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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 579 629 736
Rank change year-on-year +50 +107 -109
Contract jobs citing CloudFront 23 66 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.053% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.16% 0.33% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 49 74
10th Percentile £438 £450 £425
25th Percentile £477 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -8.70% +12.20%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £688
90th Percentile - £617 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £525 £513
% change year-on-year +23.81% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 14,030 20,255 33,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.39% 36.45% 38.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,915 14,661 24,591
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 £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 350 326 382
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.50 £37.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.28% +69.32% +0.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £68.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £27.50 £19.09
% change year-on-year -30.91% +44.05% -4.55%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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
Work from Home +105 16 £625 +20.19% 4
England +53 15 £650 +23.81% 11
UK excluding London +39 13 £650 +23.81% 8
West Midlands - 5 £650 -
Midlands - 5 £650 - 1
London +55 3 £450 -22.08% 7
Scotland +38 3 £498 -0.50%
East of England +3 2 £650 +13.04%
South East - 2 - -
North of England +15 1 £525 -6.67% 3
North West +10 1 £525 - 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 2 (8.70%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 15 (65.22%) AWS Lambda
2 15 (65.22%) Serverless
3 11 (47.83%) Amazon S3
4 10 (43.48%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (39.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (26.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (26.09%) Route 53
7 5 (21.74%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (21.74%) Azure
7 5 (21.74%) Entra ID
8 4 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (17.39%) npm
9 2 (8.70%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (8.70%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 2 (8.70%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (8.70%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (8.70%) SaaS
10 1 (4.35%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) DNS
1 5 (21.74%) Network Security
1 5 (21.74%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (65.22%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (21.74%) DynamoDB
3 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Git
1 3 (13.04%) GitLab
1 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
1 3 (13.04%) webpack
2 2 (8.70%) Maven
2 2 (8.70%) Snyk
3 1 (4.35%) JUnit
General
1 5 (21.74%) Finance
1 5 (21.74%) Retail
2 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) AWS Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Security Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (17.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Lead
5 3 (13.04%) Technical Leader
6 2 (8.70%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Manager
7 1 (4.35%) Architect
7 1 (4.35%) AWS Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Java Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Java Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (34.78%) OAuth
2 5 (21.74%) OAuth2
2 5 (21.74%) SAML
3 4 (17.39%) GraphQL
3 4 (17.39%) REST
4 3 (13.04%) AWS CDK
4 3 (13.04%) CSS
4 3 (13.04%) HTML
4 3 (13.04%) Node.js
4 3 (13.04%) React
5 2 (8.70%) LDAP
5 2 (8.70%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (4.35%) Keycloak
6 1 (4.35%) Spring
6 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Windows
2 8 (34.78%) Linux
3 3 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.35%) CentOS
4 1 (4.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (65.22%) CI/CD
2 9 (39.13%) DevOps
3 7 (30.43%) Cloud Security
4 6 (26.09%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (21.74%) Application Security
5 5 (21.74%) Data Security
5 5 (21.74%) Defensive Programming
5 5 (21.74%) DevSecOps
5 5 (21.74%) Incident Response
5 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Management
5 5 (21.74%) Penetration Testing
5 5 (21.74%) Task Automation
5 5 (21.74%) The Twelve-Factor App
6 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
7 3 (13.04%) Full Stack Development
7 3 (13.04%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (13.04%) Re-Platforming
7 3 (13.04%) Scrum
7 3 (13.04%) Software Engineering
8 2 (8.70%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) Python
1 4 (17.39%) SQL
2 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
2 3 (13.04%) TypeScript
3 1 (4.35%) Bash
3 1 (4.35%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) AWS Certification
2 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
2 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (65.22%) Docker
2 7 (30.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.35%) Splunk