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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 367 491
Rank change year-on-year -29 +124 -151
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 314 268 344
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.41% 0.72% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 1.95% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 184 171 268
10th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £64,563 £63,630 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,588 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £111,750 £122,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £79,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -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 24,527 13,774 29,534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.66% 36.87% 35.82%
Number of salaries quoted 13,046 10,237 24,251
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,690 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +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 20 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 20 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 -4 142 £85,000 -8.11% 38
North of England +27 118 £75,000 +8.09% 30
Yorkshire +17 81 £73,750 -1.67% 10
North West -18 33 £80,000 +14.79% 16
Midlands -27 23 £50,000 -24.60% 5
South East -66 13 £70,000 +16.67% 10
West Midlands -25 12 £50,000 -38.51% 3
South West -42 11 £71,250 -1.72% 18
East Midlands -50 11 £63,750 -1.92% 2
North East -38 4 £73,801 +6.37% 4
East of England -48 2 £82,500 -2.94% 6
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 (5.41%) Apache
2 9 (2.87%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
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
1 292 (92.99%) AWS
2 176 (56.05%) Serverless
3 152 (48.41%) AWS Lambda
4 114 (36.31%) Amazon S3
5 103 (32.80%) Azure
6 95 (30.25%) Amazon ECS
7 86 (27.39%) AWS Step Functions
8 73 (23.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 72 (22.93%) GitHub
10 58 (18.47%) GCP
11 55 (17.52%) Datadog
11 55 (17.52%) GitHub Actions
12 48 (15.29%) Amazon ECR
13 47 (14.97%) Amazon EKS
14 45 (14.33%) Amazon SQS
15 40 (12.74%) Apigee
16 29 (9.24%) Amazon EC2
16 29 (9.24%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 26 (8.28%) OpenShift
18 24 (7.64%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.78%) Firewall
2 14 (4.46%) VPN
3 13 (4.14%) DSL
4 11 (3.50%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.91%) AMQP
5 6 (1.91%) DNS
5 6 (1.91%) Network Security
6 5 (1.59%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.96%) SCCP
8 1 (0.32%) 4G
8 1 (0.32%) 5G
8 1 (0.32%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (34.08%) DynamoDB
2 74 (23.57%) NoSQL
3 45 (14.33%) Amazon RDS
4 28 (8.92%) Amazon Athena
5 27 (8.60%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (5.10%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (3.82%) SQL Server
8 10 (3.18%) MySQL
9 9 (2.87%) Redis
10 7 (2.23%) Big Data
10 7 (2.23%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.91%) Cloudera CDH
11 6 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.91%) Hadoop
12 5 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.59%) Flink
13 4 (1.27%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.27%) Metadata
14 2 (0.64%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.64%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 125 (39.81%) GitLab
2 123 (39.17%) Jenkins
3 50 (15.92%) Git
4 44 (14.01%) Maven
5 42 (13.38%) SonarQube
6 39 (12.42%) Cypress.io
7 23 (7.32%) CircleCI
8 13 (4.14%) Bitbucket
9 12 (3.82%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.91%) JIRA
11 5 (1.59%) Robot Framework
11 5 (1.59%) Selenium
12 4 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (1.27%) JMeter
12 4 (1.27%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.96%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.96%) git-flow
13 3 (0.96%) Gradle
14 2 (0.64%) TestRail
15 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 107 (34.08%) Social Skills
2 58 (18.47%) Finance
3 26 (8.28%) Banking
4 14 (4.46%) Aerospace
5 13 (4.14%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (2.87%) Advertising
6 9 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (2.87%) Public Sector
7 6 (1.91%) Investment Banking
7 6 (1.91%) Retail
7 6 (1.91%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.59%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.27%) Billing
9 4 (1.27%) Law
9 4 (1.27%) Mandarin Language
10 3 (0.96%) Aviation
10 3 (0.96%) Back Office
11 2 (0.64%) Electronics
11 2 (0.64%) Games
11 2 (0.64%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 96 (30.57%) Developer
2 62 (19.75%) Cloud Engineer
3 61 (19.43%) Senior
4 55 (17.52%) Java Developer
5 48 (15.29%) DevOps Engineer
6 31 (9.87%) AWS Engineer
7 27 (8.60%) Senior Developer
8 26 (8.28%) AWS Developer
9 25 (7.96%) Lead
10 22 (7.01%) Security Engineer
11 21 (6.69%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 19 (6.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 18 (5.73%) Architect
13 18 (5.73%) Platform Engineer
14 16 (5.10%) AWS Architect
14 16 (5.10%) AWS DevOps
15 13 (4.14%) .NET Developer
15 13 (4.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 13 (4.14%) AWS Security Architect
15 13 (4.14%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (21.66%) AngularJS
2 65 (20.70%) Spring Boot
3 53 (16.88%) AWS CDK
4 51 (16.24%) Node.js
5 45 (14.33%) Kafka
6 39 (12.42%) Gherkin
6 39 (12.42%) Jest
7 37 (11.78%) RESTful
8 36 (11.46%) Spring
9 35 (11.15%) React
10 22 (7.01%) RabbitMQ
11 20 (6.37%) Elastic Stack
12 19 (6.05%) gRPC
13 17 (5.41%) .NET
13 17 (5.41%) web3js
14 16 (5.10%) REST
15 13 (4.14%) .NET Core
15 13 (4.14%) ASP.NET
15 13 (4.14%) ASP.NET Core
15 13 (4.14%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 90 (28.66%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (7.01%) Security Posture
4 17 (5.41%) Blockchain
4 17 (5.41%) Web3
5 14 (4.46%) Public Cloud
6 13 (4.14%) Cloud Security Posture
6 13 (4.14%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (3.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (3.82%) Product Ownership
8 10 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (2.55%) e-Learning
9 8 (2.55%) PKI
10 6 (1.91%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.59%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
13 3 (0.96%) Cyber Defence
13 3 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.96%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 62 (19.75%) Linux
2 23 (7.32%) Windows
3 15 (4.78%) Ubuntu
4 13 (4.14%) Unix
5 11 (3.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (3.18%) CentOS
7 6 (1.91%) Debian
8 5 (1.59%) VMS
8 5 (1.59%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.96%) Android
9 3 (0.96%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (73.25%) CI/CD
2 228 (72.61%) Infrastructure as Code
3 210 (66.88%) DevOps
4 139 (44.27%) Agile
5 104 (33.12%) Containerisation
6 82 (26.11%) Problem-Solving
7 76 (24.20%) Microservices
8 64 (20.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 63 (20.06%) DevSecOps
10 60 (19.11%) Cloud Security
11 59 (18.79%) Observability
12 58 (18.47%) Mentoring
13 54 (17.20%) Continuous Integration
14 46 (14.65%) Test Automation
15 43 (13.69%) Software Engineering
16 40 (12.74%) Platform Engineering
17 37 (11.78%) High Availability
18 36 (11.46%) Incident Response
18 36 (11.46%) ITIL
18 36 (11.46%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 128 (40.76%) Python
2 114 (36.31%) Java
3 83 (26.43%) TypeScript
4 80 (25.48%) Bash
5 75 (23.89%) SQL
6 44 (14.01%) Go
7 40 (12.74%) Groovy
8 32 (10.19%) Kotlin
9 29 (9.24%) JavaScript
10 24 (7.64%) PowerShell
11 13 (4.14%) C#
11 13 (4.14%) Rust
12 9 (2.87%) Bicep
13 6 (1.91%) C++
14 4 (1.27%) Google Apps Script
15 1 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.32%) PHP
15 1 (0.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 75 (23.89%) AWS Certification
2 72 (22.93%) Security Cleared
3 37 (11.78%) SC Cleared
4 35 (11.15%) Degree
5 27 (8.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 26 (8.28%) AWS Certified Developer
6 26 (8.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 26 (8.28%) DV Cleared
7 23 (7.32%) ITIL Certification
8 16 (5.10%) OSCP
9 14 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.23%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 7 (2.23%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (1.27%) Postgraduate
13 3 (0.96%) CREST Certified
13 3 (0.96%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.64%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.32%) NIST
2 17 (5.41%) PCI DSS
3 13 (4.14%) GDPR
4 10 (3.18%) SOC 2
5 8 (2.55%) QA
6 6 (1.91%) Data Quality
7 5 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.32%) Basel III
8 1 (0.32%) MiFID
8 1 (0.32%) NCSC
System Software
1 166 (52.87%) Docker
2 6 (1.91%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.27%) KVM
3 4 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 215 (68.47%) Terraform
2 127 (40.45%) Kubernetes
3 70 (22.29%) Ansible
4 39 (12.42%) HP Fortify
4 39 (12.42%) Prometheus
5 36 (11.46%) Grafana
6 11 (3.50%) Argo
7 8 (2.55%) Docker Swarm
7 8 (2.55%) Puppet
8 6 (1.91%) Istio
8 6 (1.91%) linkerd
8 6 (1.91%) Mesos
8 6 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (1.59%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (1.59%) Rancher
10 2 (0.64%) Nessus
10 2 (0.64%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.32%) Consul
11 1 (0.32%) Packer
11 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (8.92%) Google
2 15 (4.78%) Microsoft
3 7 (2.23%) Red Hat
4 6 (1.91%) SaltStack
4 6 (1.91%) Splunk
5 5 (1.59%) HubSpot
6 4 (1.27%) Oracle
6 4 (1.27%) VMware
7 3 (0.96%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.96%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.96%) SolarWinds
8 2 (0.64%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (0.64%) Ping Identity
8 2 (0.64%) SAP
9 1 (0.32%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.32%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.32%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.32%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.32%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.32%) TOWER Software