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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 443 447
Rank change year-on-year +56 +4 -133
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 249 238 326
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 0.52% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 1.40% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 159 179 271
10th Percentile £51,350 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,875 £62,500 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,625 £97,500
90th Percentile £116,000 £135,750 £116,250
UK median annual salary £73,801 £79,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.58% +8.97% -9.38%

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 19,524 17,017 25,153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.11% 36.99% 38.61%
Number of salaries quoted 10,798 10,170 21,427
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 6 February 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 6 February 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 +24 120 £85,000 -11.69% 45
North of England +26 86 £72,500 +7.41% 21
Yorkshire +35 59 £71,750 - 11
North West -1 24 £73,801 +18.08% 10
Midlands +17 18 £50,000 -27.86% 11
West Midlands +35 16 £50,000 -27.86% 8
South East +5 15 £70,000 +16.67% 15
South West +6 9 £71,250 +29.55% 15
North East -15 3 £73,801 +6.48%
East Midlands -20 2 - - 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 14 (5.62%) Apache
2 9 (3.61%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.81%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.01%) Tomcat
4 5 (2.01%) WebSphere
4 5 (2.01%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.80%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.40%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 232 (93.17%) AWS
2 134 (53.82%) Serverless
3 121 (48.59%) AWS Lambda
4 106 (42.57%) Azure
5 91 (36.55%) Amazon S3
6 68 (27.31%) Amazon ECS
7 65 (26.10%) GitHub
8 60 (24.10%) AWS Step Functions
8 60 (24.10%) GCP
9 56 (22.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 47 (18.88%) GitHub Actions
11 42 (16.87%) Amazon EKS
12 40 (16.06%) Amazon ECR
13 35 (14.06%) Amazon EC2
14 34 (13.65%) Amazon SQS
15 27 (10.84%) Azure DevOps
15 27 (10.84%) Datadog
16 24 (9.64%) Apigee
17 23 (9.24%) OpenShift
17 23 (9.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.42%) Firewall
1 11 (4.42%) TCP/IP
1 11 (4.42%) VPN
2 8 (3.21%) DSL
3 5 (2.01%) AMQP
3 5 (2.01%) Network Security
3 5 (2.01%) Software-Defined Networking
3 5 (2.01%) SSL
4 3 (1.20%) SCCP
5 1 (0.40%) DHCP
5 1 (0.40%) DNS
5 1 (0.40%) HTTP
5 1 (0.40%) LAN
5 1 (0.40%) VSAN
5 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (27.71%) DynamoDB
2 53 (21.29%) NoSQL
3 43 (17.27%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (13.65%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (6.43%) Amazon Athena
5 16 (6.43%) SQL Server
6 14 (5.62%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (5.62%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (4.82%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (4.82%) MySQL
8 11 (4.42%) Redis
9 10 (4.02%) Data Lake
10 7 (2.81%) Big Data
11 6 (2.41%) MongoDB
12 5 (2.01%) Cloudera CDH
12 5 (2.01%) DB2
12 5 (2.01%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (0.80%) Data Vault
13 2 (0.80%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 90 (36.14%) Jenkins
2 85 (34.14%) GitLab
3 41 (16.47%) Git
4 29 (11.65%) SonarQube
5 25 (10.04%) Maven
6 24 (9.64%) Cypress.io
7 13 (5.22%) CircleCI
8 11 (4.42%) Bitbucket
9 6 (2.41%) Cucumber
10 5 (2.01%) git-flow
10 5 (2.01%) Robot Framework
11 4 (1.61%) JIRA
12 3 (1.20%) Eclipse
12 3 (1.20%) JMeter
13 2 (0.80%) Selenium
13 2 (0.80%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.80%) TestRail
14 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
14 1 (0.40%) Gradle
14 1 (0.40%) Subversion
General
1 78 (31.33%) Social Skills
2 47 (18.88%) Finance
3 21 (8.43%) Banking
4 14 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.42%) Aerospace
6 8 (3.21%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.81%) Advertising
7 7 (2.81%) Law
8 6 (2.41%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.61%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.61%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.20%) Aviation
10 3 (1.20%) Billing
10 3 (1.20%) Electronics
10 3 (1.20%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.20%) Marketing
10 3 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.20%) Retail
11 2 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (21.29%) Cloud Engineer
1 53 (21.29%) Developer
2 49 (19.68%) Senior
3 37 (14.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 33 (13.25%) AWS Engineer
5 24 (9.64%) Java Developer
6 22 (8.84%) Platform Engineer
7 21 (8.43%) Lead
8 18 (7.23%) AWS Developer
9 16 (6.43%) Architect
9 16 (6.43%) Security Engineer
10 15 (6.02%) Senior Developer
11 14 (5.62%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 13 (5.22%) AWS DevOps
12 13 (5.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 12 (4.82%) .NET Developer
13 12 (4.82%) AWS Architect
14 11 (4.42%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 10 (4.02%) Data Engineer
15 10 (4.02%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (18.07%) AWS CDK
2 40 (16.06%) AngularJS
3 38 (15.26%) Spring Boot
4 29 (11.65%) Node.js
5 28 (11.24%) RESTful
6 24 (9.64%) Gherkin
6 24 (9.64%) Jest
6 24 (9.64%) React
7 23 (9.24%) Kafka
8 22 (8.84%) Spring
9 20 (8.03%) Elastic Stack
10 18 (7.23%) .NET
11 17 (6.83%) RabbitMQ
12 13 (5.22%) .NET Core
12 13 (5.22%) ASP.NET
12 13 (5.22%) ASP.NET Core
12 13 (5.22%) Blazor
12 13 (5.22%) REST
13 12 (4.82%) gRPC
14 11 (4.42%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 77 (30.92%) Cloud Native
2 18 (7.23%) Security Posture
3 17 (6.83%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (6.02%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.42%) Linux Command Line
6 10 (4.02%) Cloud Security Posture
7 9 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (3.61%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.81%) Blockchain
8 7 (2.81%) Web3
9 6 (2.41%) e-Learning
10 5 (2.01%) PKI
10 5 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.61%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.20%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (1.20%) Cyber Security Posture
12 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
13 2 (0.80%) Virtual Team
14 1 (0.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 61 (24.50%) Linux
2 26 (10.44%) Unix
3 25 (10.04%) Windows
4 12 (4.82%) Ubuntu
5 10 (4.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.81%) Debian
7 5 (2.01%) CentOS
7 5 (2.01%) VMS
8 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (76.71%) CI/CD
2 183 (73.49%) Infrastructure as Code
3 176 (70.68%) DevOps
4 104 (41.77%) Agile
5 75 (30.12%) Problem-Solving
6 67 (26.91%) Containerisation
7 60 (24.10%) Microservices
8 50 (20.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 45 (18.07%) Cloud Security
10 44 (17.67%) Observability
11 42 (16.87%) DevSecOps
12 34 (13.65%) Root Cause Analysis
13 33 (13.25%) Continuous Integration
14 32 (12.85%) Platform Engineering
15 29 (11.65%) Collaborative Culture
16 28 (11.24%) Incident Response
16 28 (11.24%) Mentoring
17 27 (10.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 27 (10.84%) Software Engineering
18 26 (10.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 115 (46.18%) Python
2 70 (28.11%) Bash
3 62 (24.90%) Java
4 53 (21.29%) SQL
5 48 (19.28%) TypeScript
6 30 (12.05%) PowerShell
7 29 (11.65%) Go
8 24 (9.64%) Groovy
9 20 (8.03%) JavaScript
10 12 (4.82%) Kotlin
11 11 (4.42%) Bicep
11 11 (4.42%) C#
12 8 (3.21%) Rust
13 3 (1.20%) C++
14 2 (0.80%) Google Apps Script
15 1 (0.40%) PHP
15 1 (0.40%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 71 (28.51%) AWS Certification
2 59 (23.69%) Security Cleared
3 29 (11.65%) SC Cleared
4 27 (10.84%) Degree
5 26 (10.44%) DV Cleared
6 22 (8.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 20 (8.03%) AWS Certified Developer
8 17 (6.83%) ITIL Certification
9 15 (6.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 12 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (3.21%) OSCP
12 7 (2.81%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 5 (2.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 3 (1.20%) Azure Certification
14 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (1.20%) SnowPro
15 2 (0.80%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.43%) NIST
2 11 (4.42%) QA
3 10 (4.02%) PCI DSS
4 9 (3.61%) Data Quality
4 9 (3.61%) GDPR
5 6 (2.41%) SLA
6 5 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.61%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.40%) Basel III
8 1 (0.40%) MiFID
System Software
1 126 (50.60%) Docker
2 6 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.20%) KVM
4 2 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.40%) QEMU
5 1 (0.40%) vCloud
5 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 175 (70.28%) Terraform
2 97 (38.96%) Kubernetes
3 56 (22.49%) Ansible
4 31 (12.45%) Prometheus
5 29 (11.65%) Grafana
6 24 (9.64%) HP Fortify
7 9 (3.61%) Argo
8 7 (2.81%) Puppet
9 6 (2.41%) AWS Copilot
9 6 (2.41%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (2.01%) Istio
10 5 (2.01%) Kubeflow
10 5 (2.01%) linkerd
10 5 (2.01%) Mesos
11 4 (1.61%) Rancher
12 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.80%) Nessus
14 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 26 (10.44%) Google
2 15 (6.02%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.22%) Splunk
4 10 (4.02%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.41%) SaltStack
6 5 (2.01%) IBM
7 4 (1.61%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.20%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.20%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.20%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (1.20%) Oracle
8 3 (1.20%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.20%) SAP
8 3 (1.20%) VMware
9 2 (0.80%) Databricks
9 2 (0.80%) Foundry
9 2 (0.80%) Ping Identity
10 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.40%) Qualys
10 1 (0.40%) Refinitiv