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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 433 531
Rank change year-on-year +61 +98 -167
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 463 203 218
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 0.47% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.92% 1.46% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 219 114 154
10th Percentile £47,850 £52,500 £50,507
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £60,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +3.45% -6.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,438 £89,375
90th Percentile £105,000 £103,875 £109,625
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 24,095 13,937 21,635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 23.18% 32.23% 32.31%
Number of salaries quoted 16,939 9,675 13,444
10th Percentile £31,750 £29,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,860 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.83% -7.69% +1.56%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 +57 237 £90,000 +10.43% 211
North of England +34 143 £72,500 +13.73% 80
Yorkshire +30 83 £75,000 +7.14% 22
North West -11 43 £72,500 +20.83% 45
South West -42 33 £67,500 -25.00% 25
Midlands -39 23 £62,000 +15.35% 38
South East -53 21 £70,000 -20.00% 30
North East - 20 £50,000 - 13
East Midlands -29 13 £52,500 - 18
West Midlands -42 10 £63,750 +18.60% 20
East of England -55 1 £90,000 +20.00% 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 18 (3.89%) Apache
2 11 (2.38%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.94%) Confluence
4 6 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.08%) nginx
6 2 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.43%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.43%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.86%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.43%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 3 (0.65%) Summit
2 2 (0.43%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.43%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 440 (95.03%) AWS
2 220 (47.52%) Serverless
3 157 (33.91%) AWS Lambda
4 122 (26.35%) Amazon ECS
5 120 (25.92%) Azure
6 114 (24.62%) Amazon S3
7 94 (20.30%) GitHub
8 91 (19.65%) GCP
9 74 (15.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 72 (15.55%) Amazon EC2
11 67 (14.47%) GitHub Actions
12 65 (14.04%) Amazon EKS
13 59 (12.74%) AWS Step Functions
14 48 (10.37%) Cloud Computing
15 41 (8.86%) Datadog
16 36 (7.78%) PaaS
17 33 (7.13%) OpenShift
18 29 (6.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 28 (6.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
20 27 (5.83%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.89%) Network Security
2 15 (3.24%) VPN
3 14 (3.02%) TCP/IP
4 11 (2.38%) Firewall
5 8 (1.73%) DNS
6 7 (1.51%) AMQP
7 6 (1.30%) HTTP
8 5 (1.08%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.43%) MQTT
11 1 (0.22%) 4G
11 1 (0.22%) 5G
11 1 (0.22%) DHCP
11 1 (0.22%) DNSSEC
11 1 (0.22%) Internet
11 1 (0.22%) PSTN
11 1 (0.22%) SCCP
11 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (17.49%) NoSQL
2 72 (15.55%) DynamoDB
3 48 (10.37%) Amazon RDS
4 26 (5.62%) Amazon Athena
5 14 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.16%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (1.94%) Big Data
7 9 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (1.94%) Hadoop
7 9 (1.94%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.51%) Cloudera CDH
8 7 (1.51%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.30%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.30%) MySQL
10 5 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.08%) Flink
10 5 (1.08%) Metadata
10 5 (1.08%) Redis
11 4 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.65%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 110 (23.76%) GitLab
2 108 (23.33%) Jenkins
3 70 (15.12%) Git
4 45 (9.72%) Cucumber
5 19 (4.10%) Cypress.io
6 18 (3.89%) Maven
7 17 (3.67%) SonarQube
8 11 (2.38%) Bitbucket
8 11 (2.38%) JIRA
9 9 (1.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 7 (1.51%) CircleCI
10 7 (1.51%) Claude Code
11 5 (1.08%) Snyk
11 5 (1.08%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.86%) Gradle
13 3 (0.65%) JUnit
13 3 (0.65%) NUnit
13 3 (0.65%) Postman
13 3 (0.65%) Selenium
14 2 (0.43%) git-flow
General
1 132 (28.51%) Finance
2 113 (24.41%) Social Skills
3 47 (10.15%) Public Sector
4 43 (9.29%) Banking
5 23 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (4.54%) Financial Institution
7 17 (3.67%) Law
8 14 (3.02%) Aerospace
9 13 (2.81%) Legal
10 11 (2.38%) Military
11 8 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.51%) Retail
13 4 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.86%) Local Government
13 4 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.86%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.65%) Automotive
14 3 (0.65%) Back Office
14 3 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.65%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 125 (27.00%) Senior
2 89 (19.22%) Cloud Engineer
3 77 (16.63%) Developer
4 69 (14.90%) DevOps Engineer
5 52 (11.23%) AWS Engineer
5 52 (11.23%) Java Engineer
6 46 (9.94%) Java Developer
7 39 (8.42%) Consultant
8 36 (7.78%) Lead
9 33 (7.13%) Senior Consultant
10 29 (6.26%) Platform Engineer
11 28 (6.05%) Software Engineer
12 27 (5.83%) Architect
13 26 (5.62%) Principal Engineer
14 25 (5.40%) Principal Java Engineer
15 24 (5.18%) Cloud Native Engineer
15 24 (5.18%) Full-Stack Developer
16 23 (4.97%) AWS Developer
17 20 (4.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 20 (4.32%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 329 (71.06%) Terraform
2 96 (20.73%) Spring Boot
3 89 (19.22%) Spring
4 72 (15.55%) Kafka
5 70 (15.12%) Node.js
6 67 (14.47%) AngularJS
7 44 (9.50%) AWS CDK
8 34 (7.34%) React
9 30 (6.48%) RESTful
10 25 (5.40%) Web Services
11 24 (5.18%) REST
12 20 (4.32%) Gherkin
13 17 (3.67%) RabbitMQ
14 16 (3.46%) gRPC
15 15 (3.24%) Jest
16 13 (2.81%) JSON
17 12 (2.59%) ARM Templates
18 11 (2.38%) OpenAPI
18 11 (2.38%) YAML
19 10 (2.16%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 175 (37.80%) Cloud Native
2 70 (15.12%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (12.74%) Public Cloud
4 52 (11.23%) Onboarding
5 44 (9.50%) e-Learning
6 37 (7.99%) Enterprise Cloud
7 30 (6.48%) Enterprise Software
8 24 (5.18%) Hybrid Cloud
9 22 (4.75%) Data Centre
10 19 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
11 16 (3.46%) Linux Command Line
12 13 (2.81%) Distributed Computing
12 13 (2.81%) Mainframe
13 10 (2.16%) Blog
14 8 (1.73%) Legacy Applications
15 7 (1.51%) AI Agents
15 7 (1.51%) Blockchain
15 7 (1.51%) Clustering
15 7 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (1.51%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 81 (17.49%) Linux
2 19 (4.10%) Windows
3 12 (2.59%) Unix
4 10 (2.16%) Ubuntu
5 8 (1.73%) CentOS
5 8 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.51%) Debian
7 5 (1.08%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.43%) Android
8 2 (0.43%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (75.16%) Infrastructure as Code
2 304 (65.66%) CI/CD
3 247 (53.35%) DevOps
4 208 (44.92%) Agile
5 137 (29.59%) Containerisation
6 106 (22.89%) Mentoring
7 105 (22.68%) Microservices
7 105 (22.68%) Test Automation
8 104 (22.46%) Software Engineering
9 102 (22.03%) Continuous Improvement
10 93 (20.09%) Problem-Solving
11 89 (19.22%) Observability
12 84 (18.14%) Cloud Security
13 80 (17.28%) Event-Driven
14 75 (16.20%) Migration
15 71 (15.33%) AI
16 62 (13.39%) Platform Engineering
17 61 (13.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 56 (12.10%) Collaborative Culture
19 51 (11.02%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 212 (45.79%) Python
2 158 (34.13%) Java
3 97 (20.95%) SQL
4 79 (17.06%) Bash
5 67 (14.47%) TypeScript
6 41 (8.86%) Groovy
7 36 (7.78%) PowerShell
8 34 (7.34%) Go
9 32 (6.91%) Kotlin
10 31 (6.70%) JavaScript
11 20 (4.32%) Bicep
12 18 (3.89%) Ruby
13 15 (3.24%) C#
13 15 (3.24%) Perl
13 15 (3.24%) PHP
14 6 (1.30%) C++
15 4 (0.86%) Google Apps Script
16 2 (0.43%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.43%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.22%) Korn
Qualifications
1 155 (33.48%) Security Cleared
2 117 (25.27%) AWS Certification
3 94 (20.30%) SC Cleared
4 75 (16.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 39 (8.42%) DV Cleared
6 35 (7.56%) Degree
7 19 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (2.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (2.38%) Master's Degree
10 10 (2.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 10 (2.16%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (1.73%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.86%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.86%) OCP
12 4 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.43%) CREST Certified
13 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.99%) GDPR
2 14 (3.02%) NIST
3 13 (2.81%) PCI DSS
4 8 (1.73%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.08%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.08%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.86%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.65%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.65%) NCSC
7 3 (0.65%) QA
8 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 180 (38.88%) Docker
2 5 (1.08%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.08%) KVM
2 5 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 173 (37.37%) Kubernetes
2 98 (21.17%) Ansible
3 51 (11.02%) Progress Chef
4 41 (8.86%) Grafana
5 36 (7.78%) Prometheus
5 36 (7.78%) Puppet
6 20 (4.32%) Argo
7 11 (2.38%) HP Fortify
8 8 (1.73%) Istio
9 6 (1.30%) Docker Swarm
9 6 (1.30%) linkerd
9 6 (1.30%) Mesos
9 6 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.65%) Rancher
12 2 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.43%) Oracle RMAN
13 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.22%) Kibana
Vendors
1 33 (7.13%) Google
2 18 (3.89%) Microsoft
3 14 (3.02%) Oracle
4 13 (2.81%) Red Hat
5 9 (1.94%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.51%) Databricks
6 7 (1.51%) SaltStack
6 7 (1.51%) Splunk
7 6 (1.30%) AppDynamics
7 6 (1.30%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.30%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.30%) VMware
8 5 (1.08%) Cisco
9 4 (0.86%) Avaya
9 4 (0.86%) Genesys
10 3 (0.65%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.43%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.43%) Informatica
12 1 (0.22%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 1 (0.22%) ServiceNow