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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 393 444
Rank change year-on-year +78 +51 +43
Contract jobs citing AWS Fargate 21 6 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.029% 0.075%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.51% 0.11% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 6 14
10th Percentile £513 £508 £428
25th Percentile £530 £510 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £521 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.16% -13.17% +17.07%
75th Percentile £738 £538 £700
90th Percentile £750 £583 £781
UK median daily rate £575 £524 £600
% change year-on-year +9.84% -12.75% -1.03%

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 4,086 5,443 8,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.01% 26.20% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,896 3,840 5,946
10th Percentile £236 £213 £240
25th Percentile £388 £375 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 259 231
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.69
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%
75th Percentile £33.45 £26.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £61.52 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +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
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
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 1 May 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 1 May 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 - 11 £738 - 5
Scotland +14 7 £533 +2.21%
Yorkshire - 7 £725 - 2
North East - 3 £750 -
South East - 2 £575 - 7
South West - 1 £525 - 4
North West - 1 £750 - 3
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 7 (33.33%) nginx
1 7 (33.33%) Traefik
2 3 (14.29%) Confluence
3 2 (9.52%) Camunda
4 1 (4.76%) CMS
4 1 (4.76%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) AWS
2 20 (95.24%) Amazon ECS
3 15 (71.43%) AWS CloudFormation
4 13 (61.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (42.86%) Entra ID
5 9 (42.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (33.33%) Amazon S3
6 7 (33.33%) PaaS
6 7 (33.33%) SaaS
6 7 (33.33%) Serverless
7 6 (28.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 6 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (28.57%) OpenShift
8 5 (23.81%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (23.81%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 5 (23.81%) AWS CodeBuild
8 5 (23.81%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 5 (23.81%) AWS CodePipeline
8 5 (23.81%) Route 53
9 2 (9.52%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 10 (47.62%) DNS
2 9 (42.86%) TCP/IP
3 4 (19.05%) Firewall
4 1 (4.76%) FTP
4 1 (4.76%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (4.76%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (57.14%) MongoDB
2 5 (23.81%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (19.05%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (9.52%) InfluxDB
5 1 (4.76%) MySQL
5 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.76%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (76.19%) Jenkins
2 12 (57.14%) GitLab
3 6 (28.57%) Git
4 3 (14.29%) Artifactory
4 3 (14.29%) JIRA
5 2 (9.52%) Terragrunt
6 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
6 1 (4.76%) Mockito
6 1 (4.76%) Toad
General
1 8 (38.10%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) DevOps Engineer
1 8 (38.10%) Senior
1 8 (38.10%) Senior DevOps
2 5 (23.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Architect
3 3 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) AWS Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Java Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Java Technical Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Technical Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Integration Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Java Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Lead
5 1 (4.76%) Software Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (57.14%) Kafka
2 11 (52.38%) Keycloak
3 10 (47.62%) cloud-init
4 6 (28.57%) AWS CDK
5 4 (19.05%) Spring Boot
6 3 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (14.29%) React
7 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
7 2 (9.52%) OpenJDK
7 2 (9.52%) REST
7 2 (9.52%) Spring
8 1 (4.76%) Apache Camel
8 1 (4.76%) JPA
8 1 (4.76%) JWT
8 1 (4.76%) Loki
8 1 (4.76%) Node.js
8 1 (4.76%) OAuth
8 1 (4.76%) OpenID
8 1 (4.76%) SAML
8 1 (4.76%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) PKI
2 4 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 4 (19.05%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 13 (61.90%) Linux
2 12 (57.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (47.62%) CentOS
3 10 (47.62%) Unix
4 2 (9.52%) Ubuntu
5 1 (4.76%) Mac OS
5 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (90.48%) CI/CD
2 14 (66.67%) DevOps
3 11 (52.38%) Secrets Management
4 10 (47.62%) Continuous Integration
4 10 (47.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (42.86%) Agile
5 9 (42.86%) Cloud Security
5 9 (42.86%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 9 (42.86%) Identity Management
5 9 (42.86%) Observability
5 9 (42.86%) Static Application Security Testing
6 7 (33.33%) Mobile Device Management
7 6 (28.57%) Containerisation
8 4 (19.05%) Kanban
8 4 (19.05%) Microservices
8 4 (19.05%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (19.05%) Scrum
8 4 (19.05%) Test Automation
9 3 (14.29%) Service Delivery
9 3 (14.29%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 16 (76.19%) Bash
1 16 (76.19%) Python
2 10 (47.62%) Go
3 4 (19.05%) Java
4 3 (14.29%) Groovy
4 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.76%) PHP
5 1 (4.76%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.76%) SQL
5 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (61.90%) Security Cleared
2 11 (52.38%) AWS Certification
2 11 (52.38%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Degree
4 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) OCP
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (52.38%) NCSC
2 2 (9.52%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (4.76%) GDPR
3 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (80.95%) Kubernetes
2 13 (61.90%) Grafana
2 13 (61.90%) Terraform
3 11 (52.38%) Prometheus
4 10 (47.62%) Packer
5 9 (42.86%) Consul
5 9 (42.86%) Istio
5 9 (42.86%) Jamf Pro
5 9 (42.86%) linkerd
5 9 (42.86%) Rancher
5 9 (42.86%) ZABBIX
6 7 (33.33%) HAProxy
7 4 (19.05%) Ansible
8 3 (14.29%) Kibana
9 1 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (4.76%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 10 (47.62%) Okta
2 9 (42.86%) Splunk
3 7 (33.33%) Apple
3 7 (33.33%) ESET
4 2 (9.52%) Imperva
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
4 2 (9.52%) Oracle
5 1 (4.76%) Atlassian
5 1 (4.76%) MuleSoft
5 1 (4.76%) Talend