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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 391 502
Rank change year-on-year +7 +111 -156
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 294 230 321
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.63% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 1.66% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 177 184 257
10th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £63,720 £63,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £81,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +8.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £111,000 £131,250 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £78,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -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 22,900 13,830 28,748
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.69% 37.77% 36.80%
Number of salaries quoted 12,351 10,166 23,917
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -22 136 £85,000 -11.69% 47
North of England +14 108 £73,801 +6.42% 33
Yorkshire +30 76 £72,500 -3.33% 8
North West -18 28 £74,301 +7.20% 16
Midlands -21 22 £50,000 -26.97% 4
West Midlands -3 14 £50,000 -27.86% 3
South East -35 13 £70,000 +16.67% 13
South West -33 11 £70,000 +21.74% 13
East Midlands -46 8 £75,000 +15.38% 1
North East -21 4 £73,801 +6.37% 9
East of England -27 1 £75,000 -11.76% 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 (5.44%) Apache
2 8 (2.72%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.02%) JBoss
4 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.68%) Confluence
5 2 (0.68%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.68%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.68%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.34%) Drupal
6 1 (0.34%) IIS
6 1 (0.34%) nginx
6 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 278 (94.56%) AWS
2 170 (57.82%) Serverless
3 146 (49.66%) AWS Lambda
4 116 (39.46%) Amazon S3
5 111 (37.76%) Azure
6 96 (32.65%) Amazon ECS
7 84 (28.57%) AWS Step Functions
8 75 (25.51%) GitHub
9 70 (23.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 64 (21.77%) GCP
11 56 (19.05%) Amazon ECR
11 56 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
12 49 (16.67%) Datadog
13 43 (14.63%) Amazon SQS
14 41 (13.95%) Amazon EKS
15 40 (13.61%) Apigee
16 33 (11.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 29 (9.86%) Amazon EC2
18 27 (9.18%) Pulumi
19 25 (8.50%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.44%) TCP/IP
2 15 (5.10%) Firewall
3 13 (4.42%) DSL
3 13 (4.42%) VPN
4 7 (2.38%) Network Security
5 5 (1.70%) AMQP
5 5 (1.70%) DNS
5 5 (1.70%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (1.02%) SCCP
7 2 (0.68%) SSL
8 1 (0.34%) 4G
8 1 (0.34%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (34.35%) DynamoDB
2 73 (24.83%) NoSQL
3 48 (16.33%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (11.56%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (9.18%) Amazon Athena
6 20 (6.80%) Elasticsearch
7 15 (5.10%) Redis
8 14 (4.76%) SQL Server
9 11 (3.74%) MySQL
10 8 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (2.04%) Big Data
11 6 (2.04%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.70%) Cloudera CDH
12 5 (1.70%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.36%) Data Lake
14 3 (1.02%) Metadata
15 2 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
15 2 (0.68%) Apache Iceberg
15 2 (0.68%) DB2
Development Applications
1 121 (41.16%) GitLab
2 118 (40.14%) Jenkins
3 46 (15.65%) Git
4 42 (14.29%) SonarQube
5 41 (13.95%) Maven
6 39 (13.27%) Cypress.io
7 23 (7.82%) CircleCI
8 12 (4.08%) Bitbucket
8 12 (4.08%) Cucumber
9 6 (2.04%) JIRA
10 5 (1.70%) git-flow
10 5 (1.70%) Robot Framework
10 5 (1.70%) Selenium
11 4 (1.36%) JMeter
12 3 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (1.02%) Eclipse
12 3 (1.02%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.68%) TestRail
14 1 (0.34%) Gatling
14 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 98 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 54 (18.37%) Finance
3 28 (9.52%) Banking
4 15 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.74%) Aerospace
6 9 (3.06%) Advertising
7 8 (2.72%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.04%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.70%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.70%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.36%) Billing
11 4 (1.36%) Retail
12 3 (1.02%) Aviation
12 3 (1.02%) Mandarin Language
13 2 (0.68%) Electronics
13 2 (0.68%) Games
13 2 (0.68%) Law
13 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.68%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 87 (29.59%) Developer
2 59 (20.07%) Cloud Engineer
2 59 (20.07%) Senior
3 50 (17.01%) Java Developer
4 47 (15.99%) DevOps Engineer
5 30 (10.20%) AWS Engineer
6 25 (8.50%) AWS Developer
6 25 (8.50%) Senior Developer
7 24 (8.16%) Platform Engineer
8 22 (7.48%) Lead
9 21 (7.14%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 21 (7.14%) Security Engineer
10 18 (6.12%) Architect
11 16 (5.44%) AWS Architect
11 16 (5.44%) AWS DevOps
11 16 (5.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (4.42%) .NET Developer
12 13 (4.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 13 (4.42%) AWS Security Architect
12 13 (4.42%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (21.43%) AngularJS
2 59 (20.07%) Spring Boot
3 53 (18.03%) AWS CDK
4 44 (14.97%) Node.js
5 39 (13.27%) Gherkin
5 39 (13.27%) Jest
6 36 (12.24%) Kafka
7 33 (11.22%) RESTful
8 31 (10.54%) React
9 29 (9.86%) Spring
10 23 (7.82%) Elastic Stack
11 22 (7.48%) RabbitMQ
12 19 (6.46%) .NET
13 17 (5.78%) gRPC
14 15 (5.10%) web3js
15 14 (4.76%) Django
15 14 (4.76%) REST
16 13 (4.42%) .NET Core
16 13 (4.42%) ASP.NET
16 13 (4.42%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 87 (29.59%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.48%) Security Posture
3 21 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.10%) Blockchain
4 15 (5.10%) Web3
5 14 (4.76%) Product Ownership
6 13 (4.42%) Cloud Security Posture
7 12 (4.08%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (3.74%) Public Cloud
9 8 (2.72%) e-Learning
9 8 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (2.04%) PKI
12 5 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.36%) Management Information System
14 3 (1.02%) Cyber Defence
14 3 (1.02%) Cyber Security Posture
14 3 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 64 (21.77%) Linux
2 25 (8.50%) Windows
3 23 (7.82%) Unix
4 13 (4.42%) Ubuntu
5 11 (3.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.72%) CentOS
7 5 (1.70%) Debian
7 5 (1.70%) VMS
7 5 (1.70%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.34%) Android
8 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (75.85%) CI/CD
2 212 (72.11%) DevOps
3 211 (71.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 130 (44.22%) Agile
5 91 (30.95%) Containerisation
6 79 (26.87%) Problem-Solving
7 68 (23.13%) Microservices
8 63 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 60 (20.41%) DevSecOps
10 57 (19.39%) Observability
11 55 (18.71%) Cloud Security
12 51 (17.35%) Continuous Integration
13 46 (15.65%) Mentoring
14 41 (13.95%) Incident Response
15 40 (13.61%) Platform Engineering
15 40 (13.61%) Test Automation
16 36 (12.24%) Clean Code
16 36 (12.24%) ITIL
16 36 (12.24%) Software Engineering
17 35 (11.90%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 122 (41.50%) Python
2 98 (33.33%) Java
3 82 (27.89%) Bash
4 76 (25.85%) TypeScript
5 68 (23.13%) SQL
6 40 (13.61%) Go
6 40 (13.61%) Groovy
7 29 (9.86%) Kotlin
8 27 (9.18%) PowerShell
9 21 (7.14%) JavaScript
10 13 (4.42%) Rust
11 12 (4.08%) C#
12 10 (3.40%) Bicep
13 4 (1.36%) C++
14 3 (1.02%) Google Apps Script
15 1 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.34%) PHP
15 1 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 76 (25.85%) AWS Certification
2 72 (24.49%) Security Cleared
3 41 (13.95%) SC Cleared
4 36 (12.24%) Degree
5 27 (9.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 25 (8.50%) AWS Certified Developer
6 25 (8.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 25 (8.50%) ITIL Certification
7 24 (8.16%) DV Cleared
8 14 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (4.76%) OSCP
9 7 (2.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 7 (2.38%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.02%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.68%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.68%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.14%) NIST
2 16 (5.44%) PCI DSS
3 14 (4.76%) GDPR
4 11 (3.74%) QA
5 10 (3.40%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.02%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.02%) SLA
8 1 (0.34%) Basel III
8 1 (0.34%) MiFID
8 1 (0.34%) NCSC
System Software
1 159 (54.08%) Docker
2 6 (2.04%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.36%) KVM
4 3 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.34%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 197 (67.01%) Terraform
2 109 (37.07%) Kubernetes
3 65 (22.11%) Ansible
4 40 (13.61%) Prometheus
5 39 (13.27%) HP Fortify
6 38 (12.93%) Grafana
7 10 (3.40%) Argo
8 9 (3.06%) AWS Copilot
9 8 (2.72%) Docker Swarm
10 7 (2.38%) Puppet
11 6 (2.04%) Istio
11 6 (2.04%) linkerd
11 6 (2.04%) Mesos
12 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (1.36%) Rancher
13 2 (0.68%) Nessus
13 2 (0.68%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.34%) Consul
14 1 (0.34%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (10.20%) Google
2 13 (4.42%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.06%) Splunk
4 8 (2.72%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.04%) SaltStack
6 3 (1.02%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.02%) Oracle
6 3 (1.02%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.02%) SolarWinds
6 3 (1.02%) VMware
7 2 (0.68%) IBM
7 2 (0.68%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (0.68%) Ping Identity
7 2 (0.68%) SAP
8 1 (0.34%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.34%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.34%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.34%) TOWER Software