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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 430 543
Rank change year-on-year +40 +113 -185
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 359 211 318
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.43% 0.53% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.60% 1.56% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 200 112 256
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £54,375
25th Percentile £67,500 £60,938 £63,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,813 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,375 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,338 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +0.45% - -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 22,469 13,540 31,110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.06% 34.23% 32.85%
Number of salaries quoted 14,908 9,592 24,741
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,625 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,750 £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% -10.16%

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 16 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 16 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 +24 172 £90,000 +9.09% 63
North of England +66 131 £75,000 +8.09% 27
Yorkshire +42 92 £75,000 +2.04% 8
North West +23 37 £80,000 +14.79% 17
Midlands +14 32 £50,000 -40.30% 3
East Midlands -6 18 £52,500 -27.59%
West Midlands -11 14 £50,000 -47.37% 3
South West -50 9 £72,500 -14.71% 21
South East -40 8 £70,000 +12.00% 21
East of England -31 2 £82,500 +10.00%
North East -45 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 (3.90%) Apache
2 9 (2.51%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.39%) Confluence
4 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.84%) JBoss
6 1 (0.28%) Drupal
6 1 (0.28%) IIS
6 1 (0.28%) nginx
6 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 345 (96.10%) AWS
2 196 (54.60%) Serverless
3 165 (45.96%) AWS Lambda
4 123 (34.26%) Amazon S3
5 107 (29.81%) Amazon ECS
6 91 (25.35%) AWS Step Functions
7 81 (22.56%) Azure
8 80 (22.28%) GitHub
9 77 (21.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 61 (16.99%) Datadog
11 58 (16.16%) GitHub Actions
12 53 (14.76%) GCP
13 50 (13.93%) Amazon EC2
14 43 (11.98%) Amazon SQS
15 39 (10.86%) Amazon EKS
16 38 (10.58%) Amazon ECR
17 35 (9.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 35 (9.75%) Apigee
18 21 (5.85%) Pulumi
19 20 (5.57%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.34%) DSL
1 12 (3.34%) Firewall
2 11 (3.06%) VPN
3 8 (2.23%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.95%) DNS
5 6 (1.67%) Network Security
6 5 (1.39%) AMQP
7 3 (0.84%) HTTP
7 3 (0.84%) SCCP
7 3 (0.84%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.56%) 4G
8 2 (0.56%) 5G
9 1 (0.28%) MQTT
9 1 (0.28%) PSTN
9 1 (0.28%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (30.08%) DynamoDB
2 82 (22.84%) NoSQL
3 45 (12.53%) Amazon RDS
4 37 (10.31%) Amazon Athena
5 11 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.23%) Big Data
8 6 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (1.67%) Flink
8 6 (1.67%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.39%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (1.39%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.11%) Metadata
10 4 (1.11%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.11%) Redis
11 3 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.84%) MySQL
11 3 (0.84%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (0.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 147 (40.95%) Jenkins
2 135 (37.60%) GitLab
3 54 (15.04%) Git
4 39 (10.86%) Maven
5 35 (9.75%) Cypress.io
6 31 (8.64%) SonarQube
7 27 (7.52%) CircleCI
8 26 (7.24%) Cucumber
9 8 (2.23%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (1.67%) JIRA
12 5 (1.39%) Claude Code
12 5 (1.39%) Gradle
13 4 (1.11%) TeamCity
14 3 (0.84%) Selenium
15 2 (0.56%) JMeter
16 1 (0.28%) Eclipse
16 1 (0.28%) git-flow
16 1 (0.28%) Robot Framework
16 1 (0.28%) Vagrant
General
1 101 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 75 (20.89%) Finance
3 37 (10.31%) Banking
4 10 (2.79%) Advertising
4 10 (2.79%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (2.51%) Aerospace
5 9 (2.51%) Financial Institution
6 7 (1.95%) Investment Banking
6 7 (1.95%) Public Sector
7 6 (1.67%) Retail
8 4 (1.11%) Billing
8 4 (1.11%) Legal
8 4 (1.11%) Mandarin Language
8 4 (1.11%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.84%) Aviation
9 3 (0.84%) Back Office
9 3 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.84%) Law
10 2 (0.56%) Games
Job Titles
1 108 (30.08%) Developer
2 72 (20.06%) Cloud Engineer
3 71 (19.78%) Java Developer
4 69 (19.22%) Senior
5 56 (15.60%) DevOps Engineer
6 41 (11.42%) AWS Engineer
7 32 (8.91%) Senior Developer
8 28 (7.80%) AWS Developer
9 26 (7.24%) Java Engineer
10 23 (6.41%) Platform Engineer
11 21 (5.85%) Full-Stack Developer
11 21 (5.85%) Lead
12 20 (5.57%) Security Engineer
13 19 (5.29%) AWS DevOps
13 19 (5.29%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 19 (5.29%) Software Engineer
14 18 (5.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 18 (5.01%) Principal Engineer
15 17 (4.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 16 (4.46%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (23.12%) Spring Boot
2 80 (22.28%) AngularJS
3 67 (18.66%) Kafka
4 59 (16.43%) Node.js
5 57 (15.88%) Spring
6 45 (12.53%) AWS CDK
7 38 (10.58%) Gherkin
8 31 (8.64%) Jest
8 31 (8.64%) React
9 29 (8.08%) RESTful
10 23 (6.41%) gRPC
10 23 (6.41%) RabbitMQ
11 21 (5.85%) web3js
12 17 (4.74%) Next.js
13 16 (4.46%) REST
13 16 (4.46%) YAML
14 13 (3.62%) Elastic Stack
14 13 (3.62%) JSON
15 12 (3.34%) Web Services
16 9 (2.51%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 106 (29.53%) Cloud Native
2 36 (10.03%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (8.64%) Public Cloud
4 21 (5.85%) Blockchain
4 21 (5.85%) e-Learning
4 21 (5.85%) Enterprise Software
4 21 (5.85%) Security Posture
4 21 (5.85%) Web3
5 15 (4.18%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (3.62%) Cloud Security Posture
6 13 (3.62%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.23%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.95%) PKI
9 6 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.39%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.11%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.84%) Cyber Security Posture
12 3 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.84%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 65 (18.11%) Linux
2 17 (4.74%) Windows
3 12 (3.34%) Ubuntu
4 10 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.51%) CentOS
6 5 (1.39%) Debian
6 5 (1.39%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.84%) Android
7 3 (0.84%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.84%) Unix
7 3 (0.84%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (72.70%) Infrastructure as Code
2 250 (69.64%) CI/CD
3 204 (56.82%) DevOps
4 134 (37.33%) Agile
5 115 (32.03%) Containerisation
6 77 (21.45%) Microservices
7 72 (20.06%) Continuous Improvement
8 71 (19.78%) Observability
9 70 (19.50%) DevSecOps
10 69 (19.22%) Software Engineering
11 68 (18.94%) Mentoring
11 68 (18.94%) Test Automation
12 62 (17.27%) Cloud Security
12 62 (17.27%) Continuous Integration
13 61 (16.99%) Problem-Solving
14 53 (14.76%) Event-Driven
15 48 (13.37%) Platform Engineering
16 42 (11.70%) Full-Stack Development
17 41 (11.42%) High Availability
18 40 (11.14%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 152 (42.34%) Python
2 138 (38.44%) Java
3 91 (25.35%) TypeScript
4 86 (23.96%) SQL
5 63 (17.55%) Bash
6 52 (14.48%) Groovy
7 46 (12.81%) Go
8 40 (11.14%) Kotlin
9 28 (7.80%) JavaScript
10 26 (7.24%) PowerShell
11 12 (3.34%) Bicep
11 12 (3.34%) C#
11 12 (3.34%) Rust
12 6 (1.67%) C++
13 4 (1.11%) Google Apps Script
14 2 (0.56%) PHP
15 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.28%) Perl
15 1 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 81 (22.56%) Security Cleared
2 74 (20.61%) AWS Certification
3 54 (15.04%) SC Cleared
4 37 (10.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 33 (9.19%) Degree
6 27 (7.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 23 (6.41%) ITIL Certification
8 17 (4.74%) DV Cleared
9 15 (4.18%) OSCP
10 10 (2.79%) AWS Certified Developer
11 9 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (1.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 7 (1.95%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 6 (1.67%) Azure Certification
13 6 (1.67%) Master's Degree
14 4 (1.11%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.84%) CREST Certified
16 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
17 1 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
17 1 (0.28%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.57%) NIST
2 17 (4.74%) PCI DSS
3 15 (4.18%) GDPR
4 11 (3.06%) SOC 2
5 8 (2.23%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.28%) NCSC
7 1 (0.28%) QA
7 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 165 (45.96%) Docker
2 4 (1.11%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.11%) KVM
2 4 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 231 (64.35%) Terraform
2 136 (37.88%) Kubernetes
3 60 (16.71%) Ansible
4 41 (11.42%) Prometheus
5 32 (8.91%) Grafana
6 30 (8.36%) HP Fortify
7 15 (4.18%) Argo
8 14 (3.90%) Progress Chef
9 7 (1.95%) Puppet
10 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.39%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (1.11%) Istio
12 4 (1.11%) linkerd
12 4 (1.11%) Mesos
13 3 (0.84%) AWS Copilot
14 2 (0.56%) Rancher
14 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
15 1 (0.28%) Consul
15 1 (0.28%) Packer
Vendors
1 23 (6.41%) Google
2 10 (2.79%) Microsoft
3 8 (2.23%) Oracle
4 7 (1.95%) HubSpot
5 6 (1.67%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.39%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.11%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.11%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.11%) Splunk
7 4 (1.11%) VMware
8 3 (0.84%) Databricks
9 1 (0.28%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.28%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.28%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.28%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.28%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.28%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.28%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.28%) TOWER Software