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

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 447 394
Rank change year-on-year +36 -53 -82
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 202 233 296
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.39% 0.47% 0.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.09% 1.30% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 141 176 236
10th Percentile £50,750 £52,500 £51,625
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.75% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £87,500 £116,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £138,750 £128,750
UK median annual salary £73,801 £79,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.58% +5.33% -6.25%

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 18,564 17,915 19,243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.63% 36.45% 41.79%
Number of salaries quoted 10,317 10,620 16,117
10th Percentile £28,900 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +7.44% -6.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £100,064
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 3 January 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 3 January 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 +35 91 £81,500 -18.50% 47
North of England +47 75 £70,500 +8.46% 20
Yorkshire +39 49 £70,000 +7.69% 14
North West +20 23 £66,250 +3.92% 6
Midlands +22 16 £51,500 -25.69% 12
West Midlands +39 14 £51,500 -25.69% 11
South East +12 12 £72,500 +18.37% 23
South West +8 7 £70,000 +55.56% 7
North East +3 3 £73,801 +6.48%
East Midlands -15 2 - - 1
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 11 (5.45%) Apache
2 8 (3.96%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.97%) Tomcat
4 6 (2.97%) WebSphere
4 6 (2.97%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.99%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 185 (91.58%) AWS
2 106 (52.48%) Serverless
3 97 (48.02%) AWS Lambda
4 91 (45.05%) Azure
5 80 (39.60%) Amazon S3
6 59 (29.21%) GitHub
7 55 (27.23%) Amazon ECS
8 52 (25.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 49 (24.26%) GCP
10 44 (21.78%) GitHub Actions
11 43 (21.29%) AWS Step Functions
12 39 (19.31%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (17.82%) Amazon EKS
14 33 (16.34%) Amazon ECR
15 29 (14.36%) Azure DevOps
16 28 (13.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 27 (13.37%) Amazon SQS
18 20 (9.90%) Datadog
19 16 (7.92%) Apigee
19 16 (7.92%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.45%) TCP/IP
2 7 (3.47%) Firewall
2 7 (3.47%) VPN
3 6 (2.97%) Network Security
3 6 (2.97%) SSL
4 3 (1.49%) AMQP
4 3 (1.49%) LAN
4 3 (1.49%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.49%) WAN
5 2 (0.99%) DSL
6 1 (0.50%) DHCP
6 1 (0.50%) DNS
6 1 (0.50%) HTTP
6 1 (0.50%) SCCP
6 1 (0.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (25.74%) DynamoDB
2 42 (20.79%) Amazon RDS
3 38 (18.81%) NoSQL
4 34 (16.83%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (8.42%) SQL Server
6 16 (7.92%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (7.43%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (6.44%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (5.94%) Data Lake
10 11 (5.45%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (5.45%) Redis
11 10 (4.95%) MySQL
12 6 (2.97%) DB2
13 5 (2.48%) Big Data
14 4 (1.98%) MongoDB
15 3 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
15 3 (1.49%) Apache Iceberg
15 3 (1.49%) Cloudera CDH
15 3 (1.49%) Data Vault
15 3 (1.49%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 72 (35.64%) Jenkins
2 60 (29.70%) GitLab
3 32 (15.84%) Git
4 20 (9.90%) SonarQube
5 16 (7.92%) Cypress.io
5 16 (7.92%) Maven
6 11 (5.45%) CircleCI
7 8 (3.96%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.48%) git-flow
9 4 (1.98%) Robot Framework
10 3 (1.49%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.49%) JIRA
11 2 (0.99%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.99%) JMeter
11 2 (0.99%) Selenium
11 2 (0.99%) TestRail
12 1 (0.50%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.50%) Subversion
12 1 (0.50%) TeamCity
General
1 65 (32.18%) Social Skills
2 34 (16.83%) Finance
3 17 (8.42%) Banking
4 16 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.96%) Aerospace
5 8 (3.96%) Law
5 8 (3.96%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.48%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.98%) Advertising
7 4 (1.98%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.49%) Billing
8 3 (1.49%) Electronics
8 3 (1.49%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.49%) Marketing
8 3 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.99%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.50%) Military
10 1 (0.50%) Publishing
10 1 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 45 (22.28%) Senior
2 37 (18.32%) Cloud Engineer
3 36 (17.82%) Developer
4 32 (15.84%) DevOps Engineer
5 28 (13.86%) AWS Engineer
6 21 (10.40%) Lead
6 21 (10.40%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (6.93%) AWS Developer
8 13 (6.44%) AWS DevOps
9 12 (5.94%) .NET Developer
10 11 (5.45%) Architect
10 11 (5.45%) Java Developer
11 10 (4.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 10 (4.95%) Data Engineer
11 10 (4.95%) Senior Developer
12 9 (4.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (4.46%) Support Engineer
13 8 (3.96%) Security Engineer
13 8 (3.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 8 (3.96%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (16.83%) AWS CDK
2 23 (11.39%) AngularJS
2 23 (11.39%) RESTful
2 23 (11.39%) Spring Boot
3 21 (10.40%) React
4 19 (9.41%) Elastic Stack
5 18 (8.91%) .NET
6 16 (7.92%) Gherkin
6 16 (7.92%) Jest
6 16 (7.92%) Node.js
7 15 (7.43%) Kafka
7 15 (7.43%) Spring
8 13 (6.44%) .NET Core
8 13 (6.44%) ASP.NET
8 13 (6.44%) ASP.NET Core
8 13 (6.44%) Blazor
9 12 (5.94%) RabbitMQ
10 11 (5.45%) Django
11 9 (4.46%) ARM Templates
12 8 (3.96%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 58 (28.71%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.93%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.94%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (5.45%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.95%) Security Posture
6 5 (2.48%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.48%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.98%) Blockchain
7 4 (1.98%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (1.98%) Web3
8 3 (1.49%) e-Learning
8 3 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.49%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.99%) PKI
9 2 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.50%) Cyber Security Posture
10 1 (0.50%) NVMe
10 1 (0.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 57 (28.22%) Linux
2 27 (13.37%) Unix
3 22 (10.89%) Windows
4 10 (4.95%) Ubuntu
5 9 (4.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (3.47%) Debian
7 3 (1.49%) CentOS
7 3 (1.49%) VMS
8 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (77.23%) CI/CD
2 150 (74.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 149 (73.76%) DevOps
4 77 (38.12%) Agile
5 62 (30.69%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (25.74%) Containerisation
7 48 (23.76%) Microservices
8 41 (20.30%) Observability
9 36 (17.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (15.35%) Cloud Security
11 30 (14.85%) Root Cause Analysis
12 28 (13.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 27 (13.37%) Platform Engineering
14 24 (11.88%) Continuous Integration
14 24 (11.88%) Disaster Recovery
15 21 (10.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 19 (9.41%) Deployment Automation
16 19 (9.41%) DevSecOps
16 19 (9.41%) Incident Response
16 19 (9.41%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 99 (49.01%) Python
2 66 (32.67%) Bash
3 42 (20.79%) SQL
4 38 (18.81%) Java
5 34 (16.83%) TypeScript
6 31 (15.35%) PowerShell
7 17 (8.42%) Go
8 16 (7.92%) Groovy
9 13 (6.44%) JavaScript
10 11 (5.45%) Bicep
11 7 (3.47%) C#
12 5 (2.48%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.99%) Rust
14 1 (0.50%) C++
14 1 (0.50%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 59 (29.21%) AWS Certification
2 48 (23.76%) Security Cleared
3 27 (13.37%) SC Cleared
4 21 (10.40%) DV Cleared
5 20 (9.90%) AWS Certified Developer
6 18 (8.91%) Degree
7 17 (8.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (4.95%) ITIL Certification
9 8 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.98%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 4 (1.98%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.99%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.99%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.99%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.94%) QA
2 11 (5.45%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.47%) GDPR
3 7 (3.47%) SLA
4 6 (2.97%) NIST
5 4 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.49%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.50%) Basel III
7 1 (0.50%) MiFID
7 1 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 104 (51.49%) Docker
2 4 (1.98%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.98%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.99%) KVM
3 2 (0.99%) Terminal Server
4 1 (0.50%) QEMU
4 1 (0.50%) vCloud
4 1 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 145 (71.78%) Terraform
2 75 (37.13%) Kubernetes
3 46 (22.77%) Ansible
4 29 (14.36%) Grafana
4 29 (14.36%) Prometheus
5 16 (7.92%) HP Fortify
6 8 (3.96%) Argo
7 6 (2.97%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (2.48%) Kubeflow
8 5 (2.48%) Puppet
9 4 (1.98%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (1.49%) Istio
10 3 (1.49%) linkerd
10 3 (1.49%) Mesos
10 3 (1.49%) Rancher
11 2 (0.99%) Nessus
12 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 20 (9.90%) Google
2 16 (7.92%) Microsoft
3 14 (6.93%) Splunk
4 9 (4.46%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.97%) IBM
6 5 (2.48%) SolarWinds
7 4 (1.98%) LogicMonitor
7 4 (1.98%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.49%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.49%) Databricks
8 3 (1.49%) Foundry
8 3 (1.49%) SAP
9 2 (0.99%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.99%) Citrix
9 2 (0.99%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.99%) Oracle
9 2 (0.99%) Ping Identity
9 2 (0.99%) VMware
10 1 (0.50%) Qualys
10 1 (0.50%) Refinitiv