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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 449 556
Rank change year-on-year +90 +107 -195
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 441 216 230
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.50% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.79% 1.49% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 215 122 180
10th Percentile £51,750 £52,500 £50,457
25th Percentile £61,762 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -9.38%
75th Percentile £90,625 £93,438 £97,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,250 £112,500
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 24,669 14,466 23,475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.85% 33.19% 32.17%
Number of salaries quoted 16,618 10,307 17,533
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,356 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%

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 4 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 4 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 +55 228 £90,000 +12.50% 85
North of England +58 138 £75,000 +8.09% 42
Yorkshire +37 83 £75,000 +5.63% 11
North West +14 45 £73,401 +8.54% 20
Midlands -22 26 £62,500 -3.85% 8
South West -40 23 £67,500 -25.00% 29
East Midlands -2 18 £52,500 -
South East -35 18 £70,000 -17.65% 14
North East -45 10 £52,500 -24.33% 11
West Midlands -32 8 £68,496 +5.38% 8
East of England -39 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 (3.63%) Apache
2 8 (1.81%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.81%) Confluence
3 7 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.68%) JBoss
6 2 (0.45%) nginx
7 1 (0.23%) Drupal
7 1 (0.23%) IIS
7 1 (0.23%) SAS
7 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.91%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.45%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Summit
2 1 (0.23%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 424 (96.15%) AWS
2 223 (50.57%) Serverless
3 167 (37.87%) AWS Lambda
4 128 (29.02%) Amazon ECS
5 122 (27.66%) Amazon S3
6 111 (25.17%) Azure
7 89 (20.18%) GitHub
8 79 (17.91%) GCP
9 73 (16.55%) AWS Step Functions
10 71 (16.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 62 (14.06%) Amazon EC2
11 62 (14.06%) GitHub Actions
12 59 (13.38%) Amazon EKS
13 56 (12.70%) Cloud Computing
14 52 (11.79%) Datadog
15 37 (8.39%) Amazon SQS
16 34 (7.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 32 (7.26%) Amazon ECR
18 28 (6.35%) Apigee
18 28 (6.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.54%) Network Security
2 16 (3.63%) TCP/IP
3 14 (3.17%) VPN
4 13 (2.95%) Firewall
5 11 (2.49%) DNS
6 6 (1.36%) DSL
7 4 (0.91%) AMQP
7 4 (0.91%) HTTP
7 4 (0.91%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.45%) 4G
8 2 (0.45%) 5G
8 2 (0.45%) MQTT
9 1 (0.23%) DHCP
9 1 (0.23%) DNSSEC
9 1 (0.23%) Internet
9 1 (0.23%) PSTN
9 1 (0.23%) SCCP
9 1 (0.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (21.09%) DynamoDB
2 78 (17.69%) NoSQL
3 47 (10.66%) Amazon RDS
4 33 (7.48%) Amazon Athena
5 14 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (1.59%) Big Data
8 6 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.36%) Flink
9 5 (1.13%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.13%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.13%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (0.91%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (0.91%) Metadata
10 4 (0.91%) MySQL
10 4 (0.91%) Redis
10 4 (0.91%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 127 (28.80%) Jenkins
2 126 (28.57%) GitLab
3 60 (13.61%) Git
4 35 (7.94%) Cucumber
5 31 (7.03%) Cypress.io
5 31 (7.03%) Maven
6 27 (6.12%) SonarQube
7 19 (4.31%) CircleCI
8 11 (2.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 10 (2.27%) Bitbucket
9 10 (2.27%) JIRA
10 7 (1.59%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.36%) Selenium
11 6 (1.36%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.91%) Gradle
12 4 (0.91%) Snyk
13 3 (0.68%) JUnit
13 3 (0.68%) NUnit
13 3 (0.68%) Postman
14 2 (0.45%) git-flow
General
1 120 (27.21%) Social Skills
2 111 (25.17%) Finance
3 34 (7.71%) Banking
4 33 (7.48%) Public Sector
5 17 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (3.17%) Financial Institution
7 11 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.27%) Aerospace
8 10 (2.27%) Law
9 9 (2.04%) Legal
10 8 (1.81%) Military
11 6 (1.36%) Retail
12 5 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.13%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.91%) Advertising
13 4 (0.91%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.91%) Mandarin Language
14 3 (0.68%) Automotive
14 3 (0.68%) Back Office
14 3 (0.68%) Games
Job Titles
1 116 (26.30%) Senior
2 96 (21.77%) Developer
3 78 (17.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 68 (15.42%) DevOps Engineer
5 59 (13.38%) Java Developer
6 45 (10.20%) AWS Engineer
7 39 (8.84%) Consultant
8 35 (7.94%) Java Engineer
9 33 (7.48%) Lead
10 32 (7.26%) Senior Consultant
11 25 (5.67%) Full-Stack Developer
11 25 (5.67%) Platform Engineer
12 24 (5.44%) AWS Developer
12 24 (5.44%) Senior Developer
13 21 (4.76%) Architect
14 20 (4.54%) Principal Engineer
15 19 (4.31%) AWS DevOps
15 19 (4.31%) Principal Java Engineer
15 19 (4.31%) Professional Services Consultant
16 18 (4.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (19.95%) Spring Boot
2 74 (16.78%) AngularJS
3 71 (16.10%) Kafka
4 69 (15.65%) Spring
5 61 (13.83%) Node.js
6 49 (11.11%) AWS CDK
7 34 (7.71%) React
8 32 (7.26%) Gherkin
9 27 (6.12%) RESTful
10 24 (5.44%) Jest
11 21 (4.76%) REST
12 20 (4.54%) Web Services
13 19 (4.31%) RabbitMQ
14 18 (4.08%) gRPC
15 15 (3.40%) Next.js
15 15 (3.40%) web3js
15 15 (3.40%) YAML
16 13 (2.95%) Elastic Stack
16 13 (2.95%) JSON
17 10 (2.27%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 144 (32.65%) Cloud Native
2 56 (12.70%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (11.34%) Onboarding
4 44 (9.98%) Public Cloud
5 41 (9.30%) Enterprise Cloud
6 30 (6.80%) e-Learning
7 22 (4.99%) Data Centre
8 21 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (4.31%) Hybrid Cloud
9 19 (4.31%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (3.40%) Blockchain
10 15 (3.40%) Greenfield Project
10 15 (3.40%) Web3
11 13 (2.95%) Distributed Computing
11 13 (2.95%) Mainframe
11 13 (2.95%) Security Posture
12 11 (2.49%) Linux Command Line
13 9 (2.04%) Cloud Security Posture
14 7 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
15 6 (1.36%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 75 (17.01%) Linux
2 20 (4.54%) Windows
3 10 (2.27%) Ubuntu
4 9 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.04%) Unix
5 8 (1.81%) CentOS
6 6 (1.36%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.91%) Debian
8 3 (0.68%) Android
8 3 (0.68%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (71.20%) Infrastructure as Code
2 280 (63.49%) CI/CD
3 228 (51.70%) DevOps
4 174 (39.46%) Agile
5 137 (31.07%) Containerisation
6 108 (24.49%) Mentoring
7 97 (22.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 92 (20.86%) Observability
9 91 (20.63%) Test Automation
10 85 (19.27%) Microservices
11 82 (18.59%) Cloud Security
12 81 (18.37%) Software Engineering
13 76 (17.23%) Problem-Solving
14 67 (15.19%) Event-Driven
15 58 (13.15%) Platform Engineering
16 56 (12.70%) Migration
17 55 (12.47%) Collaborative Culture
18 54 (12.24%) AI
19 53 (12.02%) Continuous Integration
19 53 (12.02%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 201 (45.58%) Python
2 154 (34.92%) Java
3 89 (20.18%) SQL
4 81 (18.37%) Bash
5 78 (17.69%) TypeScript
6 49 (11.11%) Groovy
7 41 (9.30%) Go
8 34 (7.71%) Kotlin
9 29 (6.58%) JavaScript
9 29 (6.58%) PowerShell
10 19 (4.31%) Bicep
11 16 (3.63%) PHP
12 15 (3.40%) Perl
12 15 (3.40%) Ruby
13 11 (2.49%) C#
14 6 (1.36%) C++
14 6 (1.36%) Rust
15 5 (1.13%) Google Apps Script
16 2 (0.45%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.23%) Korn
Qualifications
1 139 (31.52%) Security Cleared
2 106 (24.04%) AWS Certification
3 80 (18.14%) SC Cleared
4 65 (14.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 42 (9.52%) Degree
6 26 (5.90%) DV Cleared
7 21 (4.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 18 (4.08%) ITIL Certification
9 14 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (2.95%) Master's Degree
11 11 (2.49%) AWS Certified Developer
12 9 (2.04%) OSCP
13 7 (1.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 5 (1.13%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.91%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.68%) CREST Certified
16 3 (0.68%) OCP
16 3 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
16 3 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
17 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.35%) GDPR
2 18 (4.08%) NIST
3 17 (3.85%) PCI DSS
4 10 (2.27%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.27%) SOC 2
5 5 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.91%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.68%) NCSC
7 3 (0.68%) QA
8 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 181 (41.04%) Docker
2 5 (1.13%) KVM
2 5 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.91%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 301 (68.25%) Terraform
2 168 (38.10%) Kubernetes
3 84 (19.05%) Ansible
4 44 (9.98%) Grafana
5 42 (9.52%) Prometheus
6 41 (9.30%) Progress Chef
7 29 (6.58%) Puppet
8 23 (5.22%) HP Fortify
9 19 (4.31%) Argo
10 7 (1.59%) Istio
11 6 (1.36%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (1.13%) linkerd
12 5 (1.13%) Mesos
13 3 (0.68%) AWS Copilot
13 3 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.45%) Rancher
15 1 (0.23%) Consul
15 1 (0.23%) Fluentd
15 1 (0.23%) Packer
Vendors
1 32 (7.26%) Google
2 16 (3.63%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.72%) Oracle
4 9 (2.04%) Red Hat
5 8 (1.81%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.59%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.36%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.36%) Splunk
8 5 (1.13%) VMware
9 4 (0.91%) Avaya
9 4 (0.91%) Cisco
9 4 (0.91%) Databricks
9 4 (0.91%) Genesys
9 4 (0.91%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.45%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.45%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.23%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.23%) Infoblox
11 1 (0.23%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.23%) TOWER Software