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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 462 435 490
Rank change year-on-year -27 +55 +53
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 124 114 121
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.32% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.89% 0.89% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 92 81
10th Percentile £363 £419 £425
25th Percentile £413 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £570
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +14.04% -0.87%
75th Percentile £575 £788 £625
90th Percentile £614 - £675
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 13,933 12,878 15,727
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.18% 35.79% 35.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,463 8,506 11,249
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 322 185 293
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.73 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.33% +15.38% +17.33%
75th Percentile £52.42 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.42 £27.35 £21.35
% change year-on-year -14.37% +28.10% +10.91%

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 4 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 14 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 4 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 -33 90 £505 -25.19% 44
Work from Home +14 57 £550 -18.52% 25
UK excluding London -11 55 £425 -30.33% 30
London -33 42 £550 -18.52% 19
North of England -16 34 £400 -31.62% 18
North West +2 25 £414 -8.06% 5
Scotland +14 12 £525 +16.67%
Yorkshire -25 8 £376 -29.18% 11
South East -5 3 £538 - 10
Midlands - 3 £425 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £425 - 1
South West -15 2 £475 -26.92% 1
North East -11 1 £538 -10.04% 2
East of England -15 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 (6.45%) nginx
2 7 (5.65%) Apache
3 6 (4.84%) Apache Spark
4 5 (4.03%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (3.23%) FileNet
6 3 (2.42%) Documentum
7 2 (1.61%) Confluence
8 1 (0.81%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 120 (96.77%) AWS
2 92 (74.19%) Serverless
3 86 (69.35%) AWS Lambda
4 43 (34.68%) Amazon S3
5 38 (30.65%) Amazon ECS
6 32 (25.81%) Amazon EC2
7 30 (24.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 30 (24.19%) Amazon EventBridge
8 29 (23.39%) GitHub
9 27 (21.77%) AWS CloudFormation
10 25 (20.16%) Amazon EKS
11 21 (16.94%) Azure
12 18 (14.52%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (13.71%) AWS Fargate
13 17 (13.71%) GCP
14 13 (10.48%) AWS Step Functions
14 13 (10.48%) SaaS
15 10 (8.06%) Datadog
16 9 (7.26%) Amazon Kinesis
17 7 (5.65%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.42%) HTTP
2 1 (0.81%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (25.81%) DynamoDB
2 23 (18.55%) Relational Database
3 20 (16.13%) Amazon Aurora
3 20 (16.13%) NoSQL
4 19 (15.32%) Amazon RDS
4 19 (15.32%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (10.48%) Redis
6 12 (9.68%) DocumentDB
6 12 (9.68%) RDBMS
7 11 (8.87%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (8.87%) MongoDB
8 10 (8.06%) BigQuery
8 10 (8.06%) MySQL
9 5 (4.03%) Data Lake
9 5 (4.03%) DB2
9 5 (4.03%) Mixpanel
9 5 (4.03%) OLAP
9 5 (4.03%) OLTP
9 5 (4.03%) Power BI
10 4 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 38 (30.65%) Git
2 23 (18.55%) Jenkins
3 22 (17.74%) SonarQube
4 15 (12.10%) GitLab
5 13 (10.48%) JUnit
6 10 (8.06%) JIRA
6 10 (8.06%) Maven
7 9 (7.26%) Mockito
8 7 (5.65%) Cucumber
9 6 (4.84%) Gradle
10 5 (4.03%) SonarLint
11 4 (3.23%) Gatling
11 4 (3.23%) JMeter
11 4 (3.23%) Selenium
11 4 (3.23%) Snyk
12 3 (2.42%) NUnit
13 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket Server
13 1 (0.81%) DbUnit
13 1 (0.81%) jMock
General
1 39 (31.45%) Public Sector
2 29 (23.39%) Social Skills
3 8 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.84%) Digital Healthcare
5 5 (4.03%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.61%) Finance
6 2 (1.61%) Military
7 1 (0.81%) Marketing
7 1 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (34.68%) Developer
2 25 (20.16%) Senior
3 19 (15.32%) Architect
3 19 (15.32%) AWS Engineer
4 17 (13.71%) Java Developer
5 16 (12.90%) Software Engineer
6 14 (11.29%) Lead
7 13 (10.48%) AWS Developer
7 13 (10.48%) Senior Developer
8 10 (8.06%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (7.26%) Technical Architect
10 8 (6.45%) Java Architect
10 8 (6.45%) Java Technical Architect
11 7 (5.65%) Senior Java Developer
12 6 (4.84%) AWS Architect
12 6 (4.84%) Python Engineer
13 5 (4.03%) Data Engineer
13 5 (4.03%) Security Architect
13 5 (4.03%) Senior Software Engineer
13 5 (4.03%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (32.26%) Kafka
2 33 (26.61%) Node.js
3 27 (21.77%) Spring Boot
4 25 (20.16%) React
4 25 (20.16%) RESTful
5 22 (17.74%) REST
5 22 (17.74%) Spring
6 20 (16.13%) OAuth
7 15 (12.10%) AWS CDK
8 14 (11.29%) JWT
8 14 (11.29%) OAuth2
9 13 (10.48%) JSON
10 11 (8.87%) PyTorch
11 10 (8.06%) .NET
11 10 (8.06%) GraphQL
12 9 (7.26%) SOAP
13 8 (6.45%) J2EE
14 7 (5.65%) HTML
14 7 (5.65%) SQLAlchemy
14 7 (5.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (24.19%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.06%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.65%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (4.84%) N-Tier
6 5 (4.03%) CSOC
6 5 (4.03%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (4.03%) Onboarding
6 5 (4.03%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (3.23%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.42%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.42%) Mobile App
8 3 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.61%) Video on Demand
10 1 (0.81%) CUDA
10 1 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.81%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.81%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.45%) Linux
2 4 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (58.87%) Microservices
2 65 (52.42%) CI/CD
3 63 (50.81%) Agile
4 59 (47.58%) DevOps
5 42 (33.87%) Containerisation
6 40 (32.26%) Infrastructure as Code
7 37 (29.84%) Event-Driven
8 28 (22.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 27 (21.77%) AI
10 24 (19.35%) Software Engineering
11 23 (18.55%) Mentoring
11 23 (18.55%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (17.74%) TDD
13 20 (16.13%) Code Quality
14 19 (15.32%) Clean Code
15 16 (12.90%) Machine Learning
16 15 (12.10%) Data Modelling
16 15 (12.10%) Scrum
17 14 (11.29%) Deployment Automation
17 14 (11.29%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 50 (40.32%) Python
2 47 (37.90%) Java
3 18 (14.52%) SQL
4 17 (13.71%) TypeScript
5 12 (9.68%) C#
6 8 (6.45%) JavaScript
7 5 (4.03%) Rust
8 4 (3.23%) Bash
9 2 (1.61%) Go
10 1 (0.81%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.81%) PHP
10 1 (0.81%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.81%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (21.77%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.32%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.68%) AWS Certification
3 12 (9.68%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (6.45%) Degree
5 7 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.61%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.81%) CISSP
8 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.87%) QA
2 9 (7.26%) WCAG
3 7 (5.65%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.65%) Data Quality
4 5 (4.03%) GDPR
5 2 (1.61%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.81%) NIST
6 1 (0.81%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 49 (39.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.81%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 61 (49.19%) Terraform
2 34 (27.42%) Kubernetes
3 13 (10.48%) Grafana
4 10 (8.06%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.84%) Ansible
6 2 (1.61%) Kibana
7 1 (0.81%) Consul
7 1 (0.81%) Control-M
7 1 (0.81%) Packer
Vendors
1 7 (5.65%) Oracle
2 6 (4.84%) Gigya
2 6 (4.84%) Pega
3 5 (4.03%) CA Agile Central
3 5 (4.03%) Databricks
3 5 (4.03%) Google
3 5 (4.03%) Splunk
3 5 (4.03%) Sybase
4 4 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.61%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.61%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.61%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.81%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.81%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (0.81%) JDA
6 1 (0.81%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.81%) Sage
6 1 (0.81%) Solace