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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 451 558
Rank change year-on-year +96 +107 -211
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 457 209 213
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.48% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.84% 1.44% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 225 119 164
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £50,152
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -6.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £107,200 £99,250 £107,500
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 24,804 14,509 22,868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.15% 32.99% 31.70%
Number of salaries quoted 16,861 10,286 16,870
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -5.51%

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 17 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 17 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 +52 227 £90,000 +14.65% 104
North of England +51 151 £72,500 +4.03% 49
Yorkshire +47 92 £75,000 +7.14% 10
North West +7 47 £72,500 +7.21% 25
South West -49 30 £67,500 -25.00% 28
Midlands -13 22 £62,250 -4.23% 17
South East -46 18 £70,000 -18.84% 18
East Midlands -7 14 £52,500 - 7
North East -52 12 £47,000 -32.26% 14
West Midlands -17 8 £68,496 +5.38% 10
East of England -33 2 £82,500 +10.00% 5
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 16 (3.50%) Apache
2 9 (1.97%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.97%) Confluence
3 6 (1.31%) 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
1 438 (95.84%) AWS
2 234 (51.20%) Serverless
3 176 (38.51%) AWS Lambda
4 137 (29.98%) Amazon ECS
5 128 (28.01%) Amazon S3
6 110 (24.07%) Azure
7 94 (20.57%) GitHub
8 79 (17.29%) GCP
9 77 (16.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 71 (15.54%) AWS Step Functions
11 69 (15.10%) Amazon EC2
12 66 (14.44%) Amazon EKS
12 66 (14.44%) GitHub Actions
13 53 (11.60%) Datadog
14 51 (11.16%) Cloud Computing
15 36 (7.88%) Amazon SQS
16 35 (7.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 32 (7.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 28 (6.13%) Amazon ECR
18 28 (6.13%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.38%) Network Security
2 15 (3.28%) TCP/IP
3 13 (2.84%) VPN
4 11 (2.41%) DNS
4 11 (2.41%) Firewall
5 6 (1.31%) HTTP
6 5 (1.09%) AMQP
6 5 (1.09%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (0.88%) DSL
8 2 (0.44%) MQTT
9 1 (0.22%) 4G
9 1 (0.22%) 5G
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 93 (20.35%) DynamoDB
2 78 (17.07%) NoSQL
3 50 (10.94%) Amazon RDS
4 32 (7.00%) Amazon Athena
5 12 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (1.75%) Big Data
7 7 (1.53%) Flink
7 7 (1.53%) Hadoop
8 6 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.31%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.09%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (1.09%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.88%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.88%) Metadata
10 4 (0.88%) MySQL
11 3 (0.66%) Power BI
11 3 (0.66%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 124 (27.13%) Jenkins
2 118 (25.82%) GitLab
3 63 (13.79%) Git
4 35 (7.66%) Cucumber
5 29 (6.35%) Cypress.io
5 29 (6.35%) Maven
6 25 (5.47%) SonarQube
7 16 (3.50%) CircleCI
8 12 (2.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 12 (2.63%) JIRA
9 11 (2.41%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.53%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.31%) Selenium
11 6 (1.31%) TeamCity
12 5 (1.09%) 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
1 120 (26.26%) Social Skills
2 116 (25.38%) Finance
3 37 (8.10%) Public Sector
4 36 (7.88%) Banking
5 21 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (3.28%) Law
7 14 (3.06%) Financial Institution
8 13 (2.84%) Legal
9 12 (2.63%) Aerospace
10 9 (1.97%) Military
11 8 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.09%) Retail
13 4 (0.88%) Advertising
13 4 (0.88%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.88%) Local Government
13 4 (0.88%) Mandarin Language
13 4 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.88%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 119 (26.04%) Senior
2 95 (20.79%) Developer
3 90 (19.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 73 (15.97%) DevOps Engineer
5 60 (13.13%) Java Developer
6 52 (11.38%) AWS Engineer
7 39 (8.53%) Consultant
8 37 (8.10%) Java Engineer
9 35 (7.66%) Lead
10 32 (7.00%) Senior Consultant
11 26 (5.69%) AWS Developer
12 25 (5.47%) Full-Stack Developer
12 25 (5.47%) Software Engineer
13 24 (5.25%) Platform Engineer
14 23 (5.03%) Senior Developer
15 22 (4.81%) Architect
16 21 (4.60%) Cloud Native Engineer
17 19 (4.16%) AWS DevOps
17 19 (4.16%) Principal Engineer
17 19 (4.16%) Professional Services Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (19.47%) Spring Boot
2 76 (16.63%) AngularJS
3 72 (15.75%) Spring
4 70 (15.32%) Node.js
5 68 (14.88%) Kafka
6 50 (10.94%) AWS CDK
7 37 (8.10%) React
8 30 (6.56%) Gherkin
8 30 (6.56%) RESTful
9 24 (5.25%) Jest
10 22 (4.81%) REST
10 22 (4.81%) Web Services
11 18 (3.94%) RabbitMQ
12 17 (3.72%) gRPC
13 15 (3.28%) YAML
14 14 (3.06%) Elastic Stack
14 14 (3.06%) Next.js
15 13 (2.84%) JSON
15 13 (2.84%) web3js
16 10 (2.19%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 153 (33.48%) Cloud Native
2 56 (12.25%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (10.94%) Onboarding
4 44 (9.63%) Public Cloud
5 41 (8.97%) Enterprise Cloud
6 30 (6.56%) e-Learning
7 26 (5.69%) Hybrid Cloud
8 22 (4.81%) Data Centre
9 20 (4.38%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (4.16%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (3.06%) Linux Command Line
12 13 (2.84%) Blockchain
12 13 (2.84%) Distributed Computing
12 13 (2.84%) Mainframe
12 13 (2.84%) Web3
13 11 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (2.19%) Blog
14 10 (2.19%) Security Posture
15 7 (1.53%) Cloud Security Posture
15 7 (1.53%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 76 (16.63%) Linux
2 22 (4.81%) Windows
3 11 (2.41%) Ubuntu
4 10 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (1.97%) CentOS
6 7 (1.53%) Unix
6 7 (1.53%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.09%) Debian
8 2 (0.44%) Android
8 2 (0.44%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (71.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 291 (63.68%) CI/CD
3 242 (52.95%) DevOps
4 180 (39.39%) Agile
5 141 (30.85%) Containerisation
6 107 (23.41%) Mentoring
7 102 (22.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 92 (20.13%) Software Engineering
9 91 (19.91%) Microservices
10 90 (19.69%) Test Automation
11 87 (19.04%) Observability
12 86 (18.82%) Cloud Security
13 82 (17.94%) Problem-Solving
14 68 (14.88%) Event-Driven
15 63 (13.79%) Migration
16 58 (12.69%) Platform Engineering
17 56 (12.25%) Collaborative Culture
18 55 (12.04%) AI
19 52 (11.38%) DevSecOps
19 52 (11.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 208 (45.51%) Python
2 156 (34.14%) Java
3 92 (20.13%) SQL
4 86 (18.82%) Bash
5 80 (17.51%) TypeScript
6 49 (10.72%) Groovy
7 41 (8.97%) Go
8 39 (8.53%) Kotlin
9 31 (6.78%) JavaScript
10 29 (6.35%) PowerShell
11 18 (3.94%) Bicep
11 18 (3.94%) Ruby
12 16 (3.50%) PHP
13 15 (3.28%) C#
13 15 (3.28%) Perl
14 6 (1.31%) C++
15 5 (1.09%) Google Apps Script
16 4 (0.88%) Rust
17 2 (0.44%) Shell Script
18 1 (0.22%) Korn
Qualifications
1 151 (33.04%) Security Cleared
2 109 (23.85%) AWS Certification
3 91 (19.91%) SC Cleared
4 64 (14.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 41 (8.97%) Degree
6 31 (6.78%) DV Cleared
7 21 (4.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 17 (3.72%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (2.63%) Master's Degree
11 11 (2.41%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (1.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (1.31%) OSCP
14 5 (1.09%) 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 2 (0.44%) CREST Certified
16 2 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.00%) GDPR
2 16 (3.50%) NIST
2 16 (3.50%) PCI DSS
3 9 (1.97%) Data Quality
3 9 (1.97%) SOC 2
4 5 (1.09%) HIPAA
4 5 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.88%) NCSC
6 3 (0.66%) QA
7 2 (0.44%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.44%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 190 (41.58%) Docker
2 6 (1.31%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.09%) KVM
3 5 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 320 (70.02%) Terraform
2 176 (38.51%) Kubernetes
3 92 (20.13%) Ansible
4 45 (9.85%) Progress Chef
5 42 (9.19%) Grafana
6 37 (8.10%) Prometheus
7 33 (7.22%) Puppet
8 21 (4.60%) HP Fortify
9 19 (4.16%) Argo
10 6 (1.31%) Istio
10 6 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.88%) linkerd
12 4 (0.88%) Mesos
13 2 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.44%) Rancher
14 1 (0.22%) Consul
14 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
14 1 (0.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 31 (6.78%) Google
2 15 (3.28%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.63%) Oracle
3 12 (2.63%) Red Hat
4 8 (1.75%) OpenAI
5 7 (1.53%) HubSpot
6 6 (1.31%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.31%) Splunk
6 6 (1.31%) VMware
7 5 (1.09%) SaltStack
8 4 (0.88%) Avaya
8 4 (0.88%) Cisco
8 4 (0.88%) Databricks
8 4 (0.88%) Genesys
9 3 (0.66%) AppDynamics
9 3 (0.66%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.44%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.22%) Infoblox
11 1 (0.22%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.22%) ServiceNow