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

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 442 471 378
Rank change year-on-year +29 -93 -55
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 171 257 342
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.42% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.08% 1.25% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 126 199 277
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,300
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,875 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +4.14% -9.38%
75th Percentile £87,500 £110,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £124,000 £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 15,882 20,488 20,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.39% 33.82% 43.33%
Number of salaries quoted 10,299 12,536 16,813
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.77% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,548
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £101,237
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -0.53%

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 24 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 24 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 +17 86 £81,500 -18.50% 50
North of England +32 51 £70,000 +9.80% 21
North West +36 26 £62,500 - 15
Yorkshire +27 22 £70,000 +7.69% 3
Midlands +63 13 £60,000 -17.24% 8
South East +24 12 £90,000 +44.00% 29
West Midlands +59 11 £60,000 -17.24% 3
South West +21 7 £70,000 +27.27% 14
North East +11 3 £73,801 +6.48% 3
East Midlands +26 2 - - 5
East of England +31 1 £75,000 +20.00% 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 8 (4.68%) Apache
2 7 (4.09%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (4.09%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.51%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.51%) WebSphere
3 6 (3.51%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (1.17%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.58%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 154 (90.06%) AWS
2 83 (48.54%) Azure
3 66 (38.60%) Serverless
4 59 (34.50%) AWS Lambda
5 51 (29.82%) Amazon S3
6 49 (28.65%) GCP
7 44 (25.73%) GitHub
8 38 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
9 37 (21.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 36 (21.05%) Amazon ECS
11 32 (18.71%) Amazon EKS
12 31 (18.13%) GitHub Actions
13 29 (16.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 19 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
15 18 (10.53%) Datadog
16 17 (9.94%) Amazon ECR
17 16 (9.36%) dbt
18 15 (8.77%) Amazon SQS
19 13 (7.60%) PaaS
19 13 (7.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.43%) TCP/IP
2 7 (4.09%) Firewall
3 6 (3.51%) SSL
4 5 (2.92%) Network Security
4 5 (2.92%) VPN
5 3 (1.75%) DNS
5 3 (1.75%) LAN
5 3 (1.75%) WAN
6 2 (1.17%) AMQP
7 1 (0.58%) DHCP
7 1 (0.58%) HTTP
7 1 (0.58%) NAS
7 1 (0.58%) SAN
7 1 (0.58%) SNMP
7 1 (0.58%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.58%) VSAN
7 1 (0.58%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (20.47%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (14.62%) NoSQL
3 23 (13.45%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (11.11%) DynamoDB
5 16 (9.36%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (8.77%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (7.02%) Data Lake
8 11 (6.43%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (6.43%) Redis
8 11 (6.43%) SQL Server
9 10 (5.85%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (4.09%) MySQL
11 6 (3.51%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (3.51%) DB2
12 4 (2.34%) Big Data
13 3 (1.75%) Apache Iceberg
13 3 (1.75%) Data Vault
14 2 (1.17%) Cloudera CDH
14 2 (1.17%) Metadata
14 2 (1.17%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 48 (28.07%) Jenkins
2 36 (21.05%) GitLab
3 13 (7.60%) Git
4 12 (7.02%) CircleCI
5 5 (2.92%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.92%) Cucumber
5 5 (2.92%) git-flow
5 5 (2.92%) JIRA
6 4 (2.34%) Robot Framework
6 4 (2.34%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.75%) Spinnaker
8 2 (1.17%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.17%) JMeter
8 2 (1.17%) Selenium
8 2 (1.17%) TestRail
9 1 (0.58%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.58%) Subversion
9 1 (0.58%) TeamCity
General
1 53 (30.99%) Social Skills
2 39 (22.81%) Finance
3 17 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (9.94%) Banking
4 12 (7.02%) Law
5 8 (4.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (4.68%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.68%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.51%) Marketing
7 5 (2.92%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.34%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.75%) Electronics
9 3 (1.75%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.17%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.58%) Advertising
11 1 (0.58%) Billing
11 1 (0.58%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.58%) Military
11 1 (0.58%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 48 (28.07%) Senior
2 31 (18.13%) Cloud Engineer
2 31 (18.13%) DevOps Engineer
3 28 (16.37%) AWS Engineer
4 22 (12.87%) Platform Engineer
5 14 (8.19%) Data Engineer
5 14 (8.19%) Developer
5 14 (8.19%) Lead
6 12 (7.02%) AWS DevOps
7 11 (6.43%) Architect
8 10 (5.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 10 (5.85%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 10 (5.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 9 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 9 (5.26%) Support Engineer
10 8 (4.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (4.68%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 7 (4.09%) Applications Engineer
11 7 (4.09%) AWS Developer
11 7 (4.09%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (13.45%) Elastic Stack
2 22 (12.87%) AWS CDK
3 16 (9.36%) Kafka
4 14 (8.19%) React
5 12 (7.02%) .NET
6 11 (6.43%) Django
7 10 (5.85%) RESTful
8 9 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (4.68%) Node.js
9 8 (4.68%) Spring
9 8 (4.68%) Spring Boot
10 7 (4.09%) ARM Templates
10 7 (4.09%) Material-UI
11 6 (3.51%) .NET Core
11 6 (3.51%) ASP.NET
11 6 (3.51%) LAPP Stack
11 6 (3.51%) LDAP
11 6 (3.51%) WebSphere MQ
12 5 (2.92%) CSS
12 5 (2.92%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 43 (25.15%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.60%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (7.02%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (6.43%) Product Ownership
5 10 (5.85%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.51%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.92%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.34%) e-Learning
8 4 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.34%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.17%) Blockchain
10 2 (1.17%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.17%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.17%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.17%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 52 (30.41%) Linux
2 28 (16.37%) Unix
3 21 (12.28%) Windows
4 9 (5.26%) Ubuntu
5 8 (4.68%) Debian
5 8 (4.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.17%) CentOS
6 2 (1.17%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.58%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (84.21%) Infrastructure as Code
2 128 (74.85%) CI/CD
3 117 (68.42%) DevOps
4 53 (30.99%) Agile
5 52 (30.41%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (26.90%) Containerisation
7 43 (25.15%) Observability
8 33 (19.30%) Microservices
9 31 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (18.13%) Platform Engineering
10 29 (16.96%) Disaster Recovery
10 29 (16.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 26 (15.20%) Cloud Security
12 23 (13.45%) AI
13 22 (12.87%) Data Pipeline
13 22 (12.87%) Mentoring
14 21 (12.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 20 (11.70%) Configuration Management
15 20 (11.70%) Root Cause Analysis
16 19 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 100 (58.48%) Python
2 52 (30.41%) Bash
3 33 (19.30%) SQL
4 29 (16.96%) PowerShell
5 18 (10.53%) Go
5 18 (10.53%) Java
6 15 (8.77%) JavaScript
7 14 (8.19%) TypeScript
8 10 (5.85%) Bicep
9 8 (4.68%) C#
10 2 (1.17%) Groovy
11 1 (0.58%) C++
11 1 (0.58%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.58%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.58%) PHP
Qualifications
1 44 (25.73%) AWS Certification
2 42 (24.56%) Security Cleared
3 27 (15.79%) SC Cleared
4 22 (12.87%) Degree
5 16 (9.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (9.36%) DV Cleared
6 11 (6.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (4.09%) AWS Certified Developer
8 6 (3.51%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (2.92%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (2.34%) SnowPro
11 2 (1.17%) ISTQB
11 2 (1.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.43%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.26%) GDPR
3 8 (4.68%) QA
4 7 (4.09%) SLA
5 4 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.34%) NIST
6 1 (0.58%) Basel III
6 1 (0.58%) MiFID
6 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.58%) SOC 2
System Software
1 77 (45.03%) Docker
2 6 (3.51%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (2.34%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.17%) KVM
4 2 (1.17%) Terminal Server
4 2 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.58%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.58%) QEMU
5 1 (0.58%) vCloud
5 1 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.58%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 140 (81.87%) Terraform
2 72 (42.11%) Kubernetes
3 49 (28.65%) Ansible
4 39 (22.81%) Grafana
5 33 (19.30%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.51%) Argo
6 6 (3.51%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (2.92%) Kubeflow
7 5 (2.92%) Puppet
8 2 (1.17%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (1.17%) Istio
8 2 (1.17%) linkerd
8 2 (1.17%) Nessus
9 1 (0.58%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.58%) Mesos
9 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.58%) Nagios
9 1 (0.58%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.58%) Rancher
Vendors
1 21 (12.28%) Google
1 21 (12.28%) Splunk
2 16 (9.36%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.68%) Red Hat
4 7 (4.09%) IBM
5 4 (2.34%) Databricks
5 4 (2.34%) Foundry
5 4 (2.34%) LogicMonitor
5 4 (2.34%) SolarWinds
6 3 (1.75%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.75%) Citrix
6 3 (1.75%) SaltStack
6 3 (1.75%) SAP
6 3 (1.75%) VMware
7 2 (1.17%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.17%) Hitachi
7 2 (1.17%) OneLogin
7 2 (1.17%) Oracle
7 2 (1.17%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.58%) Refinitiv