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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 393 514
Rank change year-on-year -91 +121 -14
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 178 159 79
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.49% 0.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.96% 1.30% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 118 59
10th Percentile £400 £400 £375
25th Percentile £463 £428 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% -3.81% -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £619
90th Percentile £850 £775 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £476
% change year-on-year +5.00% +4.99% -17.17%
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 18,631 12,266 14,180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.36% 37.53% 33.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,358 8,213 9,943
10th Percentile £328 £313 £309
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.99% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £734 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 618 313 353
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.78 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.06 £27.76 £22.30
Median % change year-on-year +33.50% +24.48% -36.29%
75th Percentile £69.27 £48.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £82.56 £70.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.94 £21.00
% change year-on-year +98.05% -9.83% -20.75%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -86 148 £529 +4.75% 47
UK excluding London -61 77 £525 +5.00% 27
London -64 77 £550 +1.85% 27
Work from Home -79 62 £575 +15.00% 20
North of England -63 28 £525 +5.00% 11
Midlands -39 25 £475 -5.00% 4
West Midlands -57 23 £475 -5.00% 1
North West -42 17 £525 +16.67% 7
South East -67 10 £611 +6.28% 4
Scotland -11 9 £553 +14.68%
Yorkshire -49 8 £438 -16.67% 1
South West -30 4 £466 +24.33% 6
North East -34 3 £413 -28.26% 3
East of England -22 2 £350 -34.88%
East Midlands - 1 £425 - 3
Wales - 1 £550 - 2

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 16 (8.99%) Apache
2 10 (5.62%) Apache Spark
2 10 (5.62%) Confluence
3 5 (2.81%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.81%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.69%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.12%) CMS
6 1 (0.56%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.56%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 173 (97.19%) AWS
2 120 (67.42%) Serverless
3 117 (65.73%) AWS Lambda
4 107 (60.11%) Amazon S3
5 57 (32.02%) Amazon EventBridge
6 49 (27.53%) Amazon ECS
7 46 (25.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 45 (25.28%) GitHub
9 42 (23.60%) Amazon EC2
10 40 (22.47%) AWS Step Functions
10 40 (22.47%) GitHub Actions
11 38 (21.35%) Azure
12 33 (18.54%) Amazon EKS
13 25 (14.04%) AWS CloudFormation
14 21 (11.80%) AWS KMS
15 19 (10.67%) Route 53
16 17 (9.55%) Power Platform
17 16 (8.99%) SaaS
18 15 (8.43%) GCP
19 12 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.93%) HTTP
2 2 (1.12%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.56%) DNS
3 1 (0.56%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.56%) SMS
3 1 (0.56%) SSL
3 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (39.33%) DynamoDB
2 51 (28.65%) PostgreSQL
3 48 (26.97%) Amazon RDS
4 37 (20.79%) Amazon Aurora
5 22 (12.36%) Amazon Athena
6 17 (9.55%) Power BI
7 15 (8.43%) MySQL
8 13 (7.30%) MongoDB
9 12 (6.74%) Data Lake
10 10 (5.62%) Relational Database
10 10 (5.62%) SQL Server
11 9 (5.06%) BigQuery
11 9 (5.06%) Mixpanel
12 8 (4.49%) DocumentDB
12 8 (4.49%) NoSQL
12 8 (4.49%) OLAP
12 8 (4.49%) OLTP
12 8 (4.49%) Redis
13 6 (3.37%) Metadata
14 5 (2.81%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 59 (33.15%) Git
2 43 (24.16%) Jenkins
3 32 (17.98%) GitLab
4 24 (13.48%) Maven
5 22 (12.36%) JUnit
6 21 (11.80%) Mockito
7 20 (11.24%) SonarQube
8 14 (7.87%) Claude Code
8 14 (7.87%) DbUnit
9 13 (7.30%) JIRA
9 13 (7.30%) jMock
10 11 (6.18%) Bitbucket Server
11 8 (4.49%) Cypress.io
12 7 (3.93%) Mocha
13 6 (3.37%) Cucumber
13 6 (3.37%) MSTest
13 6 (3.37%) tSQLt
14 5 (2.81%) Gradle
15 4 (2.25%) MLflow
15 4 (2.25%) Snyk
General
1 48 (26.97%) Public Sector
2 36 (20.22%) Social Skills
3 16 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.30%) Finance
5 6 (3.37%) Banking
6 4 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.12%) Law
8 2 (1.12%) Legal
9 1 (0.56%) Front Office
9 1 (0.56%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Publishing
9 1 (0.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 66 (37.08%) Developer
2 43 (24.16%) Senior
3 35 (19.66%) AWS Engineer
4 31 (17.42%) Java Developer
5 26 (14.61%) Lead
6 21 (11.80%) Architect
7 20 (11.24%) Senior Developer
7 20 (11.24%) Software Engineer
8 16 (8.99%) Data Engineer
9 13 (7.30%) AWS Developer
9 13 (7.30%) Principal Engineer
9 13 (7.30%) Python Engineer
10 11 (6.18%) Full-Stack Developer
10 11 (6.18%) Senior Java Developer
11 9 (5.06%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (5.06%) Lambda Engineer
11 9 (5.06%) Principal Data Engineer
11 9 (5.06%) Senior Software Engineer
11 9 (5.06%) Software Developer
12 8 (4.49%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (35.39%) REST
2 50 (28.09%) Node.js
3 41 (23.03%) Spring Boot
4 38 (21.35%) Spring
5 37 (20.79%) Kafka
6 32 (17.98%) React
7 31 (17.42%) .NET
8 30 (16.85%) RESTful
9 29 (16.29%) AngularJS
10 27 (15.17%) Web Services
11 26 (14.61%) JPA
12 21 (11.80%) AWS CDK
13 20 (11.24%) ActiveMQ
13 20 (11.24%) Hibernate
14 19 (10.67%) SOAP
15 18 (10.11%) Spring Batch
15 18 (10.11%) Spring Cloud
15 18 (10.11%) Spring Integration
16 14 (7.87%) OAuth
17 13 (7.30%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 59 (33.15%) Cloud Native
2 44 (24.72%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (11.80%) Product Ownership
4 9 (5.06%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (4.49%) AI Agents
6 6 (3.37%) NHS
6 6 (3.37%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.81%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (2.81%) Mainframe
8 4 (2.25%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.25%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.69%) Equities
9 3 (1.69%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.12%) Educational Technology
10 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.12%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.12%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.56%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 29 (16.29%) Linux
2 2 (1.12%) Unix
2 2 (1.12%) Windows
3 1 (0.56%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (64.61%) CI/CD
2 94 (52.81%) Microservices
3 83 (46.63%) DevOps
4 81 (45.51%) Agile
5 77 (43.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 62 (34.83%) Event-Driven
7 48 (26.97%) Containerisation
8 43 (24.16%) Software Engineering
9 39 (21.91%) AI
10 38 (21.35%) Observability
10 38 (21.35%) TDD
11 37 (20.79%) Scrum
12 34 (19.10%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 29 (16.29%) Test Automation
14 28 (15.73%) LLM
15 25 (14.04%) Kanban
16 24 (13.48%) BDD
16 24 (13.48%) Full-Stack Development
17 23 (12.92%) Mentoring
18 22 (12.36%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 62 (34.83%) Python
2 54 (30.34%) Java
3 51 (28.65%) SQL
4 41 (23.03%) TypeScript
5 39 (21.91%) C#
6 29 (16.29%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.37%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.25%) Go
8 4 (2.25%) Groovy
8 4 (2.25%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.69%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.12%) Bash
10 2 (1.12%) Scala
11 1 (0.56%) C
11 1 (0.56%) C++
11 1 (0.56%) Elixir
11 1 (0.56%) Haskell
11 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.56%) Ruby
11 1 (0.56%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 53 (29.78%) Security Cleared
2 45 (25.28%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.18%) AWS Certification
3 11 (6.18%) DV Cleared
4 10 (5.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.37%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.69%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.12%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.12%) Degree
8 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.62%) Data Quality
1 10 (5.62%) GDPR
2 9 (5.06%) QA
3 5 (2.81%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.69%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 65 (36.52%) Docker
2 11 (6.18%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 81 (45.51%) Terraform
2 43 (24.16%) Kubernetes
3 32 (17.98%) Grafana
4 11 (6.18%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.25%) Argo
6 2 (1.12%) Ansible
6 2 (1.12%) Sysdig
7 1 (0.56%) Consul
7 1 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.56%) Packer
7 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (9.55%) Jaspersoft
2 14 (7.87%) Atlassian
3 13 (7.30%) Databricks
4 11 (6.18%) Google
5 9 (5.06%) Microsoft
6 7 (3.93%) Splunk
7 5 (2.81%) Amplitude
7 5 (2.81%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.81%) Sybase
8 3 (1.69%) Confluent
8 3 (1.69%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.12%) Oracle
10 1 (0.56%) Cisco
10 1 (0.56%) IBM
10 1 (0.56%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.56%) SAP
10 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.56%) SnapLogic
10 1 (0.56%) Solace
10 1 (0.56%) TIBCO