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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 398 491 483
Rank change year-on-year +93 -8 +86
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 123 91 238
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.21% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.12% 0.65% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 69 181
10th Percentile £400 £454 £453
25th Percentile £425 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £663 £675
90th Percentile £788 £704 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -13.04% +2.22% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £35.00
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 11,005 14,070 22,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.59% 32.30% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,639 9,993 15,919
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 346 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £47.58 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +68 91 £503 -12.61% 107
Work from Home +69 66 £500 -14.71% 72
London +43 59 £503 -12.61% 63
UK excluding London +63 29 £500 -13.04% 61
North of England +13 12 £500 -16.67% 25
Midlands +30 9 £525 +50.00% 8
West Midlands +22 9 £525 +50.00% 5
North West +7 7 £450 -28.00% 22
Scotland +15 4 £494 +3.73% 1
North East - 3 £460 - 1
South East +44 2 £500 -15.97% 22
Yorkshire +9 2 £600 +4.35% 3
East of England +27 1 £675 - 3
South West - 1 - - 2

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 5 (4.07%) Documentum
1 5 (4.07%) FileNet
2 3 (2.44%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.44%) Confluence
2 3 (2.44%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.44%) nginx
3 2 (1.63%) Apache
3 2 (1.63%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.81%) JBoss
4 1 (0.81%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.81%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.81%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (1.63%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 123 (100.00%) AWS
2 93 (75.61%) Serverless
3 87 (70.73%) AWS Lambda
4 73 (59.35%) Amazon S3
5 46 (37.40%) Amazon EC2
6 44 (35.77%) AWS CloudFormation
7 37 (30.08%) Amazon ECS
8 33 (26.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 17 (13.82%) AWS KMS
9 17 (13.82%) GitHub
10 11 (8.94%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
10 11 (8.94%) AWS Step Functions
10 11 (8.94%) CloudFront
11 10 (8.13%) Amazon ECR
11 10 (8.13%) Route 53
12 9 (7.32%) Amazon EventBridge
13 6 (4.88%) Amazon Cognito
13 6 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (4.88%) PaaS
14 5 (4.07%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.50%) HTTP
2 3 (2.44%) IPsec
2 3 (2.44%) Kerberos
2 3 (2.44%) SMS
2 3 (2.44%) SSL
3 1 (0.81%) DNS
3 1 (0.81%) Firewall
3 1 (0.81%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (40.65%) Amazon RDS
2 42 (34.15%) DynamoDB
3 33 (26.83%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (13.82%) Amazon Redshift
5 14 (11.38%) Amazon Aurora
6 13 (10.57%) Redis
7 11 (8.94%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (8.13%) Relational Database
9 9 (7.32%) MySQL
9 9 (7.32%) NoSQL
10 8 (6.50%) DocumentDB
11 5 (4.07%) MongoDB
12 4 (3.25%) RDBMS
13 3 (2.44%) Data Lake
13 3 (2.44%) GIS
13 3 (2.44%) Metadata
13 3 (2.44%) Metadata Repository
14 2 (1.63%) Apache Hive
14 2 (1.63%) Big Data
14 2 (1.63%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 23 (18.70%) Jenkins
2 21 (17.07%) Git
3 16 (13.01%) SonarQube
4 13 (10.57%) GitLab
5 9 (7.32%) Mockito
6 8 (6.50%) JUnit
6 8 (6.50%) Maven
7 6 (4.88%) Artifactory
7 6 (4.88%) Mocha
8 5 (4.07%) git-flow
9 4 (3.25%) Bitbucket
9 4 (3.25%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (3.25%) DbUnit
9 4 (3.25%) jMock
10 3 (2.44%) Cypress.io
10 3 (2.44%) ESLint
10 3 (2.44%) JIRA
10 3 (2.44%) Postman
10 3 (2.44%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (1.63%) Subversion
General
1 26 (21.14%) Public Sector
2 23 (18.70%) Finance
3 18 (14.63%) Banking
4 14 (11.38%) Front Office
5 11 (8.94%) Social Skills
6 7 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.25%) Marketing
8 3 (2.44%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.44%) Retail
9 2 (1.63%) Electronics
9 2 (1.63%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.63%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.63%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.81%) Aviation
10 1 (0.81%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (43.90%) Developer
2 23 (18.70%) AWS Engineer
2 23 (18.70%) Senior
3 19 (15.45%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (13.82%) Full-Stack Developer
4 17 (13.82%) Software Engineer
5 15 (12.20%) Python Engineer
6 14 (11.38%) AWS DevOps
6 14 (11.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 14 (11.38%) Java Developer
7 12 (9.76%) AWS Developer
8 9 (7.32%) Architect
8 9 (7.32%) DevOps Manager
8 9 (7.32%) Finance Manager
8 9 (7.32%) JavaScript Engineer
8 9 (7.32%) Node.js Developer
9 8 (6.50%) Senior DevOps
10 7 (5.69%) Data Engineer
10 7 (5.69%) Senior Developer
10 7 (5.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (35.77%) Node.js
2 41 (33.33%) React
3 21 (17.07%) AWS CDK
3 21 (17.07%) Spring Boot
4 18 (14.63%) Spring
5 16 (13.01%) REST
5 16 (13.01%) Web Services
6 14 (11.38%) HTML
7 12 (9.76%) Sass
8 11 (8.94%) CSS
8 11 (8.94%) Jest
8 11 (8.94%) Kafka
8 11 (8.94%) WebSockets
9 10 (8.13%) Express.js
9 10 (8.13%) Nunjucks
10 9 (7.32%) Hibernate
10 9 (7.32%) RESTful
11 7 (5.69%) hapi
11 7 (5.69%) Svelte
12 6 (4.88%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.50%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (4.07%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.07%) Tandem
3 4 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.44%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.44%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (2.44%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.44%) Vector Graphics
5 2 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.81%) NHS
6 1 (0.81%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.94%) Linux
2 6 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.81%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (0.81%) CentOS
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (0.81%) Unix
3 1 (0.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (51.22%) CI/CD
2 56 (45.53%) Agile
3 55 (44.72%) DevOps
4 43 (34.96%) Microservices
5 32 (26.02%) Software Engineering
6 25 (20.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 25 (20.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (14.63%) Test Automation
8 17 (13.82%) Containerisation
9 16 (13.01%) Fintech
10 14 (11.38%) Asset Management
10 14 (11.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 13 (10.57%) Event-Driven
12 12 (9.76%) Decision-Making
12 12 (9.76%) TDD
13 11 (8.94%) Continuous Integration
14 10 (8.13%) Mentoring
15 9 (7.32%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 9 (7.32%) Open Source
15 9 (7.32%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 57 (46.34%) Python
2 55 (44.72%) JavaScript
3 41 (33.33%) Java
4 23 (18.70%) TypeScript
5 22 (17.89%) SQL
6 6 (4.88%) T-SQL
7 5 (4.07%) Go
7 5 (4.07%) Rust
8 2 (1.63%) Bash
8 2 (1.63%) PHP
8 2 (1.63%) R
8 2 (1.63%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.81%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 41 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 39 (31.71%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.76%) AWS Certification
4 8 (6.50%) AWS Certified Developer
5 5 (4.07%) Degree
6 3 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.88%) QA
2 2 (1.63%) WCAG
3 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.81%) GDPR
3 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 47 (38.21%) Docker
2 5 (4.07%) Postfix
3 3 (2.44%) RACF
4 1 (0.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 62 (50.41%) Terraform
2 33 (26.83%) Kubernetes
3 13 (10.57%) Ansible
4 12 (9.76%) Prometheus
5 10 (8.13%) Grafana
6 6 (4.88%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.44%) Kibana
7 3 (2.44%) Packer
8 1 (0.81%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.81%) Istio
Vendors
1 9 (7.32%) Oracle
1 9 (7.32%) Splunk
2 4 (3.25%) Atlassian
2 4 (3.25%) Jaspersoft
3 3 (2.44%) Databricks
3 3 (2.44%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.63%) SAP
5 1 (0.81%) Actifio
5 1 (0.81%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.81%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.81%) New Relic
5 1 (0.81%) Rollbar