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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 435 535
Rank change year-on-year +65 +100 -187
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 461 211 212
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 0.49% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.87% 1.49% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 218 125 156
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £60,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -9.68%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £88,125
90th Percentile £106,400 £108,750 £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 24,606 14,182 21,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 24.67% 32.61% 31.81%
Number of salaries quoted 17,114 9,890 14,599
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,500 £39,408 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.00% -3.85%
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 10 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 10 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 +48 230 £90,000 +10.43% 89
North of England +50 149 £72,500 +3.57% 37
Yorkshire +22 87 £75,000 +5.63% 14
North West +11 47 £72,500 +18.37% 15
South West -53 31 £67,500 -25.00% 13
Midlands -32 23 £62,500 +13.64% 17
South East -27 19 £70,000 -20.00% 23
East Midlands -11 15 £52,500 - 6
North East - 15 £48,500 - 8
West Midlands -29 8 £68,496 +24.54% 11
East of England -42 2 £82,500 +10.00% 5
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 (3.90%) Apache
2 10 (2.17%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.95%) Confluence
4 6 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.65%) nginx
7 1 (0.22%) Drupal
7 1 (0.22%) IIS
7 1 (0.22%) JBoss
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
1 440 (95.44%) AWS
2 228 (49.46%) Serverless
3 171 (37.09%) AWS Lambda
4 134 (29.07%) Amazon ECS
5 126 (27.33%) Amazon S3
6 109 (23.64%) Azure
7 96 (20.82%) GitHub
8 81 (17.57%) GCP
9 75 (16.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 71 (15.40%) Amazon EC2
11 69 (14.97%) Amazon EKS
12 68 (14.75%) GitHub Actions
13 66 (14.32%) AWS Step Functions
14 52 (11.28%) Datadog
15 49 (10.63%) Cloud Computing
16 34 (7.38%) Amazon SQS
16 34 (7.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 33 (7.16%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 31 (6.72%) OpenShift
19 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%) AMQP
5 6 (1.30%) HTTP
6 5 (1.08%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.43%) MQTT
8 1 (0.22%) 4G
8 1 (0.22%) 5G
8 1 (0.22%) DHCP
8 1 (0.22%) DNSSEC
8 1 (0.22%) Internet
8 1 (0.22%) PSTN
8 1 (0.22%) SCCP
8 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (18.66%) DynamoDB
2 80 (17.35%) NoSQL
3 51 (11.06%) Amazon RDS
4 30 (6.51%) Amazon Athena
5 14 (3.04%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (1.95%) Big Data
7 9 (1.95%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (1.74%) Hadoop
9 7 (1.52%) Flink
10 6 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (1.30%) Cloudera CDH
10 6 (1.30%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (1.30%) Metadata
10 6 (1.30%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.08%) MySQL
11 5 (1.08%) Redis
12 3 (0.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 114 (24.73%) Jenkins
2 111 (24.08%) GitLab
3 67 (14.53%) Git
4 41 (8.89%) Cucumber
5 25 (5.42%) Cypress.io
5 25 (5.42%) Maven
6 23 (4.99%) SonarQube
7 12 (2.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 12 (2.60%) JIRA
8 11 (2.39%) Bitbucket
9 10 (2.17%) CircleCI
10 7 (1.52%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.30%) TeamCity
12 5 (1.08%) Snyk
13 4 (0.87%) Gradle
13 4 (0.87%) Selenium
14 3 (0.65%) git-flow
14 3 (0.65%) JUnit
14 3 (0.65%) NUnit
14 3 (0.65%) Postman
General
1 129 (27.98%) Finance
2 117 (25.38%) Social Skills
3 42 (9.11%) Banking
4 38 (8.24%) Public Sector
5 22 (4.77%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (3.90%) Financial Institution
7 17 (3.69%) Law
8 13 (2.82%) Aerospace
8 13 (2.82%) Legal
9 9 (1.95%) Military
10 8 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.52%) Retail
12 5 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.87%) Advertising
13 4 (0.87%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.87%) Local Government
13 4 (0.87%) Mandarin Language
13 4 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.87%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.65%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 126 (27.33%) Senior
2 89 (19.31%) Developer
3 87 (18.87%) Cloud Engineer
4 72 (15.62%) DevOps Engineer
5 55 (11.93%) Java Developer
6 52 (11.28%) AWS Engineer
7 47 (10.20%) Java Engineer
8 39 (8.46%) Consultant
9 35 (7.59%) Lead
10 32 (6.94%) Senior Consultant
11 27 (5.86%) Software Engineer
12 26 (5.64%) Full-Stack Developer
12 26 (5.64%) Platform Engineer
13 24 (5.21%) AWS Developer
14 23 (4.99%) Architect
14 23 (4.99%) Principal Engineer
15 22 (4.77%) Principal Java Engineer
15 22 (4.77%) Senior Developer
16 21 (4.56%) Cloud Native Engineer
16 21 (4.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 322 (69.85%) Terraform
2 96 (20.82%) Spring Boot
3 84 (18.22%) Spring
4 75 (16.27%) Node.js
5 74 (16.05%) AngularJS
6 72 (15.62%) Kafka
7 46 (9.98%) AWS CDK
8 35 (7.59%) React
9 30 (6.51%) RESTful
10 26 (5.64%) Gherkin
11 23 (4.99%) REST
11 23 (4.99%) Web Services
12 21 (4.56%) Jest
13 18 (3.90%) RabbitMQ
14 16 (3.47%) gRPC
15 15 (3.25%) YAML
16 13 (2.82%) JSON
17 12 (2.60%) Next.js
18 11 (2.39%) OpenTelemetry
18 11 (2.39%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 161 (34.92%) Cloud Native
2 65 (14.10%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (11.28%) Public Cloud
4 50 (10.85%) Onboarding
5 41 (8.89%) Enterprise Cloud
6 38 (8.24%) e-Learning
7 28 (6.07%) Hybrid Cloud
8 26 (5.64%) Enterprise Software
9 22 (4.77%) Data Centre
10 19 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
11 16 (3.47%) Linux Command Line
12 13 (2.82%) Distributed Computing
12 13 (2.82%) Mainframe
13 11 (2.39%) Blockchain
13 11 (2.39%) Web3
14 10 (2.17%) Blog
15 9 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
16 7 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
16 7 (1.52%) PKI
17 6 (1.30%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 79 (17.14%) Linux
2 22 (4.77%) Windows
3 12 (2.60%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.17%) CentOS
6 7 (1.52%) Unix
6 7 (1.52%) Windows Server
7 6 (1.30%) Debian
8 2 (0.43%) Android
8 2 (0.43%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (72.89%) Infrastructure as Code
2 298 (64.64%) CI/CD
3 240 (52.06%) DevOps
4 193 (41.87%) Agile
5 140 (30.37%) Containerisation
6 107 (23.21%) Mentoring
7 103 (22.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 101 (21.91%) Software Engineering
9 100 (21.69%) Microservices
9 100 (21.69%) Test Automation
10 90 (19.52%) Observability
11 85 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
12 79 (17.14%) Cloud Security
13 76 (16.49%) Event-Driven
14 67 (14.53%) Migration
15 63 (13.67%) AI
16 61 (13.23%) Platform Engineering
17 60 (13.02%) Collaborative Culture
18 55 (11.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 53 (11.50%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 207 (44.90%) Python
2 164 (35.57%) Java
3 100 (21.69%) SQL
4 82 (17.79%) Bash
5 81 (17.57%) TypeScript
6 46 (9.98%) Groovy
7 38 (8.24%) Kotlin
8 35 (7.59%) Go
9 32 (6.94%) JavaScript
10 30 (6.51%) PowerShell
11 18 (3.90%) Bicep
11 18 (3.90%) Ruby
12 16 (3.47%) C#
12 16 (3.47%) PHP
13 15 (3.25%) Perl
14 7 (1.52%) C++
15 5 (1.08%) Google Apps Script
16 2 (0.43%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 1 (0.22%) Korn
Qualifications
1 153 (33.19%) Security Cleared
2 118 (25.60%) AWS Certification
3 92 (19.96%) SC Cleared
4 73 (15.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 38 (8.24%) Degree
6 33 (7.16%) DV Cleared
7 18 (3.90%) 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 5 (1.08%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.87%) OCP
14 4 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (0.87%) Postgraduate
14 4 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
15 2 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.72%) GDPR
2 13 (2.82%) PCI DSS
3 12 (2.60%) NIST
4 9 (1.95%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.30%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.08%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.87%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.87%) NCSC
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
1 189 (41.00%) Docker
2 6 (1.30%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.30%) KVM
2 6 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 173 (37.53%) Kubernetes
2 93 (20.17%) Ansible
3 49 (10.63%) Progress Chef
4 40 (8.68%) Grafana
5 36 (7.81%) Puppet
6 32 (6.94%) Prometheus
7 20 (4.34%) Argo
8 17 (3.69%) HP Fortify
9 7 (1.52%) Istio
10 6 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.08%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (1.08%) linkerd
11 5 (1.08%) 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 34 (7.38%) Google
2 18 (3.90%) Microsoft
3 13 (2.82%) Red Hat
4 12 (2.60%) Oracle
5 9 (1.95%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.52%) HubSpot
6 7 (1.52%) VMware
7 6 (1.30%) Databricks
7 6 (1.30%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.30%) SaltStack
7 6 (1.30%) Splunk
8 5 (1.08%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.08%) Cisco
9 4 (0.87%) Avaya
9 4 (0.87%) Genesys
10 3 (0.65%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.43%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.43%) Informatica
12 1 (0.22%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 1 (0.22%) ServiceNow