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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 455 498
Rank change year-on-year -11 +43 +30
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 127 104 125
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.28% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.93% 0.80% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 84 80
10th Percentile £366 £421 £425
25th Percentile £410 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £650 £573
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +13.54% -0.43%
75th Percentile £575 £788 £625
90th Percentile £650 - £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £610 £575
% change year-on-year -20.08% +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 13,623 12,970 16,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.32% 35.45% 35.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,224 8,536 11,662
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £708 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 189 303
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £14.39
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.74 £30.88 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.65% +14.35% +22.28%
75th Percentile £51.13 £55.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -18.18% +25.00% +15.79%

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 24 November 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 24 November 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 -25 96 £503 -25.56% 46
Work from Home +31 60 £550 -18.52% 21
UK excluding London 0 55 £488 -20.08% 29
London -24 49 £538 -20.37% 20
North of England -11 31 £400 -31.62% 14
North West +1 23 £475 +5.56% 8
Scotland +13 12 £525 +16.67% 1
Yorkshire -27 8 £376 -29.18% 6
Midlands - 6 £475 - 2
West Midlands - 6 £475 - 1
South East -2 3 £538 - 9
South West -2 2 £475 -26.92% 3
East of England -13 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 7 (5.51%) nginx
2 5 (3.94%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.15%) Apache
4 3 (2.36%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.36%) Confluence
4 3 (2.36%) Documentum
4 3 (2.36%) FileNet
5 1 (0.79%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (1.57%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 123 (96.85%) AWS
2 87 (68.50%) Serverless
3 83 (65.35%) AWS Lambda
4 48 (37.80%) Amazon S3
5 39 (30.71%) Amazon EC2
6 37 (29.13%) Amazon ECS
7 33 (25.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 31 (24.41%) Amazon EventBridge
9 26 (20.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 24 (18.90%) GitHub
11 20 (15.75%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (14.96%) Azure
13 18 (14.17%) AWS Fargate
14 16 (12.60%) SaaS
15 14 (11.02%) GCP
16 13 (10.24%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (9.45%) Amazon Kinesis
18 11 (8.66%) AWS Step Functions
18 11 (8.66%) Datadog
19 10 (7.87%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.36%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (29.92%) DynamoDB
2 29 (22.83%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (22.05%) Amazon RDS
4 23 (18.11%) Amazon Aurora
5 20 (15.75%) Relational Database
6 18 (14.17%) NoSQL
7 12 (9.45%) RDBMS
8 11 (8.66%) Redis
9 10 (7.87%) DocumentDB
10 9 (7.09%) MongoDB
11 8 (6.30%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (5.51%) BigQuery
12 7 (5.51%) MySQL
13 5 (3.94%) DB2
14 4 (3.15%) Amazon Redshift
15 2 (1.57%) Data Lake
15 2 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
15 2 (1.57%) Mixpanel
15 2 (1.57%) OLAP
15 2 (1.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 40 (31.50%) Git
2 30 (23.62%) Jenkins
3 26 (20.47%) SonarQube
4 20 (15.75%) JUnit
5 17 (13.39%) Maven
6 11 (8.66%) Cucumber
6 11 (8.66%) GitLab
6 11 (8.66%) JIRA
6 11 (8.66%) Mockito
7 6 (4.72%) Gradle
8 5 (3.94%) SonarLint
9 4 (3.15%) Gatling
9 4 (3.15%) JMeter
9 4 (3.15%) Selenium
9 4 (3.15%) Snyk
10 3 (2.36%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (2.36%) DbUnit
10 3 (2.36%) jMock
11 1 (0.79%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 43 (33.86%) Public Sector
2 29 (22.83%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (7.09%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (4.72%) Digital Healthcare
5 3 (2.36%) Military
6 2 (1.57%) Finance
7 1 (0.79%) Aviation
7 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.79%) Marketing
7 1 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (38.58%) Developer
2 23 (18.11%) Architect
3 22 (17.32%) Java Developer
4 21 (16.54%) Senior
5 18 (14.17%) AWS Engineer
6 16 (12.60%) AWS Developer
7 15 (11.81%) Software Engineer
8 12 (9.45%) Senior Developer
9 11 (8.66%) Lead
10 10 (7.87%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (7.09%) Security Architect
11 9 (7.09%) Technical Architect
12 8 (6.30%) Java Architect
12 8 (6.30%) Java Technical Architect
13 7 (5.51%) Full-Stack Developer
13 7 (5.51%) Senior Java Developer
14 6 (4.72%) AWS Architect
15 5 (3.94%) Lead Developer
15 5 (3.94%) Python Engineer
15 5 (3.94%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (25.98%) Kafka
2 31 (24.41%) Spring
2 31 (24.41%) Spring Boot
3 28 (22.05%) Node.js
3 28 (22.05%) RESTful
4 24 (18.90%) React
5 22 (17.32%) REST
6 16 (12.60%) OAuth
7 13 (10.24%) JSON
8 12 (9.45%) AWS CDK
8 12 (9.45%) SOAP
9 11 (8.66%) GraphQL
9 11 (8.66%) JWT
9 11 (8.66%) PyTorch
10 10 (7.87%) Hibernate
10 10 (7.87%) OAuth2
11 7 (5.51%) NumPy
11 7 (5.51%) OpenCV
11 7 (5.51%) Pandas
11 7 (5.51%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.90%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.87%) Onboarding
2 10 (7.87%) Product Ownership
3 9 (7.09%) CSOC
3 9 (7.09%) Security Operations Centre
4 7 (5.51%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.51%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (4.72%) N-Tier
6 5 (3.94%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.15%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.36%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.36%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.57%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.57%) PKI
9 2 (1.57%) Video on Demand
10 1 (0.79%) CUDA
10 1 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.79%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.09%) Linux
2 3 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (58.27%) Microservices
2 68 (53.54%) Agile
3 56 (44.09%) CI/CD
4 55 (43.31%) DevOps
5 41 (32.28%) Containerisation
6 34 (26.77%) Event-Driven
7 30 (23.62%) Infrastructure as Code
8 26 (20.47%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 24 (18.90%) Clean Code
9 24 (18.90%) Software Engineering
10 23 (18.11%) AI
10 23 (18.11%) TDD
11 22 (17.32%) Code Quality
12 21 (16.54%) Mentoring
13 19 (14.96%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (13.39%) Scrum
15 16 (12.60%) Test Automation
16 15 (11.81%) Full-Stack Development
17 14 (11.02%) OOP
17 14 (11.02%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 54 (42.52%) Java
2 49 (38.58%) Python
3 22 (17.32%) TypeScript
4 18 (14.17%) SQL
5 6 (4.72%) C#
6 5 (3.94%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.94%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.15%) Rust
8 2 (1.57%) Bash
8 2 (1.57%) Go
9 1 (0.79%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.79%) PHP
9 1 (0.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 37 (29.13%) Security Cleared
2 29 (22.83%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.24%) AWS Certification
4 10 (7.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (6.30%) Degree
6 7 (5.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (4.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.57%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.57%) CISSP
9 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.45%) QA
2 9 (7.09%) WCAG
3 7 (5.51%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.15%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.57%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.57%) GDPR
6 1 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.79%) NIST
6 1 (0.79%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 51 (40.16%) Docker
2 3 (2.36%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 50 (39.37%) Terraform
2 38 (29.92%) Kubernetes
3 12 (9.45%) Prometheus
4 11 (8.66%) Grafana
5 4 (3.15%) Ansible
6 2 (1.57%) Kibana
7 1 (0.79%) Consul
7 1 (0.79%) Control-M
7 1 (0.79%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (7.09%) CA Agile Central
1 9 (7.09%) Splunk
2 7 (5.51%) ServiceNow
3 6 (4.72%) Gigya
3 6 (4.72%) Oracle
3 6 (4.72%) Pega
4 5 (3.94%) Sybase
5 4 (3.15%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.36%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.36%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (1.57%) Databricks
7 2 (1.57%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.57%) Google
7 2 (1.57%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.79%) JDA
8 1 (0.79%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.79%) Sage
8 1 (0.79%) Solace