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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 411 477
Rank change year-on-year +18 +66 -144
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 269 246 319
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.43% 0.60% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.30% 1.60% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 164 182 258
10th Percentile £53,625 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,188 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £83,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +11.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,938 £100,000
90th Percentile £114,250 £138,375 £116,250
UK median annual salary £74,651 £78,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.90% +4.67% -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 20,736 15,356 26,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.24% 37.47% 38.00%
Number of salaries quoted 11,457 9,863 22,327
10th Percentile £29,250 £33,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,264 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.16% +10.02% -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 3 March 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 3 March 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 +8 128 £82,500 -15.82% 54
North of England +16 95 £72,500 +5.94% 30
Yorkshire +25 66 £72,500 - 9
North West -3 25 £74,301 +10.08% 16
Midlands -7 22 £50,000 -26.97% 9
West Midlands +27 15 £50,000 -27.86% 6
South East -28 14 £70,000 +16.67% 19
South West -15 10 £71,250 +29.55% 15
East Midlands -28 7 £75,000 +15.38% 3
North East -21 4 £73,801 +6.37% 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 (5.95%) Apache
2 10 (3.72%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.49%) Tomcat
4 4 (1.49%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.49%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.74%) JBoss
5 2 (0.74%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 253 (94.05%) AWS
2 154 (57.25%) Serverless
3 136 (50.56%) AWS Lambda
4 107 (39.78%) Azure
5 103 (38.29%) Amazon S3
6 81 (30.11%) Amazon ECS
7 73 (27.14%) AWS Step Functions
8 67 (24.91%) GitHub
9 65 (24.16%) GCP
10 63 (23.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 49 (18.22%) Amazon ECR
12 48 (17.84%) GitHub Actions
13 41 (15.24%) Amazon EKS
14 38 (14.13%) Amazon SQS
15 34 (12.64%) Datadog
16 32 (11.90%) Amazon EC2
17 31 (11.52%) Apigee
18 26 (9.67%) Pulumi
19 25 (9.29%) Azure DevOps
20 24 (8.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.58%) TCP/IP
2 13 (4.83%) Firewall
3 12 (4.46%) DSL
3 12 (4.46%) VPN
4 5 (1.86%) AMQP
4 5 (1.86%) Network Security
4 5 (1.86%) Software-Defined Networking
5 4 (1.49%) SSL
6 3 (1.12%) DNS
6 3 (1.12%) SCCP
7 1 (0.37%) 4G
7 1 (0.37%) 5G
7 1 (0.37%) DHCP
7 1 (0.37%) LAN
7 1 (0.37%) VSAN
7 1 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (30.86%) DynamoDB
2 62 (23.05%) NoSQL
3 46 (17.10%) Amazon RDS
4 36 (13.38%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (7.43%) Amazon Athena
6 17 (6.32%) Elasticsearch
7 15 (5.58%) SQL Server
8 14 (5.20%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (5.20%) Redis
9 12 (4.46%) MySQL
10 9 (3.35%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (2.97%) Data Lake
12 7 (2.60%) Big Data
13 6 (2.23%) MongoDB
14 5 (1.86%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (1.86%) Hadoop
15 4 (1.49%) DB2
16 3 (1.12%) Apache Iceberg
16 3 (1.12%) Metadata
17 2 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 104 (38.66%) GitLab
1 104 (38.66%) Jenkins
2 41 (15.24%) Git
3 36 (13.38%) SonarQube
4 32 (11.90%) Maven
5 31 (11.52%) Cypress.io
6 19 (7.06%) CircleCI
7 11 (4.09%) Bitbucket
8 10 (3.72%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.86%) git-flow
9 5 (1.86%) Robot Framework
10 4 (1.49%) JIRA
10 4 (1.49%) Selenium
11 3 (1.12%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.12%) JMeter
12 2 (0.74%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.74%) TestRail
13 1 (0.37%) Gradle
13 1 (0.37%) Subversion
General
1 88 (32.71%) Social Skills
2 51 (18.96%) Finance
3 25 (9.29%) Banking
4 17 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.09%) Aerospace
6 8 (2.97%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.23%) Advertising
7 6 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.86%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.86%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.49%) Billing
9 4 (1.49%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.49%) Law
9 4 (1.49%) Retail
10 3 (1.12%) Aviation
11 2 (0.74%) Electronics
11 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.74%) Marketing
12 1 (0.37%) Back Office
12 1 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (25.65%) Developer
2 55 (20.45%) Cloud Engineer
3 51 (18.96%) Senior
4 38 (14.13%) DevOps Engineer
5 35 (13.01%) AWS Engineer
5 35 (13.01%) Java Developer
6 25 (9.29%) Platform Engineer
7 22 (8.18%) AWS Developer
8 20 (7.43%) Lead
8 20 (7.43%) Senior Developer
9 19 (7.06%) Architect
9 19 (7.06%) Security Engineer
10 18 (6.69%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 16 (5.95%) AWS Architect
12 15 (5.58%) AWS DevOps
12 15 (5.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 13 (4.83%) .NET Developer
14 12 (4.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 12 (4.46%) AWS Security Architect
14 12 (4.46%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (19.70%) AWS CDK
2 49 (18.22%) AngularJS
2 49 (18.22%) Spring Boot
3 34 (12.64%) Node.js
4 32 (11.90%) Kafka
5 31 (11.52%) Gherkin
5 31 (11.52%) Jest
6 30 (11.15%) React
6 30 (11.15%) RESTful
7 26 (9.67%) Spring
8 22 (8.18%) Elastic Stack
9 20 (7.43%) RabbitMQ
10 19 (7.06%) .NET
11 15 (5.58%) gRPC
12 14 (5.20%) Django
12 14 (5.20%) REST
13 13 (4.83%) .NET Core
13 13 (4.83%) ASP.NET
13 13 (4.83%) ASP.NET Core
13 13 (4.83%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 85 (31.60%) Cloud Native
2 22 (8.18%) Security Posture
3 20 (7.43%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.58%) Product Ownership
5 13 (4.83%) Cloud Security Posture
5 13 (4.83%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (4.09%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (4.09%) Public Cloud
7 10 (3.72%) Blockchain
7 10 (3.72%) Web3
8 8 (2.97%) e-Learning
9 5 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.86%) PKI
9 5 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.12%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (1.12%) Cyber Security Posture
12 2 (0.74%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.74%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.37%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 60 (22.30%) Linux
2 27 (10.04%) Unix
3 23 (8.55%) Windows
4 11 (4.09%) Ubuntu
5 9 (3.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.23%) Debian
7 5 (1.86%) CentOS
7 5 (1.86%) VMS
8 1 (0.37%) Android
8 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (76.95%) CI/CD
2 199 (73.98%) Infrastructure as Code
3 192 (71.38%) DevOps
4 117 (43.49%) Agile
5 81 (30.11%) Problem-Solving
6 79 (29.37%) Containerisation
7 65 (24.16%) Microservices
8 54 (20.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 52 (19.33%) DevSecOps
10 51 (18.96%) Cloud Security
11 50 (18.59%) Observability
12 43 (15.99%) Continuous Integration
13 36 (13.38%) Incident Response
13 36 (13.38%) Mentoring
14 34 (12.64%) Root Cause Analysis
14 34 (12.64%) Test Automation
15 33 (12.27%) Platform Engineering
16 32 (11.90%) Software Engineering
17 29 (10.78%) Clean Code
18 28 (10.41%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 121 (44.98%) Python
2 79 (29.37%) Java
3 74 (27.51%) Bash
4 58 (21.56%) TypeScript
5 57 (21.19%) SQL
6 37 (13.75%) Go
7 31 (11.52%) Groovy
8 28 (10.41%) PowerShell
9 21 (7.81%) JavaScript
10 18 (6.69%) Kotlin
11 12 (4.46%) C#
11 12 (4.46%) Rust
12 10 (3.72%) Bicep
13 3 (1.12%) C++
14 2 (0.74%) Google Apps Script
15 1 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 73 (27.14%) AWS Certification
2 59 (21.93%) Security Cleared
3 32 (11.90%) Degree
4 31 (11.52%) SC Cleared
5 23 (8.55%) AWS Certified Developer
5 23 (8.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 23 (8.55%) DV Cleared
6 20 (7.43%) ITIL Certification
7 19 (7.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 13 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (4.83%) OSCP
9 7 (2.60%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 5 (1.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (1.49%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.74%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.74%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.37%) CREST Certified
14 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.43%) NIST
2 13 (4.83%) PCI DSS
3 12 (4.46%) QA
4 11 (4.09%) GDPR
5 7 (2.60%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.60%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.86%) SLA
7 1 (0.37%) Basel III
7 1 (0.37%) MiFID
System Software
1 141 (52.42%) Docker
2 6 (2.23%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.12%) KVM
4 2 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.37%) QEMU
5 1 (0.37%) vCloud
5 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 183 (68.03%) Terraform
2 100 (37.17%) Kubernetes
3 56 (20.82%) Ansible
4 37 (13.75%) Prometheus
5 34 (12.64%) Grafana
6 31 (11.52%) HP Fortify
7 9 (3.35%) AWS Copilot
8 8 (2.97%) Docker Swarm
9 7 (2.60%) Argo
10 6 (2.23%) Istio
10 6 (2.23%) linkerd
10 6 (2.23%) Mesos
10 6 (2.23%) Puppet
11 4 (1.49%) Rancher
12 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.74%) Nessus
14 1 (0.37%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 29 (10.78%) Google
2 14 (5.20%) Microsoft
3 10 (3.72%) Splunk
4 9 (3.35%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.23%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.49%) IBM
6 4 (1.49%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.12%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.12%) LogicMonitor
7 3 (1.12%) Oracle
7 3 (1.12%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.12%) VMware
8 2 (0.74%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.74%) Ping Identity
8 2 (0.74%) SAP
9 1 (0.37%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.37%) Foundry
9 1 (0.37%) Refinitiv