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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 82 113
Rank change year-on-year -52 +31 +20
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.20% 0.11% 0.054%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.47% 0.28% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £350 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -45.19% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £375 - £588
90th Percentile £387 - -
England median daily rate £525 £650 £570
% change year-on-year -19.23% +14.04% -5.00%

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 860 360 573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 42.79% 38.14% 30.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 243 413
10th Percentile £227 £264 £226
25th Percentile £400 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £595
90th Percentile £625 £698 £674
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 6
10th Percentile £14.25 £23.46 £14.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £56.50 £32.81 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.20% +118.73% -63.64%
75th Percentile £68.75 £96.64 -
90th Percentile £74.00 £102.00 £38.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -10.00%

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
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 6 February 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 -19 4 £356 -45.19% 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) DocumentDB
1 1 (25.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
2 3 (75.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (75.00%) Mockito
2 3 (75.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Node.js
1 4 (100.00%) React
2 3 (75.00%) Swagger
3 1 (25.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Story Points
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) WCAG
2 1 (25.00%) QA