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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 397 490
Rank change year-on-year +10 +93 -158
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 280 241 306
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.63% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.29% 1.67% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 171 186 248
10th Percentile £56,250 £54,375 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,875 £63,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £83,750 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.46% +8.06% -3.13%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £128,750 £113,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £79,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.06% +5.33% -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 21,754 14,470 28,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.86% 37.71% 37.49%
Number of salaries quoted 11,892 10,118 23,442
10th Percentile £29,525 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,651 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -14 135 £83,750 -11.84% 57
North of England +11 95 £73,151 +5.54% 34
Yorkshire +17 65 £72,500 -3.33% 11
North West -19 26 £74,301 +7.29% 11
Midlands -10 23 £50,000 -26.97% 6
West Midlands +8 15 £50,000 -27.86% 4
South East -16 14 £70,000 +16.67% 22
South West -23 10 £71,250 +29.55% 17
East Midlands -35 8 £75,000 +15.38% 2
North East -23 4 £73,801 +6.37% 12
East of England -16 1 £75,000 -11.76% 10
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 (5.36%) Apache
2 8 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.71%) JBoss
4 2 (0.71%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.71%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.71%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.36%) Confluence
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 264 (94.29%) AWS
2 159 (56.79%) Serverless
3 136 (48.57%) AWS Lambda
4 111 (39.64%) Azure
5 105 (37.50%) Amazon S3
6 82 (29.29%) Amazon ECS
7 73 (26.07%) AWS Step Functions
7 73 (26.07%) GitHub
8 64 (22.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 63 (22.50%) GCP
10 53 (18.93%) GitHub Actions
11 48 (17.14%) Amazon ECR
12 43 (15.36%) Datadog
13 40 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
14 38 (13.57%) Amazon SQS
15 32 (11.43%) Apigee
16 31 (11.07%) Amazon EC2
17 27 (9.64%) Pulumi
18 26 (9.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 26 (9.29%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.71%) TCP/IP
2 15 (5.36%) Firewall
3 13 (4.64%) DSL
3 13 (4.64%) VPN
4 7 (2.50%) Network Security
5 5 (1.79%) AMQP
5 5 (1.79%) DNS
5 5 (1.79%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (1.07%) SCCP
7 2 (0.71%) SSL
8 1 (0.36%) 4G
8 1 (0.36%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (30.71%) DynamoDB
2 68 (24.29%) NoSQL
3 48 (17.14%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (12.14%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
6 18 (6.43%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (5.00%) Redis
8 13 (4.64%) SQL Server
9 12 (4.29%) MySQL
10 11 (3.93%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (2.14%) Big Data
12 6 (2.14%) MongoDB
13 5 (1.79%) Cloudera CDH
13 5 (1.79%) Data Lake
13 5 (1.79%) Hadoop
14 3 (1.07%) Metadata
15 2 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
15 2 (0.71%) Apache Iceberg
15 2 (0.71%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 111 (39.64%) GitLab
2 109 (38.93%) Jenkins
3 43 (15.36%) Git
4 35 (12.50%) SonarQube
5 33 (11.79%) Maven
6 32 (11.43%) Cypress.io
7 22 (7.86%) CircleCI
8 12 (4.29%) Bitbucket
9 11 (3.93%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.79%) git-flow
10 5 (1.79%) JIRA
10 5 (1.79%) Robot Framework
11 4 (1.43%) Selenium
12 3 (1.07%) Eclipse
12 3 (1.07%) JMeter
12 3 (1.07%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.71%) TestRail
14 1 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 1 (0.36%) Gradle
14 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 94 (33.57%) Social Skills
2 53 (18.93%) Finance
3 27 (9.64%) Banking
4 17 (6.07%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.93%) Aerospace
6 8 (2.86%) Advertising
6 8 (2.86%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.79%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.79%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.79%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.43%) Billing
9 4 (1.43%) Retail
10 3 (1.07%) Aviation
11 2 (0.71%) Electronics
11 2 (0.71%) Games
11 2 (0.71%) Law
11 2 (0.71%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.71%) Marketing
12 1 (0.36%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 74 (26.43%) Developer
2 59 (21.07%) Cloud Engineer
3 56 (20.00%) Senior
4 41 (14.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 38 (13.57%) Java Developer
6 31 (11.07%) AWS Engineer
7 25 (8.93%) Platform Engineer
8 23 (8.21%) Senior Developer
9 22 (7.86%) AWS Developer
10 21 (7.50%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 21 (7.50%) Lead
10 21 (7.50%) Security Engineer
11 20 (7.14%) Architect
12 17 (6.07%) AWS Architect
13 15 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (5.00%) AWS DevOps
15 13 (4.64%) .NET Developer
15 13 (4.64%) AWS Security Architect
15 13 (4.64%) Security Architect
16 11 (3.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (19.29%) AWS CDK
2 52 (18.57%) AngularJS
3 51 (18.21%) Spring Boot
4 35 (12.50%) Kafka
4 35 (12.50%) Node.js
5 32 (11.43%) Gherkin
5 32 (11.43%) Jest
5 32 (11.43%) React
5 32 (11.43%) RESTful
6 27 (9.64%) Spring
7 23 (8.21%) Elastic Stack
7 23 (8.21%) RabbitMQ
8 19 (6.79%) .NET
9 17 (6.07%) gRPC
10 14 (5.00%) Django
10 14 (5.00%) REST
11 13 (4.64%) .NET Core
11 13 (4.64%) ASP.NET
11 13 (4.64%) ASP.NET Core
11 13 (4.64%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 90 (32.14%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.21%) Security Posture
3 20 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (5.00%) Cloud Security Posture
4 14 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 13 (4.64%) Blockchain
5 13 (4.64%) Web3
6 11 (3.93%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (3.93%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (3.93%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.86%) e-Learning
7 8 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.14%) PKI
9 5 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.07%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (1.07%) Cyber Security Posture
11 2 (0.71%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.71%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 60 (21.43%) Linux
2 23 (8.21%) Unix
3 22 (7.86%) Windows
4 11 (3.93%) Ubuntu
5 8 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.14%) CentOS
7 5 (1.79%) Debian
7 5 (1.79%) VMS
8 2 (0.71%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.36%) Android
9 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (76.07%) CI/CD
2 212 (75.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 198 (70.71%) DevOps
4 124 (44.29%) Agile
5 86 (30.71%) Containerisation
6 79 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
7 67 (23.93%) Microservices
8 60 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 57 (20.36%) DevSecOps
10 56 (20.00%) Observability
11 54 (19.29%) Cloud Security
12 47 (16.79%) Continuous Integration
13 42 (15.00%) Incident Response
13 42 (15.00%) Mentoring
14 41 (14.64%) Test Automation
15 37 (13.21%) Platform Engineering
16 35 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
16 35 (12.50%) Software Engineering
17 32 (11.43%) Clean Code
17 32 (11.43%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 123 (43.93%) Python
2 83 (29.64%) Java
3 76 (27.14%) Bash
4 63 (22.50%) TypeScript
5 61 (21.79%) SQL
6 39 (13.93%) Go
7 32 (11.43%) Groovy
8 29 (10.36%) PowerShell
9 22 (7.86%) JavaScript
10 21 (7.50%) Kotlin
11 13 (4.64%) C#
11 13 (4.64%) Rust
12 11 (3.93%) Bicep
13 4 (1.43%) C++
14 3 (1.07%) Google Apps Script
15 1 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 69 (24.64%) AWS Certification
2 66 (23.57%) Security Cleared
3 35 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 34 (12.14%) Degree
5 25 (8.93%) DV Cleared
6 24 (8.57%) AWS Certified Developer
6 24 (8.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 21 (7.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 19 (6.79%) ITIL Certification
9 14 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (5.00%) OSCP
10 7 (2.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 5 (1.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (1.79%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.71%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.71%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.50%) NIST
2 15 (5.36%) PCI DSS
3 13 (4.64%) GDPR
4 12 (4.29%) QA
5 9 (3.21%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.43%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.07%) SLA
9 1 (0.36%) Basel III
9 1 (0.36%) MiFID
System Software
1 143 (51.07%) Docker
2 5 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.43%) KVM
4 3 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.36%) QEMU
5 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 193 (68.93%) Terraform
2 103 (36.79%) Kubernetes
3 59 (21.07%) Ansible
4 41 (14.64%) Prometheus
5 39 (13.93%) Grafana
6 32 (11.43%) HP Fortify
7 9 (3.21%) AWS Copilot
8 8 (2.86%) Argo
8 8 (2.86%) Docker Swarm
9 6 (2.14%) Istio
9 6 (2.14%) linkerd
9 6 (2.14%) Mesos
9 6 (2.14%) Puppet
10 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (1.43%) Rancher
11 2 (0.71%) Nessus
Vendors
1 29 (10.36%) Google
2 14 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.21%) Splunk
4 7 (2.50%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.14%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.43%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.07%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.07%) LogicMonitor
7 3 (1.07%) Oracle
7 3 (1.07%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.07%) VMware
8 2 (0.71%) IBM
8 2 (0.71%) Ping Identity
8 2 (0.71%) SAP
9 1 (0.36%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.36%) Foundry
9 1 (0.36%) Refinitiv