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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 441 563
Rank change year-on-year +72 +122 -197
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 392 216 307
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 0.52% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.67% 1.56% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 207 118 253
10th Percentile £54,500 £52,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,625 £112,500
UK median annual salary £79,160 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.55% - -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 23,469 13,853 30,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.36% 33.62% 33.12%
Number of salaries quoted 15,699 9,892 24,339
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,250
25th Percentile £44,500 £41,250 £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 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,900 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.73%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 +49 200 £90,000 +9.09% 59
North of England +55 132 £75,000 +8.09% 29
Yorkshire +41 87 £75,000 +4.17% 9
North West +15 42 £77,500 +11.70% 18
Midlands -19 28 £52,500 -22.37% 4
East Midlands -9 18 £52,500 -27.59% 2
South East -42 14 £70,000 -12.50% 24
South West -53 11 £72,500 -19.44% 22
West Midlands -27 10 £56,000 -15.55% 2
North East -52 3 £57,788 -16.71% 2
East of England -28 2 £82,500 +10.00%
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 (3.83%) Apache
2 10 (2.55%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.79%) Confluence
4 5 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.77%) JBoss
7 1 (0.26%) Drupal
7 1 (0.26%) IIS
7 1 (0.26%) nginx
7 1 (0.26%) SAS
7 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Magento
1 1 (0.26%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 374 (95.41%) AWS
2 203 (51.79%) Serverless
3 165 (42.09%) AWS Lambda
4 119 (30.36%) Amazon S3
5 112 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
6 91 (23.21%) Azure
7 84 (21.43%) AWS Step Functions
8 79 (20.15%) GitHub
9 69 (17.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 62 (15.82%) GCP
11 58 (14.80%) Datadog
12 56 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
13 50 (12.76%) Amazon EC2
14 47 (11.99%) Amazon EKS
15 42 (10.71%) Amazon SQS
16 37 (9.44%) Amazon ECR
17 35 (8.93%) Cloud Computing
18 34 (8.67%) Apigee
19 31 (7.91%) Amazon OpenSearch
20 23 (5.87%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.08%) VPN
2 15 (3.83%) Firewall
3 13 (3.32%) Network Security
4 11 (2.81%) DSL
5 10 (2.55%) DNS
5 10 (2.55%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.53%) AMQP
7 4 (1.02%) HTTP
8 3 (0.77%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.51%) 4G
9 2 (0.51%) 5G
9 2 (0.51%) MQTT
9 2 (0.51%) SCCP
10 1 (0.26%) DHCP
10 1 (0.26%) DNSSEC
10 1 (0.26%) Internet
10 1 (0.26%) PSTN
10 1 (0.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (26.53%) DynamoDB
2 79 (20.15%) NoSQL
3 39 (9.95%) Amazon RDS
4 33 (8.42%) Amazon Athena
5 11 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (2.30%) Big Data
8 7 (1.79%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (1.53%) Cloudera CDH
9 6 (1.53%) Flink
10 5 (1.28%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.28%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.02%) Metadata
11 4 (1.02%) MySQL
11 4 (1.02%) Redis
12 3 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.51%) Power BI
13 2 (0.51%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 145 (36.99%) Jenkins
2 135 (34.44%) GitLab
3 53 (13.52%) Git
4 38 (9.69%) Maven
5 34 (8.67%) Cypress.io
6 31 (7.91%) SonarQube
7 28 (7.14%) Cucumber
8 26 (6.63%) CircleCI
9 11 (2.81%) Bitbucket
10 9 (2.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (2.04%) JIRA
12 6 (1.53%) Claude Code
13 5 (1.28%) Gradle
13 5 (1.28%) TeamCity
14 3 (0.77%) Selenium
15 2 (0.51%) JMeter
16 1 (0.26%) Eclipse
16 1 (0.26%) Gatling
16 1 (0.26%) Robot Framework
16 1 (0.26%) Vagrant
General
1 107 (27.30%) Social Skills
2 95 (24.23%) Finance
3 35 (8.93%) Banking
4 17 (4.34%) Public Sector
5 12 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.81%) Aerospace
7 10 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.30%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.79%) Advertising
10 6 (1.53%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.28%) Legal
11 5 (1.28%) Retail
12 4 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.02%) Mandarin Language
12 4 (1.02%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.77%) Back Office
13 3 (0.77%) Billing
13 3 (0.77%) Law
14 2 (0.51%) Aviation
14 2 (0.51%) Games
Job Titles
1 102 (26.02%) Developer
2 83 (21.17%) Senior
3 77 (19.64%) Cloud Engineer
4 67 (17.09%) Java Developer
5 59 (15.05%) DevOps Engineer
6 42 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
7 28 (7.14%) Java Engineer
7 28 (7.14%) Lead
7 28 (7.14%) Senior Developer
8 26 (6.63%) AWS Developer
9 25 (6.38%) Full-Stack Developer
10 24 (6.12%) Platform Engineer
11 21 (5.36%) Architect
11 21 (5.36%) Security Engineer
11 21 (5.36%) Software Engineer
12 20 (5.10%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 20 (5.10%) Principal Engineer
13 19 (4.85%) AWS DevOps
14 18 (4.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 17 (4.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (22.19%) Spring Boot
2 80 (20.41%) AngularJS
3 68 (17.35%) Kafka
4 62 (15.82%) Spring
5 61 (15.56%) Node.js
6 46 (11.73%) AWS CDK
7 38 (9.69%) Gherkin
8 31 (7.91%) React
9 30 (7.65%) Jest
10 28 (7.14%) RESTful
11 24 (6.12%) gRPC
12 23 (5.87%) RabbitMQ
13 19 (4.85%) REST
13 19 (4.85%) web3js
14 17 (4.34%) Next.js
15 16 (4.08%) YAML
16 15 (3.83%) Web Services
17 14 (3.57%) JSON
18 13 (3.32%) Elastic Stack
19 9 (2.30%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 121 (30.87%) Cloud Native
2 40 (10.20%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (9.69%) Public Cloud
4 24 (6.12%) Onboarding
5 23 (5.87%) e-Learning
6 22 (5.61%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (5.10%) Security Posture
8 19 (4.85%) Blockchain
8 19 (4.85%) Web3
9 18 (4.59%) Enterprise Cloud
10 15 (3.83%) Greenfield Project
10 15 (3.83%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (3.57%) Cloud Security Posture
12 11 (2.81%) Data Centre
13 9 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (2.04%) PKI
14 8 (2.04%) Product Ownership
15 6 (1.53%) Distributed Computing
15 6 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
15 6 (1.53%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 70 (17.86%) Linux
2 21 (5.36%) Windows
3 13 (3.32%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.55%) CentOS
6 6 (1.53%) Debian
7 5 (1.28%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.77%) Android
8 3 (0.77%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.77%) Unix
8 3 (0.77%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (72.70%) Infrastructure as Code
2 257 (65.56%) CI/CD
3 204 (52.04%) DevOps
4 148 (37.76%) Agile
5 125 (31.89%) Containerisation
6 85 (21.68%) Mentoring
7 82 (20.92%) Microservices
8 79 (20.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 77 (19.64%) Test Automation
10 74 (18.88%) Observability
11 73 (18.62%) Software Engineering
12 71 (18.11%) Cloud Security
13 69 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
14 64 (16.33%) DevSecOps
15 60 (15.31%) Continuous Integration
16 57 (14.54%) Event-Driven
17 51 (13.01%) Platform Engineering
18 45 (11.48%) Collaborative Culture
19 44 (11.22%) Full-Stack Development
20 42 (10.71%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 177 (45.15%) Python
2 147 (37.50%) Java
3 88 (22.45%) TypeScript
4 86 (21.94%) SQL
5 70 (17.86%) Bash
6 54 (13.78%) Groovy
7 45 (11.48%) Go
8 37 (9.44%) Kotlin
9 31 (7.91%) PowerShell
10 30 (7.65%) JavaScript
11 19 (4.85%) Bicep
12 13 (3.32%) C#
13 11 (2.81%) Rust
14 8 (2.04%) PHP
15 7 (1.79%) C++
15 7 (1.79%) Perl
15 7 (1.79%) Ruby
16 5 (1.28%) Google Apps Script
17 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 102 (26.02%) Security Cleared
2 89 (22.70%) AWS Certification
3 56 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 49 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 40 (10.20%) Degree
6 28 (7.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (6.12%) ITIL Certification
8 21 (5.36%) DV Cleared
9 14 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (3.57%) OSCP
10 10 (2.55%) Master's Degree
11 9 (2.30%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (2.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (1.53%) Azure Certification
14 5 (1.28%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 4 (1.02%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.77%) CREST Certified
16 3 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
17 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
18 1 (0.26%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.36%) NIST
1 21 (5.36%) PCI DSS
2 17 (4.34%) GDPR
3 13 (3.32%) SOC 2
4 9 (2.30%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.26%) NCSC
6 1 (0.26%) QA
6 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 168 (42.86%) Docker
2 5 (1.28%) KVM
2 5 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.02%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 260 (66.33%) Terraform
2 152 (38.78%) Kubernetes
3 68 (17.35%) Ansible
4 42 (10.71%) Prometheus
5 36 (9.18%) Grafana
6 29 (7.40%) HP Fortify
7 25 (6.38%) Progress Chef
8 17 (4.34%) Puppet
9 16 (4.08%) Argo
10 7 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.28%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (1.02%) Istio
12 4 (1.02%) linkerd
12 4 (1.02%) Mesos
13 3 (0.77%) AWS Copilot
13 3 (0.77%) Rancher
14 2 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
15 1 (0.26%) Consul
15 1 (0.26%) Packer
Vendors
1 27 (6.89%) Google
2 14 (3.57%) Microsoft
3 12 (3.06%) Oracle
4 7 (1.79%) HubSpot
4 7 (1.79%) Red Hat
5 6 (1.53%) SaltStack
5 6 (1.53%) Splunk
6 5 (1.28%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.28%) VMware
7 3 (0.77%) Databricks
7 3 (0.77%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.26%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.26%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.26%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.26%) Infoblox
8 1 (0.26%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (0.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.26%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.26%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.26%) TOWER Software