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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 480 378 498
Rank change year-on-year -102 +120 -2
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 169 147 89
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.51% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.96% 1.35% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 106 70
10th Percentile £400 £400 £398
25th Percentile £453 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -5.66%
75th Percentile £618 £619 £694
90th Percentile £850 £763 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £500 £543
% change year-on-year +6.00% -7.83% -5.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.75 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +78.57% - -
75th Percentile £71.13 - -
90th Percentile £74.05 - -
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 17,533 10,917 13,941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.68% 37.81% 32.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,781 7,438 9,909
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £634
90th Percentile £704 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.16% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 556 253 349
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.80 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.86 £28.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +31.63% +31.02% -42.24%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.12 £40.75
90th Percentile £81.13 £70.75 £68.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £20.89 £17.72
% change year-on-year +79.51% +17.89% -35.21%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -101 135 £550 +10.00% 52
London -61 72 £550 +17.33% 26
UK excluding London -70 69 £530 +6.00% 31
Work from Home -88 50 £550 +10.00% 33
North of England -69 26 £525 +5.00% 19
Midlands -53 24 £475 -5.00% 5
West Midlands -63 22 £475 -5.00% 4
North West -39 15 £525 +5.00% 10
South East -57 9 £616 +23.20% 3
Scotland +1 8 £553 +14.68%
Yorkshire -61 8 £438 -16.67% 7
North East -26 3 £530 -7.83% 2
East of England -32 1 - -
South West -35 1 £575 - 4
Wales - 1 £550 -
East Midlands - 1 £425 - 1

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 20 (11.83%) Apache
2 16 (9.47%) Apache Spark
3 12 (7.10%) Confluence
4 5 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.96%) nginx
5 2 (1.18%) CMS
5 2 (1.18%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.59%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.59%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.59%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 164 (97.04%) AWS
2 115 (68.05%) Serverless
3 108 (63.91%) AWS Lambda
4 104 (61.54%) Amazon S3
5 49 (28.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 46 (27.22%) Amazon EC2
7 45 (26.63%) Amazon EventBridge
8 44 (26.04%) GitHub
9 43 (25.44%) Azure
10 39 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
11 38 (22.49%) AWS Step Functions
12 37 (21.89%) Amazon ECS
13 35 (20.71%) AWS CloudFormation
14 30 (17.75%) Amazon EKS
15 23 (13.61%) GCP
15 23 (13.61%) Power Platform
15 23 (13.61%) Route 53
16 20 (11.83%) AWS KMS
17 16 (9.47%) Collibra
18 15 (8.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.14%) HTTP
2 5 (2.96%) DNS
3 3 (1.78%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (1.18%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.59%) SMS
5 1 (0.59%) SSL
5 1 (0.59%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (42.01%) DynamoDB
2 46 (27.22%) Amazon RDS
3 41 (24.26%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (22.49%) Amazon Aurora
5 28 (16.57%) Amazon Athena
6 23 (13.61%) Power BI
7 18 (10.65%) MySQL
8 17 (10.06%) Data Lake
9 15 (8.88%) BigQuery
9 15 (8.88%) Mixpanel
9 15 (8.88%) NoSQL
10 14 (8.28%) OLAP
10 14 (8.28%) OLTP
11 11 (6.51%) MongoDB
11 11 (6.51%) Redis
12 10 (5.92%) DocumentDB
13 8 (4.73%) Relational Database
13 8 (4.73%) SQL Server
14 4 (2.37%) Hazelcast
14 4 (2.37%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 58 (34.32%) Git
2 41 (24.26%) Jenkins
3 35 (20.71%) GitLab
4 23 (13.61%) JUnit
4 23 (13.61%) Maven
5 21 (12.43%) Mockito
6 20 (11.83%) SonarQube
7 15 (8.88%) JIRA
8 14 (8.28%) DbUnit
9 13 (7.69%) jMock
10 11 (6.51%) Bitbucket Server
11 10 (5.92%) Claude Code
12 8 (4.73%) Cypress.io
13 6 (3.55%) Mocha
14 5 (2.96%) Cucumber
14 5 (2.96%) MSTest
14 5 (2.96%) tSQLt
15 4 (2.37%) Gradle
15 4 (2.37%) MLflow
15 4 (2.37%) Snyk
General
1 48 (28.40%) Public Sector
2 34 (20.12%) Social Skills
3 15 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (2.37%) Finance
4 4 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (1.78%) Legal
6 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.59%) Military
7 1 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 68 (40.24%) Developer
2 42 (24.85%) Senior
3 31 (18.34%) Java Developer
3 31 (18.34%) Lead
4 28 (16.57%) Senior Developer
5 27 (15.98%) AWS Engineer
6 18 (10.65%) Architect
6 18 (10.65%) Software Engineer
7 17 (10.06%) Principal Engineer
8 16 (9.47%) Data Engineer
9 13 (7.69%) Principal Data Engineer
9 13 (7.69%) Software Developer
10 12 (7.10%) Senior Java Developer
11 11 (6.51%) AWS Developer
11 11 (6.51%) Python Engineer
12 10 (5.92%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (4.73%) Lead Data Engineer
13 8 (4.73%) Senior Software Developer
14 7 (4.14%) Lead Developer
14 7 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (30.18%) Node.js
2 49 (28.99%) REST
3 43 (25.44%) Spring Boot
4 42 (24.85%) Spring
5 41 (24.26%) Kafka
6 33 (19.53%) RESTful
7 31 (18.34%) React
8 29 (17.16%) JPA
9 27 (15.98%) AngularJS
10 26 (15.38%) Web Services
11 24 (14.20%) .NET
11 24 (14.20%) Hibernate
12 22 (13.02%) Spring Cloud
13 19 (11.24%) ActiveMQ
13 19 (11.24%) OAuth
13 19 (11.24%) SOAP
14 18 (10.65%) AWS CDK
14 18 (10.65%) Spring Batch
14 18 (10.65%) Spring Integration
15 15 (8.88%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 55 (32.54%) Cloud Native
2 33 (19.53%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (10.65%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.14%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.55%) NHS
6 5 (2.96%) Mainframe
7 4 (2.37%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.37%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.37%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.78%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.18%) Educational Technology
9 2 (1.18%) Equities
9 2 (1.18%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.18%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.59%) Freedom of Information
10 1 (0.59%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.59%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.59%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 22 (13.02%) Linux
2 1 (0.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (70.41%) CI/CD
2 89 (52.66%) Infrastructure as Code
3 85 (50.30%) DevOps
4 78 (46.15%) Microservices
5 75 (44.38%) Agile
6 53 (31.36%) Event-Driven
7 47 (27.81%) Containerisation
8 43 (25.44%) Observability
8 43 (25.44%) Software Engineering
9 39 (23.08%) Scrum
10 38 (22.49%) TDD
11 34 (20.12%) AI
12 31 (18.34%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 27 (15.98%) Mentoring
14 26 (15.38%) Data Modelling
14 26 (15.38%) Kanban
14 26 (15.38%) Test Automation
15 25 (14.79%) ETL
15 25 (14.79%) LLM
16 24 (14.20%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 61 (36.09%) Python
2 59 (34.91%) SQL
3 55 (32.54%) Java
4 39 (23.08%) C#
4 39 (23.08%) TypeScript
5 25 (14.79%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.14%) Bash
7 5 (2.96%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.37%) Go
8 4 (2.37%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.18%) Groovy
9 2 (1.18%) Scala
10 1 (0.59%) Elixir
10 1 (0.59%) Gremlin
10 1 (0.59%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.59%) Ruby
10 1 (0.59%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 44 (26.04%) Security Cleared
2 37 (21.89%) SC Cleared
3 16 (9.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (6.51%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.14%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.78%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (1.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.78%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.78%) Degree
6 3 (1.78%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.18%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.06%) Data Quality
1 17 (10.06%) GDPR
2 12 (7.10%) QA
3 5 (2.96%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.37%) NIST
4 4 (2.37%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.78%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.18%) NCSC
7 1 (0.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 66 (39.05%) Docker
2 11 (6.51%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 90 (53.25%) Terraform
2 45 (26.63%) Kubernetes
3 40 (23.67%) Grafana
4 18 (10.65%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.73%) Ansible
6 5 (2.96%) Argo
7 2 (1.18%) Sysdig
8 1 (0.59%) Consul
8 1 (0.59%) Packer
8 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.59%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 20 (11.83%) Databricks
2 17 (10.06%) Jaspersoft
3 16 (9.47%) Google
4 14 (8.28%) Atlassian
5 7 (4.14%) Splunk
6 4 (2.37%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.37%) Sybase
7 1 (0.59%) Confluent
7 1 (0.59%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.59%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.59%) Okta
7 1 (0.59%) SAP
7 1 (0.59%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.59%) SnapLogic
7 1 (0.59%) Virgin Media