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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 315 408
Rank change year-on-year -66 +93 +56
Contract jobs citing AWS Fargate 27 34 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.25% 0.038%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.44% 0.77% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 23 6
10th Percentile £406 £491 £439
25th Percentile £472 £512 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +6.67% -8.30%
75th Percentile £600 £738 £584
90th Percentile £623 £750 £613
UK median daily rate £520 £575 £544
% change year-on-year -9.57% +5.75% -7.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £75.90 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 6,172 4,393 6,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.94% 32.03% 28.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,321 2,927 4,345
10th Percentile £230 £237 £215
25th Percentile £375 £380 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -1.77%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £663 £675 £678
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 106 226
10th Percentile £13.18 £15.24 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.82 £19.87 £15.52
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.42 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.09% +16.29% +5.40%
75th Percentile £58.75 £40.86 £46.18
90th Percentile £76.13 £68.75 £69.41
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year +18.18% +18.46% -3.27%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 31 January 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 -46 16 £550 -25.42% 2
North West -16 13 £575 -23.33% 2
East of England -11 4 £538 -
South West -20 3 £600 - 7
Yorkshire -52 2 £438 -39.66%
South East - 2 - - 1
Scotland -12 1 - -
North East -17 1 £750 -
West Midlands - 1 £520 -
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 (7.41%) Apache
1 2 (7.41%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (7.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 27 (100.00%) AWS
2 24 (88.89%) AWS Lambda
2 24 (88.89%) Serverless
3 17 (62.96%) Amazon ECS
4 16 (59.26%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (51.85%) Amazon S3
6 11 (40.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (33.33%) Azure
8 8 (29.63%) Datadog
8 8 (29.63%) GitHub
9 7 (25.93%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (25.93%) Apigee
9 7 (25.93%) Route 53
10 6 (22.22%) Amazon EventBridge
10 6 (22.22%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (22.22%) GCP
10 6 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (18.52%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (18.52%) Loggly
11 5 (18.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) VPN
2 2 (7.41%) HTTP
3 1 (3.70%) DNS
3 1 (3.70%) Firewall
3 1 (3.70%) Kerberos
3 1 (3.70%) LAN
3 1 (3.70%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (3.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (55.56%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (51.85%) DynamoDB
3 7 (25.93%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (25.93%) NoSQL
4 6 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (18.52%) BigQuery
5 5 (18.52%) MySQL
5 5 (18.52%) RDBMS
5 5 (18.52%) Redis
5 5 (18.52%) Relational Database
6 2 (7.41%) Power BI
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
7 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (33.33%) Git
2 8 (29.63%) Gradle
2 8 (29.63%) Jenkins
2 8 (29.63%) Maven
3 5 (18.52%) GitLab
3 5 (18.52%) SonarLint
3 5 (18.52%) SonarQube
4 2 (7.41%) JIRA
5 1 (3.70%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Architect
2 5 (18.52%) Java Architect
2 5 (18.52%) Java Technical Architect
2 5 (18.52%) Technical Architect
3 4 (14.81%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Lead
3 4 (14.81%) Senior
3 4 (14.81%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (11.11%) Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Digital Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Digital Solutions Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Java Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Java Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (40.74%) Spring Boot
2 8 (29.63%) React
3 7 (25.93%) GraphQL
3 7 (25.93%) RESTful
4 6 (22.22%) JWT
4 6 (22.22%) Node.js
4 6 (22.22%) Spring
5 5 (18.52%) Dropwizard
5 5 (18.52%) J2EE
5 5 (18.52%) Micronaut
6 4 (14.81%) Celery
7 3 (11.11%) Spring Security
8 1 (3.70%) .NET
8 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (3.70%) LDAP
8 1 (3.70%) Middleware
8 1 (3.70%) OAuth
8 1 (3.70%) REST
8 1 (3.70%) WCF
8 1 (3.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (59.26%) Cloud Native
2 5 (18.52%) N-Tier
3 4 (14.81%) Product Ownership
4 2 (7.41%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.70%) AI Agents
5 1 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
1 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) CI/CD
2 15 (55.56%) DevOps
3 14 (51.85%) Containerisation
4 12 (44.44%) Microservices
5 10 (37.04%) Agile
6 9 (33.33%) AI
6 9 (33.33%) Design Patterns
6 9 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 9 (33.33%) Roadmaps
7 8 (29.63%) API Design
7 8 (29.63%) Mentoring
7 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (25.93%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (22.22%) Event-Driven
9 6 (22.22%) Machine Learning
9 6 (22.22%) TDD
9 6 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
10 5 (18.52%) Clean Code
10 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (18.52%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) Python
2 12 (44.44%) Java
3 4 (14.81%) SQL
4 3 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 2 (7.41%) Go
6 1 (3.70%) Bash
6 1 (3.70%) C#
6 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.81%) AWS Certification
2 4 (14.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) GDPR
2 2 (7.41%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.41%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.70%) NIST
3 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (55.56%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (48.15%) Terraform
2 6 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 5 (18.52%) Prometheus
4 4 (14.81%) Grafana
5 2 (7.41%) Ansible
6 1 (3.70%) Argo
6 1 (3.70%) Karpenter
6 1 (3.70%) Nagios
6 1 (3.70%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Gigya
2 2 (7.41%) Splunk
3 1 (3.70%) Blue Prism
3 1 (3.70%) CloudEndure
3 1 (3.70%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) SaltStack
3 1 (3.70%) UiPath