AWS Fargate Contracts in the UK excluding London

AWS Fargate
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 397 426
Rank change year-on-year +50 +29 +56
Contract jobs citing AWS Fargate 8 6 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.055% 0.028% 0.077%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.17% 0.11% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 13
10th Percentile £506 £508 £500
25th Percentile £513 £510 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £521 £610
Median % change year-on-year +5.57% -14.59% +16.19%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £700
90th Percentile £594 £583 £781
UK median daily rate £525 £524 £610
% change year-on-year +0.29% -14.18% +1.67%

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 4,579 5,497 7,553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.72% 26.10% 32.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,095 3,796 5,550
10th Percentile £250 £225 £240
25th Percentile £381 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £667 £694
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 274 235
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.85 £17.05
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.99 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.08% -22.28% +40.30%
75th Percentile £33.33 £43.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £60.00 £70.00 £75.80
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -37.14% +59.09%

AWS Fargate
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing AWS Fargate as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Fargate in the UK excluding London

AWS Fargate
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Fargate in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend 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 6 July 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 +5 3 £500 -16.67% 7
Scotland +3 2 £563 +8.17% 1
South East - 2 £575 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £500 - 4
North East - 1 - - 1
South West - 1 £525 - 5
AWS Fargate
UK

AWS Fargate
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (25.00%) Camunda
1 2 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) CMS
2 1 (12.50%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (87.50%) Amazon ECS
3 6 (75.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (50.00%) GitHub
4 4 (50.00%) PaaS
4 4 (50.00%) SaaS
4 4 (50.00%) Serverless
5 3 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (37.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 3 (37.50%) Amazon S3
5 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (25.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 2 (25.00%) Amazon Macie
6 2 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (25.00%) Azure
6 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
6 2 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) SSL
2 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) Network Security
2 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (25.00%) VPN
3 1 (12.50%) FTP
3 1 (12.50%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (25.00%) DynamoDB
3 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (12.50%) InfluxDB
4 1 (12.50%) MySQL
4 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
4 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
4 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (37.50%) Git
2 3 (37.50%) GitLab
3 2 (25.00%) JIRA
3 2 (25.00%) Terragrunt
4 1 (12.50%) Artifactory
4 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
4 1 (12.50%) Mockito
4 1 (12.50%) Toad
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Java Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Java Technical Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Lead DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (25.00%) AWS CDK
2 2 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (25.00%) Kafka
2 2 (25.00%) Keycloak
2 2 (25.00%) OpenJDK
2 2 (25.00%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) Spring
3 1 (12.50%) Apache Camel
3 1 (12.50%) JPA
3 1 (12.50%) JWT
3 1 (12.50%) Loki
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth
3 1 (12.50%) OpenID
3 1 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (12.50%) SAML
3 1 (12.50%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 4 (50.00%) Microservices
3 3 (37.50%) Secrets Management
3 3 (37.50%) TOGAF
4 2 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (25.00%) FinOps
4 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Observability
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) RBAC
4 2 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) Python
3 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (12.50%) Bash
4 1 (12.50%) Groovy
4 1 (12.50%) PHP
4 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (50.00%) AWS Certification
3 4 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Degree
5 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
5 1 (12.50%) OCP
5 1 (12.50%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) GDPR
2 2 (25.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (25.00%) NCSC
2 2 (25.00%) NIST
2 2 (25.00%) SOC 2
3 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
3 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Terraform
2 4 (50.00%) Ansible
2 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (37.50%) Grafana
3 3 (37.50%) Prometheus
4 2 (25.00%) Kustomize
4 2 (25.00%) Puppet
5 1 (12.50%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (12.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
1 2 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
2 1 (12.50%) MuleSoft
2 1 (12.50%) Okta
2 1 (12.50%) Talend