AWS CloudFormation Job Trends in the South West

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 190 177
Rank change year-on-year +12 -13 +63
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 6 10 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.12% 0.23% 0.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.52% 0.72% 2.36%
Number of salaries quoted 6 9 14
10th Percentile £44,375 - £52,500
25th Percentile £50,938 £34,404 £52,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £45,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +52.78% -34.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £57,500 £76,563
90th Percentile £100,625 £67,500 £87,000
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 West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,165 1,384 1,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 23.22% 31.94% 41.40%
Number of salaries quoted 774 766 1,475
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £84,056
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 West

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

AWS CloudFormation job vacancy trend in the South West

AWS CloudFormation
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

AWS CloudFormation
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in the South West over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS CloudFormation in the South West

AWS CloudFormation
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 30 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
Bristol - 4 £68,750 - 7
Gloucestershire +15 2 £78,750 +75.00% 7
AWS CloudFormation
England

AWS CloudFormation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) Serverless
3 4 (66.67%) Azure
4 3 (50.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (50.00%) GitHub
5 2 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (33.33%) SaaS
5 2 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (16.67%) GCP
6 1 (16.67%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Billing
3 1 (16.67%) Electronics
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (16.67%) Marketing
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Express.js
1 1 (16.67%) NestJS
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
1 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Cost Management
4 2 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Runbook
4 2 (33.33%) SDLC
4 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) AI
5 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
5 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
5 1 (16.67%) Release Management
5 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Bash
2 4 (66.67%) Python
3 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (33.33%) Bicep
5 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) SAP