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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 483 379 477
Rank change year-on-year -104 +98 +38
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 198 177 86
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.54% 0.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.05% 1.44% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 133 65
10th Percentile £399 £385 £385
25th Percentile £443 £425 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -8.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £738
90th Percentile £788 £775 £745
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 18,896 12,276 13,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.07% 37.22% 33.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,515 8,192 9,059
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 608 320 239
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.48 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £17.57
Median hourly rate £34.13 £28.00 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% +3.82% -22.94%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £54.38
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.28 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.00 £18.87 £21.46
% change year-on-year +74.88% -12.07% -20.52%

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 23 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 23 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 -96 163 £525 +5.00% 21
London -78 85 £550 +1.85% 11
UK excluding London -78 84 £500 - 15
Work from Home -85 62 £575 +15.00% 13
North of England -56 32 £500 - 3
Midlands -31 28 £406 -16.67% 2
West Midlands -45 19 £450 -7.69%
North West -44 14 £525 +5.00% 2
Yorkshire -39 10 £525 +34.62% 1
South East -62 9 £611 +22.23% 6
North East -38 8 £438 -23.91%
East Midlands - 8 £400 - 2
Scotland -13 7 £556 +18.19%
South West -38 5 £463 -2.63% 4
East of England -17 4 £350 -34.88% 1
Wales - 1 £550 -

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 9 (4.55%) Apache
1 9 (4.55%) Confluence
2 5 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.02%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.02%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.01%) CMS
6 1 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.51%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 192 (96.97%) AWS
2 136 (68.69%) Serverless
3 132 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
4 99 (50.00%) Amazon S3
5 72 (36.36%) Amazon EventBridge
6 63 (31.82%) GitHub
7 61 (30.81%) Amazon ECS
8 58 (29.29%) GitHub Actions
9 47 (23.74%) AWS Step Functions
10 44 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
11 42 (21.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 32 (16.16%) Azure
13 28 (14.14%) Amazon EC2
14 25 (12.63%) AWS CloudFormation
15 20 (10.10%) SaaS
16 17 (8.59%) AWS KMS
16 17 (8.59%) Snowflake
17 15 (7.58%) GCP
18 14 (7.07%) Route 53
19 12 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.54%) HTTP
2 2 (1.01%) DNS
2 2 (1.01%) NetScaler
2 2 (1.01%) OpenVPN
2 2 (1.01%) SSL
2 2 (1.01%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.51%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (38.89%) DynamoDB
2 53 (26.77%) PostgreSQL
3 43 (21.72%) Amazon RDS
4 31 (15.66%) Amazon Aurora
4 31 (15.66%) MySQL
5 22 (11.11%) MongoDB
6 18 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
7 17 (8.59%) NoSQL
8 13 (6.57%) Relational Database
9 11 (5.56%) Power BI
9 11 (5.56%) Redis
10 10 (5.05%) Data Lake
11 9 (4.55%) SQL Server
12 8 (4.04%) Metadata
13 7 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (3.03%) DocumentDB
15 5 (2.53%) Big Data
15 5 (2.53%) BigQuery
15 5 (2.53%) Hazelcast
15 5 (2.53%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 63 (31.82%) Git
2 48 (24.24%) Jenkins
3 45 (22.73%) GitLab
4 19 (9.60%) Maven
5 17 (8.59%) Claude Code
5 17 (8.59%) JUnit
6 16 (8.08%) Mockito
7 14 (7.07%) SonarQube
8 11 (5.56%) Cypress.io
8 11 (5.56%) JIRA
9 10 (5.05%) Mocha
10 8 (4.04%) DbUnit
11 7 (3.54%) Bitbucket Server
11 7 (3.54%) Cucumber
11 7 (3.54%) jMock
12 6 (3.03%) Gradle
13 4 (2.02%) MSTest
13 4 (2.02%) Selenium
13 4 (2.02%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (2.02%) tSQLt
General
1 45 (22.73%) Public Sector
2 41 (20.71%) Social Skills
3 15 (7.58%) Finance
4 13 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.05%) Banking
6 7 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.01%) Law
8 2 (1.01%) Legal
9 1 (0.51%) Front Office
9 1 (0.51%) Marketing
9 1 (0.51%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.51%) Police
9 1 (0.51%) Publishing
9 1 (0.51%) Retail
9 1 (0.51%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 65 (32.83%) Developer
2 53 (26.77%) Senior
3 43 (21.72%) AWS Engineer
4 29 (14.65%) Architect
5 26 (13.13%) Java Developer
6 25 (12.63%) Software Engineer
7 19 (9.60%) Lead
7 19 (9.60%) Senior Developer
8 16 (8.08%) Full-Stack Developer
9 14 (7.07%) AWS Developer
9 14 (7.07%) Data Engineer
9 14 (7.07%) Senior Software Engineer
10 13 (6.57%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (6.57%) Python Engineer
11 12 (6.06%) Lambda Engineer
12 11 (5.56%) AWS Software Engineer
12 11 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (5.05%) Integration Architect
13 10 (5.05%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 10 (5.05%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (44.95%) Terraform
2 72 (36.36%) REST
3 53 (26.77%) Kafka
4 45 (22.73%) Node.js
5 42 (21.21%) Spring Boot
6 39 (19.70%) Spring
7 35 (17.68%) .NET
8 27 (13.64%) React
8 27 (13.64%) RESTful
9 22 (11.11%) AWS CDK
10 21 (10.61%) AngularJS
11 20 (10.10%) Web Services
12 18 (9.09%) FastAPI
12 18 (9.09%) JPA
13 14 (7.07%) .NET Core
13 14 (7.07%) Jest
14 12 (6.06%) ActiveMQ
14 12 (6.06%) Hibernate
14 12 (6.06%) SOAP
15 11 (5.56%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 66 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 53 (26.77%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (10.10%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.04%) AI Agents
5 7 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.03%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.53%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (2.53%) Mainframe
8 4 (2.02%) NHS
9 3 (1.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.01%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.01%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.01%) Equities
10 2 (1.01%) Fixed Income
10 2 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (14.65%) Linux
2 5 (2.53%) Unix
3 4 (2.02%) Windows
4 2 (1.01%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (65.15%) CI/CD
2 105 (53.03%) Microservices
3 88 (44.44%) Agile
3 88 (44.44%) DevOps
4 87 (43.94%) Event-Driven
5 82 (41.41%) Infrastructure as Code
6 58 (29.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 54 (27.27%) Observability
7 54 (27.27%) Software Engineering
8 49 (24.75%) Containerisation
9 40 (20.20%) Test Automation
10 38 (19.19%) AI
11 35 (17.68%) TDD
12 31 (15.66%) Scrum
13 27 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
14 24 (12.12%) API Design
14 24 (12.12%) Data Modelling
14 24 (12.12%) Technical Leadership
15 23 (11.62%) LLM
15 23 (11.62%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 66 (33.33%) Python
2 57 (28.79%) Java
3 50 (25.25%) SQL
4 44 (22.22%) TypeScript
5 35 (17.68%) C#
6 26 (13.13%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.54%) Groovy
7 7 (3.54%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.53%) Bash
9 4 (2.02%) PL/SQL
9 4 (2.02%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.52%) Scala
11 2 (1.01%) Go
12 1 (0.51%) C
12 1 (0.51%) C++
12 1 (0.51%) Elixir
12 1 (0.51%) Haskell
12 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.51%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 55 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 49 (24.75%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.08%) DV Cleared
4 11 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (4.55%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.02%) Degree
7 3 (1.52%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.52%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.01%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.51%) ISEB
9 1 (0.51%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.06%) QA
2 6 (3.03%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.53%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.53%) GDPR
4 3 (1.52%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.01%) NCSC
6 1 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 77 (38.89%) Docker
2 6 (3.03%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 61 (30.81%) Kubernetes
2 23 (11.62%) Grafana
3 12 (6.06%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.53%) Ansible
4 5 (2.53%) Argo
5 3 (1.52%) Packer
6 2 (1.01%) Consul
6 2 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.01%) Sysdig
6 2 (1.01%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.51%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.51%) Istio
7 1 (0.51%) linkerd
Vendors
1 11 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.05%) Jaspersoft
3 8 (4.04%) Atlassian
3 8 (4.04%) Splunk
4 7 (3.54%) Databricks
5 6 (3.03%) Dynatrace
5 6 (3.03%) Google
5 6 (3.03%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.53%) Amplitude
6 5 (2.53%) Confluent
7 4 (2.02%) Oracle
8 3 (1.52%) Sybase
9 2 (1.01%) Cisco
9 2 (1.01%) SAP
9 2 (1.01%) VMware
10 1 (0.51%) Brio
10 1 (0.51%) IBM
10 1 (0.51%) New Relic
10 1 (0.51%) Tealium
10 1 (0.51%) TIBCO