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

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 432 525 379
Rank change year-on-year +93 -146 -72
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 195 208 379
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 0.33% 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.41% 1.02% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 116 155 329
10th Percentile £52,000 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,625 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,625 £118,750 £112,750
UK median annual salary £73,801 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +1.79% -3.33% -6.25%

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 13,873 20,486 21,763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.55% 32.83% 43.02%
Number of salaries quoted 9,672 12,558 18,198
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.00% -3.10%
75th Percentile £80,000 £84,964 £82,548
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £101,250
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 18 October 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 18 October 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 +61 91 £81,500 -11.89% 58
North of England +10 43 £70,000 +12.00% 41
South East +49 25 £87,500 +40.00% 41
North West +4 23 £60,000 - 33
Yorkshire +25 19 £70,000 +7.69% 5
East of England +26 16 £75,000 +20.00% 4
Midlands +29 12 £60,000 -17.24% 11
West Midlands +46 10 £60,000 -17.24% 11
South West +32 5 £90,000 +60.00% 10
East Midlands +5 2 - - 1
North East +4 1 £73,801 +6.48% 3
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 6 (3.08%) Apache Spark
1 6 (3.08%) Tomcat
1 6 (3.08%) WebSphere
1 6 (3.08%) WebSphere Application Server
2 5 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.05%) Apache
4 3 (1.54%) Confluence
5 2 (1.03%) nginx
5 2 (1.03%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 183 (93.85%) AWS
2 98 (50.26%) Azure
3 67 (34.36%) Amazon EKS
4 63 (32.31%) Serverless
5 57 (29.23%) AWS Lambda
6 51 (26.15%) Amazon S3
7 46 (23.59%) Amazon EC2
8 38 (19.49%) GCP
9 37 (18.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 34 (17.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 33 (16.92%) GitHub
12 32 (16.41%) Amazon ECS
13 20 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (8.72%) Datadog
15 16 (8.21%) Route 53
16 14 (7.18%) AWS Step Functions
17 12 (6.15%) Amazon ECR
18 11 (5.64%) Pulumi
19 9 (4.62%) Amazon GuardDuty
19 9 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.62%) Firewall
2 6 (3.08%) DNS
2 6 (3.08%) Network Security
2 6 (3.08%) SSL
2 6 (3.08%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.56%) VPN
4 3 (1.54%) LAN
4 3 (1.54%) WAN
5 2 (1.03%) NAS
5 2 (1.03%) SAN
5 2 (1.03%) SNMP
5 2 (1.03%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.51%) DHCP
6 1 (0.51%) HTTP
6 1 (0.51%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (23.59%) Elasticsearch
2 33 (16.92%) Amazon RDS
3 18 (9.23%) Amazon Redshift
3 18 (9.23%) NoSQL
4 16 (8.21%) DynamoDB
5 14 (7.18%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (5.13%) Data Lake
9 6 (3.08%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (3.08%) DB2
9 6 (3.08%) Redis
9 6 (3.08%) SQL Server
10 4 (2.05%) Big Data
10 4 (2.05%) MySQL
11 2 (1.03%) Apache Iceberg
11 2 (1.03%) Data Vault
12 1 (0.51%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.51%) Redshift Spectrum
12 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 43 (22.05%) Jenkins
2 33 (16.92%) GitLab
3 15 (7.69%) CircleCI
4 8 (4.10%) Git
5 6 (3.08%) JIRA
6 4 (2.05%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.05%) Spinnaker
7 3 (1.54%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.54%) git-flow
8 2 (1.03%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.51%) Artifactory
General
1 51 (26.15%) Analytical Skills
2 47 (24.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 41 (21.03%) Social Skills
4 39 (20.00%) Finance
5 16 (8.21%) Banking
6 12 (6.15%) Law
7 8 (4.10%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.56%) Advertising
8 5 (2.56%) Marketing
9 4 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.54%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.54%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.03%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.51%) Electronics
12 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 51 (26.15%) Developer
2 50 (25.64%) Senior
3 39 (20.00%) Software Developer
4 37 (18.97%) AWS Engineer
5 31 (15.90%) DevOps Engineer
6 26 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
7 22 (11.28%) Platform Engineer
8 15 (7.69%) Data Engineer
8 15 (7.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 13 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
9 13 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 12 (6.15%) Lead
11 11 (5.64%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 11 (5.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 10 (5.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 10 (5.13%) Support Engineer
13 8 (4.10%) Applications Engineer
14 7 (3.59%) Applications Support
14 7 (3.59%) Applications Support Engineer
14 7 (3.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (22.56%) .NET
1 44 (22.56%) Pandas
2 42 (21.54%) Node.js
3 19 (9.74%) AWS CDK
4 18 (9.23%) Elastic Stack
5 17 (8.72%) Kafka
6 7 (3.59%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (3.59%) RESTful
7 6 (3.08%) Django
7 6 (3.08%) LAPP Stack
7 6 (3.08%) LDAP
7 6 (3.08%) WebSphere MQ
8 5 (2.56%) Loki
8 5 (2.56%) Spring
8 5 (2.56%) Spring Boot
9 4 (2.05%) gRPC
9 4 (2.05%) React
9 4 (2.05%) REST
9 4 (2.05%) Web Services
9 4 (2.05%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 40 (20.51%) Cyberattack
2 34 (17.44%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.13%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (4.62%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.62%) Public Cloud
5 8 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.08%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.56%) Virtual Team
8 4 (2.05%) Blockchain
8 4 (2.05%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.05%) Web3
9 3 (1.54%) CMDB
9 3 (1.54%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.03%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.03%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 79 (40.51%) Linux
2 39 (20.00%) Android
3 20 (10.26%) Unix
4 13 (6.67%) Windows
5 7 (3.59%) Debian
5 7 (3.59%) Ubuntu
6 6 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (76.92%) CI/CD
2 128 (65.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 103 (52.82%) DevOps
4 81 (41.54%) Containerisation
5 77 (39.49%) Agile
6 61 (31.28%) Software Engineering
7 46 (23.59%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (21.54%) Collaborative Working
8 42 (21.54%) Kanban
8 42 (21.54%) Secure Coding
9 40 (20.51%) Line Management
9 40 (20.51%) Mathematics
9 40 (20.51%) Observability
10 39 (20.00%) Android Development
10 39 (20.00%) Design Patterns
10 39 (20.00%) OO
10 39 (20.00%) OOP
10 39 (20.00%) OWASP
10 39 (20.00%) Statistics
11 32 (16.41%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 137 (70.26%) Python
2 63 (32.31%) Go
3 55 (28.21%) Java
3 55 (28.21%) JavaScript
4 51 (26.15%) Bash
5 39 (20.00%) C++
5 39 (20.00%) Rust
6 27 (13.85%) SQL
7 23 (11.79%) PowerShell
8 11 (5.64%) TypeScript
9 8 (4.10%) Bicep
10 5 (2.56%) C#
11 2 (1.03%) Groovy
12 1 (0.51%) PHP
12 1 (0.51%) Scala
Qualifications
1 67 (34.36%) Security Cleared
2 45 (23.08%) DV Cleared
3 34 (17.44%) AWS Certification
4 21 (10.77%) SC Cleared
5 19 (9.74%) Degree
6 12 (6.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.08%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (2.05%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.03%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.51%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.64%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.62%) GDPR
3 8 (4.10%) QA
3 8 (4.10%) SLA
4 3 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.03%) NIST
6 1 (0.51%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 100 (51.28%) Docker
2 6 (3.08%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.54%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.03%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.03%) Terminal Server
4 2 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.51%) KVM
5 1 (0.51%) QEMU
5 1 (0.51%) vCloud
5 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.51%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 160 (82.05%) Terraform
2 102 (52.31%) Kubernetes
3 82 (42.05%) Ansible
4 41 (21.03%) Grafana
5 32 (16.41%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.56%) Kubeflow
7 4 (2.05%) Argo
7 4 (2.05%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (1.03%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.03%) Istio
8 2 (1.03%) linkerd
8 2 (1.03%) Puppet
9 1 (0.51%) Kibana
9 1 (0.51%) logstash
9 1 (0.51%) Nagios
9 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 20 (10.26%) Splunk
2 14 (7.18%) Google
2 14 (7.18%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.59%) IBM
4 6 (3.08%) Red Hat
5 5 (2.56%) Databricks
5 5 (2.56%) Hitachi
6 4 (2.05%) Foundry
6 4 (2.05%) LogicMonitor
7 3 (1.54%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.54%) Citrix
7 3 (1.54%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.54%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.54%) VMware
8 2 (1.03%) F5
8 2 (1.03%) OneLogin
8 2 (1.03%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.51%) Qualys
9 1 (0.51%) SaltStack
9 1 (0.51%) Talend