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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 409 532
Rank change year-on-year +29 +123 -201
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 344 230 306
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.58% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.43% 1.68% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 188 135 257
10th Percentile £50,000 £54,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,315 £61,875 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,588 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £113,250 £117,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,338 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +0.45% - -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 24,121 13,676 29,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.35% 34.71% 35.05%
Number of salaries quoted 13,904 9,775 24,165
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 £83,738 £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 20 May 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 May 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 +21 159 £86,250 -1.43% 35
North of England +55 130 £75,000 +8.09% 32
Yorkshire +44 97 £75,000 - 14
North West +10 31 £80,000 +14.79% 14
Midlands -10 30 £50,000 -28.64% 7
East Midlands -19 16 £52,500 -23.64% 5
West Midlands -22 14 £50,000 -38.51% 2
South West -57 10 £72,500 -14.71% 13
South East -40 8 £70,000 +19.15% 8
East of England -31 2 £82,500 -2.94% 1
North East -41 2 £65,576 -5.49% 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 15 (4.36%) Apache
2 8 (2.33%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.87%) Confluence
4 3 (0.87%) JBoss
5 1 (0.29%) Drupal
5 1 (0.29%) IIS
5 1 (0.29%) nginx
5 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 328 (95.35%) AWS
2 197 (57.27%) Serverless
3 171 (49.71%) AWS Lambda
4 126 (36.63%) Amazon S3
5 104 (30.23%) Amazon ECS
6 97 (28.20%) AWS Step Functions
7 83 (24.13%) Azure
8 77 (22.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 76 (22.09%) GitHub
10 59 (17.15%) Datadog
10 59 (17.15%) GitHub Actions
11 49 (14.24%) GCP
12 47 (13.66%) Amazon ECR
13 46 (13.37%) Amazon SQS
14 45 (13.08%) Amazon EKS
15 44 (12.79%) Amazon EC2
15 44 (12.79%) Apigee
16 31 (9.01%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 22 (6.40%) OpenShift
18 20 (5.81%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.78%) DSL
1 13 (3.78%) Firewall
2 12 (3.49%) VPN
3 7 (2.03%) DNS
3 7 (2.03%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.74%) Network Security
5 5 (1.45%) AMQP
6 4 (1.16%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.87%) SCCP
8 2 (0.58%) 4G
8 2 (0.58%) 5G
8 2 (0.58%) HTTP
9 1 (0.29%) PSTN
9 1 (0.29%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (34.88%) DynamoDB
2 80 (23.26%) NoSQL
3 45 (13.08%) Amazon RDS
4 31 (9.01%) Amazon Athena
5 20 (5.81%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (3.20%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.33%) SQL Server
8 7 (2.03%) Big Data
9 6 (1.74%) Flink
9 6 (1.74%) MySQL
10 5 (1.45%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (1.45%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.45%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.16%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.16%) Redis
12 3 (0.87%) Metadata
13 2 (0.58%) Apache Hudi
13 2 (0.58%) Apache Iceberg
13 2 (0.58%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 146 (42.44%) Jenkins
2 138 (40.12%) GitLab
3 58 (16.86%) Git
4 49 (14.24%) Maven
5 44 (12.79%) Cypress.io
6 41 (11.92%) SonarQube
7 27 (7.85%) CircleCI
8 20 (5.81%) Cucumber
9 11 (3.20%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (1.45%) Claude Code
10 5 (1.45%) Gradle
11 4 (1.16%) JIRA
11 4 (1.16%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.87%) Selenium
13 2 (0.58%) JMeter
14 1 (0.29%) Eclipse
14 1 (0.29%) Robot Framework
14 1 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
14 1 (0.29%) Vagrant
General
1 105 (30.52%) Social Skills
2 65 (18.90%) Finance
3 33 (9.59%) Banking
4 11 (3.20%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (2.91%) Advertising
5 10 (2.91%) Aerospace
6 9 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.03%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.74%) Public Sector
8 6 (1.74%) Retail
9 5 (1.45%) Billing
9 5 (1.45%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.16%) Legal
10 4 (1.16%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (1.16%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.87%) Aviation
11 3 (0.87%) Back Office
11 3 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.87%) Law
12 2 (0.58%) Games
Job Titles
1 108 (31.40%) Developer
2 66 (19.19%) Cloud Engineer
3 65 (18.90%) Java Developer
4 64 (18.60%) Senior
5 52 (15.12%) DevOps Engineer
6 36 (10.47%) AWS Engineer
7 32 (9.30%) Senior Developer
8 30 (8.72%) AWS Developer
9 25 (7.27%) Lead
10 22 (6.40%) Security Engineer
11 21 (6.10%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 21 (6.10%) Platform Engineer
12 20 (5.81%) Java Engineer
13 18 (5.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 16 (4.65%) Senior Java Developer
14 16 (4.65%) Software Engineer
15 15 (4.36%) AWS DevOps
15 15 (4.36%) Full-Stack Developer
15 15 (4.36%) Principal Engineer
16 14 (4.07%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (23.26%) AngularJS
1 80 (23.26%) Spring Boot
2 59 (17.15%) Kafka
3 53 (15.41%) Node.js
4 51 (14.83%) AWS CDK
5 50 (14.53%) Spring
6 44 (12.79%) Gherkin
7 41 (11.92%) Jest
8 39 (11.34%) RESTful
9 32 (9.30%) React
10 23 (6.69%) RabbitMQ
11 22 (6.40%) gRPC
12 21 (6.10%) web3js
13 16 (4.65%) Next.js
14 15 (4.36%) REST
14 15 (4.36%) YAML
15 12 (3.49%) Elastic Stack
16 11 (3.20%) .NET
16 11 (3.20%) JSON
17 9 (2.62%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 98 (28.49%) Cloud Native
2 31 (9.01%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (6.98%) Public Cloud
4 22 (6.40%) Security Posture
5 21 (6.10%) Blockchain
5 21 (6.10%) Web3
6 17 (4.94%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (4.36%) e-Learning
8 14 (4.07%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (3.78%) Cloud Security Posture
10 12 (3.49%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (2.33%) PKI
11 8 (2.33%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (1.45%) Management Information System
14 4 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
15 3 (0.87%) Cyber Defence
15 3 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
15 3 (0.87%) Mobile App
15 3 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 66 (19.19%) Linux
2 17 (4.94%) Windows
3 13 (3.78%) Ubuntu
4 10 (2.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.62%) CentOS
6 5 (1.45%) Debian
6 5 (1.45%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.16%) Unix
7 4 (1.16%) VMS
8 3 (0.87%) Android
8 3 (0.87%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (70.64%) CI/CD
1 243 (70.64%) Infrastructure as Code
2 208 (60.47%) DevOps
3 135 (39.24%) Agile
4 110 (31.98%) Containerisation
5 84 (24.42%) Microservices
6 70 (20.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 68 (19.77%) DevSecOps
7 68 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
8 62 (18.02%) Mentoring
8 62 (18.02%) Software Engineering
9 61 (17.73%) Observability
10 60 (17.44%) Continuous Integration
11 59 (17.15%) Test Automation
12 58 (16.86%) Cloud Security
13 46 (13.37%) Platform Engineering
14 45 (13.08%) Event-Driven
15 41 (11.92%) High Availability
16 39 (11.34%) Performance Optimisation
17 38 (11.05%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 141 (40.99%) Python
2 135 (39.24%) Java
3 95 (27.62%) TypeScript
4 81 (23.55%) SQL
5 70 (20.35%) Bash
6 55 (15.99%) Groovy
7 48 (13.95%) Go
8 36 (10.47%) Kotlin
9 28 (8.14%) JavaScript
10 20 (5.81%) PowerShell
11 13 (3.78%) Rust
12 12 (3.49%) C#
13 9 (2.62%) Bicep
14 6 (1.74%) C++
15 4 (1.16%) Google Apps Script
16 2 (0.58%) PHP
17 1 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 1 (0.29%) Perl
17 1 (0.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 76 (22.09%) AWS Certification
2 71 (20.64%) Security Cleared
3 41 (11.92%) SC Cleared
4 31 (9.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 31 (9.01%) Degree
5 28 (8.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 24 (6.98%) ITIL Certification
7 22 (6.40%) AWS Certified Developer
8 18 (5.23%) DV Cleared
9 16 (4.65%) OSCP
10 9 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (2.03%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 6 (1.74%) Azure Certification
13 5 (1.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (1.16%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.87%) CREST Certified
15 3 (0.87%) Master's Degree
15 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
16 1 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
16 1 (0.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.10%) NIST
2 16 (4.65%) PCI DSS
3 12 (3.49%) GDPR
4 10 (2.91%) SOC 2
5 7 (2.03%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.45%) QA
7 4 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.29%) NCSC
8 1 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 169 (49.13%) Docker
2 5 (1.45%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.16%) KVM
3 4 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 222 (64.53%) Terraform
2 131 (38.08%) Kubernetes
3 63 (18.31%) Ansible
4 40 (11.63%) HP Fortify
5 36 (10.47%) Prometheus
6 28 (8.14%) Grafana
7 11 (3.20%) Progress Chef
8 9 (2.62%) Argo
9 7 (2.03%) Puppet
10 6 (1.74%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.45%) Istio
11 5 (1.45%) linkerd
11 5 (1.45%) Mesos
12 4 (1.16%) Rancher
13 3 (0.87%) AWS Copilot
14 2 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
15 1 (0.29%) Consul
15 1 (0.29%) Packer
Vendors
1 21 (6.10%) Google
2 12 (3.49%) Microsoft
3 6 (1.74%) HubSpot
3 6 (1.74%) Red Hat
4 5 (1.45%) SaltStack
5 4 (1.16%) OpenAI
5 4 (1.16%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.16%) VMware
6 2 (0.58%) Databricks
6 2 (0.58%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (0.58%) Oracle
6 2 (0.58%) Ping Identity
6 2 (0.58%) SolarWinds
6 2 (0.58%) Splunk
7 1 (0.29%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.29%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.29%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.29%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.29%) TOWER Software