Amazon SQS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 309 348 422
Rank change year-on-year +39 +74 -200
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 38 121 206
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.25% 0.48% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.70% 1.22% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 102 137
10th Percentile £463 £450 £409
25th Percentile £488 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £543
Median % change year-on-year - +5.99% +3.33%
75th Percentile £641 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £680 £728
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - -44.00% +149.35%
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - -44.00% +149.35%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,438 9,928 18,314
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.02% 39.52% 41.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,910 7,301 13,707
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 126 169
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £14.85
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.08 £19.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +66.15% -17.72%
75th Percentile £50.25 £70.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +59.09% -2.22%

Amazon SQS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Amazon SQS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Amazon SQS trend for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Amazon SQS.

Amazon SQS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Amazon SQS over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Amazon SQS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon SQS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Amazon SQS.

Amazon SQS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon SQS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (13.16%) Confluence
2 2 (5.26%) nginx
2 2 (5.26%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.63%) GeoServer
3 1 (2.63%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 38 (100.00%) AWS
2 26 (68.42%) Amazon S3
3 19 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
4 18 (47.37%) Serverless
5 16 (42.11%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (23.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (21.05%) Amazon ECR
7 8 (21.05%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (21.05%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (21.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (18.42%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (18.42%) AWS Fargate
8 7 (18.42%) Route 53
9 5 (13.16%) Amazon EventBridge
9 5 (13.16%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (10.53%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 4 (10.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 4 (10.53%) AWS KMS
10 4 (10.53%) Azure
10 4 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) Firewall
1 3 (7.89%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (2.63%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (31.58%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (18.42%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (15.79%) DynamoDB
3 6 (15.79%) MySQL
4 5 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (10.53%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (10.53%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (10.53%) NoSQL
5 4 (10.53%) Relational Database
6 3 (7.89%) RDBMS
7 2 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (5.26%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (5.26%) MongoDB
8 1 (2.63%) GIS
Development Applications
1 11 (28.95%) GitLab
2 8 (21.05%) Cucumber
2 8 (21.05%) Git
2 8 (21.05%) Selenium
3 6 (15.79%) Jenkins
4 5 (13.16%) JIRA
5 4 (10.53%) Bitbucket
5 4 (10.53%) Cypress.io
5 4 (10.53%) JUnit
5 4 (10.53%) Maven
5 4 (10.53%) TestNG
6 3 (7.89%) PHPUnit
6 3 (7.89%) webpack
7 2 (5.26%) CircleCI
7 2 (5.26%) Mocha
7 2 (5.26%) Mockito
7 2 (5.26%) Postman
7 2 (5.26%) REST Assured
7 2 (5.26%) SonarQube
7 2 (5.26%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.53%) Retail
3 3 (7.89%) Banking
3 3 (7.89%) Corporate Banking
3 3 (7.89%) Investment Banking
3 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.89%) Retail Banking
4 2 (5.26%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (44.74%) Developer
2 6 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (15.79%) Java Developer
2 6 (15.79%) Lead
3 5 (13.16%) AWS Developer
3 5 (13.16%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Architect
4 4 (10.53%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (10.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 3 (7.89%) AWS Architect
5 3 (7.89%) PHP Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Senior
6 2 (5.26%) Automation Tester
6 2 (5.26%) AWS Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) Python Team Leader
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Technical Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (31.58%) Node.js
1 12 (31.58%) REST
2 10 (26.32%) Spring
3 8 (21.05%) Spring Boot
4 6 (15.79%) React
5 5 (13.16%) Kafka
6 4 (10.53%) Express.js
6 4 (10.53%) JAX-RS
6 4 (10.53%) Web Services
7 3 (7.89%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (7.89%) Laravel
7 3 (7.89%) LDAP
7 3 (7.89%) Mustache
7 3 (7.89%) OAuth
7 3 (7.89%) Redux
7 3 (7.89%) Symfony
7 3 (7.89%) Yii
8 2 (5.26%) Chai
8 2 (5.26%) Lambda Expressions
8 2 (5.26%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.89%) Data Centre
1 3 (7.89%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Private Cloud
1 3 (7.89%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.26%) Video on Demand
3 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Linux
1 1 (2.63%) Windows
1 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (52.63%) CI/CD
2 14 (36.84%) Agile
3 11 (28.95%) DevOps
3 11 (28.95%) Microservices
4 10 (26.32%) Containerisation
5 9 (23.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (23.68%) Test Automation
6 7 (18.42%) Event-Driven
7 5 (13.16%) High Availability
7 5 (13.16%) OOP
8 4 (10.53%) BDD
8 4 (10.53%) Design Patterns
8 4 (10.53%) End-to-End Testing
8 4 (10.53%) Full Stack Development
8 4 (10.53%) Open Source
8 4 (10.53%) Pair Programming
8 4 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
9 3 (7.89%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 3 (7.89%) Integration Patterns
9 3 (7.89%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 14 (36.84%) Python
2 13 (34.21%) Java
3 8 (21.05%) JavaScript
4 7 (18.42%) SQL
5 6 (15.79%) TypeScript
6 3 (7.89%) Kotlin
6 3 (7.89%) PHP
7 2 (5.26%) C
8 1 (2.63%) Bash
Qualifications
1 19 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 19 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.16%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) QA
2 1 (2.63%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (36.84%) Docker
2 3 (7.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (42.11%) Kubernetes
2 15 (39.47%) Terraform
3 2 (5.26%) Ansible
3 2 (5.26%) Grafana
3 2 (5.26%) Kustomize
3 2 (5.26%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (10.53%) Salesforce
2 3 (7.89%) Palo Alto
2 3 (7.89%) SAP
2 3 (7.89%) VMware
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.26%) Oracle
3 2 (5.26%) Red Hat
3 2 (5.26%) Splunk
4 1 (2.63%) Adobe
4 1 (2.63%) Google
4 1 (2.63%) Sitecore
4 1 (2.63%) Zuora