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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 106 106
Rank change year-on-year -46 0 +8
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 23 14 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.66% 0.83% 0.054%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.11% 2.65% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 1
10th Percentile £356 £409 -
25th Percentile £420 £459 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £350
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +39.29% -30.00%
75th Percentile £502 £500 £365
90th Percentile £553 - -
England median daily rate £527 £505 £590
% change year-on-year +4.26% -14.41% +2.61%

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 1,092 529 493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.21% 31.23% 26.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 755 341 359
10th Percentile £313 £300 £223
25th Percentile £401 £400 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 8 6
10th Percentile £21.06 £17.70 £15.13
25th Percentile £21.88 £27.19 £17.31
Median hourly rate £33.99 £34.43 £26.69
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% +29.01% +40.46%
75th Percentile £67.84 £41.56 £33.28
90th Percentile £75.00 £58.96 £44.47
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.59
% change year-on-year +36.54% +5.73% -23.92%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -14 10 £475 -2.56%
Solihull -16 10 - - 1
Warwickshire - 2 - -
Staffordshire -5 1 £313 -
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 (8.70%) OpenStack
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (73.91%) Amazon EC2
3 16 (69.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 15 (65.22%) AWS KMS
4 15 (65.22%) Route 53
5 7 (30.43%) Azure
6 6 (26.09%) Serverless
7 4 (17.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (17.39%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (13.04%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (13.04%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (8.70%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (8.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (8.70%) GitHub
9 2 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (4.35%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (78.26%) Amazon RDS
1 18 (78.26%) DynamoDB
1 18 (78.26%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (65.22%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (13.04%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (91.30%) Git
2 17 (73.91%) Jenkins
3 15 (65.22%) JUnit
3 15 (65.22%) Maven
3 15 (65.22%) Mockito
3 15 (65.22%) SonarQube
4 11 (47.83%) Bitbucket Server
4 11 (47.83%) DbUnit
4 11 (47.83%) jMock
5 1 (4.35%) Cypress.io
5 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 15 (65.22%) Public Sector
2 9 (39.13%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (86.96%) Developer
2 17 (73.91%) Java Developer
3 7 (30.43%) Senior
3 7 (30.43%) Senior Developer
4 6 (26.09%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Developer
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Lead
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Node.js Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Server Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Serverless Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (78.26%) REST
2 17 (73.91%) Spring
2 17 (73.91%) Spring Boot
2 17 (73.91%) Web Services
3 15 (65.22%) ActiveMQ
3 15 (65.22%) AngularJS
3 15 (65.22%) Hibernate
3 15 (65.22%) JPA
3 15 (65.22%) Node.js
3 15 (65.22%) SOAP
3 15 (65.22%) Spring Batch
3 15 (65.22%) Spring Integration
4 14 (60.87%) Spring Cloud
5 12 (52.17%) RESTful
6 11 (47.83%) Bootstrap
6 11 (47.83%) PowerMock
7 4 (17.39%) React
8 2 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (8.70%) Kafka
8 2 (8.70%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 15 (65.22%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 13 (56.52%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) AIX
2 2 (8.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (82.61%) Agile
2 18 (78.26%) DevOps
2 18 (78.26%) Microservices
3 17 (73.91%) Scrum
3 17 (73.91%) TDD
4 16 (69.57%) CI/CD
5 15 (65.22%) Containerisation
6 13 (56.52%) Kanban
7 11 (47.83%) Continuous Integration
7 11 (47.83%) Open Source
8 10 (43.48%) BPMN
9 9 (39.13%) BDD
9 9 (39.13%) Decision-Making
10 8 (34.78%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (30.43%) Biometrics
11 7 (30.43%) Stakeholder Management
12 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Automation
13 4 (17.39%) Digital Identity
13 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
13 4 (17.39%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 17 (73.91%) Java
2 15 (65.22%) SQL
3 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (65.22%) Security Cleared
2 14 (60.87%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) AWS Certification
3 3 (13.04%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 18 (78.26%) Docker
2 9 (39.13%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 14 (60.87%) Grafana
2 4 (17.39%) Prometheus
3 3 (13.04%) Terraform
4 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (65.22%) Jaspersoft
2 11 (47.83%) Atlassian
3 2 (8.70%) Cisco
3 2 (8.70%) VMware
4 1 (4.35%) Splunk