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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 422 464 509
Rank change year-on-year +42 +45 +47
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 151 98 127
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.27% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.16% 0.76% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 75 83
10th Percentile £382 £409 £430
25th Percentile £425 £472 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £610 £570
Median % change year-on-year -13.93% +7.02% +3.17%
75th Percentile £588 £738 £625
90th Percentile £775 £788 £679
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £610 £575
% change year-on-year -18.03% +6.09% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.50 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £47.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud 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 12,995 12,816 16,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.59% 35.02% 35.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,699 8,447 12,063
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £708 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 167 324
10th Percentile £15.07 £18.18 £14.71
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +12.90% +37.78%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.73 £60.47
90th Percentile £69.25 £70.00 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.75 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -40.71% +55.56% +16.79%

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 27 October 2025.

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 14 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 27 October 2025. 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 +19 115 £523 -22.59% 76
Work from Home +65 76 £543 -13.81% 44
UK excluding London +15 64 £500 -18.03% 50
London +6 62 £575 -14.81% 39
North of England -5 33 £414 -29.27% 19
North West -2 21 £513 +13.89% 9
Scotland +6 13 £525 +16.67%
Midlands - 11 £475 - 1
West Midlands - 11 £475 - 1
Yorkshire -23 10 £390 -26.59% 9
South East +5 3 £538 - 26
South West +4 2 £475 -26.92% 2
North East -7 2 £575 -3.77% 1
East of England -13 2 £531 +6.25%

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 8 (5.30%) Documentum
1 8 (5.30%) FileNet
2 7 (4.64%) nginx
3 5 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.31%) Confluence
4 3 (1.99%) Apache
5 2 (1.32%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.32%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.66%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 147 (97.35%) AWS
2 100 (66.23%) Serverless
3 90 (59.60%) AWS Lambda
4 66 (43.71%) Amazon S3
5 59 (39.07%) Amazon EC2
6 43 (28.48%) Amazon ECS
7 39 (25.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 35 (23.18%) Amazon EventBridge
9 28 (18.54%) SaaS
10 27 (17.88%) AWS CloudFormation
11 25 (16.56%) Amazon EKS
11 25 (16.56%) GitHub
12 21 (13.91%) AWS Fargate
13 16 (10.60%) Azure
14 15 (9.93%) AWS Step Functions
15 14 (9.27%) GitHub Actions
16 13 (8.61%) Datadog
17 12 (7.95%) Amazon Kinesis
17 12 (7.95%) Route 53
18 11 (7.28%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.99%) DNS
1 3 (1.99%) HTTP
1 3 (1.99%) SSL
1 3 (1.99%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.32%) Firewall
2 2 (1.32%) Network Security
2 2 (1.32%) VPN
3 1 (0.66%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (31.79%) DynamoDB
2 37 (24.50%) Amazon RDS
3 36 (23.84%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (18.54%) Amazon Aurora
5 21 (13.91%) Relational Database
6 18 (11.92%) NoSQL
7 12 (7.95%) RDBMS
8 9 (5.96%) MongoDB
8 9 (5.96%) Redis
9 8 (5.30%) DocumentDB
10 7 (4.64%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (4.64%) MySQL
11 6 (3.97%) BigQuery
12 5 (3.31%) DB2
13 4 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
14 2 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (1.32%) Metadata
14 2 (1.32%) Metadata Repository
15 1 (0.66%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 45 (29.80%) Git
2 39 (25.83%) Jenkins
3 28 (18.54%) SonarQube
4 24 (15.89%) JUnit
5 21 (13.91%) Maven
6 18 (11.92%) GitLab
7 13 (8.61%) JIRA
8 12 (7.95%) Mockito
9 9 (5.96%) Cucumber
10 6 (3.97%) Gradle
11 5 (3.31%) SonarLint
12 4 (2.65%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (2.65%) DbUnit
12 4 (2.65%) Gatling
12 4 (2.65%) JMeter
12 4 (2.65%) jMock
12 4 (2.65%) Snyk
13 3 (1.99%) Bitbucket
14 2 (1.32%) Selenium
14 2 (1.32%) Storybook
General
1 52 (34.44%) Public Sector
2 28 (18.54%) Social Skills
3 18 (11.92%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (5.96%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.97%) Digital Healthcare
6 5 (3.31%) Military
7 3 (1.99%) Finance
8 2 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.32%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.66%) Aviation
9 1 (0.66%) Marketing
9 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.66%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (39.07%) Developer
2 33 (21.85%) Architect
3 27 (17.88%) Java Developer
4 21 (13.91%) Senior
5 20 (13.25%) AWS Engineer
6 19 (12.58%) Security Architect
7 18 (11.92%) AWS Developer
8 17 (11.26%) Lead
9 16 (10.60%) Software Engineer
10 14 (9.27%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (7.95%) Senior Developer
12 9 (5.96%) Lead Developer
12 9 (5.96%) Technical Architect
13 8 (5.30%) Java Architect
13 8 (5.30%) Java Technical Architect
14 7 (4.64%) AWS Architect
14 7 (4.64%) Documentum Developer
14 7 (4.64%) Full-Stack Developer
14 7 (4.64%) Lead Java Developer
14 7 (4.64%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (23.84%) Spring
2 35 (23.18%) Spring Boot
3 32 (21.19%) Kafka
3 32 (21.19%) RESTful
4 28 (18.54%) REST
5 26 (17.22%) Node.js
6 24 (15.89%) React
7 16 (10.60%) SOAP
8 14 (9.27%) AWS CDK
8 14 (9.27%) OAuth
9 13 (8.61%) GraphQL
9 13 (8.61%) Hibernate
9 13 (8.61%) JSON
10 11 (7.28%) ActiveMQ
10 11 (7.28%) AngularJS
10 11 (7.28%) JWT
10 11 (7.28%) PyTorch
11 10 (6.62%) Spring Cloud
11 10 (6.62%) Web Services
12 9 (5.96%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 28 (18.54%) Cloud Native
2 21 (13.91%) Onboarding
3 19 (12.58%) CSOC
3 19 (12.58%) Security Operations Centre
4 10 (6.62%) Product Ownership
5 9 (5.96%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.97%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (3.97%) N-Tier
7 5 (3.31%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.65%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.99%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.99%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.32%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.32%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.32%) PKI
10 2 (1.32%) Video on Demand
10 2 (1.32%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.66%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.27%) Linux
2 8 (5.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (54.30%) Agile
2 76 (50.33%) Microservices
3 64 (42.38%) CI/CD
3 64 (42.38%) DevOps
4 48 (31.79%) Containerisation
5 36 (23.84%) Event-Driven
6 34 (22.52%) Infrastructure as Code
7 29 (19.21%) TDD
8 28 (18.54%) Clean Code
8 28 (18.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 25 (16.56%) AI
9 25 (16.56%) Mentoring
10 24 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (15.23%) Software Engineering
12 21 (13.91%) SIEM
13 20 (13.25%) Scrum
13 20 (13.25%) Security Operations
14 19 (12.58%) Cybersecurity
14 19 (12.58%) Use Case
15 18 (11.92%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 67 (44.37%) Java
2 54 (35.76%) Python
3 25 (16.56%) TypeScript
4 19 (12.58%) SQL
5 9 (5.96%) Rust
6 7 (4.64%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.31%) C#
7 5 (3.31%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.32%) Bash
8 2 (1.32%) Go
8 2 (1.32%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.66%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.66%) PHP
9 1 (0.66%) Scala
Qualifications
1 51 (33.77%) Security Cleared
2 44 (29.14%) SC Cleared
3 16 (10.60%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (5.30%) Degree
6 7 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.32%) CISSP
10 1 (0.66%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.66%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.61%) QA
2 7 (4.64%) WCAG
3 6 (3.97%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.99%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.99%) GDPR
4 3 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.99%) NIST
5 2 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.32%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.32%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 60 (39.74%) Docker
2 4 (2.65%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 56 (37.09%) Terraform
2 43 (28.48%) Kubernetes
3 20 (13.25%) Prometheus
4 18 (11.92%) Grafana
5 12 (7.95%) Ansible
6 2 (1.32%) Kibana
6 2 (1.32%) Kustomize
6 2 (1.32%) Puppet
7 1 (0.66%) Consul
7 1 (0.66%) Control-M
7 1 (0.66%) Packer
Vendors
1 22 (14.57%) Splunk
2 12 (7.95%) Oracle
3 9 (5.96%) CA Agile Central
4 7 (4.64%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.97%) Gigya
5 6 (3.97%) Pega
6 5 (3.31%) Sybase
7 4 (2.65%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.65%) Jaspersoft
7 4 (2.65%) Microsoft
8 2 (1.32%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.32%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.66%) Databricks
9 1 (0.66%) Google
9 1 (0.66%) JDA
9 1 (0.66%) OpenText
9 1 (0.66%) Sage
9 1 (0.66%) Solace