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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 141 145
Rank change year-on-year +28 +4 +21
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 3 3 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.15% 0.11% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.50% 0.43% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 14
10th Percentile £383 £481 -
25th Percentile £413 £528 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year -22.45% +2.08% -14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £703 £656
90th Percentile £568 £754 £696
England median daily rate £500 £624 £570
% change year-on-year -19.84% +9.43% -5.00%

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 598 703 989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 30.70% 26.70% 30.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 458 761
10th Percentile £213 £236 £300
25th Percentile £350 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.80% -3.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £614 £656
90th Percentile £694 £686 £725
England median daily rate £501 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.57% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 42 55
10th Percentile £18.13 £25.73 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £33.50 £18.75
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £34.80
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +101.18% +51.28%
75th Percentile £33.75 - £78.00
90th Percentile £36.00 - £79.20
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -23.79% - +53.49%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon SQS 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
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon SQS in the South West over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon SQS in the South West

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 21 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
Bristol +9 2 £475 -22.45% 4
Devon - 1 - -
Amazon SQS
England

Amazon SQS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Supabase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (33.33%) Aviation
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
1 2 (66.67%) React
2 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CDK
2 1 (33.33%) Next.js
2 1 (33.33%) TypeORM
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) API Design
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
2 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
2 1 (33.33%) SOLID
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform