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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 438 567
Rank change year-on-year +81 +129 -207
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 423 223 297
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.49% 0.52% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.77% 1.56% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 210 124 243
10th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £52,750
25th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +1.35% -7.50%
75th Percentile £95,000 £94,063 £97,500
90th Percentile £112,750 £111,250 £112,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -3.23%

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 23,926 14,312 29,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.58% 33.23% 33.27%
Number of salaries quoted 15,967 10,253 23,629
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,100 £30,000
25th Percentile £44,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £78,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 +77 226 £90,000 +15.02% 57
North of England +61 134 £75,000 +8.09% 30
Yorkshire +43 88 £75,000 +5.63% 3
North West +16 43 £75,000 +8.09% 20
Midlands -12 27 £52,500 -20.83% 6
East Midlands -12 18 £52,500 -27.59% 2
South East -49 17 £70,000 -12.50% 23
South West -54 11 £67,500 -25.00% 36
West Midlands -22 9 £62,000 -4.62% 4
North East -44 3 £57,788 -16.71% 7
East of England -30 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 (4.02%) Apache
2 10 (2.36%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.65%) Confluence
4 6 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.71%) JBoss
7 1 (0.24%) Drupal
7 1 (0.24%) IIS
7 1 (0.24%) nginx
7 1 (0.24%) SAS
7 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.47%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Summit
2 1 (0.24%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 404 (95.51%) AWS
2 220 (52.01%) Serverless
3 177 (41.84%) AWS Lambda
4 124 (29.31%) Amazon S3
5 122 (28.84%) Amazon ECS
6 99 (23.40%) Azure
7 87 (20.57%) AWS Step Functions
8 81 (19.15%) GitHub
9 69 (16.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 67 (15.84%) GCP
11 58 (13.71%) Datadog
12 56 (13.24%) GitHub Actions
13 55 (13.00%) Amazon EKS
14 53 (12.53%) Amazon EC2
15 52 (12.29%) Cloud Computing
16 43 (10.17%) Amazon SQS
17 38 (8.98%) Amazon ECR
18 35 (8.27%) Apigee
19 33 (7.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
20 24 (5.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.49%) Network Security
2 18 (4.26%) VPN
3 16 (3.78%) Firewall
4 11 (2.60%) DSL
5 10 (2.36%) DNS
5 10 (2.36%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.42%) AMQP
7 4 (0.95%) HTTP
7 4 (0.95%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.47%) 4G
8 2 (0.47%) 5G
8 2 (0.47%) MQTT
8 2 (0.47%) SCCP
9 1 (0.24%) DHCP
9 1 (0.24%) DNSSEC
9 1 (0.24%) Internet
9 1 (0.24%) PSTN
9 1 (0.24%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (24.82%) DynamoDB
2 82 (19.39%) NoSQL
3 41 (9.69%) Amazon RDS
4 35 (8.27%) Amazon Athena
5 12 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (2.13%) Big Data
8 7 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.65%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.42%) Cloudera CDH
9 6 (1.42%) Flink
9 6 (1.42%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.18%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.18%) MySQL
11 4 (0.95%) Metadata
11 4 (0.95%) Redis
12 3 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.71%) Relational Database
13 2 (0.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 144 (34.04%) Jenkins
2 138 (32.62%) GitLab
3 57 (13.48%) Git
4 39 (9.22%) Maven
5 35 (8.27%) Cypress.io
6 32 (7.57%) SonarQube
7 30 (7.09%) Cucumber
8 25 (5.91%) CircleCI
9 11 (2.60%) Bitbucket
10 9 (2.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (1.89%) JIRA
12 7 (1.65%) Claude Code
13 6 (1.42%) TeamCity
14 5 (1.18%) Gradle
15 3 (0.71%) Selenium
16 2 (0.47%) JMeter
17 1 (0.24%) Eclipse
17 1 (0.24%) Gatling
17 1 (0.24%) Robot Framework
17 1 (0.24%) Vagrant
General
1 112 (26.48%) Social Skills
2 104 (24.59%) Finance
3 35 (8.27%) Banking
4 26 (6.15%) Public Sector
5 12 (2.84%) Aerospace
5 12 (2.84%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.36%) Financial Institution
6 10 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.65%) Advertising
8 6 (1.42%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.42%) Legal
9 5 (1.18%) Retail
10 4 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.95%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (0.95%) Military
10 4 (0.95%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.71%) Back Office
11 3 (0.71%) Law
12 2 (0.47%) Automotive
12 2 (0.47%) Games
Job Titles
1 104 (24.59%) Developer
2 101 (23.88%) Senior
3 78 (18.44%) Cloud Engineer
4 69 (16.31%) Java Developer
5 60 (14.18%) DevOps Engineer
6 43 (10.17%) AWS Engineer
7 33 (7.80%) Consultant
8 30 (7.09%) Java Engineer
9 28 (6.62%) Lead
10 27 (6.38%) AWS Developer
10 27 (6.38%) Senior Consultant
10 27 (6.38%) Senior Developer
11 26 (6.15%) Full-Stack Developer
12 23 (5.44%) Architect
12 23 (5.44%) Platform Engineer
13 21 (4.96%) Principal Engineer
13 21 (4.96%) Security Engineer
13 21 (4.96%) Software Engineer
14 20 (4.73%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 20 (4.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (21.75%) Spring Boot
2 82 (19.39%) AngularJS
3 70 (16.55%) Kafka
4 66 (15.60%) Spring
5 63 (14.89%) Node.js
6 52 (12.29%) AWS CDK
7 39 (9.22%) Gherkin
8 31 (7.33%) Jest
8 31 (7.33%) React
9 28 (6.62%) RESTful
10 23 (5.44%) gRPC
10 23 (5.44%) RabbitMQ
10 23 (5.44%) REST
11 18 (4.26%) Web Services
11 18 (4.26%) web3js
12 17 (4.02%) Next.js
13 16 (3.78%) YAML
14 14 (3.31%) JSON
15 13 (3.07%) Elastic Stack
16 10 (2.36%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 130 (30.73%) Cloud Native
2 43 (10.17%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (9.93%) Onboarding
4 40 (9.46%) Public Cloud
5 35 (8.27%) Enterprise Cloud
6 25 (5.91%) e-Learning
7 23 (5.44%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (4.49%) Data Centre
8 19 (4.49%) Security Posture
9 18 (4.26%) Blockchain
9 18 (4.26%) Web3
10 15 (3.55%) Greenfield Project
10 15 (3.55%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (3.31%) Cloud Security Posture
11 14 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (2.60%) Distributed Computing
12 11 (2.60%) Mainframe
13 9 (2.13%) PKI
14 8 (1.89%) Product Ownership
15 6 (1.42%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 72 (17.02%) Linux
2 23 (5.44%) Windows
3 14 (3.31%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.36%) CentOS
6 6 (1.42%) Debian
7 5 (1.18%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.95%) VMS
9 3 (0.71%) Android
9 3 (0.71%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (70.21%) Infrastructure as Code
2 265 (62.65%) CI/CD
3 214 (50.59%) DevOps
4 158 (37.35%) Agile
5 133 (31.44%) Containerisation
6 101 (23.88%) Mentoring
7 87 (20.57%) Microservices
8 82 (19.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 80 (18.91%) Test Automation
10 77 (18.20%) Cloud Security
11 76 (17.97%) Software Engineering
12 75 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
13 74 (17.49%) Observability
14 67 (15.84%) DevSecOps
15 61 (14.42%) Event-Driven
16 60 (14.18%) Continuous Integration
17 53 (12.53%) Platform Engineering
18 48 (11.35%) Collaborative Culture
19 46 (10.87%) AI
20 45 (10.64%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 192 (45.39%) Python
2 159 (37.59%) Java
3 91 (21.51%) SQL
4 90 (21.28%) TypeScript
5 77 (18.20%) Bash
6 55 (13.00%) Groovy
7 44 (10.40%) Go
8 39 (9.22%) Kotlin
9 31 (7.33%) JavaScript
9 31 (7.33%) PowerShell
10 20 (4.73%) Bicep
11 14 (3.31%) C#
11 14 (3.31%) PHP
12 13 (3.07%) Perl
12 13 (3.07%) Ruby
13 11 (2.60%) Rust
14 8 (1.89%) C++
15 6 (1.42%) Google Apps Script
16 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 121 (28.61%) Security Cleared
2 103 (24.35%) AWS Certification
3 61 (14.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 60 (14.18%) SC Cleared
5 45 (10.64%) Degree
6 29 (6.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 25 (5.91%) ITIL Certification
8 23 (5.44%) DV Cleared
9 16 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (3.31%) OSCP
11 11 (2.60%) Master's Degree
12 10 (2.36%) AWS Certified Developer
13 7 (1.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (1.42%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.95%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 4 (0.95%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.71%) CREST Certified
16 3 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
17 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
18 1 (0.24%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.20%) NIST
1 22 (5.20%) PCI DSS
2 20 (4.73%) GDPR
3 13 (3.07%) SOC 2
4 10 (2.36%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.71%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.24%) NCSC
7 1 (0.24%) QA
7 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 180 (42.55%) Docker
2 6 (1.42%) KVM
2 6 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.18%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.47%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 280 (66.19%) Terraform
2 165 (39.01%) Kubernetes
3 72 (17.02%) Ansible
4 44 (10.40%) Prometheus
5 40 (9.46%) Grafana
6 33 (7.80%) Progress Chef
7 30 (7.09%) HP Fortify
8 25 (5.91%) Puppet
9 17 (4.02%) Argo
10 8 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (1.42%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (1.18%) Istio
12 5 (1.18%) linkerd
12 5 (1.18%) Mesos
13 3 (0.71%) AWS Copilot
13 3 (0.71%) Rancher
14 2 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
15 1 (0.24%) Consul
15 1 (0.24%) Packer
Vendors
1 29 (6.86%) Google
2 16 (3.78%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.84%) Oracle
4 7 (1.65%) HubSpot
4 7 (1.65%) OpenAI
4 7 (1.65%) Red Hat
5 6 (1.42%) Salesforce
5 6 (1.42%) SaltStack
5 6 (1.42%) Splunk
5 6 (1.42%) VMware
6 3 (0.71%) Avaya
6 3 (0.71%) Cisco
6 3 (0.71%) Databricks
6 3 (0.71%) Genesys
7 1 (0.24%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.24%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.24%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.24%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.24%) TOWER Software