Amazon SQS Contracts in Scotland

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 146 164
Rank change year-on-year +21 +18 -4
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 3 21 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.14% 0.75% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.41% 2.05% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 18 7
10th Percentile £471 £446 £316
25th Percentile £473 £458 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £484 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -3.20% +17.65%
75th Percentile £480 £521 £513
90th Percentile £482 £540 £520
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +4.76%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 725 1,026 1,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.14% 36.53% 31.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 772 789
10th Percentile £236 £250 £300
25th Percentile £370 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +7.95%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £643 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 20
10th Percentile £15.36 £18.25 £17.50
25th Percentile £15.42 £45.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +65.89% -36.80%
75th Percentile £17.50 £66.50 £47.43
90th Percentile £28.06 £76.00 £48.83
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.44%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon SQS in Scotland

Amazon SQS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon SQS in Scotland

Amazon SQS
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 Amazon SQS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 6 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
Glasgow +2 2 £483 -11.17%
Edinburgh +28 1 £470 -3.99% 1
Amazon SQS
UK

Amazon SQS
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 2 (66.67%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (66.67%) GIS
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Full Stack Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Full Stack Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) React
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CDK
2 2 (66.67%) PostGIS
3 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (33.33%) OAuth
3 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
3 1 (33.33%) RESTful
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Batch
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Human-Centred Design
3 1 (33.33%) Inclusive Design
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle