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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 433 558
Rank change year-on-year +47 +125 -191
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 371 214 311
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 0.53% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.61% 1.57% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 196 117 256
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £68,438 £60,000 £63,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £95,625 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £78,319 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +4.43% - -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 23,048 13,639 31,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.25% 34.02% 32.91%
Number of salaries quoted 15,375 9,702 24,725
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,425
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.95%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +47 188 £90,000 +9.09% 34
North of England +58 128 £75,000 +8.09% 22
Yorkshire +35 88 £75,000 +4.17% 6
North West +16 38 £80,000 +15.30% 14
Midlands -3 27 £52,500 -25.07% 2
East Midlands -11 18 £52,500 -27.59%
South West -58 11 £72,500 -19.44% 12
South East -43 10 £70,000 +3.70% 19
West Midlands -9 9 £50,000 -26.06% 2
East of England -33 2 £82,500 +10.00%
North East -43 2 £65,576 -5.49% 2
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 14 (3.77%) Apache
2 9 (2.43%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.62%) Confluence
4 5 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.81%) JBoss
7 1 (0.27%) Drupal
7 1 (0.27%) IIS
7 1 (0.27%) nginx
7 1 (0.27%) SAS
7 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Magento
1 1 (0.27%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 356 (95.96%) AWS
2 193 (52.02%) Serverless
3 160 (43.13%) AWS Lambda
4 119 (32.08%) Amazon S3
5 108 (29.11%) Amazon ECS
6 85 (22.91%) AWS Step Functions
7 84 (22.64%) Azure
8 79 (21.29%) GitHub
9 72 (19.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 60 (16.17%) Datadog
11 57 (15.36%) GCP
12 56 (15.09%) GitHub Actions
13 50 (13.48%) Amazon EC2
14 42 (11.32%) Amazon EKS
14 42 (11.32%) Amazon SQS
15 36 (9.70%) Amazon ECR
16 33 (8.89%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 33 (8.89%) Apigee
17 31 (8.36%) Cloud Computing
18 21 (5.66%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.77%) Firewall
2 13 (3.50%) VPN
3 11 (2.96%) DSL
3 11 (2.96%) Network Security
4 9 (2.43%) DNS
4 9 (2.43%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.35%) AMQP
6 3 (0.81%) HTTP
6 3 (0.81%) SCCP
6 3 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.54%) 4G
7 2 (0.54%) 5G
8 1 (0.27%) DHCP
8 1 (0.27%) DNSSEC
8 1 (0.27%) Internet
8 1 (0.27%) MQTT
8 1 (0.27%) PSTN
8 1 (0.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (28.30%) DynamoDB
2 80 (21.56%) NoSQL
3 40 (10.78%) Amazon RDS
4 35 (9.43%) Amazon Athena
5 11 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.16%) Big Data
8 6 (1.62%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (1.62%) Flink
8 6 (1.62%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.35%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (1.35%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.35%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.08%) Metadata
10 4 (1.08%) MySQL
10 4 (1.08%) Redis
11 3 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.54%) Power BI
12 2 (0.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 143 (38.54%) Jenkins
2 131 (35.31%) GitLab
3 53 (14.29%) Git
4 37 (9.97%) Maven
5 33 (8.89%) Cypress.io
6 29 (7.82%) SonarQube
7 27 (7.28%) CircleCI
7 27 (7.28%) Cucumber
8 10 (2.70%) Bitbucket
9 8 (2.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 7 (1.89%) JIRA
11 6 (1.62%) Claude Code
12 5 (1.35%) Gradle
12 5 (1.35%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.81%) Selenium
14 2 (0.54%) JMeter
15 1 (0.27%) Eclipse
15 1 (0.27%) git-flow
15 1 (0.27%) Robot Framework
15 1 (0.27%) Vagrant
General
1 102 (27.49%) Social Skills
2 87 (23.45%) Finance
3 36 (9.70%) Banking
4 13 (3.50%) Public Sector
5 11 (2.96%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.70%) Aerospace
6 10 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.43%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.89%) Advertising
9 6 (1.62%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.62%) Retail
10 5 (1.35%) Legal
11 4 (1.08%) Billing
11 4 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.08%) Mandarin Language
11 4 (1.08%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.81%) Aviation
12 3 (0.81%) Back Office
12 3 (0.81%) Law
13 2 (0.54%) Games
Job Titles
1 104 (28.03%) Developer
2 78 (21.02%) Senior
3 73 (19.68%) Cloud Engineer
4 68 (18.33%) Java Developer
5 55 (14.82%) DevOps Engineer
6 42 (11.32%) AWS Engineer
7 30 (8.09%) Senior Developer
8 27 (7.28%) AWS Developer
8 27 (7.28%) Java Engineer
9 24 (6.47%) Full-Stack Developer
9 24 (6.47%) Platform Engineer
10 22 (5.93%) Lead
11 20 (5.39%) Security Engineer
11 20 (5.39%) Software Engineer
12 19 (5.12%) Architect
12 19 (5.12%) AWS DevOps
12 19 (5.12%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 19 (5.12%) Principal Engineer
13 18 (4.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 16 (4.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (22.37%) Spring Boot
2 79 (21.29%) AngularJS
3 68 (18.33%) Kafka
4 59 (15.90%) Node.js
4 59 (15.90%) Spring
5 43 (11.59%) AWS CDK
6 37 (9.97%) Gherkin
7 30 (8.09%) React
8 29 (7.82%) Jest
9 28 (7.55%) RESTful
10 23 (6.20%) gRPC
10 23 (6.20%) RabbitMQ
11 20 (5.39%) web3js
12 17 (4.58%) Next.js
12 17 (4.58%) REST
13 16 (4.31%) YAML
14 14 (3.77%) Web Services
15 13 (3.50%) Elastic Stack
15 13 (3.50%) JSON
16 9 (2.43%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 111 (29.92%) Cloud Native
2 37 (9.97%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (9.43%) Public Cloud
4 22 (5.93%) e-Learning
5 21 (5.66%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (5.66%) Security Posture
6 20 (5.39%) Blockchain
6 20 (5.39%) Web3
7 18 (4.85%) Onboarding
8 15 (4.04%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (3.50%) Cloud Security Posture
10 13 (3.50%) Enterprise Cloud
11 8 (2.16%) PKI
11 8 (2.16%) Product Ownership
12 7 (1.89%) Data Centre
13 6 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
14 5 (1.35%) Management Information System
15 3 (0.81%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 67 (18.06%) Linux
2 20 (5.39%) Windows
3 12 (3.23%) Ubuntu
4 10 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.43%) CentOS
6 5 (1.35%) Debian
6 5 (1.35%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.81%) Android
7 3 (0.81%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.81%) Unix
7 3 (0.81%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (72.78%) Infrastructure as Code
2 248 (66.85%) CI/CD
3 195 (52.56%) DevOps
4 137 (36.93%) Agile
5 120 (32.35%) Containerisation
6 80 (21.56%) Microservices
7 78 (21.02%) Mentoring
8 74 (19.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 73 (19.68%) Test Automation
10 72 (19.41%) Observability
11 71 (19.14%) Software Engineering
12 66 (17.79%) Cloud Security
12 66 (17.79%) DevSecOps
13 63 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
14 62 (16.71%) Continuous Integration
15 56 (15.09%) Event-Driven
16 49 (13.21%) Platform Engineering
17 44 (11.86%) Collaborative Culture
18 43 (11.59%) Full-Stack Development
18 43 (11.59%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 164 (44.20%) Python
2 143 (38.54%) Java
3 87 (23.45%) TypeScript
4 85 (22.91%) SQL
5 67 (18.06%) Bash
6 52 (14.02%) Groovy
7 46 (12.40%) Go
8 39 (10.51%) Kotlin
9 29 (7.82%) JavaScript
10 28 (7.55%) PowerShell
11 15 (4.04%) Bicep
12 13 (3.50%) C#
13 11 (2.96%) Rust
14 7 (1.89%) C++
15 6 (1.62%) PHP
16 5 (1.35%) Google Apps Script
16 5 (1.35%) Perl
16 5 (1.35%) Ruby
17 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 93 (25.07%) Security Cleared
2 81 (21.83%) AWS Certification
3 53 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 44 (11.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 36 (9.70%) Degree
6 26 (7.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 23 (6.20%) ITIL Certification
8 17 (4.58%) DV Cleared
9 14 (3.77%) OSCP
10 12 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (2.43%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (2.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (2.16%) Master's Degree
13 6 (1.62%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 6 (1.62%) Azure Certification
14 4 (1.08%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.81%) CREST Certified
16 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
16 2 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
17 1 (0.27%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.39%) NIST
2 19 (5.12%) PCI DSS
3 16 (4.31%) GDPR
4 12 (3.23%) SOC 2
5 9 (2.43%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.27%) NCSC
7 1 (0.27%) QA
7 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 164 (44.20%) Docker
2 5 (1.35%) KVM
2 5 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.08%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 242 (65.23%) Terraform
2 142 (38.27%) Kubernetes
3 61 (16.44%) Ansible
4 41 (11.05%) Prometheus
5 34 (9.16%) Grafana
6 28 (7.55%) HP Fortify
7 20 (5.39%) Progress Chef
8 15 (4.04%) Argo
9 12 (3.23%) Puppet
10 7 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.35%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (1.08%) Istio
12 4 (1.08%) linkerd
12 4 (1.08%) Mesos
13 3 (0.81%) AWS Copilot
13 3 (0.81%) Rancher
14 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
15 1 (0.27%) Consul
15 1 (0.27%) Packer
Vendors
1 26 (7.01%) Google
2 12 (3.23%) Microsoft
3 10 (2.70%) Oracle
4 7 (1.89%) HubSpot
5 6 (1.62%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.35%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.35%) SaltStack
6 5 (1.35%) Splunk
6 5 (1.35%) VMware
7 4 (1.08%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.81%) Databricks
9 1 (0.27%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.27%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.27%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.27%) Infoblox
9 1 (0.27%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.27%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.27%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.27%) TOWER Software