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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 389 479
Rank change year-on-year -81 +90 +17
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 215 164 86
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.50% 0.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.13% 1.33% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 124 65
10th Percentile £373 £385 £403
25th Percentile £430 £422 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £505 £585
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -13.68% +6.36%
75th Percentile £642 £581 £738
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £466 £500 £585
% change year-on-year -6.75% -14.53% +1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 19,019 12,350 12,910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.67% 37.77% 34.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,616 8,238 8,668
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.41%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 625 291 186
10th Percentile £15.27 £15.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.28
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £33.27
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -15.84% -4.94%
75th Percentile £67.70 £53.13 £64.67
90th Percentile £80.75 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.75 £19.27 £33.00
% change year-on-year +59.57% -41.61% +29.67%

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 23 September 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
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 23 September 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 -72 162 £525 +5.00% 144
UK excluding London -82 88 £466 -6.75% 70
London -67 84 £550 - 80
Work from Home -76 73 £600 +20.00% 71
North of England -75 33 £500 +8.70% 22
Midlands -38 24 £400 -17.95% 5
West Midlands -38 15 £413 -15.38% 3
North West -51 15 £513 +10.81% 16
Scotland -20 11 £553 +5.29% 8
Yorkshire -45 10 £581 +49.04% 4
North East -33 8 £406 -29.35% 2
South East -58 8 £591 +18.13% 14
East Midlands - 8 £400 - 2
South West -33 7 £433 -8.84% 12
East of England -27 5 £348 -35.35% 3
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 10 (4.65%) Apache
1 10 (4.65%) Confluence
2 5 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.93%) CMS
4 2 (0.93%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.47%) Appian
5 1 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.47%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.47%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 210 (97.67%) AWS
2 157 (73.02%) Serverless
3 154 (71.63%) AWS Lambda
4 97 (45.12%) Amazon S3
5 88 (40.93%) Amazon EventBridge
6 67 (31.16%) Amazon ECS
7 65 (30.23%) GitHub
8 59 (27.44%) GitHub Actions
9 54 (25.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 49 (22.79%) AWS Step Functions
11 48 (22.33%) Amazon EKS
12 29 (13.49%) Azure
13 28 (13.02%) AWS CloudFormation
14 27 (12.56%) Amazon EC2
14 27 (12.56%) SaaS
15 18 (8.37%) Snowflake
16 17 (7.91%) AWS KMS
17 15 (6.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 14 (6.51%) Route 53
19 13 (6.05%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.26%) HTTP
2 4 (1.86%) DNS
3 2 (0.93%) NetScaler
3 2 (0.93%) SSL
3 2 (0.93%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.47%) Firewall
4 1 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.47%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (40.00%) DynamoDB
2 52 (24.19%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (21.86%) Amazon RDS
4 37 (17.21%) MySQL
5 34 (15.81%) Amazon Aurora
6 28 (13.02%) MongoDB
7 21 (9.77%) NoSQL
8 12 (5.58%) Redis
9 11 (5.12%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (5.12%) Relational Database
10 9 (4.19%) Metadata
10 9 (4.19%) SQL Server
11 8 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (3.72%) DocumentDB
12 7 (3.26%) Power BI
13 6 (2.79%) Data Lake
14 5 (2.33%) Big Data
14 5 (2.33%) Hazelcast
14 5 (2.33%) RDBMS
15 4 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 65 (30.23%) Git
2 51 (23.72%) GitLab
3 50 (23.26%) Jenkins
4 22 (10.23%) Maven
5 20 (9.30%) Claude Code
6 17 (7.91%) JUnit
7 15 (6.98%) Mockito
8 12 (5.58%) JIRA
9 11 (5.12%) SonarQube
10 10 (4.65%) Cucumber
10 10 (4.65%) Mocha
11 7 (3.26%) Cypress.io
11 7 (3.26%) DbUnit
12 6 (2.79%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (2.79%) Gradle
12 6 (2.79%) jMock
13 5 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (1.86%) Selenium
14 4 (1.86%) Snyk
15 3 (1.40%) MSTest
General
1 49 (22.79%) Social Skills
2 42 (19.53%) Public Sector
3 19 (8.84%) Finance
4 13 (6.05%) Banking
5 12 (5.58%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.40%) Law
8 2 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.93%) Legal
8 2 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.47%) Front Office
9 1 (0.47%) German Language
9 1 (0.47%) Marketing
9 1 (0.47%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.47%) Police
9 1 (0.47%) Publishing
9 1 (0.47%) Retail
9 1 (0.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (28.84%) Developer
2 60 (27.91%) Senior
3 54 (25.12%) AWS Engineer
4 34 (15.81%) Architect
5 26 (12.09%) Java Developer
5 26 (12.09%) Software Engineer
6 17 (7.91%) AWS Developer
6 17 (7.91%) Data Engineer
6 17 (7.91%) Lambda Engineer
7 15 (6.98%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (6.98%) Full-Stack Developer
7 15 (6.98%) Python Engineer
7 15 (6.98%) Senior Developer
7 15 (6.98%) Senior Software Engineer
8 14 (6.51%) Lead
8 14 (6.51%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (6.05%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (5.58%) Software Developer
11 11 (5.12%) AWS Software Engineer
11 11 (5.12%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (44.65%) Terraform
2 86 (40.00%) REST
3 50 (23.26%) Kafka
4 49 (22.79%) Node.js
5 45 (20.93%) .NET
5 45 (20.93%) Spring Boot
6 42 (19.53%) Spring
7 28 (13.02%) AWS CDK
8 27 (12.56%) RESTful
9 26 (12.09%) React
10 22 (10.23%) AngularJS
11 20 (9.30%) FastAPI
12 18 (8.37%) Jest
12 18 (8.37%) SOAP
13 17 (7.91%) .NET Core
13 17 (7.91%) JPA
13 17 (7.91%) OAuth
13 17 (7.91%) Web Services
14 13 (6.05%) OAuth2
15 12 (5.58%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 79 (36.74%) Cloud Native
2 56 (26.05%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (10.23%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.19%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.72%) AI Agents
5 8 (3.72%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.72%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.79%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.33%) Mainframe
8 4 (1.86%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (1.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.86%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.40%) NHS
10 2 (0.93%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.93%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.93%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (14.42%) Linux
2 5 (2.33%) Unix
2 5 (2.33%) Windows
3 2 (0.93%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (64.65%) CI/CD
2 111 (51.63%) Microservices
3 107 (49.77%) Event-Driven
4 97 (45.12%) DevOps
5 88 (40.93%) Agile
6 86 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 72 (33.49%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 65 (30.23%) Observability
9 60 (27.91%) Software Engineering
10 54 (25.12%) Containerisation
11 40 (18.60%) AI
12 39 (18.14%) Test Automation
13 34 (15.81%) Scrum
14 31 (14.42%) TDD
15 28 (13.02%) API Design
15 28 (13.02%) Full-Stack Development
16 27 (12.56%) Continuous Improvement
17 24 (11.16%) Data Modelling
17 24 (11.16%) Data Pipeline
17 24 (11.16%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 72 (33.49%) Python
2 58 (26.98%) Java
3 50 (23.26%) SQL
4 46 (21.40%) TypeScript
5 38 (17.67%) C#
6 23 (10.70%) JavaScript
7 8 (3.72%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.26%) Bash
8 7 (3.26%) Groovy
9 4 (1.86%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.40%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.93%) Go
11 2 (0.93%) Scala
12 1 (0.47%) C
12 1 (0.47%) C++
12 1 (0.47%) Haskell
12 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 63 (29.30%) Security Cleared
2 57 (26.51%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.91%) AWS Certification
3 17 (7.91%) DV Cleared
4 14 (6.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (3.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (3.26%) Degree
6 4 (1.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (1.86%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.40%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.40%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.47%) ISEB
8 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.84%) QA
2 8 (3.72%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.33%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.40%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.93%) GDPR
5 2 (0.93%) NCSC
6 1 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 85 (39.53%) Docker
2 5 (2.33%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 68 (31.63%) Kubernetes
2 23 (10.70%) Grafana
3 14 (6.51%) Prometheus
4 7 (3.26%) Ansible
5 5 (2.33%) Argo
5 5 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.86%) Packer
7 2 (0.93%) Consul
7 2 (0.93%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.47%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.47%) Istio
8 1 (0.47%) linkerd
Vendors
1 11 (5.12%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.19%) Oracle
3 8 (3.72%) Dynatrace
3 8 (3.72%) Jaspersoft
3 8 (3.72%) Salesforce
4 7 (3.26%) Atlassian
4 7 (3.26%) Confluent
5 6 (2.79%) Splunk
6 5 (2.33%) Amplitude
7 4 (1.86%) Databricks
8 3 (1.40%) Sybase
8 3 (1.40%) webMethods
9 2 (0.93%) Brio
9 2 (0.93%) Cisco
9 2 (0.93%) Google
9 2 (0.93%) SAP
9 2 (0.93%) VMware
9 2 (0.93%) WSO2
10 1 (0.47%) Okta
10 1 (0.47%) Tealium