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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 96 -
Rank change year-on-year -17 - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 11 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.64% 0.14% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.65% 0.40% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 0
10th Percentile - £431 -
25th Percentile £350 £467 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £531 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.59% - -
75th Percentile £395 £592 -
90th Percentile £416 £627 -
England median daily rate £525 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -19.23% +13.04% -

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 667 498 627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.91% 35.72% 32.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 338 461
10th Percentile £220 £294 £225
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% -2.00% -0.79%
75th Percentile £538 £556 £600
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
England median daily rate £500 £530 £535
% change year-on-year -5.66% -0.93% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 5
10th Percentile £43.63 £15.58 £19.10
25th Percentile £69.69 £20.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £113.75 £21.00 £22.51
Median % change year-on-year +441.67% -6.71% +0.04%
75th Percentile £157.19 £28.75 £44.50
90th Percentile £182.88 - £55.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -29.15% +29.09% +22.22%

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 29 October 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 29 October 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 -3 10 £390 -26.59% 8
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 11 (100.00%) AWS
1 11 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 11 (100.00%) Serverless
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 3 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (27.27%) GitHub
2 3 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon Macie
3 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (18.18%) AWS KMS
3 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (9.09%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) DNS
1 3 (27.27%) SSL
1 3 (27.27%) TCP/IP
2 2 (18.18%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) Network Security
2 2 (18.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (27.27%) DocumentDB
1 3 (27.27%) DynamoDB
1 3 (27.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (90.91%) Git
2 4 (36.36%) SonarQube
3 3 (27.27%) Cucumber
3 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
3 3 (27.27%) Mockito
3 3 (27.27%) Selenium
4 2 (18.18%) GitLab
5 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 7 (63.64%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Test Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) AWS Software Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Lead
4 2 (18.18%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior
5 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) React
2 7 (63.64%) Node.js
3 5 (45.45%) Kafka
4 4 (36.36%) Swagger
5 2 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) DevOps
1 8 (72.73%) Microservices
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) ETL
3 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
3 4 (36.36%) Story Points
4 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 3 (27.27%) Code Quality
4 3 (27.27%) FinOps
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (27.27%) Observability
4 3 (27.27%) Scrum
4 3 (27.27%) Unit Testing
4 3 (27.27%) User Stories
5 2 (18.18%) Database Security
5 2 (18.18%) DDoS Mitigation
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 2 (18.18%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Python
1 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) WCAG
2 4 (36.36%) QA
3 2 (18.18%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (18.18%) GDPR
3 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (18.18%) NIST
3 2 (18.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Prometheus
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
2 3 (27.27%) Ansible
2 3 (27.27%) Grafana
3 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 2 (18.18%) Kustomize
3 2 (18.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Splunk
2 1 (9.09%) Dynatrace