AWS Fargate Contracts with Work from Home Options

AWS Fargate
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 335 444 534
Rank change year-on-year +109 +90 -102
Contract jobs citing AWS Fargate 15 24 87
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.100% 0.096% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.28% 0.24% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 48
10th Percentile £418 £480 £413
25th Percentile £488 £544 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £675 £545
Median % change year-on-year -22.67% +23.85% +22.47%
75th Percentile £600 £706 £681
90th Percentile £620 £783 £700
UK median daily rate £522 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -13.00% - +14.29%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,441 9,879 18,201
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.16% 39.46% 41.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,921 7,290 13,602
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 129 176
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.00 £20.56
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +52.11% -11.25%
75th Percentile £50.25 £70.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

AWS Fargate
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing AWS Fargate as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS Fargate trend for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Fargate
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing AWS Fargate.

AWS Fargate daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Fargate
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing AWS Fargate over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

AWS Fargate daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Fargate
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (6.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (86.67%) Serverless
3 12 (80.00%) Amazon EC2
3 12 (80.00%) Amazon ECS
3 12 (80.00%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (60.00%) Amazon S3
5 7 (46.67%) Amazon SQS
5 7 (46.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (33.33%) OpenShift
7 4 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (26.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 3 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
8 3 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
8 3 (20.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 3 (20.00%) AWS KMS
9 2 (13.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 2 (13.33%) AWS CodeCommit
9 2 (13.33%) AWS Control Tower
9 2 (13.33%) CloudFront
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (26.67%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (20.00%) DynamoDB
3 3 (20.00%) InfluxDB
3 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (20.00%) RDBMS
3 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (13.33%) MariaDB
4 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) GitLab
2 4 (26.67%) Artifactory
2 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
2 5 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Architect
4 3 (20.00%) AWS Architect
4 3 (20.00%) Developer
5 2 (13.33%) AWS Consultant
5 2 (13.33%) Consultant
5 2 (13.33%) PHP Developer
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Full Stack Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Lead
6 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) AWS CDK
2 3 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (13.33%) CodeIgniter
3 2 (13.33%) Laravel
4 1 (6.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
1 2 (13.33%) Video on Demand
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Linux
2 4 (26.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (26.67%) Ubuntu
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (13.33%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Containerisation
2 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
2 8 (53.33%) DevOps
3 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 4 (26.67%) Agile
5 4 (26.67%) Migration
5 4 (26.67%) Observability
6 3 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (20.00%) Software Delivery
7 2 (13.33%) Event-Driven
7 2 (13.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 2 (13.33%) Kanban
7 2 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (13.33%) Presales
7 2 (13.33%) Scrum
7 2 (13.33%) Workshop Facilitation
8 1 (6.67%) Full Stack Development
8 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineering
8 1 (6.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) Bash
2 4 (26.67%) Groovy
3 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (13.33%) PHP
5 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 8 (53.33%) Terraform
3 4 (26.67%) Ansible
3 4 (26.67%) Grafana
3 4 (26.67%) Kibana
4 1 (6.67%) Knative