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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 455 558
Rank change year-on-year +93 +103 -199
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 456 207 210
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.47% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.85% 1.44% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 223 117 160
10th Percentile £48,150 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £59,750 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -6.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £107,350 £99,750 £107,500
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 24,617 14,389 23,001
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.84% 32.93% 31.69%
Number of salaries quoted 16,831 10,149 16,733
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £101,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -5.51%

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 21 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 21 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 +52 227 £90,000 +13.56% 24
North of England +61 148 £72,500 +3.57% 23
Yorkshire +35 88 £75,000 +7.14% 6
North West +2 46 £72,500 +11.54% 9
South West -43 30 £67,500 -25.00% 22
Midlands -25 23 £62,250 -4.23% 5
South East -39 19 £70,000 -18.84% 11
East Midlands -6 15 £52,500 - 1
North East -41 14 £50,000 -27.94% 8
West Midlands -34 8 £68,496 +5.38% 4
East of England -31 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 (3.51%) Apache
2 9 (1.97%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.97%) Confluence
3 6 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.66%) nginx
6 1 (0.22%) Drupal
6 1 (0.22%) IIS
6 1 (0.22%) JBoss
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 (95.61%) AWS
2 231 (50.66%) Serverless
3 173 (37.94%) AWS Lambda
4 133 (29.17%) Amazon ECS
5 126 (27.63%) Amazon S3
6 111 (24.34%) Azure
7 96 (21.05%) GitHub
8 81 (17.76%) GCP
9 77 (16.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 70 (15.35%) AWS Step Functions
11 69 (15.13%) Amazon EC2
12 67 (14.69%) GitHub Actions
13 66 (14.47%) Amazon EKS
14 55 (12.06%) Datadog
15 51 (11.18%) Cloud Computing
16 35 (7.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 34 (7.46%) Amazon SQS
18 32 (7.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 30 (6.58%) OpenShift
20 27 (5.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.39%) Network Security
2 15 (3.29%) TCP/IP
3 13 (2.85%) VPN
4 11 (2.41%) DNS
4 11 (2.41%) Firewall
5 6 (1.32%) HTTP
6 5 (1.10%) AMQP
6 5 (1.10%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.66%) DSL
8 2 (0.44%) MQTT
9 1 (0.22%) 4G
9 1 (0.22%) 5G
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 89 (19.52%) DynamoDB
2 80 (17.54%) NoSQL
3 50 (10.96%) Amazon RDS
4 33 (7.24%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (1.75%) Big Data
7 8 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (1.75%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.54%) Flink
8 7 (1.54%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.32%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.32%) Metadata
9 6 (1.32%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.10%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (1.10%) MySQL
11 4 (0.88%) Redis
12 3 (0.66%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 120 (26.32%) Jenkins
2 115 (25.22%) GitLab
3 65 (14.25%) Git
4 35 (7.68%) Cucumber
5 25 (5.48%) Cypress.io
5 25 (5.48%) Maven
6 23 (5.04%) SonarQube
7 15 (3.29%) CircleCI
8 12 (2.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 12 (2.63%) JIRA
9 11 (2.41%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.54%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.32%) TeamCity
12 5 (1.10%) Snyk
13 4 (0.88%) Gradle
13 4 (0.88%) Selenium
14 3 (0.66%) git-flow
14 3 (0.66%) JUnit
14 3 (0.66%) NUnit
14 3 (0.66%) Postman
General
1 121 (26.54%) Finance
1 121 (26.54%) Social Skills
2 41 (8.99%) Banking
3 38 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 19 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (3.29%) Financial Institution
5 15 (3.29%) Law
6 13 (2.85%) Legal
7 12 (2.63%) Aerospace
8 9 (1.97%) Military
9 8 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.10%) Retail
11 4 (0.88%) Advertising
11 4 (0.88%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.88%) Local Government
11 4 (0.88%) Mandarin Language
11 4 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.88%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.66%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 120 (26.32%) Senior
2 92 (20.18%) Developer
3 88 (19.30%) Cloud Engineer
4 74 (16.23%) DevOps Engineer
5 57 (12.50%) Java Developer
6 51 (11.18%) AWS Engineer
7 40 (8.77%) Java Engineer
8 39 (8.55%) Consultant
9 35 (7.68%) Lead
10 32 (7.02%) Senior Consultant
11 25 (5.48%) Full-Stack Developer
11 25 (5.48%) Software Engineer
12 24 (5.26%) AWS Developer
12 24 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
13 23 (5.04%) Architect
13 23 (5.04%) Senior Developer
14 21 (4.61%) Cloud Native Engineer
15 20 (4.39%) Principal Engineer
16 19 (4.17%) Principal Java Engineer
16 19 (4.17%) Professional Services Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 320 (70.18%) Terraform
2 89 (19.52%) Spring Boot
3 76 (16.67%) Spring
4 74 (16.23%) AngularJS
5 72 (15.79%) Node.js
6 70 (15.35%) Kafka
7 49 (10.75%) AWS CDK
8 35 (7.68%) React
9 31 (6.80%) RESTful
10 26 (5.70%) Gherkin
11 22 (4.82%) REST
11 22 (4.82%) Web Services
12 20 (4.39%) Jest
13 19 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
14 17 (3.73%) gRPC
15 15 (3.29%) YAML
16 13 (2.85%) Elastic Stack
16 13 (2.85%) JSON
16 13 (2.85%) Next.js
16 13 (2.85%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 156 (34.21%) Cloud Native
2 59 (12.94%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (10.96%) Onboarding
4 46 (10.09%) Public Cloud
5 41 (8.99%) Enterprise Cloud
6 32 (7.02%) e-Learning
7 26 (5.70%) Hybrid Cloud
8 22 (4.82%) Data Centre
9 21 (4.61%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (3.07%) Linux Command Line
12 13 (2.85%) Blockchain
12 13 (2.85%) Distributed Computing
12 13 (2.85%) Mainframe
12 13 (2.85%) Web3
13 10 (2.19%) Blog
13 10 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (1.97%) Security Posture
15 7 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
16 6 (1.32%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 76 (16.67%) Linux
2 22 (4.82%) Windows
3 11 (2.41%) Ubuntu
4 10 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (1.97%) CentOS
6 7 (1.54%) Unix
6 7 (1.54%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.10%) Debian
8 2 (0.44%) Android
8 2 (0.44%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (72.15%) Infrastructure as Code
2 295 (64.69%) CI/CD
3 244 (53.51%) DevOps
4 182 (39.91%) Agile
5 142 (31.14%) Containerisation
6 105 (23.03%) Mentoring
7 103 (22.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 94 (20.61%) Test Automation
9 93 (20.39%) Microservices
9 93 (20.39%) Software Engineering
10 86 (18.86%) Observability
11 83 (18.20%) Cloud Security
12 82 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
13 71 (15.57%) Event-Driven
14 65 (14.25%) Migration
15 58 (12.72%) Platform Engineering
16 56 (12.28%) AI
16 56 (12.28%) Collaborative Culture
17 53 (11.62%) Configuration Management
18 52 (11.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 208 (45.61%) Python
2 157 (34.43%) Java
3 97 (21.27%) SQL
4 83 (18.20%) Bash
5 78 (17.11%) TypeScript
6 45 (9.87%) Groovy
7 40 (8.77%) Go
8 39 (8.55%) Kotlin
9 31 (6.80%) PowerShell
10 28 (6.14%) JavaScript
11 18 (3.95%) Bicep
11 18 (3.95%) Ruby
12 16 (3.51%) PHP
13 15 (3.29%) C#
13 15 (3.29%) Perl
14 6 (1.32%) C++
15 5 (1.10%) Google Apps Script
16 3 (0.66%) Rust
17 2 (0.44%) Shell Script
18 1 (0.22%) Korn
Qualifications
1 151 (33.11%) Security Cleared
2 109 (23.90%) AWS Certification
3 91 (19.96%) SC Cleared
4 66 (14.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 41 (8.99%) Degree
6 31 (6.80%) DV Cleared
7 19 (4.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 17 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (3.29%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (2.63%) Master's Degree
11 9 (1.97%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (1.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (1.10%) Azure Certification
13 5 (1.10%) OSCP
14 4 (0.88%) OCP
14 4 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (0.88%) Postgraduate
14 4 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
15 2 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.02%) GDPR
2 15 (3.29%) NIST
2 15 (3.29%) PCI DSS
3 9 (1.97%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.75%) SOC 2
5 5 (1.10%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.88%) NCSC
7 3 (0.66%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.66%) QA
8 2 (0.44%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 190 (41.67%) Docker
2 6 (1.32%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.10%) KVM
3 5 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 177 (38.82%) Kubernetes
2 93 (20.39%) Ansible
3 47 (10.31%) Progress Chef
4 41 (8.99%) Grafana
5 36 (7.89%) Prometheus
6 35 (7.68%) Puppet
7 19 (4.17%) Argo
8 17 (3.73%) HP Fortify
9 6 (1.32%) Istio
9 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.10%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.88%) linkerd
11 4 (0.88%) Mesos
12 2 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.44%) Rancher
13 1 (0.22%) Consul
13 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.22%) Kibana
13 1 (0.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 32 (7.02%) Google
2 17 (3.73%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.63%) Oracle
3 12 (2.63%) Red Hat
4 9 (1.97%) OpenAI
5 7 (1.54%) HubSpot
6 6 (1.32%) Databricks
6 6 (1.32%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.32%) Splunk
6 6 (1.32%) VMware
7 5 (1.10%) SaltStack
8 4 (0.88%) AppDynamics
8 4 (0.88%) Avaya
8 4 (0.88%) Cisco
8 4 (0.88%) Genesys
9 3 (0.66%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.44%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.44%) Informatica
11 1 (0.22%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.22%) ServiceNow