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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 477 403 507
Rank change year-on-year -74 +104 -18
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 143 126 91
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.43% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.84% 1.14% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 104 69
10th Percentile £380 £400 £454
25th Percentile £431 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -11.30% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £663
90th Percentile £638 £788 £704
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +2.22%
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 16,931 11,063 13,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.04% 37.69% 32.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,508 7,699 9,928
10th Percentile £320 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £735 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +1.05% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 485 251 346
10th Percentile £15.35 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.51 £16.02
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £20.99
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% +31.05% -40.04%
75th Percentile £67.50 £48.75 £34.69
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.75 £61.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £22.50 £17.71
% change year-on-year +111.11% +27.08% -28.09%

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 28 April 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 28 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Amazon SQS in the UK

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 28 April 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 -76 116 £530 +3.92% 48
London -62 62 £550 +8.64% 24
UK excluding London -67 58 £525 +5.00% 29
Work from Home -56 39 £550 +10.00% 31
North of England -63 24 £525 +5.00% 15
West Midlands -50 19 £475 -9.52%
Midlands -56 19 £475 -9.52% 1
North West -24 16 £525 +16.67% 10
Scotland +2 8 £553 +11.89% 1
South East -57 7 £606 +21.25% 7
Yorkshire -58 5 £438 -27.08% 4
North East -19 3 £530 +15.22% 1
East of England -31 1 - - 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 21 (14.69%) Apache
2 17 (11.89%) Apache Spark
3 12 (8.39%) Confluence
4 5 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.50%) nginx
5 2 (1.40%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.70%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.70%) FileNet
6 1 (0.70%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 141 (98.60%) AWS
2 94 (65.73%) Serverless
3 90 (62.94%) Amazon S3
4 85 (59.44%) AWS Lambda
5 45 (31.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 38 (26.57%) Amazon ECS
6 38 (26.57%) Azure
7 37 (25.87%) Amazon EC2
7 37 (25.87%) AWS CloudFormation
8 35 (24.48%) GitHub
9 32 (22.38%) Amazon EKS
10 31 (21.68%) GitHub Actions
11 29 (20.28%) Amazon EventBridge
12 27 (18.88%) AWS Step Functions
13 22 (15.38%) GCP
13 22 (15.38%) Power Platform
14 18 (12.59%) Route 53
15 17 (11.89%) AWS KMS
15 17 (11.89%) Collibra
16 16 (11.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.90%) HTTP
2 5 (3.50%) DNS
3 3 (2.10%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (1.40%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.70%) SMS
5 1 (0.70%) SSL
5 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (34.97%) DynamoDB
2 34 (23.78%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (20.98%) Amazon RDS
4 28 (19.58%) Amazon Aurora
5 26 (18.18%) Amazon Athena
6 22 (15.38%) Power BI
7 18 (12.59%) Data Lake
8 16 (11.19%) BigQuery
8 16 (11.19%) Mixpanel
9 15 (10.49%) NoSQL
9 15 (10.49%) OLAP
9 15 (10.49%) OLTP
10 13 (9.09%) DocumentDB
11 12 (8.39%) Redis
12 11 (7.69%) MySQL
13 10 (6.99%) MongoDB
14 8 (5.59%) Relational Database
15 5 (3.50%) SQL Server
16 3 (2.10%) Metadata
16 3 (2.10%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 50 (34.97%) Git
2 33 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 30 (20.98%) GitLab
4 20 (13.99%) SonarQube
5 18 (12.59%) JUnit
6 17 (11.89%) Mockito
7 16 (11.19%) Maven
8 15 (10.49%) JIRA
9 11 (7.69%) DbUnit
9 11 (7.69%) jMock
10 9 (6.29%) Bitbucket Server
11 6 (4.20%) Cypress.io
12 4 (2.80%) Cucumber
12 4 (2.80%) MLflow
12 4 (2.80%) Mocha
12 4 (2.80%) NUnit
13 3 (2.10%) MSTest
13 3 (2.10%) tSQLt
13 3 (2.10%) Vite
14 2 (1.40%) Artifactory
General
1 46 (32.17%) Public Sector
2 23 (16.08%) Social Skills
3 11 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (2.10%) Finance
4 3 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.40%) Legal
6 1 (0.70%) Military
6 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (45.45%) Developer
2 33 (23.08%) Senior
3 27 (18.88%) Java Developer
4 24 (16.78%) Lead
5 23 (16.08%) Senior Developer
6 18 (12.59%) Principal Engineer
7 17 (11.89%) Data Engineer
8 16 (11.19%) Software Engineer
9 15 (10.49%) AWS Engineer
10 14 (9.79%) Principal Data Engineer
11 13 (9.09%) AWS Developer
12 12 (8.39%) Architect
13 10 (6.99%) Python Engineer
13 10 (6.99%) Software Developer
14 9 (6.29%) Full-Stack Developer
15 8 (5.59%) Lead Data Engineer
15 8 (5.59%) Senior Java Developer
16 7 (4.90%) Lead Developer
16 7 (4.90%) Node.js Developer
17 6 (4.20%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (37.76%) Node.js
2 42 (29.37%) Kafka
3 39 (27.27%) REST
4 37 (25.87%) Spring
4 37 (25.87%) Spring Boot
5 31 (21.68%) React
6 27 (18.88%) RESTful
7 22 (15.38%) JPA
7 22 (15.38%) Web Services
8 20 (13.99%) AngularJS
8 20 (13.99%) Hibernate
8 20 (13.99%) OAuth
8 20 (13.99%) Spring Cloud
9 16 (11.19%) Great Expectations
10 15 (10.49%) ActiveMQ
10 15 (10.49%) SOAP
11 14 (9.79%) Spring Batch
11 14 (9.79%) Spring Integration
12 13 (9.09%) OAuth2
13 12 (8.39%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 45 (31.47%) Cloud Native
2 29 (20.28%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.20%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.80%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.80%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.80%) NHS
6 3 (2.10%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.40%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.70%) CUDA
8 1 (0.70%) Equities
8 1 (0.70%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.70%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.70%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.70%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.70%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 21 (14.69%) Linux
2 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 77 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
3 76 (53.15%) DevOps
4 68 (47.55%) Microservices
5 62 (43.36%) Agile
6 48 (33.57%) Containerisation
7 39 (27.27%) Event-Driven
8 35 (24.48%) Software Engineering
9 33 (23.08%) Observability
10 32 (22.38%) TDD
11 31 (21.68%) Scrum
12 29 (20.28%) AI
13 27 (18.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 25 (17.48%) Data Modelling
14 25 (17.48%) ETL
14 25 (17.48%) LLM
15 24 (16.78%) Machine Learning
16 23 (16.08%) Analytics
17 22 (15.38%) Data Engineering
18 21 (14.69%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 60 (41.96%) Python
2 49 (34.27%) Java
3 48 (33.57%) SQL
4 31 (21.68%) TypeScript
5 27 (18.88%) C#
6 22 (15.38%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.59%) Bash
8 4 (2.80%) Go
9 3 (2.10%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.10%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.40%) Groovy
10 2 (1.40%) Scala
11 1 (0.70%) Elixir
11 1 (0.70%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.70%) Ruby
11 1 (0.70%) Rust
11 1 (0.70%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 37 (25.87%) Security Cleared
2 30 (20.98%) SC Cleared
3 18 (12.59%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (5.59%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.50%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.10%) Degree
7 2 (1.40%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.40%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.70%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.59%) Data Quality
1 18 (12.59%) GDPR
2 12 (8.39%) QA
3 4 (2.80%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.80%) NIST
3 4 (2.80%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.10%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 58 (40.56%) Docker
2 10 (6.99%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 81 (56.64%) Terraform
2 38 (26.57%) Grafana
3 34 (23.78%) Kubernetes
4 16 (11.19%) Prometheus
5 10 (6.99%) Ansible
6 2 (1.40%) Argo
6 2 (1.40%) Sysdig
7 1 (0.70%) Consul
7 1 (0.70%) Packer
7 1 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (14.69%) Databricks
2 17 (11.89%) Google
3 14 (9.79%) Jaspersoft
4 11 (7.69%) Atlassian
5 7 (4.90%) Splunk
6 3 (2.10%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.10%) Sybase
7 1 (0.70%) Confluent
7 1 (0.70%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.70%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.70%) Okta
7 1 (0.70%) Oracle
7 1 (0.70%) SAP
7 1 (0.70%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.70%) Virgin Media