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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 385 516
Rank change year-on-year -94 +131 -4
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 180 157 86
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.49% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.97% 1.29% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 116 64
10th Percentile £400 £400 £375
25th Percentile £463 £433 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% -3.81% -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £635 £633
90th Percentile £850 £775 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -11.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £35.75 -
25th Percentile £58.75 £36.88 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% - -
75th Percentile £71.13 £44.38 -
90th Percentile £74.05 £46.25 -
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 18,565 12,152 14,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.37% 37.62% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,331 8,124 10,096
10th Percentile £331 £313 £300
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £620 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 615 312 357
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £27.63 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.72% +25.59% -37.14%
75th Percentile £69.88 £47.63 £46.18
90th Percentile £83.55 £67.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +102.70% -10.14% -20.69%

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 9 July 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 9 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Amazon SQS in the UK

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 9 July 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 -90 150 £529 +4.75% 31
London -66 79 £550 +3.77% 16
UK excluding London -79 77 £525 +5.00% 20
Work from Home -68 61 £575 +15.00% 13
North of England -66 28 £525 +5.00% 6
Midlands -50 25 £475 -5.00% 6
West Midlands -56 23 £475 -5.00% 2
North West -31 17 £525 +16.67% 5
South East -48 10 £611 +6.28% 4
Scotland -4 9 £553 +14.68% 1
Yorkshire -47 8 £438 -16.67%
South West -32 4 £466 +24.33% 1
North East -32 3 £413 -28.26% 1
East of England -24 2 £350 -34.88%
East Midlands - 1 £425 - 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 17 (9.44%) Apache
2 11 (6.11%) Apache Spark
3 10 (5.56%) Confluence
4 5 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.78%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.67%) OpenStack
6 2 (1.11%) CMS
7 1 (0.56%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.56%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 175 (97.22%) AWS
2 121 (67.22%) Serverless
3 118 (65.56%) AWS Lambda
4 110 (61.11%) Amazon S3
5 57 (31.67%) Amazon EventBridge
6 51 (28.33%) Amazon ECS
7 48 (26.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 46 (25.56%) GitHub
9 43 (23.89%) Amazon EC2
10 41 (22.78%) GitHub Actions
11 40 (22.22%) AWS Step Functions
12 39 (21.67%) Azure
13 34 (18.89%) Amazon EKS
14 28 (15.56%) AWS CloudFormation
15 21 (11.67%) AWS KMS
16 20 (11.11%) Route 53
17 18 (10.00%) Power Platform
18 16 (8.89%) GCP
19 15 (8.33%) SaaS
20 12 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.89%) HTTP
2 2 (1.11%) DNS
2 2 (1.11%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.56%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.56%) SMS
3 1 (0.56%) SSL
3 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (40.00%) DynamoDB
2 52 (28.89%) PostgreSQL
3 50 (27.78%) Amazon RDS
4 38 (21.11%) Amazon Aurora
5 23 (12.78%) Amazon Athena
6 18 (10.00%) Power BI
7 16 (8.89%) MySQL
8 13 (7.22%) Data Lake
8 13 (7.22%) MongoDB
9 10 (5.56%) BigQuery
9 10 (5.56%) Mixpanel
9 10 (5.56%) NoSQL
9 10 (5.56%) Relational Database
9 10 (5.56%) SQL Server
10 9 (5.00%) DocumentDB
10 9 (5.00%) OLAP
10 9 (5.00%) OLTP
10 9 (5.00%) Redis
11 6 (3.33%) Metadata
12 5 (2.78%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 59 (32.78%) Git
2 44 (24.44%) Jenkins
3 33 (18.33%) GitLab
4 24 (13.33%) Maven
5 23 (12.78%) JUnit
6 21 (11.67%) Mockito
7 20 (11.11%) SonarQube
8 14 (7.78%) Claude Code
8 14 (7.78%) DbUnit
9 13 (7.22%) JIRA
9 13 (7.22%) jMock
10 11 (6.11%) Bitbucket Server
11 8 (4.44%) Cypress.io
12 7 (3.89%) Mocha
13 6 (3.33%) Cucumber
13 6 (3.33%) MSTest
13 6 (3.33%) tSQLt
14 5 (2.78%) Gradle
15 4 (2.22%) MLflow
15 4 (2.22%) Snyk
General
1 48 (26.67%) Public Sector
2 36 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 16 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.22%) Finance
5 6 (3.33%) Banking
6 4 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.11%) Law
8 2 (1.11%) Legal
9 1 (0.56%) Front Office
9 1 (0.56%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Publishing
9 1 (0.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 67 (37.22%) Developer
2 43 (23.89%) Senior
3 34 (18.89%) AWS Engineer
4 32 (17.78%) Java Developer
5 26 (14.44%) Lead
6 22 (12.22%) Architect
7 21 (11.67%) Senior Developer
7 21 (11.67%) Software Engineer
8 17 (9.44%) Data Engineer
9 14 (7.78%) Principal Engineer
10 13 (7.22%) AWS Developer
10 13 (7.22%) Python Engineer
11 12 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
12 11 (6.11%) Full-Stack Developer
13 10 (5.56%) Principal Data Engineer
14 9 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
14 9 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
14 9 (5.00%) Software Developer
15 8 (4.44%) Lambda Engineer
15 8 (4.44%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (35.56%) REST
2 50 (27.78%) Node.js
3 43 (23.89%) Spring Boot
4 40 (22.22%) Kafka
4 40 (22.22%) Spring
5 32 (17.78%) React
6 31 (17.22%) RESTful
7 30 (16.67%) .NET
8 29 (16.11%) AngularJS
9 27 (15.00%) JPA
9 27 (15.00%) Web Services
10 21 (11.67%) AWS CDK
10 21 (11.67%) Hibernate
11 20 (11.11%) ActiveMQ
12 19 (10.56%) SOAP
12 19 (10.56%) Spring Cloud
13 18 (10.00%) Spring Batch
13 18 (10.00%) Spring Integration
14 15 (8.33%) OAuth
15 13 (7.22%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 61 (33.89%) Cloud Native
2 44 (24.44%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (11.67%) Product Ownership
4 9 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (4.44%) AI Agents
6 6 (3.33%) NHS
6 6 (3.33%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.78%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (2.78%) Mainframe
8 4 (2.22%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.22%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.67%) Equities
9 3 (1.67%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.11%) Educational Technology
10 2 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.11%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.11%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.56%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 29 (16.11%) Linux
2 2 (1.11%) Unix
2 2 (1.11%) Windows
3 1 (0.56%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (65.56%) CI/CD
2 96 (53.33%) Microservices
3 85 (47.22%) DevOps
4 82 (45.56%) Agile
5 79 (43.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 63 (35.00%) Event-Driven
7 48 (26.67%) Containerisation
8 44 (24.44%) Software Engineering
9 40 (22.22%) AI
9 40 (22.22%) Observability
10 39 (21.67%) TDD
11 38 (21.11%) Scrum
12 35 (19.44%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 29 (16.11%) LLM
13 29 (16.11%) Test Automation
14 25 (13.89%) Kanban
15 24 (13.33%) BDD
15 24 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
16 23 (12.78%) Data Modelling
16 23 (12.78%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 63 (35.00%) Python
2 56 (31.11%) Java
3 54 (30.00%) SQL
4 41 (22.78%) TypeScript
5 39 (21.67%) C#
6 29 (16.11%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.33%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.22%) Go
8 4 (2.22%) Groovy
8 4 (2.22%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.67%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.11%) Bash
10 2 (1.11%) Scala
11 1 (0.56%) C++
11 1 (0.56%) Elixir
11 1 (0.56%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.56%) Haskell
11 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.56%) Ruby
11 1 (0.56%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 53 (29.44%) Security Cleared
2 45 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 11 (6.11%) DV Cleared
5 10 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.33%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.67%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.67%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.11%) Degree
9 2 (1.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.11%) Data Quality
1 11 (6.11%) GDPR
2 10 (5.56%) QA
3 5 (2.78%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.67%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.11%) NCSC
6 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.56%) NIST
6 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 67 (37.22%) Docker
2 11 (6.11%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 83 (46.11%) Terraform
2 45 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 32 (17.78%) Grafana
4 11 (6.11%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.22%) Argo
6 2 (1.11%) Ansible
6 2 (1.11%) Sysdig
7 1 (0.56%) Consul
7 1 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.56%) Packer
7 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (9.44%) Jaspersoft
2 14 (7.78%) Atlassian
2 14 (7.78%) Databricks
3 12 (6.67%) Google
4 9 (5.00%) Microsoft
5 7 (3.89%) Splunk
6 6 (3.33%) Sybase
7 5 (2.78%) Amplitude
7 5 (2.78%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.67%) Confluent
8 3 (1.67%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.11%) Oracle
10 1 (0.56%) Cisco
10 1 (0.56%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.56%) SAP
10 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.56%) SnapLogic
10 1 (0.56%) Solace
10 1 (0.56%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.56%) VMware