Amazon SQS Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Amazon SQS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 108 145
Rank change year-on-year 0 +37 +24
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 10 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.62% 0.16% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.72% 0.50% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 4
10th Percentile £443 - £481
25th Percentile £490 - £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £483 £510
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -5.20% +1.90%
75th Percentile £538 - £541
90th Percentile £544 - £546
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.33%

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 581 601 826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 36.29% 32.28% 33.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 395 582
10th Percentile £352 £213 £300
25th Percentile £425 £379 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £616 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 4
10th Percentile £19.58 £16.69 £14.53
25th Percentile £26.32 £18.42 £16.58
Median hourly rate £37.55 £21.14 £23.86
Median % change year-on-year +77.58% -11.39% +34.65%
75th Percentile £48.77 £24.18 £39.06
90th Percentile £55.51 - £50.88
UK median hourly rate £28.75 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.26% -11.43% +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
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Amazon SQS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Amazon SQS

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon SQS in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 17 September 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 £525 - 7
Glasgow -20 3 £484 +0.21% 2
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 3 (30.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (20.00%) Apache
3 1 (10.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
1 10 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 10 (100.00%) Serverless
2 9 (90.00%) Amazon S3
3 8 (80.00%) Amazon ECS
3 8 (80.00%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (70.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (20.00%) Dagster
5 2 (20.00%) GitHub
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (10.00%) Datadog
6 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (10.00%) GIS
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) MLflow
General
1 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Healthcare
2 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Python Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) AWS CDK
2 7 (70.00%) FastAPI
2 7 (70.00%) OpenCV
2 7 (70.00%) Pandas
2 7 (70.00%) PyTorch
2 7 (70.00%) SQLAlchemy
3 6 (60.00%) Hugging Face
3 6 (60.00%) NumPy
3 6 (60.00%) OAuth
4 5 (50.00%) boto
4 5 (50.00%) JWT
4 5 (50.00%) REST
5 2 (20.00%) JSON
5 2 (20.00%) RESTful
6 1 (10.00%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (10.00%) HTML
6 1 (10.00%) J2EE
6 1 (10.00%) SOAP
6 1 (10.00%) Spring
6 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (30.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
2 7 (70.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (70.00%) LLM
2 7 (70.00%) Machine Learning
2 7 (70.00%) OCR
2 7 (70.00%) OOP
3 6 (60.00%) API Development
3 6 (60.00%) Kanban
3 6 (60.00%) Scrum
3 6 (60.00%) TDD
4 5 (50.00%) Pair Programming
5 4 (40.00%) Async-Await
5 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (40.00%) Computer Vision
5 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (40.00%) DevOps
5 4 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (30.00%) API Integration
6 3 (30.00%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Grafana
2 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Pega