AWS CloudFormation Job Trends in the Midlands

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 204 232 205
Rank change year-on-year +28 -27 +70
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 15 14 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.19% 0.21% 0.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.53% 0.66% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 12 11 8
10th Percentile £46,250 £56,250 £58,490
25th Percentile £49,063 £62,500 £59,450
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £69,308 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.69% +2.68% -
75th Percentile £61,875 £73,947 £97,500
90th Percentile £77,661 £74,144 -
England median annual salary £73,801 £79,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -7.17% +6.00% -6.25%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,841 2,131 1,901
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 36.44% 31.90% 38.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,394 1,225 1,711
10th Percentile £27,930 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,375 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £79,560 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AWS CloudFormation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

AWS CloudFormation job vacancy trend in the Midlands

AWS CloudFormation
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing AWS CloudFormation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in the Midlands over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS CloudFormation in the Midlands

AWS CloudFormation
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS CloudFormation within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
West Midlands +36 13 £51,500 -25.69% 40
East Midlands -12 2 - - 27
AWS CloudFormation
England

AWS CloudFormation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (93.33%) AWS
2 8 (53.33%) Amazon EKS
2 8 (53.33%) Azure
3 6 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (33.33%) GitHub
4 5 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (33.33%) Serverless
5 4 (26.67%) Azure AKS
5 4 (26.67%) Datadog
5 4 (26.67%) PaaS
6 3 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
6 3 (20.00%) GCP
7 2 (13.33%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (13.33%) dbt
7 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
7 2 (13.33%) Pulumi
8 1 (6.67%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (13.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (26.67%) GitLab
3 2 (13.33%) SonarQube
4 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 3 (20.00%) Advertising
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Law
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) AWS DevOps
3 4 (26.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Architect
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Architect
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Specialist
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Site Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) ARM Templates
2 4 (26.67%) AWS CDK
3 2 (13.33%) Django
4 1 (6.67%) OAuth
4 1 (6.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) DevOps
2 13 (86.67%) CI/CD
3 11 (73.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (40.00%) Observability
4 6 (40.00%) Task Automation
5 4 (26.67%) RBAC
5 4 (26.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (26.67%) Runbook
5 4 (26.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) Agile
6 2 (13.33%) Clean Code
6 2 (13.33%) Incident Response
6 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (13.33%) SDLC
6 2 (13.33%) Secrets Management
6 2 (13.33%) Service-Level Objective
6 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) Bash
2 4 (26.67%) Bicep
2 4 (26.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (13.33%) Go
3 2 (13.33%) Java
3 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (73.33%) Terraform
2 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (13.33%) Ansible
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) LogicMonitor
2 4 (26.67%) SolarWinds
3 2 (13.33%) AppDynamics
3 2 (13.33%) Google