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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 454 346 360
Rank change year-on-year -108 +14 +51
Contract jobs citing AWS Fargate 9 12 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.033% 0.079% 0.033%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.11% 0.25% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 6
10th Percentile £373 £450 £508
25th Percentile - £503 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £521
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +5.57% -11.32%
75th Percentile £452 £586 £538
90th Percentile £499 £588 £583
UK median daily rate £437 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -16.76% +0.96% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £72.00 - -
75th Percentile £73.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.50 - -

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 8,111 4,736 4,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.67% 31.01% 26.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,203 3,167 3,376
10th Percentile £281 £255 £240
25th Percentile £404 £384 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £590 £574 £600
90th Percentile £675 £647 £675
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.50% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 484 191 190
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.75 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.19 £16.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £34.13 £18.87 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +80.84% -11.70% -15.37%
75th Percentile £70.00 £36.00 £53.56
90th Percentile £84.63 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.88 £24.92
% change year-on-year +25.54% +11.88% -28.80%

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 13 August 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
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 13 August 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 -65 6 £400 -25.58%
North East -39 4 £400 -
North West -48 2 - -
Scotland -9 1 - -
South West -38 1 £463 - 1
East of England - 1 £345 - 2
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 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 9 (100.00%) Serverless
2 8 (88.89%) Amazon ECS
3 6 (66.67%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (55.56%) Amazon S3
5 4 (44.44%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (44.44%) AWS KMS
6 3 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
6 3 (33.33%) Kong
7 2 (22.22%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (11.11%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (11.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (11.11%) Amazon Macie
8 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (11.11%) CloudFront
8 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
8 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) MongoDB
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (33.33%) DocumentDB
3 2 (22.22%) DynamoDB
4 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
4 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) GitLab
2 2 (22.22%) Git
3 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
3 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 3 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Angular Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Software Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Data Migration Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Migration Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Node.js Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Software Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Architect
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Kafka
1 4 (44.44%) Node.js
1 4 (44.44%) REST
2 3 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 3 (33.33%) Express.js
2 3 (33.33%) Jest
2 3 (33.33%) MEAN Stack
2 3 (33.33%) Nunjucks
2 3 (33.33%) Spring
2 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 2 (22.22%) React
3 2 (22.22%) RESTful
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CDK
4 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
4 1 (11.11%) gRPC
4 1 (11.11%) JPA
4 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Native
2 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
1 7 (77.78%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Migration
3 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
4 3 (33.33%) Clean Code
4 3 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (33.33%) Microservices
4 3 (33.33%) Monorepo
4 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (33.33%) Service Delivery
4 3 (33.33%) Software Delivery
4 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Front End Development
5 2 (22.22%) Micro Frontends
5 2 (22.22%) SDLC
5 2 (22.22%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Java
2 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 3 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
1 5 (55.56%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (11.11%) Istio
2 1 (11.11%) linkerd
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Confluent
1 3 (33.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle