AWS Fargate Contract Job Trends in South Wales

AWS Fargate
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring AWS Fargate skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 - 42
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Fargate 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.27% - 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.00% - 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 - £450
75th Percentile - - £475
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £250 - £450

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 100 108 125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 27.10% 33.96% 34.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 87 109
10th Percentile £289 £185 £183
25th Percentile £304 £240 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £560 £581 £563
90th Percentile £724 £658 £627
Wales median daily rate £400 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -5.88% - -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 3
10th Percentile £18.17 £23.25 £12.73
25th Percentile £22.61 £26.25 £12.96
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £13.33
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +181.32% -13.15%
75th Percentile £31.88 £41.25 £84.67
90th Percentile £33.00 - £127.47
Wales median hourly rate £21.00 £33.64 £13.33
% change year-on-year -37.57% +152.36% -11.13%

AWS Fargate
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

AWS Fargate job vacancy trend in South Wales

AWS Fargate
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 8 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
Cardiff - 1 £250 -
AWS Fargate
Wales

AWS Fargate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 ECS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Confluent