Cloudflare Contracts

Cloudflare, Inc
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Cloudflare skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloudflare over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 689 835
Rank change year-on-year +127 +146 -159
Contract jobs citing Cloudflare 36 30 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.083% 0.050% 0.016%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.26% 0.14% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 27 8
10th Percentile £422 £440 £386
25th Percentile £450 £500 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% +2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £628 £659
90th Percentile £755 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £563 -
% change year-on-year -2.22% - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,989 22,053 34,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 36.87% 38.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,925 15,944 24,923
10th Percentile £300 £325 £353
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 355 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.39
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%

Cloudflare
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cloudflare as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloudflare in the UK

Cloudflare
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloudflare.

Daily rate trend for Cloudflare in the UK

Cloudflare
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloudflare over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloudflare in the UK

Cloudflare
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloudflare within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +134 31 £520 -7.56% 17
UK excluding London +76 21 £550 -2.22% 7
North of England +44 18 £545 -0.91% 1
Yorkshire - 18 £545 -
Work from Home +133 14 £600 +2.13% 12
London +96 9 £450 -18.18% 13
South East +27 2 £739 +13.65% 2
Wales - 1 £363 - 3

Cloudflare
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (19.44%) Apache
1 7 (19.44%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 25 (69.44%) Azure
2 17 (47.22%) Akamai
3 9 (25.00%) AWS
4 6 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (11.11%) Entra ID
6 3 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.78%) GCP
7 1 (2.78%) GitHub
7 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.78%) Nutanix
7 1 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (38.89%) DNS
2 10 (27.78%) Firewall
3 7 (19.44%) Network Security
3 7 (19.44%) SMTP
3 7 (19.44%) VPN
4 6 (16.67%) WAN
5 5 (13.89%) MPLS
5 5 (13.89%) Wireshark
6 1 (2.78%) BGP
6 1 (2.78%) DHCP
6 1 (2.78%) OSPF
6 1 (2.78%) SD-WAN
6 1 (2.78%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.78%) VLAN
6 1 (2.78%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Git
General
1 14 (38.89%) Retail
2 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (27.78%) Cloud Engineer
2 9 (25.00%) Architect
3 7 (19.44%) Enterprise Architect
3 7 (19.44%) Enterprise Security Architect
3 7 (19.44%) Security Architect
3 7 (19.44%) Web Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Network Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Project Manager
5 5 (13.89%) Senior
6 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Web Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Administrator
7 3 (8.33%) Cloud Network Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Linux Administrator
7 3 (8.33%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Security Manager
7 3 (8.33%) Security Project Manager
7 3 (8.33%) Web Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 5 (13.89%) Public Cloud
3 4 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (36.11%) RAD
2 7 (19.44%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (19.44%) DevOps
2 7 (19.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (19.44%) Load Balancing
3 6 (16.67%) Migration
3 6 (16.67%) Network Architecture
3 6 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
4 5 (13.89%) OWASP
4 5 (13.89%) Zero Trust
5 4 (11.11%) Agile
5 4 (11.11%) Service Design
6 3 (8.33%) Architecture Roadmap
6 3 (8.33%) Cloud Security
6 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (8.33%) Network Design
6 3 (8.33%) Roadmaps
7 2 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (5.56%) Project Delivery
7 2 (5.56%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.89%) Python
2 3 (8.33%) PHP
3 1 (2.78%) C
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (13.89%) CCIE
3 3 (8.33%) CCNP
4 2 (5.56%) CCNA
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.78%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (2.78%) Degree
5 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (19.44%) Terraform
2 6 (16.67%) Puppet
3 4 (11.11%) Ansible
Vendors
1 28 (77.78%) F5
2 6 (16.67%) Cisco
2 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (13.89%) CheckPoint
3 5 (13.89%) Fortinet
3 5 (13.89%) Zscaler
4 4 (11.11%) Citrix
5 2 (5.56%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (2.78%) Google
6 1 (2.78%) Imperva
6 1 (2.78%) Meraki
6 1 (2.78%) Palo Alto