Cloudflare Contracts

Cloudflare, Inc
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Cloudflare skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloudflare 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 493 546 689
Rank change year-on-year +53 +143 +153
Contract jobs citing Cloudflare 27 36 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.092% 0.083% 0.049%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.25% 0.26% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 34 26
10th Percentile £420 £422 £438
25th Percentile £500 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.68% -3.18% +2.33%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £639
90th Percentile £738 £755 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.95% - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Cloudflare 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,005 14,070 22,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.59% 32.30% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,639 9,993 15,919
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 346 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £47.58 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloudflare in the UK

Cloudflare
Top 10 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 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
England +47 21 £502 -3.56% 50
Work from Home +41 14 £650 +8.33% 26
UK excluding London +54 12 £501 -8.95% 28
London +36 7 £485 +7.78% 26
South East +48 4 £600 -18.78% 8
North of England +4 3 £500 -8.26% 6
East of England - 3 £500 - 3
North West - 3 £500 - 4
Midlands - 2 £610 - 4
West Midlands - 2 £610 - 2

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 4 (14.81%) Apache
1 4 (14.81%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.70%) CMS
2 1 (3.70%) IIS
2 1 (3.70%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 19 (70.37%) AWS
2 10 (37.04%) Azure
3 4 (14.81%) Akamai
4 3 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.70%) Azure API Management
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.70%) Nutanix
5 1 (3.70%) Serverless
5 1 (3.70%) Sumo Logic
5 1 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (44.44%) VPN
2 10 (37.04%) WAN
3 9 (33.33%) Firewall
3 9 (33.33%) MPLS
4 8 (29.63%) DNS
5 4 (14.81%) NetScaler
5 4 (14.81%) Network Security
5 4 (14.81%) SMTP
5 4 (14.81%) SSL
6 3 (11.11%) TCP/IP
7 2 (7.41%) HTTP
7 2 (7.41%) HTTPS
7 2 (7.41%) SD-WAN
8 1 (3.70%) DHCP
8 1 (3.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Postman
General
1 8 (29.63%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Finance
3 1 (3.70%) Banking
3 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 8 (29.63%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Security Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Support Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Architect
6 2 (7.41%) IT Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) PHP Developer
7 1 (3.70%) .NET Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Applications Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Backend Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Firewall Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Network Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Web Applications Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) .NET
1 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET
1 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (3.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (29.63%) Public Cloud
2 4 (14.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Clustering
3 1 (3.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.70%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) CentOS
2 1 (3.70%) Windows
2 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) Zero Trust
2 9 (33.33%) Network Architecture
3 5 (18.52%) Architecture Roadmap
3 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (18.52%) Roadmaps
4 4 (14.81%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (14.81%) Cloud Security
4 4 (14.81%) Incident Response
4 4 (14.81%) Load Balancing
4 4 (14.81%) Migration
4 4 (14.81%) Mobile First
4 4 (14.81%) Network Design
4 4 (14.81%) Service Design
4 4 (14.81%) Threat Modelling
4 4 (14.81%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (14.81%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 3 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
6 2 (7.41%) Application Security
6 2 (7.41%) Forensic Analysis
6 2 (7.41%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) Python
2 4 (14.81%) PHP
3 2 (7.41%) Bash
3 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
3 2 (7.41%) SQL
4 1 (3.70%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (37.04%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (33.33%) CCIE
3 4 (14.81%) CEH
3 4 (14.81%) CISSP
3 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
4 2 (7.41%) CCNP
4 2 (7.41%) GIAC
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.70%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) NIST
2 3 (11.11%) PCI DSS
3 2 (7.41%) GDPR
4 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (3.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (33.33%) Ansible
1 9 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (3.70%) Nagios
2 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
2 1 (3.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (55.56%) F5
2 10 (37.04%) Cisco
3 9 (33.33%) CheckPoint
4 8 (29.63%) Citrix
4 8 (29.63%) Fortinet
4 8 (29.63%) Zscaler
5 4 (14.81%) Imperva
6 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
7 1 (3.70%) Dell
7 1 (3.70%) HP
7 1 (3.70%) IBM
7 1 (3.70%) Meraki
7 1 (3.70%) Palo Alto
7 1 (3.70%) SolarWinds
7 1 (3.70%) VMware