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 9 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 461 490
Rank change year-on-year +83 +29 +86
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 131 60 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.47% 0.18% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.27% 0.54% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 42 80
10th Percentile £400 £364 £450
25th Percentile £425 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.41% +2.61% -4.17%
75th Percentile £678 £738 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £725
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £35.75 - -
25th Percentile £36.88 - -
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £35.00
75th Percentile £44.38 - -
90th Percentile £46.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -39.13%

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 10,316 11,200 16,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.08% 33.69% 36.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,003 7,957 11,957
10th Percentile £310 £313 £313
25th Percentile £406 £425 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £644 £663
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 231 299
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £15.00
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.30 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% -27.88% +53.49%
75th Percentile £43.39 £55.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £27.45 £24.18 £35.00
% change year-on-year +13.52% -30.91% +59.09%

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 9 August 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 9 August 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 +35 76 £550 -8.33% 33
North of England +9 26 £500 +17.65% 24
North West +5 14 £514 +17.43% 19
West Midlands +4 14 £488 +39.29% 1
Midlands +1 14 £488 +39.29% 2
Yorkshire -2 9 £390 -5.45% 4
South East +25 4 £500 -15.97% 5
East of England - 3 £538 - 3
North East - 3 £575 - 1
South West +29 2 £375 -16.67% 4
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 6 (4.58%) nginx
2 4 (3.05%) Confluence
2 4 (3.05%) Documentum
2 4 (3.05%) FileNet
3 2 (1.53%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.76%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 131 (100.00%) AWS
2 93 (70.99%) Serverless
3 87 (66.41%) AWS Lambda
4 69 (52.67%) Amazon S3
5 56 (42.75%) Amazon EC2
6 39 (29.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 36 (27.48%) Amazon ECS
8 34 (25.95%) AWS CloudFormation
9 31 (23.66%) Amazon EventBridge
10 28 (21.37%) GitHub
11 24 (18.32%) SaaS
12 23 (17.56%) AWS Step Functions
13 18 (13.74%) AWS Fargate
14 14 (10.69%) Datadog
14 14 (10.69%) Route 53
15 13 (9.92%) Amazon Cognito
15 13 (9.92%) AWS KMS
16 9 (6.87%) Amazon EKS
16 9 (6.87%) Amazon Kinesis
16 9 (6.87%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.11%) HTTP
2 4 (3.05%) DNS
3 3 (2.29%) Firewall
3 3 (2.29%) SSL
3 3 (2.29%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.53%) Network Security
4 2 (1.53%) VPN
5 1 (0.76%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (45.04%) DynamoDB
2 43 (32.82%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (30.53%) Amazon RDS
4 26 (19.85%) Amazon Aurora
5 22 (16.79%) Relational Database
6 14 (10.69%) Redis
7 13 (9.92%) NoSQL
8 10 (7.63%) DocumentDB
8 10 (7.63%) RDBMS
9 9 (6.87%) MySQL
10 8 (6.11%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (3.82%) BigQuery
12 3 (2.29%) MongoDB
13 2 (1.53%) DB2
13 2 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (1.53%) Metadata
13 2 (1.53%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 45 (34.35%) Git
2 34 (25.95%) Jenkins
3 29 (22.14%) SonarQube
4 23 (17.56%) Maven
5 20 (15.27%) JUnit
6 10 (7.63%) JIRA
6 10 (7.63%) Mockito
7 8 (6.11%) Cucumber
8 7 (5.34%) Bitbucket Server
8 7 (5.34%) DbUnit
8 7 (5.34%) GitLab
8 7 (5.34%) jMock
9 5 (3.82%) Bitbucket
9 5 (3.82%) git-flow
9 5 (3.82%) Gradle
9 5 (3.82%) SonarLint
10 3 (2.29%) Cypress.io
10 3 (2.29%) Mocha
10 3 (2.29%) Postman
10 3 (2.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 47 (35.88%) Public Sector
2 26 (19.85%) Social Skills
3 17 (12.98%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (6.87%) Finance
5 8 (6.11%) Banking
6 7 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.82%) Digital Healthcare
8 4 (3.05%) Military
9 3 (2.29%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.53%) Aviation
10 2 (1.53%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.53%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.76%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.76%) Retail
11 1 (0.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (41.22%) Developer
2 31 (23.66%) Architect
3 22 (16.79%) AWS Developer
4 21 (16.03%) Java Developer
5 19 (14.50%) AWS Engineer
5 19 (14.50%) Security Architect
6 18 (13.74%) Senior
7 14 (10.69%) Software Engineer
8 11 (8.40%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (8.40%) Lead
9 9 (6.87%) JavaScript Engineer
9 9 (6.87%) Technical Architect
10 8 (6.11%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (6.11%) Java Architect
10 8 (6.11%) Java Technical Architect
10 8 (6.11%) Senior Developer
11 7 (5.34%) Node.js Developer
12 6 (4.58%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (4.58%) Lead Developer
12 6 (4.58%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (26.72%) Node.js
2 31 (23.66%) RESTful
3 28 (21.37%) React
3 28 (21.37%) Spring Boot
4 26 (19.85%) Spring
5 23 (17.56%) REST
6 19 (14.50%) AWS CDK
7 18 (13.74%) SOAP
7 18 (13.74%) Web Services
8 16 (12.21%) AngularJS
8 16 (12.21%) Kafka
9 15 (11.45%) GraphQL
9 15 (11.45%) Jest
9 15 (11.45%) WebSockets
10 14 (10.69%) Hibernate
10 14 (10.69%) HTML
11 13 (9.92%) ActiveMQ
12 12 (9.16%) JPA
13 11 (8.40%) JSON
14 10 (7.63%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.03%) Cloud Native
1 21 (16.03%) Onboarding
2 19 (14.50%) CSOC
2 19 (14.50%) Security Operations Centre
3 9 (6.87%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.34%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.58%) N-Tier
6 4 (3.05%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.05%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.29%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.29%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.29%) Vector Graphics
7 3 (2.29%) Video on Demand
8 2 (1.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.53%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.53%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.53%) PKI
9 1 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.40%) Linux
2 4 (3.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (47.33%) Microservices
2 54 (41.22%) CI/CD
3 51 (38.93%) Agile
4 47 (35.88%) DevOps
5 41 (31.30%) Containerisation
6 28 (21.37%) Clean Code
7 24 (18.32%) Mentoring
8 23 (17.56%) TDD
9 22 (16.79%) Cybersecurity
9 22 (16.79%) Event-Driven
9 22 (16.79%) Infrastructure as Code
10 21 (16.03%) SIEM
11 20 (15.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 19 (14.50%) Security Operations
12 19 (14.50%) Software Engineering
12 19 (14.50%) Use Case
13 18 (13.74%) SOAR
14 17 (12.98%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (12.98%) Test Automation
15 16 (12.21%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (35.88%) Java
2 40 (30.53%) Python
3 25 (19.08%) JavaScript
4 23 (17.56%) TypeScript
5 22 (16.79%) SQL
6 6 (4.58%) T-SQL
7 4 (3.05%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.05%) Rust
8 3 (2.29%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.53%) Bash
10 1 (0.76%) C#
10 1 (0.76%) Groovy
10 1 (0.76%) PHP
10 1 (0.76%) R
Qualifications
1 49 (37.40%) Security Cleared
2 42 (32.06%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.69%) AWS Certification
4 9 (6.87%) Degree
5 7 (5.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (3.82%) AWS Certified Developer
6 5 (3.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 5 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.53%) CISSP
9 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.40%) QA
2 6 (4.58%) WCAG
3 3 (2.29%) GDPR
3 3 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.53%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.53%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.53%) NIST
4 2 (1.53%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 50 (38.17%) Docker
2 7 (5.34%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 36 (27.48%) Terraform
2 23 (17.56%) Kubernetes
3 21 (16.03%) Prometheus
4 12 (9.16%) Grafana
5 9 (6.87%) Ansible
6 2 (1.53%) Kustomize
6 2 (1.53%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (18.32%) Splunk
2 7 (5.34%) Atlassian
2 7 (5.34%) CA Agile Central
2 7 (5.34%) Jaspersoft
2 7 (5.34%) Oracle
3 6 (4.58%) Gigya
3 6 (4.58%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.82%) Pega
5 3 (2.29%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.53%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.53%) Sybase
7 1 (0.76%) JDA
7 1 (0.76%) New Relic
7 1 (0.76%) OpenText
7 1 (0.76%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.76%) Rollbar
7 1 (0.76%) Sage
7 1 (0.76%) Solace