Amazon SQS Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 113 123
Rank change year-on-year -6 +10 +61
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 1 5 6
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.055% 0.27% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.13% 0.68% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 5
10th Percentile - £410 -
25th Percentile - £419 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £455 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -13.33% -18.35%
75th Percentile - £483 £563
90th Percentile - £636 £570
Central London median daily rate - £455 £525
% change year-on-year - -13.33% -24.62%

All Cloud Computing Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 755 739 940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.28% 39.18% 39.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 561 467 684
10th Percentile £340 £406 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -5.98%
75th Percentile £665 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £760 £742
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 9
10th Percentile £25.49 - -
25th Percentile £32.50 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 - £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.50%
75th Percentile £41.94 - £38.00
90th Percentile £45.28 - £53.75
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -27.23% +55.56% +9.76%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Amazon SQS job vacancy trend in the City of London

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Amazon SQS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Amazon SQS

Amazon SQS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Code Coverage
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform