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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 432 541
Rank change year-on-year +57 +109 -176
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 454 207 217
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 0.48% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.86% 1.48% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 211 120 159
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,400 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -9.68%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,813 £88,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £101,625 £107,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%

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 24,350 13,952 21,661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 24.25% 32.47% 31.69%
Number of salaries quoted 16,895 9,686 14,295
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,625 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,635 £60,000 £62,900
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% -4.61% -3.23%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +53 224 £90,000 +10.43% 250
North of England +44 149 £73,750 +5.36% 75
Yorkshire +25 91 £75,000 +6.38% 25
North West -1 43 £72,500 +20.83% 37
South West -51 33 £67,500 -25.00% 21
Midlands -39 21 £62,500 +13.64% 36
South East -46 19 £70,000 -20.00% 48
North East - 15 £48,500 - 13
East Midlands -18 13 £52,500 - 18
West Midlands -39 8 £68,496 +24.54% 18
East of England -43 1 £90,000 +20.00% 11
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 19 (4.19%) Apache
2 10 (2.20%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.98%) Confluence
4 5 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.66%) nginx
6 1 (0.22%) Drupal
6 1 (0.22%) IIS
6 1 (0.22%) JBoss
6 1 (0.22%) SAS
6 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.88%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.44%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 3 (0.66%) Summit
2 1 (0.22%) Magento
2 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 433 (95.37%) AWS
2 224 (49.34%) Serverless
3 170 (37.44%) AWS Lambda
4 135 (29.74%) Amazon ECS
5 124 (27.31%) Amazon S3
6 107 (23.57%) Azure
7 98 (21.59%) GitHub
8 81 (17.84%) GCP
9 78 (17.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 71 (15.64%) GitHub Actions
11 70 (15.42%) Amazon EC2
12 68 (14.98%) Amazon EKS
12 68 (14.98%) AWS Step Functions
13 49 (10.79%) Cloud Computing
13 49 (10.79%) Datadog
14 35 (7.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 33 (7.27%) Amazon SQS
16 32 (7.05%) OpenShift
17 31 (6.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 27 (5.95%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.19%) Network Security
2 14 (3.08%) TCP/IP
3 11 (2.42%) VPN
4 8 (1.76%) DNS
4 8 (1.76%) Firewall
5 7 (1.54%) AMQP
6 6 (1.32%) HTTP
7 5 (1.10%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.44%) 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 88 (19.38%) DynamoDB
2 82 (18.06%) NoSQL
3 49 (10.79%) Amazon RDS
4 32 (7.05%) Amazon Athena
5 14 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (1.98%) Big Data
6 9 (1.98%) Hadoop
6 9 (1.98%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.54%) Cloudera CDH
8 7 (1.54%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.32%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.32%) Flink
9 6 (1.32%) Metadata
9 6 (1.32%) MySQL
10 5 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.10%) Redis
11 3 (0.66%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 116 (25.55%) Jenkins
2 109 (24.01%) GitLab
3 70 (15.42%) Git
4 40 (8.81%) Cucumber
5 25 (5.51%) Cypress.io
5 25 (5.51%) Maven
6 23 (5.07%) SonarQube
7 11 (2.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (2.42%) Bitbucket
7 11 (2.42%) JIRA
8 9 (1.98%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.54%) Claude Code
10 5 (1.10%) Snyk
10 5 (1.10%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.88%) Gradle
11 4 (0.88%) Selenium
12 3 (0.66%) git-flow
12 3 (0.66%) JUnit
12 3 (0.66%) NUnit
12 3 (0.66%) Postman
General
1 126 (27.75%) Finance
2 120 (26.43%) Social Skills
3 41 (9.03%) Banking
4 38 (8.37%) Public Sector
5 21 (4.63%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (3.96%) Financial Institution
7 17 (3.74%) Law
8 14 (3.08%) Aerospace
9 13 (2.86%) Legal
10 9 (1.98%) Military
11 8 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.54%) Retail
13 5 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.88%) Local Government
14 4 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.88%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.66%) Advertising
15 3 (0.66%) Automotive
15 3 (0.66%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.66%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 122 (26.87%) Senior
2 91 (20.04%) Developer
3 84 (18.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 67 (14.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 57 (12.56%) Java Developer
6 53 (11.67%) AWS Engineer
7 46 (10.13%) Java Engineer
8 39 (8.59%) Consultant
9 34 (7.49%) Lead
10 32 (7.05%) Senior Consultant
11 28 (6.17%) Software Engineer
12 27 (5.95%) Full-Stack Developer
12 27 (5.95%) Platform Engineer
13 26 (5.73%) AWS Developer
14 23 (5.07%) Architect
14 23 (5.07%) Principal Engineer
15 22 (4.85%) Principal Java Engineer
15 22 (4.85%) Senior Developer
16 21 (4.63%) Cloud Native Engineer
16 21 (4.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 316 (69.60%) Terraform
2 96 (21.15%) Spring Boot
3 84 (18.50%) Spring
4 78 (17.18%) Node.js
5 77 (16.96%) AngularJS
6 70 (15.42%) Kafka
7 44 (9.69%) AWS CDK
8 34 (7.49%) React
9 31 (6.83%) RESTful
10 26 (5.73%) Gherkin
11 25 (5.51%) Web Services
12 24 (5.29%) REST
13 21 (4.63%) Jest
14 19 (4.19%) RabbitMQ
15 17 (3.74%) gRPC
16 13 (2.86%) JSON
16 13 (2.86%) YAML
17 11 (2.42%) OpenAPI
17 11 (2.42%) OpenTelemetry
18 10 (2.20%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 163 (35.90%) Cloud Native
2 64 (14.10%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (11.67%) Public Cloud
4 50 (11.01%) Onboarding
5 39 (8.59%) Enterprise Cloud
6 38 (8.37%) e-Learning
7 26 (5.73%) Enterprise Software
7 26 (5.73%) Hybrid Cloud
8 22 (4.85%) Data Centre
9 19 (4.19%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (3.74%) Linux Command Line
11 13 (2.86%) Distributed Computing
11 13 (2.86%) Mainframe
12 10 (2.20%) Blockchain
12 10 (2.20%) Blog
12 10 (2.20%) Web3
13 7 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
14 6 (1.32%) AI Agents
14 6 (1.32%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 80 (17.62%) Linux
2 20 (4.41%) Windows
3 12 (2.64%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.20%) CentOS
6 7 (1.54%) Debian
6 7 (1.54%) Unix
7 6 (1.32%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.44%) Android
8 2 (0.44%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (72.47%) Infrastructure as Code
2 296 (65.20%) CI/CD
3 237 (52.20%) DevOps
4 188 (41.41%) Agile
5 138 (30.40%) Containerisation
6 103 (22.69%) Software Engineering
7 101 (22.25%) Mentoring
8 100 (22.03%) Microservices
9 96 (21.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 95 (20.93%) Test Automation
11 87 (19.16%) Problem-Solving
12 86 (18.94%) Observability
13 79 (17.40%) Cloud Security
14 75 (16.52%) Event-Driven
15 67 (14.76%) Migration
16 65 (14.32%) AI
17 60 (13.22%) Platform Engineering
18 58 (12.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 55 (12.11%) Collaborative Culture
20 52 (11.45%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 206 (45.37%) Python
2 164 (36.12%) Java
3 98 (21.59%) SQL
4 81 (17.84%) TypeScript
5 80 (17.62%) Bash
6 48 (10.57%) Groovy
7 39 (8.59%) Kotlin
8 35 (7.71%) Go
9 32 (7.05%) JavaScript
10 31 (6.83%) PowerShell
11 18 (3.96%) Ruby
12 17 (3.74%) Bicep
13 16 (3.52%) PHP
14 15 (3.30%) C#
14 15 (3.30%) Perl
15 6 (1.32%) C++
16 4 (0.88%) Google Apps Script
17 2 (0.44%) Shell Script
18 1 (0.22%) Korn
Qualifications
1 153 (33.70%) Security Cleared
2 116 (25.55%) AWS Certification
3 92 (20.26%) SC Cleared
4 71 (15.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 35 (7.71%) Degree
5 35 (7.71%) DV Cleared
6 17 (3.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 16 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (3.30%) ITIL Certification
9 11 (2.42%) Master's Degree
10 9 (1.98%) AWS Certified Developer
11 8 (1.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.88%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.88%) OCP
12 4 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.66%) Postgraduate
14 2 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.44%) CREST Certified
14 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.61%) GDPR
2 12 (2.64%) NIST
2 12 (2.64%) PCI DSS
3 8 (1.76%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.10%) HIPAA
4 5 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.10%) SOC 2
5 4 (0.88%) ISO 20022
5 4 (0.88%) NCSC
6 3 (0.66%) QA
7 2 (0.44%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 191 (42.07%) Docker
2 6 (1.32%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.10%) KVM
3 5 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 171 (37.67%) Kubernetes
2 91 (20.04%) Ansible
3 52 (11.45%) Progress Chef
4 37 (8.15%) Grafana
4 37 (8.15%) Puppet
5 33 (7.27%) Prometheus
6 22 (4.85%) Argo
7 17 (3.74%) HP Fortify
8 8 (1.76%) Istio
9 6 (1.32%) Docker Swarm
9 6 (1.32%) linkerd
9 6 (1.32%) Mesos
9 6 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.66%) Rancher
12 2 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.22%) Consul
13 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.22%) Kibana
13 1 (0.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 33 (7.27%) Google
2 17 (3.74%) Microsoft
3 14 (3.08%) Red Hat
4 12 (2.64%) Oracle
5 9 (1.98%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.54%) HubSpot
6 7 (1.54%) SaltStack
7 6 (1.32%) Databricks
7 6 (1.32%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.32%) Splunk
7 6 (1.32%) VMware
8 5 (1.10%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.10%) Cisco
9 4 (0.88%) Avaya
9 4 (0.88%) Genesys
10 3 (0.66%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.44%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.44%) Informatica
12 1 (0.22%) Infoblox
12 1 (0.22%) Sparx