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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 450 560
Rank change year-on-year +92 +110 -201
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 463 205 212
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.49% 0.47% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.87% 1.42% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 226 115 163
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £50,101
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -9.38%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £94,375
90th Percentile £107,125 £100,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -6.45%

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 24,737 14,435 22,875
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.02% 32.95% 31.69%
Number of salaries quoted 16,878 10,208 16,866
10th Percentile £31,425 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,213
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%

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 August 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 August 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 +66 229 £90,000 +12.50% 107
North of England +74 152 £72,500 +3.57% 44
Yorkshire +45 92 £75,000 +7.14% 10
North West +24 47 £72,500 +9.33% 22
South West -41 30 £67,500 -25.00% 24
Midlands -18 24 £62,250 -4.23% 15
South East -30 19 £70,000 -18.84% 18
East Midlands -8 16 £52,500 - 7
North East -48 13 £48,500 -30.10% 12
West Midlands -24 8 £68,496 +5.38% 8
East of England -43 2 £82,500 +10.00% 5
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 16 (3.46%) Apache
2 9 (1.94%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.94%) Confluence
3 6 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.65%) nginx
6 2 (0.43%) JBoss
7 1 (0.22%) Drupal
7 1 (0.22%) IIS
7 1 (0.22%) SAS
7 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.86%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.43%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 3 (0.65%) Summit
2 1 (0.22%) Magento
2 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 444 (95.90%) AWS
2 237 (51.19%) Serverless
3 178 (38.44%) AWS Lambda
4 137 (29.59%) Amazon ECS
5 130 (28.08%) Amazon S3
6 112 (24.19%) Azure
7 96 (20.73%) GitHub
8 81 (17.49%) GCP
9 78 (16.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 73 (15.77%) AWS Step Functions
11 69 (14.90%) Amazon EC2
12 66 (14.25%) Amazon EKS
12 66 (14.25%) GitHub Actions
13 53 (11.45%) Datadog
14 51 (11.02%) Cloud Computing
15 36 (7.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 36 (7.78%) Amazon SQS
16 32 (6.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 29 (6.26%) OpenShift
18 27 (5.83%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.32%) Network Security
2 15 (3.24%) TCP/IP
3 13 (2.81%) VPN
4 11 (2.38%) DNS
4 11 (2.38%) Firewall
5 6 (1.30%) HTTP
6 5 (1.08%) AMQP
6 5 (1.08%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (0.86%) DSL
8 2 (0.43%) MQTT
9 1 (0.22%) 4G
9 1 (0.22%) 5G
9 1 (0.22%) DHCP
9 1 (0.22%) DNSSEC
9 1 (0.22%) Internet
9 1 (0.22%) PSTN
9 1 (0.22%) SCCP
9 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (20.09%) DynamoDB
2 81 (17.49%) NoSQL
3 50 (10.80%) Amazon RDS
4 35 (7.56%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.16%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (1.73%) Big Data
7 8 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.51%) Flink
8 7 (1.51%) Hadoop
8 7 (1.51%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.30%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.30%) Metadata
9 6 (1.30%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.08%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (1.08%) MySQL
11 3 (0.65%) Power BI
11 3 (0.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 125 (27.00%) Jenkins
2 120 (25.92%) GitLab
3 64 (13.82%) Git
4 36 (7.78%) Cucumber
5 28 (6.05%) Cypress.io
5 28 (6.05%) Maven
6 25 (5.40%) SonarQube
7 16 (3.46%) CircleCI
8 12 (2.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 12 (2.59%) JIRA
9 11 (2.38%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.51%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.30%) TeamCity
12 5 (1.08%) Selenium
12 5 (1.08%) Snyk
13 4 (0.86%) Gradle
14 3 (0.65%) git-flow
14 3 (0.65%) JUnit
14 3 (0.65%) NUnit
14 3 (0.65%) Postman
General
1 121 (26.13%) Social Skills
2 120 (25.92%) Finance
3 39 (8.42%) Banking
4 38 (8.21%) Public Sector
5 20 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (3.24%) Financial Institution
6 15 (3.24%) Law
7 13 (2.81%) Legal
8 12 (2.59%) Aerospace
9 9 (1.94%) Military
10 8 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.08%) Retail
12 4 (0.86%) Advertising
12 4 (0.86%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.86%) Local Government
12 4 (0.86%) Mandarin Language
12 4 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.86%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.65%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 120 (25.92%) Senior
2 96 (20.73%) Developer
3 90 (19.44%) Cloud Engineer
4 74 (15.98%) DevOps Engineer
5 60 (12.96%) Java Developer
6 52 (11.23%) AWS Engineer
7 39 (8.42%) Consultant
7 39 (8.42%) Java Engineer
8 35 (7.56%) Lead
9 32 (6.91%) Senior Consultant
10 26 (5.62%) AWS Developer
11 25 (5.40%) Full-Stack Developer
11 25 (5.40%) Software Engineer
12 24 (5.18%) Architect
12 24 (5.18%) Platform Engineer
13 23 (4.97%) Senior Developer
14 21 (4.54%) Cloud Native Engineer
15 20 (4.32%) Principal Engineer
16 19 (4.10%) AWS DevOps
16 19 (4.10%) Professional Services Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (19.87%) Spring Boot
2 76 (16.41%) AngularJS
2 76 (16.41%) Spring
3 71 (15.33%) Kafka
3 71 (15.33%) Node.js
4 51 (11.02%) AWS CDK
5 37 (7.99%) React
6 31 (6.70%) RESTful
7 29 (6.26%) Gherkin
8 23 (4.97%) Jest
8 23 (4.97%) REST
9 22 (4.75%) Web Services
10 19 (4.10%) RabbitMQ
11 17 (3.67%) gRPC
12 15 (3.24%) YAML
13 14 (3.02%) Elastic Stack
13 14 (3.02%) Next.js
14 13 (2.81%) JSON
14 13 (2.81%) web3js
15 10 (2.16%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 157 (33.91%) Cloud Native
2 59 (12.74%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (10.80%) Onboarding
4 46 (9.94%) Public Cloud
5 41 (8.86%) Enterprise Cloud
6 32 (6.91%) e-Learning
7 26 (5.62%) Hybrid Cloud
8 22 (4.75%) Data Centre
9 21 (4.54%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (3.02%) Linux Command Line
12 13 (2.81%) Blockchain
12 13 (2.81%) Distributed Computing
12 13 (2.81%) Mainframe
12 13 (2.81%) Web3
13 11 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (2.16%) Blog
14 10 (2.16%) Security Posture
15 7 (1.51%) Cloud Security Posture
15 7 (1.51%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 76 (16.41%) Linux
2 22 (4.75%) Windows
3 11 (2.38%) Ubuntu
4 10 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (1.94%) CentOS
6 7 (1.51%) Unix
6 7 (1.51%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.08%) Debian
8 2 (0.43%) Android
8 2 (0.43%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (71.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 298 (64.36%) CI/CD
3 247 (53.35%) DevOps
4 185 (39.96%) Agile
5 143 (30.89%) Containerisation
6 107 (23.11%) Mentoring
7 104 (22.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 94 (20.30%) Microservices
8 94 (20.30%) Test Automation
9 93 (20.09%) Software Engineering
10 87 (18.79%) Observability
11 86 (18.57%) Cloud Security
12 83 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
13 70 (15.12%) Event-Driven
14 65 (14.04%) Migration
15 58 (12.53%) Platform Engineering
16 57 (12.31%) Collaborative Culture
17 56 (12.10%) AI
18 53 (11.45%) DevSecOps
19 52 (11.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 209 (45.14%) Python
2 159 (34.34%) Java
3 97 (20.95%) SQL
4 86 (18.57%) Bash
5 80 (17.28%) TypeScript
6 48 (10.37%) Groovy
7 41 (8.86%) Go
8 39 (8.42%) Kotlin
9 30 (6.48%) JavaScript
9 30 (6.48%) PowerShell
10 18 (3.89%) Bicep
10 18 (3.89%) Ruby
11 16 (3.46%) PHP
12 15 (3.24%) C#
12 15 (3.24%) Perl
13 6 (1.30%) C++
14 5 (1.08%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (0.86%) Rust
16 2 (0.43%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.22%) Korn
Qualifications
1 151 (32.61%) Security Cleared
2 112 (24.19%) AWS Certification
3 91 (19.65%) SC Cleared
4 67 (14.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 41 (8.86%) Degree
6 31 (6.70%) DV Cleared
7 21 (4.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 17 (3.67%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (2.59%) Master's Degree
11 10 (2.16%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (1.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (1.30%) OSCP
14 5 (1.08%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.86%) OCP
15 4 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
15 4 (0.86%) Postgraduate
15 4 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
16 2 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
16 2 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.91%) GDPR
2 16 (3.46%) NIST
2 16 (3.46%) PCI DSS
3 9 (1.94%) Data Quality
3 9 (1.94%) SOC 2
4 5 (1.08%) HIPAA
4 5 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.86%) NCSC
6 3 (0.65%) QA
7 2 (0.43%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.43%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 192 (41.47%) Docker
2 6 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.08%) KVM
3 5 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 323 (69.76%) Terraform
2 178 (38.44%) Kubernetes
3 93 (20.09%) Ansible
4 46 (9.94%) Progress Chef
5 42 (9.07%) Grafana
6 37 (7.99%) Prometheus
7 34 (7.34%) Puppet
8 20 (4.32%) HP Fortify
9 19 (4.10%) Argo
10 6 (1.30%) Istio
10 6 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.08%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.86%) linkerd
12 4 (0.86%) Mesos
13 2 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.43%) Rancher
14 1 (0.22%) Consul
14 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
14 1 (0.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 32 (6.91%) Google
2 17 (3.67%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.59%) Oracle
3 12 (2.59%) Red Hat
4 9 (1.94%) OpenAI
5 7 (1.51%) HubSpot
6 6 (1.30%) Databricks
6 6 (1.30%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.30%) Splunk
6 6 (1.30%) VMware
7 5 (1.08%) SaltStack
8 4 (0.86%) Avaya
8 4 (0.86%) Cisco
8 4 (0.86%) Genesys
9 3 (0.65%) AppDynamics
9 3 (0.65%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.43%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.43%) Informatica
11 1 (0.22%) Infoblox
11 1 (0.22%) TOWER Software