AWS Fargate Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

AWS Fargate
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 278 328 449
Rank change year-on-year +50 +121 +103
Contract jobs citing AWS Fargate 26 17 28
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.26% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.66% 0.31% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 15 21
10th Percentile £461 £372 £488
25th Percentile £513 £488 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £522 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.15% -13.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £624 £581 £700
90th Percentile £750 £615 £783
UK median daily rate £575 £524 £600
% change year-on-year +9.84% -12.75% -1.03%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

AWS Fargate
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing AWS Fargate as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS Fargate trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

AWS Fargate
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing AWS Fargate.

AWS Fargate daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Fargate
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing AWS Fargate over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

AWS Fargate daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Fargate
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (19.23%) nginx
1 5 (19.23%) Traefik
2 3 (11.54%) CMS
2 3 (11.54%) Confluence
2 3 (11.54%) WordPress
3 2 (7.69%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) AWS
2 22 (84.62%) Amazon ECS
3 16 (61.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 16 (61.54%) AWS CloudFormation
4 13 (50.00%) Serverless
5 11 (42.31%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (30.77%) AWS CodePipeline
6 8 (30.77%) PaaS
6 8 (30.77%) SaaS
7 7 (26.92%) Entra ID
7 7 (26.92%) GitHub
7 7 (26.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (19.23%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (19.23%) Amazon EventBridge
9 5 (19.23%) Amazon S3
10 4 (15.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 4 (15.38%) Azure AKS
10 4 (15.38%) OpenShift
10 4 (15.38%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 7 (26.92%) DNS
1 7 (26.92%) TCP/IP
2 5 (19.23%) Firewall
3 1 (3.85%) FTP
3 1 (3.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) MongoDB
2 6 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (11.54%) MySQL
5 2 (7.69%) InfluxDB
6 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
6 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (65.38%) Jenkins
2 13 (50.00%) GitLab
3 5 (19.23%) Git
4 3 (11.54%) Artifactory
4 3 (11.54%) JIRA
5 2 (7.69%) Terragrunt
6 1 (3.85%) Mockito
6 1 (3.85%) Toad
General
1 6 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Banking
3 1 (3.85%) Finance
3 1 (3.85%) German Language
3 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Architect
2 6 (23.08%) Developer
2 6 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Senior
2 6 (23.08%) Senior DevOps
3 5 (19.23%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) AWS Architect
4 4 (15.38%) AWS Solution Architect
4 4 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (11.54%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Java Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Java Technical Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Technical Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 1 (3.85%) Java Developer
7 1 (3.85%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (42.31%) Kafka
2 9 (34.62%) Keycloak
3 7 (26.92%) cloud-init
4 6 (23.08%) AWS CDK
4 6 (23.08%) REST
5 4 (15.38%) Node.js
5 4 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (11.54%) AngularJS
6 3 (11.54%) Spring Boot
7 2 (7.69%) OpenJDK
8 1 (3.85%) Apache Camel
8 1 (3.85%) GraphQL
8 1 (3.85%) gRPC
8 1 (3.85%) JWT
8 1 (3.85%) Next.js
8 1 (3.85%) OpenID
8 1 (3.85%) React
8 1 (3.85%) RxJS
8 1 (3.85%) Spring Batch
8 1 (3.85%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) PKI
2 4 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (15.38%) Public Cloud
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 10 (38.46%) Linux
1 10 (38.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (26.92%) CentOS
2 7 (26.92%) Unix
3 3 (11.54%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (92.31%) CI/CD
2 13 (50.00%) DevOps
3 12 (46.15%) Agile
3 12 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (42.31%) Observability
5 8 (30.77%) Containerisation
5 8 (30.77%) Secrets Management
6 7 (26.92%) Cloud Security
6 7 (26.92%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (26.92%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 7 (26.92%) Identity Management
6 7 (26.92%) Static Application Security Testing
7 5 (19.23%) Event-Driven
7 5 (19.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (19.23%) Integration Patterns
7 5 (19.23%) Mobile Device Management
7 5 (19.23%) Roadmaps
8 4 (15.38%) Budgeting
8 4 (15.38%) Cost Management
8 4 (15.38%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) Python
2 11 (42.31%) Bash
3 7 (26.92%) Go
4 4 (15.38%) Java
5 3 (11.54%) Groovy
5 3 (11.54%) PHP
6 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.85%) C#
7 1 (3.85%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.85%) SQL
7 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 13 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 13 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (23.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (15.38%) OCP
4 4 (15.38%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (7.69%) Degree
6 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (34.62%) NCSC
2 2 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.85%) GDPR
3 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (65.38%) Kubernetes
2 16 (61.54%) Terraform
3 10 (38.46%) Grafana
4 8 (30.77%) Ansible
5 7 (26.92%) Consul
5 7 (26.92%) Istio
5 7 (26.92%) Jamf Pro
5 7 (26.92%) linkerd
5 7 (26.92%) Packer
5 7 (26.92%) Prometheus
5 7 (26.92%) Rancher
5 7 (26.92%) ZABBIX
6 5 (19.23%) HAProxy
7 3 (11.54%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Okta
2 7 (26.92%) Splunk
3 5 (19.23%) Apple
3 5 (19.23%) ESET
4 3 (11.54%) Imperva
5 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.85%) Atlassian
6 1 (3.85%) MuleSoft
6 1 (3.85%) Oracle
6 1 (3.85%) Talend