AWS Fargate Contract Job Trends in the North East

AWS Fargate
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring AWS Fargate skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 38 -
Rank change year-on-year -20 - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Fargate 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.20% 0.59% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.57% 1.77% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £725 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £750 -
75th Percentile £775 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £503 £725 £538
% change year-on-year -30.69% +34.88% -8.28%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 174 113 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 35.01% 33.33% 20.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 78 42
10th Percentile £246 £321 £158
25th Percentile £363 £367 £197
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £407
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +22.85% -29.22%
75th Percentile £571 £610 £536
90th Percentile £605 £650 £616
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 6
10th Percentile £50.58 - £18.14
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £20.77
Median % change year-on-year - - -57.61%
75th Percentile £65.63 - £39.83
90th Percentile £69.50 - £46.18
England median hourly rate £37.58 £27.50 £21.57
% change year-on-year +36.65% +27.49% -13.72%

AWS Fargate
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

AWS Fargate job vacancy trend in the North East

AWS Fargate
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing AWS Fargate.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing AWS Fargate

AWS Fargate
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 21 February 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear -19 1 £750 - 2
AWS Fargate
England

AWS Fargate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Blue Prism
1 1 (100.00%) UiPath