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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 212 252 221
Rank change year-on-year +40 -31 +90
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 11 35 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.20% 0.35% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.66% 1.31% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 7 30 14
10th Percentile £50,750 £50,000 £59,450
25th Percentile £51,000 £63,750 £61,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £79,500 £78,750 £92,625
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -9.68% -

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 1,673 2,671 2,109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 29.91% 26.64% 36.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,328 1,713 1,796
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £39,215
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,250 £68,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.08% +4.00%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing AWS CloudFormation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for AWS CloudFormation 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +43 8 £55,000 -24.14% 5
East Midlands +8 3 - - 5
AWS CloudFormation
England

AWS CloudFormation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) AWS
2 8 (72.73%) Azure
3 4 (36.36%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (27.27%) GCP
4 3 (27.27%) GitHub
4 3 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (18.18%) Azure AKS
5 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (18.18%) Datadog
5 2 (18.18%) OpenShift
5 2 (18.18%) PaaS
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
6 1 (9.09%) Azure API Management
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (9.09%) SaaS
6 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) GitLab
2 2 (18.18%) SonarQube
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (18.18%) Law
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Software Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Administrator
5 1 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Administrator
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) .NET
1 3 (27.27%) OAuth
1 3 (27.27%) SAML
2 2 (18.18%) ARM Templates
2 2 (18.18%) Node.js
2 2 (18.18%) Pandas
3 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cyberattack
1 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Android
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 8 (72.73%) DevOps
3 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (45.45%) Agile
5 4 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Management
6 3 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (27.27%) Secure Coding
6 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
7 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
7 2 (18.18%) Design Patterns
7 2 (18.18%) Mathematics
7 2 (18.18%) Observability
7 2 (18.18%) OO
7 2 (18.18%) OOP
7 2 (18.18%) RBAC
7 2 (18.18%) Statistics
7 2 (18.18%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 5 (45.45%) Go
3 4 (36.36%) Java
4 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
5 2 (18.18%) Bash
5 2 (18.18%) Bicep
5 2 (18.18%) C++
5 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
5 2 (18.18%) Rust
6 1 (9.09%) C#
6 1 (9.09%) Groovy
6 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
2 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Terraform
2 5 (45.45%) Ansible
3 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) AppDynamics
2 2 (18.18%) LogicMonitor
2 2 (18.18%) SolarWinds
3 1 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) Rapid7