Amazon SQS Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Amazon SQS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 26 27
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 +27
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 3 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 1.33% 1.10% 1.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.75% 4.17% 4.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £483 £588 £552
25th Percentile £518 £591 £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £598 £570
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% +4.82% -12.31%
75th Percentile - £604 £615
90th Percentile - £608 £636
North East median daily rate £575 £598 £570
% change year-on-year -3.77% +4.82% -6.94%

All Cloud Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 109 48 67
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 48.44% 26.37% 39.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 17 38
10th Percentile £338 £175 £313
25th Percentile £413 £409 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £626 £597
90th Percentile £644 £660 £633
North East median daily rate £475 £485 £461
% change year-on-year -2.06% +5.15% -16.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £31.33
25th Percentile - - £31.44
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £32.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +68.14%
75th Percentile - - £33.31
90th Percentile - - £33.58
North East median hourly rate £36.00 £46.18 £32.50
% change year-on-year -22.04% +42.09% +44.44%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Amazon SQS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon SQS in Tyne and Wear

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Amazon SQS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Amazon SQS

Amazon SQS
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 15 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -3 3 £575 -3.77% 4
Amazon SQS
North East

Amazon SQS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Documentum
1 2 (66.67%) FileNet
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) DocumentDB
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Documentum Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) React
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Content Management
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) OpenText