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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 444 566
Rank change year-on-year +69 +122 -201
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 414 219 293
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 0.51% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.72% 1.52% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 203 121 240
10th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,875 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £73,250
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +2.39% -8.44%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £112,000 £111,250 £112,500
UK median annual salary £76,998 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.66% - -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 24,019 14,370 29,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.42% 33.17% 32.93%
Number of salaries quoted 16,013 10,271 22,870
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £30,250
25th Percentile £43,847 £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 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £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 16 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 16 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 +54 221 £90,000 +15.02% 34
North of England +61 130 £75,000 +8.09% 26
Yorkshire +39 85 £75,000 +5.63% 5
North West +17 42 £74,651 +7.59% 12
Midlands -2 26 £62,000 -4.62% 8
East Midlands -18 18 £52,500 - 2
South East -23 17 £70,000 -15.15% 16
South West -50 12 £67,500 -25.00% 12
West Midlands -29 8 £62,250 -4.23% 6
North East -54 3 £57,788 -16.71% 9
East of England -26 2 £82,500 +10.00% 1
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 15 (3.62%) Apache
2 8 (1.93%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.93%) Confluence
3 6 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.72%) JBoss
6 1 (0.24%) Drupal
6 1 (0.24%) IIS
6 1 (0.24%) nginx
6 1 (0.24%) SAS
6 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.48%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Summit
2 1 (0.24%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 396 (95.65%) AWS
2 217 (52.42%) Serverless
3 171 (41.30%) AWS Lambda
4 122 (29.47%) Amazon ECS
5 121 (29.23%) Amazon S3
6 93 (22.46%) Azure
7 82 (19.81%) AWS Step Functions
8 81 (19.57%) GitHub
9 67 (16.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 62 (14.98%) GCP
11 58 (14.01%) Cloud Computing
11 58 (14.01%) Datadog
12 56 (13.53%) GitHub Actions
13 53 (12.80%) Amazon EKS
14 52 (12.56%) Amazon EC2
15 40 (9.66%) Amazon SQS
16 35 (8.45%) Amazon ECR
17 33 (7.97%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 32 (7.73%) Apigee
19 23 (5.56%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.59%) Network Security
2 17 (4.11%) VPN
3 13 (3.14%) Firewall
4 10 (2.42%) DNS
4 10 (2.42%) TCP/IP
5 9 (2.17%) DSL
6 4 (0.97%) AMQP
6 4 (0.97%) HTTP
7 3 (0.72%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.48%) 4G
8 2 (0.48%) 5G
8 2 (0.48%) MQTT
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
1 101 (24.40%) DynamoDB
2 82 (19.81%) NoSQL
3 39 (9.42%) Amazon RDS
4 35 (8.45%) Amazon Athena
5 12 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (1.69%) Big Data
8 6 (1.45%) Flink
9 5 (1.21%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.21%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.21%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.97%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (0.97%) Metadata
10 4 (0.97%) MySQL
10 4 (0.97%) Redis
10 4 (0.97%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.48%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 133 (32.13%) Jenkins
2 132 (31.88%) GitLab
3 55 (13.29%) Git
4 36 (8.70%) Maven
5 32 (7.73%) Cucumber
5 32 (7.73%) Cypress.io
6 28 (6.76%) SonarQube
7 24 (5.80%) CircleCI
8 10 (2.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 9 (2.17%) Bitbucket
9 9 (2.17%) JIRA
10 7 (1.69%) Claude Code
11 5 (1.21%) Gradle
11 5 (1.21%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.72%) Selenium
13 1 (0.24%) Gatling
13 1 (0.24%) git-flow
13 1 (0.24%) JMeter
13 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (0.24%) Vagrant
General
1 108 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 106 (25.60%) Finance
3 34 (8.21%) Banking
4 30 (7.25%) Public Sector
5 12 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.66%) Aerospace
6 11 (2.66%) Financial Institution
7 10 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.45%) Advertising
8 6 (1.45%) Legal
9 5 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.21%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.21%) Military
10 4 (0.97%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (0.97%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.72%) Automotive
11 3 (0.72%) Back Office
11 3 (0.72%) Law
11 3 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 104 (25.12%) Senior
2 101 (24.40%) Developer
3 73 (17.63%) Cloud Engineer
4 66 (15.94%) Java Developer
5 59 (14.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 41 (9.90%) AWS Engineer
7 39 (9.42%) Consultant
8 32 (7.73%) Java Engineer
8 32 (7.73%) Senior Consultant
9 28 (6.76%) Lead
10 27 (6.52%) Full-Stack Developer
11 26 (6.28%) AWS Developer
12 25 (6.04%) Senior Developer
13 23 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
14 22 (5.31%) Architect
14 22 (5.31%) Principal Engineer
15 19 (4.59%) AWS DevOps
15 19 (4.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 19 (4.59%) Principal Java Engineer
15 19 (4.59%) Professional Services Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (21.98%) Spring Boot
2 78 (18.84%) AngularJS
3 72 (17.39%) Kafka
4 68 (16.43%) Spring
5 59 (14.25%) Node.js
6 50 (12.08%) AWS CDK
7 36 (8.70%) Gherkin
8 29 (7.00%) React
9 28 (6.76%) Jest
10 26 (6.28%) RESTful
11 21 (5.07%) RabbitMQ
12 20 (4.83%) gRPC
12 20 (4.83%) REST
13 19 (4.59%) Web Services
14 17 (4.11%) web3js
15 16 (3.86%) Next.js
15 16 (3.86%) YAML
16 14 (3.38%) JSON
17 12 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
18 10 (2.42%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 128 (30.92%) Cloud Native
2 49 (11.84%) Onboarding
3 46 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
4 41 (9.90%) Enterprise Cloud
4 41 (9.90%) Public Cloud
5 27 (6.52%) e-Learning
6 23 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
7 22 (5.31%) Data Centre
8 17 (4.11%) Blockchain
8 17 (4.11%) Web3
9 16 (3.86%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (3.86%) Security Posture
10 15 (3.62%) Greenfield Project
10 15 (3.62%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (3.14%) Cloud Security Posture
11 13 (3.14%) Distributed Computing
11 13 (3.14%) Mainframe
12 7 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
12 7 (1.69%) PKI
13 6 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 64 (15.46%) Linux
2 20 (4.83%) Windows
3 11 (2.66%) Ubuntu
4 9 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.93%) CentOS
6 5 (1.21%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.97%) Debian
8 3 (0.72%) Android
8 3 (0.72%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.72%) Unix
8 3 (0.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (69.32%) Infrastructure as Code
2 255 (61.59%) CI/CD
3 205 (49.52%) DevOps
4 150 (36.23%) Agile
5 127 (30.68%) Containerisation
6 106 (25.60%) Mentoring
7 84 (20.29%) Microservices
8 82 (19.81%) Test Automation
9 79 (19.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 76 (18.36%) Observability
11 72 (17.39%) Software Engineering
12 71 (17.15%) Cloud Security
12 71 (17.15%) Problem-Solving
13 64 (15.46%) Event-Driven
14 61 (14.73%) DevSecOps
15 59 (14.25%) Continuous Integration
16 53 (12.80%) Platform Engineering
17 51 (12.32%) AI
18 46 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
19 45 (10.87%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 189 (45.65%) Python
2 157 (37.92%) Java
3 92 (22.22%) SQL
4 85 (20.53%) TypeScript
5 75 (18.12%) Bash
6 52 (12.56%) Groovy
7 40 (9.66%) Go
8 38 (9.18%) Kotlin
9 29 (7.00%) PowerShell
10 26 (6.28%) JavaScript
11 20 (4.83%) Bicep
12 16 (3.86%) PHP
13 15 (3.62%) Perl
13 15 (3.62%) Ruby
14 12 (2.90%) C#
15 9 (2.17%) Rust
16 7 (1.69%) C++
17 5 (1.21%) Google Apps Script
18 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 124 (29.95%) Security Cleared
2 104 (25.12%) AWS Certification
3 64 (15.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 63 (15.22%) SC Cleared
5 45 (10.87%) Degree
6 25 (6.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (5.80%) DV Cleared
8 22 (5.31%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (3.14%) Master's Degree
11 12 (2.90%) OSCP
12 9 (2.17%) AWS Certified Developer
13 7 (1.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (1.45%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.97%) Postgraduate
16 3 (0.72%) CREST Certified
16 3 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
17 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
18 1 (0.24%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.83%) PCI DSS
2 19 (4.59%) GDPR
2 19 (4.59%) NIST
3 13 (3.14%) SOC 2
4 10 (2.42%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.97%) HIPAA
5 4 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.24%) NCSC
6 1 (0.24%) QA
6 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 172 (41.55%) Docker
2 5 (1.21%) KVM
2 5 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.97%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.72%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 269 (64.98%) Terraform
2 158 (38.16%) Kubernetes
3 66 (15.94%) Ansible
4 43 (10.39%) Prometheus
5 39 (9.42%) Grafana
6 36 (8.70%) Progress Chef
7 27 (6.52%) HP Fortify
8 26 (6.28%) Puppet
9 18 (4.35%) Argo
10 7 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (1.45%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (1.21%) Istio
12 5 (1.21%) linkerd
12 5 (1.21%) Mesos
13 3 (0.72%) AWS Copilot
14 2 (0.48%) Rancher
14 2 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
15 1 (0.24%) Consul
15 1 (0.24%) Packer
Vendors
1 25 (6.04%) Google
2 15 (3.62%) Microsoft
3 11 (2.66%) Oracle
4 8 (1.93%) OpenAI
5 7 (1.69%) HubSpot
6 6 (1.45%) Splunk
7 5 (1.21%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.21%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.21%) VMware
8 4 (0.97%) Avaya
8 4 (0.97%) Cisco
8 4 (0.97%) Genesys
8 4 (0.97%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.72%) Databricks
10 1 (0.24%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.24%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.24%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.24%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.24%) TOWER Software