AWS CloudFormation Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Amazon AWS CloudFormation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring AWS CloudFormation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 417 570
Rank change year-on-year +15 +153 -183
Permanent jobs citing AWS CloudFormation 184 111 174
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.39% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.02% 1.27% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 91 59 122
10th Percentile £48,750 £49,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,875 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £69,384 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.49% +2.79% -10.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £88,750 £82,938
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.25%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 18,041 8,739 22,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.44% 30.41% 32.98%
Number of salaries quoted 9,338 6,025 17,390
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,925 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,238 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK 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 UK excluding London

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

AWS CloudFormation job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

AWS CloudFormation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS CloudFormation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS CloudFormation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS CloudFormation in the UK excluding London

AWS CloudFormation
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS CloudFormation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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
North of England +55 126 £75,000 +8.09% 30
Yorkshire +31 93 £75,000 - 12
North West +5 31 £80,000 +15.30% 13
Midlands -15 29 £50,000 -28.64% 9
East Midlands -12 16 £52,500 -23.64% 7
West Midlands -20 13 £50,000 -38.51% 2
South West -47 10 £72,500 -14.71% 11
South East -45 8 £70,000 +16.67% 8
Scotland -6 4 £76,783 +39.60% 3
Northern Ireland - 4 £95,000 - 1
East of England -26 2 £82,500 -2.94%
North East -38 2 £65,576 -5.49% 5
Wales -34 1 £73,801 +16.68%
AWS CloudFormation
UK

AWS CloudFormation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (4.89%) Apache
2 6 (3.26%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.63%) JBoss
4 2 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.54%) Confluence
5 1 (0.54%) Drupal
5 1 (0.54%) IIS
5 1 (0.54%) nginx
5 1 (0.54%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 171 (92.93%) AWS
2 127 (69.02%) Serverless
3 115 (62.50%) AWS Lambda
4 97 (52.72%) Amazon ECS
5 94 (51.09%) Amazon S3
6 75 (40.76%) AWS Step Functions
7 50 (27.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 45 (24.46%) Amazon ECR
9 43 (23.37%) GitHub
10 41 (22.28%) Apigee
10 41 (22.28%) Azure
11 39 (21.20%) Amazon SQS
12 36 (19.57%) Amazon EKS
13 34 (18.48%) GitHub Actions
14 29 (15.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 21 (11.41%) Datadog
15 21 (11.41%) GCP
16 20 (10.87%) Amazon EC2
17 17 (9.24%) Azure DevOps
18 16 (8.70%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.26%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.72%) AMQP
3 4 (2.17%) VPN
4 2 (1.09%) DNS
4 2 (1.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 34 (18.48%) NoSQL
3 26 (14.13%) Amazon RDS
4 25 (13.59%) Amazon Athena
5 18 (9.78%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (4.89%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (4.35%) SQL Server
8 6 (3.26%) Big Data
9 5 (2.72%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (2.72%) Hadoop
9 5 (2.72%) Redis
10 4 (2.17%) Flink
10 4 (2.17%) MongoDB
10 4 (2.17%) MySQL
11 3 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.09%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.54%) Electronic Patient Records
13 1 (0.54%) InterSystems Cache
13 1 (0.54%) Power BI
13 1 (0.54%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 82 (44.57%) Jenkins
2 63 (34.24%) GitLab
3 42 (22.83%) Cypress.io
4 40 (21.74%) Maven
5 39 (21.20%) SonarQube
6 32 (17.39%) Git
7 4 (2.17%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.17%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.63%) Selenium
9 2 (1.09%) JIRA
10 1 (0.54%) Gatling
10 1 (0.54%) JMeter
10 1 (0.54%) MLflow
10 1 (0.54%) Vagrant
General
1 42 (22.83%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.24%) Finance
3 8 (4.35%) Aerospace
4 6 (3.26%) Advertising
4 6 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.17%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.63%) Banking
6 3 (1.63%) Billing
6 3 (1.63%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.54%) Games
7 1 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (43.48%) Developer
2 59 (32.07%) Java Developer
3 34 (18.48%) Senior
4 23 (12.50%) AWS Developer
5 22 (11.96%) Lead
6 21 (11.41%) Cloud Engineer
7 18 (9.78%) Senior Developer
8 17 (9.24%) DevOps Engineer
9 16 (8.70%) Senior Java Developer
10 15 (8.15%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (7.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 11 (5.98%) Software Engineer
13 10 (5.43%) AWS Engineer
14 9 (4.89%) .NET Developer
14 9 (4.89%) Lead Developer
15 8 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
16 7 (3.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 6 (3.26%) Azure Engineer
17 6 (3.26%) Integration Engineer
17 6 (3.26%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (41.30%) AngularJS
2 59 (32.07%) Spring Boot
3 47 (25.54%) Node.js
4 41 (22.28%) Gherkin
5 40 (21.74%) Jest
6 33 (17.93%) AWS CDK
7 32 (17.39%) React
8 30 (16.30%) Spring
9 16 (8.70%) Next.js
9 16 (8.70%) RESTful
10 12 (6.52%) Kafka
11 10 (5.43%) .NET
12 9 (4.89%) .NET Core
12 9 (4.89%) ASP.NET
12 9 (4.89%) ASP.NET Core
12 9 (4.89%) Blazor
12 9 (4.89%) REST
13 7 (3.80%) ARM Templates
13 7 (3.80%) Web Services
14 6 (3.26%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 34 (18.48%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.07%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.52%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (4.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.26%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (3.26%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (2.17%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.63%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.54%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.54%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (16.30%) Linux
2 5 (2.72%) CentOS
2 5 (2.72%) Debian
2 5 (2.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (2.72%) Ubuntu
3 4 (2.17%) Unix
4 1 (0.54%) Windows
4 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (67.39%) CI/CD
2 118 (64.13%) DevOps
3 101 (54.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 91 (49.46%) Agile
5 52 (28.26%) Containerisation
6 38 (20.65%) Mentoring
7 35 (19.02%) Observability
8 34 (18.48%) Full-Stack Development
8 34 (18.48%) Microservices
9 33 (17.93%) Clean Code
10 32 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (16.85%) ITIL
12 30 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (15.76%) Secure Coding
14 28 (15.22%) SDLC
15 27 (14.67%) Platform Engineering
16 26 (14.13%) Software Engineering
17 25 (13.59%) Continuous Integration
18 24 (13.04%) Collaborative Working
18 24 (13.04%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 96 (52.17%) Java
2 87 (47.28%) TypeScript
3 57 (30.98%) Python
4 49 (26.63%) Groovy
5 47 (25.54%) Bash
6 44 (23.91%) SQL
7 27 (14.67%) Kotlin
8 19 (10.33%) JavaScript
9 11 (5.98%) PowerShell
10 8 (4.35%) Bicep
11 5 (2.72%) C#
12 4 (2.17%) Go
13 2 (1.09%) PHP
14 1 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 46 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 32 (17.39%) Security Cleared
3 27 (14.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 23 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
5 22 (11.96%) SC Cleared
6 16 (8.70%) AWS Certified Developer
7 9 (4.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (3.80%) Degree
9 6 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (3.26%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.09%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.09%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.54%) CISM
12 1 (0.54%) CISSP
12 1 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.54%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.72%) NIST
2 4 (2.17%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.17%) PCI DSS
2 4 (2.17%) QA
3 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.54%) NCSC
3 1 (0.54%) SOC 2
System Software
1 105 (57.07%) Docker
2 1 (0.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 91 (49.46%) Terraform
2 52 (28.26%) Kubernetes
3 39 (21.20%) HP Fortify
4 25 (13.59%) Ansible
5 8 (4.35%) Progress Chef
6 6 (3.26%) Grafana
6 6 (3.26%) Puppet
7 4 (2.17%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (2.17%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.17%) Rancher
8 1 (0.54%) Argo
8 1 (0.54%) Consul
8 1 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.54%) Istio
8 1 (0.54%) linkerd
8 1 (0.54%) Mesos
8 1 (0.54%) Packer
Vendors
1 11 (5.98%) Google
2 9 (4.89%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.26%) HubSpot
4 5 (2.72%) Red Hat
4 5 (2.72%) SaltStack
5 3 (1.63%) Databricks
6 2 (1.09%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (1.09%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.54%) TOWER Software