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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 398 469
Rank change year-on-year -73 +71 +17
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 210 165 88
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.50% 0.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.11% 1.33% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 124 67
10th Percentile £369 £385 £404
25th Percentile £430 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £505 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -12.17% +4.55%
75th Percentile £644 £581 £738
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £500 £543
% change year-on-year -7.50% -7.83% -5.24%
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 18,909 12,423 13,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.64% 37.76% 34.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,539 8,291 8,880
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 623 293 195
10th Percentile £15.26 £15.50 £15.69
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £20.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% -8.06% -11.43%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.75 £63.13
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £19.27 £30.00
% change year-on-year +66.06% -35.77% +14.29%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -80 161 £525 +5.00% 163
UK excluding London -81 87 £463 -7.50% 79
London -63 84 £550 +3.77% 91
Work from Home -84 69 £600 +20.00% 87
North of England -63 32 £500 +4.17% 27
Midlands -40 24 £400 -17.95% 6
West Midlands -46 15 £413 -15.38% 3
North West -49 14 £525 +5.00% 20
Scotland -21 11 £553 +5.29% 10
Yorkshire -45 10 £581 +49.04% 4
North East -37 8 £406 -29.35% 3
South East -56 8 £591 +18.13% 16
East Midlands - 8 £400 - 3
South West -31 7 £433 -8.84% 11
East of England -25 5 £348 -35.35% 4
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 11 (5.24%) Confluence
2 10 (4.76%) Apache
3 5 (2.38%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.95%) CMS
5 2 (0.95%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.48%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.48%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 205 (97.62%) AWS
2 152 (72.38%) Serverless
3 150 (71.43%) AWS Lambda
4 96 (45.71%) Amazon S3
5 86 (40.95%) Amazon EventBridge
6 66 (31.43%) GitHub
7 65 (30.95%) Amazon ECS
8 60 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
9 51 (24.29%) AWS Step Functions
10 49 (23.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 46 (21.90%) Amazon EKS
12 29 (13.81%) Azure
13 26 (12.38%) Amazon EC2
13 26 (12.38%) AWS CloudFormation
13 26 (12.38%) SaaS
14 18 (8.57%) Snowflake
15 16 (7.62%) AWS KMS
16 14 (6.67%) Route 53
16 14 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 13 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.33%) HTTP
2 2 (0.95%) DNS
2 2 (0.95%) NetScaler
2 2 (0.95%) SSL
2 2 (0.95%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.48%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (41.43%) DynamoDB
2 51 (24.29%) PostgreSQL
3 46 (21.90%) Amazon RDS
4 36 (17.14%) MySQL
5 33 (15.71%) Amazon Aurora
6 25 (11.90%) MongoDB
7 21 (10.00%) NoSQL
8 12 (5.71%) Amazon Athena
8 12 (5.71%) Redis
9 11 (5.24%) Relational Database
10 9 (4.29%) Metadata
10 9 (4.29%) SQL Server
11 8 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (3.33%) DocumentDB
12 7 (3.33%) Power BI
13 6 (2.86%) Data Lake
14 5 (2.38%) Big Data
14 5 (2.38%) Hazelcast
14 5 (2.38%) RDBMS
15 4 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 64 (30.48%) Git
2 48 (22.86%) Jenkins
3 46 (21.90%) GitLab
4 22 (10.48%) Maven
5 20 (9.52%) Claude Code
6 17 (8.10%) JUnit
7 15 (7.14%) Mockito
8 13 (6.19%) JIRA
9 11 (5.24%) SonarQube
10 10 (4.76%) Cucumber
10 10 (4.76%) Mocha
11 9 (4.29%) Cypress.io
12 7 (3.33%) DbUnit
13 6 (2.86%) Bitbucket Server
13 6 (2.86%) Gradle
13 6 (2.86%) jMock
14 5 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
15 4 (1.90%) Selenium
15 4 (1.90%) Snyk
16 3 (1.43%) REST Assured
General
1 48 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 40 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 19 (9.05%) Finance
4 13 (6.19%) Banking
5 12 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.43%) Law
8 2 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.95%) Legal
8 2 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.48%) Front Office
9 1 (0.48%) Marketing
9 1 (0.48%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.48%) Police
9 1 (0.48%) Publishing
9 1 (0.48%) Retail
9 1 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (29.52%) Developer
2 59 (28.10%) Senior
3 51 (24.29%) AWS Engineer
4 34 (16.19%) Architect
5 26 (12.38%) Java Developer
5 26 (12.38%) Software Engineer
6 17 (8.10%) Data Engineer
6 17 (8.10%) Lambda Engineer
7 16 (7.62%) AWS Developer
7 16 (7.62%) Full-Stack Developer
7 16 (7.62%) Senior Developer
8 15 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
9 14 (6.67%) Lead
9 14 (6.67%) Python Engineer
9 14 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (6.19%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
12 11 (5.24%) AWS Software Engineer
12 11 (5.24%) Integration Architect
12 11 (5.24%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (43.81%) Terraform
2 85 (40.48%) REST
3 49 (23.33%) Kafka
4 47 (22.38%) Node.js
5 45 (21.43%) Spring Boot
6 44 (20.95%) .NET
7 42 (20.00%) Spring
8 27 (12.86%) AWS CDK
8 27 (12.86%) React
8 27 (12.86%) RESTful
9 22 (10.48%) AngularJS
10 19 (9.05%) FastAPI
11 18 (8.57%) SOAP
12 17 (8.10%) .NET Core
12 17 (8.10%) Jest
12 17 (8.10%) JPA
13 16 (7.62%) Web Services
14 15 (7.14%) OAuth
15 12 (5.71%) OAuth2
15 12 (5.71%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 76 (36.19%) Cloud Native
2 54 (25.71%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (10.00%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.81%) AI Agents
4 8 (3.81%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.81%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.86%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.38%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.90%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.43%) NHS
9 2 (0.95%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.95%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.95%) Equities
9 2 (0.95%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (14.76%) Linux
2 5 (2.38%) Unix
2 5 (2.38%) Windows
3 2 (0.95%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (62.86%) CI/CD
2 109 (51.90%) Microservices
3 104 (49.52%) Event-Driven
4 92 (43.81%) DevOps
5 87 (41.43%) Agile
6 84 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 69 (32.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 60 (28.57%) Observability
9 58 (27.62%) Software Engineering
10 51 (24.29%) Containerisation
11 41 (19.52%) Test Automation
12 38 (18.10%) AI
13 34 (16.19%) Scrum
14 31 (14.76%) TDD
15 28 (13.33%) API Design
15 28 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
16 26 (12.38%) Continuous Improvement
17 24 (11.43%) Data Modelling
17 24 (11.43%) Migration
18 23 (10.95%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 72 (34.29%) Python
2 58 (27.62%) Java
3 49 (23.33%) SQL
4 46 (21.90%) TypeScript
5 37 (17.62%) C#
6 23 (10.95%) JavaScript
7 8 (3.81%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.33%) Groovy
9 6 (2.86%) Bash
10 4 (1.90%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.43%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.95%) Go
12 2 (0.95%) Scala
13 1 (0.48%) C
13 1 (0.48%) C++
13 1 (0.48%) Haskell
13 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 60 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 54 (25.71%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.62%) DV Cleared
4 15 (7.14%) AWS Certification
5 12 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (3.33%) Degree
7 6 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (1.90%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.43%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.43%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.48%) ISEB
10 1 (0.48%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.57%) QA
2 7 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.38%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.43%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.95%) NCSC
6 1 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.48%) GDPR
System Software
1 80 (38.10%) Docker
2 5 (2.38%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 65 (30.95%) Kubernetes
2 20 (9.52%) Grafana
3 11 (5.24%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.86%) Ansible
5 5 (2.38%) Argo
6 4 (1.90%) Packer
6 4 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.95%) Consul
7 2 (0.95%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.48%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.48%) Istio
8 1 (0.48%) linkerd
Vendors
1 11 (5.24%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.29%) Oracle
3 8 (3.81%) Jaspersoft
3 8 (3.81%) Salesforce
4 7 (3.33%) Atlassian
4 7 (3.33%) Dynatrace
4 7 (3.33%) Splunk
5 6 (2.86%) Confluent
6 5 (2.38%) Amplitude
7 4 (1.90%) Databricks
8 3 (1.43%) Sybase
8 3 (1.43%) webMethods
9 2 (0.95%) Brio
9 2 (0.95%) Cisco
9 2 (0.95%) Google
9 2 (0.95%) SAP
9 2 (0.95%) VMware
9 2 (0.95%) WSO2
10 1 (0.48%) Okta
10 1 (0.48%) Tealium