Amazon SQS Contract Job Trends in Reading
Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
Berkshire > Reading
The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading citing Amazon SQS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 29 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 98 | 69 | 92 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -29 | +23 | - |
| Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| As % of all contract jobs in Reading | 0.084% | 0.16% | 0.093% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category | 0.31% | 0.36% | 0.26% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 10th Percentile | - | - | - |
| 25th Percentile | £363 | £413 | - |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £375 | £425 | - |
| Median % change year-on-year | -11.76% | - | - |
| 75th Percentile | £388 | £438 | - |
| 90th Percentile | - | - | - |
| Berkshire median daily rate | £375 | £425 | - |
| % change year-on-year | -11.76% | - | - |
All Cloud Computing Skills
Reading
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 citing cloud computing skills in Reading.
| 6 months to 29 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract vacancies citing cloud computing skills | 327 | 281 | 388 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading | 27.55% | 43.63% | 35.89% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 172 | 189 | 251 |
| 10th Percentile | £425 | £275 | £381 |
| 25th Percentile | £500 | £443 | £482 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £600 | £536 | £600 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +11.94% | -10.67% | - |
| 75th Percentile | £663 | £600 | £650 |
| 90th Percentile | £711 | £650 | £670 |
| Berkshire median daily rate | £550 | £500 | £571 |
| % change year-on-year | +10.00% | -12.36% | +3.73% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 63 | 10 | 7 |
| 10th Percentile | £56.35 | - | £24.05 |
| 25th Percentile | £71.00 | £14.75 | £34.38 |
| Median hourly rate | £85.00 | £15.50 | £60.60 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +448.39% | -74.42% | +249.48% |
| 75th Percentile | £102.13 | £24.88 | £62.89 |
| 90th Percentile | £110.75 | £50.25 | £66.71 |
| Berkshire median hourly rate | £81.50 | £18.87 | £58.05 |
| % change year-on-year | +331.90% | -67.49% | +13.69% |
Amazon SQS Job Vacancy Trend in Reading
Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon SQS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.
Amazon SQS Daily Rate Trend in Reading
Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Amazon SQS.
Amazon SQS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Cloud Services
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amazon ECS | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Amazon EventBridge | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | AWS | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | AWS CloudFormation | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | AWS Fargate | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | AWS Lambda | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | AWS Step Functions | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Serverless | 100.0% | 1 |