Amazon SQS Contracts in England

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 460 477 541
Rank change year-on-year +17 +64 -193
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 73 171 230
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.35% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.63% 0.96% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 133 143
10th Percentile £418 £455 £413
25th Percentile £492 £500 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £686 £680 £650
90th Percentile £706 £725 £746
UK median daily rate £563 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -2.17% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - -44.00% +149.35%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,659 17,804 27,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.97% 36.53% 38.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,403 13,040 20,065
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £414 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 298 350
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £32.40 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.19% +50.70% -
75th Percentile £33.75 £66.00 £51.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.73%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Amazon SQS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon SQS in England

Amazon SQS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon SQS in England.

Daily rate trend for Amazon SQS in England

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon SQS in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon SQS in England

Amazon SQS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon SQS in England.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon SQS in England

Amazon SQS
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon SQS within the England region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
London +21 51 £550 -12.00% 16
North of England +24 18 £600 -7.69% 8
North West +42 17 £625 +13.64% 6
South East +6 4 £595 +19.00% 5
Yorkshire +18 1 £575 -11.54% 1
Midlands - 1 £350 - 3
West Midlands - 1 £350 - 1
Amazon SQS
UK

Amazon SQS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (12.33%) Confluence
2 6 (8.22%) Apache
2 6 (8.22%) Apache Spark
3 5 (6.85%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (4.11%) nginx
4 3 (4.11%) Tomcat
5 2 (2.74%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 73 (100.00%) AWS
2 52 (71.23%) Amazon S3
3 35 (47.95%) Serverless
4 31 (42.47%) Amazon EC2
4 31 (42.47%) AWS Lambda
5 19 (26.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 15 (20.55%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (19.18%) Route 53
8 13 (17.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (17.81%) Amazon ECR
9 10 (13.70%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (13.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 9 (12.33%) Amazon EventBridge
10 9 (12.33%) Amazon MSK
11 8 (10.96%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (9.59%) Amazon Kinesis
12 7 (9.59%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (9.59%) Azure
13 6 (8.22%) Amazon EMR
13 6 (8.22%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.59%) FTP
2 4 (5.48%) Firewall
2 4 (5.48%) OpenLDAP
3 2 (2.74%) SMS
4 1 (1.37%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (34.25%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (21.92%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (15.07%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (12.33%) DynamoDB
4 9 (12.33%) Relational Database
5 8 (10.96%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (10.96%) MySQL
6 7 (9.59%) NoSQL
7 6 (8.22%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (6.85%) Big Data
8 5 (6.85%) MongoDB
8 5 (6.85%) RDBMS
9 2 (2.74%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.37%) DB2
10 1 (1.37%) Redis
10 1 (1.37%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 20 (27.40%) Git
2 19 (26.03%) GitLab
3 13 (17.81%) Jenkins
3 13 (17.81%) JIRA
4 10 (13.70%) JUnit
4 10 (13.70%) Maven
5 9 (12.33%) Cucumber
5 9 (12.33%) webpack
6 8 (10.96%) Mockito
6 8 (10.96%) TestNG
7 7 (9.59%) Selenium
8 5 (6.85%) Bitbucket
8 5 (6.85%) EasyMock
9 3 (4.11%) Mocha
9 3 (4.11%) PHPUnit
9 3 (4.11%) Postman
9 3 (4.11%) SonarQube
10 2 (2.74%) Cypress.io
10 2 (2.74%) Gradle
10 2 (2.74%) Liquibase
General
1 8 (10.96%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.22%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.85%) Manufacturing
3 5 (6.85%) Pharmaceutical
3 5 (6.85%) Retail
4 3 (4.11%) Banking
4 3 (4.11%) Corporate Banking
4 3 (4.11%) Investment Banking
4 3 (4.11%) Marketing
4 3 (4.11%) Retail Banking
5 1 (1.37%) Finance
5 1 (1.37%) Games
5 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (47.95%) Developer
2 15 (20.55%) Lead
3 14 (19.18%) Java Developer
4 10 (13.70%) Architect
5 9 (12.33%) AWS Developer
6 8 (10.96%) Backend Developer
6 8 (10.96%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (9.59%) AWS Architect
7 7 (9.59%) Senior
8 6 (8.22%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 5 (6.85%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (6.85%) Data Engineer
9 5 (6.85%) Senior Developer
9 5 (6.85%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 5 (6.85%) Technical Leader
10 4 (5.48%) AWS DevOps
10 4 (5.48%) Python Developer
10 4 (5.48%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (4.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 3 (4.11%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (31.51%) Node.js
2 21 (28.77%) Spring
2 21 (28.77%) Spring Boot
3 19 (26.03%) REST
4 14 (19.18%) React
5 12 (16.44%) Kafka
6 9 (12.33%) Express.js
6 9 (12.33%) Redux
7 8 (10.96%) WireMock
8 7 (9.59%) JAX-RS
9 6 (8.22%) Hibernate
9 6 (8.22%) JPA
9 6 (8.22%) Web Services
10 5 (6.85%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (6.85%) GraphQL
10 5 (6.85%) JSON
10 5 (6.85%) Lambda Expressions
10 5 (6.85%) Mustache
10 5 (6.85%) XML
11 4 (5.48%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.85%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.48%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.11%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.11%) Private Cloud
3 3 (4.11%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.11%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.74%) Video on Demand
5 1 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.11%) Linux
2 2 (2.74%) Unix
3 1 (1.37%) CentOS
3 1 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.37%) Windows
3 1 (1.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (46.58%) CI/CD
2 28 (38.36%) Agile
3 24 (32.88%) Containerisation
4 23 (31.51%) Test Automation
5 22 (30.14%) Microservices
6 19 (26.03%) DevOps
7 14 (19.18%) ETL
8 12 (16.44%) Front End Development
8 12 (16.44%) Full Stack Development
9 11 (15.07%) End-to-End Testing
9 11 (15.07%) Scrum
10 9 (12.33%) API Development
10 9 (12.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 9 (12.33%) Customer Engagement
10 9 (12.33%) OOP
10 9 (12.33%) Software Engineering
11 8 (10.96%) Design Patterns
11 8 (10.96%) OO
11 8 (10.96%) QA Automation
12 7 (9.59%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 35 (47.95%) Java
2 25 (34.25%) Python
3 17 (23.29%) SQL
4 12 (16.44%) JavaScript
5 11 (15.07%) TypeScript
6 5 (6.85%) C#
7 4 (5.48%) PHP
8 2 (2.74%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.74%) Scala
8 2 (2.74%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.37%) Bash
Qualifications
1 32 (43.84%) SC Cleared
1 32 (43.84%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.11%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.96%) QA
2 1 (1.37%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.37%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (26.03%) Docker
2 5 (6.85%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (45.21%) Kubernetes
2 21 (28.77%) Terraform
3 5 (6.85%) Ansible
3 5 (6.85%) Packer
4 3 (4.11%) Grafana
4 3 (4.11%) Kustomize
5 1 (1.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (6.85%) Informatica
1 5 (6.85%) Talend
2 4 (5.48%) Palo Alto
2 4 (5.48%) Red Hat
2 4 (5.48%) SAP
2 4 (5.48%) VMware
3 3 (4.11%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.74%) Adobe
4 2 (2.74%) Sitecore
4 2 (2.74%) Splunk
5 1 (1.37%) Confluent
5 1 (1.37%) Dell
5 1 (1.37%) Google
5 1 (1.37%) Intel
5 1 (1.37%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.37%) New Relic
5 1 (1.37%) Zuora