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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 391 518
Rank change year-on-year -79 +127 -10
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 194 161 78
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.49% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.04% 1.32% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 119 58
10th Percentile £400 £397 £375
25th Percentile £463 £425 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £622
90th Percentile £825 £775 £733
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £483
% change year-on-year +5.00% +3.52% -16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £35.75 -
25th Percentile £58.75 £36.88 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% - -
75th Percentile £71.13 £44.38 -
90th Percentile £74.05 £46.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 - -

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 18,702 12,186 14,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.35% 37.44% 33.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,395 8,167 9,848
10th Percentile £329 £313 £310
25th Percentile £419 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -4.67% -3.36%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 613 313 333
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.10 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.00 £27.76 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.68% +26.18% -37.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £83.20 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £20.00
% change year-on-year +98.73% -5.65% -24.47%

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 18 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Amazon SQS over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Amazon SQS in the UK

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 18 July 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 -77 161 £548 +9.50% 34
London -43 87 £550 +1.85% 17
UK excluding London -79 80 £525 +5.00% 21
Work from Home -75 70 £575 +15.00% 15
North of England -69 29 £525 +5.00% 12
Midlands -40 27 £475 -5.00% 1
West Midlands -47 25 £475 -5.00%
North West -42 17 £525 +16.67% 5
South East -49 10 £611 +6.28% 5
Scotland -8 9 £553 +14.68%
Yorkshire -41 9 £525 +17.98% 2
South West -36 4 £466 +24.33% 1
North East -33 3 £413 -28.26% 5
East of England -20 2 £350 -34.88% 1
East Midlands - 1 £425 - 1
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 17 (8.76%) Apache
2 10 (5.15%) Apache Spark
2 10 (5.15%) Confluence
3 5 (2.58%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.58%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.06%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.03%) CMS
6 1 (0.52%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.52%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 189 (97.42%) AWS
2 126 (64.95%) Serverless
3 122 (62.89%) AWS Lambda
4 115 (59.28%) Amazon S3
5 62 (31.96%) Amazon EventBridge
6 53 (27.32%) Amazon ECS
7 49 (25.26%) GitHub
8 48 (24.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 43 (22.16%) Amazon EC2
9 43 (22.16%) AWS Step Functions
9 43 (22.16%) GitHub Actions
10 40 (20.62%) Azure
11 36 (18.56%) Amazon EKS
12 29 (14.95%) AWS CloudFormation
13 22 (11.34%) AWS KMS
14 19 (9.79%) GCP
14 19 (9.79%) Route 53
15 17 (8.76%) Power Platform
15 17 (8.76%) SaaS
16 12 (6.19%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.64%) HTTP
2 2 (1.03%) NetScaler
2 2 (1.03%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.52%) DNS
3 1 (0.52%) SMS
3 1 (0.52%) SSL
3 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (39.18%) DynamoDB
2 54 (27.84%) PostgreSQL
3 49 (25.26%) Amazon RDS
4 38 (19.59%) Amazon Aurora
5 22 (11.34%) Amazon Athena
6 17 (8.76%) MongoDB
6 17 (8.76%) MySQL
6 17 (8.76%) Power BI
7 12 (6.19%) Data Lake
7 12 (6.19%) Relational Database
8 10 (5.15%) BigQuery
8 10 (5.15%) NoSQL
8 10 (5.15%) SQL Server
9 9 (4.64%) Mixpanel
9 9 (4.64%) OLAP
10 8 (4.12%) DocumentDB
10 8 (4.12%) Metadata
10 8 (4.12%) OLTP
10 8 (4.12%) Redis
11 5 (2.58%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 63 (32.47%) Git
2 48 (24.74%) Jenkins
3 37 (19.07%) GitLab
4 25 (12.89%) Maven
5 22 (11.34%) JUnit
6 21 (10.82%) Mockito
6 21 (10.82%) SonarQube
7 15 (7.73%) Claude Code
8 14 (7.22%) DbUnit
9 13 (6.70%) JIRA
9 13 (6.70%) jMock
10 11 (5.67%) Bitbucket Server
11 10 (5.15%) Cypress.io
12 8 (4.12%) Mocha
13 7 (3.61%) Cucumber
14 6 (3.09%) MSTest
14 6 (3.09%) tSQLt
15 5 (2.58%) Gradle
16 4 (2.06%) MLflow
16 4 (2.06%) Snyk
General
1 50 (25.77%) Public Sector
2 39 (20.10%) Social Skills
3 16 (8.25%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.22%) Finance
5 7 (3.61%) Banking
6 4 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.03%) Law
8 2 (1.03%) Legal
9 1 (0.52%) Front Office
9 1 (0.52%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.52%) Publishing
9 1 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 70 (36.08%) Developer
2 47 (24.23%) Senior
3 37 (19.07%) AWS Engineer
4 33 (17.01%) Java Developer
5 26 (13.40%) Architect
5 26 (13.40%) Lead
6 22 (11.34%) Software Engineer
7 21 (10.82%) Senior Developer
8 18 (9.28%) Data Engineer
9 14 (7.22%) Principal Engineer
9 14 (7.22%) Python Engineer
10 13 (6.70%) AWS Developer
10 13 (6.70%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (5.67%) Senior Java Developer
11 11 (5.67%) Senior Software Engineer
12 10 (5.15%) Cloud Engineer
12 10 (5.15%) Lambda Engineer
12 10 (5.15%) Principal Data Engineer
12 10 (5.15%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (4.64%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (36.60%) REST
2 56 (28.87%) Node.js
3 45 (23.20%) Kafka
3 45 (23.20%) Spring Boot
4 41 (21.13%) Spring
5 34 (17.53%) React
6 31 (15.98%) .NET
7 30 (15.46%) AngularJS
7 30 (15.46%) RESTful
8 28 (14.43%) Web Services
9 26 (13.40%) JPA
10 23 (11.86%) AWS CDK
11 20 (10.31%) ActiveMQ
11 20 (10.31%) Hibernate
12 19 (9.79%) SOAP
13 18 (9.28%) Spring Batch
13 18 (9.28%) Spring Cloud
13 18 (9.28%) Spring Integration
14 15 (7.73%) OAuth
15 13 (6.70%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 64 (32.99%) Cloud Native
2 49 (25.26%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (10.82%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.64%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (4.12%) AI Agents
6 6 (3.09%) NHS
6 6 (3.09%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.58%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (2.58%) Mainframe
8 4 (2.06%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.06%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.55%) Equities
9 3 (1.55%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (1.03%) Educational Technology
10 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.03%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.03%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 31 (15.98%) Linux
2 3 (1.55%) Windows
3 2 (1.03%) AIX
3 2 (1.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (65.46%) CI/CD
2 101 (52.06%) Microservices
3 89 (45.88%) Agile
4 88 (45.36%) DevOps
5 81 (41.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 73 (37.63%) Event-Driven
7 49 (25.26%) Containerisation
8 47 (24.23%) Software Engineering
9 43 (22.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 43 (22.16%) Observability
10 41 (21.13%) AI
10 41 (21.13%) TDD
11 40 (20.62%) Scrum
12 31 (15.98%) Test Automation
13 30 (15.46%) LLM
14 28 (14.43%) Full-Stack Development
15 27 (13.92%) Kanban
16 25 (12.89%) BDD
16 25 (12.89%) Data Modelling
17 24 (12.37%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 65 (33.51%) Python
2 60 (30.93%) Java
3 53 (27.32%) SQL
4 46 (23.71%) TypeScript
5 39 (20.10%) C#
6 30 (15.46%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.09%) Groovy
7 6 (3.09%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.06%) Go
8 4 (2.06%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.06%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.55%) Bash
9 3 (1.55%) Scala
10 1 (0.52%) C++
10 1 (0.52%) Elixir
10 1 (0.52%) Gremlin
10 1 (0.52%) Haskell
10 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.52%) Ruby
10 1 (0.52%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 60 (30.93%) Security Cleared
2 51 (26.29%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.70%) DV Cleared
4 12 (6.19%) AWS Certification
5 10 (5.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.09%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.55%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.03%) Degree
9 2 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.15%) Data Quality
1 10 (5.15%) GDPR
2 9 (4.64%) QA
3 6 (3.09%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.55%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.03%) NCSC
System Software
1 71 (36.60%) Docker
2 11 (5.67%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 86 (44.33%) Terraform
2 50 (25.77%) Kubernetes
3 32 (16.49%) Grafana
4 11 (5.67%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.06%) Argo
6 2 (1.03%) Ansible
6 2 (1.03%) Sysdig
7 1 (0.52%) Consul
7 1 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.52%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.52%) Packer
7 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (8.76%) Jaspersoft
2 14 (7.22%) Atlassian
3 13 (6.70%) Databricks
4 12 (6.19%) Google
5 9 (4.64%) Microsoft
6 7 (3.61%) Splunk
7 5 (2.58%) Amplitude
7 5 (2.58%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.58%) Sybase
8 3 (1.55%) Confluent
8 3 (1.55%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.03%) Cisco
9 2 (1.03%) Oracle
9 2 (1.03%) SAP
9 2 (1.03%) VMware
10 1 (0.52%) Brio
10 1 (0.52%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.52%) New Relic
10 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.52%) SnapLogic