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

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 376 335 393
Rank change year-on-year -41 +58 +64
Contract jobs citing AWS Fargate 19 27 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.16% 0.097%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.34% 0.55% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 17 15
10th Percentile £400 £488 £418
25th Percentile £472 £508 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.92% +14.29% -2.33%
75th Percentile £586 £725 £625
90th Percentile £600 £743 £641
UK median daily rate £508 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -9.78% -6.25% +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 5,657 4,932 6,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.95% 29.79% 31.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,870 3,163 4,745
10th Percentile £230 £255 £220
25th Percentile £375 £399 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 119 224
10th Percentile £12.97 £18.18 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.00 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £32.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.38% +44.44% +19.52%
75th Percentile £41.45 £59.98 £49.06
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.74 £32.15
% change year-on-year -25.45% +4.93% +47.61%

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 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 12 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 -39 11 £525 -27.59% 4
North West -13 8 £575 -4.17% 1
East of England -12 3 £538 -
Yorkshire -33 3 £450 -37.93% 2
South East - 2 - - 4
South West 0 1 - - 3
Scotland -7 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 £520 -
West 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 (10.53%) Apache
1 2 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (10.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) AWS
2 16 (84.21%) AWS Lambda
2 16 (84.21%) Serverless
3 13 (68.42%) Amazon ECS
4 11 (57.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 11 (57.89%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (42.11%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (42.11%) Amazon SQS
5 8 (42.11%) Datadog
5 8 (42.11%) GitHub
6 7 (36.84%) Amazon S3
6 7 (36.84%) Azure
6 7 (36.84%) Route 53
6 7 (36.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 6 (31.58%) Amazon EventBridge
7 6 (31.58%) Apigee
7 6 (31.58%) GCP
8 5 (26.32%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (26.32%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (26.32%) Loggly
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) VPN
2 3 (15.79%) DNS
2 3 (15.79%) Firewall
3 2 (10.53%) Network Security
3 2 (10.53%) SSL
3 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.26%) Kerberos
4 1 (5.26%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (57.89%) Amazon RDS
1 11 (57.89%) DynamoDB
2 7 (36.84%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (36.84%) NoSQL
3 6 (31.58%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (26.32%) BigQuery
4 5 (26.32%) MySQL
4 5 (26.32%) RDBMS
4 5 (26.32%) Redis
4 5 (26.32%) Relational Database
5 2 (10.53%) Power BI
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 9 (47.37%) Jenkins
2 8 (42.11%) Git
3 6 (31.58%) GitLab
4 5 (26.32%) Gradle
4 5 (26.32%) Maven
4 5 (26.32%) SonarLint
4 5 (26.32%) SonarQube
5 2 (10.53%) JIRA
6 1 (5.26%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Architect
2 5 (26.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Java Architect
2 5 (26.32%) Java Technical Architect
2 5 (26.32%) Technical Architect
3 4 (21.05%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Lead
3 4 (21.05%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (15.79%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (15.79%) Digital Architect
4 3 (15.79%) Digital Solutions Architect
5 2 (10.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Lead DevOps
5 2 (10.53%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Technical Leader
6 1 (5.26%) AWS Solution Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Python Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) RESTful
2 5 (26.32%) Dropwizard
2 5 (26.32%) J2EE
2 5 (26.32%) JWT
2 5 (26.32%) Micronaut
2 5 (26.32%) Spring Boot
3 4 (21.05%) Celery
4 3 (15.79%) GraphQL
4 3 (15.79%) Node.js
4 3 (15.79%) React
5 2 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (5.26%) LDAP
6 1 (5.26%) Middleware
6 1 (5.26%) Next.js
6 1 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (5.26%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (57.89%) Cloud Native
2 5 (26.32%) N-Tier
3 4 (21.05%) Product Ownership
4 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (10.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
1 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Containerisation
2 12 (63.16%) CI/CD
3 10 (52.63%) DevOps
3 10 (52.63%) Microservices
3 10 (52.63%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (47.37%) Agile
4 9 (47.37%) AI
5 8 (42.11%) Design Patterns
5 8 (42.11%) Roadmaps
6 7 (36.84%) Mentoring
6 7 (36.84%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (31.58%) Auto-Scaling
7 6 (31.58%) Cost Optimisation
7 6 (31.58%) Event-Driven
7 6 (31.58%) Observability
8 5 (26.32%) API Design
8 5 (26.32%) Clean Code
8 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (26.32%) SDLC
8 5 (26.32%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (73.68%) Python
2 5 (26.32%) Java
3 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
3 2 (10.53%) SQL
3 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.26%) Bash
4 1 (5.26%) Go
4 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 6 (31.58%) AWS Certification
2 6 (31.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
4 3 (15.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) GDPR
2 3 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (15.79%) NIST
3 2 (10.53%) Accessibility
3 2 (10.53%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (10.53%) SOC 2
4 1 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (57.89%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (63.16%) Terraform
2 8 (42.11%) Kubernetes
3 6 (31.58%) Prometheus
4 4 (21.05%) Grafana
5 3 (15.79%) Ansible
5 3 (15.79%) Puppet
6 2 (10.53%) Kustomize
7 1 (5.26%) Argo
7 1 (5.26%) Karpenter
7 1 (5.26%) Nagios
7 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Gigya
2 4 (21.05%) Splunk
3 1 (5.26%) CloudEndure
3 1 (5.26%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) SaltStack