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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 483 379 506
Rank change year-on-year -104 +127 +7
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 172 157 81
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.51% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.95% 1.34% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 116 60
10th Percentile £400 £400 £374
25th Percentile £463 £425 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £501 £538
Median % change year-on-year +9.73% -6.74% -6.52%
75th Percentile £638 £627 £663
90th Percentile £853 £775 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -11.30%
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 18,201 11,694 14,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.37% 37.76% 32.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,105 7,832 10,022
10th Percentile £331 £313 £303
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% -3.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £623 £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 610 295 359
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.10
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.31 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £27.76 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.09% +26.18% -37.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.43 £72.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £18.87 £20.97
% change year-on-year +102.70% -10.01% -18.48%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -92 144 £540 +7.20% 48
London -72 75 £550 +6.02% 24
UK excluding London -88 74 £525 +5.00% 27
Work from Home -76 59 £575 +15.00% 24
North of England -61 28 £525 +5.00% 13
Midlands -40 25 £475 -5.00% 6
West Midlands -51 23 £475 -5.00% 1
North West -40 17 £525 +16.67% 8
South East -51 9 £616 +23.20% 4
Scotland -6 8 £553 +14.68% 2
Yorkshire -41 8 £438 -16.67% 2
North East -30 3 £413 -28.26% 3
East of England -21 2 £350 -34.88%
South West -33 2 £519 +38.33% 2
Wales - 1 £550 -
East Midlands - 1 £425 - 5

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 15 (8.72%) Apache
2 11 (6.40%) Apache Spark
3 10 (5.81%) Confluence
4 5 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.91%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.16%) CMS
5 2 (1.16%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.58%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.58%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.58%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 167 (97.09%) AWS
2 118 (68.60%) Serverless
3 116 (67.44%) AWS Lambda
4 107 (62.21%) Amazon S3
5 56 (32.56%) Amazon EventBridge
6 48 (27.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 48 (27.91%) Amazon ECS
7 45 (26.16%) GitHub
8 43 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
9 40 (23.26%) GitHub Actions
10 39 (22.67%) AWS Step Functions
11 38 (22.09%) Azure
12 32 (18.60%) Amazon EKS
13 28 (16.28%) AWS CloudFormation
14 21 (12.21%) AWS KMS
15 20 (11.63%) Route 53
16 18 (10.47%) Power Platform
17 16 (9.30%) GCP
18 13 (7.56%) SaaS
19 11 (6.40%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.07%) HTTP
2 2 (1.16%) DNS
2 2 (1.16%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.58%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.58%) SMS
3 1 (0.58%) SSL
3 1 (0.58%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (41.28%) DynamoDB
2 50 (29.07%) Amazon RDS
3 48 (27.91%) PostgreSQL
4 37 (21.51%) Amazon Aurora
5 23 (13.37%) Amazon Athena
6 18 (10.47%) Power BI
7 15 (8.72%) MySQL
8 13 (7.56%) Data Lake
8 13 (7.56%) MongoDB
9 10 (5.81%) BigQuery
9 10 (5.81%) Mixpanel
9 10 (5.81%) NoSQL
9 10 (5.81%) SQL Server
10 9 (5.23%) DocumentDB
10 9 (5.23%) OLAP
10 9 (5.23%) OLTP
10 9 (5.23%) Redis
10 9 (5.23%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.91%) Big Data
12 4 (2.33%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 57 (33.14%) Git
2 42 (24.42%) Jenkins
3 32 (18.60%) GitLab
4 24 (13.95%) Maven
5 23 (13.37%) JUnit
6 21 (12.21%) Mockito
7 20 (11.63%) SonarQube
8 14 (8.14%) DbUnit
9 13 (7.56%) Claude Code
9 13 (7.56%) JIRA
9 13 (7.56%) jMock
10 11 (6.40%) Bitbucket Server
11 8 (4.65%) Cypress.io
12 7 (4.07%) Mocha
13 6 (3.49%) Cucumber
13 6 (3.49%) MSTest
13 6 (3.49%) tSQLt
14 5 (2.91%) Gradle
15 4 (2.33%) MLflow
15 4 (2.33%) Snyk
General
1 48 (27.91%) Public Sector
2 33 (19.19%) Social Skills
3 16 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.40%) Finance
5 5 (2.91%) Banking
6 4 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.16%) Law
8 2 (1.16%) Legal
9 1 (0.58%) Front Office
9 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (36.63%) Developer
2 42 (24.42%) Senior
3 33 (19.19%) AWS Engineer
4 31 (18.02%) Java Developer
5 26 (15.12%) Lead
6 21 (12.21%) Senior Developer
6 21 (12.21%) Software Engineer
7 19 (11.05%) Architect
8 17 (9.88%) Data Engineer
9 14 (8.14%) Principal Engineer
10 13 (7.56%) Python Engineer
11 12 (6.98%) AWS Developer
11 12 (6.98%) Senior Java Developer
12 11 (6.40%) Full-Stack Developer
13 10 (5.81%) Principal Data Engineer
14 9 (5.23%) Cloud Engineer
14 9 (5.23%) Senior Software Engineer
14 9 (5.23%) Software Developer
15 8 (4.65%) Lead Data Engineer
16 7 (4.07%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (34.30%) REST
2 48 (27.91%) Node.js
3 41 (23.84%) Spring Boot
4 38 (22.09%) Spring
5 37 (21.51%) Kafka
6 31 (18.02%) React
7 30 (17.44%) RESTful
8 29 (16.86%) AngularJS
9 28 (16.28%) .NET
10 27 (15.70%) JPA
11 26 (15.12%) Web Services
12 21 (12.21%) Hibernate
13 20 (11.63%) ActiveMQ
13 20 (11.63%) AWS CDK
14 19 (11.05%) SOAP
14 19 (11.05%) Spring Cloud
15 18 (10.47%) Spring Batch
15 18 (10.47%) Spring Integration
16 14 (8.14%) OAuth
17 13 (7.56%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 58 (33.72%) Cloud Native
2 43 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (12.21%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (4.07%) AI Agents
6 6 (3.49%) NHS
7 5 (2.91%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (2.91%) Mainframe
7 5 (2.91%) Virtual Team
8 4 (2.33%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.33%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.74%) Equities
9 3 (1.74%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.16%) Educational Technology
10 2 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.16%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.16%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.58%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 26 (15.12%) Linux
2 2 (1.16%) Unix
3 1 (0.58%) AIX
3 1 (0.58%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (65.12%) CI/CD
2 91 (52.91%) Microservices
3 83 (48.26%) DevOps
4 78 (45.35%) Agile
5 77 (44.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 56 (32.56%) Event-Driven
7 47 (27.33%) Containerisation
8 44 (25.58%) Software Engineering
9 40 (23.26%) AI
10 38 (22.09%) Observability
10 38 (22.09%) TDD
11 37 (21.51%) Scrum
12 31 (18.02%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 29 (16.86%) LLM
13 29 (16.86%) Test Automation
14 25 (14.53%) Kanban
15 24 (13.95%) BDD
15 24 (13.95%) Full-Stack Development
16 23 (13.37%) Mentoring
17 22 (12.79%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 63 (36.63%) Python
2 52 (30.23%) Java
3 51 (29.65%) SQL
4 41 (23.84%) TypeScript
5 37 (21.51%) C#
6 28 (16.28%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.49%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.33%) Go
8 4 (2.33%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.16%) Bash
9 2 (1.16%) Groovy
9 2 (1.16%) Scala
10 1 (0.58%) C
10 1 (0.58%) C++
10 1 (0.58%) Elixir
10 1 (0.58%) Gremlin
10 1 (0.58%) Haskell
10 1 (0.58%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.58%) Ruby
10 1 (0.58%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 50 (29.07%) Security Cleared
2 42 (24.42%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.98%) AWS Certification
4 10 (5.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (5.23%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.49%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.74%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.74%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.16%) Degree
9 2 (1.16%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.40%) Data Quality
1 11 (6.40%) GDPR
2 10 (5.81%) QA
3 5 (2.91%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.74%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.16%) NCSC
6 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.58%) NIST
6 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 66 (38.37%) Docker
2 11 (6.40%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 81 (47.09%) Terraform
2 43 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 32 (18.60%) Grafana
4 11 (6.40%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.33%) Argo
6 2 (1.16%) Ansible
6 2 (1.16%) Sysdig
7 1 (0.58%) Consul
7 1 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.58%) Packer
7 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.58%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (9.88%) Jaspersoft
2 14 (8.14%) Atlassian
2 14 (8.14%) Databricks
3 12 (6.98%) Google
4 9 (5.23%) Microsoft
5 7 (4.07%) Splunk
6 6 (3.49%) Sybase
7 5 (2.91%) Amplitude
7 5 (2.91%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.74%) Confluent
8 3 (1.74%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.58%) Cisco
9 1 (0.58%) IBM
9 1 (0.58%) Okta
9 1 (0.58%) Oracle
9 1 (0.58%) SAP
9 1 (0.58%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.58%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.58%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.58%) VMware