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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 439 517
Rank change year-on-year +63 +78 -151
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 460 204 225
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 0.48% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.88% 1.47% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 212 116 162
10th Percentile £46,450 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,411 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.55% +7.14% -9.68%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £89,375
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,625 £107,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £71,000
% change year-on-year - +5.63% -5.33%

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 24,502 13,891 21,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 23.93% 32.47% 31.93%
Number of salaries quoted 17,049 9,696 13,894
10th Percentile £31,750 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £63,762
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -5.90% -1.91%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £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 22 September 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 22 September 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 +45 227 £90,000 +11.46% 161
North of England +37 151 £72,500 +3.57% 69
Yorkshire +26 91 £75,000 +7.14% 19
North West -17 44 £73,750 +20.41% 38
South West -49 33 £67,500 -25.00% 19
Midlands -33 23 £62,000 +12.73% 24
South East -49 19 £70,000 -20.00% 40
North East - 17 £50,000 - 12
East Midlands -18 13 £52,500 - 11
West Midlands -47 10 £63,750 +15.91% 13
East of England -42 1 £90,000 +20.00% 5
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 (3.70%) Apache
2 10 (2.17%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.96%) Confluence
4 5 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.65%) nginx
6 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.22%) JBoss
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.22%) SAS
7 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.22%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 4 (0.87%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.43%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 3 (0.65%) Summit
2 1 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 438 (95.22%) AWS
2 225 (48.91%) Serverless
3 169 (36.74%) AWS Lambda
4 134 (29.13%) Amazon ECS
5 123 (26.74%) Amazon S3
6 110 (23.91%) Azure
7 98 (21.30%) GitHub
8 84 (18.26%) GCP
9 81 (17.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 71 (15.43%) GitHub Actions
11 70 (15.22%) Amazon EC2
12 68 (14.78%) AWS Step Functions
13 66 (14.35%) Amazon EKS
14 48 (10.43%) Cloud Computing
15 47 (10.22%) Datadog
16 34 (7.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 33 (7.17%) OpenShift
18 32 (6.96%) Amazon SQS
19 30 (6.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 27 (5.87%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.91%) Network Security
2 14 (3.04%) TCP/IP
3 13 (2.83%) VPN
4 10 (2.17%) Firewall
5 8 (1.74%) DNS
6 7 (1.52%) AMQP
7 6 (1.30%) HTTP
8 5 (1.09%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.43%) MQTT
10 1 (0.22%) 4G
10 1 (0.22%) 5G
10 1 (0.22%) DHCP
10 1 (0.22%) DNSSEC
10 1 (0.22%) Internet
10 1 (0.22%) PSTN
10 1 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.22%) SCCP
10 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (18.70%) DynamoDB
2 82 (17.83%) NoSQL
3 48 (10.43%) Amazon RDS
4 31 (6.74%) Amazon Athena
5 14 (3.04%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (1.96%) Big Data
6 9 (1.96%) Hadoop
6 9 (1.96%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.52%) Cloudera CDH
8 7 (1.52%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.30%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.30%) Flink
9 6 (1.30%) Metadata
9 6 (1.30%) MySQL
10 5 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.09%) Redis
11 3 (0.65%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 116 (25.22%) Jenkins
2 110 (23.91%) GitLab
3 71 (15.43%) Git
4 42 (9.13%) Cucumber
5 25 (5.43%) Cypress.io
5 25 (5.43%) Maven
6 23 (5.00%) SonarQube
7 11 (2.39%) Bitbucket
7 11 (2.39%) JIRA
8 10 (2.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (1.52%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.52%) Claude Code
10 5 (1.09%) Snyk
10 5 (1.09%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.87%) Gradle
11 4 (0.87%) Selenium
12 3 (0.65%) git-flow
12 3 (0.65%) JUnit
12 3 (0.65%) NUnit
12 3 (0.65%) Postman
General
1 127 (27.61%) Finance
2 116 (25.22%) Social Skills
3 41 (8.91%) Banking
3 41 (8.91%) Public Sector
4 22 (4.78%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (4.13%) Financial Institution
6 17 (3.70%) Law
7 14 (3.04%) Aerospace
8 13 (2.83%) Legal
9 11 (2.39%) Military
10 7 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.52%) Retail
11 5 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.87%) Local Government
12 4 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.87%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.65%) Automotive
13 3 (0.65%) Back Office
13 3 (0.65%) Marketing
13 3 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 122 (26.52%) Senior
2 88 (19.13%) Cloud Engineer
2 88 (19.13%) Developer
3 69 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 55 (11.96%) Java Developer
5 52 (11.30%) AWS Engineer
6 49 (10.65%) Java Engineer
7 39 (8.48%) Consultant
8 34 (7.39%) Lead
9 33 (7.17%) Senior Consultant
10 28 (6.09%) Software Engineer
11 27 (5.87%) Full-Stack Developer
11 27 (5.87%) Platform Engineer
12 26 (5.65%) AWS Developer
13 24 (5.22%) Cloud Native Engineer
13 24 (5.22%) Principal Engineer
14 23 (5.00%) Architect
14 23 (5.00%) Principal Java Engineer
15 20 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 20 (4.35%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 320 (69.57%) Terraform
2 98 (21.30%) Spring Boot
3 86 (18.70%) Spring
4 79 (17.17%) Node.js
5 77 (16.74%) AngularJS
6 69 (15.00%) Kafka
7 45 (9.78%) AWS CDK
8 34 (7.39%) React
9 30 (6.52%) RESTful
10 26 (5.65%) Gherkin
11 25 (5.43%) Web Services
12 24 (5.22%) REST
13 21 (4.57%) Jest
14 17 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
15 16 (3.48%) gRPC
16 13 (2.83%) JSON
17 12 (2.61%) YAML
18 11 (2.39%) OpenAPI
18 11 (2.39%) OpenTelemetry
19 10 (2.17%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 167 (36.30%) Cloud Native
2 66 (14.35%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (11.96%) Public Cloud
4 51 (11.09%) Onboarding
5 40 (8.70%) e-Learning
6 38 (8.26%) Enterprise Cloud
7 27 (5.87%) Enterprise Software
8 25 (5.43%) Hybrid Cloud
9 22 (4.78%) Data Centre
10 19 (4.13%) Legacy Systems
11 17 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
12 13 (2.83%) Distributed Computing
12 13 (2.83%) Mainframe
13 10 (2.17%) Blog
14 8 (1.74%) Blockchain
14 8 (1.74%) Web3
15 7 (1.52%) AI Agents
15 7 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
16 6 (1.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 81 (17.61%) Linux
2 20 (4.35%) Windows
3 11 (2.39%) Ubuntu
3 11 (2.39%) Unix
4 10 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (1.96%) CentOS
6 7 (1.52%) Debian
7 6 (1.30%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.43%) Android
8 2 (0.43%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (72.39%) Infrastructure as Code
2 298 (64.78%) CI/CD
3 242 (52.61%) DevOps
4 197 (42.83%) Agile
5 136 (29.57%) Containerisation
6 103 (22.39%) Mentoring
7 102 (22.17%) Software Engineering
8 100 (21.74%) Microservices
9 97 (21.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 97 (21.09%) Test Automation
10 87 (18.91%) Observability
10 87 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
11 77 (16.74%) Event-Driven
12 76 (16.52%) Cloud Security
13 68 (14.78%) AI
14 67 (14.57%) Migration
15 59 (12.83%) Platform Engineering
16 58 (12.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 55 (11.96%) Collaborative Culture
18 51 (11.09%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 210 (45.65%) Python
2 165 (35.87%) Java
3 99 (21.52%) SQL
4 83 (18.04%) Bash
5 80 (17.39%) TypeScript
6 48 (10.43%) Groovy
7 39 (8.48%) Kotlin
8 34 (7.39%) Go
8 34 (7.39%) PowerShell
9 32 (6.96%) JavaScript
10 18 (3.91%) Bicep
10 18 (3.91%) Ruby
11 15 (3.26%) C#
11 15 (3.26%) Perl
11 15 (3.26%) PHP
12 6 (1.30%) C++
13 4 (0.87%) Google Apps Script
14 2 (0.43%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.22%) Korn
15 1 (0.22%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 157 (34.13%) Security Cleared
2 119 (25.87%) AWS Certification
3 96 (20.87%) SC Cleared
4 72 (15.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 39 (8.48%) DV Cleared
6 35 (7.61%) Degree
7 17 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 17 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (3.26%) ITIL Certification
9 11 (2.39%) Master's Degree
10 10 (2.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 9 (1.96%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.87%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.87%) OCP
12 4 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.43%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.52%) GDPR
2 12 (2.61%) NIST
3 11 (2.39%) PCI DSS
4 8 (1.74%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.09%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.09%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.87%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.65%) NCSC
7 3 (0.65%) QA
8 2 (0.43%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 188 (40.87%) Docker
2 5 (1.09%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.09%) KVM
2 5 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 171 (37.17%) Kubernetes
2 91 (19.78%) Ansible
3 51 (11.09%) Progress Chef
4 39 (8.48%) Grafana
5 36 (7.83%) Puppet
6 34 (7.39%) Prometheus
7 21 (4.57%) Argo
8 17 (3.70%) HP Fortify
9 8 (1.74%) Istio
10 6 (1.30%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (1.30%) linkerd
10 6 (1.30%) Mesos
10 6 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.65%) Rancher
13 2 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
14 1 (0.22%) Kibana
14 1 (0.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 1 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 33 (7.17%) Google
2 16 (3.48%) Microsoft
3 14 (3.04%) Red Hat
4 13 (2.83%) Oracle
5 9 (1.96%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.52%) HubSpot
6 7 (1.52%) SaltStack
6 7 (1.52%) Splunk
7 6 (1.30%) AppDynamics
7 6 (1.30%) Databricks
7 6 (1.30%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.30%) VMware
8 5 (1.09%) Cisco
9 4 (0.87%) Avaya
9 4 (0.87%) 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