Amazon SQS Contracts

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Amazon SQS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon SQS over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 501 480 572
Rank change year-on-year -21 +92 -197
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 90 235 301
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.39% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.64% 1.06% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 177 186
10th Percentile £449 £453 £413
25th Percentile £497 £500 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £658 £675 £650
90th Percentile £702 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £563 £513
% change year-on-year +2.22% +9.76% +10.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Amazon SQS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,094 22,273 34,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.29% 36.93% 38.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,003 16,076 25,045
10th Percentile £300 £325 £355
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £632 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -2.00% +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 360 431
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.06 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £33.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.78% +56.98% -4.44%
75th Percentile £35.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £76.20 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £24.00 £18.75
% change year-on-year -26.19% +28.00% -3.85%

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 23 April 2024.

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 12 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 23 April 2024. 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 +7 80 £575 -4.17% 34
London +23 54 £575 -8.00% 21
Work from Home +34 37 £575 - 21
UK excluding London +14 29 £575 +2.22% 14
North of England +29 18 £600 -7.69% 6
North West +32 17 £625 - 4
East of England +15 4 - -
South East +3 4 £595 +19.00% 4
Scotland +16 2 £476 -1.60% 2
Yorkshire +18 1 £575 -11.54% 2
Midlands - 1 £350 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £350 -

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 (11.11%) Apache
1 10 (11.11%) Apache Spark
1 10 (11.11%) Confluence
2 6 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.33%) nginx
3 3 (3.33%) OpenStack
3 3 (3.33%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.22%) GeoServer
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 90 (100.00%) AWS
2 64 (71.11%) Amazon S3
3 47 (52.22%) Serverless
4 44 (48.89%) Amazon EC2
5 42 (46.67%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
7 19 (21.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 16 (17.78%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (16.67%) Amazon ECR
10 14 (15.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (15.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (15.56%) Route 53
11 13 (14.44%) Amazon EventBridge
12 11 (12.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 10 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
13 10 (11.11%) Amazon MSK
14 9 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
15 8 (8.89%) AWS Fargate
16 7 (7.78%) Azure
16 7 (7.78%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.78%) FTP
2 4 (4.44%) Firewall
2 4 (4.44%) OpenLDAP
3 2 (2.22%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (34.44%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (15.56%) DynamoDB
4 13 (14.44%) Relational Database
5 11 (12.22%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (12.22%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (12.22%) NoSQL
6 8 (8.89%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (8.89%) Big Data
7 7 (7.78%) MySQL
8 6 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (6.67%) RDBMS
9 5 (5.56%) MongoDB
10 2 (2.22%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (2.22%) Apache Hive
10 2 (2.22%) GIS
10 2 (2.22%) Hadoop
10 2 (2.22%) Presto
10 2 (2.22%) SAP Data Services
10 2 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (28.89%) Git
2 23 (25.56%) GitLab
3 20 (22.22%) Jenkins
4 17 (18.89%) JIRA
5 15 (16.67%) Maven
6 12 (13.33%) JUnit
7 10 (11.11%) Cucumber
7 10 (11.11%) TestNG
8 9 (10.00%) webpack
9 8 (8.89%) Mockito
9 8 (8.89%) Selenium
10 5 (5.56%) Bitbucket
10 5 (5.56%) EasyMock
10 5 (5.56%) Mocha
11 4 (4.44%) Gradle
12 3 (3.33%) Cypress.io
12 3 (3.33%) JMeter
12 3 (3.33%) SoapUI
12 3 (3.33%) SonarQube
12 3 (3.33%) WebDriver
General
1 16 (17.78%) Social Skills
2 6 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.56%) Manufacturing
3 5 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (4.44%) Retail
5 3 (3.33%) Marketing
6 2 (2.22%) Banking
6 2 (2.22%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (2.22%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.22%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.11%) Finance
7 1 (1.11%) Front Office
7 1 (1.11%) Games
7 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (44.44%) Developer
2 18 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 15 (16.67%) Lead
4 13 (14.44%) AWS Developer
5 11 (12.22%) Architect
6 9 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (8.89%) Backend Developer
8 7 (7.78%) AWS Architect
8 7 (7.78%) Data Engineer
8 7 (7.78%) Senior
9 6 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
9 6 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (6.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 5 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) Python Developer
10 5 (5.56%) Senior Developer
10 5 (5.56%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) Technical Leader
11 4 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (30.00%) Spring Boot
2 26 (28.89%) Node.js
2 26 (28.89%) Spring
3 25 (27.78%) REST
4 16 (17.78%) React
5 13 (14.44%) Kafka
6 10 (11.11%) Express.js
7 9 (10.00%) JAX-RS
7 9 (10.00%) Lambda Expressions
7 9 (10.00%) Redux
8 8 (8.89%) Web Services
8 8 (8.89%) WireMock
9 7 (7.78%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (7.78%) Hibernate
9 7 (7.78%) JPA
9 7 (7.78%) RESTful
10 6 (6.67%) JSON
10 6 (6.67%) Mustache
10 6 (6.67%) Spring Security
11 5 (5.56%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.67%) Cloud Native
1 6 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.33%) Private Cloud
3 3 (3.33%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.33%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (2.22%) Video on Demand
4 2 (2.22%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.11%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.11%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.11%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.44%) Linux
2 3 (3.33%) Unix
3 1 (1.11%) CentOS
3 1 (1.11%) Windows
3 1 (1.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 40 (44.44%) Agile
3 27 (30.00%) Containerisation
3 27 (30.00%) Microservices
4 26 (28.89%) DevOps
5 25 (27.78%) Test Automation
6 19 (21.11%) Scrum
7 18 (20.00%) ETL
8 14 (15.56%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (14.44%) Front End Development
10 11 (12.22%) End-to-End Testing
10 11 (12.22%) Full Stack Development
11 10 (11.11%) OOP
12 9 (10.00%) API Development
12 9 (10.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
12 9 (10.00%) Customer Engagement
12 9 (10.00%) QA Automation
12 9 (10.00%) Software Engineering
13 8 (8.89%) Data Pipeline
13 8 (8.89%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 49 (54.44%) Java
2 32 (35.56%) Python
3 19 (21.11%) SQL
4 18 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 13 (14.44%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.56%) C#
6 5 (5.56%) Kotlin
7 3 (3.33%) PHP
7 3 (3.33%) Scala
7 3 (3.33%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.22%) C
9 1 (1.11%) Bash
9 1 (1.11%) Go
Qualifications
1 36 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 35 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.00%) QA
2 2 (2.22%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.11%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.11%) GDPR
3 1 (1.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (27.78%) Docker
2 5 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 39 (43.33%) Kubernetes
2 30 (33.33%) Terraform
3 4 (4.44%) Ansible
3 4 (4.44%) Packer
4 3 (3.33%) Grafana
4 3 (3.33%) Kustomize
5 1 (1.11%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 8 (8.89%) SAP
2 7 (7.78%) Informatica
2 7 (7.78%) Talend
3 4 (4.44%) Palo Alto
3 4 (4.44%) Salesforce
3 4 (4.44%) VMware
4 3 (3.33%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.33%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.22%) Adobe
5 2 (2.22%) Oracle
5 2 (2.22%) Sitecore
5 2 (2.22%) Splunk
6 1 (1.11%) Dell
6 1 (1.11%) Google
6 1 (1.11%) Intel
6 1 (1.11%) New Relic