ColdFusion Contract Job Trends

Adobe ColdFusion
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring ColdFusion skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 592 545 597
Rank change year-on-year -47 +52 +202
Contract jobs citing ColdFusion 2 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.005% 0.006% 0.011%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.052% 0.050% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £400 £538
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -25.58% +34.38%
75th Percentile - £450 £684
90th Percentile - - £701
UK excluding London median daily rate - £400 £425
% change year-on-year - -5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £26.78

All Application Platform Skills
UK

ColdFusion falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,837 3,994 4,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.53% 11.10% 10.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,609 2,457 3,047
10th Percentile £288 £256 £250
25th Percentile £400 £393 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £626
90th Percentile £717 £775 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £459 £475
% change year-on-year +3.54% -3.42% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 92 137
10th Percentile £15.60 £17.01 £14.25
25th Percentile £19.75 £21.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.25 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.57% +41.67% +38.46%
75th Percentile £65.25 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £70.00 £72.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £47.50 £23.95
% change year-on-year -26.32% +98.33% +36.86%

ColdFusion
Job Vacancy Trend

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

ColdFusion job vacancy trend in the UK

ColdFusion
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ColdFusion.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ColdFusion

ColdFusion
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ColdFusion.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ColdFusion

ColdFusion
Top 1 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ColdFusion within the UK over the 6 months to 6 December 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
Work from Home +1 2 £300 -

ColdFusion
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) ColdFusion Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) ColdBox
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RichFaces
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) CFML
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe
1 1 (50.00%) Ariba
1 1 (50.00%) SAP