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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 445 550
Rank change year-on-year +71 +105 -191
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 372 213 314
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 0.53% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.62% 1.56% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 197 115 256
10th Percentile £55,750 £52,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £63,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £95,000 £94,375 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,677 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +0.90% - -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 22,990 13,650 31,222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.28% 34.09% 32.77%
Number of salaries quoted 15,309 9,707 24,826
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,314
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.73%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +38 186 £90,000 +10.77% 37
North of England +67 130 £75,000 +8.09% 22
Yorkshire +49 90 £75,000 +4.17% 7
North West +27 38 £80,000 +15.30% 13
Midlands -16 28 £52,500 -27.59% 2
East Midlands -7 18 £52,500 -27.59%
South West -52 11 £72,500 -19.44% 11
West Midlands -17 10 £50,000 -38.51% 2
South East -44 10 £70,000 +3.70% 18
East of England -31 2 £82,500 +10.00%
North East -52 2 £65,576 -5.49% 2
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 14 (3.76%) Apache
2 9 (2.42%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.61%) Confluence
4 5 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.81%) JBoss
7 1 (0.27%) Drupal
7 1 (0.27%) IIS
7 1 (0.27%) nginx
7 1 (0.27%) SAS
7 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Magento
1 1 (0.27%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 357 (95.97%) AWS
2 194 (52.15%) Serverless
3 161 (43.28%) AWS Lambda
4 119 (31.99%) Amazon S3
5 110 (29.57%) Amazon ECS
6 87 (23.39%) AWS Step Functions
7 84 (22.58%) Azure
8 80 (21.51%) GitHub
9 73 (19.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 60 (16.13%) Datadog
11 57 (15.32%) GCP
12 56 (15.05%) GitHub Actions
13 49 (13.17%) Amazon EC2
14 43 (11.56%) Amazon EKS
15 42 (11.29%) Amazon SQS
16 36 (9.68%) Amazon ECR
17 35 (9.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 33 (8.87%) Apigee
19 30 (8.06%) Cloud Computing
20 21 (5.65%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.76%) Firewall
2 13 (3.49%) VPN
3 11 (2.96%) DSL
3 11 (2.96%) Network Security
4 9 (2.42%) DNS
4 9 (2.42%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.34%) AMQP
6 3 (0.81%) HTTP
6 3 (0.81%) SCCP
6 3 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.54%) 4G
7 2 (0.54%) 5G
8 1 (0.27%) DHCP
8 1 (0.27%) DNSSEC
8 1 (0.27%) Internet
8 1 (0.27%) MQTT
8 1 (0.27%) PSTN
8 1 (0.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (28.23%) DynamoDB
2 81 (21.77%) NoSQL
3 40 (10.75%) Amazon RDS
4 37 (9.95%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (2.15%) Big Data
7 6 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (1.61%) Flink
7 6 (1.61%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.34%) Cloudera CDH
8 5 (1.34%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.34%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.08%) Metadata
9 4 (1.08%) MySQL
9 4 (1.08%) Redis
10 3 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.54%) Power BI
11 2 (0.54%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 143 (38.44%) Jenkins
2 130 (34.95%) GitLab
3 54 (14.52%) Git
4 37 (9.95%) Maven
5 33 (8.87%) Cypress.io
6 29 (7.80%) SonarQube
7 27 (7.26%) Cucumber
8 26 (6.99%) CircleCI
9 10 (2.69%) Bitbucket
10 8 (2.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (1.88%) JIRA
12 6 (1.61%) Claude Code
13 5 (1.34%) Gradle
13 5 (1.34%) TeamCity
14 3 (0.81%) Selenium
15 2 (0.54%) JMeter
16 1 (0.27%) Eclipse
16 1 (0.27%) git-flow
16 1 (0.27%) Robot Framework
16 1 (0.27%) Vagrant
General
1 102 (27.42%) Social Skills
2 85 (22.85%) Finance
3 35 (9.41%) Banking
4 13 (3.49%) Public Sector
5 11 (2.96%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.69%) Aerospace
6 10 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.42%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.88%) Advertising
9 6 (1.61%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.61%) Retail
10 5 (1.34%) Legal
11 4 (1.08%) Billing
11 4 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.08%) Mandarin Language
11 4 (1.08%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.81%) Aviation
12 3 (0.81%) Back Office
12 3 (0.81%) Law
13 2 (0.54%) Games
Job Titles
1 104 (27.96%) Developer
2 79 (21.24%) Senior
3 74 (19.89%) Cloud Engineer
4 70 (18.82%) Java Developer
5 56 (15.05%) DevOps Engineer
6 41 (11.02%) AWS Engineer
7 31 (8.33%) Senior Developer
8 27 (7.26%) AWS Developer
8 27 (7.26%) Java Engineer
9 24 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
10 23 (6.18%) Full-Stack Developer
11 22 (5.91%) Lead
12 20 (5.38%) Security Engineer
13 19 (5.11%) Architect
13 19 (5.11%) AWS DevOps
13 19 (5.11%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 19 (5.11%) Principal Engineer
13 19 (5.11%) Software Engineer
14 18 (4.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 16 (4.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (22.31%) Spring Boot
2 80 (21.51%) AngularJS
3 67 (18.01%) Kafka
4 60 (16.13%) Node.js
5 59 (15.86%) Spring
6 44 (11.83%) AWS CDK
7 37 (9.95%) Gherkin
8 30 (8.06%) React
9 29 (7.80%) Jest
10 27 (7.26%) RESTful
11 22 (5.91%) gRPC
11 22 (5.91%) RabbitMQ
12 20 (5.38%) web3js
13 17 (4.57%) Next.js
14 16 (4.30%) REST
14 16 (4.30%) YAML
15 14 (3.76%) Web Services
16 13 (3.49%) Elastic Stack
16 13 (3.49%) JSON
17 9 (2.42%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 110 (29.57%) Cloud Native
2 37 (9.95%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (9.41%) Public Cloud
4 22 (5.91%) e-Learning
5 21 (5.65%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (5.65%) Security Posture
6 20 (5.38%) Blockchain
6 20 (5.38%) Web3
7 17 (4.57%) Onboarding
8 15 (4.03%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (3.76%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (3.49%) Cloud Security Posture
10 13 (3.49%) Enterprise Cloud
11 8 (2.15%) PKI
11 8 (2.15%) Product Ownership
12 7 (1.88%) Data Centre
13 6 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
14 5 (1.34%) Management Information System
15 3 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 67 (18.01%) Linux
2 20 (5.38%) Windows
3 12 (3.23%) Ubuntu
4 10 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.42%) CentOS
6 5 (1.34%) Debian
6 5 (1.34%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.81%) Android
7 3 (0.81%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.81%) Unix
7 3 (0.81%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (72.31%) Infrastructure as Code
2 248 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 197 (52.96%) DevOps
4 137 (36.83%) Agile
5 118 (31.72%) Containerisation
6 78 (20.97%) Microservices
7 77 (20.70%) Mentoring
8 74 (19.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 71 (19.09%) Test Automation
10 70 (18.82%) Observability
10 70 (18.82%) Software Engineering
11 68 (18.28%) DevSecOps
12 66 (17.74%) Cloud Security
13 63 (16.94%) Continuous Integration
13 63 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
14 55 (14.78%) Event-Driven
15 49 (13.17%) Platform Engineering
16 43 (11.56%) Collaborative Culture
17 42 (11.29%) Full-Stack Development
17 42 (11.29%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 164 (44.09%) Python
2 145 (38.98%) Java
3 87 (23.39%) SQL
3 87 (23.39%) TypeScript
4 67 (18.01%) Bash
5 52 (13.98%) Groovy
6 45 (12.10%) Go
7 41 (11.02%) Kotlin
8 29 (7.80%) JavaScript
9 28 (7.53%) PowerShell
10 15 (4.03%) Bicep
11 13 (3.49%) C#
12 11 (2.96%) Rust
13 7 (1.88%) C++
14 6 (1.61%) PHP
15 5 (1.34%) Google Apps Script
15 5 (1.34%) Perl
15 5 (1.34%) Ruby
16 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 94 (25.27%) Security Cleared
2 81 (21.77%) AWS Certification
3 54 (14.52%) SC Cleared
4 44 (11.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 36 (9.68%) Degree
6 26 (6.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 23 (6.18%) ITIL Certification
8 17 (4.57%) DV Cleared
9 14 (3.76%) OSCP
10 12 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (2.42%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (2.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (2.15%) Master's Degree
13 6 (1.61%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 6 (1.61%) Azure Certification
14 4 (1.08%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.81%) CREST Certified
16 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
16 2 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
17 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.38%) NIST
2 19 (5.11%) PCI DSS
3 16 (4.30%) GDPR
4 12 (3.23%) SOC 2
5 9 (2.42%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.27%) NCSC
7 1 (0.27%) QA
7 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 164 (44.09%) Docker
2 5 (1.34%) KVM
2 5 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.08%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 240 (64.52%) Terraform
2 141 (37.90%) Kubernetes
3 61 (16.40%) Ansible
4 40 (10.75%) Prometheus
5 33 (8.87%) Grafana
6 28 (7.53%) HP Fortify
7 20 (5.38%) Progress Chef
8 15 (4.03%) Argo
9 12 (3.23%) Puppet
10 7 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.34%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (1.08%) Istio
12 4 (1.08%) linkerd
12 4 (1.08%) Mesos
13 3 (0.81%) AWS Copilot
13 3 (0.81%) Rancher
14 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
15 1 (0.27%) Consul
15 1 (0.27%) Packer
Vendors
1 26 (6.99%) Google
2 12 (3.23%) Microsoft
3 10 (2.69%) Oracle
4 7 (1.88%) HubSpot
5 6 (1.61%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.34%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.34%) SaltStack
6 5 (1.34%) Splunk
6 5 (1.34%) VMware
7 4 (1.08%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.81%) Databricks
9 1 (0.27%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.27%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.27%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.27%) Infoblox
9 1 (0.27%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.27%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.27%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.27%) TOWER Software