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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 469 379 468
Rank change year-on-year -90 +89 +39
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 194 175 80
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.53% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.03% 1.43% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 130 59
10th Percentile £400 £385 £375
25th Percentile £452 £425 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £700
90th Percentile £788 £775 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -15.89%
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 18,751 12,228 13,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.12% 37.15% 33.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,380 8,158 9,133
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £411 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 609 320 262
10th Percentile £15.80 £15.24 £14.27
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.35
Median hourly rate £35.00 £28.00 £24.92
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +12.36% -24.48%
75th Percentile £69.75 £47.50 £54.69
90th Percentile £82.27 £67.28 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.13 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +80.84% -11.70% -14.52%

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 14 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 14 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 -78 161 £528 +5.07% 60
London -62 85 £550 +1.85% 40
UK excluding London -73 82 £500 - 24
Work from Home -74 62 £625 +25.00% 19
North of England -59 32 £500 - 6
Midlands -36 26 £463 -5.13% 3
West Midlands -45 22 £475 -2.56% 1
North West -42 14 £525 +2.19% 2
Yorkshire -39 10 £525 +34.62% 2
South East -65 9 £611 +22.23% 5
North East -38 8 £438 -23.91% 2
Scotland -7 7 £556 +18.19% 3
South West -44 5 £463 +23.33% 4
East of England -18 4 £350 -34.88% 2
East Midlands - 3 £450 - 2
Wales - 1 £550 - 2

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 (5.15%) Apache
2 8 (4.12%) Confluence
3 5 (2.58%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.58%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.06%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.03%) CMS
7 1 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.52%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 188 (96.91%) AWS
2 129 (66.49%) Serverless
3 125 (64.43%) AWS Lambda
4 102 (52.58%) Amazon S3
5 70 (36.08%) Amazon EventBridge
6 59 (30.41%) Amazon ECS
6 59 (30.41%) GitHub
7 54 (27.84%) GitHub Actions
8 47 (24.23%) AWS Step Functions
9 44 (22.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 44 (22.68%) Amazon EKS
10 32 (16.49%) Amazon EC2
10 32 (16.49%) Azure
11 26 (13.40%) AWS CloudFormation
12 20 (10.31%) AWS KMS
12 20 (10.31%) SaaS
13 17 (8.76%) Snowflake
14 16 (8.25%) GCP
14 16 (8.25%) Route 53
15 12 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.61%) HTTP
2 2 (1.03%) DNS
2 2 (1.03%) NetScaler
2 2 (1.03%) OpenVPN
2 2 (1.03%) SSL
2 2 (1.03%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.52%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (41.24%) DynamoDB
2 51 (26.29%) PostgreSQL
3 45 (23.20%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (17.53%) Amazon Aurora
5 26 (13.40%) MySQL
6 21 (10.82%) MongoDB
7 19 (9.79%) Amazon Athena
7 19 (9.79%) NoSQL
8 13 (6.70%) Relational Database
9 12 (6.19%) Power BI
10 11 (5.67%) Data Lake
11 9 (4.64%) SQL Server
12 8 (4.12%) Metadata
13 7 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (3.09%) BigQuery
14 6 (3.09%) DocumentDB
14 6 (3.09%) Redis
15 5 (2.58%) Big Data
15 5 (2.58%) Hazelcast
15 5 (2.58%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 65 (33.51%) Git
2 51 (26.29%) Jenkins
3 43 (22.16%) GitLab
4 21 (10.82%) Maven
5 20 (10.31%) JUnit
6 19 (9.79%) Mockito
7 17 (8.76%) Claude Code
7 17 (8.76%) SonarQube
8 11 (5.67%) DbUnit
9 10 (5.15%) Bitbucket Server
9 10 (5.15%) Cypress.io
9 10 (5.15%) JIRA
9 10 (5.15%) jMock
9 10 (5.15%) Mocha
10 6 (3.09%) Cucumber
10 6 (3.09%) Gradle
11 5 (2.58%) MSTest
11 5 (2.58%) tSQLt
12 4 (2.06%) Snyk
12 4 (2.06%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 45 (23.20%) Public Sector
2 40 (20.62%) Social Skills
3 16 (8.25%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.73%) Finance
5 10 (5.15%) Banking
6 7 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.03%) Law
9 2 (1.03%) Legal
10 1 (0.52%) Front Office
10 1 (0.52%) Marketing
10 1 (0.52%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Publishing
10 1 (0.52%) Retail
10 1 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 68 (35.05%) Developer
2 54 (27.84%) Senior
3 43 (22.16%) AWS Engineer
4 29 (14.95%) Java Developer
5 28 (14.43%) Architect
6 26 (13.40%) Software Engineer
7 20 (10.31%) Senior Developer
8 18 (9.28%) Lead
9 16 (8.25%) Full-Stack Developer
10 15 (7.73%) Data Engineer
10 15 (7.73%) Senior Software Engineer
11 14 (7.22%) AWS Developer
12 13 (6.70%) Python Engineer
13 12 (6.19%) AWS Software Engineer
13 12 (6.19%) Cloud Engineer
13 12 (6.19%) Lambda Engineer
14 11 (5.67%) Senior Java Developer
14 11 (5.67%) Solutions Architect
15 10 (5.15%) Integration Architect
16 9 (4.64%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (38.66%) REST
2 53 (27.32%) Kafka
3 47 (24.23%) Node.js
4 44 (22.68%) Spring Boot
5 41 (21.13%) Spring
6 35 (18.04%) .NET
7 31 (15.98%) RESTful
8 27 (13.92%) React
9 25 (12.89%) AngularJS
10 23 (11.86%) AWS CDK
10 23 (11.86%) Web Services
11 21 (10.82%) JPA
12 15 (7.73%) ActiveMQ
12 15 (7.73%) Hibernate
13 14 (7.22%) SOAP
13 14 (7.22%) Spring Batch
13 14 (7.22%) Spring Integration
14 13 (6.70%) .NET Core
14 13 (6.70%) Jest
14 13 (6.70%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 65 (33.51%) Cloud Native
2 54 (27.84%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (10.31%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.12%) AI Agents
5 7 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.09%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.58%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (2.58%) Mainframe
8 4 (2.06%) NHS
9 3 (1.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.03%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.03%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.03%) Equities
10 2 (1.03%) Fixed Income
10 2 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 32 (16.49%) Linux
2 5 (2.58%) Unix
3 4 (2.06%) Windows
4 2 (1.03%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (67.01%) CI/CD
2 106 (54.64%) Microservices
3 91 (46.91%) Agile
4 86 (44.33%) Event-Driven
5 85 (43.81%) DevOps
6 81 (41.75%) Infrastructure as Code
7 57 (29.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 54 (27.84%) Observability
9 53 (27.32%) Software Engineering
10 48 (24.74%) Containerisation
11 39 (20.10%) AI
11 39 (20.10%) TDD
12 37 (19.07%) Test Automation
13 33 (17.01%) Scrum
14 27 (13.92%) Full-Stack Development
15 26 (13.40%) Data Modelling
16 25 (12.89%) LLM
17 24 (12.37%) API Design
18 23 (11.86%) Mentoring
18 23 (11.86%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 62 (31.96%) Python
2 59 (30.41%) Java
3 55 (28.35%) SQL
4 43 (22.16%) TypeScript
5 36 (18.56%) C#
6 26 (13.40%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.61%) Groovy
7 7 (3.61%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.58%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.06%) Bash
9 4 (2.06%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.55%) Scala
11 2 (1.03%) Go
12 1 (0.52%) C
12 1 (0.52%) C++
12 1 (0.52%) Elixir
12 1 (0.52%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.52%) Ruby
12 1 (0.52%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 55 (28.35%) Security Cleared
2 48 (24.74%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.73%) DV Cleared
4 10 (5.15%) AWS Certification
5 9 (4.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (2.06%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.55%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.55%) Degree
9 2 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.67%) QA
2 7 (3.61%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.09%) GDPR
4 5 (2.58%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.55%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.03%) NCSC
7 1 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 71 (36.60%) Docker
2 8 (4.12%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 87 (44.85%) Terraform
2 58 (29.90%) Kubernetes
3 26 (13.40%) Grafana
4 12 (6.19%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.58%) Argo
6 3 (1.55%) Ansible
7 2 (1.03%) Consul
7 2 (1.03%) Packer
7 2 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.03%) Sysdig
7 2 (1.03%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.52%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.52%) Istio
8 1 (0.52%) linkerd
Vendors
1 13 (6.70%) Jaspersoft
2 11 (5.67%) Atlassian
2 11 (5.67%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.12%) Databricks
3 8 (4.12%) Splunk
4 7 (3.61%) Google
5 6 (3.09%) Dynatrace
5 6 (3.09%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.58%) Amplitude
6 5 (2.58%) Confluent
7 4 (2.06%) Sybase
8 3 (1.55%) Oracle
9 2 (1.03%) Cisco
9 2 (1.03%) SAP
9 2 (1.03%) VMware
10 1 (0.52%) Brio
10 1 (0.52%) New Relic
10 1 (0.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.52%) SnapLogic