Amazon SQS Contracts in England

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Amazon SQS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon SQS over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 463 457 555
Rank change year-on-year -6 +98 -203
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 80 193 230
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.38% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.67% 1.04% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 145 143
10th Percentile £418 £463 £413
25th Percentile £505 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £663 £680 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £746
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Cloud Skills
England

Amazon SQS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,863 18,484 27,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.87% 36.63% 38.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,546 13,521 20,067
10th Percentile £290 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 311 349
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.87 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -2.33%
75th Percentile £32.50 £65.75 £42.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -5.54%

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 29 April 2024.

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 29 April 2024. 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 +31 54 £575 -8.00% 22
North of England +26 18 £600 -4.00% 4
North West +38 17 £625 +13.64% 2
East of England +10 4 - -
South East +3 4 £595 +19.00% 4
Yorkshire +20 1 £575 -11.54% 2
Midlands - 1 £350 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £350 -
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 10 (12.50%) Apache
1 10 (12.50%) Apache Spark
1 10 (12.50%) Confluence
2 6 (7.50%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.75%) nginx
3 3 (3.75%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.50%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 80 (100.00%) AWS
2 56 (70.00%) Amazon S3
3 40 (50.00%) Serverless
4 38 (47.50%) Amazon EC2
5 36 (45.00%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (23.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 15 (18.75%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (17.50%) Route 53
9 13 (16.25%) Amazon ECR
10 12 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (15.00%) Amazon EventBridge
11 11 (13.75%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (13.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 10 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
12 10 (12.50%) Amazon MSK
12 10 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (11.25%) AWS Step Functions
14 7 (8.75%) Amazon Kinesis
14 7 (8.75%) Azure
14 7 (8.75%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.75%) FTP
2 4 (5.00%) Firewall
2 4 (5.00%) OpenLDAP
3 2 (2.50%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (33.75%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (21.25%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (15.00%) Relational Database
4 11 (13.75%) DynamoDB
4 11 (13.75%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (12.50%) NoSQL
6 9 (11.25%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (10.00%) Big Data
8 7 (8.75%) MySQL
9 6 (7.50%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (7.50%) RDBMS
10 5 (6.25%) MongoDB
11 4 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (2.50%) Apache Hive
12 2 (2.50%) Hadoop
12 2 (2.50%) Presto
12 2 (2.50%) SAP Data Services
12 2 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (1.25%) HBase
13 1 (1.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (28.75%) Git
2 19 (23.75%) GitLab
3 17 (21.25%) JIRA
4 15 (18.75%) Jenkins
5 13 (16.25%) Maven
6 10 (12.50%) JUnit
7 9 (11.25%) Cucumber
7 9 (11.25%) webpack
8 8 (10.00%) Mockito
8 8 (10.00%) TestNG
9 7 (8.75%) Selenium
10 5 (6.25%) Bitbucket
10 5 (6.25%) EasyMock
11 3 (3.75%) Mocha
11 3 (3.75%) Postman
11 3 (3.75%) SonarQube
12 2 (2.50%) Cypress.io
12 2 (2.50%) Gradle
12 2 (2.50%) Liquibase
12 2 (2.50%) PHPUnit
General
1 13 (16.25%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.50%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.25%) Manufacturing
3 5 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (5.00%) Retail
5 3 (3.75%) Marketing
6 2 (2.50%) Banking
6 2 (2.50%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (2.50%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.50%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.25%) Finance
7 1 (1.25%) Front Office
7 1 (1.25%) Games
7 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (47.50%) Developer
2 17 (21.25%) Java Developer
3 14 (17.50%) Lead
4 12 (15.00%) AWS Developer
5 10 (12.50%) Architect
6 8 (10.00%) Backend Developer
6 8 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (10.00%) Senior
7 7 (8.75%) AWS Architect
7 7 (8.75%) Data Engineer
8 6 (7.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 6 (7.50%) Senior Developer
9 5 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (6.25%) Python Developer
9 5 (6.25%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 5 (6.25%) Technical Leader
10 4 (5.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 4 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (27.50%) Node.js
1 22 (27.50%) REST
1 22 (27.50%) Spring
1 22 (27.50%) Spring Boot
2 13 (16.25%) React
3 12 (15.00%) Kafka
4 9 (11.25%) Express.js
4 9 (11.25%) Redux
5 8 (10.00%) Lambda Expressions
5 8 (10.00%) WireMock
6 7 (8.75%) Hibernate
6 7 (8.75%) JAX-RS
6 7 (8.75%) JPA
7 6 (7.50%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (7.50%) RESTful
7 6 (7.50%) Web Services
8 5 (6.25%) GraphQL
8 5 (6.25%) JSON
8 5 (6.25%) Mustache
8 5 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.75%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.75%) Private Cloud
3 3 (3.75%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.75%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.50%) Video on Demand
5 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.25%) Tandem
5 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.00%) Linux
2 3 (3.75%) Unix
3 1 (1.25%) CentOS
3 1 (1.25%) Windows
3 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 36 (45.00%) Agile
3 23 (28.75%) Containerisation
3 23 (28.75%) Microservices
4 22 (27.50%) DevOps
4 22 (27.50%) Test Automation
5 18 (22.50%) ETL
5 18 (22.50%) Scrum
6 13 (16.25%) Front End Development
7 11 (13.75%) End-to-End Testing
7 11 (13.75%) Full Stack Development
8 9 (11.25%) API Development
8 9 (11.25%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 9 (11.25%) Customer Engagement
8 9 (11.25%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (11.25%) QA Automation
8 9 (11.25%) Software Engineering
9 8 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (10.00%) High Availability
9 8 (10.00%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 44 (55.00%) Java
2 29 (36.25%) Python
3 20 (25.00%) SQL
4 12 (15.00%) JavaScript
5 11 (13.75%) TypeScript
6 5 (6.25%) C#
6 5 (6.25%) Kotlin
7 3 (3.75%) PHP
7 3 (3.75%) Scala
7 3 (3.75%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.25%) Bash
8 1 (1.25%) Go
Qualifications
1 33 (41.25%) SC Cleared
1 33 (41.25%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.75%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.25%) QA
2 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (22.50%) Docker
2 5 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.25%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 34 (42.50%) Kubernetes
2 25 (31.25%) Terraform
3 4 (5.00%) Ansible
3 4 (5.00%) Packer
4 3 (3.75%) Kustomize
5 2 (2.50%) Grafana
6 1 (1.25%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 7 (8.75%) Informatica
1 7 (8.75%) Talend
2 6 (7.50%) SAP
3 4 (5.00%) Palo Alto
3 4 (5.00%) VMware
4 3 (3.75%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.50%) Adobe
5 2 (2.50%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.50%) Sitecore
5 2 (2.50%) Splunk
6 1 (1.25%) Dell
6 1 (1.25%) Google
6 1 (1.25%) Intel
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.25%) New Relic