Amazon SQS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Amazon SQS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon SQS over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 364 379
Rank change year-on-year +60 +15 +74
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 30 30 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.14% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.74% 0.56% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 23 61
10th Percentile £400 £417 £453
25th Percentile £460 £494 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +2.22% +11.06%
75th Percentile £575 £694 £600
90th Percentile £635 - £700
UK median daily rate £503 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -12.61% - +4.55%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,080 5,392 7,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.94% 26.05% 33.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,889 3,814 5,914
10th Percentile £237 £213 £240
25th Percentile £388 £373 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 257 227
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.69 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.31% -28.15% +31.31%
75th Percentile £33.45 £26.50 £64.75
90th Percentile £69.25 £61.54 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.43 £20.97 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.78% -40.09% +62.79%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Amazon SQS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon SQS in the UK excluding London

Amazon SQS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon SQS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Amazon SQS in the UK excluding London

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon SQS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon SQS in the UK excluding London

Amazon SQS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
North of England +6 13 £500 -16.67% 25
Midlands +26 9 £525 +50.00% 9
West Midlands +21 9 £525 +50.00% 6
North West 0 7 £450 -28.00% 22
Scotland +12 4 £494 +3.73% 2
North East - 4 £518 - 2
South East +34 2 £500 -15.97% 20
Yorkshire +9 2 £600 +4.35% 1
East of England +35 1 £675 - 4
South West - 1 - - 2
Amazon SQS
UK

Amazon SQS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (6.67%) Confluence
1 2 (6.67%) Documentum
1 2 (6.67%) FileNet
1 2 (6.67%) GeoServer
1 2 (6.67%) Jupyter
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 30 (100.00%) AWS
2 20 (66.67%) Amazon S3
3 19 (63.33%) Serverless
4 18 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
5 17 (56.67%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (26.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (23.33%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (23.33%) AWS KMS
8 7 (23.33%) Route 53
9 6 (20.00%) GitHub
10 5 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (10.00%) Azure
13 2 (6.67%) Amazon EMR
13 2 (6.67%) AWS CodeCommit
13 2 (6.67%) AWS Step Functions
13 2 (6.67%) Boomi
13 2 (6.67%) PaaS
13 2 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) SMS
2 1 (3.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (43.33%) DynamoDB
2 12 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (16.67%) Relational Database
5 3 (10.00%) GIS
5 3 (10.00%) RDBMS
6 2 (6.67%) Data Lake
6 2 (6.67%) DocumentDB
6 2 (6.67%) Metadata
6 2 (6.67%) Metadata Repository
6 2 (6.67%) MongoDB
6 2 (6.67%) MySQL
6 2 (6.67%) Redis
7 1 (3.33%) MariaDB
7 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (26.67%) JUnit
2 8 (26.67%) Mockito
3 5 (16.67%) Git
3 5 (16.67%) Maven
3 5 (16.67%) SonarQube
4 4 (13.33%) Bitbucket Server
4 4 (13.33%) DbUnit
4 4 (13.33%) GitLab
4 4 (13.33%) jMock
5 2 (6.67%) JIRA
6 1 (3.33%) Artifactory
6 1 (3.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (3.33%) Gatling
6 1 (3.33%) JMeter
6 1 (3.33%) Subversion
General
1 14 (46.67%) Public Sector
2 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Finance
5 1 (3.33%) Aviation
5 1 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 17 (56.67%) Developer
2 9 (30.00%) Java Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Senior
4 4 (13.33%) AWS Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Software Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Lead
6 2 (6.67%) Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Documentum Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Lead Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Lead Java Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Python Developer
6 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Python Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (40.00%) Spring
1 12 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 8 (26.67%) Hibernate
2 8 (26.67%) REST
2 8 (26.67%) Web Services
3 6 (20.00%) Kafka
3 6 (20.00%) React
4 5 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
4 5 (16.67%) AWS CDK
4 5 (16.67%) JPA
4 5 (16.67%) SOAP
4 5 (16.67%) Spring Cloud
5 4 (13.33%) AngularJS
5 4 (13.33%) Bootstrap
5 4 (13.33%) PowerMock
5 4 (13.33%) RESTful
5 4 (13.33%) Spring Batch
5 4 (13.33%) Spring Integration
6 3 (10.00%) PostGIS
6 3 (10.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 7 (23.33%) Linux
2 2 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) Agile
2 17 (56.67%) CI/CD
2 17 (56.67%) Microservices
3 13 (43.33%) DevOps
4 9 (30.00%) TDD
5 8 (26.67%) Containerisation
5 8 (26.67%) Scrum
6 7 (23.33%) BDD
6 7 (23.33%) Kanban
7 6 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (16.67%) Risk Management
8 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
9 4 (13.33%) Data Modelling
9 4 (13.33%) Decision-Making
9 4 (13.33%) Open Source
9 4 (13.33%) Software Engineering
10 3 (10.00%) Architectural Design
10 3 (10.00%) Load Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (60.00%) Java
2 10 (33.33%) Python
3 9 (30.00%) JavaScript
4 8 (26.67%) SQL
5 4 (13.33%) TypeScript
6 2 (6.67%) R
6 2 (6.67%) Rust
7 1 (3.33%) Bash
7 1 (3.33%) Groovy
7 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 12 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (43.33%) Docker
2 5 (16.67%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 10 (33.33%) Terraform
2 8 (26.67%) Grafana
2 8 (26.67%) Kubernetes
3 6 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 4 (13.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Oracle
2 4 (13.33%) Atlassian
2 4 (13.33%) Jaspersoft
3 2 (6.67%) Databricks
4 1 (3.33%) New Relic
4 1 (3.33%) Red Hat