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 citing AWS CloudFormation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 31 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	268	208	247
Rank change year-on-year	-60	+39	-36
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation	18	13	19
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands	0.11%	0.23%	0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category	0.58%	0.80%	0.81%
Number of salaries quoted	14	10	19
10^th Percentile	£48,750	£50,750	£64,471
25^th Percentile	£50,000	£50,875	£71,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£63,750	£60,000	£72,500
Median % change year-on-year	+6.25%	-17.24%	+3.57%
75^th Percentile	£75,802	£75,967	£74,572
90^th Percentile	£76,197	£80,661	£79,000
England median annual salary	£77,500	£75,000	£72,500
% change year-on-year	+3.33%	+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 citing cloud computing skills in the Midlands.

	6 months to 31 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing cloud computing skills	3,080	1,628	2,345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands	19.28%	29.09%	26.38%
Number of salaries quoted	2,209	1,287	1,381
10^th Percentile	£30,750	£26,500	£32,500
25^th Percentile	£40,500	£32,125	£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	£69,500
90^th Percentile	£87,500	£80,000	£79,600
England median annual salary	£62,500	£57,500	£65,000
% change year-on-year	+8.70%	-11.54%	+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 31 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 31 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
West Midlands	-51	10	£67,153	+11.92%	2
East Midlands	-35	8	£52,500	-	1
AWS CloudFormation England

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 citing AWS CloudFormation.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Infrastructure as Code	100.0%	18
2	AWS	88.9%	16
2	CI/CD	88.9%	16
2	Terraform	88.9%	16
5	Python	66.7%	12
6	DevOps	61.1%	11
7	Serverless	50.0%	9
8	Agile	44.4%	8
8	Amazon S3	44.4%	8
10	AWS Lambda	38.9%	7
10	Observability	38.9%	7
10	Software Engineering	38.9%	7
13	AWS Step Functions	33.3%	6
13	Continuous Improvement	33.3%	6
15	AWS Certification	27.8%	5
15	Azure	27.8%	5
15	Clean Code	27.8%	5
15	Data Engineering	27.8%	5
15	GCP	27.8%	5
15	Mentoring	27.8%	5
15	Site Reliability Engineering	27.8%	5
22	Amazon EC2	22.2%	4
22	Amazon ECS	22.2%	4
22	API Design	22.2%	4
22	AWS CDK	22.2%	4
22	Collaborative Working	22.2%	4
22	Containerisation	22.2%	4
22	Decision-Making	22.2%	4
22	Google	22.2%	4
22	Kubernetes	22.2%	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	88.9%	16
2	Serverless	50.0%	9
3	Amazon S3	44.4%	8
4	AWS Lambda	38.9%	7
5	AWS Step Functions	33.3%	6
6	Azure	27.8%	5
6	GCP	27.8%	5
8	Amazon EC2	22.2%	4
8	Amazon ECS	22.2%	4
10	GitHub	16.7%	3
10	Slack	16.7%	3
12	Amazon CloudWatch	11.1%	2
12	Amazon EKS	11.1%	2
12	Amazon EMR	11.1%	2
12	Azure Monitor	11.1%	2
12	Collibra	11.1%	2
12	dbt	11.1%	2
12	GitHub Actions	11.1%	2
12	Microsoft Purview	11.1%	2
12	Snowflake	11.1%	2