Amazon SQS Contract Job Trends in Surrey

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Amazon SQS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 42 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.41% 0.34% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.11% 1.16% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
South East median daily rate £700 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 180 86 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 37.19% 29.05% 26.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 55 124
10th Percentile £204 £210 £254
25th Percentile £400 £361 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £455
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -1.10% -11.65%
75th Percentile £565 £513 £551
90th Percentile £678 £538 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 8
10th Percentile £59.50 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - £17.80
Median hourly rate £65.00 £28.00 £23.90
Median % change year-on-year +132.14% +17.15% +23.35%
75th Percentile £69.38 - £32.50
90th Percentile £77.75 - £37.75
South East median hourly rate £39.13 £22.32 £23.82
% change year-on-year +75.33% -6.33% +3.58%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Amazon SQS job vacancy trend in Surrey

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

Amazon SQS
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 7 April 2026. 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
Woking - 1 £700 -
Amazon SQS
South East

Amazon SQS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform