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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 483 391 486
Rank change year-on-year -92 +95 +34
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 191 176 80
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.53% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.02% 1.44% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 130 59
10th Percentile £400 £399 £375
25th Percentile £450 £425 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% -8.18% -
75th Percentile £638 £588 £700
90th Percentile £788 £775 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -17.81%
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 18,758 12,229 13,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.12% 37.14% 33.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,385 8,188 9,134
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £423 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £615 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 620 313 265
10th Percentile £15.81 £15.17 £14.20
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.76 £24.84
Median % change year-on-year +26.08% +11.76% -29.03%
75th Percentile £69.77 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £82.43 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.13 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +80.84% -11.70% -15.37%

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 11 August 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 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 11 August 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 -87 160 £527 +4.26% 63
London -77 83 £550 - 42
UK excluding London -70 82 £500 - 24
Work from Home -90 61 £600 +20.00% 22
North of England -69 32 £500 - 7
Midlands -41 27 £475 -2.56% 3
West Midlands -46 23 £475 -2.56% 1
North West -38 14 £525 +2.19% 3
Yorkshire -44 10 £525 +34.62% 3
South East -68 9 £611 +22.23% 5
North East -37 8 £438 -23.91% 1
Scotland -13 6 £553 +17.61% 2
South West -33 5 £463 +23.33% 4
East of England -19 4 £350 -34.88% 2
East Midlands - 3 £450 - 2
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 10 (5.24%) Apache
2 8 (4.19%) Confluence
3 5 (2.62%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.62%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.09%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.05%) CMS
7 1 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.52%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 185 (96.86%) AWS
2 127 (66.49%) Serverless
3 123 (64.40%) AWS Lambda
4 103 (53.93%) Amazon S3
5 67 (35.08%) Amazon EventBridge
6 58 (30.37%) Amazon ECS
6 58 (30.37%) GitHub
7 53 (27.75%) GitHub Actions
8 45 (23.56%) AWS Step Functions
9 44 (23.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 43 (22.51%) Amazon EKS
11 33 (17.28%) Amazon EC2
12 32 (16.75%) Azure
13 25 (13.09%) AWS CloudFormation
14 22 (11.52%) AWS KMS
15 18 (9.42%) SaaS
16 17 (8.90%) Route 53
16 17 (8.90%) Snowflake
17 16 (8.38%) GCP
18 12 (6.28%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.66%) HTTP
2 2 (1.05%) DNS
2 2 (1.05%) NetScaler
2 2 (1.05%) OpenVPN
2 2 (1.05%) SSL
2 2 (1.05%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.52%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (42.41%) DynamoDB
2 52 (27.23%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (24.61%) Amazon RDS
4 35 (18.32%) Amazon Aurora
5 25 (13.09%) MySQL
6 21 (10.99%) MongoDB
7 19 (9.95%) Amazon Athena
7 19 (9.95%) NoSQL
8 13 (6.81%) Relational Database
9 12 (6.28%) Power BI
10 11 (5.76%) Data Lake
11 8 (4.19%) SQL Server
12 7 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (3.66%) Metadata
13 6 (3.14%) BigQuery
13 6 (3.14%) DocumentDB
13 6 (3.14%) Redis
14 5 (2.62%) Big Data
14 5 (2.62%) Hazelcast
14 5 (2.62%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 66 (34.55%) Git
2 52 (27.23%) Jenkins
3 42 (21.99%) GitLab
4 23 (12.04%) Maven
5 22 (11.52%) JUnit
6 21 (10.99%) Mockito
7 19 (9.95%) SonarQube
8 16 (8.38%) Claude Code
9 12 (6.28%) DbUnit
10 11 (5.76%) Bitbucket Server
10 11 (5.76%) jMock
11 10 (5.24%) Cypress.io
11 10 (5.24%) JIRA
11 10 (5.24%) Mocha
12 6 (3.14%) Cucumber
12 6 (3.14%) Gradle
13 5 (2.62%) MSTest
13 5 (2.62%) tSQLt
14 4 (2.09%) Snyk
14 4 (2.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 46 (24.08%) Public Sector
2 38 (19.90%) Social Skills
3 16 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.85%) Finance
5 10 (5.24%) Banking
6 6 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.05%) Law
9 2 (1.05%) Legal
10 1 (0.52%) Front Office
10 1 (0.52%) Marketing
10 1 (0.52%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Publishing
10 1 (0.52%) Retail
10 1 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 69 (36.13%) Developer
2 52 (27.23%) Senior
3 42 (21.99%) AWS Engineer
4 31 (16.23%) Java Developer
5 27 (14.14%) Architect
6 25 (13.09%) Software Engineer
7 20 (10.47%) Senior Developer
8 19 (9.95%) Lead
9 16 (8.38%) Full-Stack Developer
10 15 (7.85%) Data Engineer
11 14 (7.33%) Senior Software Engineer
12 13 (6.81%) AWS Developer
12 13 (6.81%) Python Engineer
13 12 (6.28%) AWS Software Engineer
14 11 (5.76%) Cloud Engineer
14 11 (5.76%) Lambda Engineer
14 11 (5.76%) Senior Java Developer
14 11 (5.76%) Solutions Architect
15 9 (4.71%) Integration Architect
15 9 (4.71%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (38.22%) REST
2 52 (27.23%) Kafka
3 49 (25.65%) Node.js
4 45 (23.56%) Spring Boot
5 42 (21.99%) Spring
6 33 (17.28%) .NET
7 31 (16.23%) RESTful
8 27 (14.14%) AngularJS
8 27 (14.14%) React
9 25 (13.09%) Web Services
10 23 (12.04%) JPA
11 22 (11.52%) AWS CDK
12 17 (8.90%) ActiveMQ
12 17 (8.90%) Hibernate
13 16 (8.38%) SOAP
13 16 (8.38%) Spring Batch
13 16 (8.38%) Spring Integration
14 15 (7.85%) Spring Cloud
15 13 (6.81%) FastAPI
15 13 (6.81%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 63 (32.98%) Cloud Native
2 54 (28.27%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (10.47%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.19%) AI Agents
5 7 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.14%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.62%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (2.62%) Mainframe
8 4 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.09%) NHS
9 3 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.05%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.05%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (1.05%) Educational Technology
10 2 (1.05%) Equities
10 2 (1.05%) Fixed Income
10 2 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.52%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 32 (16.75%) Linux
2 5 (2.62%) Unix
3 3 (1.57%) Windows
4 2 (1.05%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (67.54%) CI/CD
2 104 (54.45%) Microservices
3 90 (47.12%) Agile
4 86 (45.03%) DevOps
5 82 (42.93%) Event-Driven
6 78 (40.84%) Infrastructure as Code
7 54 (28.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 52 (27.23%) Software Engineering
9 51 (26.70%) Observability
10 49 (25.65%) Containerisation
11 41 (21.47%) TDD
12 38 (19.90%) AI
13 36 (18.85%) Test Automation
14 35 (18.32%) Scrum
15 27 (14.14%) Full-Stack Development
16 26 (13.61%) Data Modelling
17 25 (13.09%) LLM
18 24 (12.57%) Performance Tuning
19 23 (12.04%) API Design
19 23 (12.04%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 62 (32.46%) Python
2 60 (31.41%) Java
3 55 (28.80%) SQL
4 43 (22.51%) TypeScript
5 34 (17.80%) C#
6 26 (13.61%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.66%) Groovy
7 7 (3.66%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.62%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.09%) Bash
9 4 (2.09%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.57%) Scala
11 2 (1.05%) Go
12 1 (0.52%) C++
12 1 (0.52%) Elixir
12 1 (0.52%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.52%) Haskell
12 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.52%) Ruby
12 1 (0.52%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 57 (29.84%) Security Cleared
2 50 (26.18%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.85%) DV Cleared
4 10 (5.24%) AWS Certification
5 9 (4.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (2.09%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.57%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.05%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.05%) Degree
9 2 (1.05%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.76%) QA
2 6 (3.14%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.14%) GDPR
3 5 (2.62%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.05%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.05%) NCSC
5 1 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 73 (38.22%) Docker
2 9 (4.71%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 84 (43.98%) Terraform
2 57 (29.84%) Kubernetes
3 28 (14.66%) Grafana
4 12 (6.28%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.62%) Argo
6 3 (1.57%) Ansible
7 2 (1.05%) Consul
7 2 (1.05%) Packer
7 2 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.05%) Sysdig
7 2 (1.05%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.52%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.52%) Istio
8 1 (0.52%) linkerd
Vendors
1 15 (7.85%) Jaspersoft
2 12 (6.28%) Atlassian
3 11 (5.76%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.19%) Splunk
5 7 (3.66%) Databricks
5 7 (3.66%) Google
6 6 (3.14%) Dynatrace
6 6 (3.14%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.62%) Amplitude
7 5 (2.62%) Confluent
8 4 (2.09%) Sybase
9 2 (1.05%) Cisco
9 2 (1.05%) Oracle
9 2 (1.05%) SAP
9 2 (1.05%) VMware
10 1 (0.52%) Brio
10 1 (0.52%) New Relic
10 1 (0.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.52%) SnapLogic