CloudFront Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon CloudFront
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for CloudFront skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CloudFront over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 443 474
Rank change year-on-year +74 +31 -70
Contract jobs citing CloudFront 16 13 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.055% 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.30% 0.17% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 16
10th Percentile £486 £499 -
25th Percentile £513 £502 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year +3.43% +7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £675 £597 £538
90th Percentile - £600 £557
UK median daily rate £511 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.62% -3.67% +5.06%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

CloudFront is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,280 7,819 9,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.73% 33.27% 32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,735 5,787 7,266
10th Percentile £213 £250 £207
25th Percentile £368 £406 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 227 282
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.69 £25.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.24% +31.58% -3.80%
75th Percentile £26.50 £65.00 £25.19
90th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +59.09% -2.22%

CloudFront
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing CloudFront as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for CloudFront in the UK excluding London

CloudFront
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CloudFront in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for CloudFront in the UK excluding London

CloudFront
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CloudFront in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CloudFront in the UK excluding London

CloudFront
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CloudFront within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East - 5 £530 - 2
West Midlands - 5 £650 -
Midlands - 5 £650 -
Scotland +42 3 £498 -0.50%
East of England +6 2 £650 +13.04% 1
North West +23 1 £525 - 2
North of England +21 1 £525 -6.67% 4
CloudFront
UK

CloudFront
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) Apache
1 2 (12.50%) nginx
1 2 (12.50%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (62.50%) Amazon S3
3 9 (56.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 7 (43.75%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (31.25%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (31.25%) Azure
5 5 (31.25%) Entra ID
5 5 (31.25%) Serverless
6 4 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (25.00%) Route 53
7 3 (18.75%) npm
8 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (12.50%) Datadog
8 2 (12.50%) Fastly
8 2 (12.50%) GitHub
9 1 (6.25%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (6.25%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) DNS
2 5 (31.25%) Network Security
2 5 (31.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (62.50%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) webpack
2 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 2 (12.50%) Git
3 1 (6.25%) GitLab
General
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
1 5 (31.25%) Retail
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Applications Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Security Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Lead
4 3 (18.75%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Technical Leader
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (12.50%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 1 (6.25%) Architect
6 1 (6.25%) AWS Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (50.00%) OAuth
2 5 (31.25%) OAuth2
2 5 (31.25%) SAML
3 4 (25.00%) GraphQL
3 4 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (18.75%) CSS
4 3 (18.75%) HTML
4 3 (18.75%) Node.js
4 3 (18.75%) React
4 3 (18.75%) REST
5 2 (12.50%) Django
5 2 (12.50%) HornetQ
5 2 (12.50%) LDAP
5 2 (12.50%) VCL
6 1 (6.25%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Windows
2 6 (37.50%) Linux
3 3 (18.75%) Debian
3 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (6.25%) CentOS
4 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) CI/CD
2 5 (31.25%) Application Security
2 5 (31.25%) Cloud Security
2 5 (31.25%) Data Security
2 5 (31.25%) Defensive Programming
2 5 (31.25%) DevOps
2 5 (31.25%) DevSecOps
2 5 (31.25%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (31.25%) Incident Response
2 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Management
2 5 (31.25%) Penetration Testing
2 5 (31.25%) Task Automation
2 5 (31.25%) The Twelve-Factor App
3 3 (18.75%) Full Stack Development
3 3 (18.75%) Scrum
3 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
4 2 (12.50%) Decision-Making
4 2 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (6.25%) Containerisation
5 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Bash
1 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
1 3 (18.75%) Python
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
1 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
2 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Docker
2 7 (43.75%) Active Directory
3 3 (18.75%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (12.50%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Ansible
1 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) HAProxy
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Red Hat
2 2 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (6.25%) Splunk