Amazon SQS Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Amazon SQS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 50 64
Rank change year-on-year -21 +14 -
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 10 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.07% 0.20% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.52% 0.62% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £429 - -
25th Percentile £463 - £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £350
75th Percentile £506 - £365
90th Percentile £563 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £525 £350
% change year-on-year -9.52% +50.00% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Birmingham

Amazon SQS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 284 162 205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 30.50% 31.89% 27.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 125 158
10th Percentile £296 £190 £250
25th Percentile £400 £381 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% +5.50% -9.95%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £638 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 8
10th Percentile £37.00 - £14.05
25th Percentile £55.00 £56.88 £15.53
Median hourly rate £70.00 £58.75 £22.98
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% +155.71% +13.51%
75th Percentile £75.00 £60.63 £26.50
90th Percentile - - £35.05
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £18.07 £21.23
% change year-on-year +88.15% -14.89% +4.87%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon SQS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Amazon SQS job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Amazon SQS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Amazon SQS

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon SQS in Birmingham over the 6 months to 14 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon SQS in Birmingham

Amazon SQS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (70.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 7 (70.00%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (70.00%) AWS KMS
2 7 (70.00%) Route 53
3 6 (60.00%) Azure
4 4 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (30.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 3 (30.00%) Serverless
6 2 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (10.00%) GitHub
7 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) DynamoDB
2 7 (70.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (70.00%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (70.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) Git
2 7 (70.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (70.00%) JUnit
2 7 (70.00%) Maven
2 7 (70.00%) Mockito
2 7 (70.00%) SonarQube
3 4 (40.00%) DbUnit
3 4 (40.00%) jMock
4 3 (30.00%) JIRA
5 2 (20.00%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 7 (70.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Developer
2 7 (70.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Developer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Node.js Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Server Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) Node.js
2 7 (70.00%) ActiveMQ
2 7 (70.00%) AngularJS
2 7 (70.00%) Hibernate
2 7 (70.00%) JPA
2 7 (70.00%) REST
2 7 (70.00%) SOAP
2 7 (70.00%) Spring
2 7 (70.00%) Spring Batch
2 7 (70.00%) Spring Boot
2 7 (70.00%) Spring Cloud
2 7 (70.00%) Spring Integration
2 7 (70.00%) Web Services
3 4 (40.00%) PowerMock
4 3 (30.00%) RESTful
5 2 (20.00%) Bootstrap
6 1 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (90.00%) DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) Agile
2 8 (80.00%) Microservices
3 7 (70.00%) BPMN
3 7 (70.00%) Containerisation
3 7 (70.00%) Scrum
3 7 (70.00%) TDD
4 5 (50.00%) Biometrics
4 5 (50.00%) Kanban
4 5 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (30.00%) Digital Identity
6 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
7 2 (20.00%) BDD
7 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Engineering
7 2 (20.00%) Database Tuning
7 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
7 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (20.00%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Java
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Docker
2 4 (40.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Grafana
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Jaspersoft
2 4 (40.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk