Amazon SQS Contracts

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 395 494 505
Rank change year-on-year +99 +11 +79
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 155 80 175
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.18% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.29% 0.56% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 59 126
10th Percentile £400 £373 £450
25th Percentile £425 £485 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £629 £659 £680
90th Percentile £775 £730 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £510 £569
% change year-on-year -1.96% -10.33% +10.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £35.75 - -
25th Percentile £36.88 - -
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £35.00
75th Percentile £44.38 - -
90th Percentile £46.25 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud 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 11,992 14,272 20,585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.71% 32.93% 36.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,026 10,025 14,867
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £622 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 298 357 348
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.16 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.06 £19.69
Median hourly rate £27.63 £22.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.59% -37.14% +59.09%
75th Percentile £47.41 £46.18 £66.38
90th Percentile £71.63 £70.00 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £20.99 £26.50
% change year-on-year -10.08% -20.81% +37.68%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon SQS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon SQS in the UK

Amazon SQS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon SQS.

Daily rate trend for Amazon SQS in the UK

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon SQS over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon SQS in the UK

Amazon SQS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon SQS.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon SQS in the UK

Amazon SQS
Top 14 Contract 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 5 July 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
England +104 116 £505 -8.18% 369
Work from Home +77 81 £500 -11.11% 250
London +71 75 £530 -5.78% 179
UK excluding London +65 43 £500 -1.96% 210
Midlands +23 15 £500 +42.86% 30
West Midlands +21 15 £500 +42.86% 20
North of England +8 15 £500 -1.96% 76
North West 0 7 £450 -11.76% 48
Scotland +6 6 £482 +1.21% 12
Yorkshire +8 5 £525 +27.27% 24
North East - 3 £575 - 4
East of England - 3 £538 - 27
South East +33 2 £500 -15.97% 40
South West - 2 £375 - 20

Amazon SQS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 13 (8.39%) Documentum
1 13 (8.39%) FileNet
2 7 (4.52%) Confluence
3 2 (1.29%) GeoServer
3 2 (1.29%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.65%) JBoss
4 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.65%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.65%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.65%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (1.29%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 155 (100.00%) AWS
2 101 (65.16%) Serverless
3 87 (56.13%) AWS Lambda
4 83 (53.55%) Amazon S3
5 68 (43.87%) Amazon EC2
6 40 (25.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 37 (23.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 36 (23.23%) Amazon ECS
9 23 (14.84%) SaaS
10 19 (12.26%) Amazon EventBridge
10 19 (12.26%) GitHub
11 16 (10.32%) AWS Step Functions
12 15 (9.68%) AWS KMS
13 13 (8.39%) AWS Fargate
14 12 (7.74%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (7.74%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
14 12 (7.74%) CloudFront
15 10 (6.45%) Amazon Cognito
15 10 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
15 10 (6.45%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.16%) HTTP
2 4 (2.58%) DNS
3 3 (1.94%) Firewall
3 3 (1.94%) SSL
3 3 (1.94%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.29%) Network Security
4 2 (1.29%) VPN
5 1 (0.65%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (0.65%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (36.13%) DynamoDB
2 50 (32.26%) PostgreSQL
3 49 (31.61%) Amazon RDS
4 27 (17.42%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (7.10%) Relational Database
6 9 (5.81%) DocumentDB
6 9 (5.81%) Redis
7 7 (4.52%) MySQL
8 6 (3.87%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (3.87%) NoSQL
9 4 (2.58%) GIS
10 3 (1.94%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.94%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.29%) DB2
12 1 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.65%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 39 (25.16%) Git
2 36 (23.23%) Jenkins
3 25 (16.13%) SonarQube
4 22 (14.19%) JUnit
5 20 (12.90%) Maven
6 19 (12.26%) GitLab
7 12 (7.74%) Mockito
8 8 (5.16%) Bitbucket Server
8 8 (5.16%) Cucumber
8 8 (5.16%) DbUnit
8 8 (5.16%) jMock
9 7 (4.52%) JIRA
10 6 (3.87%) Bitbucket
11 5 (3.23%) git-flow
12 3 (1.94%) Cypress.io
12 3 (1.94%) Mocha
12 3 (1.94%) Postman
12 3 (1.94%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (1.29%) PHPUnit
13 2 (1.29%) Storybook
General
1 50 (32.26%) Public Sector
2 19 (12.26%) Social Skills
3 18 (11.61%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (5.81%) Banking
4 9 (5.81%) Finance
5 8 (5.16%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.58%) Military
7 3 (1.94%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (1.94%) Retail
8 2 (1.29%) Aviation
8 2 (1.29%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.29%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.65%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.65%) Marketing
9 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 76 (49.03%) Developer
2 29 (18.71%) Java Developer
3 24 (15.48%) Architect
4 23 (14.84%) AWS Developer
4 23 (14.84%) Software Engineer
5 22 (14.19%) Senior
6 20 (12.90%) Full-Stack Developer
7 19 (12.26%) Security Architect
8 15 (9.68%) Lead
9 12 (7.74%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (6.45%) Lead Developer
11 9 (5.81%) Documentum Developer
11 9 (5.81%) JavaScript Engineer
11 9 (5.81%) Lead Java Developer
11 9 (5.81%) Node.js Developer
11 9 (5.81%) Senior Developer
12 8 (5.16%) DevOps Engineer
13 7 (4.52%) Senior Software Engineer
14 6 (3.87%) Cloud Engineer
14 6 (3.87%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (29.03%) Node.js
2 43 (27.74%) React
3 36 (23.23%) Spring
4 31 (20.00%) Spring Boot
5 21 (13.55%) AWS CDK
5 21 (13.55%) REST
6 20 (12.90%) RESTful
6 20 (12.90%) Web Services
7 19 (12.26%) Hibernate
8 16 (10.32%) ActiveMQ
8 16 (10.32%) AngularJS
8 16 (10.32%) Kafka
9 15 (9.68%) Jest
9 15 (9.68%) WebSockets
10 14 (9.03%) JPA
10 14 (9.03%) SOAP
11 13 (8.39%) Sass
12 11 (7.10%) Spring Batch
12 11 (7.10%) Spring Cloud
12 11 (7.10%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.90%) Onboarding
2 19 (12.26%) CSOC
2 19 (12.26%) Security Operations Centre
3 10 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.81%) Cloud Native
5 8 (5.16%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.94%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.94%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.94%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.94%) Vector Graphics
7 2 (1.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.29%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.29%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.29%) PKI
7 2 (1.29%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.65%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 23 (14.84%) Linux
2 14 (9.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.94%) Windows
4 1 (0.65%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.65%) CentOS
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (40.65%) Agile
2 60 (38.71%) Microservices
3 53 (34.19%) CI/CD
4 49 (31.61%) DevOps
5 33 (21.29%) Containerisation
6 28 (18.06%) Full-Stack Development
7 27 (17.42%) Infrastructure as Code
7 27 (17.42%) Software Engineering
8 26 (16.77%) Test Automation
9 22 (14.19%) Cybersecurity
10 21 (13.55%) Clean Code
10 21 (13.55%) SIEM
11 20 (12.90%) Event-Driven
11 20 (12.90%) Mentoring
12 19 (12.26%) Security Operations
12 19 (12.26%) TDD
12 19 (12.26%) Use Case
13 18 (11.61%) SOAR
14 17 (10.97%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 16 (10.32%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 63 (40.65%) Java
2 42 (27.10%) Python
3 39 (25.16%) JavaScript
4 32 (20.65%) TypeScript
5 27 (17.42%) SQL
6 13 (8.39%) Rust
7 6 (3.87%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.58%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.58%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.29%) Bash
9 2 (1.29%) PHP
9 2 (1.29%) R
10 1 (0.65%) C#
10 1 (0.65%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 59 (38.06%) Security Cleared
2 56 (36.13%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.03%) AWS Certification
4 7 (4.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (3.23%) AWS Certified Developer
5 5 (3.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 5 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.23%) Degree
6 2 (1.29%) CISSP
7 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.39%) QA
2 3 (1.94%) GDPR
2 3 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.94%) WCAG
3 2 (1.29%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.29%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.29%) NIST
3 2 (1.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 46 (29.68%) Docker
2 9 (5.81%) Postfix
3 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (29.03%) Terraform
2 25 (16.13%) Kubernetes
2 25 (16.13%) Prometheus
3 21 (13.55%) Ansible
4 19 (12.26%) Grafana
5 2 (1.29%) Kibana
5 2 (1.29%) Kustomize
5 2 (1.29%) Puppet
5 2 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.65%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.65%) Istio
Vendors
1 25 (16.13%) Splunk
2 19 (12.26%) Oracle
3 8 (5.16%) Atlassian
3 8 (5.16%) Jaspersoft
4 7 (4.52%) CA Agile Central
5 6 (3.87%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.94%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.29%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.29%) Sybase
8 1 (0.65%) Actifio
8 1 (0.65%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.65%) New Relic
8 1 (0.65%) OpenText
8 1 (0.65%) Rollbar
8 1 (0.65%) Solace