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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 466 407 495
Rank change year-on-year -59 +88 -24
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 155 123 92
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.42% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.91% 1.12% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 99 69
10th Percentile £399 £400 £454
25th Percentile £450 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% -
75th Percentile £614 £613 £694
90th Percentile £650 £788 £704
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +2.22%
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 16,972 10,936 13,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.76% 37.58% 32.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,497 7,556 9,907
10th Percentile £321 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £735 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £487
% change year-on-year +2.11% -2.36% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 500 251 344
10th Percentile £15.48 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.51 £15.97
Median hourly rate £41.64 £27.35 £21.19
Median % change year-on-year +52.25% +29.10% -39.47%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £21.46 £17.69
% change year-on-year +121.34% +21.31% -28.70%

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 May 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 8 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Amazon SQS in the UK

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 8 May 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 -75 123 £528 +5.60% 44
London -49 65 £550 +16.40% 22
UK excluding London -65 62 £525 +5.00% 26
Work from Home -52 43 £550 +10.00% 28
North of England -49 27 £525 +5.00% 19
West Midlands -46 19 £475 -9.52%
Midlands -59 19 £475 -9.52%
North West -30 17 £513 +2.50% 12
Scotland -3 8 £553 +11.89% 1
South East -60 8 £611 +22.23% 4
Yorkshire -43 7 £438 -27.08% 6
North East -17 3 £530 +2.42% 1
East of England -30 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 21 (13.55%) Apache
2 17 (10.97%) Apache Spark
3 12 (7.74%) Confluence
4 5 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.23%) nginx
5 2 (1.29%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.65%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.65%) FileNet
6 1 (0.65%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 151 (97.42%) AWS
2 103 (66.45%) Serverless
3 95 (61.29%) Amazon S3
4 94 (60.65%) AWS Lambda
5 46 (29.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 42 (27.10%) Amazon EC2
7 41 (26.45%) GitHub
8 40 (25.81%) Azure
9 38 (24.52%) Amazon ECS
10 37 (23.87%) AWS CloudFormation
11 36 (23.23%) GitHub Actions
12 34 (21.94%) Amazon EventBridge
13 32 (20.65%) Amazon EKS
13 32 (20.65%) AWS Step Functions
14 25 (16.13%) GCP
15 23 (14.84%) Power Platform
16 18 (11.61%) Route 53
17 17 (10.97%) AWS KMS
17 17 (10.97%) Collibra
18 16 (10.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.52%) HTTP
2 5 (3.23%) DNS
3 3 (1.94%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (1.29%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.65%) SMS
5 1 (0.65%) SSL
5 1 (0.65%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (34.84%) DynamoDB
2 36 (23.23%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (21.94%) Amazon RDS
4 31 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 28 (18.06%) Amazon Athena
6 23 (14.84%) Power BI
7 18 (11.61%) Data Lake
8 16 (10.32%) BigQuery
8 16 (10.32%) Mixpanel
9 15 (9.68%) MySQL
9 15 (9.68%) NoSQL
9 15 (9.68%) OLAP
9 15 (9.68%) OLTP
10 14 (9.03%) DocumentDB
10 14 (9.03%) Redis
11 11 (7.10%) MongoDB
12 10 (6.45%) Relational Database
13 8 (5.16%) SQL Server
14 3 (1.94%) Metadata
14 3 (1.94%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 54 (34.84%) Git
2 35 (22.58%) Jenkins
3 34 (21.94%) GitLab
4 20 (12.90%) SonarQube
5 19 (12.26%) JUnit
6 18 (11.61%) Maven
7 17 (10.97%) Mockito
8 15 (9.68%) JIRA
9 11 (7.10%) DbUnit
9 11 (7.10%) jMock
10 9 (5.81%) Bitbucket Server
11 6 (3.87%) Cypress.io
11 6 (3.87%) Mocha
12 5 (3.23%) Cucumber
12 5 (3.23%) MSTest
12 5 (3.23%) tSQLt
13 4 (2.58%) Claude Code
13 4 (2.58%) MLflow
13 4 (2.58%) NUnit
14 3 (1.94%) Vite
General
1 49 (31.61%) Public Sector
2 27 (17.42%) Social Skills
3 12 (7.74%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (2.58%) Finance
5 3 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (1.94%) Legal
5 3 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.65%) Military
7 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (45.16%) Developer
2 38 (24.52%) Senior
3 29 (18.71%) Java Developer
4 26 (16.77%) Lead
4 26 (16.77%) Senior Developer
5 18 (11.61%) AWS Engineer
5 18 (11.61%) Principal Engineer
5 18 (11.61%) Software Engineer
6 17 (10.97%) Data Engineer
7 14 (9.03%) Architect
7 14 (9.03%) Principal Data Engineer
8 13 (8.39%) AWS Developer
9 12 (7.74%) Software Developer
10 10 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (6.45%) Python Engineer
10 10 (6.45%) Senior Java Developer
11 8 (5.16%) Lead Data Engineer
11 8 (5.16%) Lead Developer
12 7 (4.52%) Node.js Developer
12 7 (4.52%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (36.13%) Node.js
2 45 (29.03%) Kafka
3 43 (27.74%) REST
4 41 (26.45%) Spring Boot
5 40 (25.81%) Spring
6 32 (20.65%) React
7 30 (19.35%) RESTful
8 24 (15.48%) JPA
9 23 (14.84%) OAuth
10 22 (14.19%) AngularJS
10 22 (14.19%) Web Services
11 20 (12.90%) Hibernate
11 20 (12.90%) Spring Cloud
12 17 (10.97%) .NET
13 16 (10.32%) Great Expectations
13 16 (10.32%) OAuth2
14 15 (9.68%) ActiveMQ
14 15 (9.68%) AWS CDK
14 15 (9.68%) SOAP
15 14 (9.03%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 50 (32.26%) Cloud Native
2 30 (19.35%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (7.10%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.52%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.87%) NHS
5 6 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.58%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.58%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.58%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.29%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.29%) Equities
8 2 (1.29%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.29%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.65%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.65%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.65%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.65%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 20 (12.90%) Linux
2 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (71.61%) CI/CD
2 88 (56.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 81 (52.26%) DevOps
4 75 (48.39%) Microservices
5 66 (42.58%) Agile
6 48 (30.97%) Containerisation
7 44 (28.39%) Event-Driven
8 39 (25.16%) Software Engineering
9 38 (24.52%) Observability
10 32 (20.65%) Scrum
11 31 (20.00%) TDD
12 30 (19.35%) AI
13 28 (18.06%) Data Modelling
13 28 (18.06%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 26 (16.77%) ETL
14 26 (16.77%) Mentoring
15 25 (16.13%) LLM
16 24 (15.48%) Analytics
16 24 (15.48%) Machine Learning
17 23 (14.84%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 61 (39.35%) Python
2 53 (34.19%) Java
3 51 (32.90%) SQL
4 36 (23.23%) TypeScript
5 33 (21.29%) C#
6 26 (16.77%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.16%) Bash
8 5 (3.23%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.58%) Go
9 4 (2.58%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.29%) Groovy
10 2 (1.29%) Scala
11 1 (0.65%) Elixir
11 1 (0.65%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.65%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.65%) Ruby
11 1 (0.65%) Rust
11 1 (0.65%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 38 (24.52%) Security Cleared
2 31 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 17 (10.97%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (5.81%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.87%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.94%) Degree
7 2 (1.29%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.29%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.61%) Data Quality
1 18 (11.61%) GDPR
2 13 (8.39%) QA
3 4 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.58%) NIST
3 4 (2.58%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.94%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.94%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (39.35%) Docker
2 10 (6.45%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 90 (58.06%) Terraform
2 40 (25.81%) Grafana
3 39 (25.16%) Kubernetes
4 18 (11.61%) Prometheus
5 10 (6.45%) Ansible
6 4 (2.58%) Argo
7 2 (1.29%) Sysdig
8 1 (0.65%) Consul
8 1 (0.65%) Packer
8 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.65%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (13.55%) Databricks
2 17 (10.97%) Google
3 14 (9.03%) Jaspersoft
4 11 (7.10%) Atlassian
5 7 (4.52%) Splunk
6 4 (2.58%) Sybase
7 3 (1.94%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.65%) Confluent
8 1 (0.65%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.65%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.65%) Okta
8 1 (0.65%) Oracle
8 1 (0.65%) SAP
8 1 (0.65%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.65%) SnapLogic
8 1 (0.65%) Virgin Media