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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 363 410
Rank change year-on-year +6 +47 +93
Contract jobs citing CloudFront 10 12 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.065% 0.066% 0.059%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.21% 0.24% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 9
10th Percentile £405 - £496
25th Percentile £449 £213 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £518 £675 £538
90th Percentile £529 - £548
UK median daily rate £500 £656 £525
% change year-on-year -23.81% +25.00% -8.70%

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 4,721 4,915 7,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.78% 26.85% 31.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,162 3,369 5,117
10th Percentile £254 £243 £223
25th Percentile £385 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £573 £600 £600
90th Percentile £645 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 190 237
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.31 £16.06 £16.84
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.37 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.70% -14.52% +29.90%
75th Percentile £36.00 £53.56 £57.50
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £77.70
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £24.18 £33.00
% change year-on-year +15.30% -26.73% +53.49%

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 14 August 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
South East +26 4 £475 - 2
Scotland - 4 £513 - 1
North of England - 1 £400 - 6
South West - 1 £510 - 3
North West - 1 £400 - 6
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 (10.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) Serverless
3 5 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 5 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (30.00%) AWS CodeBuild
5 3 (30.00%) AWS CodePipeline
5 3 (30.00%) GitHub
5 3 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (20.00%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (20.00%) Azure
6 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (10.00%) PaaS
7 1 (10.00%) Route 53
7 1 (10.00%) SaaS
7 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (10.00%) InfluxDB
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (20.00%) GitLab
2 2 (20.00%) Storybook
3 1 (10.00%) Artifactory
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) React Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) AWS CDK
1 4 (40.00%) React
2 3 (30.00%) CSS
2 3 (30.00%) Jest
3 2 (20.00%) GraphQL
3 2 (20.00%) Playwright
3 2 (20.00%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Amplify
4 1 (10.00%) HTML
4 1 (10.00%) Loki
4 1 (10.00%) Next.js
4 1 (10.00%) RESTful
4 1 (10.00%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (30.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) DevOps
2 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (30.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (30.00%) E-Commerce
5 3 (30.00%) Edge Computing
5 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (20.00%) Clean Code
6 2 (20.00%) DevSecOps
6 2 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Microservices
6 2 (20.00%) OWASP
6 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
6 2 (20.00%) User Experience
7 1 (10.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Bash
4 1 (10.00%) Go
4 1 (10.00%) Groovy
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (10.00%) OCP
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (20.00%) Ansible
4 1 (10.00%) Grafana
4 1 (10.00%) HAProxy
4 1 (10.00%) Kibana
4 1 (10.00%) linkerd
4 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (10.00%) ForgeRock