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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 91 112
Rank change year-on-year -48 +21 +8
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 23 16 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.69% 1.08% 0.049%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.29% 3.54% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 1
10th Percentile £356 £475 -
25th Percentile £420 £488 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £350
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +42.86% -
75th Percentile £502 - £365
90th Percentile £553 £530 -
England median daily rate £550 £504 £550
% change year-on-year +9.18% -8.41% -8.33%

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 1,006 452 493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.01% 30.46% 24.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 710 294 372
10th Percentile £313 £227 £206
25th Percentile £400 £388 £349
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £592 £603
90th Percentile £671 £673 £688
England median daily rate £519 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.68% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 6 12
10th Percentile £22.50 £17.01 £14.14
25th Percentile £26.15 £21.88 £15.56
Median hourly rate £33.99 £34.43 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% +53.02% +11.17%
75th Percentile £71.42 £40.22 £26.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £51.30 £33.19
England median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +63.26% +14.32% -31.89%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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
Solihull -10 12 - -
Birmingham -24 11 £475 -5.00% 1
Staffordshire -3 1 £313 -43.18%
Warwickshire - 1 - -
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 (13.04%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 18 (78.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 18 (78.26%) Amazon EC2
3 17 (73.91%) AWS KMS
3 17 (73.91%) Route 53
4 9 (39.13%) Azure
5 5 (21.74%) Serverless
6 4 (17.39%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (13.04%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (8.70%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (8.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (8.70%) GitHub
9 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (4.35%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (86.96%) DynamoDB
2 19 (82.61%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (82.61%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (73.91%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (95.65%) Git
2 18 (78.26%) Jenkins
3 17 (73.91%) JUnit
3 17 (73.91%) Maven
3 17 (73.91%) Mockito
3 17 (73.91%) SonarQube
4 13 (56.52%) DbUnit
4 13 (56.52%) jMock
5 11 (47.83%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (13.04%) JIRA
7 1 (4.35%) Cypress.io
General
1 17 (73.91%) Public Sector
2 9 (39.13%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (91.30%) Developer
2 18 (78.26%) Java Developer
3 7 (30.43%) Senior
3 7 (30.43%) Senior Developer
4 6 (26.09%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Architect
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%) Infrastructure Architect
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 19 (82.61%) REST
2 18 (78.26%) Spring
2 18 (78.26%) Spring Boot
2 18 (78.26%) Web Services
3 17 (73.91%) ActiveMQ
3 17 (73.91%) AngularJS
3 17 (73.91%) Hibernate
3 17 (73.91%) JPA
3 17 (73.91%) SOAP
3 17 (73.91%) Spring Batch
3 17 (73.91%) Spring Integration
4 16 (69.57%) Node.js
4 16 (69.57%) Spring Cloud
5 13 (56.52%) PowerMock
6 12 (52.17%) RESTful
7 11 (47.83%) Bootstrap
8 3 (13.04%) React
9 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (4.35%) Kafka
9 1 (4.35%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 16 (69.57%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 14 (60.87%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) AIX
2 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (86.96%) Agile
2 19 (82.61%) DevOps
2 19 (82.61%) Microservices
3 18 (78.26%) Scrum
3 18 (78.26%) TDD
4 17 (73.91%) Containerisation
5 16 (69.57%) CI/CD
6 15 (65.22%) Kanban
7 12 (52.17%) BPMN
8 11 (47.83%) BDD
8 11 (47.83%) Continuous Integration
8 11 (47.83%) Open Source
9 10 (43.48%) Performance Tuning
10 9 (39.13%) Biometrics
10 9 (39.13%) Decision-Making
10 9 (39.13%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Automation
12 4 (17.39%) Digital Identity
12 4 (17.39%) Risk Management
13 3 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 18 (78.26%) Java
2 15 (65.22%) SQL
3 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (69.57%) Security Cleared
2 15 (65.22%) SC Cleared
3 5 (21.74%) AWS Certification
3 5 (21.74%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 19 (82.61%) Docker
2 11 (47.83%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 16 (69.57%) Grafana
2 4 (17.39%) Prometheus
3 2 (8.70%) Terraform
4 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (73.91%) Jaspersoft
2 13 (56.52%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.35%) Cisco
3 1 (4.35%) Splunk
3 1 (4.35%) VMware