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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 365 411
Rank change year-on-year +10 +46 +46
Contract jobs citing AWS Fargate 8 6 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.053% 0.032% 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.17% 0.12% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 19
10th Percentile £450 £508 £453
25th Percentile £503 £510 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £521 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% -13.17% +13.74%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £659
90th Percentile £594 £583 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £600
% change year-on-year +0.96% -13.33% -

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 4,692 4,995 7,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.87% 27.04% 32.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,145 3,425 5,243
10th Percentile £250 £242 £225
25th Percentile £380 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £569 £600 £600
90th Percentile £648 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 200 239
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £16.06 £16.84
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.37 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.70% -19.36% +32.50%
75th Percentile £35.07 £52.18 £60.28
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £27.38 £23.80 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.02% -32.00% +59.09%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -6 4 £450 -25.00% 5
Scotland -5 2 £563 +8.17% 1
Yorkshire - 2 £500 - 1
North West -2 1 £400 -33.33% 4
South East - 1 £575 - 1
South West - 1 £525 - 3
North East - 1 - -
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 1 (12.50%) Camunda
1 1 (12.50%) CMS
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (87.50%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (62.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (62.50%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (62.50%) Serverless
4 3 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (37.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 3 (37.50%) Amazon S3
4 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (37.50%) GitHub
4 3 (37.50%) PaaS
4 3 (37.50%) SaaS
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon Macie
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (25.00%) AWS KMS
5 2 (25.00%) CloudFront
5 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) SSL
2 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) Network Security
2 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (25.00%) VPN
3 1 (12.50%) FTP
3 1 (12.50%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (37.50%) DynamoDB
1 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (12.50%) InfluxDB
3 1 (12.50%) MySQL
3 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
3 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (37.50%) Git
2 3 (37.50%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) Artifactory
3 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) Mockito
3 1 (12.50%) Terragrunt
3 1 (12.50%) Toad
General
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Lead DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Java Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Technical Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Spring Boot
2 2 (25.00%) AWS CDK
2 2 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (25.00%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) Spring
3 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 1 (12.50%) Apache Camel
3 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
3 1 (12.50%) JPA
3 1 (12.50%) JWT
3 1 (12.50%) Kafka
3 1 (12.50%) Keycloak
3 1 (12.50%) Next.js
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth
3 1 (12.50%) OpenID
3 1 (12.50%) OpenJDK
3 1 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (12.50%) SAML
3 1 (12.50%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
3 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
3 3 (37.50%) Microservices
3 3 (37.50%) Secrets Management
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Auto-Scaling
4 2 (25.00%) Compliance Audit
4 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (25.00%) Database Security
4 2 (25.00%) DDoS Mitigation
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 2 (25.00%) Network Load Balancing
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
4 2 (25.00%) Release Management
4 2 (25.00%) Resource Management
4 2 (25.00%) SIEM
4 2 (25.00%) Threat Detection
4 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (12.50%) Bash
4 1 (12.50%) Groovy
4 1 (12.50%) PHP
4 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (37.50%) AWS Certification
3 3 (37.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Degree
5 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
5 1 (12.50%) OCP
5 1 (12.50%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) GDPR
2 2 (25.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (25.00%) NIST
2 2 (25.00%) SOC 2
3 1 (12.50%) NCSC
3 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
3 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) Grafana
2 3 (37.50%) Prometheus
3 2 (25.00%) Kustomize
3 2 (25.00%) Puppet
4 1 (12.50%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (12.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
1 2 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) MuleSoft
2 1 (12.50%) Okta
2 1 (12.50%) Talend