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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 442 533
Rank change year-on-year +64 +91 -149
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 459 198 208
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 0.46% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.94% 1.43% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 217 118 150
10th Percentile £48,250 £52,200 £52,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £94,375
90th Percentile £105,000 £102,375 £118,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £73,801 £72,500
% change year-on-year +1.62% +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 23,671 13,886 20,784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 22.66% 32.39% 32.64%
Number of salaries quoted 16,729 9,676 12,673
10th Percentile £31,750 £29,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,250 £38,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,740 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.57% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £58,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.84% -10.00% +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 14 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 14 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 +63 236 £90,000 +9.09% 172
North of England +31 141 £70,000 - 69
Yorkshire +27 82 £75,000 +7.14% 22
North West -14 40 £71,991 +15.19% 35
South West -38 34 £68,750 -23.61% 15
Midlands -40 22 £62,500 +13.64% 23
North East -50 22 £50,750 -31.23% 12
South East -42 21 £70,000 -20.00% 24
East Midlands -29 11 £52,500 - 11
West Midlands -34 11 £65,000 +18.18% 12
East of England -45 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 (4.36%) Apache
2 13 (2.83%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.96%) Confluence
4 8 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.09%) 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 (0.87%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.44%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 3 (0.65%) 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
1 441 (96.08%) AWS
2 222 (48.37%) Serverless
3 155 (33.77%) AWS Lambda
4 124 (27.02%) Azure
5 121 (26.36%) Amazon ECS
6 116 (25.27%) Amazon S3
7 102 (22.22%) GitHub
8 93 (20.26%) GCP
9 78 (16.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 71 (15.47%) GitHub Actions
11 69 (15.03%) Amazon EC2
12 62 (13.51%) AWS Step Functions
13 58 (12.64%) Amazon EKS
14 47 (10.24%) Cloud Computing
15 38 (8.28%) Datadog
15 38 (8.28%) PaaS
16 32 (6.97%) OpenShift
17 30 (6.54%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 28 (6.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 25 (5.45%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.92%) Network Security
2 14 (3.05%) TCP/IP
2 14 (3.05%) VPN
3 11 (2.40%) Firewall
4 8 (1.74%) DNS
5 7 (1.53%) AMQP
6 6 (1.31%) HTTP
7 5 (1.09%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.44%) MQTT
10 1 (0.22%) 4G
10 1 (0.22%) 5G
10 1 (0.22%) DHCP
10 1 (0.22%) DNSSEC
10 1 (0.22%) Internet
10 1 (0.22%) PSTN
10 1 (0.22%) SCCP
10 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (18.08%) NoSQL
2 69 (15.03%) DynamoDB
3 47 (10.24%) Amazon RDS
4 30 (6.54%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (1.96%) Big Data
8 9 (1.96%) Hadoop
9 8 (1.74%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.53%) Cloudera CDH
11 6 (1.31%) Data Lake
11 6 (1.31%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.31%) Redis
12 5 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (1.09%) Metadata
12 5 (1.09%) MySQL
12 5 (1.09%) Power BI
13 3 (0.65%) Flink
13 3 (0.65%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 111 (24.18%) GitLab
2 106 (23.09%) Jenkins
3 71 (15.47%) Git
4 48 (10.46%) Cucumber
5 19 (4.14%) Cypress.io
6 17 (3.70%) SonarQube
7 16 (3.49%) Maven
8 11 (2.40%) JIRA
9 10 (2.18%) Bitbucket
10 9 (1.96%) Claude Code
11 8 (1.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (1.31%) CircleCI
13 5 (1.09%) Snyk
13 5 (1.09%) TeamCity
14 3 (0.65%) Gradle
14 3 (0.65%) JUnit
14 3 (0.65%) NUnit
14 3 (0.65%) Postman
14 3 (0.65%) Selenium
15 2 (0.44%) Flyway
General
1 131 (28.54%) Finance
2 106 (23.09%) Social Skills
3 48 (10.46%) Public Sector
4 43 (9.37%) Banking
5 23 (5.01%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (4.58%) Financial Institution
7 15 (3.27%) Law
8 13 (2.83%) Aerospace
8 13 (2.83%) Legal
9 11 (2.40%) Military
10 8 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.09%) Retail
12 4 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.87%) Local Government
12 4 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.87%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.65%) Automotive
13 3 (0.65%) Marketing
13 3 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.65%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 118 (25.71%) Senior
2 88 (19.17%) Cloud Engineer
3 73 (15.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 72 (15.69%) Developer
5 54 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
5 54 (11.76%) Java Engineer
6 44 (9.59%) Java Developer
7 39 (8.50%) Consultant
8 36 (7.84%) Lead
9 33 (7.19%) Senior Consultant
10 30 (6.54%) Platform Engineer
11 29 (6.32%) Architect
12 28 (6.10%) Software Engineer
13 27 (5.88%) Principal Engineer
14 26 (5.66%) Cloud Native Engineer
14 26 (5.66%) Principal Java Engineer
15 24 (5.23%) AWS Developer
15 24 (5.23%) Full-Stack Developer
16 22 (4.79%) Senior Java Engineer
17 21 (4.58%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 324 (70.59%) Terraform
2 94 (20.48%) Spring Boot
3 86 (18.74%) Spring
4 72 (15.69%) Node.js
5 70 (15.25%) Kafka
6 66 (14.38%) AngularJS
7 45 (9.80%) AWS CDK
8 31 (6.75%) React
9 26 (5.66%) RESTful
10 25 (5.45%) Web Services
11 23 (5.01%) REST
12 20 (4.36%) Gherkin
13 16 (3.49%) RabbitMQ
14 15 (3.27%) gRPC
14 15 (3.27%) Jest
15 12 (2.61%) JSON
16 11 (2.40%) ARM Templates
16 11 (2.40%) OpenAPI
17 10 (2.18%) YAML
18 9 (1.96%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 178 (38.78%) Cloud Native
2 73 (15.90%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (13.29%) Public Cloud
4 52 (11.33%) Onboarding
5 47 (10.24%) e-Learning
6 37 (8.06%) Enterprise Cloud
7 30 (6.54%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (4.79%) Data Centre
9 20 (4.36%) Hybrid Cloud
10 19 (4.14%) Legacy Systems
11 16 (3.49%) Linux Command Line
12 13 (2.83%) Distributed Computing
12 13 (2.83%) Mainframe
13 10 (2.18%) Blog
14 8 (1.74%) Clustering
14 8 (1.74%) Legacy Applications
15 7 (1.53%) AI Agents
15 7 (1.53%) Virtual Team
16 6 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
17 5 (1.09%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 78 (16.99%) Linux
2 18 (3.92%) Windows
3 13 (2.83%) Unix
4 9 (1.96%) Ubuntu
5 7 (1.53%) CentOS
5 7 (1.53%) Debian
5 7 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.09%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.44%) VMS
8 1 (0.22%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 343 (74.73%) Infrastructure as Code
2 306 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 255 (55.56%) DevOps
4 214 (46.62%) Agile
5 133 (28.98%) Containerisation
6 107 (23.31%) Test Automation
7 105 (22.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 104 (22.66%) Microservices
8 104 (22.66%) Software Engineering
9 103 (22.44%) Mentoring
10 88 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
11 87 (18.95%) Observability
12 84 (18.30%) Cloud Security
13 79 (17.21%) Event-Driven
14 78 (16.99%) Migration
15 74 (16.12%) AI
16 65 (14.16%) Platform Engineering
17 56 (12.20%) Collaborative Culture
18 55 (11.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 54 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 207 (45.10%) Python
2 154 (33.55%) Java
3 99 (21.57%) SQL
4 81 (17.65%) Bash
5 67 (14.60%) TypeScript
6 41 (8.93%) Groovy
7 36 (7.84%) PowerShell
8 34 (7.41%) Kotlin
9 31 (6.75%) Go
10 27 (5.88%) JavaScript
11 21 (4.58%) Bicep
12 18 (3.92%) Ruby
13 15 (3.27%) Perl
13 15 (3.27%) PHP
14 14 (3.05%) C#
15 5 (1.09%) C++
16 4 (0.87%) Google Apps Script
17 3 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
18 2 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 157 (34.20%) Security Cleared
2 123 (26.80%) AWS Certification
3 97 (21.13%) SC Cleared
4 79 (17.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 42 (9.15%) DV Cleared
6 35 (7.63%) Degree
7 19 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (2.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (2.40%) Master's Degree
10 10 (2.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 10 (2.18%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (1.74%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (1.09%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.87%) OCP
13 4 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
15 2 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (8.93%) GDPR
2 13 (2.83%) NIST
3 12 (2.61%) PCI DSS
4 9 (1.96%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.31%) ISO 20022
6 5 (1.09%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.09%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.87%) NCSC
7 4 (0.87%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.65%) QA
9 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 180 (39.22%) Docker
2 6 (1.31%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.09%) KVM
4 3 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 168 (36.60%) Kubernetes
2 100 (21.79%) Ansible
3 52 (11.33%) Progress Chef
4 43 (9.37%) Grafana
5 37 (8.06%) Prometheus
5 37 (8.06%) Puppet
6 19 (4.14%) Argo
7 11 (2.40%) HP Fortify
8 8 (1.74%) Istio
9 6 (1.31%) Docker Swarm
9 6 (1.31%) linkerd
9 6 (1.31%) Mesos
9 6 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.44%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.44%) Rancher
12 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.22%) Kibana
Vendors
1 32 (6.97%) Google
2 18 (3.92%) Microsoft
3 13 (2.83%) Oracle
3 13 (2.83%) Red Hat
4 9 (1.96%) Databricks
4 9 (1.96%) OpenAI
4 9 (1.96%) Splunk
5 8 (1.74%) VMware
6 7 (1.53%) SaltStack
7 6 (1.31%) AppDynamics
7 6 (1.31%) Cisco
7 6 (1.31%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.87%) Avaya
8 4 (0.87%) Genesys
8 4 (0.87%) HubSpot
9 3 (0.65%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.44%) Informatica
11 1 (0.22%) NetApp
11 1 (0.22%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.22%) ServiceNow