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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 417 544
Rank change year-on-year +38 +127 -203
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 353 207 311
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.54% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.43% 1.58% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 196 112 257
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £53,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,375 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,677 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +0.90% - -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 24,605 13,078 30,050
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.58% 34.15% 34.50%
Number of salaries quoted 14,376 9,204 24,332
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,741 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +29 167 £90,000 +15.02% 40
North of England +50 129 £75,000 +7.14% 23
Yorkshire +29 93 £75,000 +2.04% 10
North West +11 34 £80,000 +12.28% 11
Midlands -3 32 £51,250 -29.31% 6
East Midlands -19 17 £52,500 -27.59% 3
West Midlands -22 15 £50,000 -38.51% 3
South East -50 9 £70,000 +19.15% 10
South West -52 9 £72,500 -14.71% 13
East of England -34 2 £82,500 -2.94%
North East -37 2 £65,576 -5.49% 2
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 15 (4.25%) Apache
2 8 (2.27%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.85%) Confluence
4 3 (0.85%) JBoss
5 1 (0.28%) Drupal
5 1 (0.28%) IIS
5 1 (0.28%) nginx
5 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 337 (95.47%) AWS
2 196 (55.52%) Serverless
3 169 (47.88%) AWS Lambda
4 125 (35.41%) Amazon S3
5 106 (30.03%) Amazon ECS
6 94 (26.63%) AWS Step Functions
7 83 (23.51%) Azure
8 77 (21.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 77 (21.81%) GitHub
9 61 (17.28%) Datadog
10 58 (16.43%) GitHub Actions
11 50 (14.16%) GCP
12 47 (13.31%) Amazon EC2
13 46 (13.03%) Amazon SQS
14 43 (12.18%) Amazon ECR
14 43 (12.18%) Amazon EKS
15 40 (11.33%) Apigee
16 33 (9.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 21 (5.95%) OpenShift
18 20 (5.67%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.68%) DSL
2 12 (3.40%) Firewall
2 12 (3.40%) VPN
3 8 (2.27%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.98%) DNS
5 6 (1.70%) Network Security
6 5 (1.42%) AMQP
7 4 (1.13%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.85%) HTTP
8 3 (0.85%) SCCP
9 2 (0.57%) 4G
9 2 (0.57%) 5G
10 1 (0.28%) MQTT
10 1 (0.28%) PSTN
10 1 (0.28%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (32.58%) DynamoDB
2 82 (23.23%) NoSQL
3 45 (12.75%) Amazon RDS
4 33 (9.35%) Amazon Athena
5 16 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (1.98%) Big Data
8 6 (1.70%) Flink
8 6 (1.70%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.42%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (1.42%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.42%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.13%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.13%) MySQL
10 4 (1.13%) Redis
11 3 (0.85%) Metadata
12 2 (0.57%) Apache Hudi
12 2 (0.57%) Apache Iceberg
12 2 (0.57%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 147 (41.64%) Jenkins
2 139 (39.38%) GitLab
3 59 (16.71%) Git
4 44 (12.46%) Maven
5 40 (11.33%) Cypress.io
6 36 (10.20%) SonarQube
7 27 (7.65%) CircleCI
8 23 (6.52%) Cucumber
9 9 (2.55%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (1.42%) Claude Code
10 5 (1.42%) Gradle
11 4 (1.13%) JIRA
11 4 (1.13%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.85%) Selenium
13 2 (0.57%) JMeter
14 1 (0.28%) Eclipse
14 1 (0.28%) Robot Framework
14 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
14 1 (0.28%) Vagrant
General
1 103 (29.18%) Social Skills
2 70 (19.83%) Finance
3 36 (10.20%) Banking
4 10 (2.83%) Advertising
4 10 (2.83%) Aerospace
4 10 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (2.27%) Financial Institution
7 7 (1.98%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.70%) Public Sector
8 6 (1.70%) Retail
9 4 (1.13%) Billing
9 4 (1.13%) Legal
9 4 (1.13%) Mandarin Language
9 4 (1.13%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.85%) Aviation
10 3 (0.85%) Back Office
10 3 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.85%) Law
11 2 (0.57%) Games
Job Titles
1 110 (31.16%) Developer
2 70 (19.83%) Cloud Engineer
3 68 (19.26%) Java Developer
4 66 (18.70%) Senior
5 58 (16.43%) DevOps Engineer
6 40 (11.33%) AWS Engineer
7 32 (9.07%) Senior Developer
8 30 (8.50%) AWS Developer
9 23 (6.52%) Java Engineer
10 21 (5.95%) Lead
10 21 (5.95%) Security Engineer
11 20 (5.67%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 20 (5.67%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (5.38%) AWS DevOps
13 18 (5.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 18 (5.10%) Software Engineer
14 17 (4.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 17 (4.82%) Full-Stack Developer
15 16 (4.53%) Principal Engineer
15 16 (4.53%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (22.95%) Spring Boot
2 79 (22.38%) AngularJS
3 63 (17.85%) Kafka
4 56 (15.86%) Node.js
5 53 (15.01%) Spring
6 48 (13.60%) AWS CDK
7 41 (11.61%) Gherkin
8 36 (10.20%) Jest
9 35 (9.92%) RESTful
10 31 (8.78%) React
11 23 (6.52%) gRPC
11 23 (6.52%) RabbitMQ
12 21 (5.95%) web3js
13 18 (5.10%) REST
14 16 (4.53%) Next.js
14 16 (4.53%) YAML
15 13 (3.68%) JSON
16 11 (3.12%) Elastic Stack
17 9 (2.55%) Web Services
18 8 (2.27%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 103 (29.18%) Cloud Native
2 34 (9.63%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (7.93%) Public Cloud
4 21 (5.95%) Blockchain
4 21 (5.95%) Security Posture
4 21 (5.95%) Web3
5 19 (5.38%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (5.10%) e-Learning
7 14 (3.97%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (3.68%) Cloud Security Posture
9 12 (3.40%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (2.27%) PKI
10 8 (2.27%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.70%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (1.42%) Management Information System
13 4 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
14 3 (0.85%) Cyber Defence
14 3 (0.85%) Mobile App
14 3 (0.85%) Onboarding
14 3 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 66 (18.70%) Linux
2 17 (4.82%) Windows
3 13 (3.68%) Ubuntu
4 10 (2.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.55%) CentOS
6 5 (1.42%) Debian
6 5 (1.42%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.13%) VMS
8 3 (0.85%) Android
8 3 (0.85%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (71.95%) Infrastructure as Code
2 247 (69.97%) CI/CD
3 209 (59.21%) DevOps
4 134 (37.96%) Agile
5 115 (32.58%) Containerisation
6 82 (23.23%) Microservices
7 73 (20.68%) DevSecOps
8 72 (20.40%) Continuous Improvement
9 65 (18.41%) Mentoring
9 65 (18.41%) Observability
9 65 (18.41%) Software Engineering
10 64 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
11 63 (17.85%) Test Automation
12 61 (17.28%) Continuous Integration
13 60 (17.00%) Cloud Security
14 49 (13.88%) Event-Driven
15 46 (13.03%) Platform Engineering
16 41 (11.61%) High Availability
17 39 (11.05%) Full-Stack Development
17 39 (11.05%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 149 (42.21%) Python
2 136 (38.53%) Java
3 93 (26.35%) TypeScript
4 82 (23.23%) SQL
5 68 (19.26%) Bash
6 52 (14.73%) Groovy
7 47 (13.31%) Go
8 38 (10.76%) Kotlin
9 28 (7.93%) JavaScript
10 26 (7.37%) PowerShell
11 13 (3.68%) C#
11 13 (3.68%) Rust
12 11 (3.12%) Bicep
13 6 (1.70%) C++
14 4 (1.13%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.57%) PHP
16 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.28%) Perl
16 1 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 76 (21.53%) Security Cleared
2 72 (20.40%) AWS Certification
3 47 (13.31%) SC Cleared
4 33 (9.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 32 (9.07%) Degree
6 28 (7.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (6.80%) ITIL Certification
8 18 (5.10%) DV Cleared
9 16 (4.53%) OSCP
10 15 (4.25%) AWS Certified Developer
11 9 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (1.98%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 6 (1.70%) Azure Certification
14 5 (1.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (1.13%) Master's Degree
15 4 (1.13%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.85%) CREST Certified
16 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
17 1 (0.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 1 (0.28%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.95%) NIST
2 16 (4.53%) PCI DSS
3 12 (3.40%) GDPR
4 10 (2.83%) SOC 2
5 7 (1.98%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.85%) QA
8 1 (0.28%) NCSC
8 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 170 (48.16%) Docker
2 5 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.13%) KVM
3 4 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 230 (65.16%) Terraform
2 136 (38.53%) Kubernetes
3 61 (17.28%) Ansible
4 40 (11.33%) Prometheus
5 35 (9.92%) HP Fortify
6 31 (8.78%) Grafana
7 14 (3.97%) Argo
8 11 (3.12%) Progress Chef
9 7 (1.98%) Puppet
10 6 (1.70%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.42%) Istio
11 5 (1.42%) linkerd
11 5 (1.42%) Mesos
12 3 (0.85%) AWS Copilot
12 3 (0.85%) Rancher
13 2 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.28%) Consul
14 1 (0.28%) Packer
Vendors
1 22 (6.23%) Google
2 11 (3.12%) Microsoft
3 7 (1.98%) HubSpot
4 6 (1.70%) Oracle
4 6 (1.70%) Red Hat
5 5 (1.42%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.13%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.13%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.13%) VMware
7 2 (0.57%) Databricks
7 2 (0.57%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (0.57%) SolarWinds
7 2 (0.57%) Splunk
8 1 (0.28%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.28%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.28%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.28%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.28%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.28%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.28%) TOWER Software