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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 452 503
Rank change year-on-year -9 +51 +38
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 121 111 124
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.31% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.88% 0.86% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 91 82
10th Percentile £361 £419 £425
25th Percentile £403 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £650 £570
Median % change year-on-year -20.77% +14.04% -0.87%
75th Percentile £575 £788 £625
90th Percentile £641 - £673
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £610 £575
% change year-on-year -30.33% +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 13,699 12,927 16,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.22% 35.65% 35.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,298 8,532 11,566
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £420 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £736
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 187 295
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.87 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.74
Median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +13.21% +20.45%
75th Percentile £52.50 £53.75 £59.38
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.35 £21.52
% change year-on-year -17.73% +27.12% +13.24%

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 30 November 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 13 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 30 November 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 -29 88 £503 -25.56% 35
Work from Home +17 57 £550 -18.52% 14
UK excluding London +16 54 £425 -30.33% 26
London -15 41 £550 -18.52% 18
North of England -19 33 £400 -31.62% 11
North West +3 25 £414 -8.06% 6
Scotland +16 12 £525 +16.67%
Yorkshire -25 8 £376 -29.18% 3
South East -6 3 £538 - 12
West Midlands - 3 £425 - 1
Midlands - 3 £425 - 1
South West -1 2 £475 -26.92% 2
East of England -12 1 £538 +7.50%

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 7 (5.79%) nginx
2 5 (4.13%) Apache
2 5 (4.13%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.31%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.31%) FileNet
4 3 (2.48%) Documentum
5 2 (1.65%) Confluence
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 117 (96.69%) AWS
2 91 (75.21%) Serverless
3 85 (70.25%) AWS Lambda
4 42 (34.71%) Amazon S3
5 37 (30.58%) Amazon ECS
6 31 (25.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 31 (25.62%) Amazon EC2
6 31 (25.62%) Amazon EventBridge
7 28 (23.14%) GitHub
8 24 (19.83%) Amazon EKS
8 24 (19.83%) AWS CloudFormation
9 18 (14.88%) Azure
10 17 (14.05%) AWS Fargate
10 17 (14.05%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (11.57%) AWS Step Functions
11 14 (11.57%) GCP
12 13 (10.74%) SaaS
13 11 (9.09%) Datadog
14 9 (7.44%) Amazon Kinesis
15 7 (5.79%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.48%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (26.45%) DynamoDB
2 23 (19.01%) Relational Database
3 21 (17.36%) Amazon Aurora
4 20 (16.53%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (16.53%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (15.70%) NoSQL
6 13 (10.74%) Redis
7 12 (9.92%) DocumentDB
7 12 (9.92%) RDBMS
8 10 (8.26%) MongoDB
8 10 (8.26%) MySQL
9 9 (7.44%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (6.61%) BigQuery
11 5 (4.13%) DB2
12 4 (3.31%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (2.48%) Data Lake
13 3 (2.48%) Mixpanel
13 3 (2.48%) OLAP
13 3 (2.48%) OLTP
13 3 (2.48%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 37 (30.58%) Git
2 23 (19.01%) Jenkins
2 23 (19.01%) SonarQube
3 13 (10.74%) GitLab
3 13 (10.74%) JUnit
4 10 (8.26%) JIRA
4 10 (8.26%) Maven
5 9 (7.44%) Mockito
6 7 (5.79%) Cucumber
7 6 (4.96%) Gradle
8 5 (4.13%) SonarLint
9 4 (3.31%) Gatling
9 4 (3.31%) JMeter
9 4 (3.31%) Selenium
9 4 (3.31%) Snyk
10 3 (2.48%) NUnit
11 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket Server
11 1 (0.83%) DbUnit
11 1 (0.83%) jMock
General
1 37 (30.58%) Public Sector
2 27 (22.31%) Social Skills
3 8 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.96%) Digital Healthcare
5 5 (4.13%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.65%) Finance
6 2 (1.65%) Military
7 1 (0.83%) Marketing
7 1 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (34.71%) Developer
2 24 (19.83%) Senior
3 19 (15.70%) Architect
3 19 (15.70%) AWS Engineer
4 17 (14.05%) Java Developer
5 16 (13.22%) Software Engineer
6 13 (10.74%) AWS Developer
7 12 (9.92%) Senior Developer
8 11 (9.09%) Lead
9 10 (8.26%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (7.44%) Technical Architect
11 8 (6.61%) Java Architect
11 8 (6.61%) Java Technical Architect
12 7 (5.79%) Senior Java Developer
13 6 (4.96%) AWS Architect
14 5 (4.13%) Python Engineer
14 5 (4.13%) Security Architect
14 5 (4.13%) Senior Software Engineer
14 5 (4.13%) Test Engineer
15 4 (3.31%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (29.75%) Kafka
2 30 (24.79%) Node.js
3 26 (21.49%) Spring Boot
4 25 (20.66%) React
4 25 (20.66%) RESTful
5 22 (18.18%) REST
6 21 (17.36%) Spring
7 19 (15.70%) OAuth
8 15 (12.40%) AWS CDK
9 14 (11.57%) JWT
10 13 (10.74%) JSON
10 13 (10.74%) OAuth2
11 11 (9.09%) GraphQL
11 11 (9.09%) PyTorch
12 10 (8.26%) .NET
13 9 (7.44%) SOAP
14 8 (6.61%) J2EE
15 7 (5.79%) HTML
15 7 (5.79%) OpenCV
15 7 (5.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (23.14%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.26%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.61%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.79%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (4.96%) N-Tier
6 5 (4.13%) CSOC
6 5 (4.13%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (4.13%) Onboarding
6 5 (4.13%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (3.31%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.48%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.48%) Mobile App
8 3 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.65%) Video on Demand
10 1 (0.83%) CUDA
10 1 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.83%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.83%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.61%) Linux
2 4 (3.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (60.33%) Microservices
2 61 (50.41%) Agile
2 61 (50.41%) CI/CD
3 57 (47.11%) DevOps
4 39 (32.23%) Containerisation
5 37 (30.58%) Event-Driven
6 36 (29.75%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (23.14%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 25 (20.66%) AI
9 22 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (18.18%) Software Engineering
10 21 (17.36%) Mentoring
10 21 (17.36%) TDD
11 20 (16.53%) Clean Code
12 19 (15.70%) Code Quality
13 15 (12.40%) Deployment Automation
14 14 (11.57%) Machine Learning
14 14 (11.57%) OOP
14 14 (11.57%) Scrum
14 14 (11.57%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 48 (39.67%) Python
2 46 (38.02%) Java
3 17 (14.05%) TypeScript
4 16 (13.22%) SQL
5 10 (8.26%) C#
6 8 (6.61%) JavaScript
7 5 (4.13%) Rust
8 3 (2.48%) Bash
9 2 (1.65%) Go
10 1 (0.83%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.83%) PHP
10 1 (0.83%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.83%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (23.14%) Security Cleared
2 20 (16.53%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.92%) AWS Certification
4 9 (7.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (6.61%) Degree
6 7 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (4.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.65%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.83%) CISSP
9 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.09%) QA
2 9 (7.44%) WCAG
3 7 (5.79%) Accessibility
4 5 (4.13%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.48%) GDPR
6 2 (1.65%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.83%) NIST
7 1 (0.83%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 47 (38.84%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 56 (46.28%) Terraform
2 33 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 12 (9.92%) Grafana
4 10 (8.26%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.13%) Ansible
6 2 (1.65%) Kibana
7 1 (0.83%) Consul
7 1 (0.83%) Control-M
7 1 (0.83%) Packer
Vendors
1 7 (5.79%) Oracle
2 6 (4.96%) Gigya
2 6 (4.96%) Pega
3 5 (4.13%) CA Agile Central
3 5 (4.13%) Splunk
3 5 (4.13%) Sybase
4 4 (3.31%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.48%) Databricks
5 3 (2.48%) Google
6 2 (1.65%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.65%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.65%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.83%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.83%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (0.83%) JDA
7 1 (0.83%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.83%) Sage
7 1 (0.83%) Solace