Amazon SQS Contracts in the West Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Amazon SQS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon SQS over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 113 123
Rank change year-on-year +21 +10 +48
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 15 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.97% 0.049% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.23% 0.20% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £475 - -
25th Percentile £488 £335 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £350 -
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% - -
75th Percentile - £365 -
90th Percentile £530 - -
England median daily rate £505 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -8.18% -8.33% +2.13%

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 465 494 823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.12% 23.97% 36.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 372 591
10th Percentile £235 £206 £263
25th Percentile £388 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £597 £603 £625
90th Percentile £685 £688 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 4
10th Percentile £17.01 £14.14 £15.54
25th Percentile £21.88 £15.56 £15.98
Median hourly rate £34.43 £22.50 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year +53.02% +11.17% +6.53%
75th Percentile £40.22 £26.50 £24.47
90th Percentile £51.30 £33.19 £25.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +14.32% -33.33% +54.48%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon SQS in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Amazon SQS in the West Midlands

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 5 July 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 +17 7 £500 +42.86% 4
Solihull - 7 £500 -
Staffordshire - 2 £550 - 4
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 (13.33%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (93.33%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (60.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 9 (60.00%) AWS KMS
3 9 (60.00%) Route 53
4 3 (20.00%) Serverless
5 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (13.33%) AWS CodeCommit
5 2 (13.33%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (13.33%) Boomi
5 2 (13.33%) OCI
5 2 (13.33%) PaaS
5 2 (13.33%) SaaS
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (93.33%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (86.67%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (80.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (66.67%) DynamoDB
5 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (86.67%) Jenkins
2 12 (80.00%) Git
2 12 (80.00%) JUnit
2 12 (80.00%) Maven
3 11 (73.33%) SonarQube
4 10 (66.67%) Mockito
5 7 (46.67%) Bitbucket Server
5 7 (46.67%) DbUnit
5 7 (46.67%) jMock
6 2 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 10 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Finance
5 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (100.00%) Developer
2 13 (86.67%) Java Developer
3 6 (40.00%) Lead
3 6 (40.00%) Lead Developer
3 6 (40.00%) Lead Java Developer
4 5 (33.33%) AWS Developer
5 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 3 (20.00%) Senior
6 3 (20.00%) Senior Developer
7 2 (13.33%) Python Developer
7 2 (13.33%) Senior Python Developer
8 1 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (86.67%) REST
1 13 (86.67%) Spring
1 13 (86.67%) Spring Boot
2 12 (80.00%) ActiveMQ
2 12 (80.00%) JPA
2 12 (80.00%) SOAP
3 11 (73.33%) Web Services
4 10 (66.67%) Hibernate
4 10 (66.67%) Spring Cloud
5 9 (60.00%) AngularJS
5 9 (60.00%) Bootstrap
5 9 (60.00%) RESTful
5 9 (60.00%) Spring Batch
5 9 (60.00%) Spring Integration
6 7 (46.67%) PowerMock
7 2 (13.33%) Django
7 2 (13.33%) MACH
8 1 (6.67%) Kafka
8 1 (6.67%) Mustache
8 1 (6.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Agile
1 15 (100.00%) Microservices
2 13 (86.67%) Scrum
2 13 (86.67%) TDD
3 11 (73.33%) Containerisation
3 11 (73.33%) Continuous Integration
4 10 (66.67%) DevOps
5 7 (46.67%) BDD
5 7 (46.67%) Kanban
5 7 (46.67%) Open Source
5 7 (46.67%) Risk Management
6 6 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
8 4 (26.67%) Decision-Making
9 2 (13.33%) CRM
9 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
9 2 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
9 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 2 (13.33%) Load Testing
9 2 (13.33%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (80.00%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (13.33%) Python
4 2 (13.33%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (46.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 15 (100.00%) Docker
2 8 (53.33%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 10 (66.67%) Grafana
1 10 (66.67%) Prometheus
2 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Atlassian
1 7 (46.67%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle