Amazon SQS Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Amazon SQS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 87 115
Rank change year-on-year -59 +28 -
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 11 7 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.39% 0.53% 0.051%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.21% 1.51% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 £525 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £398
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +38.36% -
75th Percentile £544 £575 £409
90th Percentile £578 - -
England median daily rate £538 £600 £569
% change year-on-year -10.42% +5.49% -4.41%

All Cloud Computing Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 911 465 510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.93% 34.94% 25.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 668 332 400
10th Percentile £313 £200 £212
25th Percentile £406 £393 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% +11.11% -10.89%
75th Percentile £575 £611 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 16 11
10th Percentile £22.05 £15.25 £14.13
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.63 £17.63
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.13 £19.95
Median % change year-on-year +37.89% -9.12% +12.58%
75th Percentile £27.50 £23.62 £26.50
90th Percentile £37.45 £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £26.50 £21.19
% change year-on-year +41.51% +25.09% -16.10%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Amazon SQS job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Amazon SQS
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 March 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
Birmingham -21 7 £475 -
Solihull -6 6 - - 2
Amazon SQS
England

Amazon SQS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (27.27%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (81.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 9 (81.82%) Amazon EC2
2 9 (81.82%) AWS KMS
2 9 (81.82%) Route 53
3 5 (45.45%) Azure
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Serverless
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (90.91%) DynamoDB
1 10 (90.91%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (81.82%) Amazon Aurora
2 9 (81.82%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (100.00%) Git
2 10 (90.91%) Jenkins
3 9 (81.82%) JUnit
3 9 (81.82%) Maven
3 9 (81.82%) Mockito
3 9 (81.82%) SonarQube
4 7 (63.64%) DbUnit
4 7 (63.64%) jMock
5 5 (45.45%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (27.27%) JIRA
7 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
General
1 9 (81.82%) Public Sector
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Developer
2 10 (90.91%) Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (90.91%) REST
1 10 (90.91%) Spring
1 10 (90.91%) Spring Boot
1 10 (90.91%) Web Services
2 9 (81.82%) ActiveMQ
2 9 (81.82%) AngularJS
2 9 (81.82%) Hibernate
2 9 (81.82%) JPA
2 9 (81.82%) Node.js
2 9 (81.82%) SOAP
2 9 (81.82%) Spring Batch
2 9 (81.82%) Spring Cloud
2 9 (81.82%) Spring Integration
3 7 (63.64%) PowerMock
4 5 (45.45%) Bootstrap
4 5 (45.45%) RESTful
5 2 (18.18%) React
6 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (9.09%) Kafka
6 1 (9.09%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Agile
2 10 (90.91%) Microservices
2 10 (90.91%) Scrum
2 10 (90.91%) TDD
3 9 (81.82%) Containerisation
4 8 (72.73%) BPMN
4 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
4 8 (72.73%) DevOps
5 7 (63.64%) Kanban
6 6 (54.55%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (45.45%) BDD
7 5 (45.45%) Biometrics
7 5 (45.45%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (45.45%) Open Source
8 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
10 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Engineering
10 2 (18.18%) Digital Identity
10 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
10 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Java
2 7 (63.64%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) Python
4 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 7 (63.64%) SC Cleared
3 3 (27.27%) AWS Certification
3 3 (27.27%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 10 (90.91%) Docker
2 6 (54.55%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 9 (81.82%) Grafana
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Jaspersoft
2 7 (63.64%) Atlassian
3 1 (9.09%) Splunk