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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 457 436 486
Rank change year-on-year -21 +50 +47
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 122 111 122
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.31% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.88% 0.87% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 91 82
10th Percentile £362 £419 £425
25th Percentile £407 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £650 £570
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +14.04% -0.87%
75th Percentile £575 £788 £625
90th Percentile £619 - £673
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £610 £575
% change year-on-year -30.33% +6.09% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.50 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £47.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 13,815 12,799 15,871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.14% 35.73% 35.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,383 8,453 11,352
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 185 294
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.73 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.33% +14.29% +19.32%
75th Percentile £52.16 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.84 £27.35 £21.36
% change year-on-year -16.49% +28.07% +13.14%

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 3 December 2025.

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 13 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 3 December 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 -30 88 £503 -25.56% 44
Work from Home +20 57 £550 -18.52% 24
UK excluding London -5 54 £425 -30.33% 33
London -36 41 £550 -18.52% 19
North of England -20 33 £400 -31.62% 19
North West -3 25 £414 -8.06% 6
Scotland +13 12 £525 +16.67%
Yorkshire -25 8 £376 -29.18% 11
South East -1 3 £538 - 13
Midlands - 3 £425 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £425 - 1
South West -7 2 £475 -26.92%
East of England -17 1 £538 +7.50%

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 8 (6.56%) nginx
2 6 (4.92%) Apache
3 5 (4.10%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.10%) Apache Spark
4 4 (3.28%) FileNet
5 3 (2.46%) Documentum
6 2 (1.64%) Confluence
7 1 (0.82%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 118 (96.72%) AWS
2 91 (74.59%) Serverless
3 85 (69.67%) AWS Lambda
4 42 (34.43%) Amazon S3
5 37 (30.33%) Amazon ECS
6 32 (26.23%) Amazon EC2
7 30 (24.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 30 (24.59%) Amazon EventBridge
8 29 (23.77%) GitHub
9 26 (21.31%) AWS CloudFormation
10 25 (20.49%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (16.39%) Azure
12 18 (14.75%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (13.93%) AWS Fargate
14 16 (13.11%) GCP
15 13 (10.66%) AWS Step Functions
15 13 (10.66%) SaaS
16 10 (8.20%) Datadog
17 9 (7.38%) Amazon Kinesis
18 7 (5.74%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.46%) HTTP
2 1 (0.82%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (26.23%) DynamoDB
2 23 (18.85%) Relational Database
3 20 (16.39%) Amazon Aurora
4 19 (15.57%) Amazon RDS
4 19 (15.57%) NoSQL
4 19 (15.57%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (10.66%) Redis
6 12 (9.84%) DocumentDB
6 12 (9.84%) RDBMS
7 10 (8.20%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (8.20%) MongoDB
7 10 (8.20%) MySQL
8 9 (7.38%) BigQuery
9 5 (4.10%) DB2
10 4 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (3.28%) Data Lake
10 4 (3.28%) Mixpanel
10 4 (3.28%) OLAP
10 4 (3.28%) OLTP
10 4 (3.28%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 37 (30.33%) Git
2 23 (18.85%) Jenkins
3 22 (18.03%) SonarQube
4 14 (11.48%) GitLab
5 13 (10.66%) JUnit
6 10 (8.20%) JIRA
6 10 (8.20%) Maven
7 9 (7.38%) Mockito
8 7 (5.74%) Cucumber
9 6 (4.92%) Gradle
10 5 (4.10%) SonarLint
11 4 (3.28%) Gatling
11 4 (3.28%) JMeter
11 4 (3.28%) Selenium
11 4 (3.28%) Snyk
12 3 (2.46%) NUnit
13 1 (0.82%) Bitbucket Server
13 1 (0.82%) DbUnit
13 1 (0.82%) jMock
13 1 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 38 (31.15%) Public Sector
2 29 (23.77%) Social Skills
3 8 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.92%) Digital Healthcare
5 5 (4.10%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.64%) Finance
6 2 (1.64%) Military
7 1 (0.82%) Marketing
7 1 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (35.25%) Developer
2 25 (20.49%) Senior
3 19 (15.57%) Architect
3 19 (15.57%) AWS Engineer
4 17 (13.93%) Java Developer
5 16 (13.11%) Software Engineer
6 13 (10.66%) AWS Developer
6 13 (10.66%) Senior Developer
7 12 (9.84%) Lead
8 10 (8.20%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (7.38%) Technical Architect
10 8 (6.56%) Java Architect
10 8 (6.56%) Java Technical Architect
11 7 (5.74%) Senior Java Developer
12 6 (4.92%) AWS Architect
13 5 (4.10%) Data Engineer
13 5 (4.10%) Lead Developer
13 5 (4.10%) Security Architect
13 5 (4.10%) Senior Software Engineer
13 5 (4.10%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (31.15%) Kafka
2 32 (26.23%) Node.js
3 27 (22.13%) Spring Boot
4 25 (20.49%) React
4 25 (20.49%) RESTful
5 22 (18.03%) REST
6 21 (17.21%) Spring
7 20 (16.39%) OAuth
8 15 (12.30%) AWS CDK
9 14 (11.48%) JWT
9 14 (11.48%) OAuth2
10 13 (10.66%) JSON
11 11 (9.02%) PyTorch
12 10 (8.20%) .NET
12 10 (8.20%) GraphQL
13 9 (7.38%) SOAP
14 8 (6.56%) J2EE
15 7 (5.74%) HTML
15 7 (5.74%) SQLAlchemy
15 7 (5.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (23.77%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.20%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.74%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (4.92%) N-Tier
6 5 (4.10%) CSOC
6 5 (4.10%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (4.10%) Onboarding
6 5 (4.10%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (3.28%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.46%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.46%) Mobile App
8 3 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.64%) Video on Demand
10 1 (0.82%) CUDA
10 1 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.82%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.82%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.82%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.56%) Linux
2 4 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (59.84%) Microservices
2 63 (51.64%) CI/CD
3 62 (50.82%) Agile
4 58 (47.54%) DevOps
5 41 (33.61%) Containerisation
6 38 (31.15%) Infrastructure as Code
7 37 (30.33%) Event-Driven
8 28 (22.95%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 26 (21.31%) AI
10 23 (18.85%) Software Engineering
11 22 (18.03%) Mentoring
11 22 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (17.21%) TDD
13 20 (16.39%) Code Quality
14 19 (15.57%) Clean Code
15 15 (12.30%) Machine Learning
15 15 (12.30%) Scrum
16 14 (11.48%) Data Modelling
16 14 (11.48%) Deployment Automation
16 14 (11.48%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 49 (40.16%) Python
2 46 (37.70%) Java
3 17 (13.93%) SQL
3 17 (13.93%) TypeScript
4 11 (9.02%) C#
5 8 (6.56%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.10%) Rust
7 4 (3.28%) Bash
8 2 (1.64%) Go
9 1 (0.82%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.82%) PHP
9 1 (0.82%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.82%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (22.13%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.57%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.84%) AWS Certification
4 11 (9.02%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (6.56%) Degree
6 7 (5.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (4.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.64%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.82%) CISSP
9 1 (0.82%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.82%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.02%) QA
2 9 (7.38%) WCAG
3 7 (5.74%) Accessibility
4 6 (4.92%) Data Quality
5 4 (3.28%) GDPR
6 2 (1.64%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.82%) NIST
7 1 (0.82%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 48 (39.34%) Docker
2 1 (0.82%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 59 (48.36%) Terraform
2 34 (27.87%) Kubernetes
3 13 (10.66%) Grafana
4 10 (8.20%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.92%) Ansible
6 2 (1.64%) Kibana
7 1 (0.82%) Consul
7 1 (0.82%) Control-M
7 1 (0.82%) Packer
Vendors
1 7 (5.74%) Oracle
2 6 (4.92%) Gigya
2 6 (4.92%) Pega
3 5 (4.10%) CA Agile Central
3 5 (4.10%) Splunk
3 5 (4.10%) Sybase
4 4 (3.28%) Databricks
4 4 (3.28%) Google
4 4 (3.28%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.64%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.64%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.64%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.82%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.82%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (0.82%) JDA
6 1 (0.82%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.82%) Sage
6 1 (0.82%) Solace