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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 453 411
Rank change year-on-year +61 -42 -100
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 225 227 312
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.48% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.20% 1.30% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 146 170 254
10th Percentile £50,750 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £81,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £87,500 £116,250 £99,188
90th Percentile £111,250 £138,750 £120,000
UK median annual salary £73,801 £79,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.58% +5.33% -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 18,758 17,431 21,347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.85% 36.61% 39.71%
Number of salaries quoted 10,417 10,292 17,946
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 20 January 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 20 January 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 +31 104 £81,500 -18.50% 44
North of England +39 82 £72,500 +7.41% 29
Yorkshire +39 54 £71,000 - 20
North West +9 25 £70,000 +12.00% 8
Midlands +27 16 £50,000 -27.86% 14
West Midlands +35 14 £50,000 -27.86% 10
South East +20 13 £72,500 +18.37% 30
South West +13 9 £71,250 +29.55% 15
North East +2 3 £73,801 +6.48% 1
East Midlands -14 2 - - 4
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 (6.22%) Apache
2 10 (4.44%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.11%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.67%) Tomcat
4 6 (2.67%) WebSphere
4 6 (2.67%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.89%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 208 (92.44%) AWS
2 118 (52.44%) Serverless
3 110 (48.89%) AWS Lambda
4 97 (43.11%) Azure
5 87 (38.67%) Amazon S3
6 62 (27.56%) GitHub
7 61 (27.11%) Amazon ECS
8 55 (24.44%) GCP
9 54 (24.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 51 (22.67%) AWS Step Functions
11 45 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
12 39 (17.33%) Amazon EC2
12 39 (17.33%) Amazon EKS
13 37 (16.44%) Amazon ECR
14 31 (13.78%) Amazon SQS
15 28 (12.44%) Azure DevOps
16 26 (11.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 22 (9.78%) OpenShift
18 21 (9.33%) Datadog
19 20 (8.89%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.89%) TCP/IP
2 10 (4.44%) Firewall
3 8 (3.56%) VPN
4 6 (2.67%) Network Security
4 6 (2.67%) SSL
5 5 (2.22%) AMQP
6 4 (1.78%) DSL
6 4 (1.78%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (1.33%) SCCP
8 1 (0.44%) DHCP
8 1 (0.44%) DNS
8 1 (0.44%) HTTP
8 1 (0.44%) LAN
8 1 (0.44%) VSAN
8 1 (0.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (26.67%) DynamoDB
2 44 (19.56%) Amazon RDS
3 43 (19.11%) NoSQL
4 35 (15.56%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (7.56%) SQL Server
6 16 (7.11%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (6.22%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (5.78%) Amazon Athena
10 12 (5.33%) Data Lake
10 12 (5.33%) MySQL
11 11 (4.89%) Redis
12 7 (3.11%) Big Data
13 6 (2.67%) DB2
13 6 (2.67%) MongoDB
14 5 (2.22%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (2.22%) Hadoop
15 3 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
15 3 (1.33%) Apache Iceberg
15 3 (1.33%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 79 (35.11%) Jenkins
2 69 (30.67%) GitLab
3 38 (16.89%) Git
4 25 (11.11%) SonarQube
5 20 (8.89%) Cypress.io
5 20 (8.89%) Maven
6 11 (4.89%) Bitbucket
7 9 (4.00%) CircleCI
8 5 (2.22%) git-flow
8 5 (2.22%) Robot Framework
9 4 (1.78%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.33%) Eclipse
10 3 (1.33%) JIRA
10 3 (1.33%) JMeter
11 2 (0.89%) Selenium
11 2 (0.89%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.89%) TestRail
12 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.44%) Subversion
General
1 72 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 39 (17.33%) Finance
3 19 (8.44%) Banking
4 16 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.44%) Aerospace
6 8 (3.56%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.11%) Law
8 5 (2.22%) Advertising
8 5 (2.22%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.78%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.33%) Aviation
10 3 (1.33%) Billing
10 3 (1.33%) Electronics
10 3 (1.33%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.33%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.33%) Marketing
10 3 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.33%) Retail
11 2 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (21.33%) Senior
2 43 (19.11%) Cloud Engineer
2 43 (19.11%) Developer
3 35 (15.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 29 (12.89%) AWS Engineer
5 22 (9.78%) Lead
6 20 (8.89%) Platform Engineer
7 17 (7.56%) Java Developer
8 16 (7.11%) AWS Developer
9 13 (5.78%) Architect
9 13 (5.78%) Senior Developer
10 12 (5.33%) .NET Developer
10 12 (5.33%) AWS DevOps
11 11 (4.89%) Data Engineer
11 11 (4.89%) Security Engineer
12 9 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 9 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (4.00%) Software Engineer
12 9 (4.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (17.33%) AWS CDK
2 32 (14.22%) AngularJS
3 30 (13.33%) Spring Boot
4 26 (11.56%) RESTful
5 24 (10.67%) Node.js
5 24 (10.67%) React
6 20 (8.89%) Gherkin
6 20 (8.89%) Jest
7 19 (8.44%) Elastic Stack
8 18 (8.00%) .NET
8 18 (8.00%) Spring
9 17 (7.56%) Kafka
10 15 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
11 13 (5.78%) .NET Core
11 13 (5.78%) ASP.NET
11 13 (5.78%) ASP.NET Core
11 13 (5.78%) Blazor
12 12 (5.33%) REST
13 11 (4.89%) Django
14 10 (4.44%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 66 (29.33%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.22%) Security Posture
4 13 (5.78%) Product Ownership
5 12 (5.33%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (3.11%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.67%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (2.22%) AI Agents
8 5 (2.22%) Blockchain
8 5 (2.22%) Web3
9 4 (1.78%) e-Learning
9 4 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.78%) PKI
9 4 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.33%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (1.33%) Cyber Security Posture
10 3 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.33%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.44%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 63 (28.00%) Linux
2 27 (12.00%) Unix
3 25 (11.11%) Windows
4 12 (5.33%) Ubuntu
5 11 (4.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (3.56%) Debian
7 5 (2.22%) CentOS
8 4 (1.78%) VMS
9 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (75.56%) CI/CD
2 164 (72.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 162 (72.00%) DevOps
4 94 (41.78%) Agile
5 68 (30.22%) Problem-Solving
6 57 (25.33%) Containerisation
7 54 (24.00%) Microservices
8 43 (19.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 42 (18.67%) Observability
10 37 (16.44%) Cloud Security
11 31 (13.78%) Root Cause Analysis
12 29 (12.89%) DevSecOps
13 28 (12.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 27 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
14 27 (12.00%) Platform Engineering
15 25 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
16 23 (10.22%) Disaster Recovery
16 23 (10.22%) Incident Response
17 21 (9.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 21 (9.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 104 (46.22%) Python
2 67 (29.78%) Bash
3 51 (22.67%) Java
4 46 (20.44%) SQL
5 43 (19.11%) TypeScript
6 30 (13.33%) PowerShell
7 20 (8.89%) Go
7 20 (8.89%) Groovy
8 18 (8.00%) JavaScript
9 10 (4.44%) Bicep
9 10 (4.44%) C#
10 8 (3.56%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.78%) Rust
12 2 (0.89%) C++
12 2 (0.89%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.44%) PHP
Qualifications
1 67 (29.78%) AWS Certification
2 54 (24.00%) Security Cleared
3 27 (12.00%) SC Cleared
4 25 (11.11%) DV Cleared
5 21 (9.33%) AWS Certified Developer
5 21 (9.33%) Degree
6 20 (8.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 14 (6.22%) ITIL Certification
8 10 (4.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 4 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.78%) OSCP
11 4 (1.78%) SnowPro
12 3 (1.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (0.89%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.89%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.89%) Data Quality
1 11 (4.89%) QA
2 10 (4.44%) NIST
3 7 (3.11%) GDPR
3 7 (3.11%) SLA
4 6 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.22%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.44%) Basel III
6 1 (0.44%) MiFID
6 1 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 114 (50.67%) Docker
2 5 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.78%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.33%) KVM
5 2 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.44%) QEMU
6 1 (0.44%) vCloud
6 1 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 159 (70.67%) Terraform
2 85 (37.78%) Kubernetes
3 54 (24.00%) Ansible
4 29 (12.89%) Grafana
4 29 (12.89%) Prometheus
5 20 (8.89%) HP Fortify
6 9 (4.00%) Argo
7 7 (3.11%) Puppet
8 6 (2.67%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (2.22%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (2.22%) Kubeflow
10 4 (1.78%) Istio
10 4 (1.78%) linkerd
10 4 (1.78%) Mesos
10 4 (1.78%) Rancher
11 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.89%) Nessus
12 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (11.11%) Google
2 15 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 14 (6.22%) Splunk
4 11 (4.89%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.67%) IBM
5 6 (2.67%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.78%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.33%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.33%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.33%) Foundry
7 3 (1.33%) LogicMonitor
7 3 (1.33%) Oracle
7 3 (1.33%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.33%) SAP
7 3 (1.33%) VMware
8 2 (0.89%) Databricks
8 2 (0.89%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.44%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.44%) Qualys
9 1 (0.44%) Refinitiv