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

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 379 503
Rank change year-on-year -9 +124 -162
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 312 233 335
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.41% 0.63% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.29% 1.70% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 187 177 264
10th Percentile £56,250 £57,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,625 £63,630 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £79,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% +5.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £111,000 £122,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £76,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.32% +1.33% -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 24,130 13,734 29,207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.05% 37.31% 36.12%
Number of salaries quoted 12,930 10,220 24,180
10th Percentile £30,250 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,517 £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 £83,438 £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 13 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 13 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 -6 143 £83,750 -9.46% 52
North of England +18 116 £74,301 +7.09% 36
Yorkshire +18 80 £73,750 -1.67% 10
North West -23 32 £77,000 +11.04% 18
Midlands -35 23 £50,000 -26.97% 2
West Midlands -5 13 £50,000 -27.86% 1
South East -45 13 £70,000 +16.67% 16
South West -38 11 £71,250 +23.91% 11
East Midlands -46 10 £63,750 -1.92% 1
North East -32 4 £73,801 +6.37% 8
East of England -27 1 £75,000 -11.76% 8
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 17 (5.45%) Apache
2 9 (2.88%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.96%) JBoss
5 2 (0.64%) Confluence
6 1 (0.32%) Drupal
6 1 (0.32%) IIS
6 1 (0.32%) nginx
6 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.32%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.32%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 290 (92.95%) AWS
2 173 (55.45%) Serverless
3 150 (48.08%) AWS Lambda
4 115 (36.86%) Amazon S3
5 108 (34.62%) Azure
6 94 (30.13%) Amazon ECS
7 85 (27.24%) AWS Step Functions
8 74 (23.72%) GitHub
9 72 (23.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 63 (20.19%) GCP
11 56 (17.95%) GitHub Actions
12 54 (17.31%) Datadog
13 51 (16.35%) Amazon ECR
14 47 (15.06%) Amazon EKS
15 44 (14.10%) Amazon SQS
16 40 (12.82%) Apigee
17 30 (9.62%) Amazon EC2
18 28 (8.97%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 25 (8.01%) Azure DevOps
19 25 (8.01%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.81%) Firewall
2 14 (4.49%) VPN
3 13 (4.17%) DSL
4 12 (3.85%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.92%) AMQP
5 6 (1.92%) Network Security
6 5 (1.60%) DNS
6 5 (1.60%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.96%) SCCP
8 1 (0.32%) 4G
8 1 (0.32%) 5G
8 1 (0.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (33.65%) DynamoDB
2 75 (24.04%) NoSQL
3 46 (14.74%) Amazon RDS
4 30 (9.62%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (8.65%) Amazon Athena
6 18 (5.77%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (4.17%) SQL Server
8 11 (3.53%) MySQL
8 11 (3.53%) Redis
9 7 (2.24%) Big Data
9 7 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (2.24%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.92%) Cloudera CDH
10 6 (1.92%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.28%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.28%) Flink
12 4 (1.28%) Metadata
13 2 (0.64%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (0.64%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 126 (40.38%) GitLab
2 123 (39.42%) Jenkins
3 48 (15.38%) Git
4 43 (13.78%) Maven
5 42 (13.46%) SonarQube
6 39 (12.50%) Cypress.io
7 23 (7.37%) CircleCI
8 13 (4.17%) Bitbucket
9 12 (3.85%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.92%) JIRA
11 5 (1.60%) Robot Framework
11 5 (1.60%) Selenium
12 4 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (1.28%) git-flow
12 4 (1.28%) JMeter
12 4 (1.28%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.96%) Eclipse
14 2 (0.64%) Gradle
14 2 (0.64%) TestRail
15 1 (0.32%) Gatling
General
1 107 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 58 (18.59%) Finance
3 29 (9.29%) Banking
4 15 (4.81%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.17%) Aerospace
6 9 (2.88%) Advertising
6 9 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (2.88%) Public Sector
7 8 (2.56%) Telecoms
8 6 (1.92%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.92%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.92%) Retail
9 4 (1.28%) Billing
9 4 (1.28%) Law
9 4 (1.28%) Mandarin Language
10 3 (0.96%) Aviation
10 3 (0.96%) Back Office
11 2 (0.64%) Electronics
11 2 (0.64%) Games
11 2 (0.64%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 93 (29.81%) Developer
2 64 (20.51%) Senior
3 62 (19.87%) Cloud Engineer
4 54 (17.31%) Java Developer
5 47 (15.06%) DevOps Engineer
6 30 (9.62%) AWS Engineer
7 28 (8.97%) Senior Developer
8 25 (8.01%) AWS Developer
9 23 (7.37%) Lead
10 21 (6.73%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 21 (6.73%) Security Engineer
11 20 (6.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 20 (6.41%) Platform Engineer
12 18 (5.77%) Architect
13 16 (5.13%) AWS Architect
13 16 (5.13%) AWS DevOps
14 13 (4.17%) .NET Developer
14 13 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 13 (4.17%) AWS Security Architect
14 13 (4.17%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (21.47%) AngularJS
2 65 (20.83%) Spring Boot
3 53 (16.99%) AWS CDK
4 48 (15.38%) Node.js
5 43 (13.78%) Kafka
6 39 (12.50%) Gherkin
6 39 (12.50%) Jest
7 36 (11.54%) RESTful
7 36 (11.54%) Spring
8 34 (10.90%) React
9 23 (7.37%) RabbitMQ
10 22 (7.05%) Elastic Stack
11 19 (6.09%) gRPC
12 18 (5.77%) .NET
13 17 (5.45%) web3js
14 16 (5.13%) REST
15 13 (4.17%) .NET Core
15 13 (4.17%) ASP.NET
15 13 (4.17%) ASP.NET Core
15 13 (4.17%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 91 (29.17%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.37%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (7.05%) Security Posture
4 17 (5.45%) Blockchain
4 17 (5.45%) Web3
5 13 (4.17%) Cloud Security Posture
5 13 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 13 (4.17%) Public Cloud
6 12 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (2.56%) e-Learning
8 8 (2.56%) PKI
9 7 (2.24%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.60%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (0.96%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.96%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 65 (20.83%) Linux
2 26 (8.33%) Windows
3 18 (5.77%) Unix
4 15 (4.81%) Ubuntu
5 12 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (3.21%) CentOS
7 6 (1.92%) Debian
8 5 (1.60%) VMS
8 5 (1.60%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.96%) Android
9 3 (0.96%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (74.04%) CI/CD
2 227 (72.76%) Infrastructure as Code
3 212 (67.95%) DevOps
4 139 (44.55%) Agile
5 102 (32.69%) Containerisation
6 83 (26.60%) Problem-Solving
7 74 (23.72%) Microservices
8 64 (20.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 61 (19.55%) DevSecOps
10 59 (18.91%) Cloud Security
11 58 (18.59%) Observability
12 53 (16.99%) Mentoring
13 52 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
14 44 (14.10%) Test Automation
15 42 (13.46%) Software Engineering
16 40 (12.82%) ITIL
17 39 (12.50%) Incident Response
17 39 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
18 36 (11.54%) High Availability
18 36 (11.54%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 129 (41.35%) Python
2 112 (35.90%) Java
3 81 (25.96%) Bash
4 79 (25.32%) TypeScript
5 74 (23.72%) SQL
6 44 (14.10%) Go
7 40 (12.82%) Groovy
8 31 (9.94%) Kotlin
9 27 (8.65%) JavaScript
9 27 (8.65%) PowerShell
10 13 (4.17%) C#
10 13 (4.17%) Rust
11 10 (3.21%) Bicep
12 6 (1.92%) C++
13 4 (1.28%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.32%) PHP
14 1 (0.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 76 (24.36%) AWS Certification
2 73 (23.40%) Security Cleared
3 39 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 37 (11.86%) Degree
5 27 (8.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 26 (8.33%) AWS Certified Developer
6 26 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 26 (8.33%) DV Cleared
7 24 (7.69%) ITIL Certification
8 16 (5.13%) OSCP
9 15 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.24%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 7 (2.24%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (1.28%) Postgraduate
13 3 (0.96%) CREST Certified
13 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.64%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.05%) NIST
2 17 (5.45%) PCI DSS
3 13 (4.17%) GDPR
4 9 (2.88%) QA
4 9 (2.88%) SOC 2
5 5 (1.60%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.32%) Basel III
7 1 (0.32%) MiFID
7 1 (0.32%) NCSC
7 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 166 (53.21%) Docker
2 6 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.60%) KVM
4 4 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.32%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 213 (68.27%) Terraform
2 125 (40.06%) Kubernetes
3 71 (22.76%) Ansible
4 41 (13.14%) Prometheus
5 39 (12.50%) HP Fortify
6 38 (12.18%) Grafana
7 11 (3.53%) Argo
8 8 (2.56%) Docker Swarm
8 8 (2.56%) Puppet
9 6 (1.92%) Istio
9 6 (1.92%) linkerd
9 6 (1.92%) Mesos
9 6 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (1.60%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (1.60%) Rancher
11 2 (0.64%) Nessus
11 2 (0.64%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.32%) Consul
12 1 (0.32%) Packer
Vendors
1 29 (9.29%) Google
2 15 (4.81%) Microsoft
3 9 (2.88%) Splunk
4 8 (2.56%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.24%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.28%) Oracle
6 4 (1.28%) VMware
7 3 (0.96%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.96%) HubSpot
7 3 (0.96%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.96%) SolarWinds
8 2 (0.64%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (0.64%) Ping Identity
8 2 (0.64%) SAP
9 1 (0.32%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.32%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.32%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.32%) IBM
9 1 (0.32%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.32%) TOWER Software