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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 99 100
Rank change year-on-year -48 +1 +15
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 11 10 1
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.38% 0.66% 0.065%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.04% 1.80% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 1
10th Percentile £381 £375 -
25th Percentile £466 £385 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £390 £413
Median % change year-on-year +49.04% -5.45% -19.12%
75th Percentile £644 £509 £419
90th Percentile - £583 -
England median daily rate £527 £500 £599
% change year-on-year +5.30% -16.49% +4.13%

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 1,053 555 512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 36.84% 36.42% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 674 385 354
10th Percentile £306 £258 £288
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £669 £600 £654
England median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 5
10th Percentile £15.03 £42.37 £16.15
25th Percentile £18.13 £58.29 £20.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £91.69 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.82% +336.62% -1.20%
75th Percentile £35.00 £149.28 £22.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £179.71 -
England median hourly rate £34.38 £26.30 £28.00
% change year-on-year +30.70% -6.07% -15.15%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -26 11 £581 +49.04% 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 (9.09%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) GitHub
2 7 (63.64%) Apigee
3 6 (54.55%) AWS
3 6 (54.55%) GitHub Actions
3 6 (54.55%) Serverless
4 5 (45.45%) Amazon EventBridge
4 5 (45.45%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (45.45%) Cloud Run
4 5 (45.45%) GCP
4 5 (45.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 5 (45.45%) Kong
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (18.18%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Relational Database
2 5 (45.45%) DynamoDB
2 5 (45.45%) Hazelcast
2 5 (45.45%) MongoDB
2 5 (45.45%) RDBMS
2 5 (45.45%) Redis
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (9.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) Git
2 7 (63.64%) GitLab
3 6 (54.55%) Jenkins
4 5 (45.45%) Gradle
4 5 (45.45%) Maven
5 4 (36.36%) Snyk
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
2 6 (54.55%) Java Developer
3 4 (36.36%) Backend Developer
3 4 (36.36%) Senior
3 4 (36.36%) Senior Backend Developer
3 4 (36.36%) Senior Developer
3 4 (36.36%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Principal Data Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Architect
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) DevOps Developer
5 1 (9.09%) GCP Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Server Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) SQL Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (90.91%) Terraform
2 8 (72.73%) Kafka
3 6 (54.55%) Spring
3 6 (54.55%) Spring Boot
4 5 (45.45%) Apache Avro
4 5 (45.45%) JPA
4 5 (45.45%) JWT
4 5 (45.45%) OAuth
4 5 (45.45%) OAuth2
4 5 (45.45%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (45.45%) Protocol Buffers
4 5 (45.45%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (45.45%) Spring WebFlux
4 5 (45.45%) WireMock
5 4 (36.36%) React
6 2 (18.18%) Jest
6 2 (18.18%) Next.js
6 2 (18.18%) OpenAPI
6 2 (18.18%) Playwright
6 2 (18.18%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (72.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (63.64%) DevOps
3 7 (63.64%) Observability
3 7 (63.64%) Software Engineering
4 6 (54.55%) Microservices
4 6 (54.55%) Validation
5 5 (45.45%) Event-Driven
5 5 (45.45%) Functional Programming
5 5 (45.45%) OWASP
5 5 (45.45%) SOLID
5 5 (45.45%) Storage Management
6 4 (36.36%) Agile
6 4 (36.36%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 3 (27.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
8 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
8 2 (18.18%) Data Transformation
8 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
8 2 (18.18%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Java
2 5 (45.45%) Python
2 5 (45.45%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) TypeScript
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Kubernetes
2 5 (45.45%) Argo
2 5 (45.45%) Grafana
2 5 (45.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Brio
2 1 (9.09%) Databricks