Amazon SQS Contract Job Trends in West London

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring Amazon SQS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West London 2.85% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.82% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £591 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 - -
75th Percentile £614 - -
90th Percentile £640 - -
London median daily rate £550 £675 £550
% change year-on-year -18.52% +22.73% -8.33%

All Cloud Skills
West London

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 in West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 132 85 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 41.77% 39.53% 32.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 70 104
10th Percentile £300 £249 £143
25th Percentile £405 £363 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £439 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.03% -12.30% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £580
90th Percentile £625 £594 £624
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 8
10th Percentile £28.75 - £31.25
25th Percentile £31.00 - £51.31
Median hourly rate £36.00 £22.27 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.65% -65.74% -7.14%
75th Percentile £42.00 £23.26 £77.50
90th Percentile £44.85 £27.09 £86.50
London median hourly rate £26.30 £31.50 £37.75
% change year-on-year -16.51% -16.56% +23.77%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon SQS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West London.

Amazon SQS job vacancy trend in West London

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Amazon SQS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Amazon SQS

Amazon SQS
Contract Job Locations in West London

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 West London region over the 6 months to 24 December 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
Richmond upon Thames - 6 £603 -
Amazon SQS
London

Amazon SQS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London 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 8 (88.89%) Apache
1 8 (88.89%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (88.89%) Amazon S3
2 8 (88.89%) AWS CloudFormation
2 8 (88.89%) Azure
2 8 (88.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 8 (88.89%) Collibra
2 8 (88.89%) GCP
2 8 (88.89%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) Amazon Athena
1 8 (88.89%) BigQuery
1 8 (88.89%) Data Lake
1 8 (88.89%) Mixpanel
1 8 (88.89%) OLAP
1 8 (88.89%) OLTP
1 8 (88.89%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Data Analytics Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Data Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Principal Data Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Principal Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Principal Software Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Python Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) Kafka
2 8 (88.89%) Great Expectations
3 1 (11.11%) J2EE
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) AI
1 8 (88.89%) Analytics
1 8 (88.89%) Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
1 8 (88.89%) Data Architecture
1 8 (88.89%) Data Engineering
1 8 (88.89%) Data Governance
1 8 (88.89%) Data Modelling
1 8 (88.89%) Data Privacy
1 8 (88.89%) DevOps
1 8 (88.89%) Dimensional Modelling
1 8 (88.89%) Disaster Recovery
1 8 (88.89%) ETL
1 8 (88.89%) Infrastructure as Code
1 8 (88.89%) Machine Learning
1 8 (88.89%) MapReduce
1 8 (88.89%) Monte Carlo Method
1 8 (88.89%) Observability
1 8 (88.89%) RBAC
1 8 (88.89%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Python
2 8 (88.89%) C#
2 8 (88.89%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (88.89%) Data Quality
1 8 (88.89%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Databricks
1 8 (88.89%) Google