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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 - 101
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 3 0 15
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.14% - 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.40% - 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £403 - £317
25th Percentile £406 - £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £398
75th Percentile £469 - £454
90th Percentile £488 - £482
England median daily rate £503 £675 £575
% change year-on-year -25.56% +17.39% -

All Cloud 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 748 597 658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 34.94% 32.39% 34.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 388 486
10th Percentile £305 £213 £200
25th Percentile £429 £372 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £461
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +8.40% -7.75%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £588
90th Percentile £700 £688 £688
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 8
10th Percentile £25.12 £16.46 £17.50
25th Percentile £27.21 £17.00 £17.69
Median hourly rate £28.61 £30.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.35% +66.89% +8.12%
75th Percentile £41.56 £35.00 £19.38
90th Percentile £63.95 - £30.33
England median hourly rate £25.47 £32.00 £25.45
% change year-on-year -20.41% +25.74% +13.11%

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 30 November 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
Birmingham - 2 £463 -
Shropshire - 1 £400 -
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 2 (66.67%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EventBridge
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) AWS KMS
3 1 (33.33%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (33.33%) DbUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) jMock
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Maven
2 1 (33.33%) Mockito
2 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) SOAP
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) JSON
2 2 (66.67%) OAuth
2 2 (66.67%) OAuth2
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (66.67%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (33.33%) Bootstrap
3 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 1 (33.33%) JPA
3 1 (33.33%) PowerMock
3 1 (33.33%) Spring
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Batch
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Mapping
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Pega
2 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (33.33%) Jaspersoft