AWS Fargate Contracts in Scotland

AWS Fargate
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 109 123 158
Rank change year-on-year +14 +35 +12
Contract jobs citing AWS Fargate 7 6 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.43% 0.27% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.09% 0.81% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 5
10th Percentile £513 £508 £473
25th Percentile £514 £510 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £521 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.21% +1.66% +2.50%
75th Percentile £558 £538 £525
90th Percentile £580 £583 £528
UK median daily rate £575 £524 £600
% change year-on-year +9.84% -12.75% -1.03%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 645 738 1,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.69% 33.29% 36.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 504 774
10th Percentile £305 £258 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% - -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £659 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 11
10th Percentile £21.84 £15.39 £18.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.69 £45.00
Median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year +41.71% -71.92% +65.89%
75th Percentile £27.91 £17.67 £66.50
90th Percentile £28.38 £24.85 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

AWS Fargate
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Fargate in Scotland

AWS Fargate
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Fargate in Scotland

AWS Fargate
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Edinburgh +7 5 £530 +1.92%
Glasgow +2 1 £600 +6.95%
AWS Fargate
UK

AWS Fargate
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 7 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Serverless
2 6 (85.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 6 (85.71%) Amazon S3
2 6 (85.71%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (71.43%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (71.43%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 5 (71.43%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (71.43%) AWS CodeBuild
3 5 (71.43%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 5 (71.43%) AWS CodePipeline
3 5 (71.43%) OpenShift
3 5 (71.43%) PaaS
3 5 (71.43%) Route 53
3 5 (71.43%) SaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (14.29%) CloudFront
4 1 (14.29%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) FTP
2 1 (14.29%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (14.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (28.57%) InfluxDB
2 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git
2 3 (42.86%) Artifactory
2 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
3 2 (28.57%) GitLab
4 1 (14.29%) Mockito
4 1 (14.29%) Toad
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) AWS CDK
2 3 (42.86%) React
3 2 (28.57%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (14.29%) Apache Camel
4 1 (14.29%) JWT
4 1 (14.29%) Loki
4 1 (14.29%) OAuth
4 1 (14.29%) OpenID
4 1 (14.29%) REST
4 1 (14.29%) SAML
4 1 (14.29%) Spring
4 1 (14.29%) Spring Batch
4 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
1 4 (57.14%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) Containerisation
3 4 (57.14%) Kanban
3 4 (57.14%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (57.14%) Scrum
3 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (28.57%) Human-Centred Design
4 2 (28.57%) Inclusive Design
4 2 (28.57%) Software Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Change Data Capture
5 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) Microservices
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
5 1 (14.29%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Bash
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Groovy
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) OCP
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Ansible
2 3 (42.86%) Grafana
2 3 (42.86%) Kibana
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Imperva
2 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft
2 1 (14.29%) Okta
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Talend