Amazon SQS Contracts in the North of England

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 166 199
Rank change year-on-year +16 +33 +14
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 15 18 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.46% 0.39% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 1.31% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 18 16
10th Percentile £400 £418 £538
25th Percentile £438 £505 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £575 £694 £700
90th Percentile £598 - -
England median daily rate £503 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -10.67% -6.25% +9.09%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,093 1,376 2,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.19% 29.44% 36.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 815 978 1,549
10th Percentile £250 £263 £300
25th Percentile £381 £386 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £483 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% -8.10% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £594
90th Percentile £638 £643 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 79 39
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £16.09
25th Percentile £19.54 £15.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -59.44% +93.17%
75th Percentile £74.38 £22.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £98.17 £44.24 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £21.00 £33.25
% change year-on-year +21.43% -36.84% +54.65%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Amazon SQS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon SQS in the North of England

Amazon SQS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon SQS in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Amazon SQS in the North of England

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon SQS in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon SQS in the North of England

Amazon SQS
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
North West +4 8 £500 -20.00% 21
North East - 5 £575 - 2
Yorkshire +15 2 £600 +4.35% 7
Amazon SQS
England

Amazon SQS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (20.00%) Documentum
1 3 (20.00%) FileNet
2 2 (13.33%) Jupyter
3 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (86.67%) Serverless
3 10 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (53.33%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (46.67%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (33.33%) Amazon S3
6 5 (33.33%) GitHub
6 5 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (13.33%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (13.33%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (13.33%) Azure
10 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (6.67%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (6.67%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudTrail
10 1 (6.67%) AWS CodeBuild
10 1 (6.67%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) SMS
2 1 (6.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) DynamoDB
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (20.00%) DocumentDB
2 3 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (13.33%) Data Lake
3 2 (13.33%) Metadata
3 2 (13.33%) Metadata Repository
3 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (13.33%) Redis
4 1 (6.67%) MySQL
4 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) GitLab
2 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.67%) Git
3 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
3 1 (6.67%) Subversion
General
1 5 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Software Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Documentum Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Lead
4 2 (13.33%) Lead Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Software Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) Kafka
2 4 (26.67%) React
3 3 (20.00%) .NET
3 3 (20.00%) Node.js
4 2 (13.33%) PySpark
4 2 (13.33%) Spring
4 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Amplify
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
1 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Agile
1 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
2 6 (40.00%) DevOps
3 5 (33.33%) Microservices
4 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
5 3 (20.00%) Content Management
5 3 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
6 2 (13.33%) Data Development
6 2 (13.33%) Data Integration
6 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
6 2 (13.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
6 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (13.33%) TDD
7 1 (6.67%) Analytical Thinking
7 1 (6.67%) High Availability
7 1 (6.67%) Load Balancing
7 1 (6.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Java
2 4 (26.67%) Python
3 3 (20.00%) Rust
4 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (13.33%) SQL
4 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 1 (6.67%) Bash
5 1 (6.67%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) Terraform
2 4 (26.67%) Ansible
3 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) Databricks
3 1 (6.67%) OpenText
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat