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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 437 532 361
Rank change year-on-year +95 -171 -62
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 207 218 452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.32% 0.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.48% 1.00% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 120 157 388
10th Percentile £52,400 £50,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -9.68% -
75th Percentile £92,813 £87,500 £90,625
90th Percentile £101,625 £107,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £71,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year +4.53% -4.33% -

All Cloud 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 13,995 21,770 23,484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.48% 31.75% 42.62%
Number of salaries quoted 9,732 14,154 19,565
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.08% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing AWS CloudFormation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for AWS CloudFormation 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 September 2025.

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 September 2025. 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 +89 102 £81,500 -10.68% 64
North of England +39 43 £70,000 +16.67% 28
South East +54 24 £87,500 +40.00% 16
North West -6 24 £60,000 -4.00% 13
Yorkshire +20 19 £70,500 +34.29% 13
East of England +10 16 £75,000 +20.00% 3
Midlands +40 11 £55,000 -24.14% 10
West Midlands +43 8 £55,000 -24.14% 5
South West +47 4 £90,000 +56.52% 9
East Midlands +8 3 - - 5
AWS CloudFormation
UK

AWS CloudFormation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.38%) Confluence
3 6 (2.90%) Apache
3 6 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.93%) Tomcat
4 4 (1.93%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.93%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (1.45%) nginx
6 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.97%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 196 (94.69%) AWS
2 99 (47.83%) Azure
3 78 (37.68%) Amazon EKS
4 67 (32.37%) Serverless
5 63 (30.43%) AWS Lambda
6 47 (22.71%) Amazon S3
7 46 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
8 36 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 34 (16.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 30 (14.49%) GCP
11 26 (12.56%) GitHub
12 22 (10.63%) Amazon ECS
13 17 (8.21%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (7.25%) AWS Step Functions
14 15 (7.25%) Route 53
15 14 (6.76%) Datadog
16 11 (5.31%) AWS KMS
17 10 (4.83%) Amazon SageMaker
18 9 (4.35%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 9 (4.35%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.80%) Network Security
2 10 (4.83%) Firewall
3 6 (2.90%) DNS
3 6 (2.90%) VPN
4 5 (2.42%) SSL
5 3 (1.45%) LAN
5 3 (1.45%) WAN
6 2 (0.97%) NAS
6 2 (0.97%) SAN
6 2 (0.97%) SNMP
6 2 (0.97%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.48%) DHCP
7 1 (0.48%) HTTP
7 1 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.48%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (25.12%) Elasticsearch
2 28 (13.53%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (7.73%) Amazon Athena
3 16 (7.73%) Amazon Redshift
4 13 (6.28%) DynamoDB
5 11 (5.31%) NoSQL
6 10 (4.83%) Big Data
7 8 (3.86%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.90%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (1.93%) DB2
10 4 (1.93%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.97%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.97%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.97%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.48%) Data Vault
12 1 (0.48%) Flink
12 1 (0.48%) Presto
12 1 (0.48%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 47 (22.71%) Jenkins
2 31 (14.98%) GitLab
3 16 (7.73%) CircleCI
4 11 (5.31%) JIRA
5 8 (3.86%) Git
6 5 (2.42%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.93%) Spinnaker
8 2 (0.97%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.97%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.48%) Gradle
9 1 (0.48%) Maven
9 1 (0.48%) Vagrant
General
1 57 (27.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 55 (26.57%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (21.26%) Social Skills
4 39 (18.84%) Finance
5 12 (5.80%) Banking
5 12 (5.80%) Law
6 8 (3.86%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.90%) Advertising
8 5 (2.42%) Marketing
9 4 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.97%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.48%) Aviation
11 1 (0.48%) Electronics
11 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (30.43%) Developer
2 49 (23.67%) Software Developer
3 48 (23.19%) Senior
4 36 (17.39%) AWS Engineer
5 31 (14.98%) DevOps Engineer
6 24 (11.59%) Cloud Engineer
7 18 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
8 16 (7.73%) Data Engineer
9 15 (7.25%) Lead
10 14 (6.76%) Architect
11 13 (6.28%) AWS DevOps
11 13 (6.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 12 (5.80%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 12 (5.80%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 11 (5.31%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 11 (5.31%) Cloud Architect
14 8 (3.86%) AWS Data Engineer
14 8 (3.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 7 (3.38%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 7 (3.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (25.60%) Pandas
2 52 (25.12%) .NET
3 51 (24.64%) Node.js
4 22 (10.63%) Elastic Stack
5 21 (10.14%) Kafka
6 14 (6.76%) AWS CDK
7 8 (3.86%) Loki
8 7 (3.38%) REST
9 6 (2.90%) RESTful
9 6 (2.90%) Web Services
10 5 (2.42%) SOAP
11 4 (1.93%) AngularJS
11 4 (1.93%) gRPC
11 4 (1.93%) LAPP Stack
11 4 (1.93%) LDAP
11 4 (1.93%) OAuth
11 4 (1.93%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (1.93%) SAML
11 4 (1.93%) web3js
11 4 (1.93%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 50 (24.15%) Cyberattack
2 28 (13.53%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.35%) Public Cloud
4 7 (3.38%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.90%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.42%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.42%) Blockchain
6 5 (2.42%) CMDB
7 4 (1.93%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.93%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.93%) Web3
8 3 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.45%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 84 (40.58%) Linux
2 49 (23.67%) Android
3 10 (4.83%) Unix
4 9 (4.35%) Windows
5 8 (3.86%) Debian
5 8 (3.86%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (74.88%) CI/CD
2 123 (59.42%) Infrastructure as Code
3 103 (49.76%) Containerisation
4 100 (48.31%) DevOps
5 81 (39.13%) Agile
6 75 (36.23%) Software Engineering
7 56 (27.05%) Design Patterns
8 54 (26.09%) Collaborative Working
9 52 (25.12%) OO
9 52 (25.12%) Secure Coding
10 51 (24.64%) Kanban
11 50 (24.15%) Line Management
11 50 (24.15%) OWASP
11 50 (24.15%) Problem-Solving
12 49 (23.67%) Android Development
12 49 (23.67%) Mathematics
12 49 (23.67%) OOP
12 49 (23.67%) Statistics
13 36 (17.39%) Observability
14 33 (15.94%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 144 (69.57%) Python
2 77 (37.20%) Go
3 74 (35.75%) Java
4 67 (32.37%) JavaScript
5 51 (24.64%) Bash
6 49 (23.67%) C++
6 49 (23.67%) Rust
7 24 (11.59%) SQL
8 17 (8.21%) PowerShell
9 10 (4.83%) TypeScript
10 6 (2.90%) Bicep
10 6 (2.90%) C#
11 5 (2.42%) Scala
12 3 (1.45%) PHP
13 2 (0.97%) Groovy
14 1 (0.48%) R
14 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 74 (35.75%) Security Cleared
2 55 (26.57%) DV Cleared
3 34 (16.43%) AWS Certification
4 20 (9.66%) Degree
5 18 (8.70%) SC Cleared
6 17 (8.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.93%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (1.45%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.97%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.97%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (0.97%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.48%) PhD
11 1 (0.48%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.48%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.25%) GDPR
2 8 (3.86%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.86%) HIPAA
3 6 (2.90%) QA
3 6 (2.90%) SLA
4 4 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.97%) NIST
5 2 (0.97%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 112 (54.11%) Docker
2 6 (2.90%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.45%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.97%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.97%) Terminal Server
4 2 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.48%) vCloud
5 1 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.48%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 176 (85.02%) Terraform
2 119 (57.49%) Kubernetes
3 91 (43.96%) Ansible
4 49 (23.67%) Grafana
5 38 (18.36%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.42%) Argo
6 5 (2.42%) Kubeflow
7 4 (1.93%) Puppet
8 2 (0.97%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.97%) Istio
8 2 (0.97%) Kibana
8 2 (0.97%) linkerd
8 2 (0.97%) logstash
8 2 (0.97%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.97%) Salt
9 1 (0.48%) Bugsnag
9 1 (0.48%) Consul
9 1 (0.48%) Nagios
9 1 (0.48%) Packer
9 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (9.66%) Splunk
2 13 (6.28%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.83%) Google
4 8 (3.86%) Hitachi
5 6 (2.90%) Databricks
6 5 (2.42%) IBM
6 5 (2.42%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.93%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.45%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.45%) Citrix
8 3 (1.45%) Foundry
8 3 (1.45%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (1.45%) VMware
9 2 (0.97%) F5
9 2 (0.97%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.97%) Rapid7
9 2 (0.97%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.48%) Qualys
10 1 (0.48%) SAP
10 1 (0.48%) Talend