Amazon SQS Contracts in England

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 394 462 462
Rank change year-on-year +68 0 +92
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 91 80 193
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.22% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.00% 0.67% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 61 145
10th Percentile £400 £418 £463
25th Percentile £413 £505 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £750 £663 £680
90th Percentile £788 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £503 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -12.61% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 - £35.00

All Cloud Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon SQS in England

Amazon SQS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon SQS in England

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon SQS in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon SQS in England

Amazon SQS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon SQS in England.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon SQS in England

Amazon SQS
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London +43 59 £503 -12.61% 100
North of England +13 12 £500 -16.67% 57
Midlands +30 9 £525 +50.00% 38
West Midlands +22 9 £525 +50.00% 21
North West +7 7 £450 -28.00% 36
North East - 3 £460 - 5
South East +44 2 £500 -15.97% 55
Yorkshire +9 2 £600 +4.35% 17
East of England +27 1 £675 - 28
South West - 1 - - 21
Amazon SQS
UK

Amazon SQS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (3.30%) Confluence
1 3 (3.30%) nginx
2 2 (2.20%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.20%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.10%) Apache
3 1 (1.10%) Documentum
3 1 (1.10%) FileNet
3 1 (1.10%) JBoss
3 1 (1.10%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.10%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.10%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (2.20%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 91 (100.00%) AWS
2 73 (80.22%) Serverless
3 71 (78.02%) AWS Lambda
4 56 (61.54%) Amazon S3
5 41 (45.05%) Amazon EC2
6 37 (40.66%) AWS CloudFormation
7 35 (38.46%) Amazon ECS
8 28 (30.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 16 (17.58%) AWS KMS
10 15 (16.48%) GitHub
11 10 (10.99%) Amazon ECR
12 9 (9.89%) AWS Step Functions
12 9 (9.89%) Route 53
13 7 (7.69%) Amazon EventBridge
14 6 (6.59%) Amazon Cognito
14 6 (6.59%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (5.49%) OpenShift
15 5 (5.49%) PaaS
16 4 (4.40%) Amazon EKS
16 4 (4.40%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.79%) HTTP
2 2 (2.20%) IPsec
2 2 (2.20%) Kerberos
2 2 (2.20%) SMS
2 2 (2.20%) SSL
3 1 (1.10%) DNS
3 1 (1.10%) Firewall
3 1 (1.10%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (42.86%) DynamoDB
2 36 (39.56%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (25.27%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (17.58%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (13.19%) Redis
6 11 (12.09%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (10.99%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (9.89%) Relational Database
9 8 (8.79%) MySQL
9 8 (8.79%) NoSQL
10 7 (7.69%) DocumentDB
11 4 (4.40%) MongoDB
11 4 (4.40%) RDBMS
12 2 (2.20%) Data Lake
12 2 (2.20%) Metadata
12 2 (2.20%) Metadata Repository
13 1 (1.10%) Apache Hive
13 1 (1.10%) Big Data
13 1 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (1.10%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 19 (20.88%) Git
1 19 (20.88%) Jenkins
2 14 (15.38%) SonarQube
3 9 (9.89%) Mockito
4 8 (8.79%) JUnit
5 7 (7.69%) Maven
6 6 (6.59%) Artifactory
6 6 (6.59%) GitLab
6 6 (6.59%) Mocha
7 5 (5.49%) git-flow
8 4 (4.40%) Bitbucket
8 4 (4.40%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (4.40%) DbUnit
8 4 (4.40%) jMock
9 3 (3.30%) Cypress.io
9 3 (3.30%) ESLint
9 3 (3.30%) JIRA
9 3 (3.30%) Postman
9 3 (3.30%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (2.20%) PHPUnit
General
1 21 (23.08%) Finance
2 18 (19.78%) Banking
2 18 (19.78%) Public Sector
3 14 (15.38%) Front Office
4 11 (12.09%) Social Skills
5 7 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.30%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.30%) Retail
7 2 (2.20%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.20%) Marketing
8 1 (1.10%) Aviation
8 1 (1.10%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.10%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (43.96%) Developer
2 23 (25.27%) AWS Engineer
3 20 (21.98%) Senior
4 18 (19.78%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (15.38%) AWS DevOps
5 14 (15.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 12 (13.19%) AWS Developer
6 12 (13.19%) Python Engineer
7 11 (12.09%) Java Developer
8 10 (10.99%) Software Engineer
9 9 (9.89%) DevOps Manager
9 9 (9.89%) Finance Manager
9 9 (9.89%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (8.79%) JavaScript Engineer
10 8 (8.79%) Senior DevOps
11 7 (7.69%) Architect
11 7 (7.69%) Node.js Developer
11 7 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 7 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
12 6 (6.59%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (38.46%) Node.js
2 29 (31.87%) React
3 16 (17.58%) AWS CDK
4 15 (16.48%) Spring Boot
4 15 (16.48%) Web Services
5 14 (15.38%) HTML
6 13 (14.29%) REST
7 12 (13.19%) Spring
8 11 (12.09%) CSS
8 11 (12.09%) Jest
9 10 (10.99%) WebSockets
10 9 (9.89%) RESTful
11 8 (8.79%) Hibernate
12 7 (7.69%) Kafka
13 6 (6.59%) AngularJS
13 6 (6.59%) boto
13 6 (6.59%) Redux
13 6 (6.59%) Sass
14 5 (5.49%) GraphQL
14 5 (5.49%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (5.49%) Tandem
3 4 (4.40%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.30%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.30%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.30%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.30%) Vector Graphics
5 2 (2.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.20%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.10%) NHS
6 1 (1.10%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.59%) Linux
2 2 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.10%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (1.10%) CentOS
3 1 (1.10%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (1.10%) Unix
3 1 (1.10%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (54.95%) CI/CD
2 47 (51.65%) DevOps
3 38 (41.76%) Agile
4 32 (35.16%) Microservices
5 25 (27.47%) Software Engineering
6 20 (21.98%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (17.58%) Fintech
8 15 (16.48%) Containerisation
9 14 (15.38%) Asset Management
9 14 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 13 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
11 12 (13.19%) Test Automation
12 11 (12.09%) Decision-Making
12 11 (12.09%) TDD
13 10 (10.99%) Continuous Integration
14 9 (9.89%) Event-Driven
14 9 (9.89%) Mentoring
14 9 (9.89%) Open Source
14 9 (9.89%) Secrets Management
15 8 (8.79%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 43 (47.25%) JavaScript
2 39 (42.86%) Python
3 24 (26.37%) Java
4 20 (21.98%) SQL
4 20 (21.98%) TypeScript
5 6 (6.59%) T-SQL
6 5 (5.49%) Go
7 2 (2.20%) Bash
7 2 (2.20%) PHP
7 2 (2.20%) R
7 2 (2.20%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.10%) Groovy
8 1 (1.10%) Rust
Qualifications
1 28 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 26 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 11 (12.09%) AWS Certification
4 8 (8.79%) AWS Certified Developer
5 5 (5.49%) Degree
6 3 (3.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.20%) QA
1 2 (2.20%) WCAG
2 1 (1.10%) GDPR
2 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 41 (45.05%) Docker
2 5 (5.49%) Postfix
3 2 (2.20%) RACF
4 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (47.25%) Terraform
2 27 (29.67%) Kubernetes
3 9 (9.89%) Prometheus
4 7 (7.69%) Ansible
5 6 (6.59%) Grafana
6 2 (2.20%) Packer
6 2 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.10%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 9 (9.89%) Splunk
2 4 (4.40%) Atlassian
2 4 (4.40%) Jaspersoft
2 4 (4.40%) Oracle
3 3 (3.30%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.20%) Databricks
5 1 (1.10%) Actifio
5 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.10%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.10%) New Relic
5 1 (1.10%) Rollbar