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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 436 551
Rank change year-on-year +71 +115 -181
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 434 222 243
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.51% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.77% 1.54% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 215 126 192
10th Percentile £51,750 £52,500 £50,707
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 £90,625 £94,688 £97,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,875 £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 24,487 14,390 24,557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.14% 33.13% 32.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,417 10,271 18,708
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,750 £41,000 £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 29 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 29 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 +64 228 £90,000 +14.65% 58
North of England +55 134 £75,000 +8.09% 36
Yorkshire +41 81 £75,000 +7.14% 7
North West +4 44 £73,401 +8.54% 17
Midlands -18 27 £62,000 -4.62% 8
South West -46 19 £67,500 -25.00% 20
East Midlands -10 18 £52,500 -
South East -42 18 £70,000 -17.65% 15
West Midlands -28 9 £62,500 -3.85% 8
North East -45 9 £55,000 -20.73% 12
East of England -38 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 (3.69%) Apache
2 9 (2.07%) Confluence
3 8 (1.84%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.61%) 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
1 416 (95.85%) AWS
2 226 (52.07%) Serverless
3 171 (39.40%) AWS Lambda
4 128 (29.49%) Amazon ECS
5 123 (28.34%) Amazon S3
6 105 (24.19%) Azure
7 85 (19.59%) GitHub
8 75 (17.28%) AWS Step Functions
9 73 (16.82%) GCP
10 71 (16.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 60 (13.82%) Amazon EC2
12 58 (13.36%) Amazon EKS
13 57 (13.13%) GitHub Actions
14 56 (12.90%) Cloud Computing
15 52 (11.98%) Datadog
16 38 (8.76%) Amazon SQS
17 33 (7.60%) Amazon ECR
17 33 (7.60%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 29 (6.68%) Apigee
19 26 (5.99%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.61%) Network Security
2 16 (3.69%) VPN
3 14 (3.23%) TCP/IP
4 13 (3.00%) Firewall
5 11 (2.53%) DNS
6 7 (1.61%) 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 95 (21.89%) DynamoDB
2 78 (17.97%) NoSQL
3 47 (10.83%) Amazon RDS
4 33 (7.60%) Amazon Athena
5 14 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.61%) Big Data
9 6 (1.38%) Flink
10 5 (1.15%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.15%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.15%) 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
1 128 (29.49%) GitLab
1 128 (29.49%) Jenkins
2 60 (13.82%) Git
3 34 (7.83%) Cucumber
4 32 (7.37%) Maven
5 30 (6.91%) Cypress.io
6 26 (5.99%) SonarQube
7 20 (4.61%) CircleCI
8 11 (2.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 11 (2.53%) JIRA
9 10 (2.30%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.61%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.38%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.92%) Gradle
12 4 (0.92%) Selenium
13 2 (0.46%) git-flow
13 2 (0.46%) Snyk
14 1 (0.23%) Gatling
14 1 (0.23%) Postman
14 1 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 114 (26.27%) Social Skills
2 110 (25.35%) Finance
3 34 (7.83%) Banking
4 31 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 16 (3.69%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.00%) Financial Institution
7 11 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.30%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.84%) Law
9 8 (1.84%) Legal
10 6 (1.38%) Advertising
10 6 (1.38%) Military
11 5 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.15%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.92%) Mandarin Language
12 4 (0.92%) Retail
12 4 (0.92%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.69%) Automotive
13 3 (0.69%) Games
13 3 (0.69%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 111 (25.58%) Senior
2 96 (22.12%) Developer
3 76 (17.51%) Cloud Engineer
4 67 (15.44%) DevOps Engineer
5 60 (13.82%) Java Developer
6 45 (10.37%) AWS Engineer
7 39 (8.99%) Consultant
8 34 (7.83%) Java Engineer
9 32 (7.37%) Lead
9 32 (7.37%) Senior Consultant
10 27 (6.22%) Full-Stack Developer
11 23 (5.30%) AWS Developer
11 23 (5.30%) Platform Engineer
11 23 (5.30%) Senior Developer
12 21 (4.84%) Architect
12 21 (4.84%) Principal Engineer
13 20 (4.61%) AWS DevOps
14 19 (4.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 19 (4.38%) Principal Java Engineer
14 19 (4.38%) Professional Services Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (20.74%) Spring Boot
2 74 (17.05%) AngularJS
3 71 (16.36%) Kafka
4 70 (16.13%) Spring
5 60 (13.82%) Node.js
6 50 (11.52%) AWS CDK
7 33 (7.60%) Gherkin
8 32 (7.37%) React
9 25 (5.76%) Jest
9 25 (5.76%) RESTful
10 21 (4.84%) REST
11 19 (4.38%) RabbitMQ
11 19 (4.38%) Web Services
12 18 (4.15%) gRPC
13 15 (3.46%) Next.js
13 15 (3.46%) web3js
13 15 (3.46%) YAML
14 13 (3.00%) JSON
15 12 (2.76%) Elastic Stack
16 10 (2.30%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 138 (31.80%) Cloud Native
2 53 (12.21%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (11.52%) Onboarding
4 43 (9.91%) Public Cloud
5 41 (9.45%) Enterprise Cloud
6 29 (6.68%) e-Learning
7 23 (5.30%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (5.07%) Data Centre
9 18 (4.15%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (3.46%) Blockchain
11 15 (3.46%) Greenfield Project
11 15 (3.46%) Web3
12 14 (3.23%) Security Posture
13 13 (3.00%) Distributed Computing
13 13 (3.00%) Mainframe
14 10 (2.30%) Cloud Security Posture
14 10 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
15 7 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
16 6 (1.38%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 72 (16.59%) Linux
2 20 (4.61%) Windows
3 10 (2.30%) Ubuntu
4 9 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.84%) CentOS
6 7 (1.61%) Unix
7 6 (1.38%) 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
1 305 (70.28%) Infrastructure as Code
2 273 (62.90%) CI/CD
3 221 (50.92%) DevOps
4 168 (38.71%) Agile
5 136 (31.34%) Containerisation
6 109 (25.12%) Mentoring
7 93 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 87 (20.05%) Observability
8 87 (20.05%) Test Automation
9 85 (19.59%) Microservices
10 81 (18.66%) Cloud Security
11 78 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
12 75 (17.28%) Software Engineering
13 66 (15.21%) Event-Driven
14 55 (12.67%) Platform Engineering
15 54 (12.44%) DevSecOps
16 53 (12.21%) AI
16 53 (12.21%) Continuous Integration
17 52 (11.98%) Collaborative Culture
18 51 (11.75%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 198 (45.62%) Python
2 154 (35.48%) Java
3 90 (20.74%) SQL
4 79 (18.20%) Bash
4 79 (18.20%) TypeScript
5 49 (11.29%) Groovy
6 39 (8.99%) Go
7 34 (7.83%) Kotlin
8 30 (6.91%) PowerShell
9 26 (5.99%) JavaScript
10 20 (4.61%) Bicep
11 16 (3.69%) PHP
12 15 (3.46%) Perl
12 15 (3.46%) Ruby
13 11 (2.53%) C#
14 7 (1.61%) Rust
15 6 (1.38%) C++
16 5 (1.15%) Google Apps Script
17 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
18 1 (0.23%) Korn
Qualifications
1 132 (30.41%) Security Cleared
2 106 (24.42%) AWS Certification
3 74 (17.05%) SC Cleared
4 66 (15.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 44 (10.14%) Degree
6 26 (5.99%) DV Cleared
7 23 (5.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 19 (4.38%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (3.00%) Master's Degree
11 10 (2.30%) AWS Certified Developer
11 10 (2.30%) OSCP
12 7 (1.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (1.15%) 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 26 (5.99%) GDPR
2 19 (4.38%) PCI DSS
3 18 (4.15%) NIST
4 11 (2.53%) SOC 2
5 10 (2.30%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.15%) 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
1 178 (41.01%) Docker
2 5 (1.15%) KVM
2 5 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.92%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 292 (67.28%) Terraform
2 164 (37.79%) Kubernetes
3 81 (18.66%) Ansible
4 42 (9.68%) Grafana
5 41 (9.45%) Prometheus
6 39 (8.99%) Progress Chef
7 28 (6.45%) Puppet
8 24 (5.53%) HP Fortify
9 19 (4.38%) Argo
10 6 (1.38%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (1.38%) Istio
10 6 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.15%) linkerd
11 5 (1.15%) Mesos
12 3 (0.69%) AWS Copilot
12 3 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.46%) Rancher
14 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.23%) Consul
14 1 (0.23%) Kibana
Vendors
1 29 (6.68%) Google
2 17 (3.92%) Microsoft
3 11 (2.53%) Oracle
4 8 (1.84%) OpenAI
5 7 (1.61%) HubSpot
5 7 (1.61%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.38%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.38%) Splunk
7 5 (1.15%) 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%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.23%) SolarWinds