Amazon SQS Contracts in West Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 67 94
Rank change year-on-year 0 +27 +19
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 7 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.96% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.22% 0.34% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £368 - -
25th Percentile £385 £406 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £413 £510
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -19.12% -2.86%
75th Percentile £474 £419 £515
90th Percentile £519 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £390 £413 £510
% change year-on-year -5.45% -19.12% -2.86%

All Cloud Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 316 295 449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 43.35% 34.79% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 207 323
10th Percentile £325 £288 £355
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £616
90th Percentile £618 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £485 £525
% change year-on-year -2.06% -7.62% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £27.35 - -
25th Percentile £29.01 - -
Median hourly rate £33.11 - -
75th Percentile £66.51 - -
90th Percentile £85.74 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £33.11 £21.00 £21.26
% change year-on-year +57.67% -1.20% +6.28%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing Amazon SQS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon SQS in West Yorkshire

Amazon SQS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon SQS in West Yorkshire

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon SQS in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon SQS in West Yorkshire

Amazon SQS
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
Leeds +10 7 £390 -5.45% 4
Amazon SQS
Yorkshire

Amazon SQS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 7 (100.00%) Serverless
2 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon Macie
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (14.29%) AWS KMS
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (14.29%) Kong
4 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) SSL
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (28.57%) DocumentDB
1 2 (28.57%) DynamoDB
1 2 (28.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git
2 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 3 (42.86%) SonarQube
3 1 (14.29%) GitLab
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Software Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Lead
4 1 (14.29%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Kafka
1 4 (57.14%) React
2 3 (42.86%) Node.js
3 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (14.29%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Microservices
3 3 (42.86%) ETL
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Story Points
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
4 2 (28.57%) FinOps
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Observability
4 2 (28.57%) Scrum
4 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
4 2 (28.57%) User Stories
5 1 (14.29%) Database Security
5 1 (14.29%) DDoS Mitigation
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Groovy
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
1 3 (42.86%) WCAG
2 1 (14.29%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Prometheus
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Kustomize
3 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace