Amazon SQS Contracts in Scotland

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 112 127 141
Rank change year-on-year +15 +14 +28
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 4 2 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.25% 0.090% 0.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.62% 0.27% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 19
10th Percentile £475 £471 £447
25th Percentile £482 £473 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £476 £489
Median % change year-on-year +3.73% -2.61% +49.31%
75th Percentile £497 £480 £517
90th Percentile £499 £482 £539
UK median daily rate £503 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -12.61% - +4.55%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 645 738 1,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.69% 33.29% 36.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 504 774
10th Percentile £305 £258 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% - -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £659 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 11
10th Percentile £21.84 £15.39 £18.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.69 £45.00
Median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year +41.71% -71.92% +65.89%
75th Percentile £27.91 £17.67 £66.50
90th Percentile £28.38 £24.85 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon SQS in Scotland

Amazon SQS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon SQS in Scotland

Amazon SQS
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh +7 3 £482 +2.66% 1
Glasgow +3 1 £500 +3.52%
Amazon SQS
UK

Amazon SQS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (50.00%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (75.00%) GIS
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) MariaDB
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Gatling
2 1 (25.00%) JMeter
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) AWS CDK
1 3 (75.00%) PostGIS
2 2 (50.00%) React
2 2 (50.00%) Spring
2 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Human-Centred Design
3 2 (50.00%) Inclusive Design
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (25.00%) Community of Practice
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Load Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle