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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 481 403 466
Rank change year-on-year -78 +63 +29
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 209 155 90
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.47% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.11% 1.23% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 114 72
10th Percentile £390 £373 £407
25th Percentile £430 £425 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £595
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -11.76% +4.39%
75th Percentile £641 £586 £738
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £500 £589
% change year-on-year -7.50% -15.07% +2.39%
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 18,898 12,624 13,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.63% 38.34% 34.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,528 8,440 8,671
10th Percentile £325 £308 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 636 290 184
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.23 £16.30
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £22.38
Median hourly rate £31.25 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.25% -28.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.75 £65.04
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.00 £33.74
% change year-on-year +57.89% -43.68% +49.73%

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 12 October 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 17 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 12 October 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 -89 155 £525 +2.19% 129
London -66 85 £550 -4.35% 75
UK excluding London -86 80 £463 -7.50% 59
Work from Home -66 72 £625 +19.05% 69
North of England -66 30 £481 +13.24% 20
Midlands -31 18 £400 -17.95% 2
North West -52 13 £500 - 13
Scotland -24 10 £550 +4.76% 4
South East -60 10 £600 +20.00% 13
North East -32 9 £400 -30.43% 3
West Midlands -47 9 - - 1
Yorkshire -32 8 £638 +63.46% 4
East Midlands - 8 £400 - 1
South West -26 7 £433 -8.84% 9
East of England -22 4 £348 -35.35% 4
Wales - 1 £550 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £600 - 5

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 11 (5.26%) Confluence
2 10 (4.78%) Apache
3 5 (2.39%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.96%) CMS
5 2 (0.96%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.48%) Appian
6 1 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.48%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 204 (97.61%) AWS
2 151 (72.25%) Serverless
3 148 (70.81%) AWS Lambda
4 94 (44.98%) Amazon S3
5 84 (40.19%) Amazon EventBridge
6 69 (33.01%) Amazon ECS
7 63 (30.14%) GitHub
8 59 (28.23%) GitHub Actions
9 54 (25.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 50 (23.92%) Amazon EKS
11 45 (21.53%) AWS Step Functions
12 29 (13.88%) SaaS
13 28 (13.40%) AWS CloudFormation
14 27 (12.92%) Amazon EC2
15 24 (11.48%) Azure
16 20 (9.57%) Snowflake
17 17 (8.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 16 (7.66%) AWS KMS
19 15 (7.18%) AWS Fargate
20 12 (5.74%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.87%) HTTP
2 4 (1.91%) DNS
3 2 (0.96%) NetScaler
3 2 (0.96%) SSL
3 2 (0.96%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.48%) Firewall
4 1 (0.48%) Network Security
4 1 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (35.89%) DynamoDB
2 47 (22.49%) Amazon RDS
3 46 (22.01%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (18.18%) MySQL
5 33 (15.79%) MongoDB
6 31 (14.83%) Amazon Aurora
7 20 (9.57%) NoSQL
8 13 (6.22%) Amazon Athena
8 13 (6.22%) Redis
9 11 (5.26%) Relational Database
9 11 (5.26%) SQL Server
10 10 (4.78%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (4.78%) Metadata
11 9 (4.31%) DocumentDB
12 8 (3.83%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (3.35%) Data Lake
14 5 (2.39%) Big Data
14 5 (2.39%) Hazelcast
14 5 (2.39%) RDBMS
15 3 (1.44%) Flink
Development Applications
1 59 (28.23%) Git
2 54 (25.84%) GitLab
3 51 (24.40%) Jenkins
4 21 (10.05%) Claude Code
5 19 (9.09%) Maven
6 15 (7.18%) JUnit
7 13 (6.22%) Cucumber
8 12 (5.74%) JIRA
8 12 (5.74%) Mockito
9 11 (5.26%) Mocha
10 8 (3.83%) Cypress.io
10 8 (3.83%) SonarQube
11 6 (2.87%) Gradle
11 6 (2.87%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (2.39%) DbUnit
12 5 (2.39%) JMeter
12 5 (2.39%) REST Assured
12 5 (2.39%) Selenium
13 4 (1.91%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (1.91%) jMock
General
1 50 (23.92%) Social Skills
2 41 (19.62%) Public Sector
3 22 (10.53%) Finance
4 14 (6.70%) Banking
5 12 (5.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (4.78%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.44%) Law
8 2 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.96%) Legal
8 2 (0.96%) Police
8 2 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.48%) Billing
9 1 (0.48%) Front Office
9 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.48%) Marketing
9 1 (0.48%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.48%) Prime Brokerage
9 1 (0.48%) Retail
9 1 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (29.67%) Senior
2 55 (26.32%) Developer
3 52 (24.88%) AWS Engineer
4 30 (14.35%) Architect
5 28 (13.40%) Software Engineer
6 25 (11.96%) Java Developer
7 20 (9.57%) Data Engineer
8 18 (8.61%) Senior Software Engineer
9 17 (8.13%) DevOps Engineer
9 17 (8.13%) Lambda Engineer
10 14 (6.70%) Python Engineer
10 14 (6.70%) Solutions Architect
11 13 (6.22%) AWS Developer
11 13 (6.22%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (6.22%) Full-Stack Developer
11 13 (6.22%) Lead
12 12 (5.74%) Software Developer
13 11 (5.26%) AWS Software Engineer
13 11 (5.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 11 (5.26%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (46.41%) Terraform
2 85 (40.67%) REST
3 51 (24.40%) Kafka
4 47 (22.49%) .NET
5 44 (21.05%) Spring Boot
6 43 (20.57%) Node.js
7 40 (19.14%) Spring
8 31 (14.83%) AWS CDK
9 24 (11.48%) RESTful
10 21 (10.05%) React
11 20 (9.57%) AngularJS
11 20 (9.57%) FastAPI
12 18 (8.61%) Jest
12 18 (8.61%) OAuth
13 17 (8.13%) .NET Core
14 15 (7.18%) OAuth2
14 15 (7.18%) SOAP
15 14 (6.70%) JPA
16 12 (5.74%) Express.js
16 12 (5.74%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 77 (36.84%) Cloud Native
2 55 (26.32%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (10.53%) Product Ownership
4 11 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (4.31%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.83%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.87%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.39%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.91%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.91%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.96%) Educational Technology
11 2 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.96%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.96%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.96%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 29 (13.88%) Linux
2 5 (2.39%) Unix
2 5 (2.39%) Windows
3 2 (0.96%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (66.99%) CI/CD
2 107 (51.20%) Microservices
3 103 (49.28%) Event-Driven
4 92 (44.02%) DevOps
5 86 (41.15%) Infrastructure as Code
6 85 (40.67%) Agile
7 72 (34.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 70 (33.49%) Observability
9 60 (28.71%) Software Engineering
10 50 (23.92%) Containerisation
11 43 (20.57%) AI
12 41 (19.62%) Test Automation
13 31 (14.83%) Scrum
14 29 (13.88%) Continuous Improvement
15 28 (13.40%) TDD
16 27 (12.92%) Platform Engineering
17 26 (12.44%) API Design
18 25 (11.96%) Deployment Automation
18 25 (11.96%) Full-Stack Development
19 24 (11.48%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 69 (33.01%) Python
2 52 (24.88%) Java
3 47 (22.49%) SQL
4 43 (20.57%) TypeScript
5 38 (18.18%) C#
6 24 (11.48%) JavaScript
7 8 (3.83%) Bash
7 8 (3.83%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.35%) Groovy
9 4 (1.91%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.44%) Go
10 3 (1.44%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.48%) C
11 1 (0.48%) C++
11 1 (0.48%) Haskell
11 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 62 (29.67%) Security Cleared
2 57 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 20 (9.57%) AWS Certification
4 19 (9.09%) DV Cleared
5 14 (6.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (4.31%) Degree
7 8 (3.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (2.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.91%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.44%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.44%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.96%) ISEB
11 2 (0.96%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.09%) QA
2 10 (4.78%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.39%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.96%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.96%) GDPR
4 2 (0.96%) NCSC
5 1 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 84 (40.19%) Docker
2 3 (1.44%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 72 (34.45%) Kubernetes
2 18 (8.61%) Grafana
3 13 (6.22%) Prometheus
4 10 (4.78%) Ansible
5 5 (2.39%) Argo
5 5 (2.39%) Packer
5 5 (2.39%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.96%) Consul
6 2 (0.96%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.48%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.48%) Istio
7 1 (0.48%) linkerd
Vendors
1 12 (5.74%) Oracle
2 11 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.31%) Dynatrace
4 8 (3.83%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.35%) Confluent
6 6 (2.87%) Splunk
7 5 (2.39%) Amplitude
7 5 (2.39%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.39%) Jaspersoft
8 3 (1.44%) Databricks
8 3 (1.44%) Sybase
8 3 (1.44%) webMethods
9 2 (0.96%) Brio
9 2 (0.96%) Cisco
9 2 (0.96%) Google
9 2 (0.96%) VMware
9 2 (0.96%) WSO2
10 1 (0.48%) IBM
10 1 (0.48%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.48%) TIBCO