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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 388 499
Rank change year-on-year +6 +111 -159
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 304 228 329
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.62% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.29% 1.65% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 185 183 261
10th Percentile £56,250 £56,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +3.23% -3.13%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £111,500 £122,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £76,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -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 23,527 13,800 28,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.44% 37.67% 36.52%
Number of salaries quoted 12,670 10,215 23,986
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £82,500 £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 6 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 6 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 +4 139 £83,750 -11.84% 47
North of England +15 113 £73,801 +6.37% 33
Yorkshire +19 78 £73,750 -1.67% 8
North West -22 31 £76,651 +10.59% 16
Midlands -24 23 £50,000 -26.97% 4
West Midlands -4 14 £50,000 -27.86% 3
South East -44 13 £70,000 +16.67% 13
South West -39 11 £70,000 +21.74% 13
East Midlands -45 9 £63,750 -1.92% 1
North East -29 4 £73,801 +6.37% 9
East of England -30 1 £75,000 -11.76% 5
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 (5.26%) Apache
2 8 (2.63%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.99%) JBoss
4 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.66%) Confluence
6 1 (0.33%) Drupal
6 1 (0.33%) IIS
6 1 (0.33%) nginx
6 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.33%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.33%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 286 (94.08%) AWS
2 171 (56.25%) Serverless
3 147 (48.36%) AWS Lambda
4 116 (38.16%) Amazon S3
5 110 (36.18%) Azure
6 97 (31.91%) Amazon ECS
7 85 (27.96%) AWS Step Functions
8 75 (24.67%) GitHub
9 72 (23.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 64 (21.05%) GCP
11 56 (18.42%) GitHub Actions
12 55 (18.09%) Amazon ECR
13 50 (16.45%) Datadog
14 44 (14.47%) Amazon SQS
15 41 (13.49%) Amazon EKS
16 40 (13.16%) Apigee
17 33 (10.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 29 (9.54%) Amazon EC2
19 27 (8.88%) Pulumi
20 25 (8.22%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.26%) TCP/IP
2 15 (4.93%) Firewall
3 13 (4.28%) DSL
3 13 (4.28%) VPN
4 7 (2.30%) Network Security
5 5 (1.64%) AMQP
5 5 (1.64%) DNS
5 5 (1.64%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.99%) SCCP
7 1 (0.33%) 4G
7 1 (0.33%) 5G
7 1 (0.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (34.21%) DynamoDB
2 75 (24.67%) NoSQL
3 49 (16.12%) Amazon RDS
4 33 (10.86%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (8.88%) Amazon Athena
6 20 (6.58%) Elasticsearch
7 15 (4.93%) Redis
8 13 (4.28%) SQL Server
9 11 (3.62%) MySQL
10 8 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.97%) Big Data
11 6 (1.97%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.64%) Cloudera CDH
12 5 (1.64%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.32%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.32%) Flink
13 4 (1.32%) Metadata
14 2 (0.66%) Apache Iceberg
14 2 (0.66%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 122 (40.13%) GitLab
2 121 (39.80%) Jenkins
3 47 (15.46%) Git
4 42 (13.82%) Maven
4 42 (13.82%) SonarQube
5 39 (12.83%) Cypress.io
6 23 (7.57%) CircleCI
7 12 (3.95%) Bitbucket
7 12 (3.95%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.97%) JIRA
9 5 (1.64%) git-flow
9 5 (1.64%) Robot Framework
9 5 (1.64%) Selenium
10 4 (1.32%) JMeter
11 3 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.99%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.99%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.66%) TestRail
13 1 (0.33%) Gatling
13 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 102 (33.55%) Social Skills
2 56 (18.42%) Finance
3 29 (9.54%) Banking
4 15 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.95%) Aerospace
6 9 (2.96%) Advertising
7 8 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.63%) Telecoms
8 6 (1.97%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.97%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.97%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.64%) Retail
10 4 (1.32%) Billing
11 3 (0.99%) Aviation
11 3 (0.99%) Law
11 3 (0.99%) Mandarin Language
12 2 (0.66%) Back Office
12 2 (0.66%) Electronics
12 2 (0.66%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.66%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 91 (29.93%) Developer
2 66 (21.71%) Senior
3 60 (19.74%) Cloud Engineer
4 52 (17.11%) Java Developer
5 46 (15.13%) DevOps Engineer
6 30 (9.87%) AWS Engineer
7 28 (9.21%) Senior Developer
8 25 (8.22%) AWS Developer
9 24 (7.89%) Platform Engineer
10 22 (7.24%) Lead
11 21 (6.91%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 21 (6.91%) Security Engineer
12 18 (5.92%) Architect
13 17 (5.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 16 (5.26%) AWS Architect
14 16 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
15 13 (4.28%) .NET Developer
15 13 (4.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 13 (4.28%) AWS Security Architect
15 13 (4.28%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (21.38%) AngularJS
2 62 (20.39%) Spring Boot
3 53 (17.43%) AWS CDK
4 46 (15.13%) Node.js
5 42 (13.82%) Kafka
6 39 (12.83%) Gherkin
6 39 (12.83%) Jest
7 35 (11.51%) RESTful
8 33 (10.86%) Spring
9 32 (10.53%) React
10 23 (7.57%) RabbitMQ
11 22 (7.24%) Elastic Stack
12 19 (6.25%) .NET
13 18 (5.92%) gRPC
14 16 (5.26%) web3js
15 14 (4.61%) Django
15 14 (4.61%) REST
16 13 (4.28%) .NET Core
16 13 (4.28%) ASP.NET
16 13 (4.28%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 89 (29.28%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.24%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (7.24%) Security Posture
3 16 (5.26%) Blockchain
3 16 (5.26%) Web3
4 14 (4.61%) Product Ownership
5 13 (4.28%) Cloud Security Posture
6 11 (3.62%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (3.62%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (3.62%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.96%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.63%) e-Learning
8 8 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (2.30%) PKI
10 5 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.32%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.99%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (0.99%) Cyber Security Posture
12 3 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 64 (21.05%) Linux
2 25 (8.22%) Windows
3 22 (7.24%) Unix
4 13 (4.28%) Ubuntu
5 10 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.63%) CentOS
7 5 (1.64%) Debian
7 5 (1.64%) VMS
7 5 (1.64%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.66%) Android
8 2 (0.66%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 220 (72.37%) Infrastructure as Code
3 213 (70.07%) DevOps
4 133 (43.75%) Agile
5 95 (31.25%) Containerisation
6 81 (26.64%) Problem-Solving
7 71 (23.36%) Microservices
8 63 (20.72%) Continuous Improvement
9 60 (19.74%) DevSecOps
10 59 (19.41%) Observability
11 56 (18.42%) Cloud Security
12 52 (17.11%) Continuous Integration
13 48 (15.79%) Mentoring
14 42 (13.82%) Platform Engineering
14 42 (13.82%) Test Automation
15 40 (13.16%) Incident Response
15 40 (13.16%) Software Engineering
16 37 (12.17%) ITIL
17 36 (11.84%) Clean Code
18 35 (11.51%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 127 (41.78%) Python
2 106 (34.87%) Java
3 82 (26.97%) Bash
4 78 (25.66%) TypeScript
5 73 (24.01%) SQL
6 42 (13.82%) Go
7 40 (13.16%) Groovy
8 30 (9.87%) Kotlin
9 27 (8.88%) PowerShell
10 23 (7.57%) JavaScript
11 13 (4.28%) C#
11 13 (4.28%) Rust
12 10 (3.29%) Bicep
13 5 (1.64%) C++
14 3 (0.99%) Google Apps Script
15 1 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.33%) PHP
15 1 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 77 (25.33%) AWS Certification
2 73 (24.01%) Security Cleared
3 41 (13.49%) SC Cleared
4 35 (11.51%) Degree
5 27 (8.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 25 (8.22%) AWS Certified Developer
6 25 (8.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 25 (8.22%) DV Cleared
7 24 (7.89%) ITIL Certification
8 15 (4.93%) OSCP
9 14 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (2.63%) Azure Certification
11 7 (2.30%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 5 (1.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.99%) Postgraduate
14 2 (0.66%) CREST Certified
14 2 (0.66%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.66%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.91%) NIST
2 16 (5.26%) PCI DSS
3 13 (4.28%) GDPR
4 10 (3.29%) QA
5 9 (2.96%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.64%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.66%) SLA
9 1 (0.33%) Basel III
9 1 (0.33%) MiFID
9 1 (0.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 164 (53.95%) Docker
2 6 (1.97%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.32%) KVM
4 3 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.33%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 206 (67.76%) Terraform
2 114 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 65 (21.38%) Ansible
4 40 (13.16%) Prometheus
5 39 (12.83%) HP Fortify
6 37 (12.17%) Grafana
7 10 (3.29%) Argo
8 9 (2.96%) AWS Copilot
9 8 (2.63%) Docker Swarm
10 7 (2.30%) Puppet
11 6 (1.97%) Istio
11 6 (1.97%) linkerd
11 6 (1.97%) Mesos
12 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.32%) Rancher
14 2 (0.66%) Nessus
14 2 (0.66%) Progress Chef
15 1 (0.33%) Consul
15 1 (0.33%) Packer
Vendors
1 31 (10.20%) Google
2 13 (4.28%) Microsoft
3 9 (2.96%) Splunk
4 7 (2.30%) Red Hat
5 6 (1.97%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.32%) Oracle
7 3 (0.99%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.99%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.99%) SolarWinds
7 3 (0.99%) VMware
8 2 (0.66%) HubSpot
8 2 (0.66%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (0.66%) Ping Identity
8 2 (0.66%) SAP
9 1 (0.33%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.33%) IBM
9 1 (0.33%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.33%) TOWER Software