CloudFront Contracts

Amazon CloudFront
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 484 546 657
Rank change year-on-year +62 +111 +92
Contract jobs citing CloudFront 36 36 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.083% 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.33% 0.26% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 28 48
10th Percentile - £443 £450
25th Percentile £475 £486 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% -2.62% -2.78%
75th Percentile £688 £641 £600
90th Percentile £700 £675 £617
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £543 £575
% change year-on-year -7.92% -5.57% +17.95%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

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%

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CloudFront in the UK

CloudFront
Top 6 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 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 18 £675 +27.96% 23
London +38 13 £688 +40.59% 19
Work from Home +29 10 £500 +0.50% 12
UK excluding London +56 9 £500 -7.92% 8
Scotland +16 6 £500 +0.50% 1
South East +44 3 £475 -10.38% 2

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 1 (2.78%) Confluence
1 1 (2.78%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 35 (97.22%) AWS
2 30 (83.33%) Amazon S3
3 17 (47.22%) Route 53
4 14 (38.89%) Amazon EC2
4 14 (38.89%) Amazon EKS
5 13 (36.11%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 11 (30.56%) Amazon SQS
6 11 (30.56%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
6 11 (30.56%) Serverless
7 10 (27.78%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (11.11%) GitHub
10 3 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (8.33%) AWS CodePipeline
10 3 (8.33%) Azure
10 3 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (5.56%) AWS CodeBuild
11 2 (5.56%) Azure Pipelines
11 2 (5.56%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) DNS
1 1 (2.78%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (44.44%) Amazon Aurora
2 13 (36.11%) DocumentDB
2 13 (36.11%) NoSQL
3 12 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (33.33%) Redis
4 11 (30.56%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (16.67%) SQL Server
6 4 (11.11%) MySQL
6 4 (11.11%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.78%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Ant
1 2 (5.56%) GitLab
1 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.56%) webpack
2 1 (2.78%) Artifactory
2 1 (2.78%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.78%) JIRA
2 1 (2.78%) SonarQube
2 1 (2.78%) Storybook
General
1 17 (47.22%) Finance
2 12 (33.33%) Banking
2 12 (33.33%) Retail Banking
3 2 (5.56%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (41.67%) Developer
2 6 (16.67%) C# Developer
2 6 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (13.89%) Software Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
4 3 (8.33%) JavaScript Developer
4 3 (8.33%) Python Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Python Software Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) AWS Software Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Node.js Developer
6 1 (2.78%) AWS Developer
6 1 (2.78%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (2.78%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
6 1 (2.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (2.78%) Governance Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (2.78%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (2.78%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (44.44%) RESTful
2 12 (33.33%) GraphQL
2 12 (33.33%) Node.js
2 12 (33.33%) React
3 11 (30.56%) Nunjucks
4 8 (22.22%) Express.js
4 8 (22.22%) hapi
4 8 (22.22%) Sass
4 8 (22.22%) Svelte
5 5 (13.89%) Serverless Framework
6 3 (8.33%) JSON
6 3 (8.33%) JSON Schema
6 3 (8.33%) OAuth
6 3 (8.33%) TypeORM
7 2 (5.56%) AWS CDK
7 2 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (5.56%) Kafka
7 2 (5.56%) Swagger
8 1 (2.78%) PlayReady
8 1 (2.78%) Widevine
Miscellaneous
1 12 (33.33%) Derivative
2 7 (19.44%) Public Cloud
3 6 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.78%) MPEG
5 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.78%) Video on Demand
5 1 (2.78%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) Agile
1 12 (33.33%) Asset Management
1 12 (33.33%) SOLID
2 11 (30.56%) Full-Stack Development
3 10 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (25.00%) DevOps
5 8 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 8 (22.22%) Progressive Enhancement
6 7 (19.44%) Unit Testing
7 6 (16.67%) Secure Coding
7 6 (16.67%) TDD
8 5 (13.89%) Software Engineering
9 4 (11.11%) Containerisation
9 4 (11.11%) Fintech
9 4 (11.11%) Front End Development
9 4 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (8.33%) API Development
10 3 (8.33%) Continuous Delivery
10 3 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
10 3 (8.33%) Edge Computing
Programming Languages
1 12 (33.33%) C#
2 11 (30.56%) Python
3 7 (19.44%) JavaScript
4 6 (16.67%) SQL
5 5 (13.89%) TypeScript
6 3 (8.33%) Bash
7 2 (5.56%) Go
8 1 (2.78%) Groovy
8 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
1 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.78%) OCP
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) GDPR
1 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (33.33%) Terraform
2 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.56%) Ansible
3 2 (5.56%) Grafana
3 2 (5.56%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.78%) HAProxy
4 1 (2.78%) Kibana
4 1 (2.78%) linkerd
Vendors
1 1 (2.78%) Dynatrace
1 1 (2.78%) ForgeRock
1 1 (2.78%) Rollbar