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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 439 490 384
Rank change year-on-year +51 -106 -69
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 176 227 333
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.37% 0.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.11% 1.14% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 129 170 293
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,100
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -9.38%
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,875 £90,000
90th Percentile £105,500 £118,750 £116,250
UK median annual salary £73,801 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.79% +3.57% -12.50%

All Cloud 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 15,865 19,948 20,272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.66% 32.93% 43.30%
Number of salaries quoted 10,393 12,031 16,960
10th Percentile £28,697 £36,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -

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 13 November 2025.

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 13 November 2025. 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 +39 89 £82,500 -10.81% 173
North of England +36 51 £70,000 +12.00% 77
North West +39 27 £62,500 +4.17% 51
Yorkshire +22 21 £70,000 +7.69% 22
South East +27 14 £86,250 +38.00% 40
Midlands +59 13 £60,000 -17.24% 9
West Midlands +41 11 £60,000 -17.24% 6
South West +20 5 £90,000 +63.64% 14
North East +7 3 £73,801 +6.48% 4
East Midlands +22 2 - - 3
East of England +10 1 £75,000 +20.00% 7
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 8 (4.55%) Apache
1 8 (4.55%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.98%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.41%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.41%) WebSphere
3 6 (3.41%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (1.14%) nginx
4 2 (1.14%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 160 (90.91%) AWS
2 81 (46.02%) Azure
3 68 (38.64%) Serverless
4 62 (35.23%) AWS Lambda
5 54 (30.68%) Amazon S3
6 50 (28.41%) GCP
7 43 (24.43%) Amazon EC2
8 40 (22.73%) GitHub
9 38 (21.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 37 (21.02%) Amazon ECS
11 33 (18.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 32 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
13 27 (15.34%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (10.80%) Datadog
15 17 (9.66%) Amazon ECR
16 16 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
16 16 (9.09%) dbt
17 15 (8.52%) Pulumi
17 15 (8.52%) Route 53
18 13 (7.39%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.25%) TCP/IP
2 10 (5.68%) Firewall
3 7 (3.98%) VPN
4 6 (3.41%) DNS
4 6 (3.41%) Network Security
4 6 (3.41%) SSL
5 3 (1.70%) LAN
5 3 (1.70%) WAN
6 2 (1.14%) AMQP
6 2 (1.14%) NAS
6 2 (1.14%) SAN
6 2 (1.14%) SNMP
6 2 (1.14%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.57%) DHCP
7 1 (0.57%) HTTP
7 1 (0.57%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.57%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (21.02%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 21 (11.93%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (10.80%) DynamoDB
5 18 (10.23%) Amazon Redshift
6 16 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (7.39%) Amazon Athena
8 12 (6.82%) Data Lake
9 11 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (6.25%) Redis
10 9 (5.11%) SQL Server
11 7 (3.98%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (3.98%) MySQL
12 6 (3.41%) DB2
13 5 (2.84%) Big Data
14 3 (1.70%) Apache Iceberg
14 3 (1.70%) Data Vault
14 3 (1.70%) Hadoop
15 2 (1.14%) Metadata
15 2 (1.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 48 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 36 (20.45%) GitLab
3 14 (7.95%) CircleCI
4 10 (5.68%) Git
5 6 (3.41%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.84%) git-flow
6 5 (2.84%) JIRA
7 4 (2.27%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.27%) Robot Framework
7 4 (2.27%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.27%) Spinnaker
8 2 (1.14%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.14%) JMeter
8 2 (1.14%) Selenium
8 2 (1.14%) TestRail
9 1 (0.57%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.57%) TeamCity
General
1 55 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 39 (22.16%) Finance
3 17 (9.66%) Banking
4 16 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (7.39%) Law
6 10 (5.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.98%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.84%) Aerospace
8 5 (2.84%) Marketing
8 5 (2.84%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.70%) Advertising
9 3 (1.70%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.14%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.57%) Electronics
11 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 55 (31.25%) Senior
2 35 (19.89%) AWS Engineer
3 33 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 29 (16.48%) Cloud Engineer
5 24 (13.64%) Platform Engineer
6 15 (8.52%) Data Engineer
6 15 (8.52%) Lead
7 14 (7.95%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 13 (7.39%) AWS DevOps
8 13 (7.39%) Developer
8 13 (7.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 12 (6.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 12 (6.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 10 (5.68%) Architect
10 10 (5.68%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 9 (5.11%) Support Engineer
12 8 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (4.55%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 7 (3.98%) Applications Engineer
13 7 (3.98%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (13.07%) Elastic Stack
2 22 (12.50%) AWS CDK
3 17 (9.66%) Kafka
4 11 (6.25%) Django
4 11 (6.25%) React
5 10 (5.68%) .NET
5 10 (5.68%) RabbitMQ
6 9 (5.11%) RESTful
7 7 (3.98%) ARM Templates
7 7 (3.98%) Material-UI
7 7 (3.98%) Node.js
7 7 (3.98%) Spring
7 7 (3.98%) Spring Boot
8 6 (3.41%) LAPP Stack
8 6 (3.41%) LDAP
8 6 (3.41%) WebSphere MQ
9 5 (2.84%) CSS
9 5 (2.84%) gRPC
9 5 (2.84%) Pandas
10 4 (2.27%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 42 (23.86%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.82%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (6.82%) Product Ownership
3 11 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.11%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.41%) AI Agents
5 6 (3.41%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.27%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.70%) Blockchain
7 3 (1.70%) e-Learning
7 3 (1.70%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.70%) Web3
8 2 (1.14%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.14%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 51 (28.98%) Linux
2 27 (15.34%) Unix
3 19 (10.80%) Windows
4 10 (5.68%) Ubuntu
5 9 (5.11%) Debian
6 8 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.14%) CentOS
7 2 (1.14%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (85.23%) Infrastructure as Code
2 128 (72.73%) CI/CD
3 120 (68.18%) DevOps
4 55 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (28.41%) Agile
5 50 (28.41%) Containerisation
6 47 (26.70%) Observability
7 35 (19.89%) Platform Engineering
8 32 (18.18%) Microservices
9 31 (17.61%) Disaster Recovery
9 31 (17.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 29 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (14.20%) Mentoring
12 24 (13.64%) AI
12 24 (13.64%) Cloud Security
13 23 (13.07%) Data Pipeline
13 23 (13.07%) Software Engineering
14 22 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
15 21 (11.93%) Configuration Management
15 21 (11.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 108 (61.36%) Python
2 57 (32.39%) Bash
3 29 (16.48%) SQL
4 28 (15.91%) PowerShell
5 21 (11.93%) Go
6 18 (10.23%) Java
7 16 (9.09%) JavaScript
8 14 (7.95%) TypeScript
9 9 (5.11%) Bicep
10 8 (4.55%) C#
11 2 (1.14%) Groovy
12 1 (0.57%) C++
12 1 (0.57%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.57%) PHP
12 1 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 42 (23.86%) Security Cleared
2 41 (23.30%) AWS Certification
3 29 (16.48%) SC Cleared
4 22 (12.50%) Degree
5 15 (8.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 14 (7.95%) DV Cleared
7 11 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.41%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (2.84%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (2.84%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (2.27%) SnowPro
11 2 (1.14%) ISTQB
11 2 (1.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.68%) GDPR
3 8 (4.55%) QA
4 7 (3.98%) SLA
5 4 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.27%) NIST
6 1 (0.57%) Basel III
6 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.57%) MiFID
6 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 77 (43.75%) Docker
2 6 (3.41%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (2.27%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.14%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.14%) KVM
5 2 (1.14%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.57%) QEMU
6 1 (0.57%) vCloud
6 1 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 144 (81.82%) Terraform
2 74 (42.05%) Kubernetes
3 51 (28.98%) Ansible
4 45 (25.57%) Grafana
5 36 (20.45%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.41%) Argo
6 6 (3.41%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (2.84%) Kubeflow
8 4 (2.27%) Puppet
9 3 (1.70%) Istio
9 3 (1.70%) linkerd
10 2 (1.14%) HAProxy
10 2 (1.14%) Nessus
11 1 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.57%) Mesos
11 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.57%) Nagios
11 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 23 (13.07%) Splunk
2 22 (12.50%) Google
3 17 (9.66%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.55%) Red Hat
5 7 (3.98%) IBM
6 5 (2.84%) Databricks
7 4 (2.27%) Foundry
7 4 (2.27%) Hitachi
7 4 (2.27%) LogicMonitor
7 4 (2.27%) SolarWinds
7 4 (2.27%) VMware
8 3 (1.70%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.70%) Citrix
8 3 (1.70%) SaltStack
9 2 (1.14%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.14%) F5
9 2 (1.14%) OneLogin
9 2 (1.14%) Oracle
9 2 (1.14%) Rapid7
10 1 (0.57%) Qualys