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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 398 483
Rank change year-on-year -73 +85 +20
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 210 161 85
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.49% 0.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.10% 1.28% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 121 67
10th Percentile £385 £385 £404
25th Percentile £430 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £520 £593
Median % change year-on-year +5.29% -12.24% +5.33%
75th Percentile £642 £582 £738
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £466 £500 £585
% change year-on-year -6.75% -14.53% +1.74%
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 19,058 12,598 13,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.71% 38.04% 34.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,644 8,413 8,692
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £720 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 630 297 188
10th Percentile £15.49 £15.50 £16.21
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.30 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.57% -24.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.00 £64.73
90th Percentile £79.10 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.38 £19.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +59.87% -42.42% +45.05%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -80 157 £525 +3.96% 159
London -60 85 £550 -4.35% 90
UK excluding London -86 83 £466 -6.75% 83
Work from Home -81 73 £625 +25.00% 82
North of England -72 32 £500 - 29
Midlands -45 21 £400 -17.95% 8
North West -55 15 £500 - 19
West Midlands -41 12 £488 - 5
Scotland -30 11 £553 +5.29% 9
North East -35 9 £400 -30.43% 5
Yorkshire -35 8 £638 +63.46% 5
South East -58 8 £591 +18.13% 15
East Midlands - 8 £400 - 3
South West -31 7 £433 -8.84% 11
East of England -24 4 £348 -35.35% 4
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 11 (5.24%) Apache
1 11 (5.24%) Confluence
2 5 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.95%) CMS
4 2 (0.95%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.48%) Appian
5 1 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.48%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.48%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 205 (97.62%) AWS
2 152 (72.38%) Serverless
3 149 (70.95%) AWS Lambda
4 97 (46.19%) Amazon S3
5 82 (39.05%) Amazon EventBridge
6 71 (33.81%) Amazon ECS
7 62 (29.52%) GitHub
8 58 (27.62%) GitHub Actions
9 55 (26.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 51 (24.29%) Amazon EKS
11 45 (21.43%) AWS Step Functions
12 28 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
12 28 (13.33%) Azure
12 28 (13.33%) SaaS
13 27 (12.86%) AWS CloudFormation
14 19 (9.05%) Snowflake
15 18 (8.57%) AWS KMS
16 16 (7.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 14 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
17 14 (6.67%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.33%) HTTP
2 4 (1.90%) DNS
3 2 (0.95%) NetScaler
3 2 (0.95%) SSL
3 2 (0.95%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.48%) Firewall
4 1 (0.48%) Network Security
4 1 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.48%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (37.62%) DynamoDB
2 49 (23.33%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (22.38%) Amazon RDS
4 37 (17.62%) MySQL
5 33 (15.71%) Amazon Aurora
6 32 (15.24%) MongoDB
7 21 (10.00%) NoSQL
8 13 (6.19%) Redis
9 11 (5.24%) Relational Database
10 10 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
11 9 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (4.29%) DocumentDB
11 9 (4.29%) Metadata
11 9 (4.29%) SQL Server
12 6 (2.86%) Data Lake
13 5 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (2.38%) Big Data
13 5 (2.38%) Hazelcast
13 5 (2.38%) RDBMS
14 4 (1.90%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 61 (29.05%) Git
2 54 (25.71%) GitLab
3 52 (24.76%) Jenkins
4 21 (10.00%) Maven
5 20 (9.52%) Claude Code
6 17 (8.10%) JUnit
7 14 (6.67%) Mockito
8 13 (6.19%) Cucumber
9 12 (5.71%) JIRA
10 11 (5.24%) Mocha
11 10 (4.76%) SonarQube
12 8 (3.81%) Cypress.io
13 6 (2.86%) DbUnit
13 6 (2.86%) Gradle
13 6 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
14 5 (2.38%) Bitbucket Server
14 5 (2.38%) JMeter
14 5 (2.38%) jMock
14 5 (2.38%) REST Assured
14 5 (2.38%) Selenium
General
1 48 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 43 (20.48%) Public Sector
3 21 (10.00%) Finance
4 14 (6.67%) Banking
5 11 (5.24%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.43%) Law
8 2 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.95%) Legal
8 2 (0.95%) Police
8 2 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.48%) Front Office
9 1 (0.48%) German Language
9 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.48%) Marketing
9 1 (0.48%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.48%) Publishing
9 1 (0.48%) Retail
9 1 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (28.57%) Developer
1 60 (28.57%) Senior
2 52 (24.76%) AWS Engineer
3 31 (14.76%) Architect
4 26 (12.38%) Java Developer
4 26 (12.38%) Software Engineer
5 18 (8.57%) Data Engineer
6 17 (8.10%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (8.10%) Lambda Engineer
7 16 (7.62%) AWS Developer
7 16 (7.62%) Senior Software Engineer
8 15 (7.14%) Python Engineer
9 14 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
9 14 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (6.19%) Lead
10 13 (6.19%) Senior Developer
11 12 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (5.71%) Software Developer
12 11 (5.24%) AWS Software Engineer
13 10 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (44.76%) Terraform
2 85 (40.48%) REST
3 51 (24.29%) Kafka
4 46 (21.90%) .NET
4 46 (21.90%) Node.js
5 45 (21.43%) Spring Boot
6 41 (19.52%) Spring
7 30 (14.29%) AWS CDK
8 26 (12.38%) RESTful
9 22 (10.48%) AngularJS
9 22 (10.48%) React
10 21 (10.00%) FastAPI
11 18 (8.57%) Jest
11 18 (8.57%) OAuth
12 17 (8.10%) .NET Core
12 17 (8.10%) SOAP
13 16 (7.62%) JPA
14 14 (6.67%) OAuth2
14 14 (6.67%) Web Services
15 12 (5.71%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 80 (38.10%) Cloud Native
2 56 (26.67%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (10.48%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (4.29%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.81%) AI Agents
6 7 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.86%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.38%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.90%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.95%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.95%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.95%) NHS
11 2 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (14.29%) Linux
2 5 (2.38%) Unix
2 5 (2.38%) Windows
3 2 (0.95%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (66.19%) CI/CD
2 109 (51.90%) Microservices
3 102 (48.57%) Event-Driven
4 95 (45.24%) DevOps
5 85 (40.48%) Agile
6 84 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 71 (33.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 66 (31.43%) Observability
9 58 (27.62%) Software Engineering
10 54 (25.71%) Containerisation
11 41 (19.52%) AI
12 39 (18.57%) Test Automation
13 34 (16.19%) Scrum
14 31 (14.76%) TDD
15 27 (12.86%) API Design
15 27 (12.86%) Continuous Improvement
16 26 (12.38%) Deployment Automation
16 26 (12.38%) Full-Stack Development
17 24 (11.43%) Migration
17 24 (11.43%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 68 (32.38%) Python
2 54 (25.71%) Java
3 48 (22.86%) SQL
4 41 (19.52%) TypeScript
5 38 (18.10%) C#
6 24 (11.43%) JavaScript
7 8 (3.81%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.33%) Bash
8 7 (3.33%) Groovy
9 4 (1.90%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.43%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.95%) Go
12 1 (0.48%) C
12 1 (0.48%) C++
12 1 (0.48%) Haskell
12 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 63 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 57 (27.14%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.05%) AWS Certification
3 19 (9.05%) DV Cleared
4 14 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (3.33%) Degree
6 4 (1.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (1.90%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.43%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.43%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.95%) ISEB
8 2 (0.95%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.05%) QA
2 8 (3.81%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.38%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.43%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.95%) GDPR
5 2 (0.95%) NCSC
6 1 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 87 (41.43%) Docker
2 4 (1.90%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 73 (34.76%) Kubernetes
2 21 (10.00%) Grafana
3 13 (6.19%) Prometheus
4 10 (4.76%) Ansible
5 5 (2.38%) Argo
5 5 (2.38%) Packer
5 5 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.95%) Consul
6 2 (0.95%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.48%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.48%) Istio
7 1 (0.48%) linkerd
Vendors
1 11 (5.24%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.76%) Oracle
3 9 (4.29%) Dynatrace
4 8 (3.81%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.33%) Confluent
5 7 (3.33%) Jaspersoft
6 6 (2.86%) Atlassian
6 6 (2.86%) Splunk
7 5 (2.38%) Amplitude
8 3 (1.43%) Sybase
8 3 (1.43%) webMethods
9 2 (0.95%) Brio
9 2 (0.95%) Cisco
9 2 (0.95%) Databricks
9 2 (0.95%) Google
9 2 (0.95%) VMware
9 2 (0.95%) WSO2
10 1 (0.48%) Okta
10 1 (0.48%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.48%) Tealium