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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 464 396
Rank change year-on-year +52 -68 -87
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 210 227 302
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 0.47% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.13% 1.29% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 145 171 242
10th Percentile £50,750 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £87,500 £116,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £112,000 £138,750 £135,750
UK median annual salary £73,801 £78,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.38% +4.00% -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 18,577 17,573 19,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.16% 36.51% 40.44%
Number of salaries quoted 10,387 10,399 16,693
10th Percentile £28,900 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,376 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,850 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 +27 97 £85,000 -15.00% 48
North of England +33 77 £72,500 +7.41% 30
Yorkshire +36 52 £71,000 +9.23% 20
North West +3 22 £70,000 +9.80% 8
Midlands +23 16 £50,000 -27.86% 12
West Midlands +28 14 £50,000 -27.86% 8
South East +26 12 £72,500 +18.37% 43
South West +10 7 £70,000 +40.00% 15
North East +5 3 £73,801 +6.48% 2
East Midlands -13 2 - - 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 11 (5.24%) Apache
2 8 (3.81%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.86%) Tomcat
4 6 (2.86%) WebSphere
4 6 (2.86%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.95%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 195 (92.86%) AWS
2 113 (53.81%) Serverless
3 105 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
4 88 (41.90%) Azure
5 85 (40.48%) Amazon S3
6 61 (29.05%) GitHub
7 59 (28.10%) Amazon ECS
8 53 (25.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 49 (23.33%) AWS Step Functions
10 48 (22.86%) GCP
11 44 (20.95%) GitHub Actions
12 39 (18.57%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (17.14%) Amazon ECR
14 35 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
15 30 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
16 28 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
17 26 (12.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 20 (9.52%) Datadog
19 19 (9.05%) Apigee
20 16 (7.62%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.24%) TCP/IP
2 8 (3.81%) Firewall
3 7 (3.33%) VPN
4 6 (2.86%) SSL
5 5 (2.38%) Network Security
6 4 (1.90%) DSL
7 3 (1.43%) AMQP
7 3 (1.43%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.95%) SCCP
9 1 (0.48%) DHCP
9 1 (0.48%) DNS
9 1 (0.48%) HTTP
9 1 (0.48%) LAN
9 1 (0.48%) VSAN
9 1 (0.48%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (27.14%) DynamoDB
2 44 (20.95%) Amazon RDS
3 40 (19.05%) NoSQL
4 34 (16.19%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (8.10%) SQL Server
6 16 (7.62%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (6.19%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (5.71%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (5.71%) Data Lake
10 11 (5.24%) Redis
11 10 (4.76%) MySQL
12 6 (2.86%) DB2
13 5 (2.38%) Big Data
14 4 (1.90%) MongoDB
15 3 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
15 3 (1.43%) Apache Iceberg
15 3 (1.43%) Cloudera CDH
15 3 (1.43%) Data Vault
15 3 (1.43%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 75 (35.71%) Jenkins
2 64 (30.48%) GitLab
3 34 (16.19%) Git
4 23 (10.95%) SonarQube
5 19 (9.05%) Cypress.io
5 19 (9.05%) Maven
6 9 (4.29%) CircleCI
7 8 (3.81%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.38%) git-flow
9 4 (1.90%) Robot Framework
10 3 (1.43%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.43%) JIRA
11 2 (0.95%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.95%) JMeter
11 2 (0.95%) Selenium
11 2 (0.95%) TestRail
12 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.48%) Subversion
12 1 (0.48%) TeamCity
General
1 67 (31.90%) Social Skills
2 35 (16.67%) Finance
3 19 (9.05%) Banking
4 16 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.81%) Aerospace
5 8 (3.81%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.33%) Law
7 5 (2.38%) Advertising
7 5 (2.38%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.90%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.43%) Billing
9 3 (1.43%) Electronics
9 3 (1.43%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.43%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.43%) Marketing
9 3 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.95%) Aviation
10 2 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.95%) Retail
11 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 48 (22.86%) Senior
2 41 (19.52%) Developer
3 40 (19.05%) Cloud Engineer
4 32 (15.24%) DevOps Engineer
5 29 (13.81%) AWS Engineer
6 21 (10.00%) Lead
7 20 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
8 15 (7.14%) AWS Developer
8 15 (7.14%) Java Developer
9 13 (6.19%) Architect
10 12 (5.71%) .NET Developer
10 12 (5.71%) AWS DevOps
10 12 (5.71%) Senior Developer
11 10 (4.76%) Data Engineer
11 10 (4.76%) Security Engineer
12 9 (4.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.29%) Support Engineer
13 8 (3.81%) AWS Architect
13 8 (3.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 8 (3.81%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (18.10%) AWS CDK
2 27 (12.86%) AngularJS
3 26 (12.38%) Spring Boot
4 25 (11.90%) RESTful
5 21 (10.00%) React
6 19 (9.05%) Gherkin
6 19 (9.05%) Jest
6 19 (9.05%) Node.js
7 18 (8.57%) .NET
7 18 (8.57%) Elastic Stack
8 16 (7.62%) Kafka
9 15 (7.14%) Spring
10 13 (6.19%) .NET Core
10 13 (6.19%) ASP.NET
10 13 (6.19%) ASP.NET Core
10 13 (6.19%) Blazor
10 13 (6.19%) RabbitMQ
11 11 (5.24%) Django
12 9 (4.29%) REST
13 8 (3.81%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 62 (29.52%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.71%) Linux Command Line
3 12 (5.71%) Security Posture
4 11 (5.24%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.38%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.38%) Blockchain
5 5 (2.38%) Cloud Security Posture
5 5 (2.38%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.38%) Web3
6 3 (1.43%) e-Learning
6 3 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.43%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.95%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (0.95%) Cyber Security Posture
7 2 (0.95%) PKI
7 2 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.48%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 55 (26.19%) Linux
2 27 (12.86%) Unix
3 22 (10.48%) Windows
4 9 (4.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (4.29%) Ubuntu
5 6 (2.86%) Debian
6 3 (1.43%) CentOS
6 3 (1.43%) VMS
7 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (76.19%) CI/CD
2 154 (73.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 153 (72.86%) DevOps
4 81 (38.57%) Agile
5 64 (30.48%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (23.81%) Containerisation
7 49 (23.33%) Microservices
8 42 (20.00%) Observability
9 38 (18.10%) Continuous Improvement
10 35 (16.67%) Cloud Security
11 30 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
12 28 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 26 (12.38%) Platform Engineering
14 25 (11.90%) Continuous Integration
14 25 (11.90%) DevSecOps
15 23 (10.95%) Disaster Recovery
16 22 (10.48%) Incident Response
17 19 (9.05%) Event-Driven
17 19 (9.05%) Infrastructure Automation
17 19 (9.05%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 96 (45.71%) Python
2 64 (30.48%) Bash
3 42 (20.00%) Java
3 42 (20.00%) SQL
4 39 (18.57%) TypeScript
5 28 (13.33%) PowerShell
6 20 (9.52%) Go
7 19 (9.05%) Groovy
8 14 (6.67%) JavaScript
9 10 (4.76%) Bicep
10 7 (3.33%) C#
11 6 (2.86%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.90%) Rust
13 1 (0.48%) C++
13 1 (0.48%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.48%) PHP
Qualifications
1 64 (30.48%) AWS Certification
2 48 (22.86%) Security Cleared
3 26 (12.38%) SC Cleared
4 22 (10.48%) DV Cleared
5 20 (9.52%) AWS Certified Developer
5 20 (9.52%) Degree
6 18 (8.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 13 (6.19%) ITIL Certification
8 9 (4.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.86%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.90%) OSCP
11 4 (1.90%) SnowPro
12 3 (1.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (0.95%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.95%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.24%) Data Quality
1 11 (5.24%) QA
2 8 (3.81%) NIST
3 7 (3.33%) SLA
4 6 (2.86%) GDPR
5 5 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.90%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.48%) Basel III
7 1 (0.48%) MiFID
7 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 107 (50.95%) Docker
2 4 (1.90%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.90%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.95%) KVM
4 1 (0.48%) QEMU
4 1 (0.48%) vCloud
4 1 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.48%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 147 (70.00%) Terraform
2 77 (36.67%) Kubernetes
3 46 (21.90%) Ansible
4 28 (13.33%) Prometheus
5 27 (12.86%) Grafana
6 19 (9.05%) HP Fortify
7 8 (3.81%) Argo
8 6 (2.86%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (2.38%) Kubeflow
9 5 (2.38%) Puppet
10 4 (1.90%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.43%) Istio
11 3 (1.43%) linkerd
11 3 (1.43%) Mesos
11 3 (1.43%) Rancher
12 2 (0.95%) Nessus
13 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 21 (10.00%) Google
2 14 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.19%) Splunk
4 9 (4.29%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.86%) IBM
6 4 (1.90%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.90%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.43%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.43%) Foundry
7 3 (1.43%) LogicMonitor
7 3 (1.43%) SAP
8 2 (0.95%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.95%) Databricks
8 2 (0.95%) Oracle
8 2 (0.95%) Ping Identity
8 2 (0.95%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.95%) VMware
9 1 (0.48%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.48%) Qualys
9 1 (0.48%) Refinitiv