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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 462 380 489
Rank change year-on-year -82 +109 +23
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 168 142 91
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.50% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.97% 1.32% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 105 72
10th Percentile £400 £400 £401
25th Percentile £452 £425 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -5.66%
75th Percentile £625 £633 £694
90th Percentile £850 £775 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £528 £500 £543
% change year-on-year +5.50% -7.83% -5.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.75 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +78.57% - -
75th Percentile £71.13 - -
90th Percentile £74.05 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 - -

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 17,337 10,775 13,871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.57% 37.71% 32.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,646 7,387 9,882
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.98% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £609 £619 £634
90th Percentile £705 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.37% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 238 344
10th Percentile £15.40 £15.09 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.22 £16.05
Median hourly rate £36.00 £28.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +31.02% -39.80%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.50 £40.06
90th Percentile £81.10 £72.50 £66.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £20.24 £17.72
% change year-on-year +85.32% +14.19% -33.08%

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 27 May 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Amazon SQS over the 6 months to 27 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Amazon SQS in the UK

Amazon SQS
Top 14 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 27 May 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 -92 135 £550 +9.45% 49
London -59 72 £575 +14.43% 22
UK excluding London -88 68 £528 +5.50% 31
Work from Home -69 49 £550 +10.00% 32
North of England -62 27 £525 +5.00% 19
Midlands -63 23 £475 -5.00% 5
West Midlands -55 22 £475 -5.00% 4
North West -32 16 £525 +5.00% 9
South East -51 9 £616 +23.20% 2
Scotland +3 8 £553 +14.68%
Yorkshire -50 8 £438 -16.67% 8
North East -26 3 £530 -7.83% 2
South West -30 1 £575 - 5
East of England -30 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 20 (11.90%) Apache
2 16 (9.52%) Apache Spark
3 12 (7.14%) Confluence
4 5 (2.98%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.98%) nginx
5 2 (1.19%) CMS
5 2 (1.19%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.60%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.60%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.60%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 163 (97.02%) AWS
2 114 (67.86%) Serverless
3 107 (63.69%) AWS Lambda
4 101 (60.12%) Amazon S3
5 47 (27.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 46 (27.38%) Amazon EventBridge
7 45 (26.79%) Amazon EC2
7 45 (26.79%) GitHub
8 43 (25.60%) Azure
9 40 (23.81%) GitHub Actions
10 37 (22.02%) AWS Step Functions
11 35 (20.83%) Amazon ECS
11 35 (20.83%) AWS CloudFormation
12 29 (17.26%) Amazon EKS
13 23 (13.69%) GCP
13 23 (13.69%) Power Platform
14 22 (13.10%) Route 53
15 20 (11.90%) AWS KMS
16 16 (9.52%) Collibra
17 15 (8.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.17%) HTTP
2 5 (2.98%) DNS
3 3 (1.79%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (1.19%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.60%) SMS
5 1 (0.60%) SSL
5 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (41.67%) DynamoDB
2 45 (26.79%) Amazon RDS
3 40 (23.81%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (22.62%) Amazon Aurora
5 27 (16.07%) Amazon Athena
6 23 (13.69%) Power BI
7 18 (10.71%) MySQL
8 17 (10.12%) Data Lake
9 15 (8.93%) BigQuery
9 15 (8.93%) Mixpanel
9 15 (8.93%) NoSQL
10 14 (8.33%) OLAP
10 14 (8.33%) OLTP
11 12 (7.14%) Redis
12 11 (6.55%) DocumentDB
12 11 (6.55%) MongoDB
13 8 (4.76%) Relational Database
13 8 (4.76%) SQL Server
14 4 (2.38%) Hazelcast
14 4 (2.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 59 (35.12%) Git
2 41 (24.40%) Jenkins
3 35 (20.83%) GitLab
4 23 (13.69%) JUnit
4 23 (13.69%) Maven
5 21 (12.50%) Mockito
5 21 (12.50%) SonarQube
6 15 (8.93%) JIRA
7 14 (8.33%) DbUnit
8 13 (7.74%) jMock
9 11 (6.55%) Bitbucket Server
10 10 (5.95%) Claude Code
11 8 (4.76%) Cypress.io
12 6 (3.57%) Mocha
13 5 (2.98%) Cucumber
13 5 (2.98%) MSTest
13 5 (2.98%) tSQLt
14 4 (2.38%) Gradle
14 4 (2.38%) MLflow
14 4 (2.38%) Snyk
General
1 48 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 34 (20.24%) Social Skills
3 15 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (2.38%) Finance
4 4 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (1.79%) Legal
6 2 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.60%) Military
7 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (41.67%) Developer
2 43 (25.60%) Senior
3 32 (19.05%) Java Developer
4 31 (18.45%) Lead
5 29 (17.26%) Senior Developer
6 26 (15.48%) AWS Engineer
7 17 (10.12%) Architect
7 17 (10.12%) Principal Engineer
7 17 (10.12%) Software Engineer
8 16 (9.52%) Data Engineer
9 13 (7.74%) Principal Data Engineer
9 13 (7.74%) Senior Java Developer
9 13 (7.74%) Software Developer
10 12 (7.14%) AWS Developer
11 11 (6.55%) Python Engineer
12 10 (5.95%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (4.76%) Lead Data Engineer
13 8 (4.76%) Senior Software Developer
14 7 (4.17%) Lead Developer
15 6 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (30.36%) Node.js
2 49 (29.17%) REST
3 44 (26.19%) Spring Boot
4 42 (25.00%) Kafka
4 42 (25.00%) Spring
5 33 (19.64%) RESTful
6 32 (19.05%) React
7 29 (17.26%) JPA
8 27 (16.07%) AngularJS
9 26 (15.48%) Web Services
10 24 (14.29%) .NET
10 24 (14.29%) Hibernate
11 22 (13.10%) Spring Cloud
12 19 (11.31%) ActiveMQ
12 19 (11.31%) OAuth
12 19 (11.31%) SOAP
13 18 (10.71%) Spring Batch
13 18 (10.71%) Spring Integration
14 17 (10.12%) AWS CDK
15 15 (8.93%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 53 (31.55%) Cloud Native
2 32 (19.05%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (10.12%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.57%) NHS
6 5 (2.98%) Mainframe
7 4 (2.38%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.38%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.38%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.19%) Educational Technology
9 2 (1.19%) Equities
9 2 (1.19%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.19%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.60%) Freedom of Information
10 1 (0.60%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.60%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.60%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 22 (13.10%) Linux
2 1 (0.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (69.64%) CI/CD
2 87 (51.79%) Infrastructure as Code
3 84 (50.00%) DevOps
4 80 (47.62%) Microservices
5 75 (44.64%) Agile
6 52 (30.95%) Event-Driven
7 46 (27.38%) Containerisation
8 43 (25.60%) Observability
9 42 (25.00%) Software Engineering
10 39 (23.21%) Scrum
11 38 (22.62%) TDD
12 34 (20.24%) AI
13 31 (18.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 27 (16.07%) Mentoring
15 26 (15.48%) Data Modelling
15 26 (15.48%) Kanban
16 25 (14.88%) ETL
16 25 (14.88%) LLM
16 25 (14.88%) Test Automation
17 24 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 61 (36.31%) Python
2 58 (34.52%) SQL
3 56 (33.33%) Java
4 39 (23.21%) C#
5 38 (22.62%) TypeScript
6 26 (15.48%) JavaScript
7 7 (4.17%) Bash
8 5 (2.98%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.38%) Go
9 4 (2.38%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.19%) Groovy
10 2 (1.19%) Scala
11 1 (0.60%) Elixir
11 1 (0.60%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.60%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.60%) Ruby
11 1 (0.60%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 44 (26.19%) Security Cleared
2 37 (22.02%) SC Cleared
3 16 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (6.55%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.17%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.79%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.79%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.79%) Degree
6 3 (1.79%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.19%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.12%) Data Quality
1 17 (10.12%) GDPR
2 12 (7.14%) QA
3 5 (2.98%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.38%) NIST
4 4 (2.38%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.79%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.60%) NCSC
6 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 66 (39.29%) Docker
2 11 (6.55%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 90 (53.57%) Terraform
2 44 (26.19%) Kubernetes
3 40 (23.81%) Grafana
4 18 (10.71%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.76%) Ansible
6 5 (2.98%) Argo
7 2 (1.19%) Sysdig
8 1 (0.60%) Consul
8 1 (0.60%) Packer
8 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.60%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 20 (11.90%) Databricks
2 17 (10.12%) Jaspersoft
3 16 (9.52%) Google
4 14 (8.33%) Atlassian
5 7 (4.17%) Splunk
6 4 (2.38%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.38%) Sybase
7 1 (0.60%) Confluent
7 1 (0.60%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.60%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.60%) Okta
7 1 (0.60%) SAP
7 1 (0.60%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.60%) SnapLogic
7 1 (0.60%) Virgin Media