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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 369 374
Rank change year-on-year +70 +5 +54
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 40 25 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.12% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.97% 0.48% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 22 57
10th Percentile £405 £417 £452
25th Percentile £463 £489 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £543 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -5.65% +13.52%
75th Percentile £569 £694 £650
90th Percentile £598 - £700
UK median daily rate £503 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -8.64% -4.35% +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 4,110 5,257 7,669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.81% 25.94% 33.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,877 3,728 5,665
10th Percentile £235 £213 £250
25th Percentile £380 £375 £406
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 £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 261 219
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.00 £16.38
Median hourly rate £20.37 £17.72 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.95% -29.12% +29.89%
75th Percentile £34.23 £27.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +28.69% -38.94% +59.09%

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 21 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 21 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 +22 18 £500 -13.04% 30
Midlands +27 12 £525 +50.00% 7
West Midlands +21 12 £525 +50.00% 5
North West +1 8 £500 -14.71% 23
Yorkshire +18 5 £525 -8.70% 6
Scotland +4 5 £482 +1.21% 3
North East - 5 £575 - 1
South East +40 2 £500 -15.97% 28
East of England - 2 £600 - 7
South West - 1 - - 3
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 3 (7.50%) Documentum
1 3 (7.50%) FileNet
2 2 (5.00%) Confluence
2 2 (5.00%) GeoServer
2 2 (5.00%) Jupyter
3 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.50%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 40 (100.00%) AWS
2 27 (67.50%) Serverless
3 24 (60.00%) Amazon S3
4 23 (57.50%) AWS Lambda
5 21 (52.50%) Amazon EC2
6 14 (35.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (27.50%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (27.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (25.00%) GitHub
9 9 (22.50%) AWS KMS
9 9 (22.50%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (17.50%) Route 53
12 4 (10.00%) Amazon EventBridge
12 4 (10.00%) AWS CloudTrail
13 3 (7.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 3 (7.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 3 (7.50%) Amazon MSK
13 3 (7.50%) Azure
13 3 (7.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) DNS
2 3 (7.50%) SSL
2 3 (7.50%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.00%) Firewall
3 2 (5.00%) Network Security
3 2 (5.00%) SMS
3 2 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (42.50%) Amazon RDS
1 17 (42.50%) DynamoDB
2 16 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (35.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (15.00%) Relational Database
5 4 (10.00%) GIS
6 3 (7.50%) DocumentDB
6 3 (7.50%) MongoDB
6 3 (7.50%) RDBMS
7 2 (5.00%) Data Lake
7 2 (5.00%) Metadata
7 2 (5.00%) Metadata Repository
7 2 (5.00%) MySQL
7 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
7 2 (5.00%) Redis
8 1 (2.50%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 22 (55.00%) Jenkins
2 11 (27.50%) Git
3 10 (25.00%) JUnit
3 10 (25.00%) Mockito
4 7 (17.50%) GitLab
4 7 (17.50%) Maven
4 7 (17.50%) SonarQube
5 4 (10.00%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (10.00%) DbUnit
5 4 (10.00%) jMock
6 2 (5.00%) JIRA
7 1 (2.50%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (2.50%) Gatling
7 1 (2.50%) JMeter
7 1 (2.50%) Subversion
General
1 18 (45.00%) Public Sector
2 6 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Finance
4 2 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.50%) Aviation
5 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (57.50%) Developer
2 12 (30.00%) Java Developer
3 8 (20.00%) Lead
4 6 (15.00%) Senior
5 5 (12.50%) AWS Developer
5 5 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Software Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Lead Developer
6 4 (10.00%) Lead Java Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Documentum Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Software Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Architect
8 2 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Lead Software Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Python Developer
8 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (37.50%) Spring
1 15 (37.50%) Spring Boot
2 11 (27.50%) REST
3 9 (22.50%) Kafka
3 9 (22.50%) Web Services
4 8 (20.00%) Hibernate
5 7 (17.50%) ActiveMQ
5 7 (17.50%) JPA
5 7 (17.50%) React
5 7 (17.50%) SOAP
5 7 (17.50%) Spring Cloud
6 6 (15.00%) AngularJS
6 6 (15.00%) AWS CDK
6 6 (15.00%) Bootstrap
7 4 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (10.00%) Node.js
7 4 (10.00%) PostGIS
7 4 (10.00%) RESTful
7 4 (10.00%) Spring Batch
7 4 (10.00%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.50%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (7.50%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.50%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.00%) Linux
2 3 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (62.50%) Agile
1 25 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 21 (52.50%) Microservices
3 20 (50.00%) DevOps
4 13 (32.50%) Containerisation
4 13 (32.50%) TDD
5 11 (27.50%) Scrum
6 10 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (17.50%) BDD
8 7 (17.50%) Kanban
8 7 (17.50%) Risk Management
9 6 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
10 5 (12.50%) Software Engineering
11 4 (10.00%) Data Modelling
11 4 (10.00%) Decision-Making
11 4 (10.00%) Open Source
11 4 (10.00%) SDLC
11 4 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (57.50%) Java
2 13 (32.50%) Python
3 10 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 9 (22.50%) SQL
5 4 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 3 (7.50%) Rust
6 3 (7.50%) Shell Script
7 2 (5.00%) R
8 1 (2.50%) Bash
8 1 (2.50%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 19 (47.50%) Security Cleared
2 17 (42.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) AWS Certification
3 3 (7.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (7.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (5.00%) GDPR
1 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.00%) NIST
1 2 (5.00%) SOC 2
2 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (47.50%) Docker
2 5 (12.50%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 15 (37.50%) Terraform
2 14 (35.00%) Grafana
3 11 (27.50%) Kubernetes
3 11 (27.50%) Prometheus
4 8 (20.00%) Ansible
5 2 (5.00%) Kustomize
5 2 (5.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) Oracle
2 4 (10.00%) Atlassian
2 4 (10.00%) Jaspersoft
3 3 (7.50%) Splunk
4 2 (5.00%) Databricks
5 1 (2.50%) New Relic
5 1 (2.50%) OpenText
5 1 (2.50%) Red Hat