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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 443 523
Rank change year-on-year +76 +80 -156
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 459 204 223
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 0.47% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.89% 1.46% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 214 116 158
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,823 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.10% +3.45% -6.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £89,375
90th Percentile £105,000 £103,125 £108,250
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 24,289 13,989 21,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 23.47% 32.28% 32.24%
Number of salaries quoted 16,987 9,774 13,626
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% -
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 27 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 27 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 +57 234 £90,000 +10.43% 165
North of England +40 143 £72,500 +13.73% 67
Yorkshire +29 84 £75,000 +7.14% 20
North West -5 43 £72,500 +20.83% 37
South West -55 33 £67,500 -25.00% 20
Midlands -41 23 £62,000 +15.35% 26
South East -53 19 £70,000 -20.00% 31
North East - 18 £50,000 - 10
East Midlands -27 13 £52,500 - 11
West Midlands -40 10 £63,750 +18.60% 15
East of England -46 1 £90,000 +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 18 (3.92%) Apache
2 11 (2.40%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.96%) Confluence
4 6 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.87%) nginx
6 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.44%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.44%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.87%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.44%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 3 (0.65%) Summit
2 2 (0.44%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.44%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 438 (95.42%) AWS
2 221 (48.15%) Serverless
3 161 (35.08%) AWS Lambda
4 125 (27.23%) Amazon ECS
5 117 (25.49%) Amazon S3
6 114 (24.84%) Azure
7 96 (20.92%) GitHub
8 88 (19.17%) GCP
9 77 (16.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 71 (15.47%) Amazon EC2
11 69 (15.03%) GitHub Actions
12 66 (14.38%) Amazon EKS
13 62 (13.51%) AWS Step Functions
14 48 (10.46%) Cloud Computing
15 44 (9.59%) Datadog
16 33 (7.19%) OpenShift
17 31 (6.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 31 (6.75%) PaaS
18 29 (6.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 28 (6.10%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.92%) Network Security
2 14 (3.05%) TCP/IP
3 13 (2.83%) VPN
4 10 (2.18%) Firewall
5 8 (1.74%) DNS
6 7 (1.53%) AMQP
7 6 (1.31%) HTTP
8 5 (1.09%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.44%) MQTT
9 2 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.22%) 4G
10 1 (0.22%) 5G
10 1 (0.22%) DHCP
10 1 (0.22%) DNSSEC
10 1 (0.22%) Internet
10 1 (0.22%) PSTN
10 1 (0.22%) SCCP
10 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (17.65%) NoSQL
2 76 (16.56%) DynamoDB
3 48 (10.46%) Amazon RDS
4 29 (6.32%) Amazon Athena
5 14 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.18%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (1.96%) Big Data
7 9 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (1.96%) Hadoop
7 9 (1.96%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.53%) Cloudera CDH
8 7 (1.53%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.31%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.31%) Flink
9 6 (1.31%) Metadata
9 6 (1.31%) MySQL
10 5 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.09%) Redis
11 3 (0.65%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 109 (23.75%) GitLab
1 109 (23.75%) Jenkins
2 72 (15.69%) Git
3 43 (9.37%) Cucumber
4 20 (4.36%) Cypress.io
5 19 (4.14%) Maven
6 18 (3.92%) SonarQube
7 11 (2.40%) Bitbucket
7 11 (2.40%) JIRA
8 10 (2.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (1.53%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.53%) Claude Code
10 5 (1.09%) Snyk
10 5 (1.09%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.87%) Gradle
12 3 (0.65%) JUnit
12 3 (0.65%) NUnit
12 3 (0.65%) Postman
12 3 (0.65%) Selenium
13 2 (0.44%) Flyway
General
1 128 (27.89%) Finance
2 115 (25.05%) Social Skills
3 45 (9.80%) Public Sector
4 42 (9.15%) Banking
5 22 (4.79%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (4.36%) Financial Institution
7 17 (3.70%) Law
8 14 (3.05%) Aerospace
9 13 (2.83%) Legal
10 11 (2.40%) Military
11 8 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.53%) Retail
13 5 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.87%) Local Government
14 4 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.87%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.65%) Automotive
15 3 (0.65%) Back Office
15 3 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.65%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 122 (26.58%) Senior
2 88 (19.17%) Cloud Engineer
3 81 (17.65%) Developer
4 69 (15.03%) DevOps Engineer
5 52 (11.33%) AWS Engineer
6 50 (10.89%) Java Developer
6 50 (10.89%) Java Engineer
7 39 (8.50%) Consultant
8 34 (7.41%) Lead
9 33 (7.19%) Senior Consultant
10 27 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
10 27 (5.88%) Software Engineer
11 25 (5.45%) Architect
11 25 (5.45%) AWS Developer
11 25 (5.45%) Full-Stack Developer
11 25 (5.45%) Principal Engineer
12 24 (5.23%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 24 (5.23%) Principal Java Engineer
13 20 (4.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 19 (4.14%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 323 (70.37%) Terraform
2 95 (20.70%) Spring Boot
3 87 (18.95%) Spring
4 73 (15.90%) Node.js
5 71 (15.47%) Kafka
6 70 (15.25%) AngularJS
7 44 (9.59%) AWS CDK
8 34 (7.41%) React
9 30 (6.54%) RESTful
10 25 (5.45%) Web Services
11 24 (5.23%) REST
12 21 (4.58%) Gherkin
13 17 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
14 16 (3.49%) gRPC
14 16 (3.49%) Jest
15 13 (2.83%) JSON
16 12 (2.61%) YAML
17 11 (2.40%) OpenAPI
18 10 (2.18%) ARM Templates
18 10 (2.18%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 170 (37.04%) Cloud Native
2 67 (14.60%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (12.42%) Public Cloud
4 52 (11.33%) Onboarding
5 42 (9.15%) e-Learning
6 38 (8.28%) Enterprise Cloud
7 29 (6.32%) Enterprise Software
8 25 (5.45%) Hybrid Cloud
9 22 (4.79%) Data Centre
10 19 (4.14%) Legacy Systems
11 16 (3.49%) Linux Command Line
12 13 (2.83%) Distributed Computing
12 13 (2.83%) Mainframe
13 10 (2.18%) Blog
14 8 (1.74%) Blockchain
14 8 (1.74%) Legacy Applications
14 8 (1.74%) Web3
15 7 (1.53%) AI Agents
15 7 (1.53%) Clustering
15 7 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 81 (17.65%) Linux
2 20 (4.36%) Windows
3 12 (2.61%) Unix
4 11 (2.40%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.96%) CentOS
5 9 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.53%) Debian
7 6 (1.31%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.44%) Android
8 2 (0.44%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (74.07%) Infrastructure as Code
2 299 (65.14%) CI/CD
3 243 (52.94%) DevOps
4 202 (44.01%) Agile
5 134 (29.19%) Containerisation
6 103 (22.44%) Mentoring
7 102 (22.22%) Microservices
7 102 (22.22%) Software Engineering
8 101 (22.00%) Test Automation
9 99 (21.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 89 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
11 88 (19.17%) Observability
12 80 (17.43%) Cloud Security
13 78 (16.99%) Event-Driven
14 72 (15.69%) Migration
15 69 (15.03%) AI
16 60 (13.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 60 (13.07%) Platform Engineering
17 56 (12.20%) Collaborative Culture
18 51 (11.11%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 210 (45.75%) Python
2 159 (34.64%) Java
3 99 (21.57%) SQL
4 79 (17.21%) Bash
5 71 (15.47%) TypeScript
6 42 (9.15%) Groovy
7 35 (7.63%) Kotlin
8 34 (7.41%) Go
8 34 (7.41%) PowerShell
9 31 (6.75%) JavaScript
10 18 (3.92%) Bicep
10 18 (3.92%) Ruby
11 15 (3.27%) C#
11 15 (3.27%) Perl
11 15 (3.27%) PHP
12 6 (1.31%) C++
13 4 (0.87%) Google Apps Script
14 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.44%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.22%) Korn
Qualifications
1 155 (33.77%) Security Cleared
2 117 (25.49%) AWS Certification
3 94 (20.48%) SC Cleared
4 73 (15.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 39 (8.50%) DV Cleared
6 35 (7.63%) Degree
7 17 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (2.40%) ITIL Certification
9 11 (2.40%) Master's Degree
10 10 (2.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (1.74%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.87%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.87%) OCP
12 4 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.44%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (7.41%) GDPR
2 12 (2.61%) NIST
3 11 (2.40%) PCI DSS
4 9 (1.96%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.09%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.09%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.87%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.65%) NCSC
7 3 (0.65%) QA
8 2 (0.44%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 180 (39.22%) Docker
2 5 (1.09%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.09%) KVM
2 5 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 171 (37.25%) Kubernetes
2 95 (20.70%) Ansible
3 50 (10.89%) Progress Chef
4 40 (8.71%) Grafana
5 36 (7.84%) Puppet
6 35 (7.63%) Prometheus
7 21 (4.58%) Argo
8 12 (2.61%) HP Fortify
9 8 (1.74%) Istio
10 6 (1.31%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (1.31%) linkerd
10 6 (1.31%) Mesos
10 6 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.65%) Rancher
13 2 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 2 (0.44%) Oracle RMAN
14 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
14 1 (0.22%) Kibana
Vendors
1 33 (7.19%) Google
2 16 (3.49%) Microsoft
3 14 (3.05%) Oracle
4 13 (2.83%) Red Hat
5 9 (1.96%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.53%) Databricks
6 7 (1.53%) SaltStack
6 7 (1.53%) Splunk
7 6 (1.31%) AppDynamics
7 6 (1.31%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.31%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.31%) VMware
8 5 (1.09%) Cisco
9 4 (0.87%) Avaya
9 4 (0.87%) Genesys
10 3 (0.65%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.44%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.44%) Informatica
12 1 (0.22%) Sparx
12 1 (0.22%) YouTube