AWS Fargate Contracts

AWS Fargate
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 557 657
Rank change year-on-year +86 +100 +56
Contract jobs citing AWS Fargate 49 25 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.057% 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.45% 0.18% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 22 35
10th Percentile £500 £406 £440
25th Percentile £513 £491 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £524 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.84% -12.75% -1.03%
75th Percentile £738 £572 £744
90th Percentile £750 £623 £783
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £521 £600
% change year-on-year +15.16% -13.17% +17.07%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,005 14,070 22,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.59% 32.30% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,639 9,993 15,919
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 346 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £47.58 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Fargate in the UK

AWS Fargate
Top 11 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 1 May 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
England +77 33 £725 +38.10% 35
Work from Home +50 26 £575 +10.15% 23
UK excluding London +78 21 £600 +15.16% 12
London +41 16 £725 +38.10% 23
North of England - 11 £738 - 5
Scotland +14 7 £533 +2.21%
Yorkshire - 7 £725 - 2
North East - 3 £750 -
South East - 2 £575 - 4
South West - 1 £525 - 3
North West - 1 £750 - 3

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 12 (24.49%) nginx
1 12 (24.49%) Traefik
2 6 (12.24%) CMS
2 6 (12.24%) WordPress
3 5 (10.20%) Confluence
4 2 (4.08%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 49 (100.00%) AWS
2 37 (75.51%) Amazon ECS
3 30 (61.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 30 (61.22%) AWS CloudFormation
4 21 (42.86%) Serverless
5 16 (32.65%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (30.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 14 (28.57%) Entra ID
8 13 (26.53%) AWS CodePipeline
9 12 (24.49%) PaaS
9 12 (24.49%) SaaS
10 11 (22.45%) Amazon S3
11 9 (18.37%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (18.37%) Amazon EventBridge
11 9 (18.37%) GitHub
12 8 (16.33%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 7 (14.29%) OpenShift
13 7 (14.29%) Route 53
14 6 (12.24%) AWS CodeDeploy
Communications & Networking
1 15 (30.61%) DNS
2 14 (28.57%) TCP/IP
3 6 (12.24%) Firewall
4 1 (2.04%) FTP
4 1 (2.04%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (2.04%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (34.69%) MongoDB
2 7 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (12.24%) MySQL
4 5 (10.20%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (10.20%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (6.12%) InfluxDB
6 2 (4.08%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.04%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.04%) Redis
7 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (61.22%) Jenkins
2 27 (55.10%) GitLab
3 8 (16.33%) Git
4 5 (10.20%) JIRA
5 4 (8.16%) Artifactory
6 2 (4.08%) Terragrunt
7 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.04%) Mockito
7 1 (2.04%) Toad
General
1 11 (22.45%) Public Sector
2 5 (10.20%) Military
3 2 (4.08%) Finance
3 2 (4.08%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Banking
4 1 (2.04%) German Language
4 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 16 (32.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (30.61%) Senior
2 15 (30.61%) Senior DevOps
3 12 (24.49%) Architect
4 11 (22.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 8 (16.33%) Developer
6 7 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (12.24%) AWS Architect
7 6 (12.24%) AWS Solution Architect
7 6 (12.24%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (8.16%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (8.16%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) Java Architect
8 4 (8.16%) Java Technical Architect
8 4 (8.16%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) Technical Architect
9 3 (6.12%) Software Engineer
10 2 (4.08%) Migration Engineer
10 2 (4.08%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (38.78%) Kafka
2 16 (32.65%) Keycloak
3 15 (30.61%) cloud-init
4 9 (18.37%) AWS CDK
4 9 (18.37%) REST
5 7 (14.29%) Node.js
6 5 (10.20%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (8.16%) Spring
7 4 (8.16%) Spring Boot
8 3 (6.12%) AngularJS
8 3 (6.12%) React
9 2 (4.08%) OpenJDK
10 1 (2.04%) Apache Camel
10 1 (2.04%) GraphQL
10 1 (2.04%) gRPC
10 1 (2.04%) JWT
10 1 (2.04%) Loki
10 1 (2.04%) Next.js
10 1 (2.04%) RxJS
10 1 (2.04%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 14 (28.57%) PKI
2 6 (12.24%) Cloud Native
2 6 (12.24%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (10.20%) Public Cloud
4 4 (8.16%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (4.08%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (40.82%) Linux
2 18 (36.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (30.61%) CentOS
3 15 (30.61%) Unix
4 3 (6.12%) Ubuntu
5 2 (4.08%) Mac OS
5 2 (4.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (83.67%) CI/CD
2 29 (59.18%) DevOps
3 26 (53.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (44.90%) Agile
5 20 (40.82%) Observability
6 16 (32.65%) Secrets Management
7 15 (30.61%) Continuous Integration
8 14 (28.57%) Cloud Security
8 14 (28.57%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 14 (28.57%) Identity Management
8 14 (28.57%) Static Application Security Testing
9 13 (26.53%) Containerisation
10 12 (24.49%) Mobile Device Management
11 9 (18.37%) Roadmaps
12 7 (14.29%) Event-Driven
12 7 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 7 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
12 7 (14.29%) Microservices
13 6 (12.24%) Budgeting
13 6 (12.24%) Cost Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (53.06%) Python
2 24 (48.98%) Bash
3 15 (30.61%) Go
4 7 (14.29%) Java
5 6 (12.24%) PHP
6 4 (8.16%) Groovy
6 4 (8.16%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.08%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.04%) C#
8 1 (2.04%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (61.22%) Security Cleared
2 28 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 24 (48.98%) AWS Certification
4 8 (16.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (12.24%) OCP
5 6 (12.24%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (8.16%) Degree
7 2 (4.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
8 1 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (34.69%) NCSC
2 2 (4.08%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (4.08%) GDPR
3 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.04%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.04%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (20.41%) Docker
2 2 (4.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (69.39%) Kubernetes
2 31 (63.27%) Terraform
3 20 (40.82%) Grafana
4 17 (34.69%) Prometheus
5 15 (30.61%) Packer
6 14 (28.57%) Ansible
6 14 (28.57%) Consul
6 14 (28.57%) Istio
6 14 (28.57%) Jamf Pro
6 14 (28.57%) linkerd
6 14 (28.57%) Rancher
6 14 (28.57%) ZABBIX
7 12 (24.49%) HAProxy
8 4 (8.16%) Kibana
9 2 (4.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (4.08%) Progress Chef
9 2 (4.08%) Puppet
10 1 (2.04%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 15 (30.61%) Okta
2 14 (28.57%) Splunk
3 12 (24.49%) Apple
3 12 (24.49%) ESET
4 6 (12.24%) Oracle
5 3 (6.12%) Imperva
5 3 (6.12%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.04%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.04%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.04%) Talend