AWS Fargate Contracts

AWS Fargate
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for AWS Fargate skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS Fargate over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 655 714
Rank change year-on-year +86 +59 -99
Contract jobs citing AWS Fargate 25 61 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.10% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.18% 0.28% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 35 85
10th Percentile £406 £440 £450
25th Percentile £491 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year -12.75% -2.04% +22.50%
75th Percentile £572 £744 £700
90th Percentile £623 £783 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £521 £600 £513
% change year-on-year -13.17% +17.07% +27.33%

All Cloud Skills
UK

AWS Fargate 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 13,985 22,031 34,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.29% 36.91% 38.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,926 15,923 24,891
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 £631 £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 346 350 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -6.30%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%

AWS Fargate
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Fargate in the UK

AWS Fargate
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Fargate in the UK

AWS Fargate
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Fargate over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Fargate in the UK

AWS Fargate
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Fargate within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
Work from Home +115 17 £522 -13.00% 14
London +89 13 £525 -22.22% 12
England +82 13 £525 -22.22% 18
UK excluding London +53 6 £521 -13.17% 6
Scotland +35 6 £521 +1.66%

AWS Fargate
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 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) AWS
2 20 (80.00%) Amazon EC2
2 20 (80.00%) Serverless
3 19 (76.00%) AWS Lambda
4 18 (72.00%) Amazon S3
5 14 (56.00%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (32.00%) Amazon SQS
6 8 (32.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (24.00%) OpenShift
8 5 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 4 (16.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (16.00%) Amazon EventBridge
9 4 (16.00%) AWS CloudTrail
9 4 (16.00%) AWS KMS
10 3 (12.00%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (12.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 2 (8.00%) Amazon ECR
11 2 (8.00%) AWS CodeCommit
11 2 (8.00%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (4.00%) Network Security
1 1 (4.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (32.00%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (32.00%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (20.00%) DynamoDB
2 5 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 4 (16.00%) NoSQL
3 4 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (16.00%) RDBMS
4 3 (12.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (12.00%) InfluxDB
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon QuickSight
5 2 (8.00%) MariaDB
5 2 (8.00%) MySQL
6 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
6 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (32.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (28.00%) GitLab
3 5 (20.00%) Artifactory
4 3 (12.00%) Bitbucket
4 3 (12.00%) Maven
5 1 (4.00%) Git
5 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (48.00%) AWS Engineer
2 8 (32.00%) AWS DevOps
2 8 (32.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 8 (32.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Architect
3 5 (20.00%) AWS Architect
3 5 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Developer
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Consultant
5 2 (8.00%) Consultant
5 2 (8.00%) Full Stack Developer
5 2 (8.00%) PHP Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Java Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Lead
6 1 (4.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) AWS CDK
2 3 (12.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (12.00%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (8.00%) CodeIgniter
3 2 (8.00%) Laravel
3 2 (8.00%) RESTful
4 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.00%) CSS
4 1 (4.00%) HTML
4 1 (4.00%) Node.js
4 1 (4.00%) PyTorch
4 1 (4.00%) React
4 1 (4.00%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (4.00%) TensorFlow
4 1 (4.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (8.00%) Video on Demand
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (28.00%) Linux
2 5 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (20.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (8.00%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (8.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) CI/CD
1 14 (56.00%) DevOps
2 13 (52.00%) Containerisation
3 10 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (28.00%) Agile
5 6 (24.00%) Test Automation
6 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (16.00%) Migration
7 4 (16.00%) Observability
8 3 (12.00%) Auto-Scaling
8 3 (12.00%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (12.00%) Event-Driven
8 3 (12.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 3 (12.00%) Presales
8 3 (12.00%) Service Catalogue
8 3 (12.00%) Software Delivery
9 2 (8.00%) Full Stack Development
9 2 (8.00%) Platform Engineering
9 2 (8.00%) Roadmaps
9 2 (8.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) Python
2 5 (20.00%) Bash
2 5 (20.00%) Groovy
2 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (16.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (8.00%) PHP
5 1 (4.00%) Java
5 1 (4.00%) Ruby
5 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) AWS Certification
2 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.00%) GDPR
1 1 (4.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (4.00%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (32.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (64.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (48.00%) Terraform
3 6 (24.00%) Ansible
4 5 (20.00%) Grafana
4 5 (20.00%) Kibana
5 3 (12.00%) Consul
6 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
7 1 (4.00%) Knative
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) MKS