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 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 309 403
Rank change year-on-year -86 +94 +68
Contract jobs citing AWS Fargate 23 32 11
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.24% 0.052%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.35% 0.73% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 23 9
10th Percentile £400 £509 £496
25th Percentile £469 £524 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £522
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.94% -0.57%
75th Percentile £600 £738 £540
90th Percentile £625 £750 £605
UK median daily rate £480 £600 £531
% change year-on-year -20.00% +12.94% -9.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £76.75 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
75th Percentile £91.50 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £81.00 - -

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 6,532 4,365 5,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.59% 33.23% 28.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,536 2,994 4,189
10th Percentile £253 £231 £213
25th Percentile £380 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £495
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% - -2.46%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £594
90th Percentile £663 £669 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 285 115 257
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.18 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £18.32 £15.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £24.18 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +86.10% +34.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £60.00 £35.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £80.12 £68.75 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £27.13 £21.37
% change year-on-year +45.62% +26.93% -14.52%

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 2 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Fargate in the UK excluding London

AWS Fargate
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS Fargate in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 March 2026.

Hourly 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 2 March 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 -59 11 £528 -28.47% 8
North West -28 7 £563 -25.00% 6
East of England - 5 £538 - 4
North East -11 2 £640 -14.67%
South West -22 2 £600 - 10
South East -34 2 - - 5
Yorkshire -66 2 £438 -39.66% 2
Scotland -2 1 - - 1
Wales - 1 £250 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £520 - 2
Midlands - 1 £520 - 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 2 (8.70%) Apache
1 2 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (8.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 20 (86.96%) AWS Lambda
2 20 (86.96%) Serverless
3 15 (65.22%) Amazon S3
4 13 (56.52%) Amazon ECS
5 9 (39.13%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (30.43%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (26.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (26.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (21.74%) Azure
9 4 (17.39%) Entra ID
9 4 (17.39%) GitHub
9 4 (17.39%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (13.04%) CloudFront
10 3 (13.04%) Datadog
11 2 (8.70%) Amazon Bedrock
11 2 (8.70%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (8.70%) Route 53
11 2 (8.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) VPN
2 2 (8.70%) HTTP
3 1 (4.35%) DNS
3 1 (4.35%) Firewall
3 1 (4.35%) Kerberos
3 1 (4.35%) LAN
3 1 (4.35%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (43.48%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (34.78%) DynamoDB
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
3 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.70%) Power BI
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) GitLab
2 4 (17.39%) Git
3 3 (13.04%) Gradle
3 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
3 3 (13.04%) Maven
4 2 (8.70%) JIRA
5 1 (4.35%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Banking
3 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Lead
2 4 (17.39%) Architect
2 4 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (13.04%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (13.04%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Digital Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Digital Solutions Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Java Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Senior
3 3 (13.04%) Software Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Technical Leader
4 2 (8.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Java Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Principal Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) Node.js
1 7 (30.43%) React
1 7 (30.43%) Spring
1 7 (30.43%) Spring Boot
2 4 (17.39%) GraphQL
3 3 (13.04%) Spring Security
4 1 (4.35%) .NET
4 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (4.35%) AWS CDK
4 1 (4.35%) JWT
4 1 (4.35%) Kafka
4 1 (4.35%) LDAP
4 1 (4.35%) Middleware
4 1 (4.35%) OAuth
4 1 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (4.35%) REST
4 1 (4.35%) RESTful
4 1 (4.35%) WCF
4 1 (4.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (47.83%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.35%) AI Agents
3 1 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
1 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) DevOps
2 11 (47.83%) CI/CD
3 9 (39.13%) Full-Stack Development
4 7 (30.43%) Containerisation
5 6 (26.09%) Machine Learning
5 6 (26.09%) Microservices
6 5 (21.74%) Data Protection
6 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (21.74%) Roadmaps
6 5 (21.74%) Software Engineering
7 4 (17.39%) Agile
7 4 (17.39%) AI
7 4 (17.39%) API Design
7 4 (17.39%) Auto-Scaling
7 4 (17.39%) Cost Optimisation
7 4 (17.39%) Design Patterns
7 4 (17.39%) High Availability
7 4 (17.39%) Mentoring
7 4 (17.39%) Micro Frontends
7 4 (17.39%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) Java
2 8 (34.78%) Python
3 5 (21.74%) SQL
4 2 (8.70%) Go
4 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.35%) Bash
5 1 (4.35%) C#
5 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) AWS Certification
2 4 (17.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) GDPR
2 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.70%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.35%) NIST
3 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (34.78%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Terraform
2 5 (21.74%) Prometheus
3 4 (17.39%) Grafana
4 2 (8.70%) Ansible
5 1 (4.35%) Argo
5 1 (4.35%) Karpenter
5 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
5 1 (4.35%) Nagios
5 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Splunk
2 1 (4.35%) Blue Prism
2 1 (4.35%) CloudEndure
2 1 (4.35%) Confluent
2 1 (4.35%) Google
2 1 (4.35%) SaltStack
2 1 (4.35%) UiPath