AWS CloudFormation Job Trends in the South East

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 239 351
Rank change year-on-year -44 +112 -89
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 8 32 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.055% 0.41% 0.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.22% 1.54% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 4 9 26
10th Percentile - £46,500 £60,625
25th Percentile - £52,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -12.73% +5.77%
75th Percentile - £79,500 £95,000
90th Percentile - £98,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £76,588 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.12% - -6.25%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,686 2,079 5,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.55% 26.66% 30.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,224 1,309 4,001
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,600 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

AWS CloudFormation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AWS CloudFormation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

AWS CloudFormation job vacancy trend in the South East

AWS CloudFormation
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing AWS CloudFormation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS CloudFormation within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 May 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 Sussex -17 4 £70,000 -
Surrey -23 4 - -
AWS CloudFormation
England

AWS CloudFormation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 4 (50.00%) IaaS
1 4 (50.00%) OpenShift
1 4 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) GitLab
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (50.00%) Aerospace
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) CloudOps Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior CloudOps Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
2 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 4 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (50.00%) FinOps
2 4 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 4 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (50.00%) RBAC
2 4 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 4 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 4 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Bicep
1 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) NIST
1 4 (50.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft