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 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 213 267
Rank change year-on-year 0 +54 +14
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 22 15 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.24% 0.27% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.69% 0.79% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 15 12 11
10th Percentile £44,000 £56,875 £56,250
25th Percentile £47,375 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £68,467 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.97% +1.43% +3.85%
75th Percentile £56,125 £73,849 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,274 £74,144 £95,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -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 3,196 1,905 3,150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 34.39% 33.98% 35.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,530 1,205 2,769
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,058 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £64,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 1 March 2026.

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 1 March 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
West Midlands +24 15 £50,000 -27.86% 8
East Midlands -31 7 £75,000 +15.38% 12
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 22 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (63.64%) Serverless
3 10 (45.45%) Amazon EKS
3 10 (45.45%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (40.91%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (27.27%) Azure
6 4 (18.18%) AWS CodePipeline
6 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (18.18%) GitHub
6 4 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (18.18%) PaaS
7 3 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
7 3 (13.64%) Azure AKS
7 3 (13.64%) Datadog
7 3 (13.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (9.09%) dbt
8 2 (9.09%) GCP
8 2 (9.09%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (54.55%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (9.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (22.73%) GitLab
3 3 (13.64%) Git
4 2 (9.09%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (27.27%) Advertising
2 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Banking
3 3 (13.64%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (31.82%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (27.27%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (18.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior
6 2 (9.09%) Technical Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Architect
7 1 (4.55%) AWS Architect
7 1 (4.55%) AWS Specialist
7 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Site Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (50.00%) AWS CDK
2 4 (18.18%) ARM Templates
2 4 (18.18%) Next.js
2 4 (18.18%) React
3 2 (9.09%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (13.64%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) Infrastructure as Code
2 18 (81.82%) DevOps
3 14 (63.64%) CI/CD
4 12 (54.55%) Observability
5 6 (27.27%) Agile
5 6 (27.27%) Clean Code
5 6 (27.27%) Task Automation
5 6 (27.27%) Test Automation
6 5 (22.73%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (22.73%) Mentoring
6 5 (22.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (18.18%) Decision-Making
7 4 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
7 4 (18.18%) Personalization
7 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (18.18%) Re-Platforming
7 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) TypeScript
2 5 (22.73%) Python
3 3 (13.64%) Bash
3 3 (13.64%) Bicep
3 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
4 2 (9.09%) Go
4 2 (9.09%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) AWS Certification
1 5 (22.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (13.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (50.00%) Terraform
2 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
3 3 (13.64%) Ansible
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (4.55%) Grafana
4 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) LogicMonitor
2 3 (13.64%) SolarWinds
3 2 (9.09%) AppDynamics
3 2 (9.09%) Google