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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 439 525
Rank change year-on-year +55 +86 -147
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 453 203 210
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 0.47% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.92% 1.46% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 210 114 152
10th Percentile £48,025 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £60,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +3.45% -6.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,438 £92,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £103,875 £114,750
UK median annual salary £74,401 £73,801 £72,500
% change year-on-year +0.81% +1.79% -3.33%

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 23,601 13,946 21,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 22.76% 32.14% 32.58%
Number of salaries quoted 16,615 9,685 13,016
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +3.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £84,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £59,186 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.60% -8.94% +4.00%

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 October 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 October 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 +61 234 £90,000 +9.09% 224
North of England +18 138 £70,000 - 70
Yorkshire +25 82 £75,000 +7.14% 22
North West -9 38 £71,991 +17.54% 37
South West -47 34 £67,500 -25.00% 17
Midlands -36 22 £62,250 +13.18% 26
North East -45 21 £50,750 -31.23% 11
South East -57 20 £68,750 -21.43% 28
East Midlands -25 12 £52,500 - 12
West Midlands -41 10 £63,750 +15.91% 14
East of England -55 1 £90,000 +20.00% 7
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 20 (4.42%) Apache
2 13 (2.87%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.99%) Confluence
4 7 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.10%) nginx
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.44%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.44%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.88%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.44%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 3 (0.66%) Summit
2 2 (0.44%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.44%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 434 (95.81%) AWS
2 220 (48.57%) Serverless
3 155 (34.22%) AWS Lambda
4 122 (26.93%) Azure
5 121 (26.71%) Amazon ECS
6 115 (25.39%) Amazon S3
7 98 (21.63%) GitHub
8 93 (20.53%) GCP
9 75 (16.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 70 (15.45%) GitHub Actions
11 69 (15.23%) Amazon EC2
12 63 (13.91%) Amazon EKS
13 61 (13.47%) AWS Step Functions
14 47 (10.38%) Cloud Computing
15 38 (8.39%) Datadog
16 37 (8.17%) PaaS
17 33 (7.28%) OpenShift
18 30 (6.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 28 (6.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 25 (5.52%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.97%) Network Security
2 14 (3.09%) TCP/IP
2 14 (3.09%) VPN
3 11 (2.43%) Firewall
4 8 (1.77%) AMQP
4 8 (1.77%) DNS
5 6 (1.32%) HTTP
6 5 (1.10%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.66%) Reverse Proxy
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 82 (18.10%) NoSQL
2 70 (15.45%) DynamoDB
3 46 (10.15%) Amazon RDS
4 29 (6.40%) Amazon Athena
5 14 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (2.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (2.21%) Big Data
7 10 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (2.21%) Hadoop
8 8 (1.77%) Cloudera CDH
8 8 (1.77%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.55%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.32%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.32%) MySQL
11 5 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (1.10%) Metadata
11 5 (1.10%) Redis
12 4 (0.88%) Power BI
13 3 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.66%) Flink
Development Applications
1 110 (24.28%) GitLab
2 103 (22.74%) Jenkins
3 71 (15.67%) Git
4 46 (10.15%) Cucumber
5 19 (4.19%) Cypress.io
6 17 (3.75%) SonarQube
7 16 (3.53%) Maven
8 11 (2.43%) Bitbucket
8 11 (2.43%) JIRA
9 8 (1.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 7 (1.55%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.32%) CircleCI
12 5 (1.10%) Snyk
12 5 (1.10%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.66%) Gradle
13 3 (0.66%) JUnit
13 3 (0.66%) NUnit
13 3 (0.66%) Postman
13 3 (0.66%) Selenium
14 2 (0.44%) Flyway
General
1 129 (28.48%) Finance
2 108 (23.84%) Social Skills
3 46 (10.15%) Public Sector
4 42 (9.27%) Banking
5 23 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (4.64%) Financial Institution
7 16 (3.53%) Law
8 14 (3.09%) Aerospace
9 13 (2.87%) Legal
10 11 (2.43%) Military
11 8 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.32%) Retail
13 4 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.88%) Local Government
13 4 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.88%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.66%) Automotive
14 3 (0.66%) Marketing
14 3 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.66%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 116 (25.61%) Senior
2 87 (19.21%) Cloud Engineer
3 73 (16.11%) Developer
4 68 (15.01%) DevOps Engineer
5 53 (11.70%) AWS Engineer
6 51 (11.26%) Java Engineer
7 45 (9.93%) Java Developer
8 39 (8.61%) Consultant
9 35 (7.73%) Lead
10 33 (7.28%) Senior Consultant
11 29 (6.40%) Platform Engineer
12 28 (6.18%) Architect
13 27 (5.96%) Software Engineer
14 26 (5.74%) Principal Engineer
15 25 (5.52%) Full-Stack Developer
15 25 (5.52%) Principal Java Engineer
16 24 (5.30%) AWS Developer
16 24 (5.30%) Cloud Native Engineer
17 20 (4.42%) Senior Java Engineer
17 20 (4.42%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 319 (70.42%) Terraform
2 94 (20.75%) Spring Boot
3 86 (18.98%) Spring
4 71 (15.67%) Node.js
5 68 (15.01%) Kafka
6 67 (14.79%) AngularJS
7 45 (9.93%) AWS CDK
8 34 (7.51%) React
9 27 (5.96%) RESTful
10 25 (5.52%) REST
10 25 (5.52%) Web Services
11 20 (4.42%) Gherkin
12 17 (3.75%) RabbitMQ
13 16 (3.53%) gRPC
14 15 (3.31%) Jest
15 12 (2.65%) JSON
15 12 (2.65%) OpenAPI
16 11 (2.43%) ARM Templates
17 10 (2.21%) JWT
17 10 (2.21%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 174 (38.41%) Cloud Native
2 69 (15.23%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (13.02%) Public Cloud
4 52 (11.48%) Onboarding
5 45 (9.93%) e-Learning
6 37 (8.17%) Enterprise Cloud
7 29 (6.40%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (4.86%) Data Centre
8 22 (4.86%) Hybrid Cloud
9 19 (4.19%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (3.53%) Linux Command Line
11 13 (2.87%) Distributed Computing
11 13 (2.87%) Mainframe
12 10 (2.21%) Blog
13 8 (1.77%) Legacy Applications
14 7 (1.55%) AI Agents
14 7 (1.55%) Clustering
14 7 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
15 6 (1.32%) Virtual Team
16 5 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 79 (17.44%) Linux
2 18 (3.97%) Windows
3 12 (2.65%) Unix
4 10 (2.21%) Ubuntu
5 8 (1.77%) CentOS
5 8 (1.77%) Debian
5 8 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.10%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.44%) VMS
8 1 (0.22%) Android
8 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.22%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (74.83%) Infrastructure as Code
2 300 (66.23%) CI/CD
3 247 (54.53%) DevOps
4 209 (46.14%) Agile
5 131 (28.92%) Containerisation
6 104 (22.96%) Test Automation
7 103 (22.74%) Microservices
8 102 (22.52%) Mentoring
8 102 (22.52%) Software Engineering
9 101 (22.30%) Continuous Improvement
10 90 (19.87%) Problem-Solving
11 86 (18.98%) Observability
12 83 (18.32%) Cloud Security
13 77 (17.00%) Migration
14 76 (16.78%) Event-Driven
15 72 (15.89%) AI
16 61 (13.47%) Platform Engineering
17 58 (12.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 56 (12.36%) Collaborative Culture
19 52 (11.48%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 206 (45.47%) Python
2 153 (33.77%) Java
3 97 (21.41%) SQL
4 79 (17.44%) Bash
5 67 (14.79%) TypeScript
6 41 (9.05%) Groovy
7 35 (7.73%) PowerShell
8 33 (7.28%) Kotlin
9 32 (7.06%) Go
10 29 (6.40%) JavaScript
11 20 (4.42%) Bicep
12 18 (3.97%) Ruby
13 15 (3.31%) Perl
13 15 (3.31%) PHP
14 14 (3.09%) C#
15 5 (1.10%) C++
16 4 (0.88%) Google Apps Script
17 2 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 154 (34.00%) Security Cleared
2 118 (26.05%) AWS Certification
3 94 (20.75%) SC Cleared
4 76 (16.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 39 (8.61%) DV Cleared
6 33 (7.28%) Degree
7 18 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (2.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (2.43%) Master's Degree
10 10 (2.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 10 (2.21%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (1.77%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.88%) OCP
12 4 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.66%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (8.61%) GDPR
2 13 (2.87%) NIST
3 12 (2.65%) PCI DSS
4 8 (1.77%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.10%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.10%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.88%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.66%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.66%) NCSC
7 3 (0.66%) QA
8 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 175 (38.63%) Docker
2 6 (1.32%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.10%) KVM
3 5 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 165 (36.42%) Kubernetes
2 98 (21.63%) Ansible
3 51 (11.26%) Progress Chef
4 41 (9.05%) Grafana
5 37 (8.17%) Puppet
6 35 (7.73%) Prometheus
7 19 (4.19%) Argo
8 11 (2.43%) HP Fortify
9 8 (1.77%) Istio
10 6 (1.32%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (1.32%) linkerd
10 6 (1.32%) Mesos
10 6 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.66%) Rancher
13 2 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 2 (0.44%) Oracle RMAN
14 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
14 1 (0.22%) Kibana
Vendors
1 33 (7.28%) Google
2 17 (3.75%) Microsoft
3 14 (3.09%) Red Hat
4 13 (2.87%) Oracle
5 9 (1.99%) OpenAI
6 8 (1.77%) Databricks
6 8 (1.77%) SaltStack
6 8 (1.77%) Splunk
7 7 (1.55%) VMware
8 6 (1.32%) AppDynamics
8 6 (1.32%) Cisco
8 6 (1.32%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.88%) Avaya
9 4 (0.88%) Genesys
9 4 (0.88%) HubSpot
10 3 (0.66%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.44%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.44%) Informatica
12 1 (0.22%) Sparx
12 1 (0.22%) YouTube