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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 89 111
Rank change year-on-year -55 +22 -
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 16 7 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.54% 0.52% 0.052%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.71% 1.49% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £356 - -
25th Percentile £420 £525 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £398
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +38.36% -
75th Percentile £502 £575 £409
90th Percentile £553 - -
England median daily rate £534 £523 £563
% change year-on-year +2.06% -7.02% -3.52%

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 937 471 478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.85% 35.18% 24.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 677 339 369
10th Percentile £313 £200 £213
25th Percentile £404 £400 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +11.11% -10.89%
75th Percentile £575 £602 £600
90th Percentile £662 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 16 9
10th Percentile - £15.25 £14.08
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.63 £19.95
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.13 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.89% -30.27% +46.73%
75th Percentile £44.16 £23.62 £26.50
90th Percentile £67.84 £38.49 £55.00
England median hourly rate £42.69 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +61.08% +26.19% -18.69%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon SQS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram 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 3 April 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 -13 9 £475 - 1
Solihull -6 8 - - 2
Staffordshire -1 1 £313 -43.18%
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 (18.75%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 12 (75.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 11 (68.75%) Amazon EC2
3 11 (68.75%) AWS KMS
3 11 (68.75%) Route 53
4 7 (43.75%) Azure
5 5 (31.25%) Serverless
6 4 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (18.75%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (12.50%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (12.50%) GitHub
9 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (87.50%) DynamoDB
2 13 (81.25%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (68.75%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (100.00%) Git
2 12 (75.00%) Jenkins
3 11 (68.75%) JUnit
3 11 (68.75%) Maven
3 11 (68.75%) Mockito
3 11 (68.75%) SonarQube
4 9 (56.25%) DbUnit
4 9 (56.25%) jMock
5 7 (43.75%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (18.75%) JIRA
7 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
General
1 11 (68.75%) Public Sector
2 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (93.75%) Developer
2 12 (75.00%) Java Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Senior
3 4 (25.00%) Senior Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 1 (6.25%) AWS Developer
6 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Lead
6 1 (6.25%) Lead Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Node.js Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Server Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Serverless Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (81.25%) REST
2 12 (75.00%) Node.js
2 12 (75.00%) Spring
2 12 (75.00%) Spring Boot
2 12 (75.00%) Web Services
3 11 (68.75%) ActiveMQ
3 11 (68.75%) AngularJS
3 11 (68.75%) Hibernate
3 11 (68.75%) JPA
3 11 (68.75%) SOAP
3 11 (68.75%) Spring Batch
3 11 (68.75%) Spring Cloud
3 11 (68.75%) Spring Integration
4 9 (56.25%) PowerMock
5 8 (50.00%) RESTful
6 7 (43.75%) Bootstrap
7 3 (18.75%) React
8 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (6.25%) Kafka
8 1 (6.25%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 12 (75.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Agile
2 13 (81.25%) DevOps
2 13 (81.25%) Microservices
3 12 (75.00%) Scrum
3 12 (75.00%) TDD
4 11 (68.75%) CI/CD
4 11 (68.75%) Containerisation
5 9 (56.25%) Kanban
6 8 (50.00%) BPMN
7 7 (43.75%) BDD
7 7 (43.75%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (43.75%) Open Source
8 6 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (31.25%) Biometrics
9 5 (31.25%) Decision-Making
10 3 (18.75%) Event-Driven
10 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Automation
10 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
10 3 (18.75%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) Java
2 9 (56.25%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
4 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (68.75%) Security Cleared
2 10 (62.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) AWS Certification
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 13 (81.25%) Docker
2 8 (50.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 11 (68.75%) Grafana
2 3 (18.75%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Jaspersoft
2 9 (56.25%) Atlassian
3 1 (6.25%) Splunk