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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 369 494
Rank change year-on-year -22 +125 -157
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 311 268 342
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 0.72% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.25% 1.94% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 184 171 266
10th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £64,563 £63,630 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £114,250 £122,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £79,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -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 24,796 13,786 29,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.84% 36.90% 35.75%
Number of salaries quoted 13,063 10,239 24,149
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,549 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.84% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £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 21 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 21 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 -13 142 £85,000 -8.11% 37
North of England +21 118 £75,000 +8.09% 29
Yorkshire +20 82 £73,750 -1.67% 10
North West -25 32 £80,000 +14.79% 16
Midlands -25 22 £50,000 -24.60% 5
West Midlands -21 11 £50,000 -38.51% 3
South West -51 11 £71,250 -1.72% 17
East Midlands -54 11 £63,750 -1.92% 2
South East -72 11 £70,000 +16.67% 13
North East -38 4 £73,801 +6.37% 3
East of England -48 2 £82,500 -2.94% 6
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 (5.14%) Apache
2 8 (2.57%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.29%) 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%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 291 (93.57%) AWS
2 177 (56.91%) Serverless
3 153 (49.20%) AWS Lambda
4 116 (37.30%) Amazon S3
5 98 (31.51%) Azure
6 96 (30.87%) Amazon ECS
7 87 (27.97%) AWS Step Functions
8 74 (23.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 71 (22.83%) GitHub
10 56 (18.01%) Datadog
10 56 (18.01%) GCP
11 54 (17.36%) GitHub Actions
12 49 (15.76%) Amazon ECR
13 46 (14.79%) Amazon EKS
13 46 (14.79%) Amazon SQS
14 41 (13.18%) Apigee
15 30 (9.65%) Amazon EC2
16 29 (9.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 24 (7.72%) OpenShift
18 22 (7.07%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.82%) Firewall
2 13 (4.18%) DSL
2 13 (4.18%) VPN
3 11 (3.54%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.93%) DNS
4 6 (1.93%) Network Security
5 5 (1.61%) AMQP
5 5 (1.61%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.96%) SCCP
7 1 (0.32%) 4G
7 1 (0.32%) 5G
7 1 (0.32%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (35.05%) DynamoDB
2 75 (24.12%) NoSQL
3 46 (14.79%) Amazon RDS
4 28 (9.00%) Amazon Athena
5 27 (8.68%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (5.14%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (3.86%) SQL Server
8 10 (3.22%) MySQL
9 9 (2.89%) Redis
10 7 (2.25%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.93%) Big Data
11 6 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.61%) Cloudera CDH
12 5 (1.61%) Flink
12 5 (1.61%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.29%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.29%) Metadata
14 2 (0.64%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.64%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 126 (40.51%) GitLab
2 124 (39.87%) Jenkins
3 50 (16.08%) Git
4 45 (14.47%) Maven
5 43 (13.83%) SonarQube
6 40 (12.86%) Cypress.io
7 24 (7.72%) CircleCI
8 13 (4.18%) Bitbucket
9 12 (3.86%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.61%) JIRA
11 4 (1.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.29%) JMeter
11 4 (1.29%) Robot Framework
11 4 (1.29%) Selenium
12 3 (0.96%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.96%) git-flow
12 3 (0.96%) Gradle
12 3 (0.96%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (0.32%) Subversion
General
1 107 (34.41%) Social Skills
2 57 (18.33%) Finance
3 27 (8.68%) Banking
4 12 (3.86%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.54%) Aerospace
6 9 (2.89%) Advertising
6 9 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.57%) Public Sector
8 6 (1.93%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.93%) Retail
8 6 (1.93%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.61%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.29%) Billing
10 4 (1.29%) Law
10 4 (1.29%) Mandarin Language
11 3 (0.96%) Aviation
11 3 (0.96%) Back Office
12 2 (0.64%) Electronics
12 2 (0.64%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.64%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 98 (31.51%) Developer
2 61 (19.61%) Senior
3 60 (19.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 56 (18.01%) Java Developer
5 48 (15.43%) DevOps Engineer
6 31 (9.97%) AWS Engineer
7 28 (9.00%) Senior Developer
8 27 (8.68%) AWS Developer
9 24 (7.72%) Lead
10 22 (7.07%) Security Engineer
11 21 (6.75%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 19 (6.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 18 (5.79%) Platform Engineer
14 17 (5.47%) Architect
15 16 (5.14%) AWS DevOps
16 15 (4.82%) AWS Architect
17 13 (4.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 13 (4.18%) AWS Security Architect
17 13 (4.18%) Full-Stack Developer
17 13 (4.18%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (21.86%) AngularJS
2 65 (20.90%) Spring Boot
3 53 (17.04%) AWS CDK
4 50 (16.08%) Node.js
5 46 (14.79%) Kafka
6 40 (12.86%) Gherkin
6 40 (12.86%) Jest
7 38 (12.22%) RESTful
8 35 (11.25%) React
8 35 (11.25%) Spring
9 22 (7.07%) RabbitMQ
10 19 (6.11%) Elastic Stack
10 19 (6.11%) gRPC
11 18 (5.79%) web3js
12 17 (5.47%) .NET
13 15 (4.82%) REST
14 13 (4.18%) .NET Core
14 13 (4.18%) ASP.NET
14 13 (4.18%) ASP.NET Core
14 13 (4.18%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 89 (28.62%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.40%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (7.07%) Security Posture
4 18 (5.79%) Blockchain
4 18 (5.79%) Web3
5 14 (4.50%) Public Cloud
6 13 (4.18%) Cloud Security Posture
6 13 (4.18%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (3.54%) Hybrid Cloud
7 11 (3.54%) Product Ownership
8 10 (3.22%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (2.57%) e-Learning
10 7 (2.25%) PKI
11 6 (1.93%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (1.61%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
14 3 (0.96%) Cyber Defence
14 3 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (0.96%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 60 (19.29%) Linux
2 22 (7.07%) Windows
3 14 (4.50%) Ubuntu
4 13 (4.18%) Unix
5 10 (3.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (2.89%) CentOS
7 5 (1.61%) Debian
7 5 (1.61%) VMS
7 5 (1.61%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.96%) Android
8 3 (0.96%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (73.63%) CI/CD
2 224 (72.03%) Infrastructure as Code
3 209 (67.20%) DevOps
4 137 (44.05%) Agile
5 102 (32.80%) Containerisation
6 79 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
7 76 (24.44%) Microservices
8 63 (20.26%) DevSecOps
9 62 (19.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 59 (18.97%) Cloud Security
10 59 (18.97%) Observability
11 58 (18.65%) Mentoring
12 54 (17.36%) Continuous Integration
13 46 (14.79%) Test Automation
14 43 (13.83%) Software Engineering
15 40 (12.86%) Platform Engineering
16 38 (12.22%) High Availability
17 37 (11.90%) ITIL
17 37 (11.90%) Secure Coding
18 36 (11.58%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 124 (39.87%) Python
2 113 (36.33%) Java
3 84 (27.01%) TypeScript
4 80 (25.72%) Bash
5 75 (24.12%) SQL
6 45 (14.47%) Go
7 41 (13.18%) Groovy
8 31 (9.97%) Kotlin
9 27 (8.68%) JavaScript
10 23 (7.40%) PowerShell
11 13 (4.18%) Rust
12 12 (3.86%) C#
13 8 (2.57%) Bicep
14 5 (1.61%) C++
15 3 (0.96%) Google Apps Script
16 1 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.32%) PHP
16 1 (0.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 74 (23.79%) AWS Certification
2 69 (22.19%) Security Cleared
3 36 (11.58%) SC Cleared
4 34 (10.93%) Degree
5 28 (9.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 25 (8.04%) AWS Certified Developer
7 24 (7.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 24 (7.72%) ITIL Certification
8 23 (7.40%) DV Cleared
9 16 (5.14%) OSCP
10 13 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (2.25%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 6 (1.93%) Azure Certification
13 5 (1.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (1.29%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.96%) CREST Certified
15 3 (0.96%) Master's Degree
15 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
16 2 (0.64%) SnowPro
17 1 (0.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.07%) NIST
2 16 (5.14%) PCI DSS
3 13 (4.18%) GDPR
4 10 (3.22%) SOC 2
5 7 (2.25%) QA
6 6 (1.93%) Data Quality
7 5 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.32%) Basel III
8 1 (0.32%) MiFID
8 1 (0.32%) NCSC
System Software
1 165 (53.05%) Docker
2 6 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.96%) KVM
3 3 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 211 (67.85%) Terraform
2 124 (39.87%) Kubernetes
3 69 (22.19%) Ansible
4 40 (12.86%) HP Fortify
5 39 (12.54%) Prometheus
6 34 (10.93%) Grafana
7 11 (3.54%) Argo
8 8 (2.57%) Docker Swarm
9 7 (2.25%) Puppet
10 6 (1.93%) Istio
10 6 (1.93%) linkerd
10 6 (1.93%) Mesos
11 5 (1.61%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.61%) Rancher
12 2 (0.64%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.32%) Consul
13 1 (0.32%) Nessus
13 1 (0.32%) Packer
13 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (8.36%) Google
2 12 (3.86%) Microsoft
3 6 (1.93%) Red Hat
3 6 (1.93%) Splunk
4 5 (1.61%) HubSpot
4 5 (1.61%) SaltStack
5 4 (1.29%) Oracle
6 3 (0.96%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.96%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.96%) SolarWinds
6 3 (0.96%) VMware
7 2 (0.64%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (0.64%) Ping Identity
7 2 (0.64%) SAP
8 1 (0.32%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.32%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.32%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.32%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.32%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.32%) TOWER Software