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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 464 388 484
Rank change year-on-year -76 +96 +16
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 218 165 87
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.50% 0.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.15% 1.32% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 124 67
10th Percentile £374 £385 £404
25th Percentile £429 £413 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £506 £593
Median % change year-on-year +5.98% -14.56% +6.04%
75th Percentile £638 £581 £738
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £500 £589
% change year-on-year -7.50% -15.07% +2.39%
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 19,022 12,530 13,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.67% 37.88% 34.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,616 8,370 8,741
10th Percentile £325 £312 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
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 622 298 189
10th Percentile £15.26 £15.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.48 £33.54
Median % change year-on-year +13.31% -21.06% -4.17%
75th Percentile £67.50 £52.42 £64.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.08 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £33.00
% change year-on-year +55.68% -41.61% +26.92%

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 26 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 26 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 -73 164 £525 +5.00% 143
UK excluding London -80 87 £463 -7.50% 76
London -63 86 £550 - 79
Work from Home -59 75 £600 +20.00% 72
North of England -68 34 £500 +12.99% 25
Midlands -35 23 £400 -17.95% 7
North West -47 15 £500 +17.65% 16
West Midlands -44 14 £413 -15.38% 4
Scotland -25 11 £553 +5.29% 8
Yorkshire -41 10 £581 +49.04% 4
North East -33 9 £400 -30.43% 5
South East -65 8 £591 +18.13% 11
East Midlands - 8 £400 - 3
South West -35 7 £433 -8.84% 12
East of England -33 4 £348 -35.35% 4
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 11 (5.05%) Confluence
2 10 (4.59%) Apache
3 5 (2.29%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.92%) CMS
5 2 (0.92%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.46%) Appian
6 1 (0.46%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.46%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 213 (97.71%) AWS
2 160 (73.39%) Serverless
3 157 (72.02%) AWS Lambda
4 100 (45.87%) Amazon S3
5 88 (40.37%) Amazon EventBridge
6 69 (31.65%) Amazon ECS
7 66 (30.28%) GitHub
8 59 (27.06%) GitHub Actions
9 55 (25.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 49 (22.48%) Amazon EKS
10 49 (22.48%) AWS Step Functions
11 30 (13.76%) Azure
12 27 (12.39%) Amazon EC2
12 27 (12.39%) AWS CloudFormation
12 27 (12.39%) SaaS
13 19 (8.72%) Snowflake
14 18 (8.26%) AWS KMS
15 15 (6.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 14 (6.42%) AWS Fargate
16 14 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.21%) HTTP
2 4 (1.83%) DNS
3 2 (0.92%) NetScaler
3 2 (0.92%) SSL
3 2 (0.92%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.46%) Firewall
4 1 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.46%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (38.53%) DynamoDB
2 51 (23.39%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (21.56%) Amazon RDS
4 37 (16.97%) MySQL
5 32 (14.68%) Amazon Aurora
5 32 (14.68%) MongoDB
6 21 (9.63%) NoSQL
7 13 (5.96%) Redis
8 11 (5.05%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (5.05%) Relational Database
9 9 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (4.13%) DocumentDB
9 9 (4.13%) Metadata
9 9 (4.13%) SQL Server
10 7 (3.21%) Power BI
11 6 (2.75%) Data Lake
12 5 (2.29%) Big Data
12 5 (2.29%) Hazelcast
12 5 (2.29%) RDBMS
13 4 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 65 (29.82%) Git
2 55 (25.23%) GitLab
3 51 (23.39%) Jenkins
4 21 (9.63%) Maven
5 20 (9.17%) Claude Code
6 17 (7.80%) JUnit
7 14 (6.42%) Mockito
8 13 (5.96%) Cucumber
8 13 (5.96%) JIRA
9 11 (5.05%) Mocha
10 10 (4.59%) SonarQube
11 8 (3.67%) Cypress.io
12 6 (2.75%) DbUnit
12 6 (2.75%) Gradle
12 6 (2.75%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (2.29%) Bitbucket Server
13 5 (2.29%) JMeter
13 5 (2.29%) jMock
13 5 (2.29%) REST Assured
13 5 (2.29%) Selenium
General
1 49 (22.48%) Social Skills
2 44 (20.18%) Public Sector
3 20 (9.17%) Finance
4 13 (5.96%) Banking
5 11 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.38%) Law
8 2 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.92%) Legal
8 2 (0.92%) Police
8 2 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.46%) Front Office
9 1 (0.46%) German Language
9 1 (0.46%) Marketing
9 1 (0.46%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.46%) Publishing
9 1 (0.46%) Retail
9 1 (0.46%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 63 (28.90%) Developer
2 61 (27.98%) Senior
3 54 (24.77%) AWS Engineer
4 33 (15.14%) Architect
5 27 (12.39%) Software Engineer
6 26 (11.93%) Java Developer
7 17 (7.80%) AWS Developer
7 17 (7.80%) Data Engineer
7 17 (7.80%) DevOps Engineer
7 17 (7.80%) Lambda Engineer
8 16 (7.34%) Senior Software Engineer
9 15 (6.88%) Full-Stack Developer
9 15 (6.88%) Python Engineer
10 14 (6.42%) Lead
10 14 (6.42%) Senior Developer
10 14 (6.42%) Solutions Architect
11 13 (5.96%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (5.96%) Software Developer
12 11 (5.05%) AWS Software Engineer
13 10 (4.59%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (44.50%) Terraform
2 86 (39.45%) REST
3 52 (23.85%) Kafka
4 50 (22.94%) Node.js
5 45 (20.64%) .NET
5 45 (20.64%) Spring Boot
6 41 (18.81%) Spring
7 28 (12.84%) AWS CDK
8 27 (12.39%) RESTful
9 26 (11.93%) React
10 22 (10.09%) AngularJS
11 20 (9.17%) FastAPI
11 20 (9.17%) Jest
12 17 (7.80%) .NET Core
12 17 (7.80%) OAuth
12 17 (7.80%) SOAP
13 16 (7.34%) JPA
13 16 (7.34%) Web Services
14 14 (6.42%) Playwright
15 13 (5.96%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 79 (36.24%) Cloud Native
2 55 (25.23%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (10.09%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.13%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (4.13%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.67%) AI Agents
6 7 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.75%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.29%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.83%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.38%) NHS
11 2 (0.92%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.92%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.92%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 30 (13.76%) Linux
2 5 (2.29%) Unix
2 5 (2.29%) Windows
3 2 (0.92%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (65.60%) CI/CD
2 109 (50.00%) Microservices
3 106 (48.62%) Event-Driven
4 99 (45.41%) DevOps
5 88 (40.37%) Agile
6 86 (39.45%) Infrastructure as Code
7 71 (32.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 66 (30.28%) Observability
9 62 (28.44%) Software Engineering
10 54 (24.77%) Containerisation
11 41 (18.81%) Test Automation
12 40 (18.35%) AI
13 34 (15.60%) Scrum
14 31 (14.22%) TDD
15 29 (13.30%) Full-Stack Development
16 28 (12.84%) API Design
17 27 (12.39%) Continuous Improvement
18 25 (11.47%) Data Modelling
19 24 (11.01%) Deployment Automation
19 24 (11.01%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 73 (33.49%) Python
2 57 (26.15%) Java
3 49 (22.48%) SQL
4 48 (22.02%) TypeScript
5 37 (16.97%) C#
6 24 (11.01%) JavaScript
7 8 (3.67%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.21%) Bash
8 7 (3.21%) Groovy
9 4 (1.83%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.38%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.92%) Go
11 2 (0.92%) Scala
12 1 (0.46%) C
12 1 (0.46%) C++
12 1 (0.46%) Haskell
12 1 (0.46%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 66 (30.28%) Security Cleared
2 60 (27.52%) SC Cleared
3 18 (8.26%) AWS Certification
3 18 (8.26%) DV Cleared
4 14 (6.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (3.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (3.21%) Degree
6 4 (1.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (1.83%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.38%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.38%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.92%) ISEB
8 2 (0.92%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.17%) QA
2 8 (3.67%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.29%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.38%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.92%) GDPR
5 2 (0.92%) NCSC
6 1 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 86 (39.45%) Docker
2 4 (1.83%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 71 (32.57%) Kubernetes
2 21 (9.63%) Grafana
3 12 (5.50%) Prometheus
4 9 (4.13%) Ansible
5 5 (2.29%) Argo
5 5 (2.29%) Packer
5 5 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.92%) Consul
6 2 (0.92%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.46%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.46%) Istio
7 1 (0.46%) linkerd
Vendors
1 12 (5.50%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.59%) Oracle
3 9 (4.13%) Dynatrace
4 8 (3.67%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.21%) Confluent
5 7 (3.21%) Jaspersoft
6 6 (2.75%) Atlassian
6 6 (2.75%) Splunk
7 5 (2.29%) Amplitude
8 4 (1.83%) Databricks
9 3 (1.38%) Sybase
9 3 (1.38%) webMethods
10 2 (0.92%) Brio
10 2 (0.92%) Cisco
10 2 (0.92%) Google
10 2 (0.92%) SAP
10 2 (0.92%) VMware
10 2 (0.92%) WSO2
11 1 (0.46%) Okta
11 1 (0.46%) Tealium