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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 465 484 550
Rank change year-on-year +19 +66 -196
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 72 167 227
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.35% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.62% 0.95% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 129 141
10th Percentile £418 £453 £413
25th Percentile £488 £500 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £694 £680 £650
90th Percentile £709 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - -44.00% +149.35%

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 11,649 17,595 26,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.02% 36.52% 38.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,405 12,904 19,935
10th Percentile £300 £325 £335
25th Percentile £418 £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 £744 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 294 337
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.95
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £32.40 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.19% +50.70% +0.76%
75th Percentile £35.00 £67.13 £52.50
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 +42 51 £550 -12.00% 20
North of England +24 17 £575 -11.54% 7
North West +32 16 £586 +6.59% 5
South East -2 4 £595 +19.00% 6
Yorkshire +11 1 £575 -11.54% 1
Midlands - 1 £350 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £350 - 1
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 8 (11.11%) Confluence
2 6 (8.33%) Apache
2 6 (8.33%) Apache Spark
3 5 (6.94%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (4.17%) nginx
4 3 (4.17%) Tomcat
5 2 (2.78%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 72 (100.00%) AWS
2 51 (70.83%) Amazon S3
3 35 (48.61%) Serverless
4 32 (44.44%) Amazon EC2
5 31 (43.06%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (27.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 15 (20.83%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (19.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (19.44%) Route 53
9 13 (18.06%) Amazon ECR
10 11 (15.28%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (12.50%) Amazon MSK
11 9 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 8 (11.11%) Amazon EventBridge
12 8 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
12 8 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (9.72%) Azure
14 6 (8.33%) Amazon EMR
14 6 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
14 6 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.72%) FTP
2 4 (5.56%) Firewall
2 4 (5.56%) OpenLDAP
3 2 (2.78%) SMS
4 1 (1.39%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (34.72%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (23.61%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (15.28%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (12.50%) DynamoDB
4 9 (12.50%) Relational Database
5 8 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (11.11%) MySQL
6 7 (9.72%) NoSQL
7 6 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (6.94%) Big Data
8 5 (6.94%) MongoDB
8 5 (6.94%) RDBMS
9 3 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (2.78%) DB2
11 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.39%) Redis
11 1 (1.39%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 20 (27.78%) Git
2 19 (26.39%) GitLab
3 13 (18.06%) Jenkins
4 12 (16.67%) JIRA
5 10 (13.89%) JUnit
5 10 (13.89%) Maven
6 9 (12.50%) Cucumber
6 9 (12.50%) webpack
7 8 (11.11%) Mockito
7 8 (11.11%) TestNG
8 7 (9.72%) Selenium
9 5 (6.94%) Bitbucket
9 5 (6.94%) EasyMock
10 3 (4.17%) Mocha
10 3 (4.17%) PHPUnit
10 3 (4.17%) Postman
10 3 (4.17%) SonarQube
11 2 (2.78%) Cypress.io
11 2 (2.78%) Gradle
11 2 (2.78%) Liquibase
General
1 8 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.94%) Manufacturing
2 5 (6.94%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (6.94%) Public Sector
2 5 (6.94%) Retail
3 3 (4.17%) Banking
3 3 (4.17%) Corporate Banking
3 3 (4.17%) Investment Banking
3 3 (4.17%) Marketing
3 3 (4.17%) Retail Banking
4 1 (1.39%) Finance
4 1 (1.39%) Games
4 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (45.83%) Developer
2 15 (20.83%) Lead
3 12 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 11 (15.28%) Architect
5 9 (12.50%) AWS Developer
6 8 (11.11%) AWS Architect
6 8 (11.11%) Backend Developer
6 8 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (9.72%) Senior
8 6 (8.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 5 (6.94%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (6.94%) Data Engineer
9 5 (6.94%) Senior Developer
9 5 (6.94%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 5 (6.94%) Technical Leader
10 4 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
10 4 (5.56%) Python Developer
10 4 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 3 (4.17%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (31.94%) Node.js
2 21 (29.17%) Spring
3 19 (26.39%) Spring Boot
4 18 (25.00%) REST
5 14 (19.44%) React
6 12 (16.67%) Kafka
7 9 (12.50%) Express.js
7 9 (12.50%) Redux
8 8 (11.11%) WireMock
9 7 (9.72%) JAX-RS
10 6 (8.33%) Web Services
11 5 (6.94%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (6.94%) GraphQL
11 5 (6.94%) Hibernate
11 5 (6.94%) JPA
11 5 (6.94%) JSON
11 5 (6.94%) Lambda Expressions
11 5 (6.94%) Mustache
11 5 (6.94%) XML
12 4 (5.56%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.94%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.17%) Private Cloud
3 3 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.17%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.78%) Video on Demand
5 1 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.17%) Linux
2 2 (2.78%) Unix
3 1 (1.39%) CentOS
3 1 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.39%) Windows
3 1 (1.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (47.22%) CI/CD
2 27 (37.50%) Agile
3 24 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 23 (31.94%) Test Automation
5 22 (30.56%) Microservices
6 18 (25.00%) DevOps
7 14 (19.44%) ETL
8 12 (16.67%) Front End Development
8 12 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
9 11 (15.28%) End-to-End Testing
10 10 (13.89%) Scrum
11 9 (12.50%) API Development
11 9 (12.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
11 9 (12.50%) Customer Engagement
11 9 (12.50%) OOP
11 9 (12.50%) Software Engineering
12 8 (11.11%) Design Patterns
12 8 (11.11%) OO
12 8 (11.11%) QA Automation
13 7 (9.72%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 34 (47.22%) Java
2 25 (34.72%) Python
3 17 (23.61%) SQL
4 12 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 11 (15.28%) TypeScript
6 5 (6.94%) C#
7 4 (5.56%) PHP
8 2 (2.78%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.78%) Scala
8 2 (2.78%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.39%) Bash
Qualifications
1 31 (43.06%) SC Cleared
1 31 (43.06%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.17%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (1.39%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.39%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (26.39%) Docker
2 5 (6.94%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (45.83%) Kubernetes
2 21 (29.17%) Terraform
3 5 (6.94%) Ansible
3 5 (6.94%) Packer
4 3 (4.17%) Grafana
4 3 (4.17%) Kustomize
5 1 (1.39%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (6.94%) Informatica
1 5 (6.94%) SAP
1 5 (6.94%) Talend
2 4 (5.56%) Palo Alto
2 4 (5.56%) Red Hat
2 4 (5.56%) VMware
3 3 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.78%) Adobe
4 2 (2.78%) Sitecore
4 2 (2.78%) Splunk
5 1 (1.39%) Confluent
5 1 (1.39%) Dell
5 1 (1.39%) Google
5 1 (1.39%) Intel
5 1 (1.39%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.39%) New Relic
5 1 (1.39%) Zuora