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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 443 548
Rank change year-on-year +68 +105 -192
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 425 224 251
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 0.51% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.74% 1.55% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 209 127 200
10th Percentile £52,000 £52,500 £50,507
25th Percentile £61,762 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -9.38%
75th Percentile £91,250 £94,375 £97,500
90th Percentile £110,500 £111,750 £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 24,439 14,483 24,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.20% 33.26% 32.45%
Number of salaries quoted 16,373 10,360 19,152
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,500 £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 27 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 27 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 +72 223 £90,000 +13.56% 57
North of England +61 133 £75,000 +8.09% 34
Yorkshire +38 82 £75,000 +7.14% 7
North West +13 44 £73,401 +8.54% 15
Midlands -12 27 £62,000 -4.62% 8
East Midlands -10 18 £52,500 -
South East -32 17 £70,000 -17.65% 13
South West -49 17 £67,500 -25.00% 18
West Midlands -24 9 £62,500 -3.85% 8
North East -46 7 £50,000 -27.94% 12
East of England -28 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 (3.76%) Apache
2 8 (1.88%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.88%) Confluence
3 7 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.94%) 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 (0.94%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.47%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Summit
2 1 (0.24%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 407 (95.76%) AWS
2 223 (52.47%) Serverless
3 171 (40.24%) AWS Lambda
4 126 (29.65%) Amazon ECS
5 123 (28.94%) Amazon S3
6 100 (23.53%) Azure
7 82 (19.29%) GitHub
8 76 (17.88%) AWS Step Functions
9 70 (16.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 69 (16.24%) GCP
11 58 (13.65%) Amazon EC2
12 57 (13.41%) Amazon EKS
12 57 (13.41%) Cloud Computing
13 55 (12.94%) GitHub Actions
14 54 (12.71%) Datadog
15 39 (9.18%) Amazon SQS
16 33 (7.76%) Amazon ECR
17 32 (7.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 30 (7.06%) Apigee
19 24 (5.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.71%) Network Security
2 16 (3.76%) VPN
3 13 (3.06%) Firewall
3 13 (3.06%) TCP/IP
4 11 (2.59%) DNS
5 7 (1.65%) DSL
6 4 (0.94%) AMQP
6 4 (0.94%) HTTP
7 3 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.47%) 4G
8 2 (0.47%) 5G
8 2 (0.47%) MQTT
9 1 (0.24%) DHCP
9 1 (0.24%) DNSSEC
9 1 (0.24%) Internet
9 1 (0.24%) PSTN
9 1 (0.24%) SCCP
9 1 (0.24%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (22.82%) DynamoDB
2 78 (18.35%) NoSQL
3 45 (10.59%) Amazon RDS
4 33 (7.76%) Amazon Athena
5 14 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.65%) Big Data
9 6 (1.41%) Flink
10 5 (1.18%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.18%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.18%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.94%) Cloudera CDH
11 4 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.94%) Metadata
11 4 (0.94%) MySQL
11 4 (0.94%) Redis
11 4 (0.94%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 128 (30.12%) GitLab
1 128 (30.12%) Jenkins
2 57 (13.41%) Git
3 33 (7.76%) Maven
4 32 (7.53%) Cucumber
5 31 (7.29%) Cypress.io
6 27 (6.35%) SonarQube
7 22 (5.18%) CircleCI
8 10 (2.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 10 (2.35%) JIRA
9 9 (2.12%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.65%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.41%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.94%) Gradle
12 4 (0.94%) Selenium
13 2 (0.47%) Snyk
14 1 (0.24%) Gatling
14 1 (0.24%) Postman
14 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
14 1 (0.24%) Vagrant
General
1 112 (26.35%) Social Skills
2 108 (25.41%) Finance
3 34 (8.00%) Banking
4 31 (7.29%) Public Sector
5 16 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (2.82%) Financial Institution
7 11 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.35%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.88%) Law
9 8 (1.88%) Legal
10 6 (1.41%) Advertising
10 6 (1.41%) Military
11 5 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.18%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.94%) Mandarin Language
12 4 (0.94%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.71%) Automotive
13 3 (0.71%) Back Office
13 3 (0.71%) Games
13 3 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 109 (25.65%) Senior
2 98 (23.06%) Developer
3 77 (18.12%) Cloud Engineer
4 64 (15.06%) DevOps Engineer
5 61 (14.35%) Java Developer
6 44 (10.35%) AWS Engineer
7 39 (9.18%) Consultant
8 32 (7.53%) Java Engineer
8 32 (7.53%) Senior Consultant
9 31 (7.29%) Lead
10 28 (6.59%) Full-Stack Developer
11 24 (5.65%) Senior Developer
12 23 (5.41%) AWS Developer
12 23 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
13 21 (4.94%) Architect
14 20 (4.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 20 (4.71%) Principal Engineer
15 19 (4.47%) AWS DevOps
15 19 (4.47%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 19 (4.47%) Professional Services Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (20.94%) Spring Boot
2 75 (17.65%) AngularJS
3 71 (16.71%) Kafka
4 68 (16.00%) Spring
5 58 (13.65%) Node.js
6 48 (11.29%) AWS CDK
7 34 (8.00%) Gherkin
8 31 (7.29%) React
9 26 (6.12%) Jest
9 26 (6.12%) RESTful
10 20 (4.71%) RabbitMQ
10 20 (4.71%) REST
11 19 (4.47%) gRPC
11 19 (4.47%) Web Services
12 16 (3.76%) web3js
13 15 (3.53%) Next.js
13 15 (3.53%) YAML
14 13 (3.06%) Elastic Stack
14 13 (3.06%) JSON
15 10 (2.35%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 134 (31.53%) Cloud Native
2 50 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
2 50 (11.76%) Onboarding
3 41 (9.65%) Enterprise Cloud
3 41 (9.65%) Public Cloud
4 27 (6.35%) e-Learning
5 22 (5.18%) Data Centre
6 21 (4.94%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (4.24%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (3.76%) Blockchain
9 16 (3.76%) Web3
10 15 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
10 15 (3.53%) Security Posture
11 13 (3.06%) Distributed Computing
11 13 (3.06%) Mainframe
12 11 (2.59%) Cloud Security Posture
13 10 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
14 7 (1.65%) Legacy Applications
15 6 (1.41%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 68 (16.00%) Linux
2 19 (4.47%) Windows
3 10 (2.35%) Ubuntu
4 9 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.88%) CentOS
6 6 (1.41%) Unix
6 6 (1.41%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.94%) Debian
8 3 (0.71%) Android
8 3 (0.71%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (69.65%) Infrastructure as Code
2 264 (62.12%) CI/CD
3 215 (50.59%) DevOps
4 160 (37.65%) Agile
5 135 (31.76%) Containerisation
6 107 (25.18%) Mentoring
7 91 (21.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 85 (20.00%) Test Automation
9 84 (19.76%) Microservices
9 84 (19.76%) Observability
10 77 (18.12%) Cloud Security
11 76 (17.88%) Problem-Solving
12 75 (17.65%) Software Engineering
13 64 (15.06%) Event-Driven
14 55 (12.94%) Continuous Integration
14 55 (12.94%) DevSecOps
15 54 (12.71%) Platform Engineering
16 52 (12.24%) AI
17 49 (11.53%) Collaborative Culture
18 48 (11.29%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 195 (45.88%) Python
2 153 (36.00%) Java
3 89 (20.94%) SQL
4 80 (18.82%) TypeScript
5 78 (18.35%) Bash
6 50 (11.76%) Groovy
7 39 (9.18%) Go
8 34 (8.00%) Kotlin
9 29 (6.82%) PowerShell
10 25 (5.88%) JavaScript
11 20 (4.71%) Bicep
12 16 (3.76%) PHP
13 15 (3.53%) Perl
13 15 (3.53%) Ruby
14 11 (2.59%) C#
15 7 (1.65%) Rust
16 6 (1.41%) C++
17 5 (1.18%) Google Apps Script
18 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 130 (30.59%) Security Cleared
2 103 (24.24%) AWS Certification
3 72 (16.94%) SC Cleared
4 64 (15.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 44 (10.35%) Degree
6 26 (6.12%) DV Cleared
7 23 (5.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 20 (4.71%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (3.06%) Master's Degree
11 10 (2.35%) AWS Certified Developer
11 10 (2.35%) OSCP
12 7 (1.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (1.18%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.94%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.71%) CREST Certified
15 3 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
16 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
17 1 (0.24%) OCP
17 1 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.41%) GDPR
2 20 (4.71%) PCI DSS
3 19 (4.47%) NIST
4 12 (2.82%) SOC 2
5 10 (2.35%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.94%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.71%) QA
9 2 (0.47%) NCSC
10 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 177 (41.65%) Docker
2 5 (1.18%) KVM
2 5 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.71%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 285 (67.06%) Terraform
2 163 (38.35%) Kubernetes
3 75 (17.65%) Ansible
4 43 (10.12%) Prometheus
5 42 (9.88%) Grafana
6 38 (8.94%) Progress Chef
7 27 (6.35%) Puppet
8 25 (5.88%) HP Fortify
9 19 (4.47%) Argo
10 6 (1.41%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.18%) Istio
11 5 (1.18%) linkerd
11 5 (1.18%) Mesos
12 3 (0.71%) AWS Copilot
13 2 (0.47%) Rancher
13 2 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.24%) Consul
14 1 (0.24%) Fluentd
14 1 (0.24%) Packer
Vendors
1 28 (6.59%) Google
2 16 (3.76%) Microsoft
3 11 (2.59%) Oracle
4 8 (1.88%) OpenAI
5 7 (1.65%) HubSpot
6 6 (1.41%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.41%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.41%) Splunk
7 5 (1.18%) VMware
8 4 (0.94%) Avaya
8 4 (0.94%) Cisco
8 4 (0.94%) Genesys
8 4 (0.94%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.71%) Databricks
10 2 (0.47%) 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