Amazon SQS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 372 438
Rank change year-on-year +4 +66 -48
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 28 75 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.32% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.53% 0.96% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 60 44
10th Percentile £417 £452 £413
25th Percentile £494 £485 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £569 £507
Median % change year-on-year +1.10% +12.29% +12.56%
75th Percentile £694 £600 £614
90th Percentile - £700 £650
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +4.76%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,262 7,815 9,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.69% 33.31% 32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,730 5,780 7,206
10th Percentile £213 £250 £208
25th Percentile £370 £408 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 231 279
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.38 £15.15
Median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £26.50 £64.75 £25.13
90th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £21.19 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -39.47% +59.09% -2.22%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon SQS in the UK excluding London

Amazon SQS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon SQS in the UK excluding London

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon SQS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon SQS in the UK excluding London

Amazon SQS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England +27 18 £600 -7.69% 4
North West +29 17 £625 +13.64% 3
South East +10 4 £595 +19.00% 5
Scotland +23 3 £476 -1.60% 1
East of England +2 2 - -
Yorkshire +16 1 £575 -11.54% 1
Midlands - 1 £350 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £350 -
Amazon SQS
UK

Amazon SQS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 7 (25.00%) Apache
1 7 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 5 (17.86%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (7.14%) Confluence
3 2 (7.14%) GeoServer
3 2 (7.14%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 28 (100.00%) AWS
2 26 (92.86%) Amazon S3
3 20 (71.43%) Amazon EC2
4 17 (60.71%) Serverless
5 15 (53.57%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (42.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 11 (39.29%) Route 53
8 10 (35.71%) Amazon ECR
8 10 (35.71%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
10 5 (17.86%) Snowflake
11 4 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (10.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (10.71%) Azure
13 2 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudTrail
13 2 (7.14%) AWS Direct Connect
13 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
14 1 (3.57%) Amazon EventBridge
14 1 (3.57%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) FTP
2 2 (7.14%) Firewall
2 2 (7.14%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (25.00%) Big Data
3 5 (17.86%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (17.86%) Relational Database
4 4 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (10.71%) NoSQL
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (7.14%) GIS
6 2 (7.14%) Hadoop
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
7 1 (3.57%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (46.43%) Git
1 13 (46.43%) GitLab
2 8 (28.57%) JIRA
2 8 (28.57%) webpack
3 4 (14.29%) Jenkins
4 3 (10.71%) JUnit
4 3 (10.71%) Maven
5 2 (7.14%) Cucumber
5 2 (7.14%) Mockito
General
1 5 (17.86%) Manufacturing
1 5 (17.86%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Banking
3 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Developer
2 6 (21.43%) Java Developer
2 6 (21.43%) Lead
3 5 (17.86%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Data Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Technical Leader
5 3 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Architect
6 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Full Stack Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Backend Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Backend Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (46.43%) Node.js
1 13 (46.43%) React
2 8 (28.57%) Express.js
2 8 (28.57%) Redux
2 8 (28.57%) Spring Boot
3 7 (25.00%) Spring
4 5 (17.86%) JSON
4 5 (17.86%) XML
5 4 (14.29%) REST
6 2 (7.14%) AWS CDK
6 2 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (7.14%) Kafka
6 2 (7.14%) LDAP
6 2 (7.14%) Mustache
6 2 (7.14%) PostGIS
6 2 (7.14%) RESTful
6 2 (7.14%) Web Services
6 2 (7.14%) WireMock
7 1 (3.57%) OAuth
7 1 (3.57%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.57%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
1 3 (10.71%) Unix
2 1 (3.57%) Windows
2 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 15 (53.57%) Containerisation
2 15 (53.57%) ETL
3 14 (50.00%) Agile
3 14 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 10 (35.71%) DevOps
4 10 (35.71%) Full Stack Development
5 9 (32.14%) QA Automation
6 8 (28.57%) API Development
6 8 (28.57%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 8 (28.57%) Customer Engagement
6 8 (28.57%) End-to-End Testing
6 8 (28.57%) Front End Development
6 8 (28.57%) Scrum
7 7 (25.00%) Microservices
8 5 (17.86%) Data Engineering
8 5 (17.86%) Data Management
8 5 (17.86%) OO
8 5 (17.86%) OOP
8 5 (17.86%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) Java
2 13 (46.43%) Python
3 8 (28.57%) SQL
4 5 (17.86%) C#
5 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
6 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.57%) Bash
7 1 (3.57%) Scala
7 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 11 (39.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (32.14%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.57%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (46.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.71%) Terraform
3 1 (3.57%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Informatica
1 5 (17.86%) Talend
2 2 (7.14%) Google
2 2 (7.14%) Palo Alto
2 2 (7.14%) VMware
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle