Amazon SQS Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Amazon SQS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 96 -
Rank change year-on-year -16 - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.090% 0.24% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.41% 0.80% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £538 -
Median % change year-on-year -34.88% - -
England median daily rate £530 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +6.00% -4.76% -12.50%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 493 373 280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 22.12% 30.18% 15.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 204 161
10th Percentile £193 £200 £220
25th Percentile £389 £395 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £563
90th Percentile £638 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 47 53
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.75 £15.93 £14.48
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.50 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +25.77% -25.91%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £71.25 £67.00 £21.46
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -36.77%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Amazon SQS job vacancy trend in the East of England

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Amazon SQS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Amazon SQS

Amazon SQS
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 20 July 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
Essex - 1 £350 -
Norfolk - 1 - -
Amazon SQS
England

Amazon SQS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon MSK
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Avro
2 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) JWT
2 1 (50.00%) OAuth
2 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (50.00%) Protocol Buffers
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (50.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) CQRS
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Confluent