Amazon SQS Contracts in Yorkshire

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 105 115
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 +33
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 5 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.39% 0.058% 0.092%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.07% 0.19% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £503 - -
25th Percentile £506 £406 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £413 £510
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -19.12% -11.30%
75th Percentile £613 £419 £515
90th Percentile £658 - -
England median daily rate £504 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -8.41% -8.33% +2.13%

All Cloud Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 466 525 689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 35.90% 30.45% 31.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 369 496
10th Percentile £262 £250 £235
25th Percentile £375 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £625
90th Percentile £618 £638 £696
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 4
10th Percentile £27.82 £13.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £30.17 - £21.26
Median hourly rate £32.96 £15.00 £32.76
Median % change year-on-year +119.73% -54.21% +71.58%
75th Percentile £50.48 £21.50 £47.38
90th Percentile £79.33 £22.00 £52.55
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.40
% change year-on-year +14.32% -32.10% +50.70%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon SQS in Yorkshire

Amazon SQS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon SQS in Yorkshire

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon SQS in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon SQS in Yorkshire

Amazon SQS
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
West Yorkshire +14 3 £513 +24.24% 14
South Yorkshire - 1 £675 - 5
Amazon SQS
England

Amazon SQS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (80.00%) Serverless
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 3 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (60.00%) GitHub
3 3 (60.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon Macie
4 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (40.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (40.00%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (40.00%) AWS KMS
4 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
1 3 (60.00%) SSL
1 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 2 (40.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (60.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (80.00%) Git
3 2 (40.00%) GitLab
4 1 (20.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Lead DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Observability
4 2 (40.00%) Auto-Scaling
4 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (40.00%) DDoS Mitigation
4 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
4 2 (40.00%) FinOps
4 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 2 (40.00%) Performance Metrics
4 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) RBAC
4 2 (40.00%) Secrets Management
4 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
1 2 (40.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) Grafana
2 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (60.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (40.00%) Kustomize
3 2 (40.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat