AWS Fargate Contracts in the North of England

AWS Fargate
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 169 191
Rank change year-on-year -6 +22 +54
Contract jobs citing AWS Fargate 4 1 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.10% 0.024% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.31% 0.076% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 9
10th Percentile £410 - £413
25th Percentile £425 £575 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £475 £625 £700
90th Percentile £490 - £717
England median daily rate £525 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% -

All Cloud Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,296 1,313 1,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.04% 31.52% 35.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 927 892 1,398
10th Percentile £280 £276 £274
25th Percentile £380 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -6.86% +2.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 47 59
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £12.82 - £18.50
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £27.20
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -40.96% +24.89%
75th Percentile £47.12 £30.25 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.45 £57.72
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £33.90
% change year-on-year +11.78% -33.62% +57.66%

AWS Fargate
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing AWS Fargate as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Fargate in the North of England

AWS Fargate
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Fargate in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for AWS Fargate in the North of England

AWS Fargate
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 4 August 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
Yorkshire - 2 £500 - 1
North West -2 1 £400 -33.33% 4
North East - 1 - -
AWS Fargate
England

AWS Fargate
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (25.00%) CMS
1 1 (25.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon Macie
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (50.00%) AWS KMS
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (25.00%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
1 2 (50.00%) SSL
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (25.00%) MySQL
3 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Lead DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (25.00%) Next.js
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) DDoS Mitigation
2 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (50.00%) FinOps
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) RBAC
2 2 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 2 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (25.00%) PHP
3 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
1 2 (50.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Kustomize
1 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (50.00%) Puppet
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk