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 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 327 440 532
Rank change year-on-year +113 +92 -82
Contract jobs citing AWS Fargate 17 23 84
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.094% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.32% 0.24% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 19 46
10th Percentile £435 £480 £413
25th Percentile £494 £553 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £675 £545
Median % change year-on-year -22.67% +23.85% +21.11%
75th Percentile £597 £728 £669
90th Percentile £615 £783 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 5,378 9,652 18,255
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.74% 39.45% 41.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,889 7,179 13,640
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £738 £745 £734
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 128 168
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.43 £21.31 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +35.00% +2.07%
75th Percentile £50.94 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.31 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.19
% change year-on-year -38.94% +57.73% -1.38%

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 22 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 2 (11.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) AWS
2 15 (88.24%) Serverless
3 14 (82.35%) Amazon EC2
4 13 (76.47%) Amazon ECS
4 13 (76.47%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (64.71%) Amazon S3
6 9 (52.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (47.06%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (35.29%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (29.41%) OpenShift
10 4 (23.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (23.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 4 (23.53%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (23.53%) AWS KMS
11 3 (17.65%) Amazon EventBridge
11 3 (17.65%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 3 (17.65%) AWS Control Tower
12 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECR
12 2 (11.76%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 2 (11.76%) AWS CodeCommit
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (23.53%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (17.65%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (17.65%) Amazon QuickSight
3 3 (17.65%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (17.65%) DynamoDB
3 3 (17.65%) InfluxDB
3 3 (17.65%) RDBMS
3 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
4 2 (11.76%) MariaDB
4 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) GitLab
2 4 (23.53%) Artifactory
2 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) JIRA
3 1 (5.88%) Terragrunt
General
1 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) 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%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) AWS Architect
4 3 (17.65%) AWS Consultant
4 3 (17.65%) Consultant
4 3 (17.65%) Developer
5 2 (11.76%) PHP Developer
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) DevOps Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Full Stack Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
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%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (5.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.76%) Video on Demand
3 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 12 (70.59%) Containerisation
2 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
2 9 (52.94%) DevOps
3 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (35.29%) Migration
5 5 (29.41%) Test Automation
6 4 (23.53%) Agile
6 4 (23.53%) Observability
7 3 (17.65%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (17.65%) Presales
7 3 (17.65%) Software Delivery
7 3 (17.65%) Workshop Facilitation
8 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven
8 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 2 (11.76%) Kanban
8 2 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
8 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (11.76%) Scrum
9 1 (5.88%) Full Stack Development
9 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) 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 6 (35.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (70.59%) Kubernetes
2 10 (58.82%) Terraform
3 4 (23.53%) Ansible
3 4 (23.53%) Grafana
3 4 (23.53%) Kibana
4 1 (5.88%) Knative
4 1 (5.88%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle