AWS Fargate Contracts in Scotland

AWS Fargate
UK > Scotland

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 160 166
Rank change year-on-year +38 +6 -
Contract jobs citing AWS Fargate 5 8 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.23% 0.30% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.68% 0.81% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 10
10th Percentile £508 £489 £466
25th Percentile £510 - £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £533 £523 £538
90th Percentile £537 £532 £540
UK median daily rate £525 £605 £600
% change year-on-year -13.22% +0.83% +9.09%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 advertised in Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 731 983 1,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 34.10% 36.46% 32.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 723 830
10th Percentile £225 £250 £313
25th Percentile £370 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% -2.86% +8.67%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £625 £652
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 16
10th Percentile £16.08 £17.72 £17.70
25th Percentile £16.50 £26.63 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £33.25
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +82.11% -54.76%
75th Percentile £22.28 £66.50 £47.43
90th Percentile £33.05 £76.00 £48.75
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £37.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year -43.15% +71.59% +0.32%

AWS Fargate
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Fargate in Scotland

AWS Fargate
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Fargate in Scotland

AWS Fargate
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 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
Edinburgh +27 3 £520 +2.46%
Glasgow - 1 £522 -
AWS Fargate
UK

AWS Fargate
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 5 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 5 (100.00%) Serverless
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (20.00%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (60.00%) InfluxDB
2 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 5 (100.00%) GitLab
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) AWS DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 5 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) AWS CDK
2 3 (60.00%) RabbitMQ
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Observability
2 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) Software Delivery
4 2 (40.00%) Kanban
4 2 (40.00%) Scrum
5 1 (20.00%) Architecture Roadmap
5 1 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Bash
1 5 (100.00%) Groovy
1 5 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
1 5 (100.00%) Grafana
1 5 (100.00%) Kibana
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (60.00%) Terraform