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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 402 491
Rank change year-on-year +19 +89 -150
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 268 242 312
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.61% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.27% 1.62% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 163 184 254
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £63,630 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £83,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.46% +11.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £119,000 £131,250 £115,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £78,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.46% +4.67% -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 21,142 14,933 27,730
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.86% 37.86% 37.62%
Number of salaries quoted 11,563 10,125 23,314
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,250 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £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 10 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 10 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 -4 128 £82,500 -15.38% 37
North of England +15 93 £72,500 +4.65% 26
Yorkshire +17 66 £72,500 - 8
North West -20 23 £76,651 +13.45% 11
Midlands -8 22 £50,000 -26.97% 8
West Midlands +9 15 £50,000 -27.86% 5
South East -26 14 £70,000 +16.67% 10
South West -25 10 £71,250 +29.55% 16
East Midlands -28 7 £75,000 +15.38% 3
North East -26 4 £73,801 +6.37% 7
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 (5.97%) Apache
2 10 (3.73%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.75%) JBoss
4 2 (0.75%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.75%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.75%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.37%) Confluence
5 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 252 (94.03%) AWS
2 157 (58.58%) Serverless
3 137 (51.12%) AWS Lambda
4 106 (39.55%) Azure
5 104 (38.81%) Amazon S3
6 82 (30.60%) Amazon ECS
7 76 (28.36%) AWS Step Functions
8 70 (26.12%) GitHub
9 64 (23.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 64 (23.88%) GCP
10 50 (18.66%) GitHub Actions
11 47 (17.54%) Amazon ECR
12 38 (14.18%) Amazon EKS
12 38 (14.18%) Amazon SQS
13 37 (13.81%) Datadog
14 31 (11.57%) Apigee
15 29 (10.82%) Amazon EC2
16 27 (10.07%) Pulumi
17 26 (9.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 25 (9.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.60%) TCP/IP
2 13 (4.85%) DSL
3 12 (4.48%) Firewall
4 11 (4.10%) VPN
5 5 (1.87%) AMQP
5 5 (1.87%) Network Security
5 5 (1.87%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (1.12%) SCCP
7 2 (0.75%) DNS
7 2 (0.75%) SSL
8 1 (0.37%) 4G
8 1 (0.37%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (32.09%) DynamoDB
2 66 (24.63%) NoSQL
3 45 (16.79%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (12.69%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (8.21%) Amazon Athena
6 17 (6.34%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (5.22%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (5.22%) Redis
8 13 (4.85%) SQL Server
9 12 (4.48%) MySQL
10 9 (3.36%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (2.99%) Data Lake
12 7 (2.61%) Big Data
13 6 (2.24%) MongoDB
14 5 (1.87%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (1.87%) Hadoop
15 3 (1.12%) Apache Iceberg
15 3 (1.12%) Metadata
16 2 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
16 2 (0.75%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 105 (39.18%) GitLab
1 105 (39.18%) Jenkins
2 42 (15.67%) Git
3 35 (13.06%) SonarQube
4 32 (11.94%) Maven
5 31 (11.57%) Cypress.io
6 20 (7.46%) CircleCI
7 11 (4.10%) Bitbucket
8 10 (3.73%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.87%) git-flow
9 5 (1.87%) Robot Framework
10 4 (1.49%) JIRA
10 4 (1.49%) Selenium
11 3 (1.12%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.12%) JMeter
12 2 (0.75%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.75%) TestRail
13 1 (0.37%) Gradle
13 1 (0.37%) Subversion
General
1 90 (33.58%) Social Skills
2 49 (18.28%) Finance
3 25 (9.33%) Banking
4 17 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.10%) Aerospace
6 8 (2.99%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.24%) Advertising
7 6 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.87%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.87%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.49%) Billing
9 4 (1.49%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.49%) Retail
10 3 (1.12%) Aviation
11 2 (0.75%) Electronics
11 2 (0.75%) Law
11 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.75%) Marketing
12 1 (0.37%) Back Office
12 1 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 72 (26.87%) Developer
2 54 (20.15%) Cloud Engineer
3 53 (19.78%) Senior
4 37 (13.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 37 (13.81%) Java Developer
5 35 (13.06%) AWS Engineer
6 24 (8.96%) Platform Engineer
7 22 (8.21%) AWS Developer
7 22 (8.21%) Senior Developer
8 20 (7.46%) Architect
8 20 (7.46%) Lead
8 20 (7.46%) Security Engineer
9 19 (7.09%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 17 (6.34%) AWS Architect
11 15 (5.60%) AWS DevOps
12 14 (5.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 13 (4.85%) .NET Developer
13 13 (4.85%) AWS Security Architect
13 13 (4.85%) Security Architect
14 12 (4.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (20.15%) AWS CDK
2 51 (19.03%) AngularJS
3 50 (18.66%) Spring Boot
4 36 (13.43%) Node.js
5 34 (12.69%) Kafka
6 31 (11.57%) Gherkin
6 31 (11.57%) Jest
6 31 (11.57%) React
6 31 (11.57%) RESTful
7 27 (10.07%) Spring
8 22 (8.21%) Elastic Stack
9 21 (7.84%) RabbitMQ
10 19 (7.09%) .NET
11 16 (5.97%) gRPC
12 14 (5.22%) Django
12 14 (5.22%) REST
13 13 (4.85%) .NET Core
13 13 (4.85%) ASP.NET
13 13 (4.85%) ASP.NET Core
13 13 (4.85%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 87 (32.46%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.58%) Security Posture
3 20 (7.46%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (5.22%) Cloud Security Posture
4 14 (5.22%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.10%) Blockchain
5 11 (4.10%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (4.10%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (4.10%) Public Cloud
5 11 (4.10%) Web3
6 8 (2.99%) e-Learning
7 6 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.87%) PKI
8 5 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.12%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (1.12%) Cyber Security Posture
9 3 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.75%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.75%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.37%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 56 (20.90%) Linux
2 25 (9.33%) Unix
3 20 (7.46%) Windows
4 10 (3.73%) Ubuntu
5 7 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.87%) CentOS
6 5 (1.87%) Debian
6 5 (1.87%) VMS
7 1 (0.37%) Android
7 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (77.99%) CI/CD
2 200 (74.63%) Infrastructure as Code
3 193 (72.01%) DevOps
4 116 (43.28%) Agile
5 80 (29.85%) Containerisation
5 80 (29.85%) Problem-Solving
6 66 (24.63%) Microservices
7 56 (20.90%) DevSecOps
8 54 (20.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 53 (19.78%) Cloud Security
10 50 (18.66%) Observability
11 44 (16.42%) Continuous Integration
12 37 (13.81%) Incident Response
12 37 (13.81%) Mentoring
13 35 (13.06%) Test Automation
14 34 (12.69%) Root Cause Analysis
14 34 (12.69%) Software Engineering
15 31 (11.57%) Platform Engineering
16 30 (11.19%) Clean Code
17 29 (10.82%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 120 (44.78%) Python
2 79 (29.48%) Java
3 73 (27.24%) Bash
4 60 (22.39%) SQL
5 59 (22.01%) TypeScript
6 39 (14.55%) Go
7 31 (11.57%) Groovy
8 27 (10.07%) PowerShell
9 21 (7.84%) JavaScript
10 20 (7.46%) Kotlin
11 13 (4.85%) Rust
12 12 (4.48%) C#
13 10 (3.73%) Bicep
14 3 (1.12%) C++
15 2 (0.75%) Google Apps Script
16 1 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 70 (26.12%) AWS Certification
2 59 (22.01%) Security Cleared
3 31 (11.57%) Degree
3 31 (11.57%) SC Cleared
4 23 (8.58%) AWS Certified Developer
4 23 (8.58%) DV Cleared
5 22 (8.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 19 (7.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 18 (6.72%) ITIL Certification
8 14 (5.22%) OSCP
9 13 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.61%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 5 (1.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (1.49%) Azure Certification
13 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.75%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.75%) SnowPro
15 1 (0.37%) CREST Certified
15 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.84%) NIST
2 14 (5.22%) PCI DSS
3 12 (4.48%) GDPR
3 12 (4.48%) QA
4 8 (2.99%) SOC 2
5 6 (2.24%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.12%) SLA
8 1 (0.37%) Basel III
8 1 (0.37%) MiFID
System Software
1 142 (52.99%) Docker
2 5 (1.87%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.12%) KVM
4 2 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.37%) QEMU
5 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 182 (67.91%) Terraform
2 99 (36.94%) Kubernetes
3 54 (20.15%) Ansible
4 38 (14.18%) Prometheus
5 34 (12.69%) Grafana
6 31 (11.57%) HP Fortify
7 9 (3.36%) AWS Copilot
8 8 (2.99%) Docker Swarm
9 7 (2.61%) Argo
10 6 (2.24%) Istio
10 6 (2.24%) linkerd
10 6 (2.24%) Mesos
10 6 (2.24%) Puppet
11 4 (1.49%) Rancher
12 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.75%) Nessus
Vendors
1 29 (10.82%) Google
2 14 (5.22%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.36%) Splunk
4 7 (2.61%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.24%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.49%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.12%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.12%) LogicMonitor
7 3 (1.12%) Oracle
7 3 (1.12%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.75%) IBM
8 2 (0.75%) Ping Identity
8 2 (0.75%) SAP
8 2 (0.75%) VMware
9 1 (0.37%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.37%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.37%) Foundry
9 1 (0.37%) Refinitiv