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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 433 529
Rank change year-on-year +59 +96 -166
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 356 206 314
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.43% 0.53% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.49% 1.55% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 196 110 260
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,677 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +0.90% - -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 23,819 13,319 30,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.81% 34.21% 33.82%
Number of salaries quoted 14,389 9,345 24,398
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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% -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 4 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 4 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 +28 168 £90,000 +10.77% 60
North of England +52 131 £75,000 +8.09% 30
Yorkshire +39 94 £75,000 +2.04% 12
North West +17 35 £80,000 +14.79% 17
Midlands -12 33 £51,250 -29.31% 6
East Midlands -9 18 £52,500 -27.59% 3
West Midlands -22 15 £50,000 -38.51% 3
South West -47 9 £72,500 -14.71% 16
South East -43 8 £70,000 +19.15% 14
North East -37 2 £65,576 -5.49% 1
East of England -38 2 £82,500 - 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 (3.93%) Apache
2 9 (2.53%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.12%) Confluence
4 4 (1.12%) 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
1 341 (95.79%) AWS
2 198 (55.62%) Serverless
3 169 (47.47%) AWS Lambda
4 125 (35.11%) Amazon S3
5 106 (29.78%) Amazon ECS
6 95 (26.69%) AWS Step Functions
7 85 (23.88%) Azure
8 80 (22.47%) GitHub
9 77 (21.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 60 (16.85%) Datadog
10 60 (16.85%) GitHub Actions
11 51 (14.33%) GCP
12 48 (13.48%) Amazon EC2
13 47 (13.20%) Amazon SQS
14 41 (11.52%) Amazon ECR
14 41 (11.52%) Amazon EKS
15 38 (10.67%) Apigee
16 33 (9.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 20 (5.62%) OpenShift
17 20 (5.62%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.65%) DSL
2 11 (3.09%) Firewall
2 11 (3.09%) VPN
3 8 (2.25%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.97%) DNS
5 5 (1.40%) AMQP
5 5 (1.40%) Network Security
6 3 (0.84%) HTTP
6 3 (0.84%) SCCP
6 3 (0.84%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.56%) 4G
7 2 (0.56%) 5G
8 1 (0.28%) MQTT
8 1 (0.28%) PSTN
8 1 (0.28%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (31.74%) DynamoDB
2 83 (23.31%) NoSQL
3 44 (12.36%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (9.55%) Amazon Athena
5 16 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.81%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.25%) Big Data
8 6 (1.69%) Flink
8 6 (1.69%) Hadoop
8 6 (1.69%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.40%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (1.40%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.40%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.12%) MySQL
10 4 (1.12%) Redis
11 3 (0.84%) Metadata
12 2 (0.56%) Apache Hudi
12 2 (0.56%) Apache Iceberg
12 2 (0.56%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 146 (41.01%) Jenkins
2 137 (38.48%) GitLab
3 58 (16.29%) Git
4 42 (11.80%) Maven
5 38 (10.67%) Cypress.io
6 34 (9.55%) SonarQube
7 26 (7.30%) CircleCI
8 25 (7.02%) Cucumber
9 9 (2.53%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (1.40%) Claude Code
11 5 (1.40%) Gradle
11 5 (1.40%) JIRA
12 4 (1.12%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.84%) Selenium
14 2 (0.56%) JMeter
15 1 (0.28%) Eclipse
15 1 (0.28%) Robot Framework
15 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
15 1 (0.28%) Vagrant
General
1 101 (28.37%) Social Skills
2 71 (19.94%) Finance
3 36 (10.11%) Banking
4 10 (2.81%) Advertising
4 10 (2.81%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (2.53%) Aerospace
5 9 (2.53%) Financial Institution
5 9 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (1.97%) Investment Banking
7 6 (1.69%) Public Sector
7 6 (1.69%) Retail
8 4 (1.12%) Billing
8 4 (1.12%) Legal
8 4 (1.12%) Mandarin Language
8 4 (1.12%) 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
1 109 (30.62%) Developer
2 70 (19.66%) Cloud Engineer
3 69 (19.38%) Java Developer
4 68 (19.10%) Senior
5 56 (15.73%) DevOps Engineer
6 38 (10.67%) AWS Engineer
7 32 (8.99%) Senior Developer
8 28 (7.87%) AWS Developer
9 25 (7.02%) Java Engineer
10 22 (6.18%) Platform Engineer
11 20 (5.62%) Lead
11 20 (5.62%) Security Engineer
12 19 (5.34%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 18 (5.06%) AWS DevOps
13 18 (5.06%) Full-Stack Developer
13 18 (5.06%) Software Engineer
14 17 (4.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 17 (4.78%) Principal Engineer
15 16 (4.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 16 (4.49%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (23.03%) Spring Boot
2 79 (22.19%) AngularJS
3 65 (18.26%) Kafka
4 56 (15.73%) Node.js
5 55 (15.45%) Spring
6 50 (14.04%) AWS CDK
7 40 (11.24%) Gherkin
8 34 (9.55%) Jest
9 33 (9.27%) RESTful
10 32 (8.99%) React
11 22 (6.18%) gRPC
11 22 (6.18%) RabbitMQ
12 20 (5.62%) web3js
13 17 (4.78%) Next.js
13 17 (4.78%) REST
14 16 (4.49%) YAML
15 13 (3.65%) JSON
16 11 (3.09%) Elastic Stack
16 11 (3.09%) Web Services
17 9 (2.53%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 105 (29.49%) Cloud Native
2 35 (9.83%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (8.43%) Public Cloud
4 21 (5.90%) Security Posture
5 20 (5.62%) Blockchain
5 20 (5.62%) e-Learning
5 20 (5.62%) Enterprise Software
5 20 (5.62%) Web3
6 15 (4.21%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (3.65%) Cloud Security Posture
8 12 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.25%) PKI
9 8 (2.25%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.40%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
13 3 (0.84%) Cyber Defence
13 3 (0.84%) Mobile App
13 3 (0.84%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 65 (18.26%) Linux
2 16 (4.49%) Windows
3 12 (3.37%) Ubuntu
4 10 (2.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.53%) CentOS
6 5 (1.40%) Debian
6 5 (1.40%) 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
1 258 (72.47%) Infrastructure as Code
2 249 (69.94%) CI/CD
3 207 (58.15%) DevOps
4 135 (37.92%) Agile
5 116 (32.58%) Containerisation
6 81 (22.75%) Microservices
7 74 (20.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 70 (19.66%) DevSecOps
9 67 (18.82%) Observability
9 67 (18.82%) Software Engineering
10 66 (18.54%) Mentoring
10 66 (18.54%) Test Automation
11 64 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
12 60 (16.85%) Continuous Integration
13 59 (16.57%) Cloud Security
14 51 (14.33%) Event-Driven
15 47 (13.20%) Platform Engineering
16 41 (11.52%) Full-Stack Development
17 40 (11.24%) Collaborative Culture
17 40 (11.24%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 153 (42.98%) Python
2 138 (38.76%) Java
3 92 (25.84%) TypeScript
4 87 (24.44%) SQL
5 66 (18.54%) Bash
6 53 (14.89%) Groovy
7 47 (13.20%) Go
8 38 (10.67%) Kotlin
9 28 (7.87%) JavaScript
10 26 (7.30%) PowerShell
11 13 (3.65%) C#
11 13 (3.65%) Rust
12 12 (3.37%) Bicep
13 6 (1.69%) C++
14 4 (1.12%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.56%) PHP
16 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.28%) Perl
16 1 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 77 (21.63%) Security Cleared
2 75 (21.07%) AWS Certification
3 49 (13.76%) SC Cleared
4 35 (9.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 33 (9.27%) Degree
6 28 (7.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (6.74%) ITIL Certification
8 18 (5.06%) DV Cleared
9 16 (4.49%) OSCP
10 14 (3.93%) AWS Certified Developer
11 9 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (1.97%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 6 (1.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (1.69%) Azure Certification
14 5 (1.40%) Master's Degree
15 4 (1.12%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.84%) CREST Certified
16 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
17 1 (0.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 1 (0.28%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.90%) NIST
2 16 (4.49%) PCI DSS
3 13 (3.65%) GDPR
4 10 (2.81%) SOC 2
5 7 (1.97%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.56%) QA
8 1 (0.28%) NCSC
8 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 167 (46.91%) Docker
2 4 (1.12%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.12%) KVM
2 4 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 230 (64.61%) Terraform
2 134 (37.64%) Kubernetes
3 59 (16.57%) Ansible
4 38 (10.67%) Prometheus
5 33 (9.27%) HP Fortify
6 30 (8.43%) Grafana
7 13 (3.65%) Argo
7 13 (3.65%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.97%) Puppet
9 6 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (1.40%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (1.12%) Istio
11 4 (1.12%) linkerd
11 4 (1.12%) Mesos
12 3 (0.84%) AWS Copilot
12 3 (0.84%) Rancher
13 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.28%) Consul
14 1 (0.28%) Packer
Vendors
1 22 (6.18%) Google
2 11 (3.09%) Microsoft
3 7 (1.97%) HubSpot
3 7 (1.97%) Oracle
4 6 (1.69%) Red Hat
5 5 (1.40%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.12%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.12%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.12%) VMware
7 3 (0.84%) Databricks
7 3 (0.84%) Splunk
8 2 (0.56%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (0.56%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.28%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.28%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.28%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.28%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.28%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.28%) TOWER Software