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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 430 556
Rank change year-on-year +69 +126 -183
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 421 221 255
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 0.51% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.73% 1.54% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 205 124 204
10th Percentile £53,000 £52,500 £51,105
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £62,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -9.38%
75th Percentile £95,000 £94,063 £97,500
90th Percentile £111,500 £111,250 £112,500
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 24,339 14,383 25,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.25% 33.22% 32.53%
Number of salaries quoted 16,298 10,274 19,623
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,750 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -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 25 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 25 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 +56 221 £90,000 +14.65% 61
North of England +61 132 £75,000 +8.09% 32
Yorkshire +35 82 £75,000 +5.63% 7
North West +9 43 £74,301 +8.46% 13
Midlands -19 27 £62,000 -4.62% 8
East Midlands -14 18 £52,500 - 1
South East -49 17 £70,000 -17.65% 14
South West -54 16 £67,500 -25.00% 18
West Midlands -22 9 £62,500 -3.85% 7
North East -45 7 £50,000 -27.94% 12
East of England -25 2 £82,500 +10.00% 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 16 (3.80%) Apache
2 8 (1.90%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.90%) Confluence
3 7 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.71%) 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 (0.95%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.48%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Summit
2 1 (0.24%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 403 (95.72%) AWS
2 221 (52.49%) Serverless
3 171 (40.62%) AWS Lambda
4 126 (29.93%) Amazon ECS
5 123 (29.22%) Amazon S3
6 99 (23.52%) Azure
7 81 (19.24%) GitHub
8 77 (18.29%) AWS Step Functions
9 70 (16.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 68 (16.15%) GCP
11 57 (13.54%) Amazon EC2
11 57 (13.54%) Cloud Computing
12 56 (13.30%) Amazon EKS
13 55 (13.06%) GitHub Actions
14 53 (12.59%) Datadog
15 40 (9.50%) Amazon SQS
16 34 (8.08%) Amazon ECR
17 31 (7.36%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 31 (7.36%) Apigee
18 23 (5.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.75%) Network Security
2 16 (3.80%) VPN
3 13 (3.09%) Firewall
4 12 (2.85%) TCP/IP
5 11 (2.61%) DNS
6 7 (1.66%) DSL
7 4 (0.95%) AMQP
7 4 (0.95%) HTTP
8 3 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.48%) 4G
9 2 (0.48%) 5G
9 2 (0.48%) MQTT
10 1 (0.24%) DHCP
10 1 (0.24%) DNSSEC
10 1 (0.24%) Internet
10 1 (0.24%) PSTN
10 1 (0.24%) SCCP
10 1 (0.24%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (23.28%) DynamoDB
2 78 (18.53%) NoSQL
3 44 (10.45%) Amazon RDS
4 33 (7.84%) Amazon Athena
5 14 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.66%) Big Data
9 6 (1.43%) Flink
10 5 (1.19%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.19%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.19%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.95%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.95%) Cloudera CDH
11 4 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.95%) Metadata
11 4 (0.95%) MySQL
11 4 (0.95%) Redis
11 4 (0.95%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 129 (30.64%) Jenkins
2 128 (30.40%) GitLab
3 56 (13.30%) Git
4 34 (8.08%) Maven
5 32 (7.60%) Cucumber
5 32 (7.60%) Cypress.io
6 28 (6.65%) SonarQube
7 22 (5.23%) CircleCI
8 10 (2.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 10 (2.38%) JIRA
9 9 (2.14%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.66%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.43%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.95%) Gradle
12 4 (0.95%) Selenium
13 1 (0.24%) Gatling
13 1 (0.24%) git-flow
13 1 (0.24%) NUnit
13 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (0.24%) Vagrant
General
1 111 (26.37%) Social Skills
2 107 (25.42%) Finance
3 34 (8.08%) Banking
4 30 (7.13%) Public Sector
5 16 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (2.85%) Financial Institution
7 11 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.38%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.90%) Law
10 7 (1.66%) Legal
11 6 (1.43%) Advertising
11 6 (1.43%) Military
12 5 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.19%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.95%) Mandarin Language
13 4 (0.95%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.71%) Automotive
14 3 (0.71%) Back Office
14 3 (0.71%) Games
14 3 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 107 (25.42%) Senior
2 99 (23.52%) Developer
3 75 (17.81%) Cloud Engineer
4 62 (14.73%) Java Developer
5 61 (14.49%) DevOps Engineer
6 43 (10.21%) AWS Engineer
7 39 (9.26%) Consultant
8 32 (7.60%) Java Engineer
8 32 (7.60%) Senior Consultant
9 31 (7.36%) Lead
10 28 (6.65%) Full-Stack Developer
11 24 (5.70%) Senior Developer
12 23 (5.46%) AWS Developer
12 23 (5.46%) Platform Engineer
13 21 (4.99%) Architect
14 20 (4.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 20 (4.75%) Principal Engineer
15 19 (4.51%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 19 (4.51%) Professional Services Consultant
16 18 (4.28%) Principal Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (21.38%) Spring Boot
2 76 (18.05%) AngularJS
3 71 (16.86%) Kafka
4 68 (16.15%) Spring
5 58 (13.78%) Node.js
6 47 (11.16%) AWS CDK
7 35 (8.31%) Gherkin
8 30 (7.13%) React
9 27 (6.41%) Jest
10 26 (6.18%) RESTful
11 20 (4.75%) RabbitMQ
11 20 (4.75%) REST
12 19 (4.51%) gRPC
12 19 (4.51%) Web Services
13 16 (3.80%) web3js
14 15 (3.56%) Next.js
14 15 (3.56%) YAML
15 13 (3.09%) JSON
16 12 (2.85%) Elastic Stack
17 10 (2.38%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 131 (31.12%) Cloud Native
2 50 (11.88%) Onboarding
3 49 (11.64%) Distributed Systems
4 41 (9.74%) Enterprise Cloud
4 41 (9.74%) Public Cloud
5 27 (6.41%) e-Learning
6 22 (5.23%) Data Centre
7 21 (4.99%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (4.28%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (3.80%) Blockchain
10 16 (3.80%) Web3
11 15 (3.56%) Greenfield Project
11 15 (3.56%) Security Posture
12 13 (3.09%) Distributed Computing
12 13 (3.09%) Mainframe
13 11 (2.61%) Cloud Security Posture
14 10 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
15 7 (1.66%) Legacy Applications
16 6 (1.43%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 66 (15.68%) Linux
2 19 (4.51%) Windows
3 10 (2.38%) Ubuntu
4 9 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.90%) CentOS
6 6 (1.43%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.19%) Unix
8 4 (0.95%) Debian
9 3 (0.71%) Android
9 3 (0.71%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (69.60%) Infrastructure as Code
2 262 (62.23%) CI/CD
3 211 (50.12%) DevOps
4 158 (37.53%) Agile
5 133 (31.59%) Containerisation
6 105 (24.94%) Mentoring
7 89 (21.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 84 (19.95%) Test Automation
9 83 (19.71%) Microservices
10 82 (19.48%) Observability
11 76 (18.05%) Cloud Security
12 75 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
13 73 (17.34%) Software Engineering
14 64 (15.20%) Event-Driven
15 54 (12.83%) Continuous Integration
15 54 (12.83%) DevSecOps
16 53 (12.59%) Platform Engineering
17 52 (12.35%) AI
18 48 (11.40%) Collaborative Culture
18 48 (11.40%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 193 (45.84%) Python
2 153 (36.34%) Java
3 89 (21.14%) SQL
4 81 (19.24%) TypeScript
5 79 (18.76%) Bash
6 51 (12.11%) Groovy
7 39 (9.26%) Go
8 34 (8.08%) Kotlin
9 29 (6.89%) PowerShell
10 25 (5.94%) JavaScript
11 20 (4.75%) Bicep
12 16 (3.80%) PHP
13 15 (3.56%) Perl
14 14 (3.33%) Ruby
15 10 (2.38%) C#
16 7 (1.66%) Rust
17 6 (1.43%) C++
18 5 (1.19%) Google Apps Script
19 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 126 (29.93%) Security Cleared
2 104 (24.70%) AWS Certification
3 68 (16.15%) SC Cleared
4 64 (15.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 44 (10.45%) Degree
6 24 (5.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 24 (5.70%) DV Cleared
7 21 (4.99%) ITIL Certification
8 16 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (3.09%) Master's Degree
10 10 (2.38%) AWS Certified Developer
10 10 (2.38%) OSCP
11 7 (1.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (1.19%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.95%) Postgraduate
14 3 (0.71%) CREST Certified
14 3 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
16 1 (0.24%) OCP
16 1 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.46%) GDPR
2 20 (4.75%) PCI DSS
3 19 (4.51%) NIST
4 12 (2.85%) SOC 2
5 10 (2.38%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.95%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.71%) QA
9 2 (0.48%) NCSC
10 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 177 (42.04%) Docker
2 5 (1.19%) KVM
2 5 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.71%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 280 (66.51%) Terraform
2 160 (38.00%) Kubernetes
3 73 (17.34%) Ansible
4 43 (10.21%) Prometheus
5 41 (9.74%) Grafana
6 38 (9.03%) Progress Chef
7 27 (6.41%) Puppet
8 26 (6.18%) HP Fortify
9 18 (4.28%) Argo
10 6 (1.43%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.19%) Istio
11 5 (1.19%) linkerd
11 5 (1.19%) Mesos
12 3 (0.71%) AWS Copilot
13 2 (0.48%) Rancher
13 2 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.24%) Consul
14 1 (0.24%) Fluentd
14 1 (0.24%) Packer
Vendors
1 27 (6.41%) Google
2 16 (3.80%) Microsoft
3 11 (2.61%) Oracle
4 8 (1.90%) OpenAI
5 7 (1.66%) HubSpot
6 6 (1.43%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.43%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.43%) Splunk
7 5 (1.19%) VMware
8 4 (0.95%) Avaya
8 4 (0.95%) Cisco
8 4 (0.95%) Genesys
8 4 (0.95%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.71%) Databricks
10 2 (0.48%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.24%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.24%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.24%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.24%) TOWER Software