Amazon SQS Contract Job Trends in Central London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Amazon SQS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 120 126
Rank change year-on-year -14 +6 +39
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 5 7 6
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.21% 0.35% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.51% 0.81% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 5
10th Percentile £490 £411 -
25th Percentile £513 £420 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £475 £575
90th Percentile £590 £479 £665
London median daily rate £575 £510 £575
% change year-on-year +12.75% -11.30% -8.00%

All Cloud Computing 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 982 862 966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.35% 43.58% 38.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 698 563 683
10th Percentile £350 £375 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £650
90th Percentile £749 £729 £749
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 11
10th Percentile £21.29 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.47 £25.56 £17.97
Median hourly rate £40.64 £34.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.29% +54.00% -57.14%
75th Percentile £54.05 £41.88 £36.25
90th Percentile £73.47 £100.00 £50.25
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Amazon SQS job vacancy trend in Central London

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Amazon SQS

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 8 April 2026. 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 -16 5 £550 +22.22% 6
Amazon SQS
London

Amazon SQS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (80.00%) Serverless
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (20.00%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (20.00%) Figma
4 1 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (20.00%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (20.00%) DB2
3 1 (20.00%) MySQL
3 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) Git
3 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Backend Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Backend Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
1 2 (40.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) Phoenix
2 1 (20.00%) Phoenix Framework
2 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Code
2 1 (20.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Debt
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Application Security
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (20.00%) Community of Practice
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Secrets Management
3 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (20.00%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Elixir
3 1 (20.00%) Ruby
3 1 (20.00%) Scala
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk
1 1 (20.00%) Sybase