CloudFront Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Amazon CloudFront
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring CloudFront skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 - 103
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CloudFront 2 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.057% - 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.19% - 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 - £650
75th Percentile - - £675
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £475 £650
% change year-on-year +10.53% -26.92% +23.81%

All Cloud Computing Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,065 576 539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.26% 32.02% 28.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 719 387 364
10th Percentile £306 £270 £213
25th Percentile £405 £411 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £478
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +7.27% +0.58%
75th Percentile £604 £600 £612
90th Percentile £675 £675 £685
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 6 10
10th Percentile £17.48 £31.94 £15.83
25th Percentile £21.02 £34.16 £23.55
Median hourly rate £33.99 £35.49 £33.74
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% +5.20% +77.55%
75th Percentile £67.84 £52.69 £35.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £59.44 £55.50
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £31.75
% change year-on-year +29.24% -17.17% -3.79%

CloudFront
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CloudFront relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

CloudFront job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

CloudFront
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing CloudFront.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing CloudFront

CloudFront
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CloudFront within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 September 2026. 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
Warwickshire - 2 £477 - 1
CloudFront
England

CloudFront
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Route 53
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Glacier
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Key Management
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Service Catalogue
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Argo
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Istio
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet