Amazon SQS Contracts in the City of London

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Amazon SQS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon SQS over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 167 175
Rank change year-on-year +50 +8 -33
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 9 11 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.41% 0.30% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.04% 0.79% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 7
10th Percentile £463 £464 £413
25th Percentile £475 £485 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -20.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £716
90th Percentile £650 £695 £739
Central London median daily rate £525 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +5.00% -20.00% +42.86%

All Cloud Skills
City of London

Amazon SQS 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 the City of London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 862 1,388 1,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.99% 38.09% 43.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 609 941 1,449
10th Percentile £363 £313 £405
25th Percentile £450 £463 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £775
Central London median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.52% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 12
10th Percentile £12.75 £44.75 -
25th Percentile £17.39 £65.57 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £84.09 £17.22
Median % change year-on-year -73.24% +388.40% -7.43%
75th Percentile £32.81 £88.30 £25.50
90th Percentile £57.30 - £47.78
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £82.50 £17.22
% change year-on-year -72.73% +379.16% -26.58%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Amazon SQS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon SQS in the City of London

Amazon SQS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon SQS in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Amazon SQS in the City of London

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon SQS in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon SQS in the City of London

Amazon SQS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 (22.22%) nginx
1 2 (22.22%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Amazon S3
3 4 (44.44%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (33.33%) Amazon EventBridge
4 3 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
4 3 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (33.33%) Serverless
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (11.11%) Datadog
6 1 (11.11%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Relational Database
2 3 (33.33%) MySQL
2 3 (33.33%) RDBMS
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
3 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
4 1 (11.11%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
1 4 (44.44%) JUnit
1 4 (44.44%) Maven
1 4 (44.44%) TestNG
2 3 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 3 (33.33%) Selenium
3 2 (22.22%) Bitbucket
3 2 (22.22%) EasyMock
3 2 (22.22%) GitLab
3 2 (22.22%) Gradle
3 2 (22.22%) Mockito
3 2 (22.22%) PHPUnit
3 2 (22.22%) Postman
3 2 (22.22%) SonarQube
4 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
4 1 (11.11%) Git
4 1 (11.11%) Mocha
4 1 (11.11%) REST Assured
4 1 (11.11%) Spinnaker
4 1 (11.11%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Corporate Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Investment Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Retail
2 2 (22.22%) Retail Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Architect
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Architect
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Developer
3 2 (22.22%) PHP Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Backend Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Spring
2 3 (33.33%) JAX-RS
2 3 (33.33%) Kafka
2 3 (33.33%) REST
2 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 2 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (22.22%) Gherkin
3 2 (22.22%) Guice
3 2 (22.22%) Laravel
3 2 (22.22%) Mustache
3 2 (22.22%) OpenAPI
3 2 (22.22%) Swagger
3 2 (22.22%) Symfony
3 2 (22.22%) WireMock
3 2 (22.22%) Yii
4 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
4 1 (11.11%) http4s
4 1 (11.11%) Node.js
4 1 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
1 2 (22.22%) Video on Demand
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Test Automation
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) Event-Driven
3 3 (33.33%) OOP
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Auto-Scaling
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (22.22%) Dependency Injection
4 2 (22.22%) Design Patterns
4 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (22.22%) Multithreading
4 2 (22.22%) MVC
4 2 (22.22%) OO
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Wealth Management
4 2 (22.22%) Workflow
5 1 (11.11%) BDD
5 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Java
1 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 2 (22.22%) PHP
4 1 (11.11%) Kotlin
4 1 (11.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
2 3 (33.33%) Terraform
3 2 (22.22%) Ansible
3 2 (22.22%) Kustomize
3 2 (22.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
2 1 (11.11%) New Relic