Amazon SQS Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Amazon SQS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 63 72
Rank change year-on-year -14 +9 +4
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 3 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.41% 0.44% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.08% 1.45% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £426 - -
25th Percentile £445 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £483 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.21% -8.00% -4.55%
75th Percentile £517 - £538
90th Percentile £532 - -
Scotland median daily rate £525 £483 £510
% change year-on-year +8.70% -5.20% +1.90%

All Cloud Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 279 207 258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 38.32% 30.35% 31.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 143 176
10th Percentile £320 £271 £363
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £569 £538 £588
90th Percentile £638 £611 £661
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £17.47
25th Percentile - £18.50 £23.93
Median hourly rate £15.09 £19.00 £35.33
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% -46.22% +168.47%
75th Percentile - £19.50 £47.35
90th Percentile - - £54.19
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 Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon SQS in Glasgow

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Amazon SQS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 1 (33.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) Datadog
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Healthcare
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
1 2 (66.67%) OAuth
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Camel
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CDK
2 1 (33.33%) boto
2 1 (33.33%) FastAPI
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) Hugging Face
2 1 (33.33%) JWT
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) NumPy
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
2 1 (33.33%) OpenCV
2 1 (33.33%) Pandas
2 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
2 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) API Development
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) OOP
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) API Design
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Community of Practice
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) OCR
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Pega