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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 441 566
Rank change year-on-year +61 +125 -208
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 391 216 307
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 0.53% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.67% 1.57% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 207 118 253
10th Percentile £54,500 £52,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,625 £112,500
UK median annual salary £78,319 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +4.43% - -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 23,450 13,794 30,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.40% 33.57% 33.13%
Number of salaries quoted 15,671 9,846 24,336
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,250
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 £103,750 £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 30 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 30 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 +47 200 £90,000 +9.09% 34
North of England +42 133 £75,000 +8.09% 21
Yorkshire +46 89 £75,000 +4.17% 6
North West +18 41 £77,500 +11.70% 13
Midlands -17 28 £52,500 -22.37% 1
East Midlands -11 18 £52,500 -27.59%
South East -41 12 £70,000 -12.50% 20
South West -56 11 £72,500 -19.44% 10
West Midlands -20 10 £56,000 -15.55% 1
North East -48 3 £57,788 -16.71% 2
East of England -32 2 £82,500 +10.00%
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 15 (3.84%) Apache
2 10 (2.56%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.53%) Confluence
4 5 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.77%) JBoss
7 1 (0.26%) Drupal
7 1 (0.26%) IIS
7 1 (0.26%) nginx
7 1 (0.26%) SAS
7 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Magento
1 1 (0.26%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 374 (95.65%) AWS
2 204 (52.17%) Serverless
3 166 (42.46%) AWS Lambda
4 120 (30.69%) Amazon S3
5 113 (28.90%) Amazon ECS
6 89 (22.76%) Azure
7 86 (21.99%) AWS Step Functions
8 80 (20.46%) GitHub
9 71 (18.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 61 (15.60%) GCP
11 59 (15.09%) Datadog
12 57 (14.58%) GitHub Actions
13 50 (12.79%) Amazon EC2
14 47 (12.02%) Amazon EKS
15 42 (10.74%) Amazon SQS
16 37 (9.46%) Amazon ECR
17 35 (8.95%) Cloud Computing
18 34 (8.70%) Apigee
19 33 (8.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
20 23 (5.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.84%) Firewall
1 15 (3.84%) VPN
2 13 (3.32%) Network Security
3 11 (2.81%) DSL
4 10 (2.56%) DNS
5 9 (2.30%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.53%) AMQP
7 3 (0.77%) HTTP
7 3 (0.77%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.51%) 4G
8 2 (0.51%) 5G
8 2 (0.51%) SCCP
9 1 (0.26%) DHCP
9 1 (0.26%) DNSSEC
9 1 (0.26%) Internet
9 1 (0.26%) MQTT
9 1 (0.26%) PSTN
9 1 (0.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (26.85%) DynamoDB
2 81 (20.72%) NoSQL
3 39 (9.97%) Amazon RDS
4 35 (8.95%) Amazon Athena
5 11 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (2.30%) Big Data
8 7 (1.79%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (1.53%) Cloudera CDH
9 6 (1.53%) Flink
10 5 (1.28%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.28%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.02%) Metadata
11 4 (1.02%) MySQL
11 4 (1.02%) Redis
12 3 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.51%) Power BI
13 2 (0.51%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 146 (37.34%) Jenkins
2 135 (34.53%) GitLab
3 55 (14.07%) Git
4 38 (9.72%) Maven
5 34 (8.70%) Cypress.io
6 31 (7.93%) SonarQube
7 28 (7.16%) Cucumber
8 26 (6.65%) CircleCI
9 10 (2.56%) Bitbucket
10 8 (2.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (1.79%) JIRA
12 6 (1.53%) Claude Code
13 5 (1.28%) Gradle
13 5 (1.28%) TeamCity
14 3 (0.77%) Selenium
15 2 (0.51%) JMeter
16 1 (0.26%) Eclipse
16 1 (0.26%) Gatling
16 1 (0.26%) Robot Framework
16 1 (0.26%) Vagrant
General
1 106 (27.11%) Social Skills
2 93 (23.79%) Finance
3 35 (8.95%) Banking
4 17 (4.35%) Public Sector
5 12 (3.07%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.81%) Aerospace
7 10 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.30%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.79%) Advertising
10 6 (1.53%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.28%) Legal
11 5 (1.28%) Retail
12 4 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.02%) Mandarin Language
12 4 (1.02%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.77%) Back Office
13 3 (0.77%) Billing
13 3 (0.77%) Law
14 2 (0.51%) Aviation
14 2 (0.51%) Games
Job Titles
1 104 (26.60%) Developer
2 82 (20.97%) Senior
3 77 (19.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 69 (17.65%) Java Developer
5 59 (15.09%) DevOps Engineer
6 42 (10.74%) AWS Engineer
7 29 (7.42%) Senior Developer
8 28 (7.16%) Java Engineer
9 27 (6.91%) AWS Developer
9 27 (6.91%) Lead
10 25 (6.39%) Full-Stack Developer
11 24 (6.14%) Platform Engineer
12 21 (5.37%) Architect
12 21 (5.37%) Security Engineer
12 21 (5.37%) Software Engineer
13 20 (5.12%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 20 (5.12%) Principal Engineer
14 19 (4.86%) AWS DevOps
15 18 (4.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 17 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (21.99%) Spring Boot
2 81 (20.72%) AngularJS
3 68 (17.39%) Kafka
4 62 (15.86%) Node.js
5 61 (15.60%) Spring
6 46 (11.76%) AWS CDK
7 38 (9.72%) Gherkin
8 31 (7.93%) React
9 30 (7.67%) Jest
10 27 (6.91%) RESTful
11 23 (5.88%) gRPC
11 23 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
12 19 (4.86%) REST
12 19 (4.86%) web3js
13 17 (4.35%) Next.js
14 16 (4.09%) YAML
15 15 (3.84%) Web Services
16 13 (3.32%) Elastic Stack
16 13 (3.32%) JSON
17 9 (2.30%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 120 (30.69%) Cloud Native
2 39 (9.97%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (9.72%) Public Cloud
4 24 (6.14%) Onboarding
5 23 (5.88%) e-Learning
6 22 (5.63%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (5.12%) Security Posture
8 19 (4.86%) Blockchain
8 19 (4.86%) Web3
9 18 (4.60%) Enterprise Cloud
10 15 (3.84%) Greenfield Project
10 15 (3.84%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (3.58%) Cloud Security Posture
12 11 (2.81%) Data Centre
13 9 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (2.05%) PKI
14 8 (2.05%) Product Ownership
15 6 (1.53%) Distributed Computing
15 6 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
15 6 (1.53%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 70 (17.90%) Linux
2 21 (5.37%) Windows
3 13 (3.32%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.56%) CentOS
6 6 (1.53%) Debian
7 5 (1.28%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.77%) Android
8 3 (0.77%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.77%) Unix
8 3 (0.77%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (72.38%) Infrastructure as Code
2 256 (65.47%) CI/CD
3 204 (52.17%) DevOps
4 146 (37.34%) Agile
5 123 (31.46%) Containerisation
6 84 (21.48%) Mentoring
7 82 (20.97%) Microservices
8 78 (19.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 75 (19.18%) Test Automation
10 73 (18.67%) Observability
11 72 (18.41%) Software Engineering
12 70 (17.90%) Cloud Security
13 67 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
14 66 (16.88%) DevSecOps
15 61 (15.60%) Continuous Integration
16 57 (14.58%) Event-Driven
17 50 (12.79%) Platform Engineering
18 44 (11.25%) Collaborative Culture
18 44 (11.25%) Full-Stack Development
19 42 (10.74%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 174 (44.50%) Python
2 148 (37.85%) Java
3 89 (22.76%) TypeScript
4 87 (22.25%) SQL
5 70 (17.90%) Bash
6 54 (13.81%) Groovy
7 45 (11.51%) Go
8 39 (9.97%) Kotlin
9 30 (7.67%) JavaScript
9 30 (7.67%) PowerShell
10 18 (4.60%) Bicep
11 13 (3.32%) C#
12 11 (2.81%) Rust
13 8 (2.05%) PHP
14 7 (1.79%) C++
14 7 (1.79%) Perl
14 7 (1.79%) Ruby
15 5 (1.28%) Google Apps Script
16 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 103 (26.34%) Security Cleared
2 88 (22.51%) AWS Certification
3 57 (14.58%) SC Cleared
4 49 (12.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 37 (9.46%) Degree
6 28 (7.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (6.14%) ITIL Certification
8 21 (5.37%) DV Cleared
9 14 (3.58%) OSCP
10 13 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (2.30%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (2.05%) Master's Degree
13 7 (1.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (1.53%) Azure Certification
15 5 (1.28%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 4 (1.02%) Postgraduate
17 3 (0.77%) CREST Certified
17 3 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
18 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
19 1 (0.26%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.12%) NIST
1 20 (5.12%) PCI DSS
2 17 (4.35%) GDPR
3 13 (3.32%) SOC 2
4 9 (2.30%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.26%) NCSC
6 1 (0.26%) QA
6 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 168 (42.97%) Docker
2 5 (1.28%) KVM
2 5 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.02%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 258 (65.98%) Terraform
2 150 (38.36%) Kubernetes
3 68 (17.39%) Ansible
4 42 (10.74%) Prometheus
5 36 (9.21%) Grafana
6 29 (7.42%) HP Fortify
7 25 (6.39%) Progress Chef
8 17 (4.35%) Puppet
9 16 (4.09%) Argo
10 7 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.28%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (1.02%) Istio
12 4 (1.02%) linkerd
12 4 (1.02%) Mesos
13 3 (0.77%) AWS Copilot
13 3 (0.77%) Rancher
14 2 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
15 1 (0.26%) Consul
15 1 (0.26%) Packer
Vendors
1 27 (6.91%) Google
2 13 (3.32%) Microsoft
3 12 (3.07%) Oracle
4 7 (1.79%) HubSpot
4 7 (1.79%) Red Hat
5 6 (1.53%) SaltStack
6 5 (1.28%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.28%) Splunk
6 5 (1.28%) VMware
7 3 (0.77%) Databricks
7 3 (0.77%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.26%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.26%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.26%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.26%) Infoblox
8 1 (0.26%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (0.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.26%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.26%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.26%) TOWER Software