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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 478 364 506
Rank change year-on-year -114 +142 -12
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 168 164 82
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.55% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.94% 1.45% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 122 63
10th Percentile £400 £400 £375
25th Percentile £463 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £678
90th Percentile £863 £775 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -11.30%
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 17,960 11,288 14,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 37.80% 32.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,998 7,611 10,028
10th Percentile £328 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £620 £636
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 594 277 365
10th Percentile £16.54 £15.13 £14.05
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £28.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% +29.55% -37.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.81 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.14 £20.77
% change year-on-year +95.98% -7.87% -22.36%

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 June 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 20 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Amazon SQS in the UK

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 June 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 -84 142 £550 +9.45% 28
London -74 77 £550 +8.91% 16
UK excluding London -83 71 £525 +5.00% 20
Work from Home -78 55 £563 +12.50% 16
North of England -66 26 £525 +5.00% 9
Midlands -51 24 £475 -5.00% 2
West Midlands -54 22 £475 -5.00% 1
North West -37 15 £525 +5.00% 5
South East -55 9 £616 +23.20% 3
Scotland -5 8 £553 +14.68%
Yorkshire -56 8 £438 -16.67% 3
North East -35 3 £413 -28.26% 1
South West -28 2 £519 +38.33% 2
East of England -34 2 £350 -34.88%
Wales - 1 £550 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £425 - 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 16 (9.52%) Apache
2 12 (7.14%) Apache Spark
3 10 (5.95%) Confluence
4 5 (2.98%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (2.38%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.19%) CMS
6 2 (1.19%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.60%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.60%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.60%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 163 (97.02%) AWS
2 114 (67.86%) Serverless
3 112 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
4 109 (64.88%) Amazon S3
5 51 (30.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 51 (30.36%) Amazon EventBridge
6 46 (27.38%) Amazon ECS
6 46 (27.38%) GitHub
7 42 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
8 41 (24.40%) GitHub Actions
9 39 (23.21%) Azure
10 37 (22.02%) AWS Step Functions
11 34 (20.24%) Amazon EKS
12 31 (18.45%) AWS CloudFormation
13 23 (13.69%) Route 53
14 21 (12.50%) AWS KMS
15 19 (11.31%) Power Platform
16 17 (10.12%) GCP
17 12 (7.14%) Collibra
18 11 (6.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.17%) HTTP
2 5 (2.98%) DNS
3 2 (1.19%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.60%) SMS
4 1 (0.60%) SSL
4 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (41.67%) DynamoDB
2 50 (29.76%) Amazon RDS
3 49 (29.17%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (22.62%) Amazon Aurora
5 24 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
6 19 (11.31%) Power BI
7 16 (9.52%) MySQL
8 14 (8.33%) Data Lake
9 13 (7.74%) MongoDB
9 13 (7.74%) NoSQL
10 12 (7.14%) DocumentDB
10 12 (7.14%) Redis
11 11 (6.55%) BigQuery
11 11 (6.55%) Mixpanel
12 10 (5.95%) OLAP
12 10 (5.95%) OLTP
13 9 (5.36%) Relational Database
13 9 (5.36%) SQL Server
14 4 (2.38%) Big Data
14 4 (2.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 55 (32.74%) Git
2 45 (26.79%) Jenkins
3 35 (20.83%) GitLab
4 24 (14.29%) Maven
5 23 (13.69%) JUnit
6 21 (12.50%) Mockito
7 20 (11.90%) SonarQube
8 14 (8.33%) DbUnit
9 13 (7.74%) JIRA
9 13 (7.74%) jMock
10 11 (6.55%) Bitbucket Server
10 11 (6.55%) Claude Code
11 8 (4.76%) Cypress.io
12 7 (4.17%) Mocha
13 6 (3.57%) Cucumber
13 6 (3.57%) MSTest
13 6 (3.57%) tSQLt
14 5 (2.98%) Gradle
15 4 (2.38%) MLflow
15 4 (2.38%) Snyk
General
1 48 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 31 (18.45%) Social Skills
3 16 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.95%) Finance
5 4 (2.38%) Banking
5 4 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.79%) Legal
7 2 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.19%) Law
8 1 (0.60%) Front Office
8 1 (0.60%) Military
8 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (37.50%) Developer
2 40 (23.81%) Senior
3 31 (18.45%) Java Developer
4 30 (17.86%) AWS Engineer
5 26 (15.48%) Lead
6 21 (12.50%) Senior Developer
7 20 (11.90%) Software Engineer
8 18 (10.71%) Architect
9 17 (10.12%) Data Engineer
10 15 (8.93%) Principal Engineer
11 13 (7.74%) Python Engineer
12 12 (7.14%) AWS Developer
12 12 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
13 11 (6.55%) Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (6.55%) Principal Data Engineer
14 9 (5.36%) Cloud Engineer
14 9 (5.36%) Software Developer
15 8 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
15 8 (4.76%) Lead Data Engineer
15 8 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (35.12%) REST
2 44 (26.19%) Node.js
2 44 (26.19%) Spring Boot
3 41 (24.40%) Spring
4 38 (22.62%) Kafka
5 33 (19.64%) RESTful
6 31 (18.45%) React
7 30 (17.86%) JPA
8 29 (17.26%) AngularJS
9 26 (15.48%) Web Services
10 25 (14.88%) .NET
11 24 (14.29%) Hibernate
12 22 (13.10%) Spring Cloud
13 20 (11.90%) ActiveMQ
14 19 (11.31%) SOAP
15 18 (10.71%) AWS CDK
15 18 (10.71%) Spring Batch
15 18 (10.71%) Spring Integration
16 17 (10.12%) OAuth
17 13 (7.74%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 58 (34.52%) Cloud Native
2 44 (26.19%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (11.31%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.57%) NHS
6 5 (2.98%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.98%) Distributed Architecture
6 5 (2.98%) Mainframe
7 4 (2.38%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.38%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.38%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.79%) Equities
8 3 (1.79%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.19%) Educational Technology
9 2 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.19%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.19%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.60%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 25 (14.88%) Linux
2 2 (1.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 87 (51.79%) DevOps
2 87 (51.79%) Microservices
3 79 (47.02%) Agile
4 78 (46.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 53 (31.55%) Event-Driven
6 47 (27.98%) Containerisation
7 44 (26.19%) Software Engineering
8 40 (23.81%) AI
8 40 (23.81%) Observability
9 37 (22.02%) Scrum
9 37 (22.02%) TDD
10 32 (19.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 29 (17.26%) LLM
12 27 (16.07%) Test Automation
13 25 (14.88%) Kanban
13 25 (14.88%) Performance Tuning
14 24 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
15 23 (13.69%) BDD
15 23 (13.69%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 63 (37.50%) Python
2 55 (32.74%) Java
2 55 (32.74%) SQL
3 40 (23.81%) TypeScript
4 36 (21.43%) C#
5 27 (16.07%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.57%) T-SQL
7 4 (2.38%) Go
7 4 (2.38%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.19%) Bash
8 2 (1.19%) Groovy
8 2 (1.19%) Scala
9 1 (0.60%) C
9 1 (0.60%) C++
9 1 (0.60%) Elixir
9 1 (0.60%) Gremlin
9 1 (0.60%) Haskell
9 1 (0.60%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.60%) Ruby
9 1 (0.60%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 49 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 42 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.36%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (5.36%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.57%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.79%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.79%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.19%) Degree
8 2 (1.19%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.74%) QA
2 12 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.14%) GDPR
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 2 (1.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 70 (41.67%) Docker
2 11 (6.55%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 81 (48.21%) Terraform
2 47 (27.98%) Kubernetes
3 32 (19.05%) Grafana
4 11 (6.55%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.38%) Argo
6 2 (1.19%) Ansible
6 2 (1.19%) Sysdig
7 1 (0.60%) Consul
7 1 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.60%) Packer
7 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.60%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (10.12%) Jaspersoft
2 15 (8.93%) Databricks
3 14 (8.33%) Atlassian
4 13 (7.74%) Google
5 8 (4.76%) Microsoft
6 7 (4.17%) Splunk
7 6 (3.57%) Sybase
8 4 (2.38%) Amplitude
8 4 (2.38%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.79%) Confluent
9 3 (1.79%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.60%) IBM
10 1 (0.60%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.60%) Okta
10 1 (0.60%) SAP
10 1 (0.60%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.60%) SnapLogic
10 1 (0.60%) Solace
10 1 (0.60%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.60%) Virgin Media