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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 391 487 485
Rank change year-on-year +96 -2 +89
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 169 86 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.22% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 0.66% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 65 99
10th Percentile £385 £400 £435
25th Percentile £425 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £580 £738 £625
90th Percentile £775 £788 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £573
% change year-on-year - -12.66% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £35.75 - -
25th Percentile £36.88 - -
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £35.00
75th Percentile £44.38 - -
90th Percentile £46.25 - -
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 12,359 13,112 17,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.52% 34.29% 35.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,240 8,846 12,789
10th Percentile £313 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 197 342
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.50 £15.21
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £28.75 £31.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% -11.43% +62.79%
75th Percentile £52.25 £62.50 £66.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £78.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.27 £30.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -35.77% +11.11% +40.30%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon SQS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon SQS 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +89 123 £500 -16.67% 50
Work from Home +50 86 £500 -16.32% 37
London +42 67 £525 -22.22% 17
UK excluding London +46 63 £500 - 50
North of England +14 31 £480 +6.67% 27
North West +1 18 £500 +14.29% 20
West Midlands +1 13 £488 +39.29%
Midlands 0 13 £488 +39.29% 1
Scotland 0 10 £525 +8.70% 11
Yorkshire -1 10 £390 -5.45% 2
South West +23 3 £475 -22.45% 2
South East +22 3 £500 -15.97% 8
East of England +6 3 £538 +7.50% 1
North East -2 3 £575 -3.77% 5

Amazon SQS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (6.51%) Documentum
1 11 (6.51%) FileNet
2 7 (4.14%) nginx
3 5 (2.96%) Confluence
4 4 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.18%) Apache
5 2 (1.18%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.59%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 165 (97.63%) AWS
2 117 (69.23%) Serverless
3 104 (61.54%) AWS Lambda
4 83 (49.11%) Amazon S3
5 62 (36.69%) Amazon EC2
6 47 (27.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 39 (23.08%) Amazon ECS
8 36 (21.30%) Amazon EventBridge
9 30 (17.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 29 (17.16%) GitHub
11 28 (16.57%) SaaS
12 24 (14.20%) Amazon EKS
13 21 (12.43%) AWS Step Functions
14 18 (10.65%) AWS Fargate
15 15 (8.88%) Datadog
16 14 (8.28%) Azure
16 14 (8.28%) GitHub Actions
16 14 (8.28%) Route 53
17 12 (7.10%) Amazon Cognito
18 11 (6.51%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.55%) HTTP
2 3 (1.78%) DNS
2 3 (1.78%) SSL
2 3 (1.78%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.18%) Firewall
3 2 (1.18%) Network Security
3 2 (1.18%) VPN
4 1 (0.59%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (32.54%) DynamoDB
2 48 (28.40%) Amazon RDS
3 42 (24.85%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (14.79%) Amazon Aurora
5 20 (11.83%) Relational Database
6 16 (9.47%) Redis
7 14 (8.28%) NoSQL
8 12 (7.10%) DocumentDB
9 10 (5.92%) RDBMS
10 8 (4.73%) MySQL
11 6 (3.55%) MongoDB
12 5 (2.96%) BigQuery
13 3 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (1.18%) DB2
14 2 (1.18%) Metadata
14 2 (1.18%) Metadata Repository
15 1 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
15 1 (0.59%) GIS
Development Applications
1 50 (29.59%) Git
2 41 (24.26%) Jenkins
3 38 (22.49%) SonarQube
4 23 (13.61%) JUnit
5 22 (13.02%) GitLab
5 22 (13.02%) Maven
6 13 (7.69%) JIRA
6 13 (7.69%) Mockito
7 8 (4.73%) Cucumber
8 7 (4.14%) Bitbucket
9 6 (3.55%) Bitbucket Server
9 6 (3.55%) DbUnit
9 6 (3.55%) jMock
10 5 (2.96%) Gradle
10 5 (2.96%) SonarLint
11 4 (2.37%) Gatling
11 4 (2.37%) JMeter
11 4 (2.37%) Snyk
11 4 (2.37%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (1.78%) Postman
General
1 58 (34.32%) Public Sector
2 26 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 18 (10.65%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (3.55%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.55%) Digital Healthcare
5 5 (2.96%) Finance
6 4 (2.37%) Military
7 3 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.18%) Aviation
8 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.18%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 68 (40.24%) Developer
2 32 (18.93%) Architect
3 28 (16.57%) Java Developer
4 21 (12.43%) AWS Engineer
5 20 (11.83%) AWS Developer
6 19 (11.24%) Security Architect
6 19 (11.24%) Software Engineer
7 18 (10.65%) Senior
8 15 (8.88%) DevOps Engineer
9 14 (8.28%) Full-Stack Developer
9 14 (8.28%) Lead
10 10 (5.92%) JavaScript Engineer
10 10 (5.92%) Senior Developer
11 9 (5.33%) Documentum Developer
11 9 (5.33%) Python Engineer
11 9 (5.33%) Technical Architect
12 8 (4.73%) Java Architect
12 8 (4.73%) Java Technical Architect
12 8 (4.73%) Lead Developer
13 7 (4.14%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (22.49%) React
2 35 (20.71%) Node.js
2 35 (20.71%) Spring
2 35 (20.71%) Spring Boot
3 34 (20.12%) RESTful
4 32 (18.93%) REST
5 27 (15.98%) Kafka
6 21 (12.43%) AWS CDK
7 18 (10.65%) SOAP
8 16 (9.47%) GraphQL
9 15 (8.88%) AngularJS
9 15 (8.88%) Hibernate
10 13 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
10 13 (7.69%) OAuth
11 12 (7.10%) JSON
11 12 (7.10%) Spring Cloud
11 12 (7.10%) Web Services
12 11 (6.51%) JPA
12 11 (6.51%) JWT
12 11 (6.51%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 21 (12.43%) Onboarding
3 19 (11.24%) CSOC
3 19 (11.24%) Security Operations Centre
4 9 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (4.73%) Product Ownership
6 7 (4.14%) Data Structures
7 6 (3.55%) Algorithms
7 6 (3.55%) N-Tier
8 5 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (2.37%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.78%) Vector Graphics
10 3 (1.78%) Video on Demand
11 2 (1.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.18%) Low-Code
11 2 (1.18%) Management Information System
11 2 (1.18%) PKI
11 2 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (11.24%) Linux
2 11 (6.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (47.93%) Agile
1 81 (47.93%) Microservices
2 69 (40.83%) CI/CD
3 63 (37.28%) DevOps
4 48 (28.40%) Containerisation
5 37 (21.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 35 (20.71%) Event-Driven
7 28 (16.57%) TDD
8 27 (15.98%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 27 (15.98%) Software Engineering
9 25 (14.79%) Clean Code
10 24 (14.20%) Full-Stack Development
11 23 (13.61%) Artificial Intelligence
11 23 (13.61%) Mentoring
12 22 (13.02%) Cybersecurity
12 22 (13.02%) Test Automation
13 21 (12.43%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (12.43%) Scrum
13 21 (12.43%) SIEM
14 19 (11.24%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 70 (41.42%) Java
2 62 (36.69%) Python
3 26 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 22 (13.02%) TypeScript
5 15 (8.88%) SQL
6 12 (7.10%) Rust
7 4 (2.37%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.78%) Bash
8 3 (1.78%) C#
9 2 (1.18%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.59%) Groovy
10 1 (0.59%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.59%) PHP
10 1 (0.59%) R
Qualifications
1 66 (39.05%) Security Cleared
2 60 (35.50%) SC Cleared
3 17 (10.06%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 8 (4.73%) Degree
5 7 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.78%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.18%) CISSP
10 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.59%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.06%) QA
2 7 (4.14%) WCAG
3 3 (1.78%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.78%) GDPR
3 3 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.18%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.18%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.18%) NIST
4 2 (1.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 60 (35.50%) Docker
2 6 (3.55%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 61 (36.09%) Terraform
2 42 (24.85%) Kubernetes
3 25 (14.79%) Prometheus
4 20 (11.83%) Grafana
5 17 (10.06%) Ansible
6 2 (1.18%) Kibana
6 2 (1.18%) Kustomize
6 2 (1.18%) Puppet
7 1 (0.59%) Consul
7 1 (0.59%) Control-M
7 1 (0.59%) Packer
Vendors
1 22 (13.02%) Splunk
2 16 (9.47%) Oracle
3 7 (4.14%) CA Agile Central
4 6 (3.55%) Atlassian
4 6 (3.55%) Gigya
4 6 (3.55%) Jaspersoft
4 6 (3.55%) Pega
4 6 (3.55%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.78%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.78%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.18%) Sybase
7 1 (0.59%) JDA
7 1 (0.59%) OpenText
7 1 (0.59%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.59%) Rollbar
7 1 (0.59%) Sage
7 1 (0.59%) Solace