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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 422 532
Rank change year-on-year +60 +110 -174
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 453 220 226
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.49% 0.50% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.82% 1.52% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 219 128 176
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £50,254
25th Percentile £61,762 £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 £90,625 £97,500
90th Percentile £109,000 £111,250 £108,750
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 24,945 14,438 23,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.73% 33.13% 32.12%
Number of salaries quoted 16,846 10,268 17,323
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,270
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%

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 8 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 8 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 +56 226 £90,000 +12.50% 112
North of England +58 148 £75,000 +8.09% 41
Yorkshire +37 89 £75,000 +5.63% 10
North West +19 48 £72,500 +7.21% 20
Midlands -11 26 £62,500 -3.85% 10
South West -48 26 £67,500 -25.00% 36
East Midlands -5 18 £52,500 - 1
South East -43 18 £70,000 -17.65% 16
North East -43 11 £50,000 -27.94% 11
West Midlands -23 8 £68,496 +5.38% 9
East of England -39 2 £82,500 +10.00% 3
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 (3.75%) Apache
2 9 (1.99%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.99%) Confluence
3 7 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.66%) JBoss
5 3 (0.66%) nginx
6 1 (0.22%) Drupal
6 1 (0.22%) IIS
6 1 (0.22%) SAS
6 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.88%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.44%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 3 (0.66%) Summit
2 1 (0.22%) Magento
2 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 436 (96.25%) AWS
2 232 (51.21%) Serverless
3 175 (38.63%) AWS Lambda
4 137 (30.24%) Amazon ECS
5 129 (28.48%) Amazon S3
6 113 (24.94%) Azure
7 94 (20.75%) GitHub
8 81 (17.88%) GCP
9 75 (16.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 75 (16.56%) AWS Step Functions
10 65 (14.35%) Amazon EC2
10 65 (14.35%) GitHub Actions
11 63 (13.91%) Amazon EKS
12 55 (12.14%) Cloud Computing
13 54 (11.92%) Datadog
14 38 (8.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 37 (8.17%) Amazon SQS
16 33 (7.28%) Amazon ECR
17 29 (6.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 28 (6.18%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.42%) Network Security
2 17 (3.75%) TCP/IP
3 14 (3.09%) VPN
4 13 (2.87%) Firewall
5 11 (2.43%) DNS
6 5 (1.10%) DSL
6 5 (1.10%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (0.88%) AMQP
7 4 (0.88%) HTTP
8 2 (0.44%) 4G
8 2 (0.44%) 5G
8 2 (0.44%) MQTT
9 1 (0.22%) DHCP
9 1 (0.22%) DNSSEC
9 1 (0.22%) Internet
9 1 (0.22%) PSTN
9 1 (0.22%) SCCP
9 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (21.19%) DynamoDB
2 78 (17.22%) NoSQL
3 50 (11.04%) Amazon RDS
4 35 (7.73%) Amazon Athena
5 15 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.99%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (1.55%) Big Data
7 7 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.55%) Flink
8 6 (1.32%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.10%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.10%) Metadata
9 5 (1.10%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.10%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.88%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (0.88%) MySQL
10 4 (0.88%) Redis
11 3 (0.66%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 129 (28.48%) Jenkins
2 123 (27.15%) GitLab
3 64 (14.13%) Git
4 34 (7.51%) Cucumber
5 31 (6.84%) Cypress.io
5 31 (6.84%) Maven
6 27 (5.96%) SonarQube
7 18 (3.97%) CircleCI
8 12 (2.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 12 (2.65%) JIRA
9 11 (2.43%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.55%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.32%) Selenium
11 6 (1.32%) TeamCity
12 5 (1.10%) Snyk
13 4 (0.88%) Gradle
14 3 (0.66%) git-flow
14 3 (0.66%) JUnit
14 3 (0.66%) NUnit
14 3 (0.66%) Postman
General
1 122 (26.93%) Social Skills
2 113 (24.94%) Finance
3 35 (7.73%) Public Sector
4 34 (7.51%) Banking
5 19 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (3.09%) Financial Institution
7 12 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.65%) Law
8 11 (2.43%) Aerospace
8 11 (2.43%) Legal
9 9 (1.99%) Military
10 6 (1.32%) Retail
11 5 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.10%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.88%) Advertising
12 4 (0.88%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.88%) Mandarin Language
13 3 (0.66%) Games
13 3 (0.66%) Local Government
13 3 (0.66%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 118 (26.05%) Senior
2 99 (21.85%) Developer
3 82 (18.10%) Cloud Engineer
4 70 (15.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 62 (13.69%) Java Developer
6 50 (11.04%) AWS Engineer
7 39 (8.61%) Consultant
8 34 (7.51%) Java Engineer
8 34 (7.51%) Lead
9 32 (7.06%) Senior Consultant
10 26 (5.74%) AWS Developer
10 26 (5.74%) Platform Engineer
11 25 (5.52%) Full-Stack Developer
12 24 (5.30%) Senior Developer
13 22 (4.86%) Architect
14 21 (4.64%) AWS DevOps
15 20 (4.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 20 (4.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 20 (4.42%) Software Engineer
16 19 (4.19%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (19.65%) Spring Boot
2 77 (17.00%) AngularJS
3 70 (15.45%) Kafka
3 70 (15.45%) Spring
4 66 (14.57%) Node.js
5 52 (11.48%) AWS CDK
6 36 (7.95%) React
7 32 (7.06%) Gherkin
8 28 (6.18%) RESTful
9 25 (5.52%) Jest
10 21 (4.64%) REST
11 20 (4.42%) Web Services
12 18 (3.97%) RabbitMQ
13 17 (3.75%) gRPC
14 15 (3.31%) Elastic Stack
14 15 (3.31%) Next.js
14 15 (3.31%) YAML
15 14 (3.09%) web3js
16 13 (2.87%) JSON
17 10 (2.21%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 147 (32.45%) Cloud Native
2 56 (12.36%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (11.04%) Onboarding
4 43 (9.49%) Public Cloud
5 41 (9.05%) Enterprise Cloud
6 29 (6.40%) e-Learning
7 22 (4.86%) Data Centre
8 21 (4.64%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (4.42%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (4.19%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
12 14 (3.09%) Blockchain
12 14 (3.09%) Web3
13 13 (2.87%) Distributed Computing
13 13 (2.87%) Linux Command Line
13 13 (2.87%) Mainframe
14 12 (2.65%) Security Posture
15 8 (1.77%) Blog
15 8 (1.77%) Cloud Security Posture
16 7 (1.55%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 77 (17.00%) Linux
2 21 (4.64%) Windows
3 10 (2.21%) Ubuntu
3 10 (2.21%) Unix
4 9 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.77%) CentOS
6 6 (1.32%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.88%) Debian
8 3 (0.66%) Android
8 3 (0.66%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (71.30%) Infrastructure as Code
2 289 (63.80%) CI/CD
3 237 (52.32%) DevOps
4 179 (39.51%) Agile
5 143 (31.57%) Containerisation
6 110 (24.28%) Mentoring
7 101 (22.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 95 (20.97%) Observability
9 92 (20.31%) Test Automation
10 87 (19.21%) Microservices
11 83 (18.32%) Cloud Security
11 83 (18.32%) Software Engineering
12 81 (17.88%) Problem-Solving
13 66 (14.57%) Event-Driven
14 60 (13.25%) Platform Engineering
15 58 (12.80%) Migration
16 56 (12.36%) Collaborative Culture
17 55 (12.14%) DevSecOps
18 54 (11.92%) AI
18 54 (11.92%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 207 (45.70%) Python
2 159 (35.10%) Java
3 91 (20.09%) SQL
4 85 (18.76%) Bash
5 81 (17.88%) TypeScript
6 49 (10.82%) Groovy
7 40 (8.83%) Go
8 37 (8.17%) Kotlin
9 30 (6.62%) PowerShell
10 29 (6.40%) JavaScript
11 19 (4.19%) Bicep
12 17 (3.75%) Ruby
13 16 (3.53%) PHP
14 15 (3.31%) Perl
15 13 (2.87%) C#
16 6 (1.32%) C++
17 5 (1.10%) Google Apps Script
17 5 (1.10%) Rust
18 2 (0.44%) Shell Script
19 1 (0.22%) Korn
Qualifications
1 145 (32.01%) Security Cleared
2 109 (24.06%) AWS Certification
3 85 (18.76%) SC Cleared
4 64 (14.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 41 (9.05%) Degree
6 27 (5.96%) DV Cleared
7 22 (4.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 18 (3.97%) ITIL Certification
9 14 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (2.87%) Master's Degree
11 11 (2.43%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (1.77%) OSCP
13 7 (1.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (1.32%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.88%) OCP
15 4 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
15 4 (0.88%) Postgraduate
15 4 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.66%) CREST Certified
17 2 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.40%) GDPR
2 17 (3.75%) NIST
2 17 (3.75%) PCI DSS
3 10 (2.21%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.21%) SOC 2
4 5 (1.10%) HIPAA
4 5 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.66%) NCSC
5 3 (0.66%) QA
6 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 189 (41.72%) Docker
2 5 (1.10%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.10%) KVM
2 5 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 311 (68.65%) Terraform
2 172 (37.97%) Kubernetes
3 86 (18.98%) Ansible
4 46 (10.15%) Grafana
5 42 (9.27%) Progress Chef
6 41 (9.05%) Prometheus
7 31 (6.84%) Puppet
8 23 (5.08%) HP Fortify
9 20 (4.42%) Argo
10 7 (1.55%) Istio
11 6 (1.32%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (1.10%) linkerd
12 5 (1.10%) Mesos
13 4 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.66%) AWS Copilot
15 2 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 2 (0.44%) Rancher
16 1 (0.22%) Consul
16 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 33 (7.28%) Google
2 16 (3.53%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.65%) Oracle
4 11 (2.43%) Red Hat
5 8 (1.77%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.55%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.32%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.32%) Splunk
8 5 (1.10%) VMware
9 4 (0.88%) Avaya
9 4 (0.88%) Cisco
9 4 (0.88%) Databricks
9 4 (0.88%) Genesys
9 4 (0.88%) SaltStack
10 3 (0.66%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.44%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.22%) AppDynamics
12 1 (0.22%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 1 (0.22%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.22%) SolarWinds