CloudFront Contracts

Amazon CloudFront
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 561 657 745
Rank change year-on-year +96 +88 -161
Contract jobs citing CloudFront 37 62 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.085% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.26% 0.28% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 49 64
10th Percentile £443 £450 £408
25th Percentile £486 £494 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% -1.87% +7.00%
75th Percentile £641 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £617 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £543 £575 £488
% change year-on-year -5.57% +17.95% +2.63%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 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%

CloudFront
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CloudFront in the UK

CloudFront
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for CloudFront in the UK

CloudFront
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for CloudFront in the UK

CloudFront
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 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 +100 29 £528 +0.48% 16
Work from Home +134 23 £498 -5.24% 8
UK excluding London +71 17 £543 -5.57% 12
London +82 13 £489 -14.59% 7
South East - 5 £530 - 2
West Midlands - 5 £650 -
Midlands - 5 £650 -
Scotland - 3 £498 -
North of England +25 2 £525 -8.70% 6
East of England +18 2 £650 +13.04% 1
North West +15 2 £525 - 3

CloudFront
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 2 (5.41%) Apache
1 2 (5.41%) nginx
1 2 (5.41%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 37 (100.00%) AWS
2 25 (67.57%) AWS Lambda
2 25 (67.57%) Serverless
3 24 (64.86%) Amazon S3
4 15 (40.54%) Amazon ECS
5 14 (37.84%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (32.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 9 (24.32%) Route 53
8 8 (21.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (16.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (13.51%) Azure
10 5 (13.51%) Entra ID
11 4 (10.81%) npm
12 3 (8.11%) Amazon ECR
12 3 (8.11%) Datadog
12 3 (8.11%) SaaS
13 2 (5.41%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 2 (5.41%) Amazon Kinesis
13 2 (5.41%) Amazon SQS
13 2 (5.41%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.92%) DNS
2 5 (13.51%) Network Security
2 5 (13.51%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (54.05%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (37.84%) DynamoDB
3 4 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 10 (27.03%) Maven
2 8 (21.62%) Cypress.io
2 8 (21.62%) Protractor
3 5 (13.51%) Git
4 3 (8.11%) GitLab
4 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
4 3 (8.11%) webpack
5 2 (5.41%) Bitbucket
5 2 (5.41%) Snyk
6 1 (2.70%) JUnit
6 1 (2.70%) Terragrunt
General
1 12 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (16.22%) Finance
4 5 (13.51%) Retail
5 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.70%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (29.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (27.03%) Cloud Engineer
3 8 (21.62%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (18.92%) Security Engineer
5 6 (16.22%) Developer
6 5 (13.51%) Applications Engineer
6 5 (13.51%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (13.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (13.51%) Senior
7 4 (10.81%) Consultant
7 4 (10.81%) Lead
7 4 (10.81%) Senior Consultant
8 3 (8.11%) Angular Developer
8 3 (8.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 3 (8.11%) Java Developer
8 3 (8.11%) Linux Engineer
8 3 (8.11%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (8.11%) Technical Leader
9 2 (5.41%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 2 (5.41%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (32.43%) Node.js
2 8 (21.62%) AngularJS
2 8 (21.62%) Jest
2 8 (21.62%) OAuth
3 5 (13.51%) OAuth2
3 5 (13.51%) SAML
4 4 (10.81%) AWS CDK
4 4 (10.81%) GraphQL
4 4 (10.81%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (10.81%) React
4 4 (10.81%) REST
5 3 (8.11%) CSS
5 3 (8.11%) HTML
6 2 (5.41%) Django
6 2 (5.41%) HornetQ
6 2 (5.41%) LDAP
6 2 (5.41%) VCL
7 1 (2.70%) AWS SAM
7 1 (2.70%) Spring
7 1 (2.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.41%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (29.73%) Linux
2 9 (24.32%) Windows
3 6 (16.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (8.11%) Debian
5 1 (2.70%) CentOS
5 1 (2.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (62.16%) CI/CD
2 13 (35.14%) DevOps
3 8 (21.62%) Agile
3 8 (21.62%) Cloud Security
4 6 (16.22%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (13.51%) Application Security
5 5 (13.51%) Data Security
5 5 (13.51%) Defensive Programming
5 5 (13.51%) DevSecOps
5 5 (13.51%) Incident Response
5 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Management
5 5 (13.51%) Penetration Testing
5 5 (13.51%) Task Automation
5 5 (13.51%) The Twelve-Factor App
6 4 (10.81%) Containerisation
6 4 (10.81%) Full Stack Development
6 4 (10.81%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (8.11%) Re-Platforming
7 3 (8.11%) Scrum
7 3 (8.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (24.32%) Java
2 6 (16.22%) Python
3 4 (10.81%) JavaScript
3 4 (10.81%) SQL
3 4 (10.81%) TypeScript
4 3 (8.11%) Bash
5 2 (5.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (18.92%) AWS Certification
2 5 (13.51%) SC Cleared
2 5 (13.51%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 17 (45.95%) Docker
2 7 (18.92%) Active Directory
3 3 (8.11%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (5.41%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) Kubernetes
1 6 (16.22%) Terraform
2 4 (10.81%) Ansible
3 2 (5.41%) HAProxy
4 1 (2.70%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) Red Hat
2 2 (5.41%) Cisco
3 1 (2.70%) Splunk