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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 446 472 384
Rank change year-on-year +26 -88 -70
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 177 257 336
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.43% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.10% 1.25% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 129 200 273
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,100
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,188 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £76,750 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.28% +5.86% -9.38%
75th Percentile £87,500 £110,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £105,500 £123,250 £116,250
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% +7.14% -12.50%

All Cloud 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 16,077 20,547 19,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.30% 34.15% 43.30%
Number of salaries quoted 10,452 12,529 16,468
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,548
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £101,185
UK median annual salary £59,186 £64,600 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.38% +3.36% -0.79%

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 27 November 2025.

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 27 November 2025. 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 +15 86 £81,500 -18.50% 57
North of England +57 57 £70,000 +9.80% 20
Yorkshire +25 28 £70,000 +7.69% 4
North West +42 26 £62,500 - 12
Midlands +41 13 £60,000 -17.24% 9
South East +37 12 £90,000 +44.00% 24
West Midlands +63 11 £60,000 -17.24% 4
South West +16 7 £70,000 +27.27% 14
North East +12 3 £73,801 +6.48% 4
East Midlands +21 2 - - 5
East of England +31 1 £75,000 +20.00% 1
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 8 (4.52%) Apache
2 7 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.95%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.39%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.39%) WebSphere
3 6 (3.39%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (1.13%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.56%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 161 (90.96%) AWS
2 82 (46.33%) Azure
3 73 (41.24%) Serverless
4 66 (37.29%) AWS Lambda
5 57 (32.20%) Amazon S3
6 49 (27.68%) GCP
7 43 (24.29%) Amazon ECS
7 43 (24.29%) GitHub
8 38 (21.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 37 (20.90%) Amazon EC2
10 33 (18.64%) Amazon EKS
11 30 (16.95%) GitHub Actions
12 29 (16.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 23 (12.99%) Amazon ECR
14 19 (10.73%) AWS Step Functions
14 19 (10.73%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (9.60%) Datadog
16 16 (9.04%) Amazon SQS
16 16 (9.04%) dbt
17 13 (7.34%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.21%) TCP/IP
2 7 (3.95%) Firewall
3 6 (3.39%) SSL
4 5 (2.82%) Network Security
4 5 (2.82%) VPN
5 3 (1.69%) DNS
5 3 (1.69%) LAN
5 3 (1.69%) WAN
6 2 (1.13%) AMQP
7 1 (0.56%) DHCP
7 1 (0.56%) HTTP
7 1 (0.56%) NAS
7 1 (0.56%) SAN
7 1 (0.56%) SNMP
7 1 (0.56%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.56%) VSAN
7 1 (0.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (19.21%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (14.12%) DynamoDB
3 24 (13.56%) NoSQL
3 24 (13.56%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (9.04%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (8.47%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (6.78%) Data Lake
7 11 (6.21%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (6.21%) Redis
7 11 (6.21%) SQL Server
8 10 (5.65%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (4.52%) MySQL
10 6 (3.39%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (3.39%) DB2
11 4 (2.26%) Big Data
12 3 (1.69%) Apache Iceberg
12 3 (1.69%) Data Vault
13 2 (1.13%) Cloudera CDH
13 2 (1.13%) Metadata
13 2 (1.13%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 53 (29.94%) Jenkins
2 42 (23.73%) GitLab
3 14 (7.91%) Git
4 11 (6.21%) CircleCI
5 10 (5.65%) SonarQube
6 6 (3.39%) Bitbucket
6 6 (3.39%) Cypress.io
6 6 (3.39%) Maven
7 5 (2.82%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.82%) git-flow
7 5 (2.82%) JIRA
8 4 (2.26%) Robot Framework
9 3 (1.69%) Spinnaker
10 2 (1.13%) Eclipse
10 2 (1.13%) JMeter
10 2 (1.13%) Selenium
10 2 (1.13%) TestRail
11 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.56%) Subversion
11 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
General
1 52 (29.38%) Social Skills
2 38 (21.47%) Finance
3 18 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.04%) Banking
5 12 (6.78%) Law
6 8 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.52%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.52%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.39%) Marketing
8 5 (2.82%) Aerospace
9 4 (2.26%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.69%) Electronics
10 3 (1.69%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.13%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.56%) Advertising
12 1 (0.56%) Billing
12 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.56%) Military
12 1 (0.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 48 (27.12%) Senior
2 31 (17.51%) Cloud Engineer
2 31 (17.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 28 (15.82%) AWS Engineer
4 22 (12.43%) Platform Engineer
5 21 (11.86%) Lead
6 14 (7.91%) Data Engineer
6 14 (7.91%) Developer
7 12 (6.78%) AWS DevOps
8 10 (5.65%) Architect
8 10 (5.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 10 (5.65%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 10 (5.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 9 (5.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 9 (5.08%) Support Engineer
10 8 (4.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (4.52%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 7 (3.95%) Applications Engineer
11 7 (3.95%) Security Engineer
12 6 (3.39%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.99%) AWS CDK
1 23 (12.99%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (8.47%) Kafka
3 14 (7.91%) React
3 14 (7.91%) Spring Boot
4 12 (6.78%) .NET
4 12 (6.78%) Spring
5 11 (6.21%) Django
6 9 (5.08%) AngularJS
6 9 (5.08%) Node.js
6 9 (5.08%) RESTful
7 8 (4.52%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (3.95%) ARM Templates
8 7 (3.95%) Material-UI
9 6 (3.39%) .NET Core
9 6 (3.39%) ASP.NET
9 6 (3.39%) Gherkin
9 6 (3.39%) LAPP Stack
9 6 (3.39%) LDAP
9 6 (3.39%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 44 (24.86%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.78%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (6.21%) Product Ownership
5 10 (5.65%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.39%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.82%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.26%) e-Learning
8 4 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.26%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.13%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (1.13%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.13%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.56%) NVMe
11 1 (0.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 52 (29.38%) Linux
2 28 (15.82%) Unix
3 21 (11.86%) Windows
4 9 (5.08%) Ubuntu
5 8 (4.52%) Debian
5 8 (4.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.13%) CentOS
6 2 (1.13%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (80.79%) Infrastructure as Code
2 134 (75.71%) CI/CD
3 122 (68.93%) DevOps
4 58 (32.77%) Agile
5 55 (31.07%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (25.42%) Containerisation
7 42 (23.73%) Observability
8 34 (19.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (19.21%) Microservices
9 31 (17.51%) Platform Engineering
10 29 (16.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 28 (15.82%) Disaster Recovery
12 25 (14.12%) Cloud Security
13 23 (12.99%) AI
14 22 (12.43%) Data Pipeline
14 22 (12.43%) Mentoring
15 21 (11.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 20 (11.30%) Configuration Management
16 20 (11.30%) Root Cause Analysis
17 19 (10.73%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 101 (57.06%) Python
2 58 (32.77%) Bash
3 33 (18.64%) SQL
4 29 (16.38%) PowerShell
5 24 (13.56%) Java
6 21 (11.86%) TypeScript
7 17 (9.60%) Go
8 16 (9.04%) JavaScript
9 9 (5.08%) Bicep
10 8 (4.52%) C#
10 8 (4.52%) Groovy
11 1 (0.56%) C++
11 1 (0.56%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 48 (27.12%) AWS Certification
2 42 (23.73%) Security Cleared
3 27 (15.25%) SC Cleared
4 21 (11.86%) Degree
5 17 (9.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 16 (9.04%) DV Cleared
7 11 (6.21%) AWS Certified Developer
7 11 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.39%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (2.82%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (2.26%) SnowPro
11 2 (1.13%) ISTQB
11 2 (1.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.21%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.65%) QA
3 8 (4.52%) GDPR
4 7 (3.95%) SLA
5 4 (2.26%) NIST
6 3 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.56%) Basel III
7 1 (0.56%) MiFID
7 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 83 (46.89%) Docker
2 6 (3.39%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (2.26%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.13%) KVM
4 2 (1.13%) Terminal Server
4 2 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.56%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.56%) QEMU
5 1 (0.56%) vCloud
5 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 139 (78.53%) Terraform
2 71 (40.11%) Kubernetes
3 49 (27.68%) Ansible
4 39 (22.03%) Grafana
5 32 (18.08%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.39%) Argo
6 6 (3.39%) AWS Copilot
6 6 (3.39%) HP Fortify
7 5 (2.82%) Kubeflow
7 5 (2.82%) Puppet
8 2 (1.13%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (1.13%) Istio
8 2 (1.13%) linkerd
8 2 (1.13%) Nessus
9 1 (0.56%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.56%) Mesos
9 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.56%) Nagios
9 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.56%) Rancher
Vendors
1 21 (11.86%) Google
1 21 (11.86%) Splunk
2 17 (9.60%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.52%) Red Hat
4 7 (3.95%) IBM
5 4 (2.26%) Databricks
5 4 (2.26%) Foundry
5 4 (2.26%) LogicMonitor
5 4 (2.26%) SolarWinds
6 3 (1.69%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.69%) Citrix
6 3 (1.69%) SaltStack
6 3 (1.69%) SAP
6 3 (1.69%) VMware
7 2 (1.13%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.13%) Hitachi
7 2 (1.13%) OneLogin
7 2 (1.13%) Oracle
7 2 (1.13%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.56%) Ping Identity