Amazon SQS Contracts in Central London

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Amazon SQS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon SQS over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 126 164
Rank change year-on-year +12 +38 +16
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 10 9 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.50% 0.37% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.16% 0.94% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 8
10th Percentile £421 £463 £464
25th Percentile £425 £475 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £475 £588 £591
90th Percentile £800 £650 £695
London median daily rate £503 £569 £625
% change year-on-year -11.65% -9.00% +11.11%

All Cloud Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 864 958 1,483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 43.24% 39.25% 38.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 560 693 1,015
10th Percentile £365 £351 £313
25th Percentile £458 £430 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.01% -6.52% -
75th Percentile £665 £650 £700
90th Percentile £739 £750 £800
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 9
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £24.20
25th Percentile £26.00 £17.39 £35.00
Median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +379.16%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.56 £88.30
90th Percentile £94.88 £33.98 -
London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon SQS in Central London

Amazon SQS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon SQS in Central London

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon SQS in Central London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon SQS in Central London

Amazon SQS
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
City of London +8 10 £450 -14.29% 7
Amazon SQS
London

Amazon SQS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 1 (10.00%) Confluence
1 1 (10.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (90.00%) AWS Lambda
2 9 (90.00%) Serverless
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (20.00%) Amazon Cognito
5 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (20.00%) Datadog
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Redis
2 5 (50.00%) DocumentDB
3 3 (30.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) SonarQube
2 5 (50.00%) Git
3 1 (10.00%) ESLint
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) Mocha
General
1 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) JavaScript Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Architect
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Design Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) Node.js
2 5 (50.00%) React
3 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (20.00%) AWS CDK
3 2 (20.00%) GraphQL
3 2 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (20.00%) WebSockets
4 1 (10.00%) CSS
4 1 (10.00%) Express.js
4 1 (10.00%) HTML
4 1 (10.00%) Jest
4 1 (10.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Microservices
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Clean Code
5 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (20.00%) Observability
5 2 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (20.00%) User Experience
6 1 (10.00%) Agile
6 1 (10.00%) API Integration
6 1 (10.00%) Code Quality
6 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Splunk