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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 354 393
Rank change year-on-year -9 +39 +57
Contract jobs citing AWS Fargate 11 14 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.071% 0.078% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.23% 0.28% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 21
10th Percentile £440 - £425
25th Percentile £500 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £583 £533 £638
90th Percentile £586 £560 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £600
% change year-on-year +2.44% -14.58% +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 4,867 4,932 6,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.55% 27.52% 31.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,266 3,273 4,946
10th Percentile £250 £250 £225
25th Percentile £379 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £572 £600 £600
90th Percentile £642 £665 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 144 243
10th Percentile £14.89 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.65 £17.69 £17.05
Median hourly rate £19.27 £30.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.77% +11.11% +41.44%
75th Percentile £36.00 £64.73 £62.19
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £29.04 £30.73 £35.00
% change year-on-year -5.52% -12.19% +62.79%

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
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 September 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 13 September 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 -9 9 £538 -10.42% 2
North West -4 6 £575 -4.17% 2
Yorkshire - 2 £500 -
Scotland -11 1 £525 +2.19%
North East - 1 - -
South West - 1 - - 1
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 1 (9.09%) CMS
1 1 (9.09%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (90.91%) Amazon ECS
3 9 (81.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 9 (81.82%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (81.82%) Serverless
4 8 (72.73%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (63.64%) Amazon SQS
5 7 (63.64%) GitHub
6 6 (54.55%) Route 53
7 5 (45.45%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (45.45%) Amazon EventBridge
7 5 (45.45%) Apigee
7 5 (45.45%) AWS Step Functions
7 5 (45.45%) Datadog
7 5 (45.45%) GCP
7 5 (45.45%) Loggly
7 5 (45.45%) PaaS
7 5 (45.45%) SaaS
8 4 (36.36%) Azure
9 3 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) DNS
2 2 (18.18%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) Network Security
2 2 (18.18%) SSL
2 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
2 2 (18.18%) VPN
3 1 (9.09%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) DynamoDB
2 7 (63.64%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (54.55%) MySQL
3 6 (54.55%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (45.45%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (45.45%) BigQuery
4 5 (45.45%) NoSQL
4 5 (45.45%) RDBMS
4 5 (45.45%) Redis
4 5 (45.45%) Relational Database
5 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (9.09%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) Jenkins
2 7 (63.64%) Git
3 5 (45.45%) Gradle
3 5 (45.45%) Maven
3 5 (45.45%) SonarLint
3 5 (45.45%) SonarQube
4 3 (27.27%) GitLab
5 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Architect
1 5 (45.45%) Java Architect
1 5 (45.45%) Java Technical Architect
1 5 (45.45%) Technical Architect
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Lead
3 2 (18.18%) Lead DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Python Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Python Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) RESTful
2 5 (45.45%) Dropwizard
2 5 (45.45%) J2EE
2 5 (45.45%) JWT
2 5 (45.45%) Micronaut
2 5 (45.45%) Spring Boot
3 4 (36.36%) Celery
4 3 (27.27%) GraphQL
5 2 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (9.09%) AWS CDK
6 1 (9.09%) Loki
6 1 (9.09%) Next.js
6 1 (9.09%) Node.js
6 1 (9.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Cloud Native
2 5 (45.45%) N-Tier
3 4 (36.36%) Product Ownership
4 2 (18.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Containerisation
2 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
3 8 (72.73%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (63.64%) Agile
4 7 (63.64%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (54.55%) Microservices
6 5 (45.45%) API Design
6 5 (45.45%) BDD
6 5 (45.45%) CQRS
6 5 (45.45%) DevOps
6 5 (45.45%) Domain-Driven Design
6 5 (45.45%) Event-Driven
6 5 (45.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 5 (45.45%) OOP
6 5 (45.45%) OWASP
6 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (45.45%) TDD
6 5 (45.45%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (45.45%) TOGAF
6 5 (45.45%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Python
2 5 (45.45%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
3 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
4 1 (9.09%) Bash
4 1 (9.09%) Groovy
4 1 (9.09%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) OCP
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (18.18%) GDPR
1 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (18.18%) NIST
1 2 (18.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (81.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Kubernetes
2 7 (63.64%) Terraform
3 3 (27.27%) Ansible
3 3 (27.27%) Grafana
3 3 (27.27%) Prometheus
4 2 (18.18%) Kustomize
4 2 (18.18%) Puppet
5 1 (9.09%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Gigya
2 2 (18.18%) Splunk