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 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 84 110
Rank change year-on-year +13 +26 +17
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 14 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.39% 0.17% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.01% 0.48% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 1
10th Percentile £411 £405 -
25th Percentile £463 £413 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £438 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.43% -20.45% -
75th Percentile £579 £450 £575
90th Percentile £583 - -
North West median daily rate £514 £438 £550
% change year-on-year +17.43% -20.45% -

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 349 421 715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 34.59% 35.05% 40.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 303 562
10th Percentile £361 £340 £307
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -0.99% -3.81%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £642 £663 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 18
10th Percentile £33.46 £25.70 £15.74
25th Percentile £55.34 £43.75 £15.81
Median hourly rate £76.25 £66.50 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year +14.66% +245.45% -26.67%
75th Percentile £90.31 £71.69 £36.89
90th Percentile £93.13 £72.92 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £40.59 £16.06 £27.20
% change year-on-year +152.74% -40.96% +17.19%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 - -
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 (7.14%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.14%) Documentum
1 1 (7.14%) FileNet
1 1 (7.14%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
1 14 (100.00%) Serverless
2 12 (85.71%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (71.43%) Amazon ECS
3 10 (71.43%) GitHub
4 9 (64.29%) Amazon EventBridge
5 8 (57.14%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (57.14%) GCP
6 6 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (42.86%) Apigee
6 6 (42.86%) Datadog
7 5 (35.71%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (35.71%) AWS Fargate
7 5 (35.71%) AWS Step Functions
7 5 (35.71%) Azure
7 5 (35.71%) Loggly
7 5 (35.71%) Route 53
8 4 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (28.57%) PaaS
8 4 (28.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (78.57%) DynamoDB
2 9 (64.29%) NoSQL
3 8 (57.14%) Amazon Aurora
3 8 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (42.86%) Redis
4 6 (42.86%) Relational Database
5 5 (35.71%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (35.71%) BigQuery
5 5 (35.71%) MySQL
5 5 (35.71%) RDBMS
6 3 (21.43%) MongoDB
7 2 (14.29%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 9 (64.29%) Jenkins
2 8 (57.14%) Git
3 6 (42.86%) SonarQube
4 5 (35.71%) Gradle
4 5 (35.71%) Maven
4 5 (35.71%) SonarLint
5 1 (7.14%) GitLab
5 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 11 (78.57%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Architect
1 8 (57.14%) Java Architect
1 8 (57.14%) Java Technical Architect
1 8 (57.14%) Technical Architect
2 3 (21.43%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Lead Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Documentum Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (64.29%) RESTful
2 7 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 6 (42.86%) Dropwizard
3 6 (42.86%) J2EE
3 6 (42.86%) JWT
3 6 (42.86%) Micronaut
4 5 (35.71%) Celery
5 4 (28.57%) GraphQL
6 3 (21.43%) Kafka
7 2 (14.29%) .NET
7 2 (14.29%) OAuth
7 2 (14.29%) OAuth2
8 1 (7.14%) AWS Amplify
8 1 (7.14%) HTML
8 1 (7.14%) JSON
8 1 (7.14%) Node.js
8 1 (7.14%) REST
8 1 (7.14%) SOAP
8 1 (7.14%) Spring
8 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (64.29%) Cloud Native
2 6 (42.86%) N-Tier
3 5 (35.71%) Product Ownership
4 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) CI/CD
2 12 (85.71%) Microservices
3 11 (78.57%) Agile
4 10 (71.43%) Containerisation
4 10 (71.43%) Event-Driven
5 9 (64.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 9 (64.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (57.14%) Clean Code
6 8 (57.14%) Design Patterns
6 8 (57.14%) Mentoring
6 8 (57.14%) TDD
6 8 (57.14%) TOGAF
7 7 (50.00%) API Design
7 7 (50.00%) Asynchronous Programming
7 7 (50.00%) OOP
7 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (42.86%) BDD
8 6 (42.86%) Domain-Driven Design
8 6 (42.86%) SOLID
8 6 (42.86%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Java
2 9 (64.29%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) Bash
4 1 (7.14%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 11 (78.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (78.57%) Terraform
2 8 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Gigya
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Pega