Amazon SQS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 238 307 351
Rank change year-on-year +69 +44 +86
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 66 38 127
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.67% 0.25% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.68% 0.68% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 32 105
10th Percentile £400 £463 £453
25th Percentile £413 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £586 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +1.96% +4.55%
75th Percentile £688 £633 £650
90th Percentile £788 £700 £680
UK median daily rate £503 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -12.61% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 - £35.00

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Amazon SQS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Amazon SQS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Amazon SQS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Amazon SQS.

Amazon SQS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Amazon SQS over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Amazon SQS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon SQS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Amazon SQS.

Amazon SQS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon SQS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.03%) Documentum
1 2 (3.03%) FileNet
1 2 (3.03%) GeoServer
2 1 (1.52%) Apache
2 1 (1.52%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.52%) Confluence
2 1 (1.52%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 66 (100.00%) AWS
2 51 (77.27%) Serverless
3 47 (71.21%) AWS Lambda
4 31 (46.97%) Amazon S3
5 26 (39.39%) Amazon ECS
6 22 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (30.30%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (16.67%) GitHub
9 9 (13.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (9.09%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
10 6 (9.09%) CloudFront
11 5 (7.58%) AWS Step Functions
12 4 (6.06%) Amazon EventBridge
12 4 (6.06%) AWS KMS
13 3 (4.55%) Amazon Cognito
13 3 (4.55%) AWS CodeBuild
13 3 (4.55%) AWS CodePipeline
13 3 (4.55%) IaaS
13 3 (4.55%) Route 53
13 3 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.12%) HTTP
2 3 (4.55%) IPsec
2 3 (4.55%) Kerberos
2 3 (4.55%) SSL
3 1 (1.52%) Firewall
3 1 (1.52%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (34.85%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (24.24%) DynamoDB
3 13 (19.70%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (15.15%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (9.09%) DocumentDB
5 6 (9.09%) Redis
6 5 (7.58%) MySQL
7 3 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (4.55%) MongoDB
7 3 (4.55%) NoSQL
8 2 (3.03%) GIS
8 2 (3.03%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.52%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.52%) Big Data
9 1 (1.52%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.52%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.52%) MariaDB
9 1 (1.52%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 15 (22.73%) Git
2 8 (12.12%) SonarQube
3 7 (10.61%) GitLab
4 5 (7.58%) git-flow
4 5 (7.58%) Jenkins
5 4 (6.06%) Bitbucket
6 3 (4.55%) Cypress.io
6 3 (4.55%) Maven
6 3 (4.55%) Mocha
6 3 (4.55%) Postman
6 3 (4.55%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (3.03%) PHPUnit
7 2 (3.03%) Subversion
8 1 (1.52%) Gatling
8 1 (1.52%) JIRA
8 1 (1.52%) JMeter
General
1 18 (27.27%) Banking
2 15 (22.73%) Public Sector
3 12 (18.18%) Finance
4 9 (13.64%) Front Office
5 4 (6.06%) Social Skills
6 3 (4.55%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.03%) Electronics
7 2 (3.03%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.03%) Marketing
7 2 (3.03%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.52%) Aviation
8 1 (1.52%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.52%) Retail
8 1 (1.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (36.36%) Developer
2 18 (27.27%) Senior
3 13 (19.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
4 12 (18.18%) Python Engineer
4 12 (18.18%) Software Engineer
5 10 (15.15%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (13.64%) AWS DevOps
6 9 (13.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 9 (13.64%) DevOps Manager
6 9 (13.64%) Finance Manager
6 9 (13.64%) Node.js Developer
7 8 (12.12%) JavaScript Engineer
8 7 (10.61%) Senior DevOps
8 7 (10.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 6 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (7.58%) Architect
10 5 (7.58%) AWS Developer
10 5 (7.58%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
10 5 (7.58%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (46.97%) Node.js
2 29 (43.94%) React
3 17 (25.76%) AWS CDK
4 9 (13.64%) WebSockets
5 8 (12.12%) CSS
5 8 (12.12%) HTML
5 8 (12.12%) Jest
5 8 (12.12%) REST
5 8 (12.12%) Sass
5 8 (12.12%) Spring
5 8 (12.12%) Spring Boot
5 8 (12.12%) Web Services
6 6 (9.09%) Nunjucks
6 6 (9.09%) Redux
7 5 (7.58%) Apache Cordova
7 5 (7.58%) JSON
7 5 (7.58%) Kafka
7 5 (7.58%) LESS
7 5 (7.58%) RESTful
8 4 (6.06%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (4.55%) Algorithms
2 3 (4.55%) Data Structures
2 3 (4.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (4.55%) Mobile App
2 3 (4.55%) Vector Graphics
3 2 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.52%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.52%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.55%) Linux
2 2 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (43.94%) CI/CD
2 27 (40.91%) Agile
3 24 (36.36%) DevOps
4 21 (31.82%) Microservices
4 21 (31.82%) Software Engineering
5 16 (24.24%) Fintech
5 16 (24.24%) Test Automation
6 15 (22.73%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (13.64%) Architectural Patterns
7 9 (13.64%) Asset Management
7 9 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 8 (12.12%) Event-Driven
9 7 (10.61%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (10.61%) Mentoring
10 6 (9.09%) Clean Code
11 5 (7.58%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (7.58%) Design Patterns
11 5 (7.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 5 (7.58%) Roadmaps
12 4 (6.06%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 42 (63.64%) JavaScript
2 25 (37.88%) Python
3 18 (27.27%) TypeScript
4 15 (22.73%) Java
5 12 (18.18%) SQL
6 6 (9.09%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.03%) PHP
7 2 (3.03%) Rust
Qualifications
1 22 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 22 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.06%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.03%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (1.52%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (31.82%) Docker
2 3 (4.55%) RACF
Systems Management
1 30 (45.45%) Terraform
2 16 (24.24%) Kubernetes
3 8 (12.12%) Ansible
4 5 (7.58%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (6.06%) Grafana
5 4 (6.06%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.55%) Packer
7 2 (3.03%) Kibana
8 1 (1.52%) Istio
Vendors
1 3 (4.55%) Oracle
2 2 (3.03%) Red Hat
2 2 (3.03%) SAP
3 1 (1.52%) Databricks
3 1 (1.52%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.52%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.52%) Splunk