Amazon SQS Contract Job Trends in West Wales

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Wales requiring Amazon SQS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Wales 1.85% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
Wales median daily rate £550 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
West Wales

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 West Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 20 4 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Wales 37.04% 28.57% 18.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 4 3
10th Percentile £400 - £243
25th Percentile £413 £185 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £333 £425
Median % change year-on-year +27.82% -21.76% -10.53%
75th Percentile £519 £516 £444
90th Percentile £583 £566 £448
Wales median daily rate £425 £400 £490
% change year-on-year +6.25% -18.37% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.25 - -
Median hourly rate £18.50 - -
75th Percentile £18.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median hourly rate £21.00 £22.50 £15.84
% change year-on-year -6.67% +42.09% +5.57%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon SQS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Wales.

Amazon SQS job vacancy trend in West Wales

Amazon SQS
Contract Job Locations in West Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
Swansea - 1 £550 -
Amazon SQS
Wales

Amazon SQS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (100.00%) Route 53
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Solution Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes