Amazon SQS Contracts in Manchester

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 72 84 115
Rank change year-on-year +12 +31 +4
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 7 12 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.76% 0.79% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.84% 2.15% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 1
10th Percentile - £417 -
25th Percentile £400 £564 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £663 £550
Median % change year-on-year -32.08% +20.45% -
75th Percentile £538 £694 £575
90th Percentile £575 - -
North West median daily rate £450 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -28.00% +13.64% -

All Cloud Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 380 558 739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 41.04% 36.78% 39.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 440 554
10th Percentile £313 £313 £325
25th Percentile £404 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £567 £570 £588
90th Percentile £654 £650 £650
North West median daily rate £473 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 18
10th Percentile £36.70 £18.18 £20.00
25th Percentile £48.25 £22.25 £28.44
Median hourly rate £70.00 £26.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +169.23% -60.00% +271.43%
75th Percentile £80.63 £71.87 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.50 £72.50 -
North West median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
% change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon SQS in Manchester

Amazon SQS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon SQS in Manchester

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Amazon SQS in Manchester

Amazon SQS
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester 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
Altrincham - 1 - - 1
Amazon SQS
North West

Amazon SQS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (14.29%) Apache Spark
1 1 (14.29%) Documentum
1 1 (14.29%) FileNet
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (85.71%) Serverless
3 5 (71.43%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (71.43%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (71.43%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (57.14%) GitHub
4 4 (57.14%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (42.86%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (28.57%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
7 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (14.29%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (14.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (14.29%) Amazon MSK
7 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (14.29%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) DynamoDB
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
3 1 (14.29%) DocumentDB
3 1 (14.29%) MySQL
3 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (14.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Documentum Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Node.js
1 3 (42.86%) React
2 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) Kafka
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Amplify
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Microservices
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) High Availability
4 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) RBAC
4 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
4 1 (14.29%) TDD
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Rust
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle