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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 401 505
Rank change year-on-year +20 +104 -164
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 329 252 335
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 0.65% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.31% 1.82% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 184 155 258
10th Percentile £51,875 £58,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,250 £63,630 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.56% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £111,875 £100,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £122,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £78,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.27% +4.67% -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 25,168 13,881 29,631
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.97% 35.68% 35.50%
Number of salaries quoted 13,415 10,107 24,200
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £61,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.46% +6.09% -11.54%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -15 150 £87,500 -5.41% 36
North of England +34 125 £75,000 +8.09% 31
Yorkshire +29 90 £75,000 - 9
North West -16 33 £80,000 +14.79% 15
Midlands -24 25 £50,000 -26.06% 9
East Midlands -36 13 £63,750 -1.92% 8
West Midlands -15 12 £50,000 -38.51% 1
South West -44 11 £71,250 -16.18% 12
South East -50 10 £70,000 +16.67% 13
East of England -27 2 £82,500 -2.94% 2
North East -31 2 £65,576 -5.49% 7
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 (4.56%) Apache
2 8 (2.43%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.91%) Confluence
4 3 (0.91%) JBoss
5 1 (0.30%) Drupal
5 1 (0.30%) IIS
5 1 (0.30%) nginx
5 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 310 (94.22%) AWS
2 182 (55.32%) Serverless
3 156 (47.42%) AWS Lambda
4 116 (35.26%) Amazon S3
5 94 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
6 90 (27.36%) Azure
7 88 (26.75%) AWS Step Functions
8 75 (22.80%) GitHub
9 73 (22.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 57 (17.33%) GitHub Actions
11 56 (17.02%) Datadog
12 52 (15.81%) GCP
13 46 (13.98%) Amazon ECR
14 45 (13.68%) Amazon EKS
15 44 (13.37%) Amazon SQS
16 43 (13.07%) Apigee
17 36 (10.94%) Amazon EC2
18 28 (8.51%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 25 (7.60%) OpenShift
20 20 (6.08%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.95%) DSL
1 13 (3.95%) Firewall
2 12 (3.65%) VPN
3 7 (2.13%) DNS
3 7 (2.13%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.82%) Network Security
5 5 (1.52%) AMQP
6 4 (1.22%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.91%) SCCP
8 2 (0.61%) 4G
8 2 (0.61%) 5G
8 2 (0.61%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (34.04%) DynamoDB
2 77 (23.40%) NoSQL
3 44 (13.37%) Amazon RDS
4 28 (8.51%) Amazon Athena
5 20 (6.08%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (3.34%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (2.74%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.43%) MySQL
9 6 (1.82%) Big Data
9 6 (1.82%) Flink
9 6 (1.82%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.52%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (1.52%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.22%) Redis
12 3 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.91%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.91%) Metadata
13 2 (0.61%) Apache Hudi
13 2 (0.61%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 139 (42.25%) Jenkins
2 134 (40.73%) GitLab
3 52 (15.81%) Git
4 48 (14.59%) Maven
5 42 (12.77%) Cypress.io
5 42 (12.77%) SonarQube
6 26 (7.90%) CircleCI
7 17 (5.17%) Cucumber
8 13 (3.95%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.82%) JIRA
10 5 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (1.52%) Gradle
11 4 (1.22%) Claude Code
11 4 (1.22%) Selenium
11 4 (1.22%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.91%) JMeter
12 3 (0.91%) Robot Framework
13 2 (0.61%) Eclipse
13 2 (0.61%) git-flow
14 1 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 105 (31.91%) Social Skills
2 66 (20.06%) Finance
3 32 (9.73%) Banking
4 12 (3.65%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.34%) Aerospace
6 9 (2.74%) Advertising
7 8 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.43%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.13%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.82%) Retail
10 5 (1.52%) Billing
10 5 (1.52%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.52%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.22%) Law
11 4 (1.22%) Mandarin Language
12 3 (0.91%) Aviation
12 3 (0.91%) Back Office
12 3 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.91%) Legal
13 2 (0.61%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 104 (31.61%) Developer
2 66 (20.06%) Cloud Engineer
3 62 (18.84%) Senior
4 60 (18.24%) Java Developer
5 49 (14.89%) DevOps Engineer
6 35 (10.64%) AWS Engineer
7 31 (9.42%) Senior Developer
8 27 (8.21%) AWS Developer
9 26 (7.90%) Lead
10 22 (6.69%) Security Engineer
11 21 (6.38%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 20 (6.08%) Platform Engineer
13 18 (5.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 17 (5.17%) Java Engineer
15 16 (4.86%) Architect
15 16 (4.86%) AWS DevOps
16 15 (4.56%) Full-Stack Developer
16 15 (4.56%) Senior Java Developer
17 14 (4.26%) AWS Architect
18 13 (3.95%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (22.80%) Spring Boot
2 74 (22.49%) AngularJS
3 55 (16.72%) Kafka
4 51 (15.50%) AWS CDK
4 51 (15.50%) Node.js
5 45 (13.68%) Spring
6 42 (12.77%) Gherkin
7 40 (12.16%) Jest
8 39 (11.85%) RESTful
9 34 (10.33%) React
10 23 (6.99%) RabbitMQ
11 21 (6.38%) gRPC
12 20 (6.08%) web3js
13 15 (4.56%) Elastic Stack
13 15 (4.56%) Next.js
13 15 (4.56%) REST
14 13 (3.95%) .NET
15 10 (3.04%) .NET Core
15 10 (3.04%) ASP.NET
15 10 (3.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 94 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.21%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (6.69%) Security Posture
4 21 (6.38%) Public Cloud
5 20 (6.08%) Blockchain
5 20 (6.08%) Web3
6 15 (4.56%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (3.95%) Cloud Security Posture
7 13 (3.95%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (3.65%) e-Learning
8 12 (3.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (3.04%) Product Ownership
10 8 (2.43%) PKI
11 6 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (1.52%) Management Information System
13 4 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (0.91%) Cyber Defence
14 3 (0.91%) Cyber Security Posture
14 3 (0.91%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 62 (18.84%) Linux
2 20 (6.08%) Windows
3 13 (3.95%) Ubuntu
4 10 (3.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.74%) CentOS
6 5 (1.52%) Debian
6 5 (1.52%) Unix
6 5 (1.52%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.22%) VMS
8 3 (0.91%) Android
8 3 (0.91%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (71.12%) CI/CD
1 234 (71.12%) Infrastructure as Code
2 205 (62.31%) DevOps
3 137 (41.64%) Agile
4 110 (33.43%) Containerisation
5 81 (24.62%) Microservices
6 72 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
7 69 (20.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 65 (19.76%) DevSecOps
9 61 (18.54%) Mentoring
10 60 (18.24%) Cloud Security
11 59 (17.93%) Observability
12 57 (17.33%) Continuous Integration
13 55 (16.72%) Test Automation
14 54 (16.41%) Software Engineering
15 44 (13.37%) Platform Engineering
16 41 (12.46%) Event-Driven
17 40 (12.16%) High Availability
18 38 (11.55%) Full-Stack Development
19 37 (11.25%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 132 (40.12%) Python
2 126 (38.30%) Java
3 90 (27.36%) TypeScript
4 78 (23.71%) SQL
5 74 (22.49%) Bash
6 50 (15.20%) Groovy
7 47 (14.29%) Go
8 33 (10.03%) Kotlin
9 28 (8.51%) JavaScript
10 22 (6.69%) PowerShell
11 13 (3.95%) C#
11 13 (3.95%) Rust
12 9 (2.74%) Bicep
13 6 (1.82%) C++
14 4 (1.22%) Google Apps Script
15 1 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.30%) Perl
15 1 (0.30%) PHP
15 1 (0.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 74 (22.49%) AWS Certification
2 69 (20.97%) Security Cleared
3 36 (10.94%) SC Cleared
4 31 (9.42%) Degree
5 29 (8.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 28 (8.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (7.29%) ITIL Certification
8 23 (6.99%) AWS Certified Developer
9 22 (6.69%) DV Cleared
10 16 (4.86%) OSCP
11 10 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (2.13%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 6 (1.82%) Azure Certification
14 5 (1.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (1.22%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.91%) CREST Certified
16 3 (0.91%) Master's Degree
16 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
17 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
17 1 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.38%) NIST
2 16 (4.86%) PCI DSS
3 13 (3.95%) GDPR
4 10 (3.04%) SOC 2
5 7 (2.13%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.82%) QA
7 4 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.30%) Basel III
8 1 (0.30%) MiFID
8 1 (0.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 168 (51.06%) Docker
2 5 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.22%) KVM
3 4 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 216 (65.65%) Terraform
2 133 (40.43%) Kubernetes
3 67 (20.36%) Ansible
4 40 (12.16%) HP Fortify
5 36 (10.94%) Prometheus
6 29 (8.81%) Grafana
7 9 (2.74%) Argo
7 9 (2.74%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.43%) Puppet
9 7 (2.13%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.52%) Istio
11 5 (1.52%) linkerd
11 5 (1.52%) Mesos
11 5 (1.52%) Rancher
12 3 (0.91%) AWS Copilot
13 2 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.30%) Consul
14 1 (0.30%) Nessus
14 1 (0.30%) Packer
Vendors
1 22 (6.69%) Google
2 12 (3.65%) Microsoft
3 6 (1.82%) HubSpot
3 6 (1.82%) Red Hat
4 5 (1.52%) SaltStack
5 4 (1.22%) Splunk
5 4 (1.22%) VMware
6 3 (0.91%) OpenAI
6 3 (0.91%) Oracle
6 3 (0.91%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.91%) SolarWinds
7 2 (0.61%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.61%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (0.61%) Ping Identity
7 2 (0.61%) SAP
8 1 (0.30%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.30%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.30%) Databricks
8 1 (0.30%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.30%) Refinitiv