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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 452 550
Rank change year-on-year +84 +98 -189
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 445 208 217
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 0.48% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.83% 1.48% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 207 121 159
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -9.68%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £101,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%

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 24,287 14,080 21,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 24.26% 32.56% 31.73%
Number of salaries quoted 16,844 9,807 14,443
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 +49 221 £90,000 +10.43% 237
North of England +42 146 £72,500 +3.57% 71
Yorkshire +39 89 £75,000 +6.38% 23
North West +2 42 £72,500 +20.83% 36
South West -51 30 £67,500 -25.00% 21
Midlands -37 21 £62,500 +13.64% 32
South East -43 19 £70,000 -20.00% 49
North East - 15 £48,500 - 12
East Midlands -21 13 £52,500 - 16
West Midlands -36 8 £68,496 +24.54% 16
East of England -41 1 £90,000 +20.00% 12
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 17 (3.82%) Apache
2 9 (2.02%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.02%) Confluence
3 5 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.67%) nginx
5 1 (0.22%) Drupal
5 1 (0.22%) IIS
5 1 (0.22%) JBoss
5 1 (0.22%) SAS
5 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.90%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.45%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Summit
2 1 (0.22%) Magento
2 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 424 (95.28%) AWS
2 223 (50.11%) Serverless
3 169 (37.98%) AWS Lambda
4 135 (30.34%) Amazon ECS
5 124 (27.87%) Amazon S3
6 103 (23.15%) Azure
7 93 (20.90%) GitHub
8 78 (17.53%) GCP
9 76 (17.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 68 (15.28%) Amazon EC2
10 68 (15.28%) AWS Step Functions
11 66 (14.83%) Amazon EKS
11 66 (14.83%) GitHub Actions
12 49 (11.01%) Cloud Computing
12 49 (11.01%) Datadog
13 35 (7.87%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 33 (7.42%) Amazon SQS
15 31 (6.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 30 (6.74%) OpenShift
17 27 (6.07%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.27%) Network Security
2 14 (3.15%) TCP/IP
3 11 (2.47%) VPN
4 8 (1.80%) DNS
4 8 (1.80%) Firewall
5 6 (1.35%) AMQP
5 6 (1.35%) HTTP
6 5 (1.12%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.45%) MQTT
8 1 (0.22%) 4G
8 1 (0.22%) 5G
8 1 (0.22%) DHCP
8 1 (0.22%) DNSSEC
8 1 (0.22%) Internet
8 1 (0.22%) PSTN
8 1 (0.22%) SCCP
8 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (19.55%) DynamoDB
2 81 (18.20%) NoSQL
3 49 (11.01%) Amazon RDS
4 32 (7.19%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (2.02%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.80%) Big Data
7 8 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (1.80%) Hadoop
8 6 (1.35%) Cloudera CDH
8 6 (1.35%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.35%) Flink
8 6 (1.35%) Metadata
8 6 (1.35%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.12%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.12%) MySQL
9 5 (1.12%) Redis
10 3 (0.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 111 (24.94%) Jenkins
2 106 (23.82%) GitLab
3 68 (15.28%) Git
4 40 (8.99%) Cucumber
5 25 (5.62%) Cypress.io
5 25 (5.62%) Maven
6 23 (5.17%) SonarQube
7 11 (2.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (2.47%) JIRA
8 10 (2.25%) Bitbucket
9 9 (2.02%) CircleCI
10 7 (1.57%) Claude Code
11 5 (1.12%) Snyk
11 5 (1.12%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.90%) Gradle
12 4 (0.90%) Selenium
13 3 (0.67%) git-flow
13 3 (0.67%) JUnit
13 3 (0.67%) NUnit
13 3 (0.67%) Postman
General
1 125 (28.09%) Finance
2 116 (26.07%) Social Skills
3 41 (9.21%) Banking
4 38 (8.54%) Public Sector
5 21 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.04%) Financial Institution
7 17 (3.82%) Law
8 13 (2.92%) Aerospace
8 13 (2.92%) Legal
9 9 (2.02%) Military
10 8 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.57%) Retail
12 5 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.90%) Local Government
13 4 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.90%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.67%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.67%) Mandarin Language
14 3 (0.67%) Marketing
14 3 (0.67%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 122 (27.42%) Senior
2 91 (20.45%) Developer
3 82 (18.43%) Cloud Engineer
4 65 (14.61%) DevOps Engineer
5 57 (12.81%) Java Developer
6 50 (11.24%) AWS Engineer
7 46 (10.34%) Java Engineer
8 39 (8.76%) Consultant
9 34 (7.64%) Lead
10 32 (7.19%) Senior Consultant
11 27 (6.07%) Full-Stack Developer
11 27 (6.07%) Software Engineer
12 26 (5.84%) AWS Developer
13 24 (5.39%) Platform Engineer
14 23 (5.17%) Architect
14 23 (5.17%) Principal Engineer
15 22 (4.94%) Principal Java Engineer
15 22 (4.94%) Senior Developer
16 21 (4.72%) Cloud Native Engineer
17 20 (4.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 308 (69.21%) Terraform
2 95 (21.35%) Spring Boot
3 83 (18.65%) Spring
4 77 (17.30%) Node.js
5 76 (17.08%) AngularJS
6 70 (15.73%) Kafka
7 44 (9.89%) AWS CDK
8 33 (7.42%) React
9 30 (6.74%) RESTful
10 26 (5.84%) Gherkin
11 23 (5.17%) REST
11 23 (5.17%) Web Services
12 21 (4.72%) Jest
13 18 (4.04%) RabbitMQ
14 16 (3.60%) gRPC
15 13 (2.92%) JSON
15 13 (2.92%) YAML
16 11 (2.47%) OpenTelemetry
17 10 (2.25%) JWT
17 10 (2.25%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 158 (35.51%) Cloud Native
2 64 (14.38%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (11.69%) Public Cloud
4 50 (11.24%) Onboarding
5 39 (8.76%) Enterprise Cloud
6 38 (8.54%) e-Learning
7 26 (5.84%) Enterprise Software
7 26 (5.84%) Hybrid Cloud
8 22 (4.94%) Data Centre
9 19 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (3.60%) Linux Command Line
11 13 (2.92%) Distributed Computing
11 13 (2.92%) Mainframe
12 10 (2.25%) Blockchain
12 10 (2.25%) Blog
12 10 (2.25%) Web3
13 7 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (1.57%) Legacy Applications
14 6 (1.35%) AI Agents
14 6 (1.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 75 (16.85%) Linux
2 20 (4.49%) Windows
3 11 (2.47%) Ubuntu
4 10 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.02%) CentOS
6 7 (1.57%) Unix
7 6 (1.35%) Debian
7 6 (1.35%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.45%) Android
8 2 (0.45%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (71.91%) Infrastructure as Code
2 290 (65.17%) CI/CD
3 232 (52.13%) DevOps
4 183 (41.12%) Agile
5 133 (29.89%) Containerisation
6 101 (22.70%) Mentoring
7 100 (22.47%) Software Engineering
8 98 (22.02%) Microservices
9 95 (21.35%) Continuous Improvement
10 94 (21.12%) Test Automation
11 83 (18.65%) Observability
12 82 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
13 77 (17.30%) Cloud Security
14 75 (16.85%) Event-Driven
15 67 (15.06%) Migration
16 63 (14.16%) AI
17 55 (12.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 55 (12.36%) Platform Engineering
18 54 (12.13%) Collaborative Culture
19 50 (11.24%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 199 (44.72%) Python
2 162 (36.40%) Java
3 97 (21.80%) SQL
4 81 (18.20%) TypeScript
5 78 (17.53%) Bash
6 46 (10.34%) Groovy
7 39 (8.76%) Kotlin
8 34 (7.64%) Go
9 31 (6.97%) JavaScript
10 29 (6.52%) PowerShell
11 18 (4.04%) Ruby
12 17 (3.82%) Bicep
13 16 (3.60%) PHP
14 15 (3.37%) C#
14 15 (3.37%) Perl
15 6 (1.35%) C++
16 4 (0.90%) Google Apps Script
17 2 (0.45%) Shell Script
18 1 (0.22%) Korn
Qualifications
1 147 (33.03%) Security Cleared
2 116 (26.07%) AWS Certification
3 88 (19.78%) SC Cleared
4 71 (15.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 35 (7.87%) Degree
6 31 (6.97%) DV Cleared
7 17 (3.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 16 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (3.37%) ITIL Certification
10 11 (2.47%) Master's Degree
11 9 (2.02%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (1.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.90%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.90%) OCP
13 4 (0.90%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.67%) Postgraduate
15 2 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.45%) CREST Certified
15 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.74%) GDPR
2 12 (2.70%) NIST
2 12 (2.70%) PCI DSS
3 8 (1.80%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.12%) HIPAA
4 5 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.12%) SOC 2
5 4 (0.90%) ISO 20022
5 4 (0.90%) NCSC
6 3 (0.67%) QA
7 2 (0.45%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 185 (41.57%) Docker
2 6 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.12%) KVM
3 5 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 163 (36.63%) Kubernetes
2 87 (19.55%) Ansible
3 49 (11.01%) Progress Chef
4 36 (8.09%) Puppet
5 34 (7.64%) Grafana
6 30 (6.74%) Prometheus
7 19 (4.27%) Argo
8 17 (3.82%) HP Fortify
9 7 (1.57%) Istio
10 6 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (1.12%) linkerd
11 5 (1.12%) Mesos
11 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.45%) Rancher
13 1 (0.22%) Consul
13 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.22%) Kibana
13 1 (0.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 32 (7.19%) Google
2 17 (3.82%) Microsoft
3 13 (2.92%) Red Hat
4 12 (2.70%) Oracle
5 9 (2.02%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.57%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.35%) Databricks
7 6 (1.35%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.35%) SaltStack
7 6 (1.35%) Splunk
7 6 (1.35%) VMware
8 5 (1.12%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.12%) Cisco
9 4 (0.90%) Avaya
9 4 (0.90%) Genesys
10 3 (0.67%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.45%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.45%) Informatica
12 1 (0.22%) Infoblox
12 1 (0.22%) Sparx