CloudFront Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon CloudFront
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring CloudFront skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CloudFront over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 383 452
Rank change year-on-year +56 +69 +33
Contract jobs citing CloudFront 9 16 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.070% 0.077% 0.042%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.22% 0.29% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 7
10th Percentile - £486 £505
25th Percentile £463 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £543 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.92% -5.57% +17.95%
75th Percentile £525 £675 £600
90th Percentile £529 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.69% -2.62% -2.78%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

CloudFront 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,086 5,443 8,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.01% 26.20% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,896 3,840 5,946
10th Percentile £236 £213 £240
25th Percentile £388 £375 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 259 231
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.69
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%
75th Percentile £33.45 £26.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £61.52 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

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
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 1 May 2025. 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
Scotland +16 6 £500 +0.50% 1
South East +44 3 £475 -10.38% 3
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 1 (11.11%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (66.67%) Serverless
3 5 (55.56%) Amazon S3
3 5 (55.56%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (44.44%) Route 53
5 3 (33.33%) Azure
6 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (22.22%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (22.22%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (22.22%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (22.22%) Azure Pipelines
6 2 (22.22%) Yarn
7 1 (11.11%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (11.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (11.11%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 1 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (44.44%) Relational Database
2 3 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (11.11%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Ant
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 2 (22.22%) webpack
2 1 (11.11%) Artifactory
2 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Storybook
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Software Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) JSON
1 3 (33.33%) JSON Schema
1 3 (33.33%) Node.js
1 3 (33.33%) OAuth
1 3 (33.33%) RESTful
2 2 (22.22%) AWS CDK
2 2 (22.22%) TypeORM
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
3 1 (11.11%) Jest
3 1 (11.11%) Loki
3 1 (11.11%) OpenAPI
3 1 (11.11%) Playwright
3 1 (11.11%) React
3 1 (11.11%) Swagger
3 1 (11.11%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (44.44%) Fintech
4 3 (33.33%) API Development
4 3 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (33.33%) E-Commerce
4 3 (33.33%) Edge Computing
4 3 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
5 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
6 1 (11.11%) Clean Code
6 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps
6 1 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (11.11%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) TypeScript
2 2 (22.22%) Bash
2 2 (22.22%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Go
3 1 (11.11%) Groovy
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (11.11%) OCP
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Ansible
2 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) Grafana
3 1 (11.11%) HAProxy
3 1 (11.11%) Kibana
3 1 (11.11%) linkerd
3 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace
1 1 (11.11%) ForgeRock