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 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 217 256 219
Rank change year-on-year +39 -37 +75
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 13 19 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.23% 0.21% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.82% 0.80% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 10 19 12
10th Percentile £50,750 £64,471 £59,450
25th Percentile £50,875 £71,250 £62,675
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +3.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £75,967 £74,572 £76,563
90th Percentile £80,661 £79,000 £95,875
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -6.25%

All Cloud 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 1,582 2,368 2,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 28.57% 26.29% 38.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,252 1,388 1,760
10th Percentile £26,875 £32,500 £30,450
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £59,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.23% +4.00% -2.34%

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 23 October 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 23 October 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 +37 11 £60,000 -17.24% 14
East Midlands +8 2 - - 1
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 11 (84.62%) AWS
2 10 (76.92%) Azure
3 5 (38.46%) GCP
3 5 (38.46%) GitHub
3 5 (38.46%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) PaaS
5 3 (23.08%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (23.08%) Azure AKS
5 3 (23.08%) Datadog
6 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (15.38%) dbt
6 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
6 2 (15.38%) Pulumi
6 2 (15.38%) SaaS
7 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (15.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) GitLab
2 2 (15.38%) SonarQube
3 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
1 2 (15.38%) Law
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) AWS DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Architect
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Specialist
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Site Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) ARM Templates
2 3 (23.08%) OAuth
2 3 (23.08%) SAML
3 2 (15.38%) Django
4 1 (7.69%) .NET
4 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) CI/CD
1 12 (92.31%) DevOps
2 9 (69.23%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (38.46%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (30.77%) Observability
5 3 (23.08%) Agile
5 3 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (23.08%) RBAC
5 3 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (23.08%) Runbook
5 3 (23.08%) Task Automation
6 2 (15.38%) Migration
6 2 (15.38%) SDLC
6 2 (15.38%) Service-Level Objective
6 2 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) TDD
6 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) Bash
2 3 (23.08%) Bicep
2 3 (23.08%) Go
2 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
3 2 (15.38%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) Groovy
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Certification
2 3 (23.08%) Azure Certification
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) NIST
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (23.08%) Ansible
3 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) Google
2 3 (23.08%) LogicMonitor
2 3 (23.08%) SolarWinds
3 2 (15.38%) AppDynamics
4 1 (7.69%) Rapid7