AWS Fargate Contracts

AWS Fargate
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 644 707
Rank change year-on-year +64 +63 -54
Contract jobs citing AWS Fargate 22 51 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.092% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.16% 0.25% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 32 94
10th Percentile £470 £483 £465
25th Percentile £500 £511 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £610 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.93% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £594 £720 £688
90th Percentile £621 £783 £711
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £643 £525
% change year-on-year -19.07% +22.38% +30.43%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,030 20,255 33,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.39% 36.45% 38.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,915 14,661 24,591
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 350 326 382
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.50 £37.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.28% +69.32% +0.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £68.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £27.50 £19.09
% change year-on-year -30.91% +44.05% -4.55%

AWS Fargate
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWS Fargate as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Fargate in the UK

AWS Fargate
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Fargate.

Daily rate trend for AWS Fargate in the UK

AWS Fargate
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Fargate over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Fargate in the UK

AWS Fargate
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Fargate within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Work from Home +106 17 £520 -22.96% 11
London +68 7 £550 -18.52% 9
England +66 7 £550 -20.00% 14
Scotland +37 5 £520 +4.00%
UK excluding London +29 5 £520 -19.07% 7

AWS Fargate
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (13.64%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) AWS
2 19 (86.36%) Serverless
3 18 (81.82%) Amazon EC2
3 18 (81.82%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (68.18%) Amazon ECS
4 15 (68.18%) Amazon S3
5 11 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (45.45%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (31.82%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (22.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (22.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 5 (22.73%) AWS CloudTrail
8 5 (22.73%) AWS KMS
8 5 (22.73%) OpenShift
9 4 (18.18%) Amazon EventBridge
9 4 (18.18%) AWS Control Tower
10 3 (13.64%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 2 (9.09%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 2 (9.09%) AWS CodeCommit
11 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (40.91%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (22.73%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (22.73%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (22.73%) Relational Database
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon QuickSight
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (18.18%) DynamoDB
3 4 (18.18%) NoSQL
3 4 (18.18%) RDBMS
4 3 (13.64%) InfluxDB
5 2 (9.09%) MariaDB
6 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
6 1 (4.55%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) GitLab
2 5 (22.73%) Artifactory
2 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
3 2 (9.09%) Terragrunt
4 1 (4.55%) Git
4 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) AWS Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Architect
2 6 (27.27%) AWS DevOps
2 6 (27.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) AWS Architect
4 4 (18.18%) AWS Consultant
4 4 (18.18%) Consultant
4 4 (18.18%) Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Technical Architect
6 2 (9.09%) DevOps Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Full Stack Developer
6 2 (9.09%) PHP Developer
7 1 (4.55%) AWS Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Lead
7 1 (4.55%) Senior
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Architect
7 1 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) AWS CDK
2 3 (13.64%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (9.09%) CodeIgniter
3 2 (9.09%) Laravel
3 2 (9.09%) RESTful
4 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.55%) CSS
4 1 (4.55%) HTML
4 1 (4.55%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (4.55%) Node.js
4 1 (4.55%) PyTorch
4 1 (4.55%) React
4 1 (4.55%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (4.55%) TensorFlow
4 1 (4.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 4 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.09%) Video on Demand
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (31.82%) Linux
2 5 (22.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (22.73%) Ubuntu
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (9.09%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) CI/CD
1 14 (63.64%) Containerisation
2 11 (50.00%) DevOps
3 10 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (36.36%) Migration
5 6 (27.27%) Agile
5 6 (27.27%) Test Automation
6 5 (22.73%) Presales
7 4 (18.18%) Observability
7 4 (18.18%) Workshop Facilitation
8 3 (13.64%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (13.64%) Event-Driven
8 3 (13.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (13.64%) Software Delivery
9 2 (9.09%) Full Stack Development
9 2 (9.09%) Kanban
9 2 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
9 2 (9.09%) Scrum
9 2 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) Python
2 5 (22.73%) Bash
2 5 (22.73%) Groovy
2 5 (22.73%) JavaScript
3 4 (18.18%) TypeScript
4 2 (9.09%) PHP
5 1 (4.55%) Java
5 1 (4.55%) Ruby
5 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) AWS Certification
2 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (72.73%) Kubernetes
2 11 (50.00%) Terraform
3 5 (22.73%) Ansible
3 5 (22.73%) Grafana
3 5 (22.73%) Kibana
4 2 (9.09%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle