Amazon SQS Contracts

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Amazon SQS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon SQS over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 490 475
Rank change year-on-year +103 -15 +93
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 138 86 210
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.20% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.25% 0.62% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 67 162
10th Percentile £400 £445 £450
25th Percentile £425 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £627 £694 £675
90th Percentile £775 £709 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £543 £563
% change year-on-year -7.83% -3.56% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud 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 11,033 13,828 20,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.49% 32.49% 36.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,582 9,830 15,157
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £623 £634 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 348 336
10th Percentile £15.14 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.05 £18.44
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.37 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.98% -38.94% +56.25%
75th Percentile £46.30 £36.16 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £65.75 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.28 £17.72 £25.87
% change year-on-year +20.09% -31.49% +31.80%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon SQS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon SQS in the UK

Amazon SQS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon SQS.

Daily rate trend for Amazon SQS in the UK

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon SQS over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon SQS in the UK

Amazon SQS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon SQS.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon SQS in the UK

Amazon SQS
Top 14 Contract 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 17 May 2025. 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 +92 102 £503 -8.64% 107
Work from Home +78 72 £500 -12.09% 68
London +48 63 £484 -12.05% 65
UK excluding London +61 39 £500 -7.83% 52
North of England +19 17 £500 -13.04% 21
Midlands +29 12 £525 +50.00% 9
West Midlands +18 12 £525 +50.00% 6
North West +9 8 £500 -14.71% 17
Scotland +10 5 £482 +1.21% 4
North East - 5 £575 - 1
Yorkshire +17 4 £600 +4.35% 3
South East +43 2 £500 -15.97% 10
East of England - 2 £600 - 3
South West - 1 - - 3

Amazon SQS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (7.25%) Documentum
1 10 (7.25%) FileNet
2 4 (2.90%) Confluence
3 3 (2.17%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.17%) Jupyter
3 3 (2.17%) nginx
4 2 (1.45%) Apache
4 2 (1.45%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.72%) JBoss
5 1 (0.72%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.72%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.72%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.72%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.72%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (1.45%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 138 (100.00%) AWS
2 97 (70.29%) Serverless
3 85 (61.59%) AWS Lambda
4 77 (55.80%) Amazon S3
5 55 (39.86%) Amazon EC2
6 39 (28.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 34 (24.64%) Amazon ECS
8 33 (23.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 19 (13.77%) GitHub
10 17 (12.32%) AWS KMS
11 15 (10.87%) SaaS
12 13 (9.42%) AWS Step Functions
13 12 (8.70%) Amazon EventBridge
14 11 (7.97%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
14 11 (7.97%) CloudFront
15 10 (7.25%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (7.25%) Route 53
16 9 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
17 8 (5.80%) Amazon ECR
18 7 (5.07%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.80%) HTTP
2 5 (3.62%) SSL
3 4 (2.90%) SMS
4 3 (2.17%) DNS
4 3 (2.17%) IPsec
4 3 (2.17%) Kerberos
5 2 (1.45%) Firewall
5 2 (1.45%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.72%) Network Security
6 1 (0.72%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (34.06%) Amazon RDS
2 45 (32.61%) DynamoDB
3 38 (27.54%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (13.04%) Amazon Aurora
5 13 (9.42%) Redis
6 11 (7.97%) Relational Database
7 10 (7.25%) NoSQL
8 9 (6.52%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (6.52%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (6.52%) DocumentDB
8 9 (6.52%) MySQL
9 6 (4.35%) MongoDB
10 4 (2.90%) GIS
10 4 (2.90%) RDBMS
11 3 (2.17%) Data Lake
11 3 (2.17%) Metadata
11 3 (2.17%) Metadata Repository
12 2 (1.45%) Apache Hive
12 2 (1.45%) Big Data
12 2 (1.45%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 28 (20.29%) Git
1 28 (20.29%) Jenkins
2 19 (13.77%) GitLab
3 18 (13.04%) SonarQube
4 11 (7.97%) Mockito
5 10 (7.25%) JUnit
5 10 (7.25%) Maven
6 6 (4.35%) Mocha
7 5 (3.62%) Bitbucket
7 5 (3.62%) git-flow
8 4 (2.90%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (2.90%) DbUnit
8 4 (2.90%) JIRA
8 4 (2.90%) jMock
9 3 (2.17%) Artifactory
9 3 (2.17%) Cypress.io
9 3 (2.17%) ESLint
9 3 (2.17%) Postman
9 3 (2.17%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (1.45%) PHPUnit
General
1 35 (25.36%) Public Sector
2 15 (10.87%) Finance
3 13 (9.42%) Banking
3 13 (9.42%) Social Skills
4 8 (5.80%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.35%) Front Office
6 3 (2.17%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.17%) Marketing
6 3 (2.17%) Retail
7 2 (1.45%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.45%) Military
7 2 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.72%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.72%) Electronics
8 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.72%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.72%) Spanish Language
8 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (44.20%) Developer
2 21 (15.22%) Senior
3 20 (14.49%) Software Engineer
4 18 (13.04%) Architect
4 18 (13.04%) Java Developer
5 16 (11.59%) AWS Engineer
5 16 (11.59%) Full-Stack Developer
6 14 (10.14%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (9.42%) AWS Developer
8 11 (7.97%) Lead
9 10 (7.25%) Python Engineer
10 9 (6.52%) JavaScript Engineer
10 9 (6.52%) Node.js Developer
10 9 (6.52%) Security Architect
11 7 (5.07%) Data Engineer
11 7 (5.07%) JavaScript Developer
11 7 (5.07%) Lead Developer
11 7 (5.07%) Senior Software Engineer
12 6 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
12 6 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (33.33%) Node.js
2 42 (30.43%) React
3 25 (18.12%) Spring Boot
4 23 (16.67%) Spring
5 22 (15.94%) AWS CDK
6 20 (14.49%) REST
7 17 (12.32%) Web Services
8 14 (10.14%) HTML
8 14 (10.14%) Kafka
9 12 (8.70%) Sass
9 12 (8.70%) WebSockets
10 11 (7.97%) CSS
10 11 (7.97%) Jest
11 10 (7.25%) Express.js
11 10 (7.25%) Hibernate
11 10 (7.25%) Nunjucks
11 10 (7.25%) RESTful
12 9 (6.52%) AngularJS
13 7 (5.07%) GraphQL
13 7 (5.07%) hapi
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.25%) Onboarding
2 9 (6.52%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.52%) CSOC
2 9 (6.52%) Security Operations Centre
3 8 (5.80%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (2.17%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.17%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.17%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.17%) Vector Graphics
7 2 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.45%) Tandem
8 1 (0.72%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.72%) Video on Demand
8 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.59%) Linux
2 11 (7.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.72%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (0.72%) CentOS
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (0.72%) Unix
3 1 (0.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (45.65%) CI/CD
2 59 (42.75%) Agile
3 55 (39.86%) DevOps
4 49 (35.51%) Microservices
5 29 (21.01%) Infrastructure as Code
6 27 (19.57%) Software Engineering
7 24 (17.39%) Full-Stack Development
8 23 (16.67%) Containerisation
9 19 (13.77%) Test Automation
10 17 (12.32%) TDD
11 16 (11.59%) Event-Driven
12 14 (10.14%) Mentoring
13 12 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (8.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 11 (7.97%) Continuous Integration
14 11 (7.97%) Fintech
14 11 (7.97%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (7.97%) Scrum
15 10 (7.25%) Architectural Patterns
15 10 (7.25%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 51 (36.96%) JavaScript
2 50 (36.23%) Java
2 50 (36.23%) Python
3 23 (16.67%) SQL
4 22 (15.94%) TypeScript
5 10 (7.25%) Rust
6 6 (4.35%) T-SQL
7 3 (2.17%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.45%) Bash
8 2 (1.45%) Go
8 2 (1.45%) PHP
8 2 (1.45%) R
9 1 (0.72%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 52 (37.68%) Security Cleared
2 50 (36.23%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.42%) AWS Certification
4 7 (5.07%) AWS Certified Developer
5 5 (3.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (3.62%) Degree
6 4 (2.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.35%) QA
2 2 (1.45%) GDPR
2 2 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.45%) WCAG
3 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.72%) NIST
3 1 (0.72%) SOC 2
System Software
1 47 (34.06%) Docker
2 5 (3.62%) Postfix
3 3 (2.17%) RACF
4 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 61 (44.20%) Terraform
2 30 (21.74%) Kubernetes
3 20 (14.49%) Ansible
4 17 (12.32%) Prometheus
5 15 (10.87%) Grafana
6 6 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.17%) Kibana
7 3 (2.17%) Packer
8 1 (0.72%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.72%) Istio
8 1 (0.72%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.72%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (13.04%) Splunk
2 15 (10.87%) Oracle
3 4 (2.90%) Atlassian
3 4 (2.90%) Jaspersoft
4 3 (2.17%) Databricks
4 3 (2.17%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.72%) Actifio
5 1 (0.72%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.72%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.72%) New Relic
5 1 (0.72%) OpenText
5 1 (0.72%) Rollbar
5 1 (0.72%) SAP