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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 466 365 347
Rank change year-on-year -101 -18 +39
Contract jobs citing AWS Fargate 15 16 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.053% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.18% 0.31% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 12
10th Percentile £345 £400 £488
25th Percentile - £463 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £520 £521
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -0.19% -0.76%
75th Percentile - £583 £600
90th Percentile £500 £590 £601
UK median daily rate £430 £528 £522
% change year-on-year -18.48% +1.05% -13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £77.00 - -
90th Percentile £78.05 - -
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 8,197 5,200 4,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.10% 32.93% 28.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,172 3,497 3,175
10th Percentile £263 £235 £250
25th Percentile £402 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 514 167 130
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.65 £15.38
25th Percentile £17.25 £16.00 £20.56
Median hourly rate £30.00 £19.00 £33.74
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -43.68% +49.73%
75th Percentile £70.00 £35.16 £69.45
90th Percentile £81.28 £65.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.25 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +24.25% -28.14% +7.69%

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 October 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 October 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 -64 11 £400 -23.81% 4
North West -47 6 - - 3
North East - 5 £400 - 1
East of England -22 2 £345 -27.37% 3
South West -31 1 £463 - 6
Northern Ireland - 1 £600 - 4
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 (6.67%) nginx
1 1 (6.67%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (93.33%) AWS Lambda
2 14 (93.33%) Serverless
3 10 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
4 9 (60.00%) Amazon S3
4 9 (60.00%) Amazon SQS
5 8 (53.33%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (46.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
7 5 (33.33%) AWS KMS
7 5 (33.33%) Kong
8 4 (26.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (13.33%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (13.33%) AWS Control Tower
10 2 (13.33%) CloudFront
11 1 (6.67%) Amazon Bedrock
11 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) MongoDB
2 5 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (33.33%) DocumentDB
3 3 (20.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
4 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) GitLab
2 5 (33.33%) Git
3 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
General
1 6 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Billing
4 1 (6.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 5 (33.33%) Developer
1 5 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Angular Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Java Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Node.js Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Software Developer
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Software Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Architect
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Architect
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Solution Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Data Migration Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (66.67%) Terraform
2 8 (53.33%) Kafka
3 6 (40.00%) REST
4 5 (33.33%) AngularJS
4 5 (33.33%) Express.js
4 5 (33.33%) Jest
4 5 (33.33%) MEAN Stack
4 5 (33.33%) Node.js
4 5 (33.33%) Nunjucks
4 5 (33.33%) RESTful
5 3 (20.00%) AWS CDK
5 3 (20.00%) Spring
5 3 (20.00%) Spring Boot
6 2 (13.33%) GraphQL
6 2 (13.33%) gRPC
6 2 (13.33%) React
7 1 (6.67%) cloud-init
7 1 (6.67%) JPA
7 1 (6.67%) Keycloak
7 1 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 5 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (33.33%) Product Ownership
3 3 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) CentOS
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) CI/CD
2 11 (73.33%) DevOps
3 10 (66.67%) Agile
4 8 (53.33%) Test Automation
5 7 (46.67%) Clean Code
5 7 (46.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (40.00%) Observability
6 6 (40.00%) Software Engineering
7 5 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 5 (33.33%) Monorepo
7 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (33.33%) SDLC
7 5 (33.33%) Service Delivery
7 5 (33.33%) Software Delivery
8 4 (26.67%) Microservices
8 4 (26.67%) Migration
9 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
9 3 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Java
2 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 5 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 3 (20.00%) Python
4 2 (13.33%) Bash
4 2 (13.33%) Go
5 1 (6.67%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (6.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Grafana
2 2 (13.33%) Istio
2 2 (13.33%) linkerd
2 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.67%) Ansible
3 1 (6.67%) Consul
3 1 (6.67%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (6.67%) HAProxy
3 1 (6.67%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (6.67%) Packer
3 1 (6.67%) Rancher
3 1 (6.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Confluent
1 5 (33.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (6.67%) Apple
2 1 (6.67%) ESET
2 1 (6.67%) Okta
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Splunk