Amazon SQS Contract Job Trends in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Amazon SQS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 118 134
Rank change year-on-year -13 +16 +44
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 1 11 13
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.043% 0.53% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.15% 1.80% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 12
10th Percentile - £520 -
25th Percentile £563 £625 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -0.41%
75th Percentile £588 £688 -
90th Percentile - £748 £679
England median daily rate £500 £675 £575
% change year-on-year -25.93% +17.39% -

All Cloud Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 669 612 868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 28.74% 29.39% 29.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 409 675
10th Percentile £250 £247 £224
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% +3.81%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £734 £700
England median daily rate £500 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 34
10th Percentile - £13.10 £14.28
25th Percentile £18.87 £19.83 £15.09
Median hourly rate £22.50 £27.13 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +29.17% -63.64%
75th Percentile £47.41 £68.75 £33.00
90th Percentile £70.09 £70.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £26.50 £29.00 £24.31
% change year-on-year -8.62% +19.32% +8.02%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon SQS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Amazon SQS job vacancy trend in the South West

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Amazon SQS
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 22 December 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
Bristol -5 1 £575 -6.12%
Amazon SQS
England

Amazon SQS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Supabase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript