Amazon SQS Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Amazon SQS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 - 95
Rank change year-on-year - - +38
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 7 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.10% - 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.68% - 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile £474 - £481
25th Percentile £495 - £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £494
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.92%
75th Percentile £538 - £526
90th Percentile £543 - £540
Scotland median daily rate £525 £483 £510
% change year-on-year +8.70% -5.20% +1.90%

All Cloud Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 261 298 402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 40.85% 36.17% 38.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 184 288
10th Percentile £413 £191 £260
25th Percentile £450 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £453 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.50% -4.74% -3.06%
75th Percentile £546 £538 £532
90th Percentile £616 £600 £578
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 1
Median hourly rate £60.00 £22.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +172.73% +24.15% -
Scotland median hourly rate £37.55 £21.14 £23.86
% change year-on-year +77.58% -11.39% +34.65%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon SQS in Edinburgh

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

Amazon SQS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 3 (42.86%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (28.57%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 7 (100.00%) Serverless
2 6 (85.71%) Amazon ECS
2 6 (85.71%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (71.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (28.57%) Dagster
5 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (14.29%) GIS
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) MLflow
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Python Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) AWS CDK
2 6 (85.71%) FastAPI
2 6 (85.71%) OpenCV
2 6 (85.71%) Pandas
2 6 (85.71%) PyTorch
2 6 (85.71%) SQLAlchemy
3 5 (71.43%) Hugging Face
3 5 (71.43%) NumPy
4 4 (57.14%) boto
4 4 (57.14%) JWT
4 4 (57.14%) OAuth
5 3 (42.86%) REST
6 1 (14.29%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Algorithms
1 3 (42.86%) Data Structures
2 2 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) Artificial Intelligence
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (85.71%) LLM
2 6 (85.71%) Machine Learning
2 6 (85.71%) OCR
3 5 (71.43%) OOP
3 5 (71.43%) TDD
4 4 (57.14%) API Development
4 4 (57.14%) Async-Await
4 4 (57.14%) Computer Vision
4 4 (57.14%) Kanban
4 4 (57.14%) Pair Programming
4 4 (57.14%) Scrum
5 3 (42.86%) API Integration
5 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
5 3 (42.86%) Data Cleansing
5 3 (42.86%) Deep Learning
5 3 (42.86%) OO
6 2 (28.57%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
2 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Grafana
2 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes