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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 405 472
Rank change year-on-year -77 +67 +26
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 209 153 87
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.46% 0.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.11% 1.21% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 113 68
10th Percentile £389 £385 £404
25th Percentile £430 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £595
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -11.76% +4.39%
75th Percentile £642 £588 £738
90th Percentile £775 £775 £791
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £500 £585
% change year-on-year -7.50% -14.53% +1.74%
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 18,886 12,619 13,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.63% 38.18% 34.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,525 8,413 8,640
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 633 288 184
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.43 £16.30
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £22.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.12 £65.04
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.00 £33.93
% change year-on-year +57.89% -44.00% +46.00%

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 8 October 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 17 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 8 October 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 -58 155 £525 +3.45% 152
London -61 85 £550 -4.35% 91
UK excluding London -88 81 £463 -7.50% 68
Work from Home -78 71 £625 +19.05% 73
North of England -60 30 £481 +4.05% 22
Midlands -43 19 £400 -17.95% 5
North West -49 13 £500 +8.11% 15
Scotland -20 10 £550 +4.76% 8
West Midlands -47 10 - - 3
South East -55 10 £600 +20.00% 11
North East -32 9 £400 -30.43% 3
Yorkshire -36 8 £638 +63.46% 4
East Midlands - 8 £400 - 2
South West -33 7 £433 -8.84% 11
East of England -33 4 £348 -35.35% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £600 - 5
Wales - 1 £550 - 2

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 (5.26%) Confluence
2 10 (4.78%) Apache
3 5 (2.39%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.96%) CMS
5 2 (0.96%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.48%) Appian
6 1 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.48%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 204 (97.61%) AWS
2 150 (71.77%) Serverless
3 147 (70.33%) AWS Lambda
4 95 (45.45%) Amazon S3
5 83 (39.71%) Amazon EventBridge
6 69 (33.01%) Amazon ECS
7 63 (30.14%) GitHub
8 59 (28.23%) GitHub Actions
9 55 (26.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 50 (23.92%) Amazon EKS
11 45 (21.53%) AWS Step Functions
12 29 (13.88%) SaaS
13 28 (13.40%) Amazon EC2
13 28 (13.40%) AWS CloudFormation
14 24 (11.48%) Azure
15 20 (9.57%) Snowflake
16 17 (8.13%) AWS KMS
16 17 (8.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 15 (7.18%) AWS Fargate
18 13 (6.22%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.87%) HTTP
2 4 (1.91%) DNS
3 2 (0.96%) NetScaler
3 2 (0.96%) SSL
3 2 (0.96%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.48%) Firewall
4 1 (0.48%) Network Security
4 1 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (36.36%) DynamoDB
2 48 (22.97%) Amazon RDS
3 47 (22.49%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (18.18%) MySQL
5 32 (15.31%) Amazon Aurora
5 32 (15.31%) MongoDB
6 20 (9.57%) NoSQL
7 13 (6.22%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (6.22%) Redis
8 11 (5.26%) Relational Database
8 11 (5.26%) SQL Server
9 10 (4.78%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (4.78%) Metadata
10 9 (4.31%) DocumentDB
11 8 (3.83%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (3.35%) Data Lake
13 5 (2.39%) Big Data
13 5 (2.39%) Hazelcast
13 5 (2.39%) RDBMS
14 3 (1.44%) Flink
Development Applications
1 60 (28.71%) Git
2 54 (25.84%) GitLab
3 52 (24.88%) Jenkins
4 21 (10.05%) Claude Code
5 20 (9.57%) Maven
6 16 (7.66%) JUnit
7 13 (6.22%) Cucumber
7 13 (6.22%) Mockito
8 12 (5.74%) JIRA
9 11 (5.26%) Mocha
10 9 (4.31%) SonarQube
11 8 (3.83%) Cypress.io
12 6 (2.87%) Gradle
12 6 (2.87%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (2.39%) DbUnit
13 5 (2.39%) JMeter
13 5 (2.39%) REST Assured
13 5 (2.39%) Selenium
14 4 (1.91%) Bitbucket Server
14 4 (1.91%) jMock
General
1 50 (23.92%) Social Skills
2 42 (20.10%) Public Sector
3 21 (10.05%) Finance
4 14 (6.70%) Banking
5 12 (5.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (4.78%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.44%) Law
8 2 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.96%) Legal
8 2 (0.96%) Police
8 2 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.48%) Billing
9 1 (0.48%) Front Office
9 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.48%) Marketing
9 1 (0.48%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.48%) Prime Brokerage
9 1 (0.48%) Retail
9 1 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (29.67%) Senior
2 56 (26.79%) Developer
3 52 (24.88%) AWS Engineer
4 30 (14.35%) Architect
5 27 (12.92%) Software Engineer
6 26 (12.44%) Java Developer
7 20 (9.57%) Data Engineer
8 17 (8.13%) DevOps Engineer
8 17 (8.13%) Lambda Engineer
8 17 (8.13%) Senior Software Engineer
9 14 (6.70%) Python Engineer
9 14 (6.70%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (6.22%) AWS Developer
10 13 (6.22%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (6.22%) Full-Stack Developer
10 13 (6.22%) Lead
11 12 (5.74%) Senior Developer
11 12 (5.74%) Software Developer
12 11 (5.26%) AWS Software Engineer
12 11 (5.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (46.41%) Terraform
2 86 (41.15%) REST
3 51 (24.40%) Kafka
4 47 (22.49%) .NET
5 45 (21.53%) Spring Boot
6 43 (20.57%) Node.js
7 41 (19.62%) Spring
8 31 (14.83%) AWS CDK
9 24 (11.48%) RESTful
10 21 (10.05%) AngularJS
10 21 (10.05%) React
11 20 (9.57%) FastAPI
12 18 (8.61%) Jest
12 18 (8.61%) OAuth
13 17 (8.13%) .NET Core
14 16 (7.66%) SOAP
15 15 (7.18%) JPA
15 15 (7.18%) OAuth2
16 12 (5.74%) Express.js
16 12 (5.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 77 (36.84%) Cloud Native
2 54 (25.84%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (10.53%) Product Ownership
4 11 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (4.31%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.83%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.87%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.39%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.91%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.91%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.96%) Educational Technology
11 2 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.96%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.96%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.96%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 29 (13.88%) Linux
2 5 (2.39%) Unix
2 5 (2.39%) Windows
3 2 (0.96%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (66.99%) CI/CD
2 108 (51.67%) Microservices
3 103 (49.28%) Event-Driven
4 93 (44.50%) DevOps
5 86 (41.15%) Agile
5 86 (41.15%) Infrastructure as Code
6 72 (34.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 69 (33.01%) Observability
8 59 (28.23%) Software Engineering
9 51 (24.40%) Containerisation
10 43 (20.57%) AI
11 41 (19.62%) Test Automation
12 32 (15.31%) Scrum
13 29 (13.88%) Continuous Improvement
13 29 (13.88%) TDD
14 27 (12.92%) Platform Engineering
15 26 (12.44%) API Design
16 25 (11.96%) Deployment Automation
16 25 (11.96%) Full-Stack Development
17 24 (11.48%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 69 (33.01%) Python
2 53 (25.36%) Java
3 48 (22.97%) SQL
4 42 (20.10%) TypeScript
5 38 (18.18%) C#
6 24 (11.48%) JavaScript
7 8 (3.83%) Bash
7 8 (3.83%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.35%) Groovy
9 4 (1.91%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.44%) Go
10 3 (1.44%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.48%) C
11 1 (0.48%) C++
11 1 (0.48%) Haskell
11 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 63 (30.14%) Security Cleared
2 58 (27.75%) SC Cleared
3 20 (9.57%) AWS Certification
4 19 (9.09%) DV Cleared
5 14 (6.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (4.31%) Degree
7 8 (3.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (2.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.91%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.44%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.44%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.96%) ISEB
11 2 (0.96%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.09%) QA
2 10 (4.78%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.39%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.96%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.96%) GDPR
4 2 (0.96%) NCSC
5 1 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 85 (40.67%) Docker
2 3 (1.44%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 72 (34.45%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.09%) Grafana
3 13 (6.22%) Prometheus
4 10 (4.78%) Ansible
5 5 (2.39%) Argo
5 5 (2.39%) Packer
5 5 (2.39%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.96%) Consul
6 2 (0.96%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.48%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.48%) Istio
7 1 (0.48%) linkerd
Vendors
1 12 (5.74%) Oracle
2 11 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.31%) Dynatrace
4 8 (3.83%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.35%) Confluent
6 6 (2.87%) Jaspersoft
6 6 (2.87%) Splunk
7 5 (2.39%) Amplitude
7 5 (2.39%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.44%) Databricks
8 3 (1.44%) Sybase
8 3 (1.44%) webMethods
9 2 (0.96%) Brio
9 2 (0.96%) Cisco
9 2 (0.96%) Google
9 2 (0.96%) VMware
9 2 (0.96%) WSO2
10 1 (0.48%) IBM
10 1 (0.48%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.48%) TIBCO