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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 433 459 378
Rank change year-on-year +26 -81 -50
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 178 259 325
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.46% 0.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.06% 1.31% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 127 202 265
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,550
25th Percentile £60,625 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £79,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +5.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £87,500 £115,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £130,000 £117,000
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,250 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.93% +3.79% -9.38%

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 16,856 19,795 19,376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.67% 35.18% 43.13%
Number of salaries quoted 10,363 12,099 16,370
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £47,380 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -2.56%

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 December 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 6 December 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 +13 82 £81,500 -18.50% 40
North of England +42 62 £70,000 +9.80% 30
Yorkshire +26 33 £70,000 +7.69% 17
North West +29 26 £62,500 - 8
Midlands +29 13 £60,000 -13.43% 12
South East +19 12 £95,000 +52.00% 25
West Midlands +37 11 £60,000 -17.24% 8
South West +21 7 £70,000 +27.27% 17
North East +4 3 £73,801 +6.48% 5
East Midlands +11 2 - - 3
East of England +24 1 £75,000 +20.00% 3
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 9 (5.06%) Apache
2 7 (3.93%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.93%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.37%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.37%) WebSphere
3 6 (3.37%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (1.12%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.56%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 161 (90.45%) AWS
2 85 (47.75%) Azure
3 75 (42.13%) Serverless
4 68 (38.20%) AWS Lambda
5 59 (33.15%) Amazon S3
6 50 (28.09%) GCP
7 46 (25.84%) GitHub
8 42 (23.60%) Amazon ECS
9 39 (21.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 35 (19.66%) Amazon EC2
11 33 (18.54%) GitHub Actions
12 31 (17.42%) Amazon EKS
13 27 (15.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 25 (14.04%) Amazon ECR
15 24 (13.48%) AWS Step Functions
16 22 (12.36%) Azure DevOps
17 19 (10.67%) Amazon SQS
18 16 (8.99%) dbt
19 15 (8.43%) Datadog
20 13 (7.30%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.18%) TCP/IP
2 6 (3.37%) Firewall
2 6 (3.37%) Network Security
2 6 (3.37%) SSL
3 5 (2.81%) VPN
4 3 (1.69%) LAN
4 3 (1.69%) WAN
5 2 (1.12%) AMQP
5 2 (1.12%) DNS
5 2 (1.12%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.56%) DHCP
6 1 (0.56%) HTTP
6 1 (0.56%) NAS
6 1 (0.56%) SAN
6 1 (0.56%) SNMP
6 1 (0.56%) VSAN
6 1 (0.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (18.54%) Amazon RDS
2 31 (17.42%) DynamoDB
3 28 (15.73%) NoSQL
3 28 (15.73%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (8.99%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (8.43%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (7.87%) SQL Server
7 12 (6.74%) Data Lake
7 12 (6.74%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (6.18%) Redis
9 9 (5.06%) MySQL
10 8 (4.49%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (3.37%) DB2
12 4 (2.25%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (2.25%) Big Data
13 3 (1.69%) Apache Iceberg
13 3 (1.69%) Data Vault
13 3 (1.69%) MongoDB
14 2 (1.12%) Hadoop
14 2 (1.12%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 53 (29.78%) Jenkins
2 45 (25.28%) GitLab
3 19 (10.67%) Git
4 12 (6.74%) SonarQube
5 10 (5.62%) CircleCI
6 8 (4.49%) Cypress.io
6 8 (4.49%) Maven
7 6 (3.37%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.81%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.81%) git-flow
8 5 (2.81%) JIRA
9 4 (2.25%) Robot Framework
10 2 (1.12%) Eclipse
10 2 (1.12%) JMeter
10 2 (1.12%) Selenium
10 2 (1.12%) TestRail
11 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.56%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.56%) Subversion
11 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
General
1 55 (30.90%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.66%) Finance
3 18 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.99%) Banking
5 10 (5.62%) Law
6 8 (4.49%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.93%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.37%) Aerospace
8 6 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.25%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.25%) Marketing
10 3 (1.69%) Electronics
10 3 (1.69%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.12%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.56%) Advertising
12 1 (0.56%) Billing
12 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.56%) Military
12 1 (0.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 44 (24.72%) Senior
2 32 (17.98%) Cloud Engineer
3 29 (16.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (14.04%) AWS Engineer
5 20 (11.24%) Lead
5 20 (11.24%) Platform Engineer
6 18 (10.11%) Developer
7 12 (6.74%) AWS DevOps
7 12 (6.74%) Data Engineer
8 10 (5.62%) Architect
8 10 (5.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 9 (5.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (5.06%) Support Engineer
10 8 (4.49%) Security Engineer
10 8 (4.49%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 8 (4.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 7 (3.93%) .NET Developer
11 7 (3.93%) Applications Engineer
11 7 (3.93%) AWS Developer
11 7 (3.93%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.92%) AWS CDK
2 21 (11.80%) Elastic Stack
3 17 (9.55%) React
4 16 (8.99%) Spring Boot
5 15 (8.43%) .NET
5 15 (8.43%) Kafka
6 14 (7.87%) RESTful
7 13 (7.30%) Spring
8 11 (6.18%) AngularJS
8 11 (6.18%) Django
9 10 (5.62%) Node.js
10 9 (5.06%) .NET Core
10 9 (5.06%) ASP.NET
11 8 (4.49%) ASP.NET Core
11 8 (4.49%) Blazor
11 8 (4.49%) Gherkin
11 8 (4.49%) Jest
11 8 (4.49%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (3.93%) ARM Templates
12 7 (3.93%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 48 (26.97%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.99%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.74%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (6.18%) Product Ownership
4 11 (6.18%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.37%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.81%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.25%) e-Learning
7 4 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.69%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.12%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.12%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.12%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.56%) NVMe
10 1 (0.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 52 (29.21%) Linux
2 27 (15.17%) Unix
3 22 (12.36%) Windows
4 9 (5.06%) Ubuntu
5 8 (4.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (3.93%) Debian
7 2 (1.12%) CentOS
7 2 (1.12%) VMS
7 2 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (79.21%) Infrastructure as Code
2 136 (76.40%) CI/CD
3 125 (70.22%) DevOps
4 67 (37.64%) Agile
5 54 (30.34%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (25.28%) Containerisation
7 40 (22.47%) Microservices
8 38 (21.35%) Observability
9 35 (19.66%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (15.73%) Platform Engineering
11 27 (15.17%) Cloud Security
11 27 (15.17%) Disaster Recovery
11 27 (15.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 23 (12.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 23 (12.92%) Root Cause Analysis
13 22 (12.36%) AI
14 20 (11.24%) Data Pipeline
14 20 (11.24%) Mentoring
15 19 (10.67%) Data Engineering
16 18 (10.11%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 96 (53.93%) Python
2 56 (31.46%) Bash
3 37 (20.79%) SQL
4 28 (15.73%) PowerShell
5 27 (15.17%) Java
6 23 (12.92%) TypeScript
7 15 (8.43%) JavaScript
8 14 (7.87%) Go
9 10 (5.62%) Groovy
10 9 (5.06%) Bicep
11 8 (4.49%) C#
12 1 (0.56%) C++
12 1 (0.56%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 52 (29.21%) AWS Certification
2 42 (23.60%) Security Cleared
3 26 (14.61%) SC Cleared
4 19 (10.67%) Degree
5 17 (9.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 17 (9.55%) DV Cleared
6 15 (8.43%) AWS Certified Developer
7 9 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.37%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (2.81%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (2.25%) SnowPro
11 2 (1.12%) ISTQB
11 2 (1.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.18%) Data Quality
1 11 (6.18%) QA
2 8 (4.49%) GDPR
3 7 (3.93%) SLA
4 4 (2.25%) NIST
5 3 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.56%) Basel III
6 1 (0.56%) MiFID
6 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 86 (48.31%) Docker
2 6 (3.37%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (2.81%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.12%) KVM
4 2 (1.12%) Terminal Server
4 2 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.56%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.56%) QEMU
5 1 (0.56%) vCloud
5 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 138 (77.53%) Terraform
2 69 (38.76%) Kubernetes
3 46 (25.84%) Ansible
4 33 (18.54%) Grafana
5 30 (16.85%) Prometheus
6 8 (4.49%) HP Fortify
7 7 (3.93%) Argo
8 6 (3.37%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (2.81%) Kubeflow
9 5 (2.81%) Puppet
10 3 (1.69%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (1.69%) Istio
10 3 (1.69%) linkerd
11 2 (1.12%) Mesos
11 2 (1.12%) Nessus
11 2 (1.12%) Rancher
12 1 (0.56%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.56%) Nagios
12 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 21 (11.80%) Google
2 18 (10.11%) Splunk
3 17 (9.55%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.49%) Red Hat
5 7 (3.93%) IBM
6 4 (2.25%) Databricks
6 4 (2.25%) Foundry
6 4 (2.25%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (2.25%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.69%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.69%) Citrix
7 3 (1.69%) SaltStack
7 3 (1.69%) SAP
7 3 (1.69%) VMware
8 2 (1.12%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.12%) OneLogin
8 2 (1.12%) Oracle
8 2 (1.12%) Ping Identity
8 2 (1.12%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.56%) Refinitiv