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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 459 396
Rank change year-on-year +52 -63 -79
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 202 228 304
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.39% 0.47% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.09% 1.29% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 140 172 244
10th Percentile £50,675 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £81,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +8.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £87,500 £116,250 £98,063
90th Percentile £108,250 £138,750 £132,250
UK median annual salary £73,801 £79,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.58% +5.33% -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 18,546 17,615 19,912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.36% 36.53% 40.60%
Number of salaries quoted 10,337 10,419 16,685
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.05% +7.58% -7.69%

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 10 January 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 10 January 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 +14 92 £81,500 -18.50% 57
North of England +36 73 £71,750 +6.30% 26
Yorkshire +28 48 £70,500 +8.46% 14
North West +8 22 £70,000 +9.80% 10
Midlands +30 17 £50,000 -27.86% 12
West Midlands +32 15 £50,000 -27.86% 8
South East +21 12 £72,500 +18.37% 42
South West +3 7 £70,000 +40.00% 15
North East 0 3 £73,801 +6.48% 2
East Midlands -1 2 - - 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 11 (5.45%) Apache
2 8 (3.96%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.97%) Tomcat
4 6 (2.97%) WebSphere
4 6 (2.97%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.99%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 187 (92.57%) AWS
2 107 (52.97%) Serverless
3 99 (49.01%) AWS Lambda
4 89 (44.06%) Azure
5 80 (39.60%) Amazon S3
6 59 (29.21%) GitHub
7 55 (27.23%) Amazon ECS
8 51 (25.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 48 (23.76%) GCP
10 44 (21.78%) AWS Step Functions
10 44 (21.78%) GitHub Actions
11 38 (18.81%) Amazon EC2
12 36 (17.82%) Amazon EKS
13 33 (16.34%) Amazon ECR
14 29 (14.36%) Azure DevOps
15 27 (13.37%) Amazon SQS
16 26 (12.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 20 (9.90%) Datadog
18 16 (7.92%) Apigee
18 16 (7.92%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.45%) TCP/IP
2 8 (3.96%) Firewall
3 7 (3.47%) VPN
4 6 (2.97%) SSL
5 5 (2.48%) Network Security
6 3 (1.49%) AMQP
6 3 (1.49%) DSL
6 3 (1.49%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.99%) SCCP
8 1 (0.50%) DHCP
8 1 (0.50%) DNS
8 1 (0.50%) HTTP
8 1 (0.50%) LAN
8 1 (0.50%) VSAN
8 1 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (25.74%) DynamoDB
2 43 (21.29%) Amazon RDS
3 38 (18.81%) NoSQL
4 34 (16.83%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (8.42%) SQL Server
6 16 (7.92%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (7.43%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (6.44%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (5.94%) Data Lake
10 11 (5.45%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (5.45%) Redis
11 10 (4.95%) MySQL
12 6 (2.97%) DB2
13 5 (2.48%) Big Data
14 4 (1.98%) MongoDB
15 3 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
15 3 (1.49%) Apache Iceberg
15 3 (1.49%) Cloudera CDH
15 3 (1.49%) Data Vault
15 3 (1.49%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 70 (34.65%) Jenkins
2 59 (29.21%) GitLab
3 33 (16.34%) Git
4 20 (9.90%) SonarQube
5 16 (7.92%) Cypress.io
5 16 (7.92%) Maven
6 8 (3.96%) Bitbucket
6 8 (3.96%) CircleCI
7 5 (2.48%) git-flow
8 4 (1.98%) Robot Framework
9 3 (1.49%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.49%) JIRA
10 2 (0.99%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.99%) JMeter
10 2 (0.99%) Selenium
10 2 (0.99%) TestRail
11 1 (0.50%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.50%) Subversion
11 1 (0.50%) TeamCity
General
1 66 (32.67%) Social Skills
2 33 (16.34%) Finance
3 18 (8.91%) Banking
4 16 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.96%) Aerospace
5 8 (3.96%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.47%) Law
7 5 (2.48%) Advertising
7 5 (2.48%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.98%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.49%) Billing
9 3 (1.49%) Electronics
9 3 (1.49%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.49%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.49%) Marketing
9 3 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.99%) Aviation
10 2 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.99%) Retail
11 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 45 (22.28%) Senior
2 38 (18.81%) Cloud Engineer
3 36 (17.82%) Developer
4 32 (15.84%) DevOps Engineer
5 29 (14.36%) AWS Engineer
6 21 (10.40%) Lead
7 20 (9.90%) Platform Engineer
8 14 (6.93%) AWS Developer
9 12 (5.94%) .NET Developer
9 12 (5.94%) Architect
9 12 (5.94%) AWS DevOps
10 11 (5.45%) Java Developer
11 10 (4.95%) Data Engineer
11 10 (4.95%) Senior Developer
12 9 (4.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.46%) Security Engineer
12 9 (4.46%) Support Engineer
13 8 (3.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 8 (3.96%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (17.82%) AWS CDK
2 23 (11.39%) AngularJS
2 23 (11.39%) RESTful
2 23 (11.39%) Spring Boot
3 21 (10.40%) React
4 18 (8.91%) .NET
4 18 (8.91%) Elastic Stack
5 16 (7.92%) Gherkin
5 16 (7.92%) Jest
5 16 (7.92%) Node.js
6 15 (7.43%) Kafka
6 15 (7.43%) Spring
7 13 (6.44%) .NET Core
7 13 (6.44%) ASP.NET
7 13 (6.44%) ASP.NET Core
7 13 (6.44%) Blazor
8 12 (5.94%) RabbitMQ
9 11 (5.45%) Django
10 9 (4.46%) ARM Templates
11 8 (3.96%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 58 (28.71%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.93%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.94%) Linux Command Line
3 12 (5.94%) Security Posture
4 11 (5.45%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.48%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.48%) Cloud Security Posture
5 5 (2.48%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.98%) Blockchain
6 4 (1.98%) Web3
7 3 (1.49%) e-Learning
7 3 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.49%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.99%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (0.99%) Cyber Security Posture
8 2 (0.99%) PKI
8 2 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.50%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 55 (27.23%) Linux
2 27 (13.37%) Unix
3 22 (10.89%) Windows
4 9 (4.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (4.46%) Ubuntu
5 6 (2.97%) Debian
6 3 (1.49%) CentOS
6 3 (1.49%) VMS
7 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (75.74%) CI/CD
2 149 (73.76%) Infrastructure as Code
3 148 (73.27%) DevOps
4 77 (38.12%) Agile
5 64 (31.68%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (24.26%) Containerisation
7 46 (22.77%) Microservices
8 41 (20.30%) Observability
9 38 (18.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (15.84%) Cloud Security
11 31 (15.35%) Root Cause Analysis
12 28 (13.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 26 (12.87%) Platform Engineering
14 23 (11.39%) Continuous Integration
14 23 (11.39%) Disaster Recovery
15 22 (10.89%) DevSecOps
16 21 (10.40%) Incident Response
17 19 (9.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 18 (8.91%) Collaborative Culture
18 18 (8.91%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 96 (47.52%) Python
2 62 (30.69%) Bash
3 41 (20.30%) SQL
4 38 (18.81%) Java
5 34 (16.83%) TypeScript
6 29 (14.36%) PowerShell
7 18 (8.91%) Go
8 16 (7.92%) Groovy
9 13 (6.44%) JavaScript
10 11 (5.45%) Bicep
11 7 (3.47%) C#
12 5 (2.48%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.49%) Rust
14 1 (0.50%) C++
14 1 (0.50%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 61 (30.20%) AWS Certification
2 47 (23.27%) Security Cleared
3 26 (12.87%) SC Cleared
4 21 (10.40%) DV Cleared
5 20 (9.90%) AWS Certified Developer
6 19 (9.41%) Degree
7 18 (8.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (4.95%) ITIL Certification
9 8 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (2.97%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 5 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.98%) SnowPro
13 3 (1.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (1.49%) OSCP
14 2 (0.99%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.99%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.45%) Data Quality
1 11 (5.45%) QA
2 8 (3.96%) NIST
3 7 (3.47%) SLA
4 6 (2.97%) GDPR
5 5 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.98%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.50%) Basel III
7 1 (0.50%) MiFID
7 1 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 102 (50.50%) Docker
2 4 (1.98%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.98%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.99%) KVM
4 1 (0.50%) QEMU
4 1 (0.50%) vCloud
4 1 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 143 (70.79%) Terraform
2 75 (37.13%) Kubernetes
3 46 (22.77%) Ansible
4 27 (13.37%) Grafana
4 27 (13.37%) Prometheus
5 16 (7.92%) HP Fortify
6 8 (3.96%) Argo
7 6 (2.97%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (2.48%) Kubeflow
8 5 (2.48%) Puppet
9 4 (1.98%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (1.49%) Istio
10 3 (1.49%) linkerd
10 3 (1.49%) Mesos
10 3 (1.49%) Rancher
11 2 (0.99%) Nessus
12 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 21 (10.40%) Google
2 15 (7.43%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.44%) Splunk
4 9 (4.46%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.97%) IBM
6 5 (2.48%) SolarWinds
7 4 (1.98%) LogicMonitor
7 4 (1.98%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.49%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.49%) Foundry
8 3 (1.49%) SAP
9 2 (0.99%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.99%) Databricks
9 2 (0.99%) Oracle
9 2 (0.99%) Ping Identity
9 2 (0.99%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.99%) VMware
10 1 (0.50%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.50%) Qualys
10 1 (0.50%) Refinitiv