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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 441 553
Rank change year-on-year +74 +112 -186
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 437 221 238
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.51% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.77% 1.53% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 216 125 188
10th Percentile £50,625 £52,500 £50,507
25th Percentile £61,762 £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 £90,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £109,375 £112,000 £110,750
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 24,635 14,419 24,473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.99% 33.14% 32.25%
Number of salaries quoted 16,587 10,300 18,639
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,633 £40,903 £42,500
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 £100,000
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 31 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 31 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 +58 227 £90,000 +14.65% 69
North of England +66 138 £75,000 +8.09% 36
Yorkshire +41 84 £75,000 +7.14% 8
North West +21 44 £73,401 +8.54% 17
Midlands -23 27 £62,000 -4.62% 7
South West -49 19 £67,500 -25.00% 23
East Midlands -6 18 £52,500 -
South East -44 18 £70,000 -17.65% 13
North East -42 10 £52,500 -24.33% 11
West Midlands -20 9 £62,500 -3.85% 7
East of England -33 2 £82,500 +10.00% 4
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 (3.66%) Apache
2 9 (2.06%) Confluence
3 8 (1.83%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.69%) JBoss
7 2 (0.46%) nginx
8 1 (0.23%) Drupal
8 1 (0.23%) IIS
8 1 (0.23%) SAS
8 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.92%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.46%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Summit
2 1 (0.23%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 419 (95.88%) AWS
2 228 (52.17%) Serverless
3 173 (39.59%) AWS Lambda
4 130 (29.75%) Amazon ECS
5 125 (28.60%) Amazon S3
6 106 (24.26%) Azure
7 88 (20.14%) GitHub
8 76 (17.39%) AWS Step Functions
9 74 (16.93%) GCP
10 73 (16.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 61 (13.96%) Amazon EC2
12 60 (13.73%) GitHub Actions
13 58 (13.27%) Amazon EKS
14 56 (12.81%) Cloud Computing
15 53 (12.13%) Datadog
16 38 (8.70%) Amazon SQS
17 34 (7.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 33 (7.55%) Amazon ECR
19 29 (6.64%) Apigee
20 27 (6.18%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.58%) Network Security
2 15 (3.43%) VPN
3 14 (3.20%) TCP/IP
4 13 (2.97%) Firewall
5 11 (2.52%) DNS
6 7 (1.60%) DSL
7 4 (0.92%) AMQP
7 4 (0.92%) HTTP
8 3 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.46%) 4G
9 2 (0.46%) 5G
9 2 (0.46%) MQTT
10 1 (0.23%) DHCP
10 1 (0.23%) DNSSEC
10 1 (0.23%) Internet
10 1 (0.23%) PSTN
10 1 (0.23%) SCCP
10 1 (0.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (21.97%) DynamoDB
2 78 (17.85%) NoSQL
3 48 (10.98%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (7.78%) Amazon Athena
5 14 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.60%) Big Data
9 6 (1.37%) Flink
10 5 (1.14%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.14%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.14%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.92%) Cloudera CDH
11 4 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.92%) Metadata
11 4 (0.92%) MySQL
11 4 (0.92%) Redis
11 4 (0.92%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 130 (29.75%) Jenkins
2 127 (29.06%) GitLab
3 61 (13.96%) Git
4 33 (7.55%) Cucumber
5 32 (7.32%) Maven
6 30 (6.86%) Cypress.io
7 26 (5.95%) SonarQube
8 20 (4.58%) CircleCI
9 11 (2.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 11 (2.52%) JIRA
10 10 (2.29%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.60%) Claude Code
12 6 (1.37%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.92%) Gradle
13 4 (0.92%) Selenium
14 2 (0.46%) git-flow
14 2 (0.46%) Snyk
15 1 (0.23%) Gatling
15 1 (0.23%) Postman
15 1 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 117 (26.77%) Social Skills
2 109 (24.94%) Finance
3 34 (7.78%) Banking
4 31 (7.09%) Public Sector
5 17 (3.89%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (2.97%) Financial Institution
7 11 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.29%) Aerospace
9 9 (2.06%) Law
10 8 (1.83%) Legal
11 6 (1.37%) Advertising
11 6 (1.37%) Military
12 5 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.14%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.92%) Mandarin Language
13 4 (0.92%) Retail
13 4 (0.92%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.69%) Automotive
14 3 (0.69%) Back Office
14 3 (0.69%) Games
Job Titles
1 111 (25.40%) Senior
2 97 (22.20%) Developer
3 79 (18.08%) Cloud Engineer
4 67 (15.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 61 (13.96%) Java Developer
6 47 (10.76%) AWS Engineer
7 39 (8.92%) Consultant
8 33 (7.55%) Java Engineer
9 32 (7.32%) Lead
9 32 (7.32%) Senior Consultant
10 27 (6.18%) Full-Stack Developer
11 24 (5.49%) AWS Developer
11 24 (5.49%) Platform Engineer
12 23 (5.26%) Senior Developer
13 22 (5.03%) Architect
14 20 (4.58%) AWS DevOps
14 20 (4.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 19 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 19 (4.35%) Principal Engineer
15 19 (4.35%) Professional Services Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (20.37%) Spring Boot
2 75 (17.16%) AngularJS
3 70 (16.02%) Kafka
4 69 (15.79%) Spring
5 61 (13.96%) Node.js
6 50 (11.44%) AWS CDK
7 33 (7.55%) Gherkin
8 32 (7.32%) React
9 25 (5.72%) Jest
9 25 (5.72%) RESTful
10 21 (4.81%) REST
11 19 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
11 19 (4.35%) Web Services
12 18 (4.12%) gRPC
13 15 (3.43%) Next.js
13 15 (3.43%) web3js
13 15 (3.43%) YAML
14 13 (2.97%) JSON
15 12 (2.75%) Elastic Stack
16 10 (2.29%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 139 (31.81%) Cloud Native
2 52 (11.90%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (11.44%) Onboarding
4 42 (9.61%) Public Cloud
5 41 (9.38%) Enterprise Cloud
6 28 (6.41%) e-Learning
7 22 (5.03%) Data Centre
7 22 (5.03%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (3.89%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (3.43%) Blockchain
10 15 (3.43%) Greenfield Project
10 15 (3.43%) Web3
11 14 (3.20%) Security Posture
12 13 (2.97%) Distributed Computing
12 13 (2.97%) Mainframe
13 11 (2.52%) Linux Command Line
14 10 (2.29%) Cloud Security Posture
15 7 (1.60%) Legacy Applications
16 6 (1.37%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 72 (16.48%) Linux
2 20 (4.58%) Windows
3 10 (2.29%) Ubuntu
4 9 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.83%) CentOS
6 7 (1.60%) Unix
7 6 (1.37%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.92%) Debian
9 3 (0.69%) Android
9 3 (0.69%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (70.25%) Infrastructure as Code
2 276 (63.16%) CI/CD
3 225 (51.49%) DevOps
4 168 (38.44%) Agile
5 135 (30.89%) Containerisation
6 107 (24.49%) Mentoring
7 94 (21.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 87 (19.91%) Observability
9 86 (19.68%) Test Automation
10 84 (19.22%) Microservices
11 83 (18.99%) Cloud Security
12 79 (18.08%) Problem-Solving
13 75 (17.16%) Software Engineering
14 65 (14.87%) Event-Driven
15 56 (12.81%) Platform Engineering
16 55 (12.59%) DevSecOps
17 54 (12.36%) Continuous Integration
18 53 (12.13%) AI
18 53 (12.13%) Migration
19 52 (11.90%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 198 (45.31%) Python
2 154 (35.24%) Java
3 90 (20.59%) SQL
4 80 (18.31%) Bash
4 80 (18.31%) TypeScript
5 49 (11.21%) Groovy
6 39 (8.92%) Go
7 35 (8.01%) Kotlin
8 30 (6.86%) PowerShell
9 26 (5.95%) JavaScript
10 20 (4.58%) Bicep
11 16 (3.66%) PHP
12 15 (3.43%) Perl
12 15 (3.43%) Ruby
13 11 (2.52%) C#
14 7 (1.60%) Rust
15 6 (1.37%) C++
16 5 (1.14%) Google Apps Script
17 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
18 1 (0.23%) Korn
Qualifications
1 131 (29.98%) Security Cleared
2 105 (24.03%) AWS Certification
3 73 (16.70%) SC Cleared
4 65 (14.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 44 (10.07%) Degree
6 26 (5.95%) DV Cleared
7 23 (5.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 19 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (2.97%) Master's Degree
11 10 (2.29%) AWS Certified Developer
11 10 (2.29%) OSCP
12 7 (1.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (1.14%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.92%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.69%) CREST Certified
15 3 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
16 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
17 1 (0.23%) OCP
17 1 (0.23%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.18%) GDPR
2 19 (4.35%) PCI DSS
3 18 (4.12%) NIST
4 11 (2.52%) SOC 2
5 10 (2.29%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.92%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.69%) QA
9 2 (0.46%) NCSC
10 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 182 (41.65%) Docker
2 5 (1.14%) KVM
2 5 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.92%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 295 (67.51%) Terraform
2 165 (37.76%) Kubernetes
3 82 (18.76%) Ansible
4 42 (9.61%) Grafana
5 41 (9.38%) Prometheus
6 39 (8.92%) Progress Chef
7 28 (6.41%) Puppet
8 24 (5.49%) HP Fortify
9 19 (4.35%) Argo
10 6 (1.37%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (1.37%) Istio
10 6 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.14%) linkerd
11 5 (1.14%) Mesos
12 3 (0.69%) AWS Copilot
12 3 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.46%) Rancher
14 1 (0.23%) Consul
14 1 (0.23%) Fluentd
14 1 (0.23%) Packer
Vendors
1 29 (6.64%) Google
2 17 (3.89%) Microsoft
3 11 (2.52%) Oracle
4 8 (1.83%) OpenAI
5 7 (1.60%) HubSpot
5 7 (1.60%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.37%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.37%) Splunk
7 5 (1.14%) VMware
8 4 (0.92%) Avaya
8 4 (0.92%) Cisco
8 4 (0.92%) Genesys
8 4 (0.92%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.69%) Databricks
10 2 (0.46%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.46%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.23%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.23%) Infoblox
11 1 (0.23%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.23%) TOWER Software