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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 399 477
Rank change year-on-year -1 +78 -147
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 267 247 315
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.60% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.26% 1.59% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 161 184 255
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £61,955
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £81,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,313 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,625 £116,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £78,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -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 21,154 15,543 26,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.18% 37.73% 37.90%
Number of salaries quoted 11,671 10,032 22,309
10th Percentile £29,303 £33,204 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,264 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.16% +10.02% -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 March 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 March 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 +4 126 £82,500 -15.38% 51
North of England +14 95 £73,151 +5.63% 28
Yorkshire +23 67 £72,500 - 7
North West -20 24 £76,651 +13.56% 14
Midlands -3 22 £50,000 -26.97% 6
West Midlands +10 15 £50,000 -27.86% 4
South East -30 14 £70,000 +16.67% 11
South West -12 10 £71,250 +29.55% 14
East Midlands -30 7 £75,000 +15.38% 2
North East -16 4 £73,801 +6.37% 7
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 (5.99%) Apache
2 10 (3.75%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.12%) Tomcat
4 3 (1.12%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.12%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.75%) JBoss
6 1 (0.37%) Confluence
6 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 251 (94.01%) AWS
2 154 (57.68%) Serverless
3 136 (50.94%) AWS Lambda
4 105 (39.33%) Azure
5 104 (38.95%) Amazon S3
6 83 (31.09%) Amazon ECS
7 75 (28.09%) AWS Step Functions
8 69 (25.84%) GitHub
9 64 (23.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 64 (23.97%) GCP
10 49 (18.35%) GitHub Actions
11 48 (17.98%) Amazon ECR
12 39 (14.61%) Amazon EKS
13 38 (14.23%) Amazon SQS
14 35 (13.11%) Datadog
15 31 (11.61%) Apigee
16 29 (10.86%) Amazon EC2
17 26 (9.74%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 26 (9.74%) Pulumi
18 25 (9.36%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.62%) TCP/IP
2 12 (4.49%) DSL
2 12 (4.49%) Firewall
3 11 (4.12%) VPN
4 5 (1.87%) AMQP
4 5 (1.87%) Network Security
4 5 (1.87%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (1.12%) SCCP
5 3 (1.12%) SSL
6 2 (0.75%) DNS
7 1 (0.37%) 4G
7 1 (0.37%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (31.84%) DynamoDB
2 64 (23.97%) NoSQL
3 45 (16.85%) Amazon RDS
4 35 (13.11%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (8.24%) Amazon Athena
6 17 (6.37%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (5.24%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (5.24%) Redis
7 14 (5.24%) SQL Server
8 12 (4.49%) MySQL
9 9 (3.37%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (3.00%) Data Lake
11 7 (2.62%) Big Data
12 6 (2.25%) MongoDB
13 5 (1.87%) Cloudera CDH
13 5 (1.87%) Hadoop
14 3 (1.12%) Apache Iceberg
14 3 (1.12%) DB2
14 3 (1.12%) Metadata
15 2 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 104 (38.95%) Jenkins
2 103 (38.58%) GitLab
3 42 (15.73%) Git
4 36 (13.48%) SonarQube
5 32 (11.99%) Maven
6 31 (11.61%) Cypress.io
7 18 (6.74%) CircleCI
8 11 (4.12%) Bitbucket
9 10 (3.75%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.87%) git-flow
10 5 (1.87%) Robot Framework
11 4 (1.50%) JIRA
11 4 (1.50%) Selenium
12 3 (1.12%) Eclipse
12 3 (1.12%) JMeter
13 2 (0.75%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.75%) TestRail
14 1 (0.37%) Gradle
14 1 (0.37%) Subversion
General
1 88 (32.96%) Social Skills
2 49 (18.35%) Finance
3 24 (8.99%) Banking
4 17 (6.37%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.12%) Aerospace
6 8 (3.00%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.25%) Advertising
7 6 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.87%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.87%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.50%) Billing
9 4 (1.50%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.50%) Retail
10 3 (1.12%) Aviation
10 3 (1.12%) Law
11 2 (0.75%) Electronics
11 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.75%) Marketing
12 1 (0.37%) iGaming
12 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (26.59%) Developer
2 54 (20.22%) Cloud Engineer
3 52 (19.48%) Senior
4 37 (13.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 37 (13.86%) Java Developer
5 35 (13.11%) AWS Engineer
6 24 (8.99%) Platform Engineer
7 22 (8.24%) AWS Developer
8 21 (7.87%) Senior Developer
9 20 (7.49%) Lead
10 19 (7.12%) Architect
10 19 (7.12%) Security Engineer
11 18 (6.74%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 16 (5.99%) AWS Architect
13 15 (5.62%) AWS DevOps
14 14 (5.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 13 (4.87%) .NET Developer
16 12 (4.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 12 (4.49%) AWS Security Architect
16 12 (4.49%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (19.48%) AWS CDK
2 51 (19.10%) AngularJS
3 50 (18.73%) Spring Boot
4 36 (13.48%) Node.js
5 32 (11.99%) Kafka
6 31 (11.61%) Gherkin
6 31 (11.61%) Jest
7 30 (11.24%) React
7 30 (11.24%) RESTful
8 27 (10.11%) Spring
9 21 (7.87%) Elastic Stack
10 20 (7.49%) RabbitMQ
11 19 (7.12%) .NET
12 15 (5.62%) gRPC
13 14 (5.24%) Django
13 14 (5.24%) REST
14 13 (4.87%) .NET Core
14 13 (4.87%) ASP.NET
14 13 (4.87%) ASP.NET Core
14 13 (4.87%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 85 (31.84%) Cloud Native
2 22 (8.24%) Security Posture
3 20 (7.49%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.62%) Product Ownership
5 13 (4.87%) Cloud Security Posture
6 12 (4.49%) Linux Command Line
7 11 (4.12%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (4.12%) Public Cloud
8 10 (3.75%) Blockchain
8 10 (3.75%) Web3
9 8 (3.00%) e-Learning
10 5 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.87%) PKI
10 5 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.12%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (1.12%) Cyber Security Posture
11 3 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.75%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.75%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.37%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 57 (21.35%) Linux
2 26 (9.74%) Unix
3 21 (7.87%) Windows
4 10 (3.75%) Ubuntu
5 8 (3.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.87%) CentOS
6 5 (1.87%) Debian
6 5 (1.87%) VMS
7 1 (0.37%) Android
7 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (77.53%) CI/CD
2 197 (73.78%) Infrastructure as Code
3 192 (71.91%) DevOps
4 117 (43.82%) Agile
5 79 (29.59%) Problem-Solving
6 78 (29.21%) Containerisation
7 65 (24.34%) Microservices
8 54 (20.22%) DevSecOps
9 53 (19.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 51 (19.10%) Cloud Security
11 50 (18.73%) Observability
12 43 (16.10%) Continuous Integration
13 36 (13.48%) Incident Response
13 36 (13.48%) Mentoring
14 34 (12.73%) Root Cause Analysis
14 34 (12.73%) Test Automation
15 32 (11.99%) Platform Engineering
15 32 (11.99%) Software Engineering
16 29 (10.86%) Clean Code
17 28 (10.49%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 119 (44.57%) Python
2 81 (30.34%) Java
3 73 (27.34%) Bash
4 59 (22.10%) SQL
4 59 (22.10%) TypeScript
5 37 (13.86%) Go
6 31 (11.61%) Groovy
7 28 (10.49%) PowerShell
8 21 (7.87%) JavaScript
9 20 (7.49%) Kotlin
10 12 (4.49%) C#
10 12 (4.49%) Rust
11 10 (3.75%) Bicep
12 3 (1.12%) C++
13 2 (0.75%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 72 (26.97%) AWS Certification
2 59 (22.10%) Security Cleared
3 31 (11.61%) Degree
3 31 (11.61%) SC Cleared
4 23 (8.61%) AWS Certified Developer
4 23 (8.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 23 (8.61%) DV Cleared
5 19 (7.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 19 (7.12%) ITIL Certification
6 13 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (4.87%) OSCP
7 7 (2.62%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 5 (1.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (1.50%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.75%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.75%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.37%) CREST Certified
12 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.49%) NIST
2 13 (4.87%) PCI DSS
3 12 (4.49%) QA
4 11 (4.12%) GDPR
5 7 (2.62%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.62%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.50%) SLA
8 1 (0.37%) Basel III
8 1 (0.37%) MiFID
System Software
1 141 (52.81%) Docker
2 5 (1.87%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.12%) KVM
4 2 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.37%) QEMU
5 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 180 (67.42%) Terraform
2 98 (36.70%) Kubernetes
3 54 (20.22%) Ansible
4 36 (13.48%) Prometheus
5 33 (12.36%) Grafana
6 31 (11.61%) HP Fortify
7 9 (3.37%) AWS Copilot
8 8 (3.00%) Docker Swarm
9 7 (2.62%) Argo
10 6 (2.25%) Istio
10 6 (2.25%) linkerd
10 6 (2.25%) Mesos
10 6 (2.25%) Puppet
11 4 (1.50%) Rancher
12 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.75%) Nessus
14 1 (0.37%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 29 (10.86%) Google
2 14 (5.24%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.37%) Splunk
4 8 (3.00%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.25%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.50%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.12%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.12%) IBM
7 3 (1.12%) LogicMonitor
7 3 (1.12%) Oracle
7 3 (1.12%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.75%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.75%) Ping Identity
8 2 (0.75%) SAP
8 2 (0.75%) VMware
9 1 (0.37%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.37%) Foundry
9 1 (0.37%) Refinitiv