AWS Fargate Contract Job Trends in England

AWS Fargate
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring AWS Fargate skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 486 490 546
Rank change year-on-year +4 +56 +95
Contract jobs citing AWS Fargate 60 26 28
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.083% 0.070%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.51% 0.23% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 17 24
10th Percentile £350 £520 £424
25th Percentile £409 £575 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -27.86% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £600 £750 £638
90th Percentile £634 - £671
UK median daily rate £506 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -11.96% -4.17% +4.35%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,701 11,168 14,070
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.73% 35.82% 35.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,963 7,441 10,265
10th Percentile £304 £313 £296
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 143 284
10th Percentile £15.25 £18.66 £14.40
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.27
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.86
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +13.42% +40.27%
75th Percentile £44.09 £60.91 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.74 £32.00
% change year-on-year -25.45% +5.42% +45.45%

AWS Fargate
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS Fargate relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

AWS Fargate job vacancy trend in England

AWS Fargate
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing AWS Fargate.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing AWS Fargate

AWS Fargate
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Fargate in England over the 6 months to 15 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Fargate in England

AWS Fargate
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 15 November 2025. 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
London +22 32 £450 -21.74% 24
North of England -36 12 £513 -29.31% 4
North West -12 8 £575 -4.17% 1
Yorkshire -33 4 £475 -34.48% 2
East of England -18 3 £538 - 2
South East - 2 - - 4
South West -2 1 - - 4
West Midlands - 1 £520 -
Midlands - 1 £520 -
AWS Fargate
UK

AWS Fargate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.00%) Confluence
2 3 (5.00%) Jupyter
3 2 (3.33%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 60 (100.00%) AWS
2 49 (81.67%) Amazon ECS
3 44 (73.33%) Serverless
4 42 (70.00%) AWS Lambda
5 30 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 29 (48.33%) Amazon S3
7 28 (46.67%) GitHub
8 27 (45.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
10 20 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
11 16 (26.67%) Azure
12 15 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 14 (23.33%) Apigee
13 14 (23.33%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (18.33%) Amazon Kinesis
14 11 (18.33%) Datadog
15 10 (16.67%) Entra ID
16 9 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
17 8 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
17 8 (13.33%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.67%) DNS
2 5 (8.33%) VPN
3 4 (6.67%) Firewall
4 2 (3.33%) Network Security
4 2 (3.33%) SSL
4 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.67%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.67%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (51.67%) DynamoDB
2 25 (41.67%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (23.33%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (20.00%) Relational Database
5 11 (18.33%) RDBMS
6 9 (15.00%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (15.00%) Redis
7 8 (13.33%) NoSQL
8 7 (11.67%) MongoDB
9 5 (8.33%) BigQuery
9 5 (8.33%) DB2
9 5 (8.33%) MySQL
10 2 (3.33%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (3.33%) Data Lake
10 2 (3.33%) Delta Lake
10 2 (3.33%) Pinecone
10 2 (3.33%) Power BI
11 1 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 21 (35.00%) Jenkins
2 14 (23.33%) GitLab
3 12 (20.00%) Maven
4 11 (18.33%) Git
4 11 (18.33%) JUnit
5 6 (10.00%) Cucumber
6 5 (8.33%) Gradle
6 5 (8.33%) SonarLint
6 5 (8.33%) SonarQube
7 4 (6.67%) Terragrunt
8 3 (5.00%) JIRA
8 3 (5.00%) RStudio
9 2 (3.33%) MLflow
10 1 (1.67%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 17 (28.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (3.33%) Finance
3 2 (3.33%) Retail
4 1 (1.67%) Aviation
4 1 (1.67%) Banking
4 1 (1.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 21 (35.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (21.67%) Developer
2 13 (21.67%) Lead
3 12 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
3 12 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
4 11 (18.33%) Architect
4 11 (18.33%) AWS Developer
4 11 (18.33%) Senior
5 10 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 8 (13.33%) Lead DevOps
6 8 (13.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 7 (11.67%) Java Developer
7 7 (11.67%) Senior Developer
8 6 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (8.33%) Java Architect
9 5 (8.33%) Java Technical Architect
9 5 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (8.33%) Technical Architect
10 4 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (23.33%) Node.js
2 12 (20.00%) JWT
2 12 (20.00%) Kafka
3 11 (18.33%) Spring
3 11 (18.33%) Spring Boot
4 9 (15.00%) AWS CDK
5 7 (11.67%) cloud-init
5 7 (11.67%) FastAPI
5 7 (11.67%) Keycloak
5 7 (11.67%) OAuth
5 7 (11.67%) RESTful
6 6 (10.00%) Jest
7 5 (8.33%) Dropwizard
7 5 (8.33%) J2EE
7 5 (8.33%) Micronaut
7 5 (8.33%) React
8 4 (6.67%) Celery
9 3 (5.00%) GraphQL
9 3 (5.00%) REST
10 2 (3.33%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 8 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (11.67%) PKI
4 6 (10.00%) Product Ownership
5 5 (8.33%) Legacy Applications
5 5 (8.33%) N-Tier
6 3 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (3.33%) AI Agents
7 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (3.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.67%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.67%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 12 (20.00%) Linux
2 7 (11.67%) CentOS
2 7 (11.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (11.67%) Unix
3 1 (1.67%) Windows
3 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (68.33%) CI/CD
2 37 (61.67%) DevOps
3 34 (56.67%) Containerisation
4 30 (50.00%) Microservices
5 23 (38.33%) Agile
5 23 (38.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (26.67%) AI
8 15 (25.00%) Observability
9 14 (23.33%) Clean Code
10 13 (21.67%) Design Patterns
11 12 (20.00%) Event-Driven
11 12 (20.00%) Integration Testing
12 11 (18.33%) API Design
12 11 (18.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 10 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
13 10 (16.67%) Mentoring
13 10 (16.67%) Roadmaps
13 10 (16.67%) SDLC
14 9 (15.00%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 38 (63.33%) Python
2 17 (28.33%) Java
3 12 (20.00%) SQL
3 12 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 10 (16.67%) Bash
5 8 (13.33%) Go
6 7 (11.67%) Shell Script
7 5 (8.33%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.33%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.33%) Ruby
9 1 (1.67%) R
Qualifications
1 25 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 20 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.67%) AWS Certification
4 6 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.67%) NCSC
2 5 (8.33%) GDPR
3 4 (6.67%) QA
4 3 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (5.00%) NIST
5 2 (3.33%) Accessibility
5 2 (3.33%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (3.33%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (53.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 36 (60.00%) Terraform
2 18 (30.00%) Ansible
2 18 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 9 (15.00%) Grafana
3 9 (15.00%) Prometheus
4 7 (11.67%) Jamf Pro
4 7 (11.67%) Packer
5 5 (8.33%) Progress Chef
6 3 (5.00%) Puppet
7 2 (3.33%) Kustomize
8 1 (1.67%) Argo
8 1 (1.67%) Karpenter
8 1 (1.67%) Nagios
Vendors
1 11 (18.33%) Splunk
2 9 (15.00%) CA Agile Central
3 7 (11.67%) Okta
3 7 (11.67%) ServiceNow
4 5 (8.33%) Gigya
4 5 (8.33%) Sybase
5 2 (3.33%) CloudEndure
5 2 (3.33%) New Relic
6 1 (1.67%) Google
6 1 (1.67%) SaltStack