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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 448 541
Rank change year-on-year +83 +93 -190
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 460 209 224
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.49% 0.48% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.86% 1.45% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 223 118 174
10th Percentile £49,250 £52,500 £50,152
25th Percentile £61,250 £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 £90,000 £90,000 £97,188
90th Percentile £108,500 £99,500 £109,250
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 24,736 14,420 23,207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.28% 32.93% 31.96%
Number of salaries quoted 16,760 10,231 17,170
10th Percentile £31,500 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,169 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -5.51%

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 13 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 13 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 +54 231 £90,000 +14.65% 175
North of England +58 149 £75,000 +8.09% 57
Yorkshire +51 90 £75,000 +5.63% 15
North West +24 48 £72,500 +7.21% 26
South West -32 29 £67,500 -25.00% 42
Midlands -23 24 £62,250 -4.23% 21
South East -22 18 £70,000 -18.84% 25
East Midlands -13 16 £52,500 - 9
North East -47 11 £50,000 -27.94% 16
West Midlands -27 8 £68,496 +5.38% 12
East of England -37 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 17 (3.70%) Apache
2 10 (2.17%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.96%) Confluence
4 7 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.65%) JBoss
6 3 (0.65%) nginx
7 1 (0.22%) Drupal
7 1 (0.22%) IIS
7 1 (0.22%) SAS
7 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.87%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.43%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 3 (0.65%) Summit
2 1 (0.22%) Magento
2 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 441 (95.87%) AWS
2 231 (50.22%) Serverless
3 174 (37.83%) AWS Lambda
4 136 (29.57%) Amazon ECS
5 125 (27.17%) Amazon S3
6 114 (24.78%) Azure
7 94 (20.43%) GitHub
8 83 (18.04%) GCP
9 74 (16.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 73 (15.87%) AWS Step Functions
11 66 (14.35%) Amazon EC2
11 66 (14.35%) GitHub Actions
12 64 (13.91%) Amazon EKS
13 55 (11.96%) Cloud Computing
14 54 (11.74%) Datadog
15 38 (8.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 36 (7.83%) Amazon SQS
17 31 (6.74%) Amazon ECR
18 30 (6.52%) PaaS
19 28 (6.09%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.35%) Network Security
2 19 (4.13%) TCP/IP
3 13 (2.83%) VPN
4 12 (2.61%) DNS
4 12 (2.61%) Firewall
5 6 (1.30%) HTTP
6 5 (1.09%) AMQP
6 5 (1.09%) DSL
6 5 (1.09%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.43%) 4G
7 2 (0.43%) 5G
7 2 (0.43%) MQTT
8 1 (0.22%) DHCP
8 1 (0.22%) DNSSEC
8 1 (0.22%) Internet
8 1 (0.22%) PSTN
8 1 (0.22%) SCCP
8 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (20.43%) DynamoDB
2 80 (17.39%) NoSQL
3 50 (10.87%) Amazon RDS
4 33 (7.17%) Amazon Athena
5 15 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (1.74%) Big Data
8 7 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.52%) Flink
8 7 (1.52%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.30%) Redis
9 6 (1.30%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.09%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (1.09%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.09%) Metadata
10 5 (1.09%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.87%) MySQL
12 3 (0.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 126 (27.39%) Jenkins
2 122 (26.52%) GitLab
3 63 (13.70%) Git
4 36 (7.83%) Cucumber
5 29 (6.30%) Cypress.io
5 29 (6.30%) Maven
6 25 (5.43%) SonarQube
7 17 (3.70%) CircleCI
8 12 (2.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 12 (2.61%) JIRA
9 11 (2.39%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.52%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.30%) Selenium
11 6 (1.30%) TeamCity
12 5 (1.09%) Snyk
13 4 (0.87%) Gradle
14 3 (0.65%) git-flow
14 3 (0.65%) JUnit
14 3 (0.65%) NUnit
14 3 (0.65%) Postman
General
1 121 (26.30%) Social Skills
2 119 (25.87%) Finance
3 38 (8.26%) Banking
4 37 (8.04%) Public Sector
5 18 (3.91%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (3.26%) Financial Institution
7 13 (2.83%) Legal
8 12 (2.61%) Aerospace
8 12 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.61%) Law
9 9 (1.96%) Military
10 6 (1.30%) Retail
11 5 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.09%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.87%) Advertising
12 4 (0.87%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.87%) Local Government
12 4 (0.87%) Mandarin Language
12 4 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.65%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 121 (26.30%) Senior
2 96 (20.87%) Developer
3 83 (18.04%) Cloud Engineer
4 70 (15.22%) DevOps Engineer
5 60 (13.04%) Java Developer
6 49 (10.65%) AWS Engineer
7 39 (8.48%) Consultant
8 38 (8.26%) Java Engineer
9 35 (7.61%) Lead
10 32 (6.96%) Senior Consultant
11 27 (5.87%) Platform Engineer
12 26 (5.65%) AWS Developer
13 25 (5.43%) Full-Stack Developer
14 24 (5.22%) Senior Developer
14 24 (5.22%) Software Engineer
15 23 (5.00%) Architect
16 20 (4.35%) Principal Engineer
17 19 (4.13%) AWS DevOps
17 19 (4.13%) Principal Java Engineer
17 19 (4.13%) Professional Services Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (19.57%) Spring Boot
2 76 (16.52%) AngularJS
3 73 (15.87%) Spring
4 71 (15.43%) Kafka
5 69 (15.00%) Node.js
6 52 (11.30%) AWS CDK
7 39 (8.48%) React
8 30 (6.52%) Gherkin
8 30 (6.52%) RESTful
9 23 (5.00%) Jest
10 22 (4.78%) REST
10 22 (4.78%) Web Services
11 19 (4.13%) RabbitMQ
12 18 (3.91%) gRPC
13 16 (3.48%) Next.js
14 15 (3.26%) YAML
15 14 (3.04%) Elastic Stack
15 14 (3.04%) web3js
16 13 (2.83%) JSON
17 10 (2.17%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 154 (33.48%) Cloud Native
2 58 (12.61%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (10.87%) Onboarding
4 45 (9.78%) Public Cloud
5 41 (8.91%) Enterprise Cloud
6 31 (6.74%) e-Learning
7 22 (4.78%) Data Centre
8 21 (4.57%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (4.57%) Hybrid Cloud
9 19 (4.13%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (3.04%) Blockchain
10 14 (3.04%) Web3
11 13 (2.83%) Distributed Computing
11 13 (2.83%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (2.83%) Linux Command Line
11 13 (2.83%) Mainframe
12 12 (2.61%) Security Posture
13 10 (2.17%) Blog
14 8 (1.74%) Cloud Security Posture
15 7 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 80 (17.39%) Linux
2 21 (4.57%) Windows
3 11 (2.39%) Ubuntu
4 10 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.17%) Unix
5 9 (1.96%) CentOS
6 6 (1.30%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.09%) Debian
8 3 (0.65%) Android
8 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (71.96%) Infrastructure as Code
2 294 (63.91%) CI/CD
3 240 (52.17%) DevOps
4 183 (39.78%) Agile
5 145 (31.52%) Containerisation
6 111 (24.13%) Mentoring
7 100 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 93 (20.22%) Microservices
8 93 (20.22%) Observability
8 93 (20.22%) Test Automation
9 92 (20.00%) Software Engineering
10 85 (18.48%) Cloud Security
11 78 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
12 70 (15.22%) Event-Driven
13 61 (13.26%) Migration
13 61 (13.26%) Platform Engineering
14 56 (12.17%) Collaborative Culture
15 55 (11.96%) AI
15 55 (11.96%) DevSecOps
16 51 (11.09%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 211 (45.87%) Python
2 161 (35.00%) Java
3 94 (20.43%) SQL
4 82 (17.83%) Bash
5 81 (17.61%) TypeScript
6 49 (10.65%) Groovy
7 44 (9.57%) Go
8 39 (8.48%) Kotlin
9 31 (6.74%) JavaScript
10 29 (6.30%) PowerShell
11 18 (3.91%) Bicep
11 18 (3.91%) Ruby
12 16 (3.48%) PHP
13 15 (3.26%) C#
13 15 (3.26%) Perl
14 6 (1.30%) C++
15 5 (1.09%) Google Apps Script
15 5 (1.09%) Rust
16 2 (0.43%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.22%) Korn
Qualifications
1 151 (32.83%) Security Cleared
2 110 (23.91%) AWS Certification
3 91 (19.78%) SC Cleared
4 65 (14.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 42 (9.13%) Degree
6 28 (6.09%) DV Cleared
7 21 (4.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 17 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (2.61%) Master's Degree
11 11 (2.39%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (1.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (1.74%) OSCP
13 5 (1.09%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.87%) OCP
14 4 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (0.87%) Postgraduate
14 4 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.65%) CREST Certified
16 2 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.96%) GDPR
2 17 (3.70%) NIST
3 16 (3.48%) PCI DSS
4 10 (2.17%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.96%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.09%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.87%) NCSC
8 3 (0.65%) QA
9 2 (0.43%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.43%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 190 (41.30%) Docker
2 5 (1.09%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.09%) KVM
2 5 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 320 (69.57%) Terraform
2 176 (38.26%) Kubernetes
3 88 (19.13%) Ansible
4 45 (9.78%) Progress Chef
5 42 (9.13%) Grafana
6 38 (8.26%) Prometheus
7 33 (7.17%) Puppet
8 21 (4.57%) HP Fortify
9 19 (4.13%) Argo
10 6 (1.30%) Istio
10 6 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.87%) linkerd
12 4 (0.87%) Mesos
13 3 (0.65%) AWS Copilot
14 2 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.43%) Rancher
15 1 (0.22%) Consul
15 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 34 (7.39%) Google
2 15 (3.26%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.61%) Oracle
3 12 (2.61%) Red Hat
4 8 (1.74%) OpenAI
5 7 (1.52%) HubSpot
6 6 (1.30%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.30%) Splunk
7 5 (1.09%) SaltStack
7 5 (1.09%) VMware
8 4 (0.87%) Avaya
8 4 (0.87%) Cisco
8 4 (0.87%) Databricks
8 4 (0.87%) Genesys
9 3 (0.65%) AppDynamics
9 3 (0.65%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.43%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.22%) Infoblox
11 1 (0.22%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.22%) ServiceNow