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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 395 497
Rank change year-on-year -76 +102 +15
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 196 159 74
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.49% 0.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.05% 1.30% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 117 55
10th Percentile £400 £394 £375
25th Percentile £463 £425 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% -3.81% -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £641
90th Percentile £806 £775 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -20.88%
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 18,592 12,186 13,848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.27% 37.39% 33.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,293 8,155 9,692
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £418 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -4.67% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.13% -1.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 609 314 319
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.11 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.75 £18.22 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.71 £27.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.49% +25.00% -37.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.50 £50.13
90th Percentile £83.35 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £20.00
% change year-on-year +98.73% -5.65% -25.93%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -43 162 £528 +5.60% 39
London -49 85 £550 - 23
UK excluding London -70 83 £525 +5.00% 18
Work from Home -76 67 £563 +12.50% 19
North of England -59 31 £513 +2.50% 10
Midlands -32 28 £475 -5.00% 2
West Midlands -41 25 £475 -5.00% 1
North West -37 16 £525 +5.00% 5
South East -63 10 £611 +6.28% 3
Scotland -13 9 £553 +14.68%
Yorkshire -52 9 £525 +17.98% 2
North East -39 6 £456 -20.65% 3
South West -35 4 £466 +24.33% 2
East of England -23 2 £350 -34.88% 1
East Midlands - 2 £453 - 1
Wales - 1 £550 -

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 (8.16%) Apache
2 10 (5.10%) Confluence
3 9 (4.59%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.55%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.04%) OpenStack
6 2 (1.02%) CMS
7 1 (0.51%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.51%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 191 (97.45%) AWS
2 126 (64.29%) Serverless
3 122 (62.24%) AWS Lambda
4 113 (57.65%) Amazon S3
5 65 (33.16%) Amazon EventBridge
6 54 (27.55%) Amazon ECS
7 51 (26.02%) GitHub
8 47 (23.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 45 (22.96%) GitHub Actions
10 44 (22.45%) AWS Step Functions
11 41 (20.92%) Amazon EC2
12 39 (19.90%) Azure
13 37 (18.88%) Amazon EKS
14 28 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
15 23 (11.73%) AWS KMS
16 19 (9.69%) Route 53
17 18 (9.18%) GCP
18 17 (8.67%) SaaS
19 16 (8.16%) Power Platform
20 13 (6.63%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.59%) HTTP
2 2 (1.02%) NetScaler
2 2 (1.02%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.51%) DNS
3 1 (0.51%) SMS
3 1 (0.51%) SSL
3 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (40.31%) DynamoDB
2 56 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 49 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
4 38 (19.39%) Amazon Aurora
5 22 (11.22%) Amazon Athena
6 20 (10.20%) MongoDB
6 20 (10.20%) MySQL
7 16 (8.16%) Power BI
8 13 (6.63%) NoSQL
9 12 (6.12%) Data Lake
9 12 (6.12%) Relational Database
10 10 (5.10%) SQL Server
11 9 (4.59%) BigQuery
12 8 (4.08%) Metadata
12 8 (4.08%) Mixpanel
12 8 (4.08%) OLAP
13 7 (3.57%) DocumentDB
13 7 (3.57%) OLTP
13 7 (3.57%) Redis
14 5 (2.55%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 64 (32.65%) Git
2 50 (25.51%) Jenkins
3 40 (20.41%) GitLab
4 25 (12.76%) Maven
5 22 (11.22%) JUnit
6 21 (10.71%) Mockito
6 21 (10.71%) SonarQube
7 15 (7.65%) Claude Code
8 14 (7.14%) DbUnit
9 13 (6.63%) JIRA
9 13 (6.63%) jMock
10 11 (5.61%) Bitbucket Server
11 10 (5.10%) Cypress.io
11 10 (5.10%) Mocha
12 7 (3.57%) Cucumber
13 6 (3.06%) MSTest
13 6 (3.06%) tSQLt
14 5 (2.55%) Gradle
15 4 (2.04%) MLflow
15 4 (2.04%) Snyk
General
1 50 (25.51%) Public Sector
2 39 (19.90%) Social Skills
3 17 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.65%) Finance
5 8 (4.08%) Banking
6 4 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.02%) Law
8 2 (1.02%) Legal
9 1 (0.51%) Front Office
9 1 (0.51%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.51%) Publishing
9 1 (0.51%) Retail
9 1 (0.51%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 72 (36.73%) Developer
2 48 (24.49%) Senior
3 37 (18.88%) AWS Engineer
4 33 (16.84%) Java Developer
5 26 (13.27%) Architect
6 24 (12.24%) Lead
7 23 (11.73%) Software Engineer
8 21 (10.71%) Senior Developer
9 17 (8.67%) Data Engineer
10 15 (7.65%) Full-Stack Developer
11 14 (7.14%) Python Engineer
12 13 (6.63%) AWS Developer
12 13 (6.63%) Principal Engineer
13 12 (6.12%) Senior Software Engineer
14 11 (5.61%) Senior Java Developer
15 10 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
15 10 (5.10%) Lambda Engineer
15 10 (5.10%) Solutions Architect
16 9 (4.59%) AWS Software Engineer
16 9 (4.59%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (36.22%) REST
2 57 (29.08%) Node.js
3 48 (24.49%) Kafka
4 45 (22.96%) Spring Boot
5 41 (20.92%) Spring
6 33 (16.84%) React
7 31 (15.82%) .NET
7 31 (15.82%) AngularJS
8 29 (14.80%) RESTful
9 28 (14.29%) Web Services
10 26 (13.27%) JPA
11 23 (11.73%) AWS CDK
12 20 (10.20%) ActiveMQ
12 20 (10.20%) Hibernate
13 19 (9.69%) SOAP
14 18 (9.18%) Spring Batch
14 18 (9.18%) Spring Cloud
14 18 (9.18%) Spring Integration
15 14 (7.14%) OAuth
16 13 (6.63%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 63 (32.14%) Cloud Native
2 50 (25.51%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (11.22%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.59%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (4.08%) AI Agents
6 6 (3.06%) NHS
6 6 (3.06%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.55%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (2.55%) Mainframe
8 4 (2.04%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.04%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.53%) Equities
9 3 (1.53%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (1.02%) Educational Technology
10 2 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.02%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 31 (15.82%) Linux
2 3 (1.53%) Unix
2 3 (1.53%) Windows
3 2 (1.02%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (65.31%) CI/CD
2 103 (52.55%) Microservices
3 91 (46.43%) Agile
4 86 (43.88%) DevOps
5 79 (40.31%) Infrastructure as Code
6 75 (38.27%) Event-Driven
7 49 (25.00%) Containerisation
8 48 (24.49%) Software Engineering
9 46 (23.47%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 45 (22.96%) Observability
11 44 (22.45%) TDD
12 40 (20.41%) AI
12 40 (20.41%) Scrum
13 31 (15.82%) Test Automation
14 30 (15.31%) Full-Stack Development
15 29 (14.80%) LLM
16 27 (13.78%) Kanban
17 25 (12.76%) BDD
17 25 (12.76%) Data Modelling
17 25 (12.76%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 64 (32.65%) Python
2 60 (30.61%) Java
3 53 (27.04%) SQL
4 48 (24.49%) TypeScript
5 38 (19.39%) C#
6 30 (15.31%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.06%) Groovy
7 6 (3.06%) T-SQL
8 5 (2.55%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.04%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.53%) Bash
10 3 (1.53%) Go
10 3 (1.53%) Scala
11 1 (0.51%) C++
11 1 (0.51%) Elixir
11 1 (0.51%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.51%) Haskell
11 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.51%) Ruby
11 1 (0.51%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 59 (30.10%) Security Cleared
2 50 (25.51%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.63%) DV Cleared
4 12 (6.12%) AWS Certification
5 9 (4.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.06%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.53%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.02%) Degree
9 2 (1.02%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.12%) QA
2 10 (5.10%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.59%) GDPR
4 7 (3.57%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.53%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.02%) NCSC
System Software
1 72 (36.73%) Docker
2 11 (5.61%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 83 (42.35%) Terraform
2 52 (26.53%) Kubernetes
3 31 (15.82%) Grafana
4 11 (5.61%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.04%) Argo
6 2 (1.02%) Ansible
6 2 (1.02%) Sysdig
7 1 (0.51%) Consul
7 1 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.51%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.51%) Packer
7 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (8.67%) Jaspersoft
2 14 (7.14%) Atlassian
3 12 (6.12%) Databricks
4 11 (5.61%) Google
5 9 (4.59%) Microsoft
6 7 (3.57%) Splunk
7 5 (2.55%) Amplitude
7 5 (2.55%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.55%) Sybase
8 4 (2.04%) Confluent
8 4 (2.04%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.02%) Cisco
9 2 (1.02%) Oracle
9 2 (1.02%) SAP
9 2 (1.02%) VMware
10 1 (0.51%) Brio
10 1 (0.51%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.51%) New Relic
10 1 (0.51%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.51%) SnapLogic