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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 376 481
Rank change year-on-year -95 +105 +38
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 198 177 84
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.54% 0.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.05% 1.45% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 132 63
10th Percentile £399 £385 £380
25th Percentile £443 £425 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.96% -4.29% -3.67%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £700
90th Percentile £788 £775 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £467
% change year-on-year - +7.18% -11.14%
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 18,770 12,196 13,079
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.08% 37.14% 33.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,423 8,144 9,083
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £725 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 601 317 249
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.27 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.50
Median hourly rate £34.13 £28.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% +12.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.35 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £18.87 £21.42
% change year-on-year +80.13% -11.88% -17.63%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -99 163 £525 +5.00% 18
UK excluding London -88 85 £500 - 13
London -65 84 £550 +1.85% 8
Work from Home -90 62 £575 +15.00% 10
North of England -53 32 £500 - 3
Midlands -40 29 £406 -16.67% 2
West Midlands -48 20 £450 -7.69%
North West -38 14 £525 +5.00% 1
Yorkshire -40 10 £525 +34.62% 1
South East -52 9 £611 +22.23% 6
North East -33 8 £438 -23.91% 1
East Midlands - 8 £400 - 2
Scotland -14 7 £556 +18.19%
South West -35 5 £463 +23.33% 2
East of England -18 4 £350 -34.88% 1
Wales - 1 £550 -

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 9 (4.55%) Apache
1 9 (4.55%) Confluence
2 5 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.02%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.02%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.01%) CMS
6 1 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.51%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 192 (96.97%) AWS
2 135 (68.18%) Serverless
3 131 (66.16%) AWS Lambda
4 99 (50.00%) Amazon S3
5 71 (35.86%) Amazon EventBridge
6 63 (31.82%) GitHub
7 61 (30.81%) Amazon ECS
8 58 (29.29%) GitHub Actions
9 46 (23.23%) AWS Step Functions
10 44 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
11 43 (21.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 33 (16.67%) Azure
13 29 (14.65%) Amazon EC2
14 25 (12.63%) AWS CloudFormation
15 20 (10.10%) SaaS
16 18 (9.09%) AWS KMS
17 17 (8.59%) Snowflake
18 15 (7.58%) GCP
18 15 (7.58%) Route 53
19 12 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.54%) HTTP
2 2 (1.01%) DNS
2 2 (1.01%) NetScaler
2 2 (1.01%) OpenVPN
2 2 (1.01%) SSL
2 2 (1.01%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.51%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (39.39%) DynamoDB
2 54 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
3 44 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
4 32 (16.16%) Amazon Aurora
5 31 (15.66%) MySQL
6 22 (11.11%) MongoDB
7 18 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
8 17 (8.59%) NoSQL
9 13 (6.57%) Relational Database
10 11 (5.56%) Power BI
10 11 (5.56%) Redis
11 10 (5.05%) Data Lake
12 9 (4.55%) SQL Server
13 8 (4.04%) Metadata
14 7 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (3.03%) DocumentDB
16 5 (2.53%) Big Data
16 5 (2.53%) BigQuery
16 5 (2.53%) Hazelcast
16 5 (2.53%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 64 (32.32%) Git
2 49 (24.75%) Jenkins
3 45 (22.73%) GitLab
4 19 (9.60%) Maven
5 18 (9.09%) JUnit
6 17 (8.59%) Claude Code
6 17 (8.59%) Mockito
7 15 (7.58%) SonarQube
8 11 (5.56%) Cypress.io
8 11 (5.56%) JIRA
9 10 (5.05%) Mocha
10 9 (4.55%) DbUnit
11 8 (4.04%) Bitbucket Server
11 8 (4.04%) jMock
12 7 (3.54%) Cucumber
13 6 (3.03%) Gradle
14 4 (2.02%) MSTest
14 4 (2.02%) Selenium
14 4 (2.02%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (2.02%) tSQLt
General
1 45 (22.73%) Public Sector
2 42 (21.21%) Social Skills
3 15 (7.58%) Finance
4 14 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.05%) Banking
6 7 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.01%) Law
9 2 (1.01%) Legal
10 1 (0.51%) Front Office
10 1 (0.51%) Marketing
10 1 (0.51%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Police
10 1 (0.51%) Publishing
10 1 (0.51%) Retail
10 1 (0.51%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 65 (32.83%) Developer
2 53 (26.77%) Senior
3 43 (21.72%) AWS Engineer
4 29 (14.65%) Architect
5 26 (13.13%) Java Developer
6 25 (12.63%) Software Engineer
7 19 (9.60%) Lead
7 19 (9.60%) Senior Developer
8 16 (8.08%) Full-Stack Developer
9 14 (7.07%) AWS Developer
9 14 (7.07%) Data Engineer
9 14 (7.07%) Senior Software Engineer
10 13 (6.57%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (6.57%) Python Engineer
11 12 (6.06%) Lambda Engineer
12 11 (5.56%) AWS Software Engineer
12 11 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (5.05%) Integration Architect
13 10 (5.05%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 10 (5.05%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (44.44%) Terraform
2 72 (36.36%) REST
3 52 (26.26%) Kafka
4 45 (22.73%) Node.js
5 42 (21.21%) Spring Boot
6 39 (19.70%) Spring
7 35 (17.68%) .NET
8 28 (14.14%) RESTful
9 27 (13.64%) React
10 22 (11.11%) AngularJS
10 22 (11.11%) AWS CDK
11 21 (10.61%) Web Services
12 19 (9.60%) JPA
13 18 (9.09%) FastAPI
14 14 (7.07%) .NET Core
14 14 (7.07%) Jest
15 13 (6.57%) ActiveMQ
15 13 (6.57%) Hibernate
16 12 (6.06%) SOAP
16 12 (6.06%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 65 (32.83%) Cloud Native
2 54 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (10.10%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.04%) AI Agents
5 7 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.03%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.53%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (2.53%) Mainframe
8 4 (2.02%) NHS
9 3 (1.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.01%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.01%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.01%) Educational Technology
10 2 (1.01%) Equities
10 2 (1.01%) Fixed Income
10 2 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 30 (15.15%) Linux
2 5 (2.53%) Unix
3 4 (2.02%) Windows
4 2 (1.01%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (65.66%) CI/CD
2 105 (53.03%) Microservices
3 89 (44.95%) Agile
3 89 (44.95%) DevOps
4 86 (43.43%) Event-Driven
5 82 (41.41%) Infrastructure as Code
6 57 (28.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 54 (27.27%) Observability
7 54 (27.27%) Software Engineering
8 49 (24.75%) Containerisation
9 40 (20.20%) Test Automation
10 38 (19.19%) AI
11 36 (18.18%) TDD
12 32 (16.16%) Scrum
13 27 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
14 24 (12.12%) API Design
14 24 (12.12%) Data Modelling
15 23 (11.62%) LLM
15 23 (11.62%) Mentoring
15 23 (11.62%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 65 (32.83%) Python
2 57 (28.79%) Java
3 51 (25.76%) SQL
4 43 (21.72%) TypeScript
5 35 (17.68%) C#
6 26 (13.13%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.54%) Groovy
7 7 (3.54%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.02%) Bash
8 4 (2.02%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.02%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.52%) Scala
10 2 (1.01%) Go
11 1 (0.51%) C
11 1 (0.51%) C++
11 1 (0.51%) Elixir
11 1 (0.51%) Haskell
11 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.51%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 55 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 49 (24.75%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.08%) DV Cleared
4 11 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (5.05%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.02%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.52%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.52%) Degree
8 2 (1.01%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.51%) ISEB
9 1 (0.51%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.56%) QA
2 6 (3.03%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.53%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.53%) GDPR
4 3 (1.52%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.01%) NCSC
6 1 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 77 (38.89%) Docker
2 7 (3.54%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 60 (30.30%) Kubernetes
2 24 (12.12%) Grafana
3 12 (6.06%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.53%) Ansible
4 5 (2.53%) Argo
5 3 (1.52%) Packer
6 2 (1.01%) Consul
6 2 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.01%) Sysdig
6 2 (1.01%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.51%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.51%) Istio
7 1 (0.51%) linkerd
Vendors
1 11 (5.56%) Jaspersoft
1 11 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.55%) Atlassian
3 8 (4.04%) Splunk
4 7 (3.54%) Databricks
5 6 (3.03%) Dynatrace
5 6 (3.03%) Google
5 6 (3.03%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.53%) Amplitude
6 5 (2.53%) Confluent
7 4 (2.02%) Oracle
8 3 (1.52%) Sybase
9 2 (1.01%) Cisco
9 2 (1.01%) SAP
9 2 (1.01%) VMware
10 1 (0.51%) Brio
10 1 (0.51%) IBM
10 1 (0.51%) New Relic
10 1 (0.51%) Tealium
10 1 (0.51%) TIBCO