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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 342 396
Rank change year-on-year -38 +54 +75
Contract jobs citing AWS Fargate 17 20 22
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.30% 0.41% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 16
10th Percentile £400 £488 £419
25th Percentile £472 £502 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% -0.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £586 £600 £625
90th Percentile £600 £601 £641
UK median daily rate £508 £520 £600
% change year-on-year -2.40% -13.33% +4.35%

All Cloud 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 5,587 4,936 6,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.16% 29.52% 31.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,805 3,165 4,726
10th Percentile £225 £252 £221
25th Percentile £375 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £672 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 116 229
10th Percentile £12.93 £17.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.89 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £33.74 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.75% +49.93% +16.04%
75th Percentile £40.65 £64.73 £50.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.15
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.86% +46.14%

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 5 November 2025.

Daily 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 5 November 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
North of England -32 11 £525 -12.50% 12
North West -20 8 £575 -4.17% 9
Yorkshire - 3 £450 - 3
East of England -13 2 £538 - 3
South East - 2 - - 20
South West +6 1 - - 7
West Midlands - 1 £520 -
Midlands - 1 £520 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) Apache
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) AWS
2 15 (88.24%) AWS Lambda
2 15 (88.24%) Serverless
3 12 (70.59%) Amazon ECS
4 11 (64.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (52.94%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (47.06%) Amazon SQS
6 8 (47.06%) Datadog
6 8 (47.06%) GitHub
7 7 (41.18%) Azure
8 6 (35.29%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (35.29%) Amazon EventBridge
8 6 (35.29%) Route 53
8 6 (35.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (29.41%) Amazon EMR
9 5 (29.41%) Amazon S3
9 5 (29.41%) Apigee
9 5 (29.41%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (29.41%) GCP
9 5 (29.41%) Loggly
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) VPN
2 3 (17.65%) DNS
2 3 (17.65%) Firewall
3 2 (11.76%) Network Security
3 2 (11.76%) SSL
3 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.88%) Kerberos
4 1 (5.88%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (58.82%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (58.82%) DynamoDB
2 6 (35.29%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (35.29%) NoSQL
2 6 (35.29%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (29.41%) BigQuery
3 5 (29.41%) MySQL
3 5 (29.41%) RDBMS
3 5 (29.41%) Redis
3 5 (29.41%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (52.94%) Jenkins
2 8 (47.06%) Git
3 5 (29.41%) GitLab
3 5 (29.41%) Gradle
3 5 (29.41%) Maven
3 5 (29.41%) SonarLint
3 5 (29.41%) SonarQube
4 2 (11.76%) JIRA
5 1 (5.88%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Architect
2 5 (29.41%) Java Architect
2 5 (29.41%) Java Technical Architect
2 5 (29.41%) Technical Architect
3 4 (23.53%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (17.65%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (17.65%) Digital Architect
4 3 (17.65%) Digital Solutions Architect
4 3 (17.65%) Lead
5 2 (11.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Lead DevOps
5 2 (11.76%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Solution Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) RESTful
2 5 (29.41%) Dropwizard
2 5 (29.41%) J2EE
2 5 (29.41%) JWT
2 5 (29.41%) Micronaut
2 5 (29.41%) Spring Boot
3 4 (23.53%) Celery
4 3 (17.65%) GraphQL
5 2 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (11.76%) Node.js
5 2 (11.76%) React
6 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (5.88%) LDAP
6 1 (5.88%) Middleware
6 1 (5.88%) Next.js
6 1 (5.88%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (58.82%) Cloud Native
2 5 (29.41%) N-Tier
3 4 (23.53%) Product Ownership
4 2 (11.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
1 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Containerisation
2 11 (64.71%) CI/CD
3 10 (58.82%) Microservices
4 9 (52.94%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (47.06%) Agile
5 8 (47.06%) AI
5 8 (47.06%) Design Patterns
5 8 (47.06%) DevOps
5 8 (47.06%) Roadmaps
6 7 (41.18%) Mentoring
7 6 (35.29%) Cost Optimisation
7 6 (35.29%) Event-Driven
7 6 (35.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (29.41%) API Design
8 5 (29.41%) Clean Code
8 5 (29.41%) Observability
8 5 (29.41%) OOP
8 5 (29.41%) TDD
8 5 (29.41%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (29.41%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) Python
2 5 (29.41%) Java
3 2 (11.76%) Shell Script
3 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.88%) Go
4 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 6 (35.29%) AWS Certification
2 6 (35.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
4 3 (17.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) GDPR
2 3 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (17.65%) NIST
3 2 (11.76%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (11.76%) SOC 2
4 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
4 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (58.82%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (64.71%) Terraform
2 7 (41.18%) Kubernetes
3 6 (35.29%) Prometheus
4 3 (17.65%) Ansible
4 3 (17.65%) Grafana
4 3 (17.65%) Puppet
5 2 (11.76%) Kustomize
6 1 (5.88%) Nagios
6 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Gigya
2 3 (17.65%) Splunk
3 1 (5.88%) CloudEndure
3 1 (5.88%) SaltStack