Hybrid/Remote Cloudflare Contract Job Trends

Cloudflare, Inc
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Cloudflare skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 298 377
Rank change year-on-year -10 +79 +181
Contract jobs citing Cloudflare 10 18 14
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.098% 0.15% 0.079%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.23% 0.38% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 12
10th Percentile £499 £565 -
25th Percentile £575 £638 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £675 £613
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +10.20% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £731 £650
90th Percentile £730 £765 -
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £604
% change year-on-year -11.54% +7.66% +9.77%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Cloudflare falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,362 4,693 6,830
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.83% 38.68% 38.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,956 3,149 4,943
10th Percentile £325 £331 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 51 88
10th Percentile £17.73 £19.30 £15.42
25th Percentile £20.50 £26.38 £21.25
Median hourly rate £37.00 £36.69 £46.78
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -21.56% +33.65%
75th Percentile £65.22 £63.50 £74.06
90th Percentile £80.00 £80.00 £88.23
UK median hourly rate £25.74 £29.00 £25.69
% change year-on-year -11.26% +12.88% +14.18%

Cloudflare
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cloudflare and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Cloudflare job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Cloudflare
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cloudflare.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cloudflare

Cloudflare
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cloudflare over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Cloudflare daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Cloudflare
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) AWS
3 5 (50.00%) Akamai
3 5 (50.00%) GCP
4 3 (30.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (30.00%) OpenDNS
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (10.00%) Serverless
5 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
5 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) Firewall
2 5 (50.00%) HTTPS
3 4 (40.00%) HTTP
4 2 (20.00%) DNS
5 1 (10.00%) DHCP
5 1 (10.00%) Internet
5 1 (10.00%) Network Security
5 1 (10.00%) SSL
5 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (10.00%) Couchbase
1 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (10.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Operations Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Security Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Security Operations Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Head of Operations
2 1 (10.00%) Head of Technical Operations
2 1 (10.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Firewall Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) JSON
1 3 (30.00%) REST
1 3 (30.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Security Posture
2 3 (30.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
1 6 (60.00%) Security Operations
2 5 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 4 (40.00%) Application Security
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (30.00%) Hyperautomation
4 3 (30.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 3 (30.00%) Network Architecture
4 3 (30.00%) Observability
4 3 (30.00%) OWASP
4 3 (30.00%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (30.00%) SDLC
4 3 (30.00%) Security Testing
4 3 (30.00%) SIEM
4 3 (30.00%) SOAR
4 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (30.00%) Threat Modelling
4 3 (30.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 3 (30.00%) Zero Trust
5 2 (20.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) Bash
3 3 (30.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (30.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) CEH
1 3 (30.00%) GIAC
1 3 (30.00%) GWAPT
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
2 3 (30.00%) Snort
2 3 (30.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (30.00%) Nessus
2 3 (30.00%) Nexpose
2 3 (30.00%) Suricata
3 2 (20.00%) Ansible
3 2 (20.00%) Terraform
4 1 (10.00%) Grafana
4 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) F5
1 4 (40.00%) Google
1 4 (40.00%) Imperva
1 4 (40.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (30.00%) Blue Coat
2 3 (30.00%) Carbon Black
2 3 (30.00%) Cisco
2 3 (30.00%) CrowdStrike
2 3 (30.00%) FireEye
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Qualys
2 3 (30.00%) Splunk
2 3 (30.00%) Zscaler
3 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (10.00%) Infoblox
3 1 (10.00%) New Relic
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Rollbar