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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 443 557
Rank change year-on-year +83 +114 -215
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 461 206 213
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.47% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.87% 1.43% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 226 116 163
10th Percentile £48,375 £52,500 £50,101
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,411 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.55% +3.45% -6.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £94,375
90th Percentile £107,125 £100,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -6.45%

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 24,684 14,408 22,942
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.94% 32.95% 31.66%
Number of salaries quoted 16,836 10,171 16,793
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 +52 229 £90,000 +13.56% 55
North of England +75 150 £72,500 +3.57% 27
Yorkshire +41 90 £75,000 +7.14% 9
North West +9 46 £72,500 +9.33% 11
South West -45 30 £67,500 -25.00% 21
Midlands -11 24 £62,250 -4.23% 5
South East -37 19 £70,000 -18.84% 13
East Midlands -11 16 £52,500 - 2
North East -46 14 £50,000 -27.94% 7
West Midlands -28 8 £68,496 +5.38% 3
East of England -34 2 £82,500 +10.00% 4
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 (3.47%) Apache
2 9 (1.95%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.95%) Confluence
3 6 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.65%) nginx
6 2 (0.43%) JBoss
7 1 (0.22%) Drupal
7 1 (0.22%) IIS
7 1 (0.22%) SAS
7 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.87%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.43%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 3 (0.65%) Summit
2 1 (0.22%) Magento
2 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 441 (95.66%) AWS
2 235 (50.98%) Serverless
3 176 (38.18%) AWS Lambda
4 135 (29.28%) Amazon ECS
5 128 (27.77%) Amazon S3
6 112 (24.30%) Azure
7 97 (21.04%) GitHub
8 81 (17.57%) GCP
9 78 (16.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 72 (15.62%) AWS Step Functions
11 69 (14.97%) Amazon EC2
12 68 (14.75%) GitHub Actions
13 66 (14.32%) Amazon EKS
14 55 (11.93%) Datadog
15 51 (11.06%) Cloud Computing
16 36 (7.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 34 (7.38%) Amazon SQS
18 32 (6.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 30 (6.51%) OpenShift
20 27 (5.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.34%) Network Security
2 15 (3.25%) TCP/IP
3 13 (2.82%) VPN
4 11 (2.39%) DNS
4 11 (2.39%) Firewall
5 6 (1.30%) HTTP
6 5 (1.08%) AMQP
6 5 (1.08%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (0.87%) DSL
8 2 (0.43%) MQTT
9 1 (0.22%) 4G
9 1 (0.22%) 5G
9 1 (0.22%) DHCP
9 1 (0.22%) DNSSEC
9 1 (0.22%) Internet
9 1 (0.22%) PSTN
9 1 (0.22%) SCCP
9 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (19.74%) DynamoDB
2 80 (17.35%) NoSQL
3 50 (10.85%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (7.38%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (1.74%) Big Data
7 8 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (1.74%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.52%) Flink
8 7 (1.52%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.30%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.30%) Metadata
9 6 (1.30%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.08%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (1.08%) MySQL
11 4 (0.87%) Redis
12 3 (0.65%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 122 (26.46%) Jenkins
2 118 (25.60%) GitLab
3 65 (14.10%) Git
4 36 (7.81%) Cucumber
5 26 (5.64%) Cypress.io
5 26 (5.64%) Maven
6 24 (5.21%) SonarQube
7 15 (3.25%) CircleCI
8 12 (2.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 12 (2.60%) JIRA
9 11 (2.39%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.52%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.30%) TeamCity
12 5 (1.08%) Selenium
12 5 (1.08%) Snyk
13 4 (0.87%) Gradle
14 3 (0.65%) git-flow
14 3 (0.65%) JUnit
14 3 (0.65%) NUnit
14 3 (0.65%) Postman
General
1 122 (26.46%) Social Skills
2 121 (26.25%) Finance
3 41 (8.89%) Banking
4 38 (8.24%) Public Sector
5 20 (4.34%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (3.25%) Financial Institution
6 15 (3.25%) Law
7 13 (2.82%) Legal
8 12 (2.60%) Aerospace
9 9 (1.95%) Military
10 8 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.08%) Retail
12 4 (0.87%) Advertising
12 4 (0.87%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.87%) Local Government
12 4 (0.87%) Mandarin Language
12 4 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.87%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.65%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 120 (26.03%) Senior
2 94 (20.39%) Developer
3 89 (19.31%) Cloud Engineer
4 74 (16.05%) DevOps Engineer
5 59 (12.80%) Java Developer
6 51 (11.06%) AWS Engineer
7 40 (8.68%) Java Engineer
8 39 (8.46%) Consultant
9 35 (7.59%) Lead
10 32 (6.94%) Senior Consultant
11 26 (5.64%) AWS Developer
12 25 (5.42%) Full-Stack Developer
12 25 (5.42%) Software Engineer
13 24 (5.21%) Architect
13 24 (5.21%) Platform Engineer
14 23 (4.99%) Senior Developer
15 21 (4.56%) Cloud Native Engineer
16 20 (4.34%) Principal Engineer
17 19 (4.12%) Principal Java Engineer
17 19 (4.12%) Professional Services Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 323 (70.07%) Terraform
2 90 (19.52%) Spring Boot
3 76 (16.49%) Spring
4 75 (16.27%) AngularJS
5 73 (15.84%) Node.js
6 70 (15.18%) Kafka
7 51 (11.06%) AWS CDK
8 37 (8.03%) React
9 31 (6.72%) RESTful
10 27 (5.86%) Gherkin
11 22 (4.77%) REST
11 22 (4.77%) Web Services
12 21 (4.56%) Jest
13 19 (4.12%) RabbitMQ
14 17 (3.69%) gRPC
15 15 (3.25%) YAML
16 14 (3.04%) Next.js
17 13 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
17 13 (2.82%) JSON
17 13 (2.82%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 157 (34.06%) Cloud Native
2 59 (12.80%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (10.85%) Onboarding
4 46 (9.98%) Public Cloud
5 41 (8.89%) Enterprise Cloud
6 32 (6.94%) e-Learning
7 26 (5.64%) Hybrid Cloud
8 22 (4.77%) Data Centre
9 21 (4.56%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (3.04%) Linux Command Line
12 13 (2.82%) Blockchain
12 13 (2.82%) Distributed Computing
12 13 (2.82%) Mainframe
12 13 (2.82%) Web3
13 11 (2.39%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (2.17%) Blog
14 10 (2.17%) Security Posture
15 7 (1.52%) Cloud Security Posture
15 7 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 76 (16.49%) Linux
2 22 (4.77%) Windows
3 11 (2.39%) Ubuntu
4 10 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (1.95%) CentOS
6 7 (1.52%) Unix
6 7 (1.52%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.08%) Debian
8 2 (0.43%) Android
8 2 (0.43%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (72.02%) Infrastructure as Code
2 297 (64.43%) CI/CD
3 246 (53.36%) DevOps
4 184 (39.91%) Agile
5 142 (30.80%) Containerisation
6 107 (23.21%) Mentoring
7 105 (22.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 95 (20.61%) Test Automation
9 93 (20.17%) Microservices
9 93 (20.17%) Software Engineering
10 87 (18.87%) Observability
11 85 (18.44%) Cloud Security
12 83 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
13 71 (15.40%) Event-Driven
14 65 (14.10%) Migration
15 58 (12.58%) Platform Engineering
16 56 (12.15%) AI
16 56 (12.15%) Collaborative Culture
17 53 (11.50%) Configuration Management
17 53 (11.50%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 210 (45.55%) Python
2 159 (34.49%) Java
3 97 (21.04%) SQL
4 84 (18.22%) Bash
5 80 (17.35%) TypeScript
6 46 (9.98%) Groovy
7 41 (8.89%) Go
7 41 (8.89%) Kotlin
8 31 (6.72%) PowerShell
9 29 (6.29%) JavaScript
10 18 (3.90%) Bicep
10 18 (3.90%) Ruby
11 16 (3.47%) PHP
12 15 (3.25%) C#
12 15 (3.25%) Perl
13 6 (1.30%) C++
14 5 (1.08%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (0.87%) Rust
16 2 (0.43%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.22%) Korn
Qualifications
1 151 (32.75%) Security Cleared
2 110 (23.86%) AWS Certification
3 91 (19.74%) SC Cleared
4 67 (14.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 42 (9.11%) Degree
6 31 (6.72%) DV Cleared
7 19 (4.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 17 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (3.25%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (2.60%) Master's Degree
11 10 (2.17%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (1.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (1.30%) OSCP
14 5 (1.08%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.87%) OCP
15 4 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
15 4 (0.87%) Postgraduate
15 4 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
16 2 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
16 2 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.94%) GDPR
2 16 (3.47%) NIST
3 15 (3.25%) PCI DSS
4 9 (1.95%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.74%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.08%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.87%) NCSC
8 3 (0.65%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.65%) QA
9 2 (0.43%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 191 (41.43%) Docker
2 6 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.08%) KVM
3 5 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 178 (38.61%) Kubernetes
2 93 (20.17%) Ansible
3 47 (10.20%) Progress Chef
4 41 (8.89%) Grafana
5 36 (7.81%) Prometheus
6 35 (7.59%) Puppet
7 19 (4.12%) Argo
8 18 (3.90%) HP Fortify
9 6 (1.30%) Istio
9 6 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.08%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.87%) linkerd
11 4 (0.87%) Mesos
12 2 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.43%) Rancher
13 1 (0.22%) Consul
13 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.22%) Kibana
13 1 (0.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 32 (6.94%) Google
2 17 (3.69%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.60%) Oracle
3 12 (2.60%) Red Hat
4 9 (1.95%) OpenAI
5 7 (1.52%) HubSpot
6 6 (1.30%) Databricks
6 6 (1.30%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.30%) Splunk
6 6 (1.30%) VMware
7 5 (1.08%) SaltStack
8 4 (0.87%) AppDynamics
8 4 (0.87%) Avaya
8 4 (0.87%) Cisco
8 4 (0.87%) Genesys
9 3 (0.65%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.43%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.43%) Informatica
11 1 (0.22%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.22%) ServiceNow