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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 439 533
Rank change year-on-year +58 +94 -173
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 454 202 218
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 0.47% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.89% 1.45% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 213 113 154
10th Percentile £46,650 £52,500 £50,507
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +3.45% -6.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £89,375
90th Percentile £105,000 £104,250 £114,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -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 23,975 13,970 21,471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 23.04% 32.20% 32.36%
Number of salaries quoted 16,800 9,704 13,297
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,447 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.13% -7.69% +2.93%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.76% +0.80%

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 4 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 4 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 +51 233 £90,000 +10.43% 192
North of England +34 139 £71,991 +12.93% 75
Yorkshire +18 82 £75,000 +7.14% 20
North West -1 40 £72,500 +20.83% 41
South West -42 33 £67,500 -25.00% 23
Midlands -34 22 £62,250 +15.81% 31
South East -52 21 £70,000 -20.00% 32
North East - 20 £50,000 - 14
East Midlands -36 12 £52,500 - 13
West Midlands -38 10 £63,750 +18.60% 18
East of England -49 1 £90,000 +20.00% 8
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 19 (4.19%) Apache
2 12 (2.64%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.98%) Confluence
4 7 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.10%) nginx
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.44%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.44%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.88%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.44%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 3 (0.66%) 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
1 433 (95.37%) AWS
2 218 (48.02%) Serverless
3 155 (34.14%) AWS Lambda
4 120 (26.43%) Amazon ECS
5 119 (26.21%) Azure
6 113 (24.89%) Amazon S3
7 95 (20.93%) GitHub
8 89 (19.60%) GCP
9 73 (16.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 70 (15.42%) Amazon EC2
11 67 (14.76%) GitHub Actions
12 63 (13.88%) Amazon EKS
13 59 (13.00%) AWS Step Functions
14 47 (10.35%) Cloud Computing
15 39 (8.59%) Datadog
16 36 (7.93%) PaaS
17 32 (7.05%) OpenShift
18 29 (6.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 28 (6.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
20 26 (5.73%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.96%) Network Security
2 15 (3.30%) VPN
3 14 (3.08%) TCP/IP
4 11 (2.42%) Firewall
5 8 (1.76%) DNS
6 7 (1.54%) AMQP
7 6 (1.32%) HTTP
8 5 (1.10%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.66%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.44%) MQTT
11 1 (0.22%) 4G
11 1 (0.22%) 5G
11 1 (0.22%) DHCP
11 1 (0.22%) DNSSEC
11 1 (0.22%) Internet
11 1 (0.22%) PSTN
11 1 (0.22%) SCCP
11 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (17.40%) NoSQL
2 69 (15.20%) DynamoDB
3 47 (10.35%) Amazon RDS
4 27 (5.95%) Amazon Athena
5 14 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (1.98%) Big Data
8 9 (1.98%) Hadoop
8 9 (1.98%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.54%) Cloudera CDH
9 7 (1.54%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.32%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.32%) MySQL
11 5 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (1.10%) Metadata
11 5 (1.10%) Redis
12 4 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.88%) Power BI
13 3 (0.66%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 109 (24.01%) GitLab
2 106 (23.35%) Jenkins
3 71 (15.64%) Git
4 45 (9.91%) Cucumber
5 19 (4.19%) Cypress.io
6 18 (3.96%) Maven
7 17 (3.74%) SonarQube
8 11 (2.42%) Bitbucket
8 11 (2.42%) JIRA
9 9 (1.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 7 (1.54%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.32%) CircleCI
12 5 (1.10%) Snyk
12 5 (1.10%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.88%) Gradle
14 3 (0.66%) JUnit
14 3 (0.66%) NUnit
14 3 (0.66%) Postman
14 3 (0.66%) Selenium
15 2 (0.44%) Flyway
General
1 129 (28.41%) Finance
2 109 (24.01%) Social Skills
3 47 (10.35%) Public Sector
4 41 (9.03%) Banking
5 23 (5.07%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (4.41%) Financial Institution
7 16 (3.52%) Law
8 13 (2.86%) Aerospace
8 13 (2.86%) Legal
9 11 (2.42%) Military
10 8 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.32%) Retail
12 4 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.88%) Local Government
12 4 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.88%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.66%) Automotive
13 3 (0.66%) Marketing
13 3 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.66%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 119 (26.21%) Senior
2 88 (19.38%) Cloud Engineer
3 74 (16.30%) Developer
4 69 (15.20%) DevOps Engineer
5 53 (11.67%) AWS Engineer
6 51 (11.23%) Java Engineer
7 45 (9.91%) Java Developer
8 39 (8.59%) Consultant
9 35 (7.71%) Lead
10 33 (7.27%) Senior Consultant
11 29 (6.39%) Platform Engineer
12 27 (5.95%) Architect
13 26 (5.73%) Principal Engineer
13 26 (5.73%) Software Engineer
14 25 (5.51%) Principal Java Engineer
15 24 (5.29%) Cloud Native Engineer
15 24 (5.29%) Full-Stack Developer
16 23 (5.07%) AWS Developer
17 19 (4.19%) Senior Java Engineer
17 19 (4.19%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 321 (70.70%) Terraform
2 95 (20.93%) Spring Boot
3 87 (19.16%) Spring
4 69 (15.20%) Kafka
5 68 (14.98%) Node.js
6 66 (14.54%) AngularJS
7 44 (9.69%) AWS CDK
8 34 (7.49%) React
9 28 (6.17%) RESTful
10 25 (5.51%) Web Services
11 24 (5.29%) REST
12 20 (4.41%) Gherkin
13 16 (3.52%) RabbitMQ
14 15 (3.30%) gRPC
14 15 (3.30%) Jest
15 13 (2.86%) JSON
16 12 (2.64%) ARM Templates
17 11 (2.42%) OpenAPI
17 11 (2.42%) YAML
18 10 (2.20%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 172 (37.89%) Cloud Native
2 69 (15.20%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (13.00%) Public Cloud
4 52 (11.45%) Onboarding
5 44 (9.69%) e-Learning
6 37 (8.15%) Enterprise Cloud
7 29 (6.39%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (4.85%) Data Centre
8 22 (4.85%) Hybrid Cloud
9 19 (4.19%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (3.52%) Linux Command Line
11 13 (2.86%) Distributed Computing
11 13 (2.86%) Mainframe
12 10 (2.20%) Blog
13 8 (1.76%) Legacy Applications
14 7 (1.54%) AI Agents
14 7 (1.54%) Clustering
14 7 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
15 6 (1.32%) Blockchain
15 6 (1.32%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 80 (17.62%) Linux
2 18 (3.96%) Windows
3 12 (2.64%) Unix
4 10 (2.20%) Ubuntu
5 8 (1.76%) CentOS
5 8 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.54%) Debian
7 5 (1.10%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.44%) VMS
9 1 (0.22%) Android
9 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (74.89%) Infrastructure as Code
2 300 (66.08%) CI/CD
3 247 (54.41%) DevOps
4 206 (45.37%) Agile
5 134 (29.52%) Containerisation
6 104 (22.91%) Mentoring
6 104 (22.91%) Test Automation
7 103 (22.69%) Microservices
8 102 (22.47%) Continuous Improvement
9 100 (22.03%) Software Engineering
10 92 (20.26%) Problem-Solving
11 87 (19.16%) Observability
12 83 (18.28%) Cloud Security
13 77 (16.96%) Event-Driven
14 74 (16.30%) Migration
15 70 (15.42%) AI
16 61 (13.44%) Platform Engineering
17 59 (13.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 55 (12.11%) Collaborative Culture
19 52 (11.45%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 207 (45.59%) Python
2 152 (33.48%) Java
3 95 (20.93%) SQL
4 78 (17.18%) Bash
5 65 (14.32%) TypeScript
6 41 (9.03%) Groovy
7 35 (7.71%) PowerShell
8 32 (7.05%) Go
9 31 (6.83%) Kotlin
10 30 (6.61%) JavaScript
11 20 (4.41%) Bicep
12 18 (3.96%) Ruby
13 15 (3.30%) Perl
13 15 (3.30%) PHP
14 14 (3.08%) C#
15 5 (1.10%) C++
16 4 (0.88%) Google Apps Script
17 2 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 154 (33.92%) Security Cleared
2 117 (25.77%) AWS Certification
3 94 (20.70%) SC Cleared
4 75 (16.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 38 (8.37%) DV Cleared
6 35 (7.71%) Degree
7 19 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (2.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (2.42%) Master's Degree
10 10 (2.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 10 (2.20%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (1.76%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.88%) OCP
12 4 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.66%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (8.15%) GDPR
2 14 (3.08%) NIST
3 13 (2.86%) PCI DSS
4 8 (1.76%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.10%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.10%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.88%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.66%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.66%) NCSC
7 3 (0.66%) QA
8 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 177 (38.99%) Docker
2 5 (1.10%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.10%) KVM
2 5 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 169 (37.22%) Kubernetes
2 97 (21.37%) Ansible
3 51 (11.23%) Progress Chef
4 41 (9.03%) Grafana
5 36 (7.93%) Puppet
6 35 (7.71%) Prometheus
7 20 (4.41%) Argo
8 11 (2.42%) HP Fortify
9 8 (1.76%) Istio
10 6 (1.32%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (1.32%) linkerd
10 6 (1.32%) Mesos
10 6 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.66%) Rancher
13 2 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 2 (0.44%) Oracle RMAN
14 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
14 1 (0.22%) Kibana
Vendors
1 32 (7.05%) Google
2 18 (3.96%) Microsoft
3 14 (3.08%) Oracle
4 13 (2.86%) Red Hat
5 9 (1.98%) OpenAI
6 8 (1.76%) Databricks
7 7 (1.54%) SaltStack
7 7 (1.54%) Splunk
8 6 (1.32%) AppDynamics
8 6 (1.32%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.32%) VMware
9 5 (1.10%) Cisco
9 5 (1.10%) HubSpot
10 4 (0.88%) Avaya
10 4 (0.88%) Genesys
11 3 (0.66%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.44%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.44%) Informatica
13 1 (0.22%) Sparx
13 1 (0.22%) YouTube