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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 105 110
Rank change year-on-year +1 +5 +66
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 13 1 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.71% 0.053% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.20% 0.18% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 2
10th Percentile £409 - £320
25th Percentile £459 £335 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £350 £400
Median % change year-on-year +39.29% -12.50% -56.76%
75th Percentile £500 £365 £450
90th Percentile - - £480
England median daily rate £500 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% -4.17%

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 591 542 730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.30% 28.53% 35.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 364 527
10th Percentile £273 £213 £209
25th Percentile £413 £352 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.89% +1.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £687 £700
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 4
10th Percentile £31.94 £15.83 £17.58
25th Percentile £34.16 £23.55 £17.69
Median hourly rate £35.49 £33.74 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% +82.35% +8.82%
75th Percentile £52.69 £35.00 £19.38
90th Percentile £59.44 £55.50 £19.60
England median hourly rate £26.30 £32.75 £33.00
% change year-on-year -19.69% -0.76% +53.49%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Amazon SQS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon SQS 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 17 September 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 +4 7 £488 +39.29%
Solihull - 4 £500 -
Shropshire - 1 £400 -
Staffordshire - 1 - -
Amazon SQS
England

Amazon SQS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (15.38%) nginx
2 1 (7.69%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (84.62%) Amazon S3
3 10 (76.92%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (53.85%) AWS KMS
4 7 (53.85%) Route 53
5 6 (46.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (30.77%) Serverless
7 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (15.38%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (15.38%) GitHub
9 1 (7.69%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (7.69%) AWS CodeCommit
9 1 (7.69%) AWS CodeDeploy
9 1 (7.69%) Boomi
9 1 (7.69%) OCI
9 1 (7.69%) PaaS
9 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (76.92%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (76.92%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (69.23%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (53.85%) DynamoDB
4 4 (30.77%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (76.92%) Git
1 10 (76.92%) Jenkins
2 9 (69.23%) JUnit
2 9 (69.23%) Maven
2 9 (69.23%) SonarQube
3 7 (53.85%) Mockito
4 5 (38.46%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (38.46%) DbUnit
4 5 (38.46%) jMock
5 3 (23.08%) JIRA
General
1 8 (61.54%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Digital Healthcare
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Developer
2 10 (76.92%) Java Developer
3 4 (30.77%) AWS Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Lead
3 4 (30.77%) Lead Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Lead Java Developer
3 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (92.31%) REST
2 11 (84.62%) SOAP
3 10 (76.92%) Spring
3 10 (76.92%) Spring Boot
4 9 (69.23%) ActiveMQ
4 9 (69.23%) JPA
5 8 (61.54%) RESTful
5 8 (61.54%) Web Services
6 7 (53.85%) AngularJS
6 7 (53.85%) Bootstrap
6 7 (53.85%) Hibernate
6 7 (53.85%) Spring Batch
6 7 (53.85%) Spring Cloud
6 7 (53.85%) Spring Integration
7 5 (38.46%) PowerMock
8 2 (15.38%) HTML
8 2 (15.38%) JSON
8 2 (15.38%) OAuth
8 2 (15.38%) OAuth2
8 2 (15.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Microservices
2 12 (92.31%) Agile
3 10 (76.92%) Containerisation
3 10 (76.92%) Scrum
3 10 (76.92%) TDD
4 9 (69.23%) DevOps
5 8 (61.54%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
7 5 (38.46%) BDD
7 5 (38.46%) Kanban
7 5 (38.46%) Open Source
8 4 (30.77%) Risk Management
8 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (15.38%) API Development
9 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
9 2 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
9 2 (15.38%) High Availability
9 2 (15.38%) Network Load Balancing
10 1 (7.69%) API Integration
10 1 (7.69%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Java
2 8 (61.54%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) Python
4 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.69%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
System Software
1 13 (100.00%) Docker
2 5 (38.46%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Grafana
1 7 (53.85%) Prometheus
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Atlassian
1 5 (38.46%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (15.38%) Pega
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle