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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 434 547
Rank change year-on-year +76 +113 -186
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 450 220 228
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.51% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.81% 1.52% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 219 126 177
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £50,304
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 £90,000 £91,875 £97,500
90th Percentile £109,000 £111,250 £108,500
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 24,884 14,437 23,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.73% 33.14% 32.10%
Number of salaries quoted 16,831 10,276 17,404
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £42,999
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 +62 226 £90,000 +14.65% 113
North of England +54 146 £75,000 +8.09% 42
Yorkshire +49 88 £75,000 +5.63% 10
North West +12 47 £72,500 +7.21% 20
Midlands -17 26 £62,500 -3.85% 11
South West -43 25 £67,500 -25.00% 35
East Midlands -10 18 £52,500 - 1
South East -31 18 £70,000 -17.65% 16
North East -44 11 £50,000 -27.94% 12
West Midlands -32 8 £68,496 +5.38% 10
East of England -41 2 £82,500 +10.00% 3
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 (3.56%) Apache
2 9 (2.00%) Confluence
3 8 (1.78%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.67%) JBoss
6 3 (0.67%) nginx
7 1 (0.22%) Drupal
7 1 (0.22%) IIS
7 1 (0.22%) SAS
7 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.89%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.44%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Summit
2 1 (0.22%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 433 (96.22%) AWS
2 230 (51.11%) Serverless
3 173 (38.44%) AWS Lambda
4 135 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
5 127 (28.22%) Amazon S3
6 112 (24.89%) Azure
7 93 (20.67%) GitHub
8 80 (17.78%) GCP
9 74 (16.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 74 (16.44%) AWS Step Functions
10 65 (14.44%) Amazon EC2
11 64 (14.22%) GitHub Actions
12 63 (14.00%) Amazon EKS
13 55 (12.22%) Cloud Computing
14 53 (11.78%) Datadog
15 37 (8.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 37 (8.22%) Amazon SQS
16 33 (7.33%) Amazon ECR
17 29 (6.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 28 (6.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.44%) Network Security
2 17 (3.78%) TCP/IP
3 14 (3.11%) VPN
4 13 (2.89%) Firewall
5 11 (2.44%) DNS
6 5 (1.11%) DSL
7 4 (0.89%) AMQP
7 4 (0.89%) HTTP
7 4 (0.89%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.44%) 4G
8 2 (0.44%) 5G
8 2 (0.44%) MQTT
9 1 (0.22%) DHCP
9 1 (0.22%) DNSSEC
9 1 (0.22%) Internet
9 1 (0.22%) PSTN
9 1 (0.22%) SCCP
9 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (21.11%) DynamoDB
2 77 (17.11%) NoSQL
3 50 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (7.56%) Amazon Athena
5 15 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (1.56%) Big Data
8 6 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.33%) Flink
9 5 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.11%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.11%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.11%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.11%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.89%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (0.89%) Metadata
10 4 (0.89%) MySQL
10 4 (0.89%) Redis
11 3 (0.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 129 (28.67%) Jenkins
2 123 (27.33%) GitLab
3 63 (14.00%) Git
4 34 (7.56%) Cucumber
5 31 (6.89%) Cypress.io
5 31 (6.89%) Maven
6 27 (6.00%) SonarQube
7 18 (4.00%) CircleCI
8 12 (2.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 12 (2.67%) JIRA
9 11 (2.44%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.56%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.33%) Selenium
11 6 (1.33%) TeamCity
12 5 (1.11%) Snyk
13 4 (0.89%) Gradle
14 3 (0.67%) git-flow
14 3 (0.67%) JUnit
14 3 (0.67%) NUnit
14 3 (0.67%) Postman
General
1 121 (26.89%) Social Skills
2 113 (25.11%) Finance
3 35 (7.78%) Public Sector
4 34 (7.56%) Banking
5 19 (4.22%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (3.11%) Financial Institution
7 12 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.67%) Law
8 11 (2.44%) Legal
9 10 (2.22%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.78%) Military
11 6 (1.33%) Retail
12 5 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.11%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.89%) Advertising
13 4 (0.89%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.89%) Mandarin Language
14 3 (0.67%) Automotive
14 3 (0.67%) Back Office
14 3 (0.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 118 (26.22%) Senior
2 98 (21.78%) Developer
3 81 (18.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 70 (15.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 61 (13.56%) Java Developer
6 50 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
7 39 (8.67%) Consultant
8 34 (7.56%) Java Engineer
8 34 (7.56%) Lead
9 32 (7.11%) Senior Consultant
10 26 (5.78%) Platform Engineer
11 25 (5.56%) AWS Developer
11 25 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
12 24 (5.33%) Senior Developer
13 21 (4.67%) Architect
13 21 (4.67%) AWS DevOps
14 20 (4.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 20 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 20 (4.44%) Software Engineer
15 19 (4.22%) Professional Services Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (19.78%) Spring Boot
2 76 (16.89%) AngularJS
3 70 (15.56%) Spring
4 69 (15.33%) Kafka
5 65 (14.44%) Node.js
6 51 (11.33%) AWS CDK
7 36 (8.00%) React
8 32 (7.11%) Gherkin
9 27 (6.00%) RESTful
10 25 (5.56%) Jest
11 21 (4.67%) REST
12 20 (4.44%) Web Services
13 18 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
14 17 (3.78%) gRPC
15 15 (3.33%) Next.js
15 15 (3.33%) YAML
16 14 (3.11%) Elastic Stack
16 14 (3.11%) web3js
17 13 (2.89%) JSON
18 10 (2.22%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 145 (32.22%) Cloud Native
2 56 (12.44%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (11.11%) Onboarding
4 43 (9.56%) Public Cloud
5 41 (9.11%) Enterprise Cloud
6 29 (6.44%) e-Learning
7 22 (4.89%) Data Centre
8 21 (4.67%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (4.22%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
12 14 (3.11%) Blockchain
12 14 (3.11%) Web3
13 13 (2.89%) Distributed Computing
13 13 (2.89%) Linux Command Line
13 13 (2.89%) Mainframe
14 12 (2.67%) Security Posture
15 8 (1.78%) Blog
15 8 (1.78%) Cloud Security Posture
16 7 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 77 (17.11%) Linux
2 21 (4.67%) Windows
3 10 (2.22%) Ubuntu
3 10 (2.22%) Unix
4 9 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.78%) CentOS
6 6 (1.33%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.89%) Debian
8 3 (0.67%) Android
8 3 (0.67%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (71.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 288 (64.00%) CI/CD
3 236 (52.44%) DevOps
4 178 (39.56%) Agile
5 142 (31.56%) Containerisation
6 110 (24.44%) Mentoring
7 101 (22.44%) Continuous Improvement
8 95 (21.11%) Observability
9 92 (20.44%) Test Automation
10 87 (19.33%) Microservices
11 83 (18.44%) Cloud Security
11 83 (18.44%) Software Engineering
12 80 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
13 66 (14.67%) Event-Driven
14 60 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
15 58 (12.89%) Migration
16 56 (12.44%) Collaborative Culture
17 54 (12.00%) AI
18 53 (11.78%) Continuous Integration
18 53 (11.78%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 206 (45.78%) Python
2 158 (35.11%) Java
3 90 (20.00%) SQL
4 84 (18.67%) Bash
5 80 (17.78%) TypeScript
6 49 (10.89%) Groovy
7 39 (8.67%) Go
8 36 (8.00%) Kotlin
9 30 (6.67%) PowerShell
10 29 (6.44%) JavaScript
11 19 (4.22%) Bicep
12 17 (3.78%) Ruby
13 16 (3.56%) PHP
14 15 (3.33%) Perl
15 13 (2.89%) C#
16 6 (1.33%) C++
17 5 (1.11%) Google Apps Script
17 5 (1.11%) Rust
18 2 (0.44%) Shell Script
19 1 (0.22%) Korn
Qualifications
1 144 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 107 (23.78%) AWS Certification
3 84 (18.67%) SC Cleared
4 64 (14.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 41 (9.11%) Degree
6 27 (6.00%) DV Cleared
7 22 (4.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 18 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
9 14 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (2.89%) Master's Degree
11 11 (2.44%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (1.78%) OSCP
13 7 (1.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 5 (1.11%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.89%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.67%) CREST Certified
16 3 (0.67%) OCP
16 3 (0.67%) Oracle Certification
16 3 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
17 2 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.22%) GDPR
2 17 (3.78%) NIST
2 17 (3.78%) PCI DSS
3 10 (2.22%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.22%) SOC 2
4 5 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.89%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.67%) NCSC
6 3 (0.67%) QA
7 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 187 (41.56%) Docker
2 5 (1.11%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.11%) KVM
2 5 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 309 (68.67%) Terraform
2 170 (37.78%) Kubernetes
3 85 (18.89%) Ansible
4 46 (10.22%) Grafana
5 41 (9.11%) Progress Chef
5 41 (9.11%) Prometheus
6 30 (6.67%) Puppet
7 23 (5.11%) HP Fortify
8 20 (4.44%) Argo
9 7 (1.56%) Istio
10 6 (1.33%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.11%) linkerd
11 5 (1.11%) Mesos
12 4 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.67%) AWS Copilot
14 2 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.44%) Rancher
15 1 (0.22%) Consul
15 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 33 (7.33%) Google
2 16 (3.56%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.67%) Oracle
4 10 (2.22%) Red Hat
5 8 (1.78%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.56%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.33%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.33%) Splunk
8 5 (1.11%) VMware
9 4 (0.89%) Avaya
9 4 (0.89%) Cisco
9 4 (0.89%) Databricks
9 4 (0.89%) Genesys
9 4 (0.89%) SaltStack
10 3 (0.67%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.44%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.22%) Infoblox
12 1 (0.22%) LogicMonitor
12 1 (0.22%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.22%) SolarWinds