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 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 443 553
Rank change year-on-year +77 +110 -191
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 412 219 300
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.52% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.73% 1.55% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 209 120 246
10th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £54,375
25th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
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 £113,000 £111,375 £112,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -3.23%

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 23,776 14,161 30,211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.44% 33.37% 33.18%
Number of salaries quoted 15,926 10,148 23,948
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,250
25th Percentile £44,187 £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% -8.00%

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 7 July 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 7 July 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 +69 217 £90,000 +10.77% 53
North of England +52 133 £75,000 +8.09% 29
Yorkshire +52 87 £75,000 +4.17% 5
North West +16 43 £75,000 +8.09% 19
Midlands -4 27 £52,500 -22.37% 13
East Midlands -7 18 £52,500 -27.59% 5
South East -38 17 £70,000 -12.50% 29
South West -58 11 £67,500 -25.00% 27
West Midlands -20 9 £62,000 -6.50% 8
North East -47 3 £57,788 -16.71% 5
East of England -32 2 £82,500 +10.00% 5
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 16 (3.88%) Apache
2 10 (2.43%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.70%) Confluence
4 6 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.73%) JBoss
7 1 (0.24%) Drupal
7 1 (0.24%) IIS
7 1 (0.24%) nginx
7 1 (0.24%) SAS
7 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.49%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Magento
1 1 (0.24%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 393 (95.39%) AWS
2 215 (52.18%) Serverless
3 173 (41.99%) AWS Lambda
4 122 (29.61%) Amazon S3
5 118 (28.64%) Amazon ECS
6 95 (23.06%) Azure
7 86 (20.87%) AWS Step Functions
8 80 (19.42%) GitHub
9 68 (16.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 64 (15.53%) GCP
11 57 (13.83%) Datadog
12 55 (13.35%) GitHub Actions
13 52 (12.62%) Amazon EC2
13 52 (12.62%) Amazon EKS
14 45 (10.92%) Cloud Computing
15 43 (10.44%) Amazon SQS
16 38 (9.22%) Amazon ECR
17 35 (8.50%) Apigee
18 32 (7.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 23 (5.58%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.13%) Network Security
1 17 (4.13%) VPN
2 15 (3.64%) Firewall
3 11 (2.67%) DSL
4 10 (2.43%) DNS
4 10 (2.43%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.46%) AMQP
6 4 (0.97%) HTTP
7 3 (0.73%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.49%) 4G
8 2 (0.49%) 5G
8 2 (0.49%) MQTT
8 2 (0.49%) SCCP
9 1 (0.24%) DHCP
9 1 (0.24%) DNSSEC
9 1 (0.24%) Internet
9 1 (0.24%) PSTN
9 1 (0.24%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (25.24%) DynamoDB
2 81 (19.66%) NoSQL
3 40 (9.71%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (8.25%) Amazon Athena
5 12 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.43%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (2.18%) Big Data
8 7 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.70%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.46%) Cloudera CDH
9 6 (1.46%) Flink
9 6 (1.46%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.21%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.21%) MySQL
11 4 (0.97%) Metadata
11 4 (0.97%) Redis
12 3 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.73%) Relational Database
13 2 (0.49%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 144 (34.95%) Jenkins
2 138 (33.50%) GitLab
3 55 (13.35%) Git
4 39 (9.47%) Maven
5 35 (8.50%) Cypress.io
6 32 (7.77%) SonarQube
7 30 (7.28%) Cucumber
8 25 (6.07%) CircleCI
9 11 (2.67%) Bitbucket
10 9 (2.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (1.94%) JIRA
12 7 (1.70%) Claude Code
13 5 (1.21%) Gradle
13 5 (1.21%) TeamCity
14 3 (0.73%) Selenium
15 2 (0.49%) JMeter
16 1 (0.24%) git-flow
16 1 (0.24%) Robot Framework
16 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
16 1 (0.24%) Vagrant
General
1 110 (26.70%) Social Skills
2 101 (24.51%) Finance
3 35 (8.50%) Banking
4 23 (5.58%) Public Sector
5 12 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.67%) Aerospace
7 10 (2.43%) Financial Institution
7 10 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.70%) Advertising
9 6 (1.46%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.46%) Legal
10 5 (1.21%) Retail
11 4 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.97%) Mandarin Language
11 4 (0.97%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.73%) Back Office
12 3 (0.73%) Law
12 3 (0.73%) Military
13 2 (0.49%) Billing
13 2 (0.49%) Games
Job Titles
1 103 (25.00%) Developer
2 95 (23.06%) Senior
3 77 (18.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 68 (16.50%) Java Developer
5 60 (14.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 43 (10.44%) AWS Engineer
7 30 (7.28%) Java Engineer
8 28 (6.80%) Lead
9 27 (6.55%) Senior Developer
10 26 (6.31%) AWS Developer
10 26 (6.31%) Consultant
10 26 (6.31%) Full-Stack Developer
11 23 (5.58%) Platform Engineer
12 22 (5.34%) Architect
13 21 (5.10%) Principal Engineer
13 21 (5.10%) Security Engineer
13 21 (5.10%) Senior Consultant
13 21 (5.10%) Software Engineer
14 20 (4.85%) Cloud Security Engineer
15 19 (4.61%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (22.09%) Spring Boot
2 81 (19.66%) AngularJS
3 70 (16.99%) Kafka
4 65 (15.78%) Spring
5 62 (15.05%) Node.js
6 49 (11.89%) AWS CDK
7 39 (9.47%) Gherkin
8 31 (7.52%) Jest
8 31 (7.52%) React
9 28 (6.80%) RESTful
10 23 (5.58%) gRPC
10 23 (5.58%) RabbitMQ
11 22 (5.34%) REST
12 18 (4.37%) web3js
13 17 (4.13%) Next.js
13 17 (4.13%) Web Services
14 16 (3.88%) YAML
15 14 (3.40%) JSON
16 13 (3.16%) Elastic Stack
17 10 (2.43%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 129 (31.31%) Cloud Native
2 43 (10.44%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (9.71%) Public Cloud
4 35 (8.50%) Onboarding
5 29 (7.04%) Enterprise Cloud
6 25 (6.07%) e-Learning
7 23 (5.58%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (4.61%) Security Posture
9 18 (4.37%) Blockchain
9 18 (4.37%) Web3
10 16 (3.88%) Data Centre
11 15 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
11 15 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
12 14 (3.40%) Cloud Security Posture
13 12 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (2.18%) Distributed Computing
14 9 (2.18%) Mainframe
15 8 (1.94%) PKI
15 8 (1.94%) Product Ownership
16 6 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 70 (16.99%) Linux
2 21 (5.10%) Windows
3 13 (3.16%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.43%) CentOS
6 6 (1.46%) Debian
7 5 (1.21%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.73%) Android
8 3 (0.73%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.73%) Unix
8 3 (0.73%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (70.63%) Infrastructure as Code
2 263 (63.83%) CI/CD
3 211 (51.21%) DevOps
4 156 (37.86%) Agile
5 130 (31.55%) Containerisation
6 96 (23.30%) Mentoring
7 86 (20.87%) Microservices
8 82 (19.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 80 (19.42%) Test Automation
10 76 (18.45%) Software Engineering
11 75 (18.20%) Cloud Security
12 74 (17.96%) Observability
13 73 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
14 65 (15.78%) DevSecOps
15 60 (14.56%) Event-Driven
16 59 (14.32%) Continuous Integration
17 52 (12.62%) Platform Engineering
18 46 (11.17%) Collaborative Culture
19 45 (10.92%) Full-Stack Development
20 43 (10.44%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 186 (45.15%) Python
2 155 (37.62%) Java
3 90 (21.84%) SQL
4 89 (21.60%) TypeScript
5 74 (17.96%) Bash
6 55 (13.35%) Groovy
7 44 (10.68%) Go
8 37 (8.98%) Kotlin
9 31 (7.52%) PowerShell
10 30 (7.28%) JavaScript
11 20 (4.85%) Bicep
12 13 (3.16%) C#
13 12 (2.91%) PHP
14 11 (2.67%) Perl
14 11 (2.67%) Ruby
14 11 (2.67%) Rust
15 7 (1.70%) C++
16 5 (1.21%) Google Apps Script
17 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 114 (27.67%) Security Cleared
2 98 (23.79%) AWS Certification
3 60 (14.56%) SC Cleared
4 57 (13.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 43 (10.44%) Degree
6 29 (7.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 25 (6.07%) ITIL Certification
8 23 (5.58%) DV Cleared
9 15 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (3.40%) OSCP
11 10 (2.43%) Master's Degree
12 9 (2.18%) AWS Certified Developer
13 7 (1.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (1.46%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.97%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 4 (0.97%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.73%) CREST Certified
16 3 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
17 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
18 1 (0.24%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.34%) NIST
1 22 (5.34%) PCI DSS
2 19 (4.61%) GDPR
3 13 (3.16%) SOC 2
4 10 (2.43%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.49%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.24%) NCSC
7 1 (0.24%) QA
7 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 176 (42.72%) Docker
2 5 (1.21%) KVM
2 5 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.97%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 274 (66.50%) Terraform
2 162 (39.32%) Kubernetes
3 71 (17.23%) Ansible
4 43 (10.44%) Prometheus
5 38 (9.22%) Grafana
6 30 (7.28%) HP Fortify
6 30 (7.28%) Progress Chef
7 22 (5.34%) Puppet
8 16 (3.88%) Argo
9 7 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (1.21%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.97%) Istio
11 4 (0.97%) linkerd
11 4 (0.97%) Mesos
12 3 (0.73%) AWS Copilot
12 3 (0.73%) Rancher
13 2 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.24%) Consul
14 1 (0.24%) Packer
Vendors
1 28 (6.80%) Google
2 15 (3.64%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.91%) Oracle
4 7 (1.70%) HubSpot
4 7 (1.70%) OpenAI
4 7 (1.70%) Red Hat
5 6 (1.46%) SaltStack
5 6 (1.46%) Splunk
6 5 (1.21%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.21%) VMware
7 3 (0.73%) Databricks
8 2 (0.49%) Avaya
8 2 (0.49%) Cisco
8 2 (0.49%) Genesys
9 1 (0.24%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.24%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.24%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.24%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.24%) TOWER Software