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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 454 416
Rank change year-on-year +66 -38 -112
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 234 227 324
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.43% 0.47% 0.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.24% 1.30% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 152 171 265
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £87,500 £116,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £119,500 £138,750 £119,000
UK median annual salary £73,801 £78,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.99% +4.67% -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 18,932 17,502 22,376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.57% 36.57% 39.44%
Number of salaries quoted 10,552 10,381 18,873
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,249 £98,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,600 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.12% +7.67% -7.69%

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 23 January 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 23 January 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 +23 108 £83,250 -16.75% 47
North of England +47 86 £72,500 +7.41% 36
Yorkshire +37 57 £72,500 - 21
North West +5 26 £70,000 +12.00% 12
Midlands +23 16 £50,000 -27.86% 20
West Midlands +29 14 £50,000 -27.86% 12
South East +16 14 £71,250 +18.75% 48
South West +7 9 £71,250 +29.55% 27
North East -7 3 £73,801 +6.48% 3
East Midlands -10 2 - - 8
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 (6.41%) Apache
2 10 (4.27%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.56%) Tomcat
4 6 (2.56%) WebSphere
4 6 (2.56%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.85%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 217 (92.74%) AWS
2 124 (52.99%) Serverless
3 115 (49.15%) AWS Lambda
4 99 (42.31%) Azure
5 89 (38.03%) Amazon S3
6 65 (27.78%) Amazon ECS
7 63 (26.92%) GitHub
8 56 (23.93%) GCP
9 55 (23.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 55 (23.50%) AWS Step Functions
10 45 (19.23%) GitHub Actions
11 40 (17.09%) Amazon EKS
12 38 (16.24%) Amazon EC2
12 38 (16.24%) Amazon ECR
13 32 (13.68%) Amazon SQS
14 28 (11.97%) Azure DevOps
15 25 (10.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 22 (9.40%) Datadog
16 22 (9.40%) OpenShift
17 21 (8.97%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.70%) Firewall
1 11 (4.70%) TCP/IP
2 9 (3.85%) VPN
3 6 (2.56%) Network Security
3 6 (2.56%) SSL
4 5 (2.14%) AMQP
4 5 (2.14%) DSL
4 5 (2.14%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (1.28%) SCCP
6 1 (0.43%) DHCP
6 1 (0.43%) DNS
6 1 (0.43%) HTTP
6 1 (0.43%) LAN
6 1 (0.43%) VSAN
6 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (27.35%) DynamoDB
2 46 (19.66%) NoSQL
3 44 (18.80%) Amazon RDS
4 35 (14.96%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (7.26%) SQL Server
6 16 (6.84%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (6.41%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (6.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (5.98%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (5.13%) Data Lake
9 12 (5.13%) MySQL
10 11 (4.70%) Redis
11 7 (2.99%) Big Data
12 6 (2.56%) DB2
12 6 (2.56%) MongoDB
13 5 (2.14%) Cloudera CDH
13 5 (2.14%) Hadoop
14 3 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (1.28%) Apache Iceberg
14 3 (1.28%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 82 (35.04%) Jenkins
2 72 (30.77%) GitLab
3 41 (17.52%) Git
4 26 (11.11%) SonarQube
5 22 (9.40%) Maven
6 21 (8.97%) Cypress.io
7 11 (4.70%) Bitbucket
8 10 (4.27%) CircleCI
9 5 (2.14%) git-flow
9 5 (2.14%) Robot Framework
10 4 (1.71%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.28%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.28%) JIRA
11 3 (1.28%) JMeter
12 2 (0.85%) Selenium
12 2 (0.85%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.85%) TestRail
13 1 (0.43%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.43%) Gradle
13 1 (0.43%) Subversion
General
1 74 (31.62%) Social Skills
2 41 (17.52%) Finance
3 20 (8.55%) Banking
4 16 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.27%) Aerospace
6 8 (3.42%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.99%) Law
8 5 (2.14%) Advertising
8 5 (2.14%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.71%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.28%) Aviation
10 3 (1.28%) Billing
10 3 (1.28%) Electronics
10 3 (1.28%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.28%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.28%) Marketing
10 3 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.28%) Retail
11 2 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (20.94%) Senior
2 47 (20.09%) Cloud Engineer
2 47 (20.09%) Developer
3 35 (14.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 30 (12.82%) AWS Engineer
5 22 (9.40%) Lead
6 21 (8.97%) Platform Engineer
7 20 (8.55%) Java Developer
8 18 (7.69%) AWS Developer
9 14 (5.98%) Senior Developer
10 13 (5.56%) Architect
10 13 (5.56%) Security Engineer
11 12 (5.13%) .NET Developer
11 12 (5.13%) AWS DevOps
12 11 (4.70%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 11 (4.70%) Data Engineer
13 10 (4.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 9 (3.85%) AWS Architect
14 9 (3.85%) Software Engineer
14 9 (3.85%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (17.95%) AWS CDK
2 35 (14.96%) AngularJS
3 31 (13.25%) Spring Boot
4 27 (11.54%) Node.js
4 27 (11.54%) RESTful
5 24 (10.26%) React
6 21 (8.97%) Gherkin
6 21 (8.97%) Jest
7 18 (7.69%) .NET
7 18 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
7 18 (7.69%) Kafka
7 18 (7.69%) Spring
8 16 (6.84%) RabbitMQ
9 13 (5.56%) .NET Core
9 13 (5.56%) ASP.NET
9 13 (5.56%) ASP.NET Core
9 13 (5.56%) Blazor
9 13 (5.56%) REST
10 11 (4.70%) Django
10 11 (4.70%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 70 (29.91%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.41%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (6.41%) Security Posture
3 14 (5.98%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.13%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (2.99%) Cloud Security Posture
5 7 (2.99%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.56%) Blockchain
6 6 (2.56%) Web3
7 5 (2.14%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.71%) e-Learning
8 4 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.71%) PKI
9 3 (1.28%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (1.28%) Cyber Security Posture
9 3 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.28%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.43%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 64 (27.35%) Linux
2 27 (11.54%) Unix
3 26 (11.11%) Windows
4 13 (5.56%) Ubuntu
5 11 (4.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (3.42%) Debian
7 5 (2.14%) CentOS
7 5 (2.14%) VMS
8 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (75.64%) CI/CD
2 170 (72.65%) Infrastructure as Code
3 167 (71.37%) DevOps
4 98 (41.88%) Agile
5 72 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
6 60 (25.64%) Containerisation
7 56 (23.93%) Microservices
8 46 (19.66%) Continuous Improvement
9 44 (18.80%) Observability
10 40 (17.09%) Cloud Security
11 34 (14.53%) DevSecOps
12 32 (13.68%) Root Cause Analysis
13 30 (12.82%) Continuous Integration
14 29 (12.39%) Platform Engineering
15 28 (11.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 27 (11.54%) Collaborative Culture
17 24 (10.26%) Incident Response
18 22 (9.40%) Disaster Recovery
18 22 (9.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 22 (9.40%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 108 (46.15%) Python
2 66 (28.21%) Bash
3 54 (23.08%) Java
4 48 (20.51%) SQL
5 46 (19.66%) TypeScript
6 31 (13.25%) PowerShell
7 23 (9.83%) Go
8 21 (8.97%) Groovy
9 19 (8.12%) JavaScript
10 10 (4.27%) Bicep
10 10 (4.27%) C#
10 10 (4.27%) Kotlin
11 5 (2.14%) Rust
12 2 (0.85%) C++
12 2 (0.85%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 69 (29.49%) AWS Certification
2 58 (24.79%) Security Cleared
3 28 (11.97%) SC Cleared
4 26 (11.11%) DV Cleared
5 22 (9.40%) Degree
6 21 (8.97%) AWS Certified Developer
7 20 (8.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 15 (6.41%) ITIL Certification
9 11 (4.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 10 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (2.99%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 5 (2.14%) OSCP
13 4 (1.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.71%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.85%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.85%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.13%) NIST
2 11 (4.70%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.70%) QA
3 7 (2.99%) SLA
4 6 (2.56%) GDPR
4 6 (2.56%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.43%) Basel III
6 1 (0.43%) MiFID
6 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 118 (50.43%) Docker
2 6 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.28%) KVM
5 2 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.43%) QEMU
6 1 (0.43%) vCloud
6 1 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 164 (70.09%) Terraform
2 89 (38.03%) Kubernetes
3 56 (23.93%) Ansible
4 31 (13.25%) Prometheus
5 29 (12.39%) Grafana
6 21 (8.97%) HP Fortify
7 10 (4.27%) Argo
8 7 (2.99%) Puppet
9 6 (2.56%) AWS Copilot
9 6 (2.56%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (2.14%) Istio
10 5 (2.14%) Kubeflow
10 5 (2.14%) linkerd
10 5 (2.14%) Mesos
11 4 (1.71%) Rancher
12 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.85%) Nessus
13 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (10.68%) Google
2 16 (6.84%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.98%) Splunk
4 11 (4.70%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.56%) IBM
5 6 (2.56%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.71%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.28%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.28%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.28%) Foundry
7 3 (1.28%) LogicMonitor
7 3 (1.28%) Oracle
7 3 (1.28%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.28%) SAP
7 3 (1.28%) VMware
8 2 (0.85%) Databricks
8 2 (0.85%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.43%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.43%) Qualys
9 1 (0.43%) Refinitiv