Amazon SQS Contract Job Trends in London

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Amazon SQS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 337 383
Rank change year-on-year +42 +46 +91
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 67 51 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.50% 0.32% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.15% 0.77% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 37 39
10th Percentile £413 £375 £455
25th Percentile £425 £488 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £583
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +15.78% -6.72%
75th Percentile £775 £738 £678
90th Percentile £800 £840 £725
England median daily rate £500 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% -4.17%
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 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -33.33%

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 5,815 6,660 8,697
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.29% 41.24% 39.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,955 4,663 6,448
10th Percentile £340 £350 £358
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -1.03%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £782
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 47 64
10th Percentile £23.00 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.98 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £30.59 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.34% -24.00% +15.00%
75th Percentile £47.50 £51.25 £69.06
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.10 £88.97
England median hourly rate £26.30 £32.75 £33.00
% change year-on-year -19.69% -0.76% +53.49%

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
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon SQS in London over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon SQS in London

Amazon SQS
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Amazon SQS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Amazon SQS

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 17 September 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 13 £750 +15.38% 4
South London 0 7 £686 -
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 2 (2.99%) Confluence
1 2 (2.99%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 67 (100.00%) AWS
2 44 (65.67%) Amazon S3
3 39 (58.21%) AWS Lambda
3 39 (58.21%) Serverless
4 30 (44.78%) Amazon EC2
5 19 (28.36%) SaaS
6 17 (25.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 13 (19.40%) Amazon EventBridge
7 13 (19.40%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (16.42%) Amazon Cognito
9 10 (14.93%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (13.43%) AWS Fargate
10 9 (13.43%) AWS Step Functions
11 8 (11.94%) Amazon Kinesis
11 8 (11.94%) Datadog
12 5 (7.46%) GitHub
13 4 (5.97%) AWS CodeBuild
14 3 (4.48%) Amazon SageMaker
15 2 (2.99%) AWS CloudTrail
15 2 (2.99%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.48%) HTTP
2 1 (1.49%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (34.33%) DynamoDB
2 15 (22.39%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (19.40%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (10.45%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (7.46%) DocumentDB
5 5 (7.46%) Redis
5 5 (7.46%) Relational Database
6 3 (4.48%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (2.99%) DB2
7 2 (2.99%) Metadata
7 2 (2.99%) Metadata Repository
7 2 (2.99%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.49%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (20.90%) Git
2 12 (17.91%) JUnit
3 11 (16.42%) SonarQube
4 10 (14.93%) Jenkins
4 10 (14.93%) Maven
5 8 (11.94%) Cucumber
6 4 (5.97%) Mockito
7 3 (4.48%) Bitbucket
7 3 (4.48%) Cypress.io
7 3 (4.48%) JIRA
7 3 (4.48%) Mocha
7 3 (4.48%) Postman
7 3 (4.48%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (1.49%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (1.49%) DbUnit
8 1 (1.49%) jMock
8 1 (1.49%) Selenium
8 1 (1.49%) Storybook
General
1 27 (40.30%) Public Sector
2 17 (25.37%) Documentation Skills
3 11 (16.42%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.97%) Finance
4 4 (5.97%) Military
5 3 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.99%) Digital Healthcare
6 2 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.49%) Aviation
7 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (29.85%) Architect
2 19 (28.36%) Developer
2 19 (28.36%) Security Architect
3 12 (17.91%) AWS Engineer
4 11 (16.42%) Java Developer
5 10 (14.93%) AWS Developer
6 9 (13.43%) JavaScript Engineer
6 9 (13.43%) Senior
7 8 (11.94%) Software Engineer
8 6 (8.96%) Lead
9 5 (7.46%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (5.97%) AWS Software Engineer
10 4 (5.97%) Lead Developer
10 4 (5.97%) Lead Java Developer
10 4 (5.97%) Senior Developer
10 4 (5.97%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (5.97%) Software Design Engineer
11 3 (4.48%) DevOps Engineer
12 2 (2.99%) Automation Engineer
12 2 (2.99%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (23.88%) Spring
2 15 (22.39%) Node.js
3 12 (17.91%) React
3 12 (17.91%) Spring Boot
4 11 (16.42%) GraphQL
5 10 (14.93%) AngularJS
5 10 (14.93%) Jest
5 10 (14.93%) REST
5 10 (14.93%) WebSockets
6 8 (11.94%) AWS CDK
7 7 (10.45%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (10.45%) RESTful
8 6 (8.96%) Hibernate
8 6 (8.96%) SOAP
9 5 (7.46%) ActiveMQ
9 5 (7.46%) HTML
9 5 (7.46%) Kafka
10 4 (5.97%) JPA
10 4 (5.97%) Swagger
10 4 (5.97%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (29.85%) Onboarding
2 19 (28.36%) CSOC
2 19 (28.36%) Security Operations Centre
3 8 (11.94%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.97%) Mobile App
5 3 (4.48%) Algorithms
5 3 (4.48%) Data Structures
5 3 (4.48%) Vector Graphics
6 2 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.99%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.99%) PKI
7 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.99%) Windows
2 1 (1.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (44.78%) Microservices
2 24 (35.82%) CI/CD
3 22 (32.84%) Cybersecurity
3 22 (32.84%) DevOps
4 19 (28.36%) Security Operations
4 19 (28.36%) SIEM
4 19 (28.36%) Use Case
5 18 (26.87%) SOAR
6 17 (25.37%) Agile
7 14 (20.90%) Containerisation
8 13 (19.40%) Clean Code
9 12 (17.91%) Software Engineering
10 11 (16.42%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (16.42%) Test Automation
11 10 (14.93%) Deployment Automation
11 10 (14.93%) User Experience
12 9 (13.43%) Event-Driven
12 9 (13.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 9 (13.43%) Full-Stack Development
12 9 (13.43%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 20 (29.85%) Java
2 19 (28.36%) Python
3 12 (17.91%) JavaScript
4 10 (14.93%) TypeScript
5 4 (5.97%) PowerShell
5 4 (5.97%) SQL
6 1 (1.49%) Bash
6 1 (1.49%) C#
6 1 (1.49%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.49%) PHP
Qualifications
1 30 (44.78%) Security Cleared
2 29 (43.28%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.97%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.99%) CISSP
5 2 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.99%) Degree
6 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.94%) QA
2 2 (2.99%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.49%) GDPR
3 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (25.37%) Docker
2 1 (1.49%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 11 (16.42%) Prometheus
2 10 (14.93%) Terraform
3 7 (10.45%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.48%) Grafana
Vendors
1 19 (28.36%) Splunk
2 7 (10.45%) CA Agile Central
3 6 (8.96%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.48%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.99%) Sybase
6 1 (1.49%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.49%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.49%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (1.49%) Pega
6 1 (1.49%) Rollbar
6 1 (1.49%) Sage
6 1 (1.49%) Solace