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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 323 407
Rank change year-on-year +31 +84 +106
Contract jobs citing AWS Fargate 23 18 23
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.14% 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.55% 0.36% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 15 21
10th Percentile £344 £435 £413
25th Percentile £422 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -14.58% +9.09%
75th Percentile £591 £578 £700
90th Percentile £621 £600 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £600
% change year-on-year +0.96% -13.33% -

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 4,185 4,981 8,822
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 41.30% 37.73% 39.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,934 3,528 6,533
10th Percentile £340 £345 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £754 £775 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 53 134
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.70 £16.33
25th Percentile £28.75 £18.50 £21.48
Median hourly rate £41.25 £36.00 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -10.56% +13.38%
75th Percentile £68.06 £62.00 £68.06
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.38 £23.80 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.02% -32.00% +59.09%

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 4 August 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 3 (13.04%) CMS
1 3 (13.04%) WordPress
2 2 (8.70%) Confluence
3 1 (4.35%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (73.91%) Serverless
3 16 (69.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 16 (69.57%) Amazon ECS
4 15 (65.22%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (60.87%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (47.83%) GitHub
7 10 (43.48%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (39.13%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (39.13%) Amazon S3
9 8 (34.78%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (30.43%) AWS CodePipeline
11 6 (26.09%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (26.09%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (26.09%) PaaS
11 6 (26.09%) SaaS
12 4 (17.39%) AWS CloudTrail
12 4 (17.39%) Azure AKS
12 4 (17.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 3 (13.04%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Firewall
1 2 (8.70%) SSL
2 1 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) FTP
2 1 (4.35%) Network Security
2 1 (4.35%) SMS
2 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (26.09%) DynamoDB
3 4 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (13.04%) MySQL
5 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
5 2 (8.70%) RDBMS
5 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
6 1 (4.35%) DB2
6 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (52.17%) Jenkins
2 8 (34.78%) GitLab
3 3 (13.04%) Cucumber
3 3 (13.04%) Git
3 3 (13.04%) JUnit
3 3 (13.04%) Maven
4 2 (8.70%) JIRA
5 1 (4.35%) Mockito
5 1 (4.35%) Terragrunt
5 1 (4.35%) Toad
General
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Aviation
4 1 (4.35%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Architect
2 7 (30.43%) Developer
3 5 (21.74%) AWS Architect
3 5 (21.74%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) AWS Solution Architect
4 4 (17.39%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (13.04%) AWS Developer
5 3 (13.04%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (13.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Technical Architect
6 2 (8.70%) Java Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior
7 1 (4.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 1 (4.35%) Java Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Java Technical Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Migration Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) PHP Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) REST
2 5 (21.74%) AWS CDK
2 5 (21.74%) Node.js
3 4 (17.39%) Spring
4 3 (13.04%) Jest
4 3 (13.04%) Kafka
4 3 (13.04%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.35%) Apache Camel
5 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (4.35%) GraphQL
5 1 (4.35%) gRPC
5 1 (4.35%) JWT
5 1 (4.35%) Keycloak
5 1 (4.35%) Next.js
5 1 (4.35%) OpenID
5 1 (4.35%) OpenJDK
5 1 (4.35%) ServiceStack
5 1 (4.35%) Spring Batch
5 1 (4.35%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (17.39%) Public Cloud
2 3 (13.04%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.35%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (82.61%) CI/CD
2 13 (56.52%) Containerisation
3 12 (52.17%) DevOps
4 10 (43.48%) Agile
5 9 (39.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (30.43%) Observability
6 7 (30.43%) Roadmaps
7 6 (26.09%) Event-Driven
7 6 (26.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (21.74%) Integration Patterns
8 5 (21.74%) Test Automation
9 4 (17.39%) Budgeting
9 4 (17.39%) Cost Management
9 4 (17.39%) Cost Optimisation
9 4 (17.39%) Front End Development
9 4 (17.39%) Microservices
9 4 (17.39%) Secrets Management
10 3 (13.04%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) Java
2 6 (26.09%) Python
3 4 (17.39%) TypeScript
4 3 (13.04%) PHP
5 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.70%) SQL
6 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.35%) PL/SQL
6 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (43.48%) SC Cleared
1 10 (43.48%) Security Cleared
2 8 (34.78%) AWS Certification
3 7 (30.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (17.39%) OCP
4 4 (17.39%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (4.35%) Degree
6 1 (4.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (13.04%) NCSC
1 3 (13.04%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) GDPR
3 1 (4.35%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (4.35%) NIST
3 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.35%) SLA
3 1 (4.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (52.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (60.87%) Terraform
2 8 (34.78%) Ansible
2 8 (34.78%) Kubernetes
3 3 (13.04%) Grafana
3 3 (13.04%) Prometheus
4 2 (8.70%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.35%) Kustomize
5 1 (4.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) CA Agile Central
1 3 (13.04%) ServiceNow
2 2 (8.70%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.35%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) MuleSoft
3 1 (4.35%) Okta
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) Splunk
3 1 (4.35%) Sybase
3 1 (4.35%) Talend