CloudFront Contracts

Amazon CloudFront
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CloudFront skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CloudFront over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 546 657 749
Rank change year-on-year +111 +92 -145
Contract jobs citing CloudFront 36 61 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.083% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.26% 0.28% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 48 65
10th Percentile £443 £450 £410
25th Percentile £486 £488 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% -2.78% +5.37%
75th Percentile £641 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £617 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £543 £575 £488
% change year-on-year -5.57% +17.95% +2.63%

All Cloud Skills
UK

CloudFront is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,068 22,025 34,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.30% 36.91% 38.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,991 15,919 24,902
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £633 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 350 427
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.99%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £49.46
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.03% +31.31% -5.06%

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 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CloudFront in the UK

CloudFront
Top 11 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 30 April 2024. 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 +83 28 £528 +0.48% 17
Work from Home +134 22 £498 -5.24% 8
UK excluding London +66 16 £543 -5.57% 11
London +84 13 £489 -14.59% 8
South East - 5 £530 - 2
West Midlands - 5 £650 -
Midlands - 5 £650 -
Scotland - 3 £498 -
East of England +12 2 £650 +13.04% 1
North of England +27 1 £525 -6.67% 5
North West +19 1 £525 - 3

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 2 (5.56%) Apache
1 2 (5.56%) nginx
1 2 (5.56%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 36 (100.00%) AWS
2 24 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 24 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 24 (66.67%) Serverless
3 15 (41.67%) Amazon ECS
4 14 (38.89%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 9 (25.00%) Route 53
7 7 (19.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (13.89%) Azure
9 5 (13.89%) Entra ID
10 4 (11.11%) npm
11 3 (8.33%) Datadog
11 3 (8.33%) SaaS
12 2 (5.56%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 2 (5.56%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (5.56%) AWS Fargate
12 2 (5.56%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (19.44%) DNS
2 5 (13.89%) Network Security
2 5 (13.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (52.78%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (36.11%) DynamoDB
3 4 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 10 (27.78%) Maven
2 8 (22.22%) Cypress.io
2 8 (22.22%) Protractor
3 5 (13.89%) Git
4 3 (8.33%) GitLab
4 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 3 (8.33%) webpack
5 2 (5.56%) Bitbucket
5 2 (5.56%) Snyk
6 1 (2.78%) JUnit
6 1 (2.78%) Terragrunt
General
1 12 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (16.67%) Finance
4 5 (13.89%) Retail
5 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.78%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (27.78%) Cloud Engineer
1 10 (27.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (19.44%) AWS Engineer
2 7 (19.44%) Security Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) Developer
4 5 (13.89%) Applications Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Senior
5 4 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Consultant
5 4 (11.11%) Lead
5 4 (11.11%) Senior Consultant
6 3 (8.33%) Angular Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Java Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Technical Leader
7 2 (5.56%) Architect
7 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (33.33%) Node.js
2 8 (22.22%) AngularJS
2 8 (22.22%) Jest
2 8 (22.22%) OAuth
3 5 (13.89%) OAuth2
3 5 (13.89%) SAML
4 4 (11.11%) GraphQL
4 4 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (11.11%) React
4 4 (11.11%) REST
5 3 (8.33%) AWS CDK
5 3 (8.33%) CSS
5 3 (8.33%) HTML
6 2 (5.56%) Django
6 2 (5.56%) HornetQ
6 2 (5.56%) LDAP
6 2 (5.56%) VCL
7 1 (2.78%) Keycloak
7 1 (2.78%) NestJS
7 1 (2.78%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.56%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (30.56%) Linux
2 9 (25.00%) Windows
3 6 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (8.33%) Debian
5 1 (2.78%) CentOS
5 1 (2.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (63.89%) CI/CD
2 12 (33.33%) DevOps
3 8 (22.22%) Agile
3 8 (22.22%) Cloud Security
4 6 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (13.89%) Application Security
5 5 (13.89%) Data Security
5 5 (13.89%) Defensive Programming
5 5 (13.89%) DevSecOps
5 5 (13.89%) Incident Response
5 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Management
5 5 (13.89%) Penetration Testing
5 5 (13.89%) Task Automation
5 5 (13.89%) The Twelve-Factor App
6 4 (11.11%) Containerisation
6 4 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
6 4 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (8.33%) Re-Platforming
7 3 (8.33%) Scrum
7 3 (8.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.00%) Java
2 6 (16.67%) Python
3 4 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 4 (11.11%) SQL
3 4 (11.11%) TypeScript
4 3 (8.33%) Bash
5 2 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) AWS Certification
2 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
2 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (44.44%) Docker
2 7 (19.44%) Active Directory
3 3 (8.33%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (5.56%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 6 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (13.89%) Terraform
3 4 (11.11%) Ansible
4 2 (5.56%) HAProxy
5 1 (2.78%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Red Hat
2 2 (5.56%) Cisco
3 1 (2.78%) Splunk