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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 453 489 381
Rank change year-on-year +36 -108 -80
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 172 228 346
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.39% 0.38% 0.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.15% 1.15% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 127 172 304
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,625 £90,000
90th Percentile £102,750 £118,750 £116,250
UK median annual salary £73,801 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +1.79% -3.33% -6.25%

All Cloud 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 14,910 19,856 20,742
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.55% 32.89% 43.31%
Number of salaries quoted 10,164 11,954 17,354
10th Percentile £28,697 £36,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +41 88 £82,000 -11.35% 238
North of England +19 50 £70,000 +12.00% 101
North West +11 26 £61,250 +2.08% 68
Yorkshire +32 21 £70,000 +7.69% 28
Midlands +46 13 £60,000 -17.24% 17
South East +29 12 £86,250 +40.82% 203
West Midlands +33 11 £60,000 -17.24% 10
South West +15 5 £90,000 +63.64% 22
North East +1 3 £73,801 +6.48% 5
East Midlands +23 2 - - 4
East of England +22 1 £75,000 +20.00% 13
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 8 (4.65%) Apache
1 8 (4.65%) Apache Spark
2 7 (4.07%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.49%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.49%) WebSphere
3 6 (3.49%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (1.16%) nginx
4 2 (1.16%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 157 (91.28%) AWS
2 78 (45.35%) Azure
3 67 (38.95%) Serverless
4 61 (35.47%) AWS Lambda
5 53 (30.81%) Amazon S3
6 49 (28.49%) GCP
7 43 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
8 38 (22.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 38 (22.09%) GitHub
9 37 (21.51%) Amazon ECS
10 33 (19.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 32 (18.60%) Amazon EKS
12 26 (15.12%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (11.05%) Datadog
14 17 (9.88%) Amazon ECR
15 16 (9.30%) dbt
16 15 (8.72%) Pulumi
16 15 (8.72%) Route 53
17 14 (8.14%) Azure DevOps
18 13 (7.56%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.40%) TCP/IP
2 10 (5.81%) Firewall
3 7 (4.07%) VPN
4 6 (3.49%) DNS
4 6 (3.49%) Network Security
4 6 (3.49%) SSL
5 3 (1.74%) LAN
5 3 (1.74%) WAN
6 2 (1.16%) AMQP
6 2 (1.16%) NAS
6 2 (1.16%) SAN
6 2 (1.16%) SNMP
6 2 (1.16%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.58%) DHCP
7 1 (0.58%) HTTP
7 1 (0.58%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.58%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (21.51%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (12.21%) NoSQL
2 21 (12.21%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (10.47%) Amazon Redshift
3 18 (10.47%) DynamoDB
4 15 (8.72%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (7.56%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (6.98%) Data Lake
7 11 (6.40%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (6.40%) Redis
8 9 (5.23%) SQL Server
9 7 (4.07%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (3.49%) DB2
10 6 (3.49%) MySQL
11 5 (2.91%) Big Data
12 3 (1.74%) Apache Iceberg
12 3 (1.74%) Data Vault
12 3 (1.74%) Hadoop
13 2 (1.16%) Cloudera CDH
13 2 (1.16%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 47 (27.33%) Jenkins
2 35 (20.35%) GitLab
3 14 (8.14%) CircleCI
4 10 (5.81%) Git
5 6 (3.49%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.33%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.33%) git-flow
6 4 (2.33%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.33%) Spinnaker
7 3 (1.74%) JIRA
7 3 (1.74%) Robot Framework
8 2 (1.16%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.16%) JMeter
9 1 (0.58%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.58%) Selenium
9 1 (0.58%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.58%) TestRail
General
1 52 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 38 (22.09%) Finance
3 16 (9.30%) Banking
4 15 (8.72%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (6.98%) Law
6 10 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.07%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.91%) Marketing
8 5 (2.91%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.33%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.74%) Advertising
10 3 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.16%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.16%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.58%) Electronics
12 1 (0.58%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 54 (31.40%) Senior
2 35 (20.35%) AWS Engineer
3 33 (19.19%) DevOps Engineer
4 29 (16.86%) Cloud Engineer
5 24 (13.95%) Platform Engineer
6 15 (8.72%) Data Engineer
7 14 (8.14%) Lead
7 14 (8.14%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 13 (7.56%) AWS DevOps
8 13 (7.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 12 (6.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 12 (6.98%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 12 (6.98%) Developer
10 10 (5.81%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 9 (5.23%) Architect
11 9 (5.23%) Support Engineer
12 8 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (4.65%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 7 (4.07%) AWS Data Engineer
13 7 (4.07%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (12.79%) Elastic Stack
2 21 (12.21%) AWS CDK
3 16 (9.30%) Kafka
4 11 (6.40%) Django
5 10 (5.81%) React
6 9 (5.23%) .NET
6 9 (5.23%) RabbitMQ
6 9 (5.23%) RESTful
7 7 (4.07%) Node.js
7 7 (4.07%) Spring
7 7 (4.07%) Spring Boot
8 6 (3.49%) ARM Templates
8 6 (3.49%) LAPP Stack
8 6 (3.49%) LDAP
8 6 (3.49%) Material-UI
8 6 (3.49%) WebSphere MQ
9 5 (2.91%) gRPC
9 5 (2.91%) Pandas
10 4 (2.33%) .NET Core
10 4 (2.33%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 41 (23.84%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.98%) Linux Command Line
3 11 (6.40%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.81%) Product Ownership
5 9 (5.23%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.49%) AI Agents
6 6 (3.49%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.33%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.74%) Blockchain
8 3 (1.74%) e-Learning
8 3 (1.74%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.74%) Web3
9 2 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.16%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.16%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 51 (29.65%) Linux
2 27 (15.70%) Unix
3 19 (11.05%) Windows
4 10 (5.81%) Ubuntu
5 9 (5.23%) Debian
6 8 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.16%) CentOS
7 2 (1.16%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.58%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (84.88%) Infrastructure as Code
2 124 (72.09%) CI/CD
3 116 (67.44%) DevOps
4 54 (31.40%) Problem-Solving
5 49 (28.49%) Containerisation
6 47 (27.33%) Agile
7 46 (26.74%) Observability
8 35 (20.35%) Platform Engineering
9 31 (18.02%) Microservices
9 31 (18.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 29 (16.86%) Disaster Recovery
11 28 (16.28%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (13.95%) AI
13 23 (13.37%) Cloud Security
13 23 (13.37%) Data Pipeline
13 23 (13.37%) Mentoring
13 23 (13.37%) Software Engineering
14 21 (12.21%) Continuous Integration
14 21 (12.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 20 (11.63%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 106 (61.63%) Python
2 55 (31.98%) Bash
3 29 (16.86%) SQL
4 28 (16.28%) PowerShell
5 21 (12.21%) Go
6 18 (10.47%) Java
7 16 (9.30%) JavaScript
8 13 (7.56%) TypeScript
9 9 (5.23%) Bicep
10 7 (4.07%) C#
11 2 (1.16%) Groovy
12 1 (0.58%) C++
12 1 (0.58%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.58%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.58%) PHP
12 1 (0.58%) Scala
Qualifications
1 40 (23.26%) AWS Certification
1 40 (23.26%) Security Cleared
2 28 (16.28%) SC Cleared
3 22 (12.79%) Degree
4 14 (8.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 13 (7.56%) DV Cleared
6 11 (6.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.49%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (2.91%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (2.91%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (2.33%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.58%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.40%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.23%) GDPR
3 7 (4.07%) QA
3 7 (4.07%) SLA
4 4 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.33%) NIST
5 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.58%) SOC 2
System Software
1 75 (43.60%) Docker
2 6 (3.49%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (2.33%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.16%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.16%) KVM
5 2 (1.16%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.58%) QEMU
6 1 (0.58%) vCloud
6 1 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.58%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 141 (81.98%) Terraform
2 72 (41.86%) Kubernetes
3 50 (29.07%) Ansible
4 44 (25.58%) Grafana
5 35 (20.35%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.49%) Argo
6 6 (3.49%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (2.91%) Kubeflow
8 4 (2.33%) Puppet
9 3 (1.74%) Istio
9 3 (1.74%) linkerd
10 2 (1.16%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.58%) Mesos
11 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.58%) Nagios
11 1 (0.58%) Nessus
11 1 (0.58%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 23 (13.37%) Splunk
2 22 (12.79%) Google
3 17 (9.88%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.65%) Red Hat
5 7 (4.07%) IBM
6 5 (2.91%) Databricks
7 4 (2.33%) Foundry
7 4 (2.33%) Hitachi
7 4 (2.33%) LogicMonitor
7 4 (2.33%) SolarWinds
7 4 (2.33%) VMware
8 3 (1.74%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.74%) Citrix
8 3 (1.74%) SaltStack
9 2 (1.16%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.16%) F5
9 2 (1.16%) OneLogin
9 2 (1.16%) Oracle
9 2 (1.16%) Rapid7
10 1 (0.58%) Talend