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 citing Amazon SQS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 23 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	152	113	94
Rank change year-on-year	-39	-19	-
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS	7	10	2
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire	0.24%	0.60%	0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category	0.68%	1.55%	0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted	3	8	2
10^th Percentile	£446	£350	£431
25^th Percentile	£516	£355	£467
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£638	£390	£531
Median % change year-on-year	+63.46%	-26.59%	-
75^th Percentile	£644	£395	£592
90^th Percentile	-	£427	£627
England median daily rate	£525	£520	£675
% change year-on-year	+0.96%	-22.96%	+17.39%

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 citing cloud computing skills in Yorkshire.

	6 months to 23 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing cloud computing skills	1,035	647	503
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire	35.84%	38.74%	35.50%
Number of daily rates quoted	662	434	340
10^th Percentile	£323	£235	£288
25^th Percentile	£413	£364	£405
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£500	£489	£495
Median % change year-on-year	+2.30%	-1.26%	-3.88%
75^th Percentile	£575	£538	£558
90^th Percentile	£675	£625	£650
England median daily rate	£525	£500	£530
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	-5.66%	-1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted	18	2	5
10^th Percentile	£13.45	£43.63	£15.58
25^th Percentile	£14.41	£69.69	£20.50
Median hourly rate	£19.00	£113.75	£21.00
Median % change year-on-year	-83.30%	+441.67%	-6.71%
75^th Percentile	£32.50	£157.19	£28.75
90^th Percentile	£35.00	£182.88	-
England median hourly rate	£32.50	£25.15	£35.00
% change year-on-year	+29.22%	-28.14%	+27.27%

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 Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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 23 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 23 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
West Yorkshire	-23	6	£638	+63.46%	3
South Yorkshire	-	1	£400	-
Amazon SQS England

Amazon SQS Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 23 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Amazon SQS also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Yorkshire region citing Amazon SQS.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	CI/CD	100.0%	7
1	Infrastructure as Code	100.0%	7
1	Terraform	100.0%	7
4	Observability	85.7%	6
5	DevOps	71.4%	5
5	Docker	71.4%	5
5	GCP	71.4%	5
5	Grafana	71.4%	5
5	Kafka	71.4%	5
5	Kubernetes	71.4%	5
5	Microservices	71.4%	5
5	Prometheus	71.4%	5
5	Relational Database	71.4%	5
5	Validation	71.4%	5
15	Apache Avro	57.1%	4
15	Apigee	57.1%	4
15	Argo	57.1%	4
15	Cloud Run	57.1%	4
15	Functional Programming	57.1%	4
15	Git	57.1%	4
15	GitHub	57.1%	4
15	GitHub Actions	57.1%	4
15	GitLab	57.1%	4
15	Google Kubernetes Engine	57.1%	4
15	Gradle	57.1%	4
15	Hazelcast	57.1%	4
15	Java	57.1%	4
15	Jenkins	57.1%	4
15	JPA	57.1%	4
15	JWT	57.1%	4

Amazon SQS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	GCP	71.4%	5
2	Apigee	57.1%	4
2	Cloud Run	57.1%	4
2	GitHub	57.1%	4
2	GitHub Actions	57.1%	4
2	Google Kubernetes Engine	57.1%	4
2	Kong	57.1%	4
8	Amazon CloudWatch	42.9%	3
8	Amazon S3	42.9%	3
8	AWS	42.9%	3
8	AWS CloudFormation	42.9%	3
8	AWS Lambda	42.9%	3
8	Serverless	42.9%	3
14	Amazon EventBridge	28.6%	2
14	AWS Step Functions	28.6%	2
16	Amazon EC2	14.3%	1
16	Amazon ECS	14.3%	1
16	Amazon EKS	14.3%	1
16	Azure	14.3%	1
16	Virtual Private Cloud	14.3%	1