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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 485 384 488
Rank change year-on-year -101 +104 +27
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 203 165 82
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.51% 0.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.08% 1.37% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 124 63
10th Percentile £400 £385 £380
25th Percentile £450 £413 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +0.46%
75th Percentile £638 £582 £738
90th Percentile £775 £775 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £467
% change year-on-year -2.50% +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 18,744 12,058 12,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.94% 37.32% 34.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,461 8,019 8,883
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £418
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 £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 603 308 214
10th Percentile £15.26 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £18.87 £19.69
Median hourly rate £33.99 £29.16 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.56% -2.80% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.06 £59.18
90th Percentile £81.25 £71.62 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £19.27 £28.00
% change year-on-year +68.66% -31.18% +3.70%

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 4 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 4 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 -78 160 £525 +5.00% 125
London -73 86 £550 +6.02% 80
UK excluding London -70 81 £488 -2.50% 68
Work from Home -80 65 £613 +22.50% 74
North of England -73 32 £500 - 19
Midlands -36 25 £406 -16.67% 6
West Midlands -44 16 £450 -7.69% 2
North West -49 14 £525 +5.00% 12
Yorkshire -41 10 £581 +49.04% 4
Scotland -17 8 £556 +23.44% 11
North East -32 8 £406 -29.35% 3
East Midlands - 8 £400 - 4
South East -67 7 £606 +21.25% 14
South West -43 5 £463 -2.63% 10
East of England -17 4 £350 -34.88% 3
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 14 (6.90%) Confluence
2 9 (4.43%) Apache
3 5 (2.46%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.99%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.99%) CMS
5 2 (0.99%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.49%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 198 (97.54%) AWS
2 145 (71.43%) Serverless
3 143 (70.44%) AWS Lambda
4 96 (47.29%) Amazon S3
5 81 (39.90%) Amazon EventBridge
6 68 (33.50%) GitHub
7 62 (30.54%) Amazon ECS
7 62 (30.54%) GitHub Actions
8 53 (26.11%) AWS Step Functions
9 46 (22.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 42 (20.69%) Amazon EKS
11 33 (16.26%) Azure
12 28 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
13 23 (11.33%) SaaS
14 22 (10.84%) Amazon EC2
15 18 (8.87%) Snowflake
16 15 (7.39%) AWS KMS
17 14 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
18 13 (6.40%) GCP
18 13 (6.40%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.45%) HTTP
2 2 (0.99%) DNS
2 2 (0.99%) NetScaler
2 2 (0.99%) SSL
2 2 (0.99%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.49%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (40.89%) DynamoDB
2 50 (24.63%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (19.70%) Amazon RDS
4 33 (16.26%) MySQL
5 32 (15.76%) Amazon Aurora
6 24 (11.82%) MongoDB
7 20 (9.85%) NoSQL
8 17 (8.37%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (5.91%) Redis
10 11 (5.42%) Relational Database
11 10 (4.93%) Power BI
12 9 (4.43%) Metadata
13 8 (3.94%) Data Lake
13 8 (3.94%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (3.94%) SQL Server
14 7 (3.45%) DocumentDB
15 5 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
15 5 (2.46%) Big Data
15 5 (2.46%) Hazelcast
15 5 (2.46%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 63 (31.03%) Git
2 47 (23.15%) GitLab
3 44 (21.67%) Jenkins
4 19 (9.36%) Claude Code
5 18 (8.87%) Maven
6 16 (7.88%) JIRA
6 16 (7.88%) JUnit
7 14 (6.90%) Mockito
8 11 (5.42%) Cypress.io
9 10 (4.93%) Mocha
9 10 (4.93%) SonarQube
10 7 (3.45%) Cucumber
10 7 (3.45%) DbUnit
11 6 (2.96%) Bitbucket Server
11 6 (2.96%) Gradle
11 6 (2.96%) jMock
12 5 (2.46%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (1.97%) Selenium
13 4 (1.97%) Snyk
14 3 (1.48%) MSTest
General
1 45 (22.17%) Social Skills
2 41 (20.20%) Public Sector
3 16 (7.88%) Finance
4 11 (5.42%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.93%) Banking
6 8 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.99%) Law
8 2 (0.99%) Legal
8 2 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.49%) Front Office
9 1 (0.49%) Marketing
9 1 (0.49%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.49%) Police
9 1 (0.49%) Publishing
9 1 (0.49%) Retail
9 1 (0.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (30.54%) Developer
2 56 (27.59%) Senior
3 48 (23.65%) AWS Engineer
4 30 (14.78%) Architect
5 26 (12.81%) Software Engineer
6 22 (10.84%) Java Developer
7 19 (9.36%) Data Engineer
8 17 (8.37%) Lead
8 17 (8.37%) Senior Developer
9 16 (7.88%) Full-Stack Developer
10 15 (7.39%) Lambda Engineer
10 15 (7.39%) Senior Software Engineer
11 14 (6.90%) AWS Developer
11 14 (6.90%) Python Engineer
12 13 (6.40%) Cloud Engineer
13 11 (5.42%) AWS Software Engineer
13 11 (5.42%) Integration Architect
13 11 (5.42%) Software Developer
13 11 (5.42%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (4.93%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (46.80%) Terraform
2 77 (37.93%) REST
3 49 (24.14%) Kafka
4 46 (22.66%) Node.js
5 40 (19.70%) Spring Boot
6 39 (19.21%) .NET
7 37 (18.23%) Spring
8 27 (13.30%) RESTful
9 26 (12.81%) React
10 25 (12.32%) AWS CDK
11 19 (9.36%) AngularJS
11 19 (9.36%) FastAPI
12 17 (8.37%) Jest
13 16 (7.88%) JPA
13 16 (7.88%) Web Services
14 15 (7.39%) .NET Core
15 12 (5.91%) OAuth
15 12 (5.91%) Playwright
16 11 (5.42%) OpenTelemetry
16 11 (5.42%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 72 (35.47%) Cloud Native
2 52 (25.62%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (10.34%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.94%) AI Agents
5 7 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.96%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.46%) Mainframe
7 5 (2.46%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.97%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.97%) NHS
9 3 (1.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.99%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.99%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.99%) Educational Technology
10 2 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (13.79%) Linux
2 5 (2.46%) Unix
2 5 (2.46%) Windows
3 2 (0.99%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (64.04%) CI/CD
2 105 (51.72%) Microservices
3 98 (48.28%) Event-Driven
4 90 (44.33%) DevOps
5 87 (42.86%) Agile
6 86 (42.36%) Infrastructure as Code
7 65 (32.02%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 57 (28.08%) Observability
9 55 (27.09%) Software Engineering
10 50 (24.63%) Containerisation
11 44 (21.67%) Test Automation
12 39 (19.21%) AI
13 31 (15.27%) TDD
14 29 (14.29%) Scrum
15 28 (13.79%) Full-Stack Development
16 27 (13.30%) API Design
17 26 (12.81%) Data Modelling
18 24 (11.82%) Continuous Improvement
18 24 (11.82%) Data Pipeline
18 24 (11.82%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 74 (36.45%) Python
2 54 (26.60%) Java
3 49 (24.14%) SQL
4 47 (23.15%) TypeScript
5 36 (17.73%) C#
6 23 (11.33%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.45%) Groovy
8 6 (2.96%) Bash
9 5 (2.46%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.97%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.48%) Scala
11 3 (1.48%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.99%) Go
13 1 (0.49%) C
13 1 (0.49%) C++
13 1 (0.49%) Haskell
13 1 (0.49%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 57 (28.08%) Security Cleared
2 51 (25.12%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.88%) DV Cleared
4 13 (6.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (4.43%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (1.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.97%) Degree
7 3 (1.48%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.48%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.99%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.49%) ISEB
9 1 (0.49%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.90%) QA
2 9 (4.43%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.46%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.48%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (1.48%) GDPR
5 2 (0.99%) NCSC
6 1 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 75 (36.95%) Docker
2 5 (2.46%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 61 (30.05%) Kubernetes
2 21 (10.34%) Grafana
3 11 (5.42%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.96%) Ansible
5 5 (2.46%) Argo
6 4 (1.97%) Packer
7 2 (0.99%) Consul
7 2 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.99%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.49%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.49%) Istio
8 1 (0.49%) linkerd
Vendors
1 12 (5.91%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.43%) Splunk
3 8 (3.94%) Jaspersoft
4 7 (3.45%) Atlassian
4 7 (3.45%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.96%) Confluent
5 6 (2.96%) Databricks
5 6 (2.96%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.46%) Amplitude
6 5 (2.46%) Oracle
7 4 (1.97%) Google
8 3 (1.48%) Sybase
9 2 (0.99%) Brio
9 2 (0.99%) Cisco
9 2 (0.99%) SAP
9 2 (0.99%) VMware
10 1 (0.49%) IBM
10 1 (0.49%) Okta
10 1 (0.49%) Tealium
10 1 (0.49%) TIBCO