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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 466 403 507
Rank change year-on-year -63 +104 +4
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 185 156 79
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.48% 0.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.00% 1.28% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 116 59
10th Percentile £400 £400 £375
25th Percentile £463 £425 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.45% -4.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £627 £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 18,579 12,154 14,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.31% 37.45% 33.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,330 8,142 9,946
10th Percentile £328 £313 £308
25th Percentile £416 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.20% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £615 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £730 £742
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 615 310 353
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.24 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +23.32% -36.29%
75th Percentile £69.88 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £83.55 £67.05 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +98.73% -10.14% -21.50%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -74 154 £538 +7.50% 95
London -55 82 £550 +3.77% 23
UK excluding London -71 78 £525 +5.00% 91
Work from Home -81 66 £575 +15.00% 86
North of England -60 28 £525 +5.00% 26
Midlands -42 26 £475 -5.00% 15
West Midlands -53 24 £475 -5.00% 5
North West -34 17 £525 +16.67% 13
South East -57 10 £611 +6.28% 15
Scotland -6 9 £553 +14.68% 6
Yorkshire -51 8 £438 -16.67% 7
South West -30 4 £466 +24.33% 8
North East -39 3 £413 -28.26% 6
East of England -22 2 £350 -34.88% 10
East Midlands - 1 £425 - 10
Wales - 1 £550 - 7

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 (8.65%) Apache
2 10 (5.41%) Apache Spark
2 10 (5.41%) Confluence
3 5 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.70%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.62%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.08%) CMS
6 1 (0.54%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.54%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.54%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 180 (97.30%) AWS
2 123 (66.49%) Serverless
3 120 (64.86%) AWS Lambda
4 112 (60.54%) Amazon S3
5 59 (31.89%) Amazon EventBridge
6 52 (28.11%) Amazon ECS
7 47 (25.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 47 (25.41%) GitHub
8 43 (23.24%) Amazon EC2
9 41 (22.16%) AWS Step Functions
9 41 (22.16%) GitHub Actions
10 38 (20.54%) Azure
11 35 (18.92%) Amazon EKS
12 28 (15.14%) AWS CloudFormation
13 22 (11.89%) AWS KMS
14 19 (10.27%) Route 53
15 17 (9.19%) Power Platform
16 16 (8.65%) GCP
16 16 (8.65%) SaaS
17 12 (6.49%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.32%) HTTP
2 2 (1.08%) NetScaler
2 2 (1.08%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.54%) DNS
3 1 (0.54%) SMS
3 1 (0.54%) SSL
3 1 (0.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (38.92%) DynamoDB
2 51 (27.57%) PostgreSQL
3 49 (26.49%) Amazon RDS
4 37 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 22 (11.89%) Amazon Athena
6 17 (9.19%) Power BI
7 15 (8.11%) MySQL
8 14 (7.57%) MongoDB
9 12 (6.49%) Data Lake
10 10 (5.41%) BigQuery
10 10 (5.41%) Relational Database
10 10 (5.41%) SQL Server
11 9 (4.86%) Mixpanel
11 9 (4.86%) NoSQL
12 8 (4.32%) DocumentDB
12 8 (4.32%) OLAP
12 8 (4.32%) OLTP
12 8 (4.32%) Redis
13 7 (3.78%) Metadata
14 5 (2.70%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 59 (31.89%) Git
2 46 (24.86%) Jenkins
3 36 (19.46%) GitLab
4 25 (13.51%) Maven
5 22 (11.89%) JUnit
6 21 (11.35%) Mockito
6 21 (11.35%) SonarQube
7 14 (7.57%) Claude Code
7 14 (7.57%) DbUnit
8 13 (7.03%) JIRA
8 13 (7.03%) jMock
9 11 (5.95%) Bitbucket Server
10 10 (5.41%) Cypress.io
11 7 (3.78%) Cucumber
11 7 (3.78%) Mocha
12 6 (3.24%) MSTest
12 6 (3.24%) tSQLt
13 5 (2.70%) Gradle
14 4 (2.16%) MLflow
14 4 (2.16%) Snyk
General
1 49 (26.49%) Public Sector
2 36 (19.46%) Social Skills
3 16 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.57%) Finance
5 7 (3.78%) Banking
6 4 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.08%) Law
8 2 (1.08%) Legal
9 1 (0.54%) Front Office
9 1 (0.54%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.54%) Publishing
9 1 (0.54%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 68 (36.76%) Developer
2 45 (24.32%) Senior
3 36 (19.46%) AWS Engineer
4 32 (17.30%) Java Developer
5 26 (14.05%) Lead
6 23 (12.43%) Architect
7 21 (11.35%) Senior Developer
7 21 (11.35%) Software Engineer
8 16 (8.65%) Data Engineer
9 14 (7.57%) Python Engineer
10 13 (7.03%) AWS Developer
10 13 (7.03%) Principal Engineer
11 12 (6.49%) Full-Stack Developer
12 11 (5.95%) Senior Java Developer
13 10 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
13 10 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
14 9 (4.86%) Lambda Engineer
14 9 (4.86%) Principal Data Engineer
14 9 (4.86%) Software Developer
15 8 (4.32%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (35.68%) REST
2 52 (28.11%) Node.js
3 44 (23.78%) Spring Boot
4 40 (21.62%) Kafka
4 40 (21.62%) Spring
5 32 (17.30%) React
6 31 (16.76%) .NET
7 30 (16.22%) AngularJS
7 30 (16.22%) RESTful
8 27 (14.59%) Web Services
9 26 (14.05%) JPA
10 22 (11.89%) AWS CDK
11 20 (10.81%) ActiveMQ
11 20 (10.81%) Hibernate
12 19 (10.27%) SOAP
13 18 (9.73%) Spring Batch
13 18 (9.73%) Spring Cloud
13 18 (9.73%) Spring Integration
14 14 (7.57%) OAuth
15 13 (7.03%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 61 (32.97%) Cloud Native
2 46 (24.86%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (11.35%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.86%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (4.32%) AI Agents
6 6 (3.24%) NHS
6 6 (3.24%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (2.70%) Mainframe
8 4 (2.16%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.16%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.62%) Equities
9 3 (1.62%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (1.08%) Educational Technology
10 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.08%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 30 (16.22%) Linux
2 3 (1.62%) Windows
3 2 (1.08%) AIX
3 2 (1.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (65.41%) CI/CD
2 97 (52.43%) Microservices
3 87 (47.03%) DevOps
4 85 (45.95%) Agile
5 79 (42.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 65 (35.14%) Event-Driven
7 49 (26.49%) Containerisation
8 45 (24.32%) Software Engineering
9 40 (21.62%) AI
9 40 (21.62%) Observability
10 39 (21.08%) Scrum
10 39 (21.08%) TDD
11 37 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 29 (15.68%) LLM
12 29 (15.68%) Test Automation
13 27 (14.59%) Kanban
14 26 (14.05%) Full-Stack Development
15 25 (13.51%) BDD
16 24 (12.97%) Mentoring
17 23 (12.43%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 64 (34.59%) Python
2 58 (31.35%) Java
3 52 (28.11%) SQL
4 43 (23.24%) TypeScript
5 39 (21.08%) C#
6 29 (15.68%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.24%) T-SQL
8 5 (2.70%) Groovy
9 4 (2.16%) Go
9 4 (2.16%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.62%) Bash
10 3 (1.62%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.62%) Scala
11 1 (0.54%) C++
11 1 (0.54%) Elixir
11 1 (0.54%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.54%) Haskell
11 1 (0.54%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.54%) Ruby
11 1 (0.54%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 56 (30.27%) Security Cleared
2 48 (25.95%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.49%) AWS Certification
3 12 (6.49%) DV Cleared
4 10 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.24%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (2.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.62%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.08%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.08%) Degree
8 2 (1.08%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.41%) Data Quality
1 10 (5.41%) GDPR
2 9 (4.86%) QA
3 6 (3.24%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.62%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.08%) NCSC
System Software
1 68 (36.76%) Docker
2 11 (5.95%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 83 (44.86%) Terraform
2 47 (25.41%) Kubernetes
3 32 (17.30%) Grafana
4 11 (5.95%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.16%) Argo
6 2 (1.08%) Ansible
6 2 (1.08%) Sysdig
7 1 (0.54%) Consul
7 1 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.54%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.54%) Packer
7 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.54%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (9.19%) Jaspersoft
2 14 (7.57%) Atlassian
3 13 (7.03%) Databricks
4 12 (6.49%) Google
5 9 (4.86%) Microsoft
6 7 (3.78%) Splunk
7 5 (2.70%) Amplitude
7 5 (2.70%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.70%) Sybase
8 3 (1.62%) Confluent
8 3 (1.62%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.08%) Cisco
9 2 (1.08%) Oracle
9 2 (1.08%) VMware
10 1 (0.54%) IBM
10 1 (0.54%) New Relic
10 1 (0.54%) SAP
10 1 (0.54%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.54%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.54%) Virgin Media