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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 437 557
Rank change year-on-year +77 +120 -194
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 454 213 221
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.49% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.83% 1.48% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 220 122 171
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,634 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -9.38%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £108,875 £110,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -6.45%

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 24,855 14,409 23,277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.42% 33.00% 32.01%
Number of salaries quoted 16,821 10,262 17,228
10th Percentile £31,500 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,388
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.83% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%

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 11 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 11 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 +65 229 £90,000 +12.50% 118
North of England +59 149 £75,000 +8.09% 49
Yorkshire +42 90 £75,000 +5.63% 11
North West +9 48 £72,500 +9.33% 25
South West -50 25 £67,500 -25.00% 44
Midlands -33 24 £62,250 -4.23% 12
South East -44 18 £70,000 -17.65% 16
East Midlands -9 16 £52,500 - 1
North East -48 11 £50,000 -27.94% 13
West Midlands -36 8 £68,496 +5.38% 11
East of England -43 2 £82,500 +10.00% 3
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 (3.52%) Apache
2 9 (1.98%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.98%) Confluence
3 7 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.66%) JBoss
5 3 (0.66%) nginx
6 1 (0.22%) Drupal
6 1 (0.22%) IIS
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 (96.04%) AWS
2 231 (50.88%) Serverless
3 174 (38.33%) AWS Lambda
4 136 (29.96%) Amazon ECS
5 127 (27.97%) Amazon S3
6 112 (24.67%) Azure
7 93 (20.48%) GitHub
8 81 (17.84%) GCP
9 75 (16.52%) AWS Step Functions
10 74 (16.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 65 (14.32%) Amazon EC2
12 64 (14.10%) GitHub Actions
13 62 (13.66%) Amazon EKS
14 55 (12.11%) Cloud Computing
15 52 (11.45%) Datadog
16 38 (8.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 37 (8.15%) Amazon SQS
18 33 (7.27%) Amazon ECR
19 30 (6.61%) PaaS
20 28 (6.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.41%) Network Security
2 18 (3.96%) TCP/IP
3 13 (2.86%) VPN
4 12 (2.64%) Firewall
5 11 (2.42%) DNS
6 5 (1.10%) DSL
6 5 (1.10%) HTTP
6 5 (1.10%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (0.88%) AMQP
8 2 (0.44%) 4G
8 2 (0.44%) 5G
8 2 (0.44%) MQTT
9 1 (0.22%) DHCP
9 1 (0.22%) DNSSEC
9 1 (0.22%) Internet
9 1 (0.22%) PSTN
9 1 (0.22%) SCCP
9 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (21.15%) DynamoDB
2 80 (17.62%) NoSQL
3 50 (11.01%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (7.49%) Amazon Athena
5 15 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (1.54%) Big Data
7 7 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.54%) Flink
8 6 (1.32%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.10%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.10%) Metadata
9 5 (1.10%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.10%) Redis
9 5 (1.10%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.88%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (0.88%) MySQL
11 3 (0.66%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 128 (28.19%) Jenkins
2 124 (27.31%) GitLab
3 63 (13.88%) Git
4 36 (7.93%) Cucumber
5 31 (6.83%) Cypress.io
5 31 (6.83%) Maven
6 27 (5.95%) SonarQube
7 17 (3.74%) CircleCI
8 12 (2.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 12 (2.64%) JIRA
9 11 (2.42%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.54%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.32%) Selenium
11 6 (1.32%) TeamCity
12 5 (1.10%) Snyk
13 4 (0.88%) Gradle
14 3 (0.66%) git-flow
14 3 (0.66%) JUnit
14 3 (0.66%) NUnit
14 3 (0.66%) Postman
General
1 120 (26.43%) Social Skills
2 115 (25.33%) Finance
3 36 (7.93%) Banking
4 35 (7.71%) Public Sector
5 18 (3.96%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (3.30%) Financial Institution
7 12 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.64%) Law
8 11 (2.42%) Aerospace
8 11 (2.42%) Legal
9 9 (1.98%) Military
10 6 (1.32%) Retail
11 5 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.10%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.88%) Advertising
12 4 (0.88%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.88%) Mandarin Language
13 3 (0.66%) Back Office
13 3 (0.66%) Local Government
13 3 (0.66%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 119 (26.21%) Senior
2 98 (21.59%) Developer
3 81 (17.84%) Cloud Engineer
4 68 (14.98%) DevOps Engineer
5 62 (13.66%) Java Developer
6 48 (10.57%) AWS Engineer
7 39 (8.59%) Consultant
8 37 (8.15%) Java Engineer
9 35 (7.71%) Lead
10 32 (7.05%) Senior Consultant
11 26 (5.73%) AWS Developer
11 26 (5.73%) Platform Engineer
12 25 (5.51%) Full-Stack Developer
13 24 (5.29%) Senior Developer
14 23 (5.07%) Architect
15 21 (4.63%) Software Engineer
16 20 (4.41%) Principal Engineer
17 19 (4.19%) AWS DevOps
17 19 (4.19%) Principal Java Engineer
17 19 (4.19%) Professional Services Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (20.04%) Spring Boot
2 77 (16.96%) AngularJS
3 72 (15.86%) Spring
4 71 (15.64%) Kafka
5 67 (14.76%) Node.js
6 51 (11.23%) AWS CDK
7 36 (7.93%) React
8 32 (7.05%) Gherkin
9 29 (6.39%) RESTful
10 25 (5.51%) Jest
11 21 (4.63%) REST
11 21 (4.63%) Web Services
12 18 (3.96%) RabbitMQ
13 17 (3.74%) gRPC
14 15 (3.30%) Next.js
14 15 (3.30%) YAML
15 14 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
15 14 (3.08%) web3js
16 13 (2.86%) JSON
17 10 (2.20%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 149 (32.82%) Cloud Native
2 58 (12.78%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (11.01%) Onboarding
4 45 (9.91%) Public Cloud
5 41 (9.03%) Enterprise Cloud
6 31 (6.83%) e-Learning
7 22 (4.85%) Data Centre
8 21 (4.63%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (4.63%) Hybrid Cloud
9 19 (4.19%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (3.08%) Blockchain
10 14 (3.08%) Web3
11 13 (2.86%) Distributed Computing
11 13 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
11 13 (2.86%) Mainframe
12 12 (2.64%) Security Posture
13 8 (1.76%) Blog
13 8 (1.76%) Cloud Security Posture
14 7 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 78 (17.18%) Linux
2 21 (4.63%) Windows
3 10 (2.20%) Ubuntu
3 10 (2.20%) Unix
4 9 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.76%) CentOS
6 6 (1.32%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.88%) Debian
8 3 (0.66%) Android
8 3 (0.66%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (71.37%) Infrastructure as Code
2 291 (64.10%) CI/CD
3 237 (52.20%) DevOps
4 180 (39.65%) Agile
5 141 (31.06%) Containerisation
6 109 (24.01%) Mentoring
7 99 (21.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 92 (20.26%) Observability
8 92 (20.26%) Test Automation
9 89 (19.60%) Microservices
10 85 (18.72%) Software Engineering
11 84 (18.50%) Cloud Security
12 78 (17.18%) Problem-Solving
13 69 (15.20%) Event-Driven
14 60 (13.22%) Migration
15 59 (13.00%) Platform Engineering
16 56 (12.33%) Collaborative Culture
17 55 (12.11%) DevSecOps
18 54 (11.89%) AI
19 51 (11.23%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 205 (45.15%) Python
2 160 (35.24%) Java
3 93 (20.48%) SQL
4 82 (18.06%) Bash
5 81 (17.84%) TypeScript
6 50 (11.01%) Groovy
7 41 (9.03%) Go
8 38 (8.37%) Kotlin
9 29 (6.39%) JavaScript
9 29 (6.39%) PowerShell
10 18 (3.96%) Bicep
11 17 (3.74%) Ruby
12 16 (3.52%) PHP
13 15 (3.30%) Perl
14 13 (2.86%) C#
15 6 (1.32%) C++
16 5 (1.10%) Google Apps Script
16 5 (1.10%) Rust
17 2 (0.44%) Shell Script
18 1 (0.22%) Korn
Qualifications
1 145 (31.94%) Security Cleared
2 110 (24.23%) AWS Certification
3 86 (18.94%) SC Cleared
4 65 (14.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 41 (9.03%) Degree
6 26 (5.73%) DV Cleared
7 22 (4.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 18 (3.96%) ITIL Certification
9 15 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (2.64%) Master's Degree
11 11 (2.42%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (1.76%) OSCP
13 7 (1.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 5 (1.10%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.88%) OCP
15 4 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
15 4 (0.88%) Postgraduate
15 4 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.66%) CREST Certified
17 2 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.83%) GDPR
2 17 (3.74%) NIST
3 16 (3.52%) PCI DSS
4 10 (2.20%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.98%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.10%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.66%) NCSC
7 3 (0.66%) QA
8 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.22%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 189 (41.63%) Docker
2 5 (1.10%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.10%) KVM
2 5 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 312 (68.72%) Terraform
2 171 (37.67%) Kubernetes
3 85 (18.72%) Ansible
4 43 (9.47%) Progress Chef
5 42 (9.25%) Grafana
6 38 (8.37%) Prometheus
7 31 (6.83%) Puppet
8 23 (5.07%) HP Fortify
9 19 (4.19%) Argo
10 6 (1.32%) Istio
10 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.10%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.88%) linkerd
12 4 (0.88%) Mesos
13 3 (0.66%) AWS Copilot
14 2 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.44%) Rancher
15 1 (0.22%) Consul
15 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 33 (7.27%) Google
2 15 (3.30%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.64%) Oracle
4 11 (2.42%) Red Hat
5 8 (1.76%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.54%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.32%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.32%) Splunk
8 5 (1.10%) VMware
9 4 (0.88%) Avaya
9 4 (0.88%) Cisco
9 4 (0.88%) Databricks
9 4 (0.88%) Genesys
9 4 (0.88%) SaltStack
10 3 (0.66%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.44%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.44%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.22%) Infoblox
12 1 (0.22%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 1 (0.22%) ServiceNow