Amazon SQS Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Amazon SQS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 127 -
Rank change year-on-year +8 - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.11% 0.047% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.28% 0.14% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £434 - -
25th Percentile £466 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - -
75th Percentile £616 - -
90th Percentile £651 - -
South East median daily rate £538 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +19.79%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 723 731 793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 39.42% 34.35% 30.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 480 535
10th Percentile £250 £349 £215
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £659 £708
South East median daily rate £485 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -5.37% -2.38% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 19 22
10th Percentile - £19.14 £17.38
25th Percentile £14.75 £21.88 £19.03
Median hourly rate £18.87 £42.50 £32.31
Median % change year-on-year -55.60% +31.54% +53.86%
75th Percentile £40.65 £60.83 £63.84
90th Percentile £70.20 £64.73 £79.78
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £47.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -60.38% +75.93% +35.00%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Amazon SQS job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Amazon SQS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Amazon SQS

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon SQS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon SQS in the Thames Valley

Amazon SQS
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
Berkshire +10 1 £425 - 6
Buckinghamshire - 1 £650 - 1
Amazon SQS
South East

Amazon SQS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Healthcare
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Logistics
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) JDA
1 1 (50.00%) Pega