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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 435 462 365
Rank change year-on-year +27 -97 -39
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 176 265 336
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.45% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.10% 1.32% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 125 205 275
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,200
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £79,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +8.97% -9.38%
75th Percentile £87,500 £115,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £103,000 £130,000 £116,250
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% +7.14% -12.50%

All Cloud 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 15,931 20,115 19,703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.89% 34.30% 43.25%
Number of salaries quoted 10,277 12,293 16,597
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £45,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +2.00% -0.79%

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 2025. 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 +18 82 £81,500 -18.50% 51
North of England +51 60 £70,000 +9.80% 19
Yorkshire +33 30 £70,000 +7.69% 6
North West +35 27 £62,500 - 9
Midlands +46 13 £60,000 -15.38% 7
South East +34 12 £95,000 +52.00% 28
West Midlands +52 11 £60,000 -17.24% 4
South West +24 7 £70,000 +27.27% 12
North East +4 3 £73,801 +6.48% 4
East Midlands +20 2 - - 3
East of England +31 1 £75,000 +20.00% 2
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 9 (5.11%) Apache
2 7 (3.98%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.98%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.41%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.41%) WebSphere
3 6 (3.41%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (1.14%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.57%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 159 (90.34%) AWS
2 85 (48.30%) Azure
3 73 (41.48%) Serverless
4 66 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
5 57 (32.39%) Amazon S3
6 50 (28.41%) GCP
7 45 (25.57%) GitHub
8 41 (23.30%) Amazon ECS
9 40 (22.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 36 (20.45%) Amazon EC2
11 32 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
12 31 (17.61%) Amazon EKS
13 28 (15.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 23 (13.07%) Amazon ECR
15 21 (11.93%) AWS Step Functions
15 21 (11.93%) Azure DevOps
16 18 (10.23%) Amazon SQS
17 16 (9.09%) Datadog
17 16 (9.09%) dbt
18 13 (7.39%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.25%) TCP/IP
2 7 (3.98%) Firewall
3 6 (3.41%) SSL
4 5 (2.84%) Network Security
4 5 (2.84%) VPN
5 3 (1.70%) LAN
5 3 (1.70%) WAN
6 2 (1.14%) AMQP
6 2 (1.14%) DNS
6 2 (1.14%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.57%) DHCP
7 1 (0.57%) HTTP
7 1 (0.57%) NAS
7 1 (0.57%) SAN
7 1 (0.57%) SNMP
7 1 (0.57%) VSAN
7 1 (0.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (18.75%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (15.91%) DynamoDB
3 27 (15.34%) NoSQL
3 27 (15.34%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (8.52%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (7.39%) SQL Server
7 12 (6.82%) Data Lake
7 12 (6.82%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (6.25%) Redis
9 9 (5.11%) Amazon Athena
9 9 (5.11%) MySQL
10 6 (3.41%) DB2
11 5 (2.84%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (2.27%) Big Data
13 3 (1.70%) Apache Iceberg
13 3 (1.70%) Data Vault
13 3 (1.70%) MongoDB
14 2 (1.14%) Hadoop
14 2 (1.14%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 53 (30.11%) Jenkins
2 44 (25.00%) GitLab
3 18 (10.23%) Git
4 11 (6.25%) CircleCI
5 10 (5.68%) SonarQube
6 6 (3.41%) Cypress.io
6 6 (3.41%) Maven
7 5 (2.84%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.84%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.84%) git-flow
7 5 (2.84%) JIRA
8 4 (2.27%) Robot Framework
9 2 (1.14%) Eclipse
9 2 (1.14%) JMeter
9 2 (1.14%) Selenium
9 2 (1.14%) Spinnaker
9 2 (1.14%) TestRail
10 1 (0.57%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.57%) Subversion
10 1 (0.57%) TeamCity
General
1 54 (30.68%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.89%) Finance
3 18 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.09%) Banking
5 11 (6.25%) Law
6 8 (4.55%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.98%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.41%) Aerospace
9 5 (2.84%) Marketing
10 4 (2.27%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.70%) Electronics
11 3 (1.70%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.14%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.57%) Advertising
13 1 (0.57%) Billing
13 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.57%) Military
13 1 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 44 (25.00%) Senior
2 30 (17.05%) Cloud Engineer
2 30 (17.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (14.20%) AWS Engineer
4 20 (11.36%) Lead
4 20 (11.36%) Platform Engineer
5 16 (9.09%) Developer
6 13 (7.39%) Data Engineer
7 12 (6.82%) AWS DevOps
8 10 (5.68%) Architect
8 10 (5.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 9 (5.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (5.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 9 (5.11%) Support Engineer
10 8 (4.55%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 7 (3.98%) Applications Engineer
11 7 (3.98%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 7 (3.98%) Security Engineer
12 6 (3.41%) Java Engineer
12 6 (3.41%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (13.07%) AWS CDK
1 23 (13.07%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (9.09%) React
3 15 (8.52%) Kafka
4 14 (7.95%) .NET
4 14 (7.95%) Spring Boot
5 12 (6.82%) RESTful
5 12 (6.82%) Spring
6 11 (6.25%) Django
7 9 (5.11%) AngularJS
7 9 (5.11%) Node.js
8 8 (4.55%) .NET Core
8 8 (4.55%) ASP.NET
8 8 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (3.98%) ARM Templates
9 7 (3.98%) ASP.NET Core
9 7 (3.98%) Blazor
9 7 (3.98%) Material-UI
10 6 (3.41%) Jest
10 6 (3.41%) LAPP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 46 (26.14%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.52%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.82%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 11 (6.25%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.41%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.84%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.27%) e-Learning
7 4 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.70%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.70%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.14%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.14%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.14%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.57%) NVMe
10 1 (0.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 53 (30.11%) Linux
2 28 (15.91%) Unix
3 22 (12.50%) Windows
4 10 (5.68%) Ubuntu
5 8 (4.55%) Debian
5 8 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.14%) CentOS
6 2 (1.14%) VMS
6 2 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (80.11%) Infrastructure as Code
2 134 (76.14%) CI/CD
3 123 (69.89%) DevOps
4 63 (35.80%) Agile
5 55 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (26.70%) Containerisation
7 40 (22.73%) Observability
8 37 (21.02%) Microservices
9 34 (19.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (16.48%) Platform Engineering
11 28 (15.91%) Disaster Recovery
11 28 (15.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 25 (14.20%) Cloud Security
13 23 (13.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 22 (12.50%) AI
14 22 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
15 21 (11.93%) Data Pipeline
15 21 (11.93%) Mentoring
16 20 (11.36%) Configuration Management
17 19 (10.80%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 99 (56.25%) Python
2 56 (31.82%) Bash
3 36 (20.45%) SQL
4 28 (15.91%) PowerShell
5 25 (14.20%) Java
6 21 (11.93%) TypeScript
7 16 (9.09%) Go
7 16 (9.09%) JavaScript
8 9 (5.11%) Bicep
9 8 (4.55%) C#
9 8 (4.55%) Groovy
10 1 (0.57%) C++
10 1 (0.57%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 50 (28.41%) AWS Certification
2 42 (23.86%) Security Cleared
3 26 (14.77%) SC Cleared
4 20 (11.36%) Degree
5 17 (9.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 17 (9.66%) DV Cleared
6 13 (7.39%) AWS Certified Developer
7 10 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.41%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (2.84%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (2.27%) SnowPro
11 2 (1.14%) ISTQB
11 2 (1.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.68%) QA
3 8 (4.55%) GDPR
4 7 (3.98%) SLA
5 4 (2.27%) NIST
6 3 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.57%) Basel III
7 1 (0.57%) MiFID
7 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 85 (48.30%) Docker
2 6 (3.41%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (2.84%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.14%) KVM
4 2 (1.14%) Terminal Server
4 2 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.57%) QEMU
5 1 (0.57%) vCloud
5 1 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 138 (78.41%) Terraform
2 71 (40.34%) Kubernetes
3 48 (27.27%) Ansible
4 37 (21.02%) Grafana
5 32 (18.18%) Prometheus
6 7 (3.98%) Argo
7 6 (3.41%) AWS Copilot
7 6 (3.41%) HP Fortify
8 5 (2.84%) Kubeflow
8 5 (2.84%) Puppet
9 3 (1.70%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (1.70%) Istio
9 3 (1.70%) linkerd
10 2 (1.14%) Mesos
10 2 (1.14%) Nessus
10 2 (1.14%) Rancher
11 1 (0.57%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.57%) Nagios
11 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 21 (11.93%) Google
2 20 (11.36%) Splunk
3 17 (9.66%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.55%) Red Hat
5 7 (3.98%) IBM
6 4 (2.27%) Databricks
6 4 (2.27%) Foundry
6 4 (2.27%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (2.27%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.70%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.70%) Citrix
7 3 (1.70%) SaltStack
7 3 (1.70%) SAP
7 3 (1.70%) VMware
8 2 (1.14%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.14%) OneLogin
8 2 (1.14%) Oracle
8 2 (1.14%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.57%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.57%) Refinitiv