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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 264 284 244
Rank change year-on-year +20 -40 +81
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 12 23 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.12% 0.25% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.37% 0.76% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3 10 20
10th Percentile £70,250 £54,250 £58,750
25th Percentile £70,625 £60,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £61,250 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.37% -27.94% +30.77%
75th Percentile £101,875 £76,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £83,050 £95,250
England median annual salary £73,801 £79,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -7.17% +6.00% -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 3,219 3,034 2,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 31.04% 32.67% 33.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,727 1,658 2,136
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £29,302
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £39,380
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

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
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in the South East over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS CloudFormation in the South East

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 31 December 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
Thames Valley +10 6 £125,000 +108.33% 49
Berkshire +6 5 - - 34
Hampshire +34 2 - - 12
Surrey - 2 - - 14
West Sussex - 2 £71,250 - 4
Oxfordshire +18 1 £125,000 +92.31% 5
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 9 (75.00%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 6 (50.00%) GitHub
3 5 (41.67%) Amazon S3
3 5 (41.67%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (41.67%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (41.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 5 (41.67%) GCP
3 5 (41.67%) SaaS
3 5 (41.67%) Serverless
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (16.67%) Azure AKS
4 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) IaaS
4 2 (16.67%) OpenShift
4 2 (16.67%) PaaS
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (41.67%) DynamoDB
1 5 (41.67%) MySQL
1 5 (41.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) git-flow
2 4 (33.33%) GitLab
2 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (16.67%) JIRA
3 2 (16.67%) Robot Framework
3 2 (16.67%) Selenium
3 2 (16.67%) TestRail
General
1 9 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Aerospace
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Senior
2 5 (41.67%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Senior Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Manual Tester
3 2 (16.67%) Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) CloudOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead CloudOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior CloudOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) .NET
1 5 (41.67%) AWS CDK
1 5 (41.67%) CSS
1 5 (41.67%) Kafka
1 5 (41.67%) Material-UI
1 5 (41.67%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (41.67%) React
2 4 (33.33%) HTML
3 2 (16.67%) ARM Templates
3 2 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (8.33%) LangGraph
4 1 (8.33%) ModSecurity
4 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Cloud Native
1 7 (58.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (91.67%) DevOps
3 10 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (75.00%) Agile
5 6 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (41.67%) B2B
6 5 (41.67%) Data Modelling
6 5 (41.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (41.67%) Event-Driven
6 5 (41.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 5 (41.67%) Microservices
6 5 (41.67%) Software Delivery
7 4 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (25.00%) Cloud Security
8 3 (25.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) C#
1 5 (41.67%) Python
1 5 (41.67%) TypeScript
2 3 (25.00%) Bash
3 2 (16.67%) Bicep
3 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (8.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 2 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) QA
2 2 (16.67%) NIST
2 2 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Kubernetes
1 7 (58.33%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Grafana
2 2 (16.67%) Nessus
2 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (8.33%) Argo
3 1 (8.33%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft