
6 26 (6.28%) SonarQube
7 23 (5.56%) CircleCI
8 10 (2.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 9 (2.17%) Bitbucket
9 9 (2.17%) JIRA
10 7 (1.69%) Claude Code
11 5 (1.21%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.97%) Gradle
13 3 (0.72%) Selenium
14 1 (0.24%) Gatling
14 1 (0.24%) git-flow
14 1 (0.24%) JMeter
14 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
14 1 (0.24%) Vagrant
General
1 107 (25.85%) Finance
1 107 (25.85%) Social Skills
2 34 (8.21%) Banking
3 30 (7.25%) Public Sector
4 15 (3.62%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (2.90%) Financial Institution
6 11 (2.66%) Aerospace
7 10 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.45%) Advertising
8 6 (1.45%) Law
8 6 (1.45%) Legal
9 5 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.21%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.21%) Military
10 4 (0.97%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (0.97%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.72%) Automotive
11 3 (0.72%) Back Office
11 3 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 105 (25.36%) Senior
2 96 (23.19%) Developer
3 74 (17.87%) Cloud Engineer
4 61 (14.73%) DevOps Engineer
4 61 (14.73%) Java Developer
5 43 (10.39%) AWS Engineer
6 39 (9.42%) Consultant
7 33 (7.97%) Java Engineer
8 32 (7.73%) Senior Consultant
9 30 (7.25%) Lead
10 27 (6.52%) Full-Stack Developer
11 24 (5.80%) Platform Engineer
11 24 (5.80%) Senior Developer
12 23 (5.56%) AWS Developer
13 21 (5.07%) Architect
13 21 (5.07%) Principal Engineer
14 19 (4.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 19 (4.59%) Principal Java Engineer
14 19 (4.59%) Professional Services Consultant
15 18 (4.35%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (21.74%) Spring Boot
2 73 (17.63%) AngularJS
3 72 (17.39%) Kafka
4 69 (16.67%) Spring
5 56 (13.53%) Node.js
6 48 (11.59%) AWS CDK
7 34 (8.21%) Gherkin
8 28 (6.76%) React
9 26 (6.28%) Jest
10 25 (6.04%) RESTful
11 20 (4.83%) RabbitMQ
11 20 (4.83%) REST
12 19 (4.59%) gRPC
12 19 (4.59%) Web Services
13 16 (3.86%) web3js
14 15 (3.62%) Next.js
14 15 (3.62%) YAML
15 13 (3.14%) JSON
16 12 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
17 10 (2.42%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 130 (31.40%) Cloud Native
2 50 (12.08%) Onboarding
3 48 (11.59%) Distributed Systems
4 42 (10.14%) Public Cloud
5 41 (9.90%) Enterprise Cloud
6 28 (6.76%) e-Learning
7 23 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (5.31%) Data Centre
9 18 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (3.86%) Blockchain
10 16 (3.86%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (3.86%) Web3
11 15 (3.62%) Greenfield Project
11 15 (3.62%) Security Posture
12 13 (3.14%) Distributed Computing
12 13 (3.14%) Mainframe
13 11 (2.66%) Cloud Security Posture
14 9 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
15 7 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
15 7 (1.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 65 (15.70%) Linux
2 19 (4.59%) Windows
3 10 (2.42%) Ubuntu
4 9 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.93%) CentOS
6 5 (1.21%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.97%) Debian
8 3 (0.72%) Android
8 3 (0.72%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.72%) Unix
9 2 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (69.32%) Infrastructure as Code
2 256 (61.84%) CI/CD
3 205 (49.52%) DevOps
4 152 (36.71%) Agile
5 131 (31.64%) Containerisation
6 106 (25.60%) Mentoring
7 84 (20.29%) Microservices
8 83 (20.05%) Test Automation
9 82 (19.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 77 (18.60%) Observability
11 75 (18.12%) Problem-Solving
12 74 (17.87%) Cloud Security
13 70 (16.91%) Software Engineering
14 65 (15.70%) Event-Driven
15 55 (13.29%) Continuous Integration
15 55 (13.29%) DevSecOps
16 54 (13.04%) Platform Engineering
17 51 (12.32%) AI
18 45 (10.87%) Full-Stack Development
18 45 (10.87%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 188 (45.41%) Python
2 152 (36.71%) Java
3 91 (21.98%) SQL
4 80 (19.32%) TypeScript
5 77 (18.60%) Bash
6 50 (12.08%) Groovy
7 38 (9.18%) Go
8 35 (8.45%) Kotlin
9 29 (7.00%) PowerShell
10 24 (5.80%) JavaScript
11 20 (4.83%) Bicep
12 16 (3.86%) PHP
13 15 (3.62%) Perl
13 15 (3.62%) Ruby
14 11 (2.66%) C#
15 8 (1.93%) Rust
16 7 (1.69%) C++
17 5 (1.21%) Google Apps Script
18 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 122 (29.47%) Security Cleared
2 102 (24.64%) AWS Certification
3 65 (15.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 64 (15.46%) SC Cleared
5 44 (10.63%) Degree
6 24 (5.80%) DV Cleared
7 23 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 20 (4.83%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (3.14%) Master's Degree
11 11 (2.66%) OSCP
12 9 (2.17%) AWS Certified Developer
13 6 (1.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (1.45%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.97%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.72%) CREST Certified
15 3 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
16 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
17 1 (0.24%) CISSP
17 1 (0.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.31%) GDPR
2 21 (5.07%) PCI DSS
3 18 (4.35%) NIST
4 13 (3.14%) SOC 2
5 10 (2.42%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.97%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.24%) NCSC
8 1 (0.24%) QA
8 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 174 (42.03%) Docker
2 5 (1.21%) KVM
2 5 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.72%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.72%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 273 (65.94%) Terraform
2 159 (38.41%) Kubernetes
3 70 (16.91%) Ansible
4 42 (10.14%) Prometheus
5 40 (9.66%) Grafana
6 37 (8.94%) Progress Chef
7 26 (6.28%) Puppet
8 25 (6.04%) HP Fortify
9 17 (4.11%) Argo
10 7 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.21%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.97%) Istio
12 4 (0.97%) linkerd
12 4 (0.97%) Mesos
13 3 (0.72%) AWS Copilot
14 2 (0.48%) Rancher
14 2 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
15 1 (0.24%) Consul
15 1 (0.24%) Packer
Vendors
1 26 (6.28%) Google
2 16 (3.86%) Microsoft
3 11 (2.66%) Oracle
4 8 (1.93%) OpenAI
5 7 (1.69%) HubSpot
6 6 (1.45%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.45%) Splunk
7 5 (1.21%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.21%) VMware
8 4 (0.97%) Avaya
8 4 (0.97%) Cisco
8 4 (0.97%) Genesys
8 4 (0.97%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.72%) Databricks
10 1 (0.24%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.24%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.24%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (0.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.24%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.24%) TOWER Software