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 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 553 635 705
Rank change year-on-year +82 +70 -60
Contract jobs citing AWS Fargate 23 53 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.054% 0.094% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.17% 0.26% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 34 90
10th Percentile £456 £477 £450
25th Percentile £497 £518 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £605 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.47% +0.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £594 £709 £688
90th Percentile £611 £783 £716
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £643 £540
% change year-on-year -19.07% +18.98% +34.16%

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 13,864 20,558 33,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.51% 36.45% 38.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,878 14,864 24,582
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 £748 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 332 399
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.50 £15.44
Median hourly rate £21.37 £36.50 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -41.45% +62.95% +1.82%
75th Percentile £40.00 £66.38 £53.88
90th Percentile £66.88 £79.07 £69.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £26.48 £20.00
% change year-on-year -33.08% +32.40% -

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 25 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 25 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 +111 17 £520 -22.96% 14
London +70 8 £538 -17.31% 19
England +60 8 £538 -20.37% 25
UK excluding London +44 5 £520 -19.07% 13
Scotland +32 5 £520 +4.00%

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 3 (13.04%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 19 (82.61%) Amazon EC2
2 19 (82.61%) Serverless
3 18 (78.26%) AWS Lambda
4 16 (69.57%) Amazon S3
5 15 (65.22%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (47.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (43.48%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (30.43%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (21.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (21.74%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 5 (21.74%) AWS CloudTrail
9 5 (21.74%) AWS KMS
9 5 (21.74%) OpenShift
10 4 (17.39%) Amazon EventBridge
10 4 (17.39%) AWS Control Tower
11 3 (13.04%) AWS CodeDeploy
12 2 (8.70%) Amazon ECR
12 2 (8.70%) AWS CodeCommit
12 2 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (39.13%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (26.09%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (21.74%) Relational Database
4 4 (17.39%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (17.39%) Amazon QuickSight
4 4 (17.39%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (17.39%) DynamoDB
4 4 (17.39%) NoSQL
4 4 (17.39%) RDBMS
5 3 (13.04%) InfluxDB
6 2 (8.70%) MariaDB
7 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
7 1 (4.35%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) GitLab
2 6 (26.09%) Jenkins
3 5 (21.74%) Artifactory
4 2 (8.70%) Terragrunt
5 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
5 1 (4.35%) Git
5 1 (4.35%) JIRA
5 1 (4.35%) Maven
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) AWS Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Architect
2 6 (26.09%) AWS DevOps
2 6 (26.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) AWS Architect
4 4 (17.39%) AWS Consultant
4 4 (17.39%) Consultant
4 4 (17.39%) Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Technical Architect
6 2 (8.70%) DevOps Architect
6 2 (8.70%) Full Stack Developer
6 2 (8.70%) PHP Developer
7 1 (4.35%) AWS Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Lead
7 1 (4.35%) Senior
7 1 (4.35%) Senior Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) AWS CDK
2 3 (13.04%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (8.70%) CodeIgniter
3 2 (8.70%) Laravel
3 2 (8.70%) RESTful
4 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.35%) CSS
4 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.35%) HTML
4 1 (4.35%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (4.35%) Node.js
4 1 (4.35%) PyTorch
4 1 (4.35%) React
4 1 (4.35%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (4.35%) TensorFlow
4 1 (4.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 4 (17.39%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.70%) Video on Demand
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Linux
2 5 (21.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (21.74%) Ubuntu
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (8.70%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (65.22%) CI/CD
2 14 (60.87%) Containerisation
3 12 (52.17%) DevOps
4 11 (47.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (34.78%) Migration
6 6 (26.09%) Agile
6 6 (26.09%) Test Automation
7 5 (21.74%) Presales
8 4 (17.39%) Observability
8 4 (17.39%) Workshop Facilitation
9 3 (13.04%) Deployment Automation
9 3 (13.04%) Event-Driven
9 3 (13.04%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (13.04%) Software Delivery
10 2 (8.70%) GitOps
10 2 (8.70%) Kanban
10 2 (8.70%) Performance Optimisation
10 2 (8.70%) Scrum
10 2 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) Python
2 5 (21.74%) Bash
2 5 (21.74%) Groovy
2 5 (21.74%) JavaScript
3 4 (17.39%) TypeScript
4 2 (8.70%) PHP
5 1 (4.35%) Java
5 1 (4.35%) Ruby
5 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 8 (34.78%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (73.91%) Kubernetes
2 12 (52.17%) Terraform
3 5 (21.74%) Ansible
3 5 (21.74%) Grafana
3 5 (21.74%) Kibana
4 2 (8.70%) Kustomize
5 1 (4.35%) Consul
Vendors
1 1 (4.35%) MKS
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle