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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 437 553
Rank change year-on-year +52 +116 -185
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 357 210 320
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.43% 0.53% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.58% 1.55% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 198 112 258
10th Percentile £53,500 £52,500 £54,625
25th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £62,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,813 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,375 £112,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -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 22,555 13,551 31,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.07% 34.17% 32.87%
Number of salaries quoted 14,999 9,606 24,909
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,625 £30,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -9.45%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +34 175 £90,000 +10.77% 53
North of England +62 128 £75,000 +8.09% 25
Yorkshire +42 90 £75,000 +2.04% 7
North West +27 36 £80,000 +14.79% 17
Midlands -4 29 £52,500 -27.59% 1
East Midlands -8 18 £52,500 -27.59%
West Midlands -12 11 £50,000 -38.51% 1
South West -54 10 £72,500 -14.71% 16
South East -39 8 £70,000 +12.00% 21
East of England -30 2 £82,500 +10.00%
North East -48 2 £65,576 -5.49% 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 14 (3.92%) Apache
2 9 (2.52%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.40%) Confluence
4 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.84%) JBoss
6 1 (0.28%) Drupal
6 1 (0.28%) IIS
6 1 (0.28%) nginx
6 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 343 (96.08%) AWS
2 190 (53.22%) Serverless
3 159 (44.54%) AWS Lambda
4 119 (33.33%) Amazon S3
5 104 (29.13%) Amazon ECS
6 88 (24.65%) AWS Step Functions
7 82 (22.97%) Azure
8 79 (22.13%) GitHub
9 74 (20.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 61 (17.09%) Datadog
11 57 (15.97%) GitHub Actions
12 54 (15.13%) GCP
13 50 (14.01%) Amazon EC2
14 42 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
15 36 (10.08%) Amazon ECR
15 36 (10.08%) Amazon EKS
16 35 (9.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 33 (9.24%) Apigee
18 21 (5.88%) Pulumi
19 20 (5.60%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.64%) VPN
2 12 (3.36%) DSL
2 12 (3.36%) Firewall
3 8 (2.24%) DNS
3 8 (2.24%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.68%) Network Security
5 5 (1.40%) AMQP
6 3 (0.84%) HTTP
6 3 (0.84%) SCCP
6 3 (0.84%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.56%) 4G
7 2 (0.56%) 5G
8 1 (0.28%) MQTT
8 1 (0.28%) PSTN
8 1 (0.28%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (29.13%) DynamoDB
2 80 (22.41%) NoSQL
3 42 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
4 37 (10.36%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (2.24%) Big Data
7 6 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (1.68%) Flink
7 6 (1.68%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.40%) Cloudera CDH
8 5 (1.40%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.12%) Metadata
9 4 (1.12%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.12%) Redis
10 3 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.84%) MySQL
11 2 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.56%) Power BI
11 2 (0.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 144 (40.34%) Jenkins
2 130 (36.41%) GitLab
3 52 (14.57%) Git
4 37 (10.36%) Maven
5 33 (9.24%) Cypress.io
6 29 (8.12%) SonarQube
7 27 (7.56%) CircleCI
8 26 (7.28%) Cucumber
9 8 (2.24%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (1.68%) JIRA
12 5 (1.40%) Claude Code
12 5 (1.40%) Gradle
12 5 (1.40%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.84%) Selenium
14 2 (0.56%) JMeter
15 1 (0.28%) Eclipse
15 1 (0.28%) git-flow
15 1 (0.28%) Robot Framework
15 1 (0.28%) Vagrant
General
1 99 (27.73%) Social Skills
2 78 (21.85%) Finance
3 36 (10.08%) Banking
4 10 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (2.52%) Financial Institution
6 8 (2.24%) Aerospace
7 7 (1.96%) Advertising
7 7 (1.96%) Public Sector
8 6 (1.68%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.68%) Retail
9 4 (1.12%) Billing
9 4 (1.12%) Legal
9 4 (1.12%) Mandarin Language
9 4 (1.12%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.84%) Aviation
10 3 (0.84%) Back Office
10 3 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.84%) Law
11 2 (0.56%) Games
Job Titles
1 105 (29.41%) Developer
2 73 (20.45%) Cloud Engineer
3 71 (19.89%) Senior
4 70 (19.61%) Java Developer
5 55 (15.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 41 (11.48%) AWS Engineer
7 32 (8.96%) Senior Developer
8 28 (7.84%) AWS Developer
9 26 (7.28%) Java Engineer
10 24 (6.72%) Platform Engineer
11 22 (6.16%) Full-Stack Developer
12 21 (5.88%) Lead
13 20 (5.60%) Security Engineer
14 19 (5.32%) AWS DevOps
14 19 (5.32%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 19 (5.32%) Software Engineer
15 18 (5.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 18 (5.04%) Principal Engineer
16 17 (4.76%) Architect
17 16 (4.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (22.69%) Spring Boot
2 79 (22.13%) AngularJS
3 67 (18.77%) Kafka
4 59 (16.53%) Node.js
5 56 (15.69%) Spring
6 41 (11.48%) AWS CDK
7 37 (10.36%) Gherkin
8 30 (8.40%) React
9 29 (8.12%) Jest
10 27 (7.56%) RESTful
11 23 (6.44%) gRPC
11 23 (6.44%) RabbitMQ
12 21 (5.88%) web3js
13 17 (4.76%) Next.js
14 16 (4.48%) REST
14 16 (4.48%) YAML
15 13 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
15 13 (3.64%) JSON
15 13 (3.64%) Web Services
16 9 (2.52%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 107 (29.97%) Cloud Native
2 36 (10.08%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (8.96%) Public Cloud
4 21 (5.88%) Blockchain
4 21 (5.88%) e-Learning
4 21 (5.88%) Security Posture
4 21 (5.88%) Web3
5 20 (5.60%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (4.20%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (3.64%) Cloud Security Posture
9 8 (2.24%) PKI
9 8 (2.24%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.40%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.40%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
13 3 (0.84%) Cyber Defence
13 3 (0.84%) Mobile App
13 3 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 65 (18.21%) Linux
2 19 (5.32%) Windows
3 12 (3.36%) Ubuntu
4 10 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.52%) CentOS
6 5 (1.40%) Debian
6 5 (1.40%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.84%) Android
7 3 (0.84%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.84%) Unix
7 3 (0.84%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (73.11%) Infrastructure as Code
2 246 (68.91%) CI/CD
3 197 (55.18%) DevOps
4 133 (37.25%) Agile
5 115 (32.21%) Containerisation
6 75 (21.01%) Continuous Improvement
6 75 (21.01%) Microservices
7 70 (19.61%) DevSecOps
8 69 (19.33%) Observability
8 69 (19.33%) Software Engineering
9 68 (19.05%) Test Automation
10 67 (18.77%) Mentoring
11 63 (17.65%) Cloud Security
12 61 (17.09%) Continuous Integration
12 61 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
13 53 (14.85%) Event-Driven
14 49 (13.73%) Platform Engineering
15 41 (11.48%) Collaborative Culture
15 41 (11.48%) Full-Stack Development
15 41 (11.48%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 156 (43.70%) Python
2 138 (38.66%) Java
3 87 (24.37%) TypeScript
4 84 (23.53%) SQL
5 61 (17.09%) Bash
6 52 (14.57%) Groovy
7 46 (12.89%) Go
8 41 (11.48%) Kotlin
9 29 (8.12%) JavaScript
10 27 (7.56%) PowerShell
11 14 (3.92%) Bicep
12 13 (3.64%) C#
13 12 (3.36%) Rust
14 7 (1.96%) C++
15 5 (1.40%) Google Apps Script
16 2 (0.56%) PHP
17 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 1 (0.28%) Perl
17 1 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 82 (22.97%) Security Cleared
2 73 (20.45%) AWS Certification
3 54 (15.13%) SC Cleared
4 38 (10.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 34 (9.52%) Degree
6 26 (7.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 23 (6.44%) ITIL Certification
8 17 (4.76%) DV Cleared
9 15 (4.20%) OSCP
10 10 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (2.52%) AWS Certified Developer
12 7 (1.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (1.68%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 6 (1.68%) Azure Certification
13 6 (1.68%) Master's Degree
14 4 (1.12%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.84%) CREST Certified
16 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
16 2 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
17 1 (0.28%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.88%) NIST
2 18 (5.04%) PCI DSS
3 15 (4.20%) GDPR
4 11 (3.08%) SOC 2
5 8 (2.24%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.28%) NCSC
7 1 (0.28%) QA
7 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 163 (45.66%) Docker
2 5 (1.40%) KVM
2 5 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 232 (64.99%) Terraform
2 137 (38.38%) Kubernetes
3 59 (16.53%) Ansible
4 41 (11.48%) Prometheus
5 33 (9.24%) Grafana
6 28 (7.84%) HP Fortify
7 15 (4.20%) Argo
7 15 (4.20%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.96%) Puppet
9 5 (1.40%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (1.12%) Istio
10 4 (1.12%) linkerd
10 4 (1.12%) Mesos
11 3 (0.84%) AWS Copilot
12 2 (0.56%) Rancher
12 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.28%) Consul
13 1 (0.28%) Packer
Vendors
1 24 (6.72%) Google
2 12 (3.36%) Microsoft
3 9 (2.52%) Oracle
4 7 (1.96%) HubSpot
5 6 (1.68%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.40%) SaltStack
6 5 (1.40%) VMware
7 4 (1.12%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.12%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.12%) Splunk
8 3 (0.84%) Databricks
9 1 (0.28%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.28%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.28%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.28%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.28%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.28%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.28%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.28%) TOWER Software