Fastly Contract Job Trends in England

Fastly.com
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Fastly skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 492 547
Rank change year-on-year -50 +55 +184
Contract jobs citing Fastly 6 5 9
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.019% 0.018% 0.025%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.050% 0.049% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 9
10th Percentile £590 - £513
25th Percentile £613 £638 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £530
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +27.36% +51.43%
75th Percentile - £713 £550
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £650 £675 £530
% change year-on-year -3.70% +27.36% +51.43%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

Fastly falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 12,075 10,180 12,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.10% 36.56% 34.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,349 6,809 9,207
10th Percentile £304 £313 £281
25th Percentile £406 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £645 £638
90th Percentile £705 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 135 246
10th Percentile £14.68 £16.46 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.36 £28.50 £23.43
Median % change year-on-year -4.02% +21.66% +3.51%
75th Percentile £57.06 £46.84 £53.44
90th Percentile £77.70 £67.65 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £25.19
% change year-on-year -1.05% +9.17% +11.96%

Fastly
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Fastly relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Fastly job vacancy trend in England

Fastly
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Fastly.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Fastly

Fastly
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Fastly.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Fastly

Fastly
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fastly within the England region over the 6 months to 2 January 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -19 5 £650 -3.70% 2
North West - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -
Fastly
UK

Fastly
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 3 (50.00%) Akamai
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 3 (50.00%) Heroku
2 3 (50.00%) Route 53
2 3 (50.00%) Serverless
2 3 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (50.00%) MySQL
1 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) CircleCI
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Python Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Site Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Flask
1 3 (50.00%) Kafka
1 3 (50.00%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Observability
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) Domain Models
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Mobile Development
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Technical Debt
2 3 (50.00%) User Experience
2 3 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Bash
2 3 (50.00%) Go
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Splunk