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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 455 557
Rank change year-on-year +84 +102 -204
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 456 205 213
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 0.47% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.85% 1.43% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 219 117 161
10th Percentile £47,800 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £59,500 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -6.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £106,900 £99,750 £107,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%

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 24,596 14,361 23,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.56% 32.87% 31.64%
Number of salaries quoted 16,885 10,114 16,633
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £101,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.99%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 +56 227 £90,000 +13.56% 31
North of England +56 148 £73,750 +5.36% 27
Yorkshire +28 88 £75,000 +7.14% 7
North West +7 46 £72,500 +11.54% 12
South West -43 30 £67,500 -25.00% 25
Midlands -17 23 £62,250 -4.23% 5
South East -44 19 £70,000 -18.84% 12
East Midlands -10 15 £52,500 - 1
North East -41 14 £50,000 -27.94% 8
West Midlands -36 8 £68,496 +5.38% 4
East of England -36 2 £82,500 +10.00% 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 16 (3.51%) Apache
2 9 (1.97%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.97%) Confluence
3 6 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.66%) nginx
6 1 (0.22%) Drupal
6 1 (0.22%) IIS
6 1 (0.22%) JBoss
6 1 (0.22%) SAS
6 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.88%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.44%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 3 (0.66%) Summit
2 1 (0.22%) Magento
2 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 436 (95.61%) AWS
2 229 (50.22%) Serverless
3 171 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
4 133 (29.17%) Amazon ECS
5 125 (27.41%) Amazon S3
6 109 (23.90%) Azure
7 98 (21.49%) GitHub
8 80 (17.54%) GCP
9 75 (16.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 69 (15.13%) Amazon EC2
10 69 (15.13%) AWS Step Functions
10 69 (15.13%) GitHub Actions
11 66 (14.47%) Amazon EKS
12 54 (11.84%) Datadog
13 50 (10.96%) Cloud Computing
14 34 (7.46%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 34 (7.46%) Amazon SQS
15 32 (7.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 30 (6.58%) OpenShift
17 27 (5.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.39%) Network Security
2 15 (3.29%) TCP/IP
3 13 (2.85%) VPN
4 11 (2.41%) DNS
4 11 (2.41%) Firewall
5 6 (1.32%) HTTP
6 5 (1.10%) AMQP
6 5 (1.10%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.44%) DSL
7 2 (0.44%) MQTT
8 1 (0.22%) 4G
8 1 (0.22%) 5G
8 1 (0.22%) DHCP
8 1 (0.22%) DNSSEC
8 1 (0.22%) Internet
8 1 (0.22%) PSTN
8 1 (0.22%) SCCP
8 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (19.30%) DynamoDB
2 81 (17.76%) NoSQL
3 49 (10.75%) Amazon RDS
4 32 (7.02%) Amazon Athena
5 14 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (1.75%) Big Data
7 8 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (1.75%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.54%) Flink
8 7 (1.54%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (1.32%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.32%) Metadata
9 6 (1.32%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.10%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (1.10%) MySQL
11 4 (0.88%) Redis
12 3 (0.66%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 119 (26.10%) Jenkins
2 113 (24.78%) GitLab
3 66 (14.47%) Git
4 37 (8.11%) Cucumber
5 25 (5.48%) Cypress.io
5 25 (5.48%) Maven
6 23 (5.04%) SonarQube
7 13 (2.85%) CircleCI
8 12 (2.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 12 (2.63%) JIRA
9 11 (2.41%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.54%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.32%) TeamCity
12 5 (1.10%) Snyk
13 4 (0.88%) Gradle
13 4 (0.88%) Selenium
14 3 (0.66%) git-flow
14 3 (0.66%) JUnit
14 3 (0.66%) NUnit
14 3 (0.66%) Postman
General
1 123 (26.97%) Finance
2 118 (25.88%) Social Skills
3 41 (8.99%) Banking
4 38 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 19 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.51%) Financial Institution
7 15 (3.29%) Law
8 13 (2.85%) Legal
9 12 (2.63%) Aerospace
10 9 (1.97%) Military
11 8 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.10%) Retail
13 4 (0.88%) Advertising
13 4 (0.88%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.88%) Local Government
13 4 (0.88%) Mandarin Language
13 4 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.88%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.66%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 121 (26.54%) Senior
2 91 (19.96%) Developer
3 87 (19.08%) Cloud Engineer
4 73 (16.01%) DevOps Engineer
5 56 (12.28%) Java Developer
6 51 (11.18%) AWS Engineer
7 42 (9.21%) Java Engineer
8 39 (8.55%) Consultant
9 35 (7.68%) Lead
10 32 (7.02%) Senior Consultant
11 26 (5.70%) Platform Engineer
12 25 (5.48%) Full-Stack Developer
12 25 (5.48%) Software Engineer
13 23 (5.04%) AWS Developer
13 23 (5.04%) Senior Developer
14 22 (4.82%) Architect
15 21 (4.61%) Cloud Native Engineer
15 21 (4.61%) Principal Engineer
16 20 (4.39%) Principal Java Engineer
17 19 (4.17%) Professional Services Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 319 (69.96%) Terraform
2 91 (19.96%) Spring Boot
3 78 (17.11%) Spring
4 74 (16.23%) AngularJS
5 73 (16.01%) Node.js
6 71 (15.57%) Kafka
7 49 (10.75%) AWS CDK
8 34 (7.46%) React
9 31 (6.80%) RESTful
10 26 (5.70%) Gherkin
11 23 (5.04%) Web Services
12 22 (4.82%) REST
13 21 (4.61%) Jest
14 18 (3.95%) RabbitMQ
15 16 (3.51%) gRPC
16 15 (3.29%) YAML
17 13 (2.85%) JSON
17 13 (2.85%) Next.js
18 12 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
18 12 (2.63%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 156 (34.21%) Cloud Native
2 61 (13.38%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (10.96%) Onboarding
4 48 (10.53%) Public Cloud
5 41 (8.99%) Enterprise Cloud
6 34 (7.46%) e-Learning
7 26 (5.70%) Hybrid Cloud
8 22 (4.82%) Data Centre
8 22 (4.82%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (3.07%) Linux Command Line
11 13 (2.85%) Distributed Computing
11 13 (2.85%) Mainframe
12 12 (2.63%) Blockchain
12 12 (2.63%) Web3
13 10 (2.19%) Blog
13 10 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (1.75%) Security Posture
15 7 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
16 6 (1.32%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 77 (16.89%) Linux
2 22 (4.82%) Windows
3 11 (2.41%) Ubuntu
4 10 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (1.97%) CentOS
6 7 (1.54%) Unix
6 7 (1.54%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.10%) Debian
8 2 (0.44%) Android
8 2 (0.44%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (72.37%) Infrastructure as Code
2 295 (64.69%) CI/CD
3 240 (52.63%) DevOps
4 184 (40.35%) Agile
5 142 (31.14%) Containerisation
6 106 (23.25%) Mentoring
7 102 (22.37%) Continuous Improvement
8 95 (20.83%) Microservices
8 95 (20.83%) Software Engineering
8 95 (20.83%) Test Automation
9 87 (19.08%) Observability
10 81 (17.76%) Cloud Security
10 81 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
11 72 (15.79%) Event-Driven
12 65 (14.25%) Migration
13 60 (13.16%) Platform Engineering
14 57 (12.50%) AI
14 57 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
15 52 (11.40%) Configuration Management
15 52 (11.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 206 (45.18%) Python
2 158 (34.65%) Java
3 99 (21.71%) SQL
4 82 (17.98%) Bash
5 79 (17.32%) TypeScript
6 46 (10.09%) Groovy
7 38 (8.33%) Go
7 38 (8.33%) Kotlin
8 30 (6.58%) PowerShell
9 28 (6.14%) JavaScript
10 18 (3.95%) Bicep
10 18 (3.95%) Ruby
11 16 (3.51%) PHP
12 15 (3.29%) C#
12 15 (3.29%) Perl
13 6 (1.32%) C++
14 5 (1.10%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.44%) Rust
15 2 (0.44%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.22%) Korn
Qualifications
1 152 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 111 (24.34%) AWS Certification
3 92 (20.18%) SC Cleared
4 68 (14.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 39 (8.55%) Degree
6 31 (6.80%) DV Cleared
7 19 (4.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 16 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (3.29%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (2.63%) Master's Degree
11 9 (1.97%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (1.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (1.10%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.88%) OCP
14 4 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (0.88%) OSCP
14 4 (0.88%) Postgraduate
14 4 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.44%) CREST Certified
15 2 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.02%) GDPR
2 15 (3.29%) PCI DSS
3 14 (3.07%) NIST
4 9 (1.97%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.75%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.10%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.88%) NCSC
8 3 (0.66%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.44%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.44%) QA
10 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 190 (41.67%) Docker
2 6 (1.32%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.10%) KVM
3 5 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 176 (38.60%) Kubernetes
2 92 (20.18%) Ansible
3 48 (10.53%) Progress Chef
4 41 (8.99%) Grafana
5 35 (7.68%) Puppet
6 34 (7.46%) Prometheus
7 19 (4.17%) Argo
8 17 (3.73%) HP Fortify
9 6 (1.32%) Istio
9 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.88%) linkerd
10 4 (0.88%) Mesos
11 2 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.44%) Rancher
12 1 (0.22%) Consul
12 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.22%) Kibana
12 1 (0.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 32 (7.02%) Google
2 17 (3.73%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.63%) Oracle
3 12 (2.63%) Red Hat
4 9 (1.97%) OpenAI
5 7 (1.54%) HubSpot
6 6 (1.32%) Databricks
6 6 (1.32%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.32%) Splunk
6 6 (1.32%) VMware
7 5 (1.10%) SaltStack
8 4 (0.88%) AppDynamics
8 4 (0.88%) Avaya
8 4 (0.88%) Cisco
8 4 (0.88%) Genesys
9 3 (0.66%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.44%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.44%) Informatica
11 1 (0.22%) Infoblox
11 1 (0.22%) Sparx