AWS Fargate Contracts with Work from Home Options

AWS Fargate
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 327 445 541
Rank change year-on-year +118 +96 -105
Contract jobs citing AWS Fargate 17 26 82
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.10% 0.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.31% 0.26% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 20 46
10th Percentile £372 £499 £413
25th Percentile £488 £531 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £638 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.12% +15.91% +23.60%
75th Percentile £581 £703 £697
90th Percentile £615 £783 £700
UK median daily rate £522 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -13.00% - +20.00%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,519 10,172 18,494
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.18% 39.63% 41.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,957 7,476 13,810
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £429 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 126 171
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.44 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.82 £21.52 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.29% +98.18% -25.05%
75th Percentile £46.88 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £66.25 £75.50 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £20.97 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.09% +62.79% -4.99%

AWS Fargate
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing AWS Fargate as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AWS Fargate trend for jobs with a WFH option

AWS Fargate
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing AWS Fargate over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

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 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) AWS
2 15 (88.24%) Serverless
3 14 (82.35%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (76.47%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (70.59%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (64.71%) Amazon S3
7 7 (41.18%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (41.18%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (29.41%) OpenShift
9 4 (23.53%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (23.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (17.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (17.65%) Amazon EventBridge
10 3 (17.65%) AWS CloudTrail
10 3 (17.65%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 3 (17.65%) AWS KMS
11 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECR
11 2 (11.76%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 2 (11.76%) AWS CodeCommit
11 2 (11.76%) AWS Control Tower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (23.53%) DynamoDB
2 4 (23.53%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (17.65%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (17.65%) InfluxDB
3 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (17.65%) RDBMS
3 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (11.76%) MariaDB
4 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
5 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.88%) MySQL
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) GitLab
2 4 (23.53%) Artifactory
2 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) AWS DevOps
2 5 (29.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Architect
3 4 (23.53%) AWS Architect
3 4 (23.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Developer
5 2 (11.76%) AWS Consultant
5 2 (11.76%) Consultant
5 2 (11.76%) PHP Developer
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Full Stack Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Lead
6 1 (5.88%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) AWS CDK
2 3 (17.65%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (11.76%) CodeIgniter
3 2 (11.76%) Laravel
4 1 (5.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
1 2 (11.76%) Video on Demand
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Linux
2 4 (23.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (23.53%) Ubuntu
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (11.76%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Containerisation
2 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
2 8 (47.06%) DevOps
3 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (29.41%) Agile
4 5 (29.41%) Test Automation
5 4 (23.53%) Migration
5 4 (23.53%) Observability
6 3 (17.65%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (17.65%) Software Delivery
7 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven
7 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 2 (11.76%) Kanban
7 2 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (11.76%) Presales
7 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
7 2 (11.76%) Scrum
7 2 (11.76%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) Bash
2 4 (23.53%) Groovy
3 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
3 3 (17.65%) TypeScript
4 2 (11.76%) PHP
5 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (58.82%) Kubernetes
2 8 (47.06%) Terraform
3 4 (23.53%) Ansible
3 4 (23.53%) Grafana
3 4 (23.53%) Kibana
4 1 (5.88%) Knative