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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 404 491
Rank change year-on-year -80 +87 +14
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 193 167 76
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.50% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.02% 1.35% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 124 56
10th Percentile £400 £390 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -6.98% -6.52%
75th Percentile £638 £597 £700
90th Percentile £794 £775 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 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 £66.25 £44.38 -
90th Percentile - £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 18,835 12,336 13,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.31% 37.27% 33.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,437 8,263 9,280
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £411 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £622 £616 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 628 313 274
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.17 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £23.98
Median % change year-on-year +29.09% +14.70% -31.50%
75th Percentile £69.52 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £83.08 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.11 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +86.06% -11.70% -20.11%

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 August 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 2 August 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 -74 162 £529 +5.80% 50
London -50 84 £550 +3.77% 33
UK excluding London -63 83 £500 - 18
Work from Home -89 62 £589 +17.75% 22
North of England -56 31 £500 - 10
Midlands -36 29 £475 -5.00% 3
West Midlands -48 25 £475 -5.00% 2
North West -45 15 £525 +5.00% 4
South East -63 10 £611 +22.23% 1
Yorkshire -43 9 £525 +34.62% 4
North East -35 7 £413 -28.26% 2
Scotland -8 6 £553 +17.61%
South West -35 5 £463 +23.33% 3
East of England -14 3 £350 -34.88% 1
East Midlands - 3 £450 - 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 12 (6.22%) Apache
2 10 (5.18%) Confluence
3 7 (3.63%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.59%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.07%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (1.04%) CMS
8 1 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
8 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
1 188 (97.41%) AWS
2 123 (63.73%) Serverless
3 119 (61.66%) AWS Lambda
4 106 (54.92%) Amazon S3
5 65 (33.68%) Amazon EventBridge
6 56 (29.02%) Amazon ECS
7 52 (26.94%) GitHub
8 47 (24.35%) GitHub Actions
9 46 (23.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 44 (22.80%) AWS Step Functions
11 42 (21.76%) Amazon EKS
12 37 (19.17%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (18.65%) Azure
14 28 (14.51%) AWS CloudFormation
15 24 (12.44%) AWS KMS
16 19 (9.84%) Route 53
17 17 (8.81%) GCP
17 17 (8.81%) SaaS
18 15 (7.77%) Snowflake
19 14 (7.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.11%) HTTP
2 2 (1.04%) NetScaler
2 2 (1.04%) 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 82 (42.49%) DynamoDB
2 58 (30.05%) PostgreSQL
3 48 (24.87%) Amazon RDS
4 37 (19.17%) Amazon Aurora
5 24 (12.44%) MySQL
6 21 (10.88%) Amazon Athena
6 21 (10.88%) MongoDB
7 17 (8.81%) NoSQL
8 14 (7.25%) Power BI
9 12 (6.22%) Data Lake
9 12 (6.22%) Relational Database
10 9 (4.66%) SQL Server
11 8 (4.15%) BigQuery
12 7 (3.63%) Metadata
12 7 (3.63%) OLAP
13 6 (3.11%) DocumentDB
13 6 (3.11%) Mixpanel
13 6 (3.11%) OLTP
13 6 (3.11%) Redis
14 5 (2.59%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 68 (35.23%) Git
2 52 (26.94%) Jenkins
3 39 (20.21%) GitLab
4 25 (12.95%) JUnit
4 25 (12.95%) Maven
5 24 (12.44%) Mockito
6 21 (10.88%) SonarQube
7 15 (7.77%) Claude Code
8 14 (7.25%) DbUnit
9 13 (6.74%) jMock
10 12 (6.22%) JIRA
11 11 (5.70%) Bitbucket Server
11 11 (5.70%) Mocha
12 10 (5.18%) Cypress.io
13 7 (3.63%) Cucumber
14 6 (3.11%) MSTest
14 6 (3.11%) tSQLt
15 5 (2.59%) Gradle
16 4 (2.07%) Snyk
17 3 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 46 (23.83%) Public Sector
2 38 (19.69%) Social Skills
3 17 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.29%) Finance
5 10 (5.18%) Banking
6 5 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.04%) Law
9 2 (1.04%) Legal
10 1 (0.52%) Front Office
10 1 (0.52%) Marketing
10 1 (0.52%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Publishing
10 1 (0.52%) Retail
10 1 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 71 (36.79%) Developer
2 49 (25.39%) Senior
3 41 (21.24%) AWS Engineer
4 33 (17.10%) Java Developer
5 26 (13.47%) Architect
6 24 (12.44%) Software Engineer
7 22 (11.40%) Lead
8 20 (10.36%) Senior Developer
9 16 (8.29%) Data Engineer
9 16 (8.29%) Full-Stack Developer
10 13 (6.74%) AWS Developer
10 13 (6.74%) AWS Software Engineer
10 13 (6.74%) Python Engineer
10 13 (6.74%) Senior Software Engineer
11 11 (5.70%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (5.70%) Principal Engineer
11 11 (5.70%) Senior Java Developer
12 10 (5.18%) Lambda Engineer
12 10 (5.18%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (4.66%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (38.86%) REST
2 53 (27.46%) Node.js
3 52 (26.94%) Kafka
4 49 (25.39%) Spring Boot
5 45 (23.32%) Spring
6 31 (16.06%) .NET
6 31 (16.06%) AngularJS
6 31 (16.06%) RESTful
7 29 (15.03%) React
8 27 (13.99%) Web Services
9 26 (13.47%) JPA
10 20 (10.36%) ActiveMQ
10 20 (10.36%) AWS CDK
10 20 (10.36%) Hibernate
11 19 (9.84%) SOAP
12 18 (9.33%) Spring Batch
12 18 (9.33%) Spring Cloud
12 18 (9.33%) Spring Integration
13 13 (6.74%) Jest
13 13 (6.74%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 63 (32.64%) Cloud Native
2 54 (27.98%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (10.36%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.15%) AI Agents
4 8 (4.15%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.11%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.59%) Distributed Architecture
6 5 (2.59%) Mainframe
7 4 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.07%) NHS
8 3 (1.55%) Equities
8 3 (1.55%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.04%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.04%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.04%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.52%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 32 (16.58%) Linux
2 4 (2.07%) Unix
3 3 (1.55%) Windows
4 2 (1.04%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (67.36%) CI/CD
2 107 (55.44%) Microservices
3 92 (47.67%) Agile
4 87 (45.08%) DevOps
5 80 (41.45%) Event-Driven
6 76 (39.38%) Infrastructure as Code
7 52 (26.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 49 (25.39%) Observability
8 49 (25.39%) Software Engineering
9 48 (24.87%) Containerisation
10 44 (22.80%) TDD
11 38 (19.69%) AI
11 38 (19.69%) Scrum
12 35 (18.13%) Test Automation
13 30 (15.54%) Full-Stack Development
14 26 (13.47%) Data Modelling
14 26 (13.47%) LLM
14 26 (13.47%) Performance Tuning
15 25 (12.95%) BDD
15 25 (12.95%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 64 (33.16%) Java
2 62 (32.12%) Python
3 54 (27.98%) SQL
4 45 (23.32%) TypeScript
5 36 (18.65%) C#
6 29 (15.03%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.11%) Groovy
7 6 (3.11%) Shell Script
7 6 (3.11%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.07%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.55%) Bash
9 3 (1.55%) Scala
10 2 (1.04%) Go
11 1 (0.52%) C++
11 1 (0.52%) Elixir
11 1 (0.52%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.52%) Haskell
11 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.52%) Ruby
11 1 (0.52%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 58 (30.05%) Security Cleared
2 51 (26.42%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.25%) DV Cleared
4 11 (5.70%) AWS Certification
5 9 (4.66%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.11%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (2.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.55%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.04%) Degree
9 2 (1.04%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.22%) QA
2 8 (4.15%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.15%) GDPR
3 5 (2.59%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.04%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.04%) NCSC
5 1 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 73 (37.82%) Docker
2 11 (5.70%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 80 (41.45%) Terraform
2 53 (27.46%) Kubernetes
3 29 (15.03%) Grafana
4 11 (5.70%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.07%) Argo
6 2 (1.04%) Ansible
6 2 (1.04%) 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 (8.81%) Jaspersoft
2 14 (7.25%) Atlassian
3 9 (4.66%) Databricks
3 9 (4.66%) Google
3 9 (4.66%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.63%) Splunk
5 6 (3.11%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.59%) Amplitude
6 5 (2.59%) Confluent
6 5 (2.59%) Dynatrace
6 5 (2.59%) Sybase
7 2 (1.04%) Cisco
7 2 (1.04%) Oracle
7 2 (1.04%) SAP
7 2 (1.04%) VMware
8 1 (0.52%) Brio
8 1 (0.52%) New Relic
8 1 (0.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.52%) SnapLogic