AWS Fargate Contracts

AWS Fargate
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for AWS Fargate skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS Fargate over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 564 643 719
Rank change year-on-year +79 +76 -100
Contract jobs citing AWS Fargate 22 55 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.095% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.16% 0.26% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 33 88
10th Percentile £450 £425 £443
25th Percentile £494 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £588 £713 £678
90th Percentile £641 £783 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £521 £643 £519
% change year-on-year -18.91% +23.86% +28.88%

All Cloud Skills
UK

AWS Fargate is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,931 21,394 33,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.39% 36.78% 38.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,904 15,475 24,618
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 346 421
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.00 £18.25 £15.37
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £64.45 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.81 £20.00
% change year-on-year -28.64% +24.05% -

AWS Fargate
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS Fargate as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Fargate in the UK

AWS Fargate
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Fargate.

Daily rate trend for AWS Fargate in the UK

AWS Fargate
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Fargate over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Fargate in the UK

AWS Fargate
Top 5 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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
Work from Home +104 15 £522 -22.67% 14
London +76 10 £525 -22.22% 12
England +76 10 £525 -22.22% 16
UK excluding London +53 6 £521 -18.91% 4
Scotland +44 6 £521 +4.20%

AWS Fargate
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (4.55%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) AWS
2 18 (81.82%) Amazon EC2
3 17 (77.27%) Serverless
4 16 (72.73%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (68.18%) Amazon S3
6 14 (63.64%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (36.36%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (36.36%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (27.27%) OpenShift
9 5 (22.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 4 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (18.18%) Amazon EventBridge
11 3 (13.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (13.64%) Amazon ELB
11 3 (13.64%) AWS CloudTrail
11 3 (13.64%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 3 (13.64%) AWS KMS
12 2 (9.09%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 2 (9.09%) AWS CodeCommit
12 2 (9.09%) CloudFront
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (22.73%) Relational Database
4 4 (18.18%) DynamoDB
4 4 (18.18%) NoSQL
4 4 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (18.18%) RDBMS
5 3 (13.64%) InfluxDB
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (9.09%) MariaDB
7 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
7 1 (4.55%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 7 (31.82%) GitLab
3 5 (22.73%) Artifactory
4 3 (13.64%) Bitbucket
4 3 (13.64%) Maven
5 1 (4.55%) Git
5 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) AWS Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) AWS DevOps
2 8 (36.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Architect
4 4 (18.18%) AWS Architect
4 4 (18.18%) Developer
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) Full Stack Developer
5 2 (9.09%) PHP Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Java Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) AWS CDK
2 3 (13.64%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (13.64%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (9.09%) CodeIgniter
3 2 (9.09%) Laravel
3 2 (9.09%) RESTful
4 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.55%) CSS
4 1 (4.55%) HTML
4 1 (4.55%) Node.js
4 1 (4.55%) PyTorch
4 1 (4.55%) React
4 1 (4.55%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (4.55%) TensorFlow
4 1 (4.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (9.09%) Video on Demand
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (31.82%) Linux
2 5 (22.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (22.73%) Ubuntu
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (9.09%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 13 (59.09%) Containerisation
2 13 (59.09%) DevOps
3 10 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (27.27%) Agile
4 6 (27.27%) Test Automation
5 4 (18.18%) Migration
5 4 (18.18%) Observability
6 3 (13.64%) Auto-Scaling
6 3 (13.64%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (13.64%) Event-Driven
6 3 (13.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 3 (13.64%) Presales
6 3 (13.64%) Service Catalogue
6 3 (13.64%) Software Delivery
7 2 (9.09%) Full Stack Development
7 2 (9.09%) Kanban
7 2 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (9.09%) Scrum
7 2 (9.09%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (22.73%) Bash
2 5 (22.73%) Groovy
2 5 (22.73%) JavaScript
3 4 (18.18%) TypeScript
4 2 (9.09%) PHP
5 1 (4.55%) Java
5 1 (4.55%) Ruby
5 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) AWS Certification
2 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 8 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (72.73%) Kubernetes
2 11 (50.00%) Terraform
3 5 (22.73%) Ansible
3 5 (22.73%) Grafana
3 5 (22.73%) Kibana
4 3 (13.64%) Consul
5 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
6 1 (4.55%) Knative
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) MKS