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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 419 467
Rank change year-on-year +40 +48 -134
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 270 250 319
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 0.57% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.33% 1.51% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 167 186 263
10th Percentile £52,100 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £64,750 £61,563 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £136,875 £116,250
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 20,359 16,536 25,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.67% 37.56% 38.44%
Number of salaries quoted 11,306 10,093 21,643
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,114
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.34% +12.61% -11.54%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 +20 126 £85,000 -12.82% 58
North of England +36 96 £72,500 +7.41% 44
Yorkshire +29 65 £72,500 - 23
North West -10 27 £73,801 +18.08% 17
Midlands +7 22 £50,000 -27.86% 23
West Midlands +23 16 £50,000 -27.86% 14
South East -22 15 £70,000 +16.67% 40
South West -10 10 £71,250 +29.55% 21
East Midlands -17 6 £75,000 +15.38% 9
North East -16 4 £73,801 +6.37% 4
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 (5.93%) Apache
2 10 (3.70%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.48%) Tomcat
4 4 (1.48%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.48%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.74%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.37%) Confluence
6 1 (0.37%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 253 (93.70%) AWS
2 147 (54.44%) Serverless
3 130 (48.15%) AWS Lambda
4 109 (40.37%) Azure
5 100 (37.04%) Amazon S3
6 80 (29.63%) Amazon ECS
7 69 (25.56%) GitHub
8 68 (25.19%) AWS Step Functions
9 64 (23.70%) GCP
10 62 (22.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 49 (18.15%) GitHub Actions
12 47 (17.41%) Amazon ECR
13 43 (15.93%) Amazon EKS
14 37 (13.70%) Amazon SQS
15 34 (12.59%) Amazon EC2
16 33 (12.22%) Datadog
17 29 (10.74%) Apigee
18 28 (10.37%) Azure DevOps
19 23 (8.52%) OpenShift
19 23 (8.52%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 13 (4.81%) Firewall
3 12 (4.44%) VPN
4 9 (3.33%) DSL
5 5 (1.85%) AMQP
5 5 (1.85%) Network Security
5 5 (1.85%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (1.48%) SSL
7 3 (1.11%) DNS
7 3 (1.11%) SCCP
8 1 (0.37%) 4G
8 1 (0.37%) 5G
8 1 (0.37%) DHCP
8 1 (0.37%) HTTP
8 1 (0.37%) LAN
8 1 (0.37%) VSAN
8 1 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (28.89%) DynamoDB
2 60 (22.22%) NoSQL
3 45 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
4 36 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (7.41%) Amazon Athena
6 17 (6.30%) Elasticsearch
7 15 (5.56%) SQL Server
8 14 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (5.19%) Redis
9 12 (4.44%) MySQL
10 11 (4.07%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (3.70%) Data Lake
12 7 (2.59%) Big Data
13 6 (2.22%) MongoDB
14 5 (1.85%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (1.85%) Hadoop
15 4 (1.48%) DB2
16 3 (1.11%) Apache Iceberg
16 3 (1.11%) Metadata
17 2 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 101 (37.41%) Jenkins
2 98 (36.30%) GitLab
3 42 (15.56%) Git
4 34 (12.59%) SonarQube
5 30 (11.11%) Maven
6 29 (10.74%) Cypress.io
7 17 (6.30%) CircleCI
8 11 (4.07%) Bitbucket
9 9 (3.33%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.85%) git-flow
10 5 (1.85%) Robot Framework
11 4 (1.48%) JIRA
12 3 (1.11%) Eclipse
12 3 (1.11%) JMeter
12 3 (1.11%) Selenium
13 2 (0.74%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.74%) TestRail
14 1 (0.37%) Artifactory
14 1 (0.37%) Gradle
14 1 (0.37%) Subversion
General
1 83 (30.74%) Social Skills
2 52 (19.26%) Finance
3 23 (8.52%) Banking
4 16 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.07%) Aerospace
6 8 (2.96%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.59%) Advertising
8 6 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.85%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.85%) Law
9 5 (1.85%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.48%) Billing
10 4 (1.48%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.48%) Retail
11 3 (1.11%) Aviation
12 2 (0.74%) Electronics
12 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.74%) Marketing
12 2 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.37%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 64 (23.70%) Developer
2 55 (20.37%) Cloud Engineer
3 54 (20.00%) Senior
4 39 (14.44%) DevOps Engineer
5 36 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
6 31 (11.48%) Java Developer
7 26 (9.63%) Platform Engineer
8 20 (7.41%) Lead
9 19 (7.04%) AWS Developer
9 19 (7.04%) Senior Developer
10 18 (6.67%) Security Engineer
11 16 (5.93%) Architect
11 16 (5.93%) AWS DevOps
11 16 (5.93%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 15 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 13 (4.81%) .NET Developer
13 13 (4.81%) AWS Architect
13 13 (4.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 11 (4.07%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 11 (4.07%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (18.15%) AWS CDK
2 47 (17.41%) AngularJS
2 47 (17.41%) Spring Boot
3 33 (12.22%) Node.js
4 30 (11.11%) Kafka
4 30 (11.11%) RESTful
5 29 (10.74%) Gherkin
5 29 (10.74%) Jest
6 27 (10.00%) React
7 26 (9.63%) Spring
8 21 (7.78%) Elastic Stack
9 19 (7.04%) .NET
9 19 (7.04%) RabbitMQ
10 14 (5.19%) Django
10 14 (5.19%) gRPC
10 14 (5.19%) REST
11 13 (4.81%) .NET Core
11 13 (4.81%) ASP.NET
11 13 (4.81%) ASP.NET Core
11 13 (4.81%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 84 (31.11%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (7.04%) Security Posture
4 15 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 13 (4.81%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (4.07%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (4.07%) Public Cloud
7 10 (3.70%) Cloud Security Posture
8 9 (3.33%) Blockchain
8 9 (3.33%) Web3
9 8 (2.96%) e-Learning
10 5 (1.85%) PKI
10 5 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.48%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.11%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (1.11%) Cyber Security Posture
13 2 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
13 2 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 63 (23.33%) Linux
2 27 (10.00%) Unix
3 24 (8.89%) Windows
4 12 (4.44%) Ubuntu
5 9 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.59%) Debian
7 5 (1.85%) CentOS
7 5 (1.85%) VMS
8 1 (0.37%) Android
8 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (76.67%) CI/CD
2 199 (73.70%) Infrastructure as Code
3 191 (70.74%) DevOps
4 117 (43.33%) Agile
5 78 (28.89%) Containerisation
5 78 (28.89%) Problem-Solving
6 64 (23.70%) Microservices
7 52 (19.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 52 (19.26%) Observability
8 48 (17.78%) Cloud Security
9 46 (17.04%) DevSecOps
10 42 (15.56%) Continuous Integration
11 36 (13.33%) Mentoring
12 35 (12.96%) Platform Engineering
12 35 (12.96%) Root Cause Analysis
13 33 (12.22%) Incident Response
14 32 (11.85%) Test Automation
15 30 (11.11%) Software Engineering
16 29 (10.74%) Collaborative Culture
17 28 (10.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 121 (44.81%) Python
2 77 (28.52%) Bash
2 77 (28.52%) Java
3 57 (21.11%) SQL
3 57 (21.11%) TypeScript
4 35 (12.96%) Go
5 31 (11.48%) PowerShell
6 29 (10.74%) Groovy
7 21 (7.78%) JavaScript
8 15 (5.56%) Kotlin
9 12 (4.44%) C#
10 11 (4.07%) Bicep
11 9 (3.33%) Rust
12 3 (1.11%) C++
13 2 (0.74%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 75 (27.78%) AWS Certification
2 61 (22.59%) Security Cleared
3 31 (11.48%) SC Cleared
4 28 (10.37%) Degree
5 25 (9.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 25 (9.26%) DV Cleared
6 22 (8.15%) AWS Certified Developer
7 19 (7.04%) ITIL Certification
8 18 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 12 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (3.70%) OSCP
11 7 (2.59%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 5 (1.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (1.48%) Azure Certification
13 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.74%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.74%) SnowPro
15 1 (0.37%) CREST Certified
15 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.30%) NIST
2 12 (4.44%) PCI DSS
3 11 (4.07%) GDPR
3 11 (4.07%) QA
4 8 (2.96%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.22%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.85%) SLA
7 1 (0.37%) Basel III
7 1 (0.37%) MiFID
System Software
1 140 (51.85%) Docker
2 6 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.11%) KVM
4 2 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.37%) QEMU
5 1 (0.37%) vCloud
5 1 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 184 (68.15%) Terraform
2 102 (37.78%) Kubernetes
3 59 (21.85%) Ansible
4 37 (13.70%) Prometheus
5 34 (12.59%) Grafana
6 29 (10.74%) HP Fortify
7 9 (3.33%) Argo
7 9 (3.33%) AWS Copilot
8 7 (2.59%) Docker Swarm
8 7 (2.59%) Puppet
9 6 (2.22%) Istio
9 6 (2.22%) linkerd
9 6 (2.22%) Mesos
10 4 (1.48%) Rancher
11 3 (1.11%) Kubeflow
11 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.74%) Nessus
13 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 29 (10.74%) Google
2 16 (5.93%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.81%) Splunk
4 9 (3.33%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.22%) SaltStack
6 5 (1.85%) SolarWinds
7 4 (1.48%) IBM
7 4 (1.48%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (1.11%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.11%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.11%) Oracle
8 3 (1.11%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.11%) VMware
9 2 (0.74%) Foundry
9 2 (0.74%) Ping Identity
9 2 (0.74%) SAP
10 1 (0.37%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.37%) Databricks
10 1 (0.37%) Qualys
10 1 (0.37%) Refinitiv