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

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	259	208	254
Rank change year-on-year	-51	+46	-38
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation	21	12	20
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands	0.13%	0.22%	0.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category	0.67%	0.75%	0.84%
Number of salaries quoted	15	10	20
10^th Percentile	£48,750	£50,750	£64,471
25^th Percentile	£51,250	£50,875	£71,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£62,500	£60,000	£72,500
Median % change year-on-year	+4.17%	-17.24%	+3.57%
75^th Percentile	£75,530	£75,967	£74,358
90^th Percentile	£76,180	£80,661	£78,875
England median annual salary	£78,750	£75,000	£72,500
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	+3.45%	-3.33%

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.

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills	3,129	1,593	2,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands	19.76%	28.88%	26.09%
Number of salaries quoted	2,232	1,267	1,399
10^th Percentile	£30,500	£26,500	£32,500
25^th Percentile	£40,500	£31,500	£40,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£55,000	£50,000	£55,000
Median % change year-on-year	+10.00%	-9.09%	+4.76%
75^th Percentile	£70,000	£67,500	£70,000
90^th Percentile	£88,148	£80,000	£80,000
England median annual salary	£63,000	£59,000	£65,000
% change year-on-year	+6.78%	-9.23%	+4.00%

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 Salary Trend in the Midlands

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 17 October 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 17 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
West Midlands	-45	11	£65,000	+8.33%	12
East Midlands	-24	10	£52,500	-	10
AWS CloudFormation England

AWS CloudFormation Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 17 October 2026, job vacancies citing AWS CloudFormation also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Midlands region with a requirement for AWS CloudFormation.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Infrastructure as Code	100.0%	21
2	AWS	90.5%	19
3	CI/CD	81.0%	17
3	Terraform	81.0%	17
5	Python	61.9%	13
6	DevOps	57.1%	12
7	Serverless	52.4%	11
8	Agile	47.6%	10
8	Observability	47.6%	10
10	Amazon S3	38.1%	8
10	Continuous Improvement	38.1%	8
12	AWS Lambda	33.3%	7
12	Clean Code	33.3%	7
12	Collaborative Working	33.3%	7
12	Mentoring	33.3%	7
12	Software Engineering	33.3%	7
17	AWS CDK	28.6%	6
17	AWS Step Functions	28.6%	6
17	Azure	28.6%	6
17	Decision-Making	28.6%	6
17	GCP	28.6%	6
17	Site Reliability Engineering	28.6%	6
17	Test Automation	28.6%	6
24	Amazon ECS	23.8%	5
24	AWS Certification	23.8%	5
24	Data Engineering	23.8%	5
24	React	23.8%	5
24	TypeScript	23.8%	5
29	Amazon EC2	19.0%	4
29	API Design	19.0%	4

AWS CloudFormation Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AWS	90.5%	19
2	Serverless	52.4%	11
3	Amazon S3	38.1%	8
4	AWS Lambda	33.3%	7
5	AWS Step Functions	28.6%	6
5	Azure	28.6%	6
5	GCP	28.6%	6
8	Amazon ECS	23.8%	5
9	Amazon EC2	19.0%	4
10	Amazon EKS	14.3%	3
10	GitHub	14.3%	3
10	Slack	14.3%	3
13	Amazon CloudWatch	9.5%	2
13	Amazon EMR	9.5%	2
13	Azure AKS	9.5%	2
13	Azure DevOps	9.5%	2
13	Azure Monitor	9.5%	2
13	Collibra	9.5%	2
13	dbt	9.5%	2
13	GitHub Actions	9.5%	2