Amazon SQS Contracts in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 126 144
Rank change year-on-year +8 +18 +18
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Amazon SQS 16 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.72% 0.083% 0.068%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.29% 0.27% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 1
10th Percentile £387 £405 -
25th Percentile £409 £413 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -20.45% -
75th Percentile £576 £450 £575
90th Percentile £582 - -
England median daily rate £500 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -14.89% +2.17% -4.17%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 West.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 699 729 1,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.57% 30.22% 35.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 522 492 788
10th Percentile £313 £308 £270
25th Percentile £385 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £479 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.05% -4.20% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £586
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 28 52
10th Percentile £12.82 - £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 - £18.03
Median hourly rate £41.06 £16.06 £27.35
Median % change year-on-year +155.67% -41.28% +17.84%
75th Percentile £71.45 £38.55 £46.18
90th Percentile £76.25 £70.28 £56.06
England median hourly rate £25.58 £25.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +2.30% -23.08% +51.87%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon SQS in the North West

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Amazon SQS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Amazon SQS

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon SQS in the North West over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon SQS in the North West

Amazon SQS
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 20 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +16 16 £500 +14.29% 20
Amazon SQS
England

Amazon SQS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (6.25%) Apache Spark
1 1 (6.25%) Documentum
1 1 (6.25%) FileNet
1 1 (6.25%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 15 (93.75%) Serverless
3 13 (81.25%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (62.50%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (62.50%) GitHub
5 9 (56.25%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (56.25%) Amazon EventBridge
6 8 (50.00%) GCP
7 7 (43.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (37.50%) Apigee
8 6 (37.50%) Datadog
9 5 (31.25%) Amazon EMR
9 5 (31.25%) AWS Fargate
9 5 (31.25%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (31.25%) Azure
9 5 (31.25%) Loggly
9 5 (31.25%) Route 53
10 4 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (25.00%) PaaS
10 4 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (68.75%) DynamoDB
2 9 (56.25%) NoSQL
3 8 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 8 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (37.50%) Redis
4 6 (37.50%) Relational Database
5 5 (31.25%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (31.25%) BigQuery
5 5 (31.25%) MySQL
5 5 (31.25%) RDBMS
6 3 (18.75%) MongoDB
7 2 (12.50%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 9 (56.25%) Jenkins
2 8 (50.00%) Git
3 6 (37.50%) SonarQube
4 5 (31.25%) Gradle
4 5 (31.25%) Maven
4 5 (31.25%) SonarLint
5 2 (12.50%) GitLab
6 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Architect
1 8 (50.00%) Java Architect
1 8 (50.00%) Java Technical Architect
1 8 (50.00%) Technical Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Software Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Lead
3 2 (12.50%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Documentum Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Java Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Junior
4 1 (6.25%) Junior Java Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Junior Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Rust Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Rust Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) RESTful
2 7 (43.75%) Spring Boot
3 6 (37.50%) Dropwizard
3 6 (37.50%) J2EE
3 6 (37.50%) JWT
3 6 (37.50%) Micronaut
4 5 (31.25%) Celery
5 4 (25.00%) GraphQL
5 4 (25.00%) Kafka
6 2 (12.50%) .NET
6 2 (12.50%) OAuth
6 2 (12.50%) OAuth2
7 1 (6.25%) HTML
7 1 (6.25%) JSON
7 1 (6.25%) Node.js
7 1 (6.25%) React
7 1 (6.25%) REST
7 1 (6.25%) SOAP
7 1 (6.25%) Spring
7 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) Cloud Native
2 6 (37.50%) N-Tier
3 5 (31.25%) Product Ownership
4 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 13 (81.25%) Microservices
3 11 (68.75%) Agile
4 10 (62.50%) Containerisation
4 10 (62.50%) Event-Driven
5 9 (56.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 9 (56.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (50.00%) Clean Code
6 8 (50.00%) Design Patterns
6 8 (50.00%) Mentoring
6 8 (50.00%) TDD
6 8 (50.00%) TOGAF
7 7 (43.75%) API Design
7 7 (43.75%) Asynchronous Programming
7 7 (43.75%) OOP
7 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (37.50%) BDD
8 6 (37.50%) CQRS
8 6 (37.50%) SOLID
8 6 (37.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) Java
2 10 (62.50%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) Bash
3 2 (12.50%) Rust
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 11 (68.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (75.00%) Terraform
2 9 (56.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Gigya
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Pega