AWS Fargate Contracts in Edinburgh

AWS Fargate
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring AWS Fargate skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS Fargate over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 69 108
Rank change year-on-year +7 +39 -
Contract jobs citing AWS Fargate 5 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.80% 0.37% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.79% 0.99% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile - £512 £470
25th Percentile £513 £515 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £510
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% +2.01% -
75th Percentile £554 £530 £526
90th Percentile £558 £536 £528
Scotland median daily rate £533 £521 £513
% change year-on-year +2.21% +1.66% +2.50%

All Cloud Skills
Edinburgh

AWS Fargate falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 280 304 507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 44.80% 37.30% 38.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 188 390
10th Percentile £250 £300 £259
25th Percentile £413 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +0.95% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £538
90th Percentile £600 £679 £618
Scotland median daily rate £466 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.89% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 1
10th Percentile £21.62 £15.80 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.50 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £17.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -4.06% -39.93%
75th Percentile £26.28 £17.50 -
90th Percentile £28.38 £17.61 -
Scotland median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £60.55
% change year-on-year +41.71% -71.92% +65.89%

AWS Fargate
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Fargate in Edinburgh

AWS Fargate
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Fargate in Edinburgh

AWS Fargate
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Serverless
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon S3
2 4 (80.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (80.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 4 (80.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
2 4 (80.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 4 (80.00%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (80.00%) OpenShift
2 4 (80.00%) Route 53
3 3 (60.00%) PaaS
3 3 (60.00%) SaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (20.00%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (40.00%) InfluxDB
3 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
2 3 (60.00%) Artifactory
2 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) AWS CDK
2 2 (40.00%) React
3 1 (20.00%) Loki
3 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Kanban
3 3 (60.00%) Scrum
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
4 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (20.00%) Human-Centred Design
4 1 (20.00%) Inclusive Design
4 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Bash
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Groovy
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) OCP
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 3 (60.00%) Grafana
2 3 (60.00%) Kibana
3 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Imperva