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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 378 503
Rank change year-on-year -18 +125 -162
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 311 260 346
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 0.69% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.25% 1.89% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 177 162 269
10th Percentile £53,750 £57,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,250 £63,630 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £114,375 £100,000
90th Percentile £117,000 £122,375 £113,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £79,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.90% +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 24,814 13,784 29,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.54% 36.63% 35.69%
Number of salaries quoted 13,107 10,237 24,272
10th Percentile £30,625 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -18 141 £85,000 -8.11% 25
North of England +34 119 £75,000 +8.09% 20
Yorkshire +18 86 £75,000 - 8
North West -30 31 £80,000 +14.79% 10
Midlands -35 23 £50,000 -26.06% 3
East Midlands -54 12 £63,750 -1.92% 2
West Midlands -21 11 £50,000 -38.51% 1
South West -51 11 £71,250 -1.72% 9
South East -66 10 £70,000 +16.67% 13
North East -45 2 £65,576 -5.49% 2
East of England -46 2 £82,500 -2.94% 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 17 (5.47%) Apache
2 9 (2.89%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.96%) JBoss
5 2 (0.64%) Confluence
6 1 (0.32%) Drupal
6 1 (0.32%) IIS
6 1 (0.32%) nginx
6 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 291 (93.57%) AWS
2 176 (56.59%) Serverless
3 151 (48.55%) AWS Lambda
4 114 (36.66%) Amazon S3
5 90 (28.94%) Amazon ECS
5 90 (28.94%) Azure
6 88 (28.30%) AWS Step Functions
7 73 (23.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 72 (23.15%) GitHub
9 56 (18.01%) GitHub Actions
10 54 (17.36%) Datadog
11 49 (15.76%) GCP
12 45 (14.47%) Amazon EKS
12 45 (14.47%) Amazon SQS
13 44 (14.15%) Amazon ECR
14 41 (13.18%) Apigee
15 31 (9.97%) Amazon EC2
16 27 (8.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 23 (7.40%) OpenShift
18 22 (7.07%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.82%) Firewall
2 13 (4.18%) DSL
2 13 (4.18%) VPN
3 7 (2.25%) DNS
3 7 (2.25%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.93%) Network Security
5 5 (1.61%) AMQP
5 5 (1.61%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.96%) SCCP
7 2 (0.64%) 4G
7 2 (0.64%) 5G
7 2 (0.64%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (34.73%) DynamoDB
2 76 (24.44%) NoSQL
3 40 (12.86%) Amazon RDS
4 27 (8.68%) Amazon Athena
5 22 (7.07%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (3.86%) SQL Server
7 11 (3.54%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (2.57%) MySQL
9 6 (1.93%) Big Data
9 6 (1.93%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.61%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (1.61%) Flink
10 5 (1.61%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.29%) Redis
12 3 (0.96%) Apache Iceberg
12 3 (0.96%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.96%) Metadata
13 2 (0.64%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 127 (40.84%) GitLab
1 127 (40.84%) Jenkins
2 52 (16.72%) Git
3 46 (14.79%) Maven
4 42 (13.50%) SonarQube
5 40 (12.86%) Cypress.io
6 24 (7.72%) CircleCI
7 14 (4.50%) Cucumber
8 12 (3.86%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.61%) JIRA
10 4 (1.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (1.29%) Gradle
10 4 (1.29%) Selenium
11 3 (0.96%) JMeter
11 3 (0.96%) Robot Framework
11 3 (0.96%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.64%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.64%) git-flow
13 1 (0.32%) Subversion
13 1 (0.32%) Vagrant
General
1 102 (32.80%) Social Skills
2 59 (18.97%) Finance
3 28 (9.00%) Banking
4 12 (3.86%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.54%) Aerospace
6 9 (2.89%) Advertising
7 8 (2.57%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.93%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.93%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.93%) Retail
9 6 (1.93%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.61%) Billing
11 4 (1.29%) Law
11 4 (1.29%) Mandarin Language
12 3 (0.96%) Aviation
12 3 (0.96%) Back Office
13 2 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.64%) Electronics
13 2 (0.64%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 99 (31.83%) Developer
2 62 (19.94%) Cloud Engineer
3 58 (18.65%) Senior
4 57 (18.33%) Java Developer
5 49 (15.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 32 (10.29%) AWS Engineer
7 28 (9.00%) Senior Developer
8 27 (8.68%) AWS Developer
9 24 (7.72%) Lead
10 22 (7.07%) Security Engineer
11 21 (6.75%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 19 (6.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 18 (5.79%) Platform Engineer
14 16 (5.14%) Architect
14 16 (5.14%) AWS DevOps
15 14 (4.50%) AWS Architect
15 14 (4.50%) Java Engineer
16 13 (4.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 13 (4.18%) Full-Stack Developer
16 13 (4.18%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (22.19%) AngularJS
2 68 (21.86%) Spring Boot
3 53 (17.04%) AWS CDK
4 49 (15.76%) Node.js
5 48 (15.43%) Kafka
6 40 (12.86%) Gherkin
6 40 (12.86%) Jest
7 39 (12.54%) RESTful
8 38 (12.22%) Spring
9 36 (11.58%) React
10 21 (6.75%) RabbitMQ
11 19 (6.11%) gRPC
12 18 (5.79%) web3js
13 17 (5.47%) Elastic Stack
14 16 (5.14%) .NET
15 15 (4.82%) REST
16 14 (4.50%) Next.js
17 13 (4.18%) .NET Core
17 13 (4.18%) ASP.NET Core
17 13 (4.18%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 89 (28.62%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.07%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (7.07%) Security Posture
3 18 (5.79%) Blockchain
3 18 (5.79%) Web3
4 17 (5.47%) Public Cloud
5 14 (4.50%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (4.18%) Cloud Security Posture
7 12 (3.86%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (3.54%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (3.22%) e-Learning
9 10 (3.22%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.25%) PKI
11 6 (1.93%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (1.61%) Management Information System
13 4 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (0.96%) Cyber Defence
14 3 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (0.96%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 58 (18.65%) Linux
2 20 (6.43%) Windows
3 14 (4.50%) Ubuntu
4 10 (3.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.89%) CentOS
6 7 (2.25%) Unix
7 5 (1.61%) Debian
7 5 (1.61%) VMS
7 5 (1.61%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.96%) Android
8 3 (0.96%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (73.31%) CI/CD
2 222 (71.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 203 (65.27%) DevOps
4 136 (43.73%) Agile
5 106 (34.08%) Containerisation
6 78 (25.08%) Microservices
7 77 (24.76%) Problem-Solving
8 63 (20.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 63 (20.26%) DevSecOps
9 59 (18.97%) Cloud Security
10 58 (18.65%) Mentoring
11 54 (17.36%) Continuous Integration
12 53 (17.04%) Observability
13 49 (15.76%) Test Automation
14 47 (15.11%) Software Engineering
15 40 (12.86%) Platform Engineering
16 39 (12.54%) High Availability
17 37 (11.90%) Secure Coding
18 36 (11.58%) ITIL
19 35 (11.25%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 124 (39.87%) Python
2 116 (37.30%) Java
3 85 (27.33%) TypeScript
4 78 (25.08%) SQL
5 77 (24.76%) Bash
6 46 (14.79%) Go
7 45 (14.47%) Groovy
8 31 (9.97%) Kotlin
9 27 (8.68%) JavaScript
10 21 (6.75%) PowerShell
11 13 (4.18%) Rust
12 12 (3.86%) C#
13 8 (2.57%) Bicep
14 5 (1.61%) C++
15 3 (0.96%) Google Apps Script
16 1 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.32%) Perl
16 1 (0.32%) PHP
16 1 (0.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 74 (23.79%) AWS Certification
2 65 (20.90%) Security Cleared
3 33 (10.61%) Degree
3 33 (10.61%) SC Cleared
4 28 (9.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 26 (8.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 25 (8.04%) AWS Certified Developer
7 24 (7.72%) ITIL Certification
8 22 (7.07%) DV Cleared
9 16 (5.14%) OSCP
10 12 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (2.25%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 6 (1.93%) Azure Certification
13 5 (1.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (1.29%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.96%) CREST Certified
15 3 (0.96%) Master's Degree
15 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
16 1 (0.32%) CISM
16 1 (0.32%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.75%) NIST
2 16 (5.14%) PCI DSS
3 13 (4.18%) GDPR
4 10 (3.22%) SOC 2
5 7 (2.25%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.93%) QA
7 4 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.32%) Basel III
8 1 (0.32%) MiFID
8 1 (0.32%) NCSC
System Software
1 163 (52.41%) Docker
2 6 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.96%) KVM
3 3 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 208 (66.88%) Terraform
2 125 (40.19%) Kubernetes
3 68 (21.86%) Ansible
4 40 (12.86%) HP Fortify
5 37 (11.90%) Prometheus
6 32 (10.29%) Grafana
7 11 (3.54%) Argo
8 8 (2.57%) Docker Swarm
9 7 (2.25%) Puppet
10 6 (1.93%) Istio
10 6 (1.93%) linkerd
10 6 (1.93%) Mesos
10 6 (1.93%) Progress Chef
11 5 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.61%) Rancher
12 3 (0.96%) AWS Copilot
13 2 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.32%) Consul
14 1 (0.32%) Nessus
14 1 (0.32%) Packer
Vendors
1 21 (6.75%) Google
2 12 (3.86%) Microsoft
3 6 (1.93%) Red Hat
4 5 (1.61%) HubSpot
4 5 (1.61%) SaltStack
5 4 (1.29%) Splunk
6 3 (0.96%) Oracle
6 3 (0.96%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.96%) SolarWinds
6 3 (0.96%) VMware
7 2 (0.64%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.64%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (0.64%) Ping Identity
7 2 (0.64%) SAP
8 1 (0.32%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.32%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.32%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.32%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.32%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.32%) TOWER Software