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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 469 363 366
Rank change year-on-year -106 +3 +34
Contract jobs citing AWS Fargate 11 11 14
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.071% 0.078%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.13% 0.23% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 9
10th Percentile £373 £440 -
25th Percentile - £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +1.94% -6.36%
75th Percentile - £583 £533
90th Percentile £434 £586 £560
UK median daily rate £437 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -16.76% +2.44% -14.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £72.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.88 - -
90th Percentile £77.60 - -
UK median hourly rate £72.00 - -

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 8,261 4,873 4,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.36% 31.49% 27.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,321 3,257 3,269
10th Percentile £263 £250 £250
25th Percentile £403 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £570 £598
90th Percentile £675 £643 £664
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 484 173 145
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.25 £16.95 £17.69
Median hourly rate £30.00 £20.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.34% -28.07% +5.56%
75th Percentile £69.56 £40.65 £64.73
90th Percentile £83.51 £67.20 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.63 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.70% -1.25% -14.29%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -73 8 £400 -25.58% 2
North East -42 4 £400 - 1
North West -48 4 - - 1
Scotland -24 1 - -
South West -42 1 £463 -
East of England - 1 £345 - 3
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 1 (9.09%) nginx
1 1 (9.09%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (90.91%) AWS Lambda
2 10 (90.91%) Serverless
3 9 (81.82%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (54.55%) Amazon S3
4 6 (54.55%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (45.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (45.45%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (36.36%) Amazon ECR
6 4 (36.36%) AWS KMS
6 4 (36.36%) Kong
7 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (18.18%) AWS Control Tower
7 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (9.09%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (9.09%) CloudFront
8 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
8 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) MongoDB
2 4 (36.36%) DocumentDB
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (18.18%) DynamoDB
5 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
5 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) GitLab
2 3 (27.27%) Git
3 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
4 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
General
1 5 (45.45%) Public Sector
2 4 (36.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Angular Developer
2 3 (27.27%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Node.js Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Software Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Data Migration Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Architect
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) Terraform
2 6 (54.55%) Kafka
3 5 (45.45%) REST
4 4 (36.36%) AngularJS
4 4 (36.36%) Express.js
4 4 (36.36%) Jest
4 4 (36.36%) MEAN Stack
4 4 (36.36%) Node.js
4 4 (36.36%) Nunjucks
5 3 (27.27%) RESTful
5 3 (27.27%) Spring
5 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
6 2 (18.18%) React
7 1 (9.09%) AWS CDK
7 1 (9.09%) cloud-init
7 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
7 1 (9.09%) gRPC
7 1 (9.09%) JPA
7 1 (9.09%) Keycloak
7 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Cloud Native
2 4 (36.36%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (36.36%) Product Ownership
3 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) CentOS
2 1 (9.09%) Mac OS
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 9 (81.82%) DevOps
3 7 (63.64%) Agile
4 6 (54.55%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
6 4 (36.36%) Clean Code
6 4 (36.36%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (36.36%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (36.36%) Migration
6 4 (36.36%) Monorepo
6 4 (36.36%) SDLC
6 4 (36.36%) Service Delivery
6 4 (36.36%) Software Delivery
6 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
7 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (27.27%) Microservices
7 3 (27.27%) Observability
7 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (27.27%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Java
1 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
1 4 (36.36%) TypeScript
2 2 (18.18%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) Go
3 1 (9.09%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) QA
2 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
3 1 (9.09%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Istio
2 2 (18.18%) linkerd
3 1 (9.09%) Ansible
3 1 (9.09%) Consul
3 1 (9.09%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (9.09%) Grafana
3 1 (9.09%) HAProxy
3 1 (9.09%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (9.09%) Packer
3 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
3 1 (9.09%) Rancher
3 1 (9.09%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Confluent
1 4 (36.36%) Dynatrace
2 1 (9.09%) Apple
2 1 (9.09%) ESET
2 1 (9.09%) Okta
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Splunk