Amazon SQS Contract Job Trends

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Amazon SQS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 392 474
Rank change year-on-year -97 +82 +20
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 200 171 83
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.52% 0.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.06% 1.39% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 128 64
10th Percentile £400 £385 £383
25th Percentile £450 £422 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £581 £738
90th Percentile £783 £775 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £467
% change year-on-year - +7.18% -11.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 18,840 12,272 13,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.95% 37.25% 34.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,482 8,174 9,031
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 606 314 224
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £33.99 £28.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.23% -4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.42 £55.63
90th Percentile £81.75 £70.13 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £19.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +71.05% -21.42% -10.44%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Amazon SQS job vacancy trend in the UK

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon SQS over the 6 months to 29 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon SQS in the UK

Amazon SQS
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon SQS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon SQS

Amazon SQS
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 August 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
England -76 164 £528 +5.60% 108
London -60 87 £550 +8.64% 71
UK excluding London -71 82 £500 - 61
Work from Home -84 62 £625 +25.00% 66
North of England -66 32 £500 - 18
Midlands -34 26 £406 -16.67% 8
West Midlands -34 17 £450 -7.69% 4
North West -61 14 £525 +5.00% 11
Yorkshire -42 11 £581 +49.04% 3
South East -60 9 £611 +22.23% 10
East Midlands - 8 £400 - 4
Scotland -21 7 £556 +18.19% 11
North East -33 7 £413 -28.26% 4
South West -37 5 £463 -2.63% 7
East of England -22 4 £350 -34.88% 3
Wales - 1 £550 - 1

Amazon SQS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 10 (5.00%) Confluence
2 9 (4.50%) Apache
3 5 (2.50%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.00%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.00%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.00%) CMS
7 1 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.50%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 195 (97.50%) AWS
2 139 (69.50%) Serverless
3 135 (67.50%) AWS Lambda
4 99 (49.50%) Amazon S3
5 75 (37.50%) Amazon EventBridge
6 66 (33.00%) GitHub
7 60 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
7 60 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
8 50 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
9 43 (21.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 42 (21.00%) Amazon EKS
11 33 (16.50%) Azure
12 28 (14.00%) AWS CloudFormation
13 24 (12.00%) Amazon EC2
14 22 (11.00%) SaaS
15 18 (9.00%) Snowflake
16 14 (7.00%) AWS KMS
16 14 (7.00%) GCP
17 13 (6.50%) Azure DevOps
17 13 (6.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.50%) HTTP
2 2 (1.00%) DNS
2 2 (1.00%) NetScaler
2 2 (1.00%) OpenVPN
2 2 (1.00%) SSL
2 2 (1.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.50%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (39.00%) DynamoDB
2 51 (25.50%) PostgreSQL
3 41 (20.50%) Amazon RDS
4 31 (15.50%) MySQL
5 30 (15.00%) Amazon Aurora
6 22 (11.00%) MongoDB
7 19 (9.50%) NoSQL
8 18 (9.00%) Amazon Athena
9 13 (6.50%) Relational Database
10 11 (5.50%) Power BI
10 11 (5.50%) Redis
11 10 (5.00%) Data Lake
12 8 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (4.00%) Metadata
12 8 (4.00%) SQL Server
13 6 (3.00%) DocumentDB
14 5 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (2.50%) Big Data
14 5 (2.50%) BigQuery
14 5 (2.50%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 63 (31.50%) Git
2 47 (23.50%) Jenkins
3 45 (22.50%) GitLab
4 18 (9.00%) Claude Code
5 17 (8.50%) Maven
6 15 (7.50%) JUnit
7 14 (7.00%) Mockito
8 12 (6.00%) JIRA
8 12 (6.00%) SonarQube
9 11 (5.50%) Cypress.io
10 9 (4.50%) Mocha
11 7 (3.50%) DbUnit
12 6 (3.00%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (3.00%) Cucumber
12 6 (3.00%) Gradle
12 6 (3.00%) jMock
13 4 (2.00%) Selenium
13 4 (2.00%) Snyk
13 4 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
14 3 (1.50%) MSTest
General
1 46 (23.00%) Social Skills
2 41 (20.50%) Public Sector
3 14 (7.00%) Finance
4 11 (5.50%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.00%) Banking
6 7 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.00%) Law
8 2 (1.00%) Legal
9 1 (0.50%) Front Office
9 1 (0.50%) Marketing
9 1 (0.50%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.50%) Police
9 1 (0.50%) Publishing
9 1 (0.50%) Retail
9 1 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (31.00%) Developer
2 54 (27.00%) Senior
3 46 (23.00%) AWS Engineer
4 29 (14.50%) Architect
5 25 (12.50%) Software Engineer
6 23 (11.50%) Java Developer
7 18 (9.00%) Lead
8 17 (8.50%) Data Engineer
8 17 (8.50%) Senior Developer
9 16 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
10 14 (7.00%) AWS Developer
10 14 (7.00%) Lambda Engineer
10 14 (7.00%) Senior Software Engineer
11 13 (6.50%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (6.50%) Python Engineer
12 11 (5.50%) AWS Software Engineer
12 11 (5.50%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (5.00%) Integration Architect
13 10 (5.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 10 (5.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (47.50%) Terraform
2 71 (35.50%) REST
3 53 (26.50%) Kafka
4 46 (23.00%) Node.js
5 40 (20.00%) Spring Boot
6 38 (19.00%) .NET
7 37 (18.50%) Spring
8 27 (13.50%) React
9 25 (12.50%) RESTful
10 24 (12.00%) AWS CDK
11 18 (9.00%) AngularJS
11 18 (9.00%) FastAPI
11 18 (9.00%) Web Services
12 16 (8.00%) JPA
13 15 (7.50%) .NET Core
13 15 (7.50%) Jest
14 11 (5.50%) OAuth
14 11 (5.50%) OpenTelemetry
14 11 (5.50%) Playwright
15 10 (5.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 70 (35.00%) Cloud Native
2 52 (26.00%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (10.50%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.00%) AI Agents
5 7 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.00%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.50%) Mainframe
8 4 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (2.00%) NHS
9 3 (1.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.50%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.00%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.00%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.00%) Equities
10 2 (1.00%) Fixed Income
10 2 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (15.00%) Linux
2 5 (2.50%) Unix
2 5 (2.50%) Windows
3 2 (1.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (65.50%) CI/CD
2 103 (51.50%) Microservices
3 90 (45.00%) Event-Driven
4 89 (44.50%) DevOps
5 88 (44.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 87 (43.50%) Agile
7 60 (30.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 57 (28.50%) Observability
9 55 (27.50%) Software Engineering
10 47 (23.50%) Containerisation
11 42 (21.00%) Test Automation
12 38 (19.00%) AI
13 33 (16.50%) TDD
14 30 (15.00%) Scrum
15 27 (13.50%) Data Modelling
15 27 (13.50%) Full-Stack Development
16 25 (12.50%) API Design
17 24 (12.00%) Mentoring
18 23 (11.50%) LLM
18 23 (11.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 70 (35.00%) Python
2 54 (27.00%) Java
3 51 (25.50%) SQL
4 46 (23.00%) TypeScript
5 37 (18.50%) C#
6 25 (12.50%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.50%) Groovy
7 7 (3.50%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.50%) Bash
9 4 (2.00%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.50%) Scala
10 3 (1.50%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.00%) Go
12 1 (0.50%) C
12 1 (0.50%) C++
12 1 (0.50%) Haskell
12 1 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 55 (27.50%) Security Cleared
2 49 (24.50%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.00%) DV Cleared
4 10 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (4.50%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.00%) Degree
7 3 (1.50%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.50%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.00%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.50%) ISEB
9 1 (0.50%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.00%) QA
2 8 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.50%) GDPR
4 3 (1.50%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.00%) NCSC
6 1 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 75 (37.50%) Docker
2 5 (2.50%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 62 (31.00%) Kubernetes
2 21 (10.50%) Grafana
3 11 (5.50%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.50%) Ansible
4 5 (2.50%) Argo
5 3 (1.50%) Packer
6 2 (1.00%) Consul
6 2 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.00%) Sysdig
6 2 (1.00%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.50%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.50%) Istio
7 1 (0.50%) linkerd
Vendors
1 12 (6.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.50%) Splunk
3 8 (4.00%) Jaspersoft
4 7 (3.50%) Atlassian
4 7 (3.50%) Databricks
5 6 (3.00%) Dynatrace
5 6 (3.00%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.50%) Amplitude
6 5 (2.50%) Confluent
6 5 (2.50%) Google
7 4 (2.00%) Oracle
8 3 (1.50%) Sybase
9 2 (1.00%) Brio
9 2 (1.00%) Cisco
9 2 (1.00%) SAP
9 2 (1.00%) VMware
10 1 (0.50%) IBM
10 1 (0.50%) New Relic
10 1 (0.50%) Tealium
10 1 (0.50%) TIBCO