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 18 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 565 637
Rank change year-on-year +63 +72 +62
Contract jobs citing AWS Fargate 30 22 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.050% 0.086%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.27% 0.15% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 19 30
10th Percentile £475 £470 £481
25th Percentile £500 £500 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £630
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £735
90th Percentile £611 £621 £783
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £520 £643
% change year-on-year +5.77% -19.07% +22.38%

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 11,244 14,197 20,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.71% 32.37% 36.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,586 9,999 14,640
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £620 £634 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 361 328
10th Percentile £15.13 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.06 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.76 £22.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.18% -37.14% +59.09%
75th Percentile £47.50 £43.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £20.39 £27.00
% change year-on-year -7.43% -24.50% +41.44%

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 18 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Fargate in the UK

AWS Fargate
Top 10 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 18 June 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 +87 20 £525 -4.55% 185
Work from Home +37 18 £550 +5.77% 71
London +57 11 £525 -4.55% 93
UK excluding London +47 8 £550 +5.77% 102
North of England - 3 £500 - 30
Scotland +4 2 £563 +8.17% 8
South East - 2 £575 - 28
Yorkshire - 2 £500 - 16
North East - 1 - - 2
South West - 1 £525 - 10

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 6 (20.00%) CMS
1 6 (20.00%) WordPress
2 3 (10.00%) Confluence
3 2 (6.67%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 30 (100.00%) AWS
2 21 (70.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 21 (70.00%) Amazon ECS
3 19 (63.33%) Serverless
4 17 (56.67%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (46.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (36.67%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (36.67%) GitHub
7 9 (30.00%) Amazon EventBridge
7 9 (30.00%) Amazon S3
7 9 (30.00%) Amazon SQS
7 9 (30.00%) PaaS
7 9 (30.00%) SaaS
8 8 (26.67%) AWS CodePipeline
9 6 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (20.00%) Amazon Lightsail
10 5 (16.67%) Azure AKS
11 4 (13.33%) AWS KMS
12 3 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 3 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) DNS
1 3 (10.00%) Firewall
1 3 (10.00%) SSL
2 2 (6.67%) Network Security
2 2 (6.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.67%) VPN
3 1 (3.33%) FTP
3 1 (3.33%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (3.33%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (26.67%) DynamoDB
3 7 (23.33%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (20.00%) MySQL
5 2 (6.67%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (3.33%) InfluxDB
6 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.33%) RDBMS
6 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (46.67%) Jenkins
2 12 (40.00%) GitLab
3 4 (13.33%) Cucumber
3 4 (13.33%) JUnit
3 4 (13.33%) Maven
4 3 (10.00%) Git
4 3 (10.00%) JIRA
5 2 (6.67%) Terragrunt
6 1 (3.33%) Artifactory
6 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
6 1 (3.33%) Mockito
6 1 (3.33%) Toad
General
1 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Aviation
3 1 (3.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Architect
1 9 (30.00%) Developer
2 7 (23.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) AWS Architect
3 6 (20.00%) AWS Solution Architect
3 6 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (13.33%) AWS Developer
5 4 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Migration Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Senior
6 3 (10.00%) Software Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Java Technical Architect
7 2 (6.67%) Lead
7 2 (6.67%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (6.67%) Software Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (30.00%) Node.js
1 9 (30.00%) REST
2 6 (20.00%) Spring
3 4 (13.33%) AWS CDK
3 4 (13.33%) Jest
3 4 (13.33%) Spring Boot
4 3 (10.00%) Kafka
5 2 (6.67%) AngularJS
5 2 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (6.67%) Keycloak
5 2 (6.67%) OpenJDK
6 1 (3.33%) Apache Camel
6 1 (3.33%) GraphQL
6 1 (3.33%) gRPC
6 1 (3.33%) JPA
6 1 (3.33%) JWT
6 1 (3.33%) Loki
6 1 (3.33%) Next.js
6 1 (3.33%) OAuth
6 1 (3.33%) ServiceStack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (16.67%) Public Cloud
3 4 (13.33%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.67%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (73.33%) CI/CD
2 16 (53.33%) DevOps
3 14 (46.67%) Containerisation
4 13 (43.33%) Agile
5 12 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (30.00%) Roadmaps
7 8 (26.67%) Observability
8 7 (23.33%) Event-Driven
8 7 (23.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 7 (23.33%) Integration Patterns
9 6 (20.00%) Budgeting
9 6 (20.00%) Cost Management
9 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (16.67%) Front End Development
10 5 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
10 5 (16.67%) High Availability
10 5 (16.67%) Microservices
10 5 (16.67%) Secrets Management
11 4 (13.33%) Migration
11 4 (13.33%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 11 (36.67%) Python
2 10 (33.33%) Java
3 6 (20.00%) PHP
4 5 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
6 3 (10.00%) Bash
7 2 (6.67%) Shell Script
8 1 (3.33%) Groovy
8 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL
8 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (56.67%) Security Cleared
2 16 (53.33%) SC Cleared
3 13 (43.33%) AWS Certification
4 11 (36.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (20.00%) OCP
5 6 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
6 5 (16.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (13.33%) Degree
8 3 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
10 1 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) GDPR
1 3 (10.00%) QA
2 2 (6.67%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.67%) NCSC
2 2 (6.67%) NIST
2 2 (6.67%) SOC 2
3 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (43.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (56.67%) Terraform
2 14 (46.67%) Kubernetes
3 13 (43.33%) Ansible
4 4 (13.33%) Puppet
5 3 (10.00%) Grafana
5 3 (10.00%) Prometheus
6 2 (6.67%) Kustomize
6 2 (6.67%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.33%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (3.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) CA Agile Central
1 4 (13.33%) Oracle
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.67%) Splunk
4 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.33%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.33%) Okta
4 1 (3.33%) Talend