AWS Fargate Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

AWS Fargate
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring AWS Fargate skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 - 122
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Fargate 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.054% - 0.049%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.17% - 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £510 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - £700
75th Percentile £530 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £610
% change year-on-year -12.50% -1.64% +1.67%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 600 539 736
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.47% 28.59% 36.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 351 536
10th Percentile £275 £213 £206
25th Percentile £413 £356 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.65% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £600
90th Percentile £700 £685 £700
England median daily rate £501 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.57% -3.59% -0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 6
10th Percentile £28.61 £15.65 £17.50
25th Percentile £30.97 £21.25 £17.56
Median hourly rate £34.43 £33.54 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.65% +81.30% +8.82%
75th Percentile £35.75 £35.00 £19.25
90th Percentile £47.13 £40.00 £19.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +6.06% +46.67%

AWS Fargate
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS Fargate relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

AWS Fargate job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

AWS Fargate
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 October 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
Coventry - 1 £520 -
AWS Fargate
England

AWS Fargate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Interface Catalogue
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus