Amazon SQS Contracts in the South East

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 196 204
Rank change year-on-year +33 +8 +36
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 3 4 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.088% 0.073% 0.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.29% 0.31% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 10
10th Percentile £513 £580 £486
25th Percentile £531 £581 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £595 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +3.48% +17.35%
75th Percentile £631 £608 £588
90th Percentile £658 £609 -
England median daily rate £500 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% -

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,040 1,307 1,693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.57% 23.75% 29.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 670 896 1,221
10th Percentile £250 £300 £250
25th Percentile £380 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £638
90th Percentile £651 £675 £713
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 46 51
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.69 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.80 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.82 £23.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.76% -12.04% +35.00%
75th Percentile £32.12 £59.50 £64.13
90th Percentile £47.95 £60.83 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £21.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +16.98% -34.85% +51.52%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon SQS in the South East

Amazon SQS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon SQS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Amazon SQS in the South East

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon SQS in the South East over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon SQS in the South East

Amazon SQS
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
Thames Valley +21 3 £575 - 4
Berkshire +27 2 £500 - 4
Buckinghamshire - 1 £650 -
Amazon SQS
England

Amazon SQS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
3 1 (33.33%) AWS KMS
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Route 53
3 1 (33.33%) SonarCloud
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (66.67%) DynamoDB
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Artifactory
2 1 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (33.33%) DbUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) jMock
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Maven
2 1 (33.33%) Mockito
2 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Architect
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Developer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CDK
1 1 (33.33%) Bootstrap
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
1 1 (33.33%) JPA
1 1 (33.33%) PowerMock
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless Framework
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Batch
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
1 1 (33.33%) Jaspersoft
1 1 (33.33%) JDA
1 1 (33.33%) New Relic