Amazon SQS Contracts in London

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 294 337 364
Rank change year-on-year +43 +27 +82
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 59 54 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.47% 0.30% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.11% 0.80% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 39 96
10th Percentile £400 £463 £463
25th Percentile £413 £497 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% -8.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £788 £641 £680
90th Percentile £800 £730 £725
England median daily rate £503 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -12.61% -4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £35.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 - £35.00

All Cloud Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,314 6,744 10,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.35% 37.82% 39.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,693 4,977 7,700
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £440 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £673 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £775 £782
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 71 90
10th Percentile £22.40 £17.78 £20.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.25 £24.63
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%
75th Percentile £53.75 £38.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.13 £58.75 £88.30
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon SQS in London

Amazon SQS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon SQS in London

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Amazon SQS in London

Amazon SQS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Amazon SQS in London

Amazon SQS
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +4 9 £450 -14.29% 10
Amazon SQS
England

Amazon SQS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (5.08%) nginx
2 1 (1.69%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) JBoss
2 1 (1.69%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.69%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.69%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 59 (100.00%) AWS
2 52 (88.14%) Serverless
3 51 (86.44%) AWS Lambda
4 36 (61.02%) Amazon S3
5 26 (44.07%) AWS CloudFormation
6 25 (42.37%) Amazon ECS
7 23 (38.98%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (23.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (16.95%) Amazon ECR
10 8 (13.56%) AWS KMS
11 7 (11.86%) GitHub
12 5 (8.47%) Amazon Cognito
12 5 (8.47%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (8.47%) OpenShift
13 4 (6.78%) Amazon EventBridge
14 3 (5.08%) Datadog
14 3 (5.08%) Dynamics 365
15 2 (3.39%) IaaS
15 2 (3.39%) PaaS
16 1 (1.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.17%) HTTP
2 1 (1.69%) Firewall
2 1 (1.69%) IPsec
2 1 (1.69%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.69%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (1.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (37.29%) DynamoDB
2 20 (33.90%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (25.42%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (16.95%) Amazon Athena
4 10 (16.95%) Redis
5 9 (15.25%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (10.17%) MySQL
7 5 (8.47%) DocumentDB
7 5 (8.47%) NoSQL
8 2 (3.39%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (3.39%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.69%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (16.95%) Git
2 9 (15.25%) SonarQube
3 7 (11.86%) Jenkins
4 6 (10.17%) Mocha
5 5 (8.47%) Artifactory
6 3 (5.08%) Bitbucket
6 3 (5.08%) Cypress.io
6 3 (5.08%) ESLint
6 3 (5.08%) git-flow
6 3 (5.08%) Postman
6 3 (5.08%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (3.39%) GitLab
7 2 (3.39%) PHPUnit
8 1 (1.69%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.69%) JIRA
8 1 (1.69%) Maven
8 1 (1.69%) Mockito
8 1 (1.69%) Selenium
8 1 (1.69%) Subversion
General
1 18 (30.51%) Finance
2 16 (27.12%) Banking
3 14 (23.73%) Front Office
4 9 (15.25%) Public Sector
5 7 (11.86%) Social Skills
6 3 (5.08%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.08%) Retail
7 2 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.39%) Marketing
8 1 (1.69%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.69%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (37.29%) Developer
2 21 (35.59%) AWS Engineer
3 16 (27.12%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (23.73%) AWS DevOps
4 14 (23.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 14 (23.73%) Senior
5 11 (18.64%) Python Engineer
6 9 (15.25%) DevOps Manager
6 9 (15.25%) Finance Manager
7 8 (13.56%) JavaScript Engineer
8 7 (11.86%) Senior DevOps
8 7 (11.86%) Software Engineer
9 6 (10.17%) AWS Developer
9 6 (10.17%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (10.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (8.47%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 5 (8.47%) Node.js Developer
10 5 (8.47%) Senior Manager
10 5 (8.47%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (8.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (45.76%) Node.js
2 22 (37.29%) React
3 11 (18.64%) AWS CDK
4 9 (15.25%) CSS
4 9 (15.25%) HTML
4 9 (15.25%) Jest
5 8 (13.56%) WebSockets
6 6 (10.17%) boto
7 5 (8.47%) GraphQL
7 5 (8.47%) J2EE
8 4 (6.78%) Redux
8 4 (6.78%) REST
8 4 (6.78%) Spring Boot
8 4 (6.78%) Swagger
8 4 (6.78%) Web Services
9 3 (5.08%) Apache Cordova
9 3 (5.08%) Express.js
9 3 (5.08%) LESS
9 3 (5.08%) Sass
9 3 (5.08%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.47%) Tandem
2 4 (6.78%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (5.08%) Algorithms
3 3 (5.08%) Data Structures
3 3 (5.08%) Mobile App
3 3 (5.08%) Vector Graphics
4 2 (3.39%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.69%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.69%) Amazon Linux
1 1 (1.69%) CentOS
1 1 (1.69%) Linux
1 1 (1.69%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.69%) Unix
1 1 (1.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (59.32%) DevOps
2 34 (57.63%) CI/CD
3 22 (37.29%) Software Engineering
4 20 (33.90%) Agile
5 16 (27.12%) Microservices
6 14 (23.73%) Asset Management
6 14 (23.73%) Fintech
6 14 (23.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 13 (22.03%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (16.95%) Full-Stack Development
8 10 (16.95%) Test Automation
9 9 (15.25%) Secrets Management
10 7 (11.86%) Deployment Automation
10 7 (11.86%) Static Code Analysis
10 7 (11.86%) User Experience
11 6 (10.17%) Clean Code
11 6 (10.17%) Decision-Making
11 6 (10.17%) Event-Driven
11 6 (10.17%) Mentoring
11 6 (10.17%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 32 (54.24%) JavaScript
2 29 (49.15%) Python
3 15 (25.42%) TypeScript
4 9 (15.25%) Java
5 8 (13.56%) SQL
6 5 (8.47%) Go
7 4 (6.78%) T-SQL
8 2 (3.39%) PHP
9 1 (1.69%) Bash
9 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (20.34%) SC Cleared
1 12 (20.34%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.25%) AWS Certification
3 7 (11.86%) AWS Certified Developer
4 4 (6.78%) Degree
5 2 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.39%) QA
2 1 (1.69%) GDPR
2 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (42.37%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.69%) RACF
Systems Management
1 31 (52.54%) Terraform
2 19 (32.20%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.08%) Ansible
3 3 (5.08%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.69%) HAProxy
4 1 (1.69%) Packer
4 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (15.25%) Splunk
2 2 (3.39%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.69%) Actifio
3 1 (1.69%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.69%) Oracle
3 1 (1.69%) Rollbar