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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 439 560
Rank change year-on-year +72 +121 -198
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 418 220 291
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.51% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.74% 1.53% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 203 122 238
10th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,875 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £74,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +0.67% -6.88%
75th Percentile £95,000 £94,688 £97,500
90th Percentile £112,000 £111,250 £112,500
UK median annual salary £78,319 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +4.43% - -3.23%

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 24,020 14,359 29,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.42% 33.13% 33.00%
Number of salaries quoted 16,016 10,262 22,984
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £30,080
25th Percentile £43,847 £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 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%

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 15 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 15 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 +53 224 £90,000 +15.02% 50
North of England +60 131 £75,000 +8.09% 40
Yorkshire +38 84 £75,000 +5.63% 12
North West +13 44 £74,651 +7.59% 18
Midlands -13 26 £62,000 -4.62% 19
East Midlands -7 18 £52,500 - 9
South East -34 17 £70,000 -15.15% 23
South West -58 12 £67,500 -25.00% 25
West Midlands -28 8 £62,250 -4.23% 10
North East -57 3 £57,788 -16.71% 10
East of England -34 2 £82,500 +10.00% 15
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 17 (4.07%) Apache
2 10 (2.39%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.91%) Confluence
4 6 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.72%) JBoss
7 1 (0.24%) Drupal
7 1 (0.24%) IIS
7 1 (0.24%) nginx
7 1 (0.24%) SAS
7 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.96%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.48%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Summit
2 1 (0.24%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 400 (95.69%) AWS
2 218 (52.15%) Serverless
3 172 (41.15%) AWS Lambda
4 121 (28.95%) Amazon ECS
5 120 (28.71%) Amazon S3
6 98 (23.44%) Azure
7 81 (19.38%) AWS Step Functions
8 80 (19.14%) GitHub
9 66 (15.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 66 (15.79%) GCP
10 57 (13.64%) Cloud Computing
10 57 (13.64%) Datadog
11 56 (13.40%) Amazon EKS
12 55 (13.16%) GitHub Actions
13 52 (12.44%) Amazon EC2
14 40 (9.57%) Amazon SQS
15 35 (8.37%) Amazon ECR
16 32 (7.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 32 (7.66%) Apigee
17 23 (5.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.55%) Network Security
2 18 (4.31%) VPN
3 14 (3.35%) Firewall
4 10 (2.39%) DNS
4 10 (2.39%) TCP/IP
5 9 (2.15%) DSL
6 6 (1.44%) AMQP
7 4 (0.96%) HTTP
7 4 (0.96%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.48%) 4G
8 2 (0.48%) 5G
8 2 (0.48%) MQTT
9 1 (0.24%) DHCP
9 1 (0.24%) DNSSEC
9 1 (0.24%) Internet
9 1 (0.24%) PSTN
9 1 (0.24%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (24.16%) DynamoDB
2 82 (19.62%) NoSQL
3 39 (9.33%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (8.13%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (2.15%) Big Data
8 7 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.67%) Hadoop
8 7 (1.67%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.44%) Cloudera CDH
9 6 (1.44%) Flink
9 6 (1.44%) MySQL
10 5 (1.20%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.96%) Metadata
11 4 (0.96%) Redis
11 4 (0.96%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.48%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 134 (32.06%) Jenkins
2 133 (31.82%) GitLab
3 55 (13.16%) Git
4 36 (8.61%) Maven
5 32 (7.66%) Cucumber
5 32 (7.66%) Cypress.io
6 29 (6.94%) SonarQube
7 24 (5.74%) CircleCI
8 11 (2.63%) Bitbucket
9 10 (2.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 9 (2.15%) JIRA
11 7 (1.67%) Claude Code
12 6 (1.44%) TeamCity
13 5 (1.20%) Gradle
14 3 (0.72%) Selenium
15 2 (0.48%) JMeter
16 1 (0.24%) Eclipse
16 1 (0.24%) git-flow
16 1 (0.24%) Robot Framework
16 1 (0.24%) Vagrant
General
1 109 (26.08%) Social Skills
2 106 (25.36%) Finance
3 34 (8.13%) Banking
4 29 (6.94%) Public Sector
5 12 (2.87%) Aerospace
5 12 (2.87%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.63%) Financial Institution
7 10 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.44%) Advertising
8 6 (1.44%) Legal
9 5 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.20%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.20%) Military
10 4 (0.96%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (0.96%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.72%) Automotive
11 3 (0.72%) Back Office
11 3 (0.72%) Law
11 3 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 104 (24.88%) Senior
2 100 (23.92%) Developer
3 75 (17.94%) Cloud Engineer
4 65 (15.55%) Java Developer
5 60 (14.35%) DevOps Engineer
6 41 (9.81%) AWS Engineer
7 38 (9.09%) Consultant
8 32 (7.66%) Java Engineer
8 32 (7.66%) Senior Consultant
9 28 (6.70%) Lead
10 26 (6.22%) AWS Developer
10 26 (6.22%) Full-Stack Developer
11 25 (5.98%) Senior Developer
12 23 (5.50%) Platform Engineer
13 22 (5.26%) Architect
13 22 (5.26%) Principal Engineer
14 19 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
14 19 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 19 (4.55%) Principal Java Engineer
14 19 (4.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (22.25%) Spring Boot
2 79 (18.90%) AngularJS
3 72 (17.22%) Kafka
4 70 (16.75%) Spring
5 60 (14.35%) Node.js
6 50 (11.96%) AWS CDK
7 36 (8.61%) Gherkin
8 31 (7.42%) React
9 28 (6.70%) Jest
10 27 (6.46%) RESTful
11 23 (5.50%) RabbitMQ
12 22 (5.26%) gRPC
12 22 (5.26%) REST
13 19 (4.55%) Web Services
14 17 (4.07%) web3js
15 16 (3.83%) Next.js
15 16 (3.83%) YAML
16 14 (3.35%) JSON
17 13 (3.11%) Elastic Stack
18 10 (2.39%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 129 (30.86%) Cloud Native
2 48 (11.48%) Onboarding
3 46 (11.00%) Distributed Systems
4 42 (10.05%) Public Cloud
5 40 (9.57%) Enterprise Cloud
6 27 (6.46%) e-Learning
7 23 (5.50%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (5.02%) Data Centre
9 17 (4.07%) Blockchain
9 17 (4.07%) Web3
10 16 (3.83%) Security Posture
11 15 (3.59%) Greenfield Project
11 15 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
11 15 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (3.11%) Cloud Security Posture
13 12 (2.87%) Distributed Computing
13 12 (2.87%) Mainframe
14 8 (1.91%) PKI
15 7 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
15 7 (1.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 70 (16.75%) Linux
2 23 (5.50%) Windows
3 14 (3.35%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.39%) CentOS
6 6 (1.44%) Debian
7 5 (1.20%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.96%) VMS
9 3 (0.72%) Android
9 3 (0.72%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (70.10%) Infrastructure as Code
2 257 (61.48%) CI/CD
3 206 (49.28%) DevOps
4 156 (37.32%) Agile
5 131 (31.34%) Containerisation
6 105 (25.12%) Mentoring
7 87 (20.81%) Microservices
8 83 (19.86%) Test Automation
9 80 (19.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 75 (17.94%) Observability
11 74 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
11 74 (17.70%) Software Engineering
12 71 (16.99%) Cloud Security
13 64 (15.31%) Event-Driven
14 61 (14.59%) DevSecOps
15 58 (13.88%) Continuous Integration
16 53 (12.68%) Platform Engineering
17 50 (11.96%) AI
17 50 (11.96%) Collaborative Culture
18 45 (10.77%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 194 (46.41%) Python
2 160 (38.28%) Java
3 93 (22.25%) SQL
4 84 (20.10%) TypeScript
5 76 (18.18%) Bash
6 52 (12.44%) Groovy
7 41 (9.81%) Go
8 38 (9.09%) Kotlin
9 30 (7.18%) PowerShell
10 29 (6.94%) JavaScript
11 20 (4.78%) Bicep
12 16 (3.83%) PHP
13 15 (3.59%) Perl
13 15 (3.59%) Ruby
14 13 (3.11%) C#
15 9 (2.15%) Rust
16 8 (1.91%) C++
17 6 (1.44%) Google Apps Script
18 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 126 (30.14%) Security Cleared
2 104 (24.88%) AWS Certification
3 65 (15.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 64 (15.31%) SC Cleared
5 46 (11.00%) Degree
6 26 (6.22%) DV Cleared
7 25 (5.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 22 (5.26%) ITIL Certification
9 17 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (3.11%) Master's Degree
11 12 (2.87%) OSCP
12 10 (2.39%) AWS Certified Developer
13 7 (1.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (1.44%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.96%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.72%) CREST Certified
16 3 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
17 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
18 1 (0.24%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.78%) PCI DSS
2 19 (4.55%) GDPR
2 19 (4.55%) NIST
3 13 (3.11%) SOC 2
4 10 (2.39%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.96%) HIPAA
5 4 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.24%) NCSC
6 1 (0.24%) QA
6 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 173 (41.39%) Docker
2 6 (1.44%) KVM
2 6 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.20%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.72%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 275 (65.79%) Terraform
2 163 (39.00%) Kubernetes
3 70 (16.75%) Ansible
4 43 (10.29%) Prometheus
5 40 (9.57%) Grafana
6 35 (8.37%) Progress Chef
7 27 (6.46%) HP Fortify
7 27 (6.46%) Puppet
8 18 (4.31%) Argo
9 8 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (1.44%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (1.20%) Istio
11 5 (1.20%) linkerd
11 5 (1.20%) Mesos
12 3 (0.72%) AWS Copilot
12 3 (0.72%) Rancher
13 2 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.24%) Consul
14 1 (0.24%) Packer
Vendors
1 28 (6.70%) Google
2 16 (3.83%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.87%) Oracle
4 8 (1.91%) OpenAI
5 7 (1.67%) HubSpot
5 7 (1.67%) Red Hat
5 7 (1.67%) Splunk
6 6 (1.44%) SaltStack
6 6 (1.44%) VMware
7 5 (1.20%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.96%) Avaya
8 4 (0.96%) Cisco
8 4 (0.96%) Genesys
9 3 (0.72%) Databricks
10 1 (0.24%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.24%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.24%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (0.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.24%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.24%) TOWER Software