Amazon SQS Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Amazon SQS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 111 102
Rank change year-on-year -35 -9 +17
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 8 10 2
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.27% 0.63% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.77% 1.64% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 2
10th Percentile £446 £375 £431
25th Percentile £516 £385 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £390 £531
Median % change year-on-year +63.46% -26.59% +4.17%
75th Percentile £644 £509 £592
90th Percentile - £583 £627
England median daily rate £525 £505 £650
% change year-on-year +3.96% -22.31% +13.04%

All Cloud Computing 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 1,036 608 525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 35.53% 38.34% 35.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 665 408 361
10th Percentile £324 £235 £300
25th Percentile £413 £367 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -5.71%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £567
90th Percentile £675 £612 £650
England median daily rate £525 £505 £530
% change year-on-year +3.96% -4.72% -3.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 1 4
10th Percentile £13.45 - -
25th Percentile £14.41 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £200.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -90.50% +830.23% +1.15%
75th Percentile £32.50 - £23.69
90th Percentile £35.00 - £26.73
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Amazon SQS job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Amazon SQS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Amazon SQS

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon SQS in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 October 2026.

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 2 October 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
West Yorkshire -23 7 £638 +63.46% 3
South Yorkshire -35 1 £400 -40.74% 2
Amazon SQS
England

Amazon SQS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 1 (12.50%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) GCP
2 5 (62.50%) Apigee
2 5 (62.50%) Cloud Run
2 5 (62.50%) GitHub
2 5 (62.50%) GitHub Actions
2 5 (62.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 5 (62.50%) Kong
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon S3
3 3 (37.50%) AWS
3 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (37.50%) Serverless
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (12.50%) Azure
5 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) Relational Database
2 5 (62.50%) Hazelcast
2 5 (62.50%) MongoDB
2 5 (62.50%) RDBMS
2 5 (62.50%) Redis
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (37.50%) DynamoDB
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (12.50%) Looker
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Git
1 5 (62.50%) GitLab
1 5 (62.50%) Gradle
1 5 (62.50%) Jenkins
1 5 (62.50%) Maven
2 4 (50.00%) Snyk
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
1 5 (62.50%) Java Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Backend Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Senior
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Backend Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 3 (37.50%) Data Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Principal Data Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) DevOps Developer
5 1 (12.50%) GCP Data Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) GCP Developer
5 1 (12.50%) GCP DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Kafka Developer
5 1 (12.50%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 6 (75.00%) Kafka
3 5 (62.50%) Apache Avro
3 5 (62.50%) JPA
3 5 (62.50%) JWT
3 5 (62.50%) OAuth
3 5 (62.50%) OAuth2
3 5 (62.50%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (62.50%) Protocol Buffers
3 5 (62.50%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (62.50%) Spring
3 5 (62.50%) Spring Boot
3 5 (62.50%) Spring WebFlux
3 5 (62.50%) WireMock
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CDK
4 1 (12.50%) React
4 1 (12.50%) RESTful
4 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (87.50%) Observability
3 6 (75.00%) DevOps
3 6 (75.00%) Microservices
3 6 (75.00%) Validation
4 5 (62.50%) Functional Programming
4 5 (62.50%) OWASP
4 5 (62.50%) Software Engineering
4 5 (62.50%) SOLID
4 5 (62.50%) Storage Management
5 4 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven
6 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (25.00%) Data Transformation
7 2 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
7 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Grafana
1 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (75.00%) Prometheus
2 5 (62.50%) Argo
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Brio