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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 434 486 370
Rank change year-on-year +52 -116 -56
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 174 244 348
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.41% 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.09% 1.21% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 127 184 282
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,325
25th Percentile £60,625 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -9.38%
75th Percentile £88,750 £101,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £106,000 £122,125 £116,250
UK median annual salary £73,801 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.79% +3.57% -12.50%

All Cloud 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 16,005 20,093 19,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.69% 33.37% 43.18%
Number of salaries quoted 10,431 12,147 16,729
10th Percentile £28,750 £36,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +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 20 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +11 87 £81,500 -16.41% 156
North of England +40 51 £70,000 +12.00% 63
North West +26 26 £62,500 +2.04% 37
Yorkshire +20 22 £70,000 +7.69% 21
Midlands +59 13 £60,000 -17.24% 10
South East +37 13 £85,000 +38.78% 25
West Midlands +44 11 £60,000 -17.24% 5
South West +15 6 £78,750 +43.18% 14
North East +3 3 £73,801 +6.48% 5
East Midlands +21 2 - - 5
East of England +21 1 £75,000 +20.00% 8
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 8 (4.60%) Apache
2 7 (4.02%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (4.02%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.45%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.45%) WebSphere
3 6 (3.45%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (1.15%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.57%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 157 (90.23%) AWS
2 82 (47.13%) Azure
3 67 (38.51%) Serverless
4 60 (34.48%) AWS Lambda
5 52 (29.89%) Amazon S3
6 50 (28.74%) GCP
7 42 (24.14%) GitHub
8 39 (22.41%) Amazon EC2
9 37 (21.26%) Amazon ECS
10 36 (20.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 32 (18.39%) Amazon EKS
12 30 (17.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 29 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (10.92%) Datadog
15 17 (9.77%) Amazon ECR
15 17 (9.77%) Azure DevOps
16 16 (9.20%) dbt
17 14 (8.05%) Amazon SQS
17 14 (8.05%) Pulumi
18 13 (7.47%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.32%) TCP/IP
2 8 (4.60%) Firewall
3 6 (3.45%) SSL
3 6 (3.45%) VPN
4 5 (2.87%) Network Security
5 4 (2.30%) DNS
6 3 (1.72%) LAN
6 3 (1.72%) WAN
7 2 (1.15%) AMQP
8 1 (0.57%) DHCP
8 1 (0.57%) HTTP
8 1 (0.57%) NAS
8 1 (0.57%) SAN
8 1 (0.57%) SNMP
8 1 (0.57%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.57%) VSAN
8 1 (0.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (20.11%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (13.79%) NoSQL
3 22 (12.64%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (10.92%) DynamoDB
5 16 (9.20%) Amazon Redshift
5 16 (9.20%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (6.90%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (6.90%) Data Lake
7 11 (6.32%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (6.32%) Redis
8 10 (5.75%) SQL Server
9 7 (4.02%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (4.02%) MySQL
10 6 (3.45%) DB2
11 4 (2.30%) Big Data
12 3 (1.72%) Apache Iceberg
12 3 (1.72%) Data Vault
13 2 (1.15%) Cloudera CDH
13 2 (1.15%) Hadoop
13 2 (1.15%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 48 (27.59%) Jenkins
2 36 (20.69%) GitLab
3 12 (6.90%) CircleCI
3 12 (6.90%) Git
4 6 (3.45%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.87%) Cucumber
5 5 (2.87%) git-flow
5 5 (2.87%) JIRA
6 4 (2.30%) Robot Framework
6 4 (2.30%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.30%) Spinnaker
7 2 (1.15%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.15%) JMeter
7 2 (1.15%) Selenium
7 2 (1.15%) TestRail
8 1 (0.57%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.57%) Subversion
8 1 (0.57%) TeamCity
General
1 55 (31.61%) Social Skills
2 40 (22.99%) Finance
3 17 (9.77%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (9.77%) Banking
4 13 (7.47%) Law
5 9 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (5.17%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.60%) Telecoms
7 7 (4.02%) Marketing
8 5 (2.87%) Aerospace
9 4 (2.30%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.72%) Electronics
10 3 (1.72%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.15%) Advertising
11 2 (1.15%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.57%) Military
12 1 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 51 (29.31%) Senior
2 32 (18.39%) AWS Engineer
2 32 (18.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 30 (17.24%) Cloud Engineer
4 23 (13.22%) Platform Engineer
5 15 (8.62%) Data Engineer
5 15 (8.62%) Lead
6 13 (7.47%) AWS DevOps
6 13 (7.47%) Developer
7 12 (6.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 12 (6.90%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 11 (6.32%) Architect
8 11 (6.32%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 11 (6.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 9 (5.17%) Support Engineer
10 8 (4.60%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 8 (4.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (4.60%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 7 (4.02%) Applications Engineer
11 7 (4.02%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (13.22%) Elastic Stack
2 22 (12.64%) AWS CDK
3 16 (9.20%) Kafka
4 13 (7.47%) React
5 11 (6.32%) .NET
5 11 (6.32%) Django
6 9 (5.17%) RabbitMQ
6 9 (5.17%) RESTful
7 8 (4.60%) Spring
7 8 (4.60%) Spring Boot
8 7 (4.02%) ARM Templates
8 7 (4.02%) Material-UI
8 7 (4.02%) Node.js
9 6 (3.45%) LAPP Stack
9 6 (3.45%) LDAP
9 6 (3.45%) WebSphere MQ
10 5 (2.87%) .NET Core
10 5 (2.87%) ASP.NET
10 5 (2.87%) CSS
10 5 (2.87%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 42 (24.14%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.47%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.90%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (6.32%) Product Ownership
5 10 (5.75%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.45%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.87%) Virtual Team
8 4 (2.30%) e-Learning
8 4 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.30%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.15%) Blockchain
10 2 (1.15%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.15%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.15%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.15%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 52 (29.89%) Linux
2 28 (16.09%) Unix
3 21 (12.07%) Windows
4 9 (5.17%) Ubuntu
5 8 (4.60%) Debian
5 8 (4.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.15%) CentOS
6 2 (1.15%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (84.48%) Infrastructure as Code
2 129 (74.14%) CI/CD
3 119 (68.39%) DevOps
4 55 (31.61%) Problem-Solving
5 52 (29.89%) Agile
6 48 (27.59%) Containerisation
7 44 (25.29%) Observability
8 33 (18.97%) Platform Engineering
9 32 (18.39%) Microservices
10 31 (17.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (17.24%) Disaster Recovery
11 30 (17.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 24 (13.79%) AI
12 24 (13.79%) Cloud Security
12 24 (13.79%) Mentoring
13 23 (13.22%) Data Pipeline
14 21 (12.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 21 (12.07%) Software Engineering
15 20 (11.49%) Configuration Management
16 19 (10.92%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 105 (60.34%) Python
2 54 (31.03%) Bash
3 32 (18.39%) SQL
4 29 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 19 (10.92%) Go
6 18 (10.34%) Java
7 15 (8.62%) JavaScript
8 14 (8.05%) TypeScript
9 10 (5.75%) Bicep
10 8 (4.60%) C#
11 2 (1.15%) Groovy
12 1 (0.57%) C++
12 1 (0.57%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 43 (24.71%) AWS Certification
1 43 (24.71%) Security Cleared
2 29 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 23 (13.22%) Degree
4 16 (9.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 16 (9.20%) DV Cleared
5 12 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.45%) AWS Certified Developer
6 6 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (2.87%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.30%) SnowPro
9 2 (1.15%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.32%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.17%) GDPR
3 8 (4.60%) QA
4 7 (4.02%) SLA
5 4 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.30%) NIST
6 1 (0.57%) Basel III
6 1 (0.57%) MiFID
6 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 78 (44.83%) Docker
2 6 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (2.30%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.15%) KVM
4 2 (1.15%) Terminal Server
4 2 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.57%) QEMU
5 1 (0.57%) vCloud
5 1 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 142 (81.61%) Terraform
2 74 (42.53%) Kubernetes
3 51 (29.31%) Ansible
4 42 (24.14%) Grafana
5 34 (19.54%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.45%) Argo
6 6 (3.45%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (2.87%) Kubeflow
7 5 (2.87%) Puppet
8 2 (1.15%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (1.15%) Istio
8 2 (1.15%) linkerd
8 2 (1.15%) Nessus
9 1 (0.57%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.57%) Mesos
9 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.57%) Nagios
9 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.57%) Rancher
Vendors
1 22 (12.64%) Splunk
2 21 (12.07%) Google
3 16 (9.20%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.60%) Red Hat
5 7 (4.02%) IBM
6 4 (2.30%) Databricks
6 4 (2.30%) Foundry
6 4 (2.30%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (2.30%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.72%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.72%) Citrix
7 3 (1.72%) Hitachi
7 3 (1.72%) SaltStack
7 3 (1.72%) SAP
7 3 (1.72%) VMware
8 2 (1.15%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.15%) OneLogin
8 2 (1.15%) Oracle
8 2 (1.15%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.57%) Refinitiv