AWS Fargate Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

AWS Fargate
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring AWS Fargate skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 437 331 393
Rank change year-on-year -106 +62 +18
Contract jobs citing AWS Fargate 14 8 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.055% 0.060% 0.023%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.19% 0.18% 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 5
10th Percentile £295 £506 £508
25th Percentile £363 £513 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -21.59% +5.77% -19.07%
75th Percentile £484 £588 £533
90th Percentile £512 £594 £537
UK median daily rate £437 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -16.76% - -13.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £71.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.13 - -
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £78.00 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 7,549 4,332 5,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.53% 32.43% 25.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,971 2,986 3,798
10th Percentile £300 £250 £220
25th Percentile £400 £376 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £511 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.59% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 172 273
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £16.30 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £19.27 £19.95
Median % change year-on-year +94.60% -3.41% -25.42%
75th Percentile £68.75 £34.62 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.81 £67.94 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £28.25 £21.64
% change year-on-year +30.97% +30.55% -38.17%

AWS Fargate
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

AWS Fargate job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

AWS Fargate
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS Fargate.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS Fargate

AWS Fargate
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Fargate in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Fargate in the UK excluding London

AWS Fargate
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS Fargate.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AWS Fargate

AWS Fargate
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS Fargate in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS Fargate in the UK excluding London

AWS Fargate
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
North of England -59 9 £465 -7.00% 3
North West - 7 - - 3
North East -32 2 £465 -
East of England - 2 - -
Scotland -19 1 - -
South West -24 1 £463 -11.90% 4
Wales - 1 £250 -
AWS Fargate
UK

AWS Fargate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (92.86%) AWS Lambda
2 13 (92.86%) Serverless
3 10 (71.43%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (57.14%) Amazon S3
5 4 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (21.43%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (14.29%) AWS KMS
8 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECR
8 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (7.14%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (7.14%) Amazon Macie
8 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (7.14%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (7.14%) GitHub
8 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (7.14%) Kong
8 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (28.57%) DynamoDB
3 3 (21.43%) MongoDB
4 1 (7.14%) DocumentDB
4 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Git
2 3 (21.43%) Gradle
2 3 (21.43%) Maven
3 2 (14.29%) GitLab
4 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
4 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Software Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Java Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Data Migration Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Java Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (71.43%) Spring
1 10 (71.43%) Spring Boot
2 6 (42.86%) React
3 4 (28.57%) GraphQL
4 3 (21.43%) Spring Security
5 2 (14.29%) Kafka
5 2 (14.29%) Node.js
5 2 (14.29%) REST
6 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
6 1 (7.14%) Express.js
6 1 (7.14%) Jest
6 1 (7.14%) JPA
6 1 (7.14%) MEAN Stack
6 1 (7.14%) Nunjucks
6 1 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Full-Stack Development
2 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 8 (57.14%) DevOps
3 6 (42.86%) Micro Frontends
3 6 (42.86%) Software Engineering
4 5 (35.71%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
6 3 (21.43%) API Design
6 3 (21.43%) Code Quality
6 3 (21.43%) Machine Learning
6 3 (21.43%) Migration
7 2 (14.29%) Agile
7 2 (14.29%) Data Migration
7 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (7.14%) Data Protection
8 1 (7.14%) ETL
8 1 (7.14%) Pair Programming
8 1 (7.14%) Performance Testing
8 1 (7.14%) Service Delivery
8 1 (7.14%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
1 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Ansible
3 1 (7.14%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Confluent
2 1 (7.14%) Dynatrace
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle