AWS Fargate Job Trends

AWS Fargate
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring AWS Fargate skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 635 697 699
Rank change year-on-year +62 +2 +193
Permanent jobs citing AWS Fargate 15 10 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.025% 0.018% 0.049%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.073% 0.051% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 5 6 21
10th Percentile £55,500 £60,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,313 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,875 £83,750
90th Percentile £92,250 £86,875 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -17.24% -3.33% +20.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

AWS Fargate falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 20,415 19,592 21,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.49% 36.12% 40.97%
Number of salaries quoted 11,130 11,511 17,809
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.14% +5.42% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

AWS Fargate
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AWS Fargate relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

AWS Fargate job vacancy trend in the UK

AWS Fargate
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS Fargate.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AWS Fargate

AWS Fargate
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Fargate over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS Fargate in the UK

AWS Fargate
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Fargate within the UK over the 6 months to 5 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +80 13 £58,750 -9.62% 137
London +58 7 £57,500 -6.12% 7
UK excluding London +52 6 £60,000 -17.24% 140
Work from Home +70 3 £76,250 +22.00% 143
South West +10 3 - - 20
North of England - 2 £60,000 - 27
South East +17 1 - - 31
North West - 1 £60,000 - 11
Yorkshire - 1 - - 14

AWS Fargate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) Apache
1 3 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (93.33%) Amazon S3
3 13 (86.67%) AWS Lambda
3 13 (86.67%) Serverless
4 10 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (53.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (26.67%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (26.67%) AWS Step Functions
7 4 (26.67%) Azure
8 3 (20.00%) Amazon ECR
8 3 (20.00%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (20.00%) dbt
8 3 (20.00%) GitHub
9 2 (13.33%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (13.33%) Apigee
9 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (13.33%) Datadog
9 2 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) DynamoDB
1 4 (26.67%) MongoDB
2 3 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (6.67%) MySQL
3 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.67%) Redis
3 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git
2 3 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 3 (20.00%) GitLab
2 3 (20.00%) JIRA
2 3 (20.00%) JUnit
2 3 (20.00%) MLflow
3 1 (6.67%) NUnit
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Advertising
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Digital Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Digital Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) Node.js
2 4 (26.67%) AWS CDK
2 4 (26.67%) LangGraph
2 4 (26.67%) React
3 3 (20.00%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (20.00%) Hibernate
3 3 (20.00%) JSF
3 3 (20.00%) JWT
3 3 (20.00%) LangChain
3 3 (20.00%) OAuth
3 3 (20.00%) PrimeFaces
4 2 (13.33%) .NET
5 1 (6.67%) .NET Core
5 1 (6.67%) CSS
5 1 (6.67%) Next.js
5 1 (6.67%) OAuth2
5 1 (6.67%) OpenAPI
5 1 (6.67%) REST
5 1 (6.67%) RESTful
5 1 (6.67%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 4 (26.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 9 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 8 (53.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (46.67%) Observability
5 6 (40.00%) Microservices
6 5 (33.33%) AI
6 5 (33.33%) DevOps
7 4 (26.67%) Cost Optimisation
7 4 (26.67%) Generative AI
7 4 (26.67%) LLM
7 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning
7 4 (26.67%) Presales
7 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (20.00%) AIOps
8 3 (20.00%) Analytics
8 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
8 3 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
8 3 (20.00%) Scrum
8 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
8 3 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Python
1 6 (40.00%) TypeScript
2 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (13.33%) C#
5 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) AWS Certification
1 4 (26.67%) MCP
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Terraform
2 4 (26.67%) Grafana
2 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (26.67%) Prometheus
3 3 (20.00%) Kibana
4 2 (13.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Atlassian
1 3 (20.00%) Databricks
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace