Fastly.com
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Fastly skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Fastly over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 582 688 840
Rank change year-on-year +106 +152 -135
Contract jobs citing Fastly 5 7 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.012% 0.001%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.036% 0.034% 0.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £515 £518 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £535 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 -
90th Percentile £595 £605 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Fastly 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 13,931 20,440 33,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.46% 36.40% 38.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,905 14,783 24,556
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 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +10.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 334 399
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £18.61 £15.44
Median hourly rate £21.37 £37.25 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -42.63% +66.29% +0.67%
75th Percentile £40.63 £68.75 £53.88
90th Percentile £69.13 £78.83 £67.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £27.35 £20.00
% change year-on-year -35.21% +36.75% -

Fastly
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Fastly as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Fastly in the UK

Fastly
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Fastly.

Daily rate trend for Fastly in the UK

Fastly
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Fastly.

Hourly rate trend for Fastly in the UK

Fastly
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fastly within the UK over the 6 months to 29 May 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 +95 2 £530 -0.93% 2
South East - 2 £530 -
UK excluding London - 2 £530 - 2
Work from Home +119 1 £600 +2.13% 2

Fastly
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 (40.00%) Apache
1 2 (40.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Cloudflare
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (40.00%) CloudFront
3 2 (40.00%) Datadog
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) Route 53
3 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Django
1 2 (40.00%) HornetQ
1 2 (40.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (40.00%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Debian
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Coaching
1 3 (60.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Go
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Varnish
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat