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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 386 499
Rank change year-on-year -84 +113 +18
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 200 171 83
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.52% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.07% 1.40% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 128 64
10th Percentile £400 £385 £383
25th Percentile £450 £422 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £581 £738
90th Percentile £783 £775 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £500 £467
% change year-on-year -1.25% +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 18,749 12,200 13,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.94% 37.26% 33.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,413 8,127 9,000
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £417
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 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 608 313 224
10th Percentile £15.44 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.50 £57.63
90th Percentile £81.55 £70.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.13 £19.14 £24.18
% change year-on-year +62.66% -20.86% -10.44%

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 1 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 1 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 -83 164 £525 +5.00% 110
London -60 88 £550 +8.64% 69
UK excluding London -74 81 £494 -1.25% 65
Work from Home -78 61 £625 +25.00% 66
North of England -66 32 £500 - 17
Midlands -41 26 £406 -16.67% 6
West Midlands -45 17 £450 -7.69% 2
North West -58 14 £525 +5.00% 10
Yorkshire -35 11 £581 +49.04% 3
South East -56 8 £606 +21.25% 15
East Midlands - 8 £400 - 4
Scotland -20 7 £556 +18.19% 9
North East -41 7 £413 -28.26% 4
South West -36 5 £463 -2.63% 7
East of England -21 4 £350 -34.88% 3
Wales - 1 £550 - 1

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 (5.00%) Confluence
2 8 (4.00%) Apache
3 5 (2.50%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.00%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.50%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.00%) CMS
7 1 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.50%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 195 (97.50%) AWS
2 139 (69.50%) Serverless
3 135 (67.50%) AWS Lambda
4 99 (49.50%) Amazon S3
5 75 (37.50%) Amazon EventBridge
6 67 (33.50%) GitHub
7 62 (31.00%) Amazon ECS
8 61 (30.50%) GitHub Actions
9 51 (25.50%) AWS Step Functions
10 44 (22.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 43 (21.50%) Amazon EKS
12 33 (16.50%) Azure
13 28 (14.00%) AWS CloudFormation
14 24 (12.00%) Amazon EC2
15 22 (11.00%) SaaS
16 18 (9.00%) Snowflake
17 14 (7.00%) AWS KMS
17 14 (7.00%) Azure DevOps
18 13 (6.50%) GCP
18 13 (6.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.50%) HTTP
2 2 (1.00%) DNS
2 2 (1.00%) NetScaler
2 2 (1.00%) OpenVPN
2 2 (1.00%) SSL
2 2 (1.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.50%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (39.00%) DynamoDB
2 52 (26.00%) PostgreSQL
3 41 (20.50%) Amazon RDS
4 32 (16.00%) MySQL
5 31 (15.50%) Amazon Aurora
6 22 (11.00%) MongoDB
7 20 (10.00%) NoSQL
8 17 (8.50%) Amazon Athena
9 13 (6.50%) Relational Database
10 11 (5.50%) Redis
11 10 (5.00%) Power BI
12 9 (4.50%) Data Lake
13 8 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (4.00%) Metadata
13 8 (4.00%) SQL Server
14 6 (3.00%) DocumentDB
15 5 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
15 5 (2.50%) Big Data
15 5 (2.50%) Hazelcast
15 5 (2.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 63 (31.50%) Git
2 48 (24.00%) Jenkins
3 45 (22.50%) GitLab
4 18 (9.00%) Claude Code
5 17 (8.50%) Maven
6 15 (7.50%) JUnit
7 14 (7.00%) Mockito
8 12 (6.00%) JIRA
8 12 (6.00%) SonarQube
9 11 (5.50%) Cypress.io
10 9 (4.50%) Mocha
11 7 (3.50%) DbUnit
12 6 (3.00%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (3.00%) Cucumber
12 6 (3.00%) Gradle
12 6 (3.00%) jMock
13 4 (2.00%) Selenium
13 4 (2.00%) Snyk
13 4 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
14 3 (1.50%) MSTest
General
1 45 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 41 (20.50%) Public Sector
3 16 (8.00%) Finance
4 11 (5.50%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.00%) Banking
6 7 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.00%) Law
8 2 (1.00%) Legal
9 1 (0.50%) Front Office
9 1 (0.50%) Marketing
9 1 (0.50%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.50%) Police
9 1 (0.50%) Publishing
9 1 (0.50%) Retail
9 1 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (31.00%) Developer
2 55 (27.50%) Senior
3 46 (23.00%) AWS Engineer
4 30 (15.00%) Architect
5 26 (13.00%) Software Engineer
6 23 (11.50%) Java Developer
7 17 (8.50%) Lead
7 17 (8.50%) Senior Developer
8 16 (8.00%) Data Engineer
8 16 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
9 15 (7.50%) Senior Software Engineer
10 14 (7.00%) AWS Developer
10 14 (7.00%) Lambda Engineer
10 14 (7.00%) Python Engineer
11 13 (6.50%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (5.50%) AWS Software Engineer
12 11 (5.50%) Integration Architect
12 11 (5.50%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (5.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 10 (5.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (47.00%) Terraform
2 72 (36.00%) REST
3 52 (26.00%) Kafka
4 46 (23.00%) Node.js
5 41 (20.50%) Spring Boot
6 38 (19.00%) .NET
6 38 (19.00%) Spring
7 28 (14.00%) React
8 26 (13.00%) RESTful
9 24 (12.00%) AWS CDK
10 19 (9.50%) FastAPI
11 18 (9.00%) AngularJS
11 18 (9.00%) Web Services
12 16 (8.00%) JPA
13 15 (7.50%) .NET Core
13 15 (7.50%) Jest
14 12 (6.00%) OAuth
15 11 (5.50%) OpenTelemetry
15 11 (5.50%) Playwright
16 10 (5.00%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 70 (35.00%) Cloud Native
2 53 (26.50%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (10.50%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.00%) AI Agents
5 7 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.00%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.50%) Mainframe
8 4 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (2.00%) NHS
9 3 (1.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.50%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.00%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.00%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.00%) Educational Technology
10 2 (1.00%) Equities
10 2 (1.00%) Fixed Income
10 2 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (15.00%) Linux
2 5 (2.50%) Unix
2 5 (2.50%) Windows
3 2 (1.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (66.00%) CI/CD
2 105 (52.50%) Microservices
3 92 (46.00%) Event-Driven
4 90 (45.00%) DevOps
5 88 (44.00%) Agile
6 87 (43.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 62 (31.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 56 (28.00%) Observability
8 56 (28.00%) Software Engineering
9 48 (24.00%) Containerisation
10 43 (21.50%) Test Automation
11 37 (18.50%) AI
12 33 (16.50%) TDD
13 31 (15.50%) Scrum
14 27 (13.50%) Full-Stack Development
15 26 (13.00%) API Design
15 26 (13.00%) Data Modelling
16 24 (12.00%) Mentoring
17 23 (11.50%) Technical Leadership
18 22 (11.00%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 70 (35.00%) Python
2 55 (27.50%) Java
3 50 (25.00%) SQL
4 45 (22.50%) TypeScript
5 36 (18.00%) C#
6 24 (12.00%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.50%) Groovy
7 7 (3.50%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.50%) Bash
9 4 (2.00%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.50%) Scala
10 3 (1.50%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.00%) Go
12 1 (0.50%) C
12 1 (0.50%) C++
12 1 (0.50%) Haskell
12 1 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 55 (27.50%) Security Cleared
2 49 (24.50%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.00%) DV Cleared
4 11 (5.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (4.50%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.00%) Degree
7 3 (1.50%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.50%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.00%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.50%) ISEB
9 1 (0.50%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.00%) QA
2 7 (3.50%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.50%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.00%) GDPR
5 3 (1.50%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.00%) NCSC
7 1 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 76 (38.00%) Docker
2 5 (2.50%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 62 (31.00%) Kubernetes
2 21 (10.50%) Grafana
3 11 (5.50%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.50%) Ansible
4 5 (2.50%) Argo
5 3 (1.50%) Packer
6 2 (1.00%) Consul
6 2 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.00%) Sysdig
6 2 (1.00%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.50%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.50%) Istio
7 1 (0.50%) linkerd
Vendors
1 12 (6.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.50%) Splunk
3 8 (4.00%) Jaspersoft
4 7 (3.50%) Atlassian
5 6 (3.00%) Databricks
5 6 (3.00%) Dynatrace
5 6 (3.00%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.50%) Amplitude
6 5 (2.50%) Confluent
7 4 (2.00%) Google
7 4 (2.00%) Oracle
8 3 (1.50%) Sybase
9 2 (1.00%) Brio
9 2 (1.00%) Cisco
9 2 (1.00%) SAP
9 2 (1.00%) VMware
10 1 (0.50%) IBM
10 1 (0.50%) New Relic
10 1 (0.50%) Tealium
10 1 (0.50%) TIBCO