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 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 88 104
Rank change year-on-year -46 +16 +18
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 7 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.29% 0.20% 0.060%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.74% 0.53% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £344 £528 -
25th Percentile £372 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -27.08% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £497 £650 £588
90th Percentile £521 £673 -
England median daily rate £530 £503 £575
% change year-on-year +5.47% -12.61% -4.17%

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 950 380 460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.68% 37.18% 27.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 657 268 324
10th Percentile £313 £240 £233
25th Percentile £413 £359 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £560 £550 £588
90th Percentile £646 £650 £641
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.52% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 8 8
10th Percentile £14.25 £29.90 £13.43
25th Percentile £42.50 £31.69 £14.63
Median hourly rate £56.50 £65.71 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.01% +338.05% -65.32%
75th Percentile £68.75 £99.42 £17.31
90th Percentile £71.90 £102.00 £22.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.77
% change year-on-year +70.13% +27.35% -31.90%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -16 7 £438 -16.67% 5
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 (14.29%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) GitHub
2 5 (71.43%) Apigee
3 4 (57.14%) AWS
3 4 (57.14%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (57.14%) Serverless
4 3 (42.86%) Amazon EventBridge
4 3 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (42.86%) Cloud Run
4 3 (42.86%) GCP
4 3 (42.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 3 (42.86%) Kong
5 2 (28.57%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
6 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Relational Database
2 3 (42.86%) DynamoDB
2 3 (42.86%) Hazelcast
2 3 (42.86%) MongoDB
2 3 (42.86%) RDBMS
2 3 (42.86%) Redis
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Git
2 5 (71.43%) GitLab
3 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
4 3 (42.86%) Gradle
4 3 (42.86%) Maven
4 3 (42.86%) Snyk
General
1 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Java Developer
3 3 (42.86%) Backend Developer
3 3 (42.86%) Senior
3 3 (42.86%) Senior Backend Developer
3 3 (42.86%) Senior Developer
3 3 (42.86%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Architect
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Server Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Kafka
2 4 (57.14%) Spring
2 4 (57.14%) Spring Boot
3 3 (42.86%) Apache Avro
3 3 (42.86%) JPA
3 3 (42.86%) JWT
3 3 (42.86%) OAuth
3 3 (42.86%) OAuth2
3 3 (42.86%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (42.86%) Protocol Buffers
3 3 (42.86%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (42.86%) React
3 3 (42.86%) Spring WebFlux
3 3 (42.86%) WireMock
4 2 (28.57%) Jest
4 2 (28.57%) JSON
4 2 (28.57%) Next.js
4 2 (28.57%) OpenAPI
4 2 (28.57%) REST
4 2 (28.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (14.29%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Software Engineering
3 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (57.14%) Microservices
3 4 (57.14%) Observability
4 3 (42.86%) Event-Driven
4 3 (42.86%) Functional Programming
4 3 (42.86%) OWASP
4 3 (42.86%) SOLID
4 3 (42.86%) Storage Management
4 3 (42.86%) Validation
4 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
5 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
6 1 (14.29%) API Design
6 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
6 1 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) TypeScript
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 3 (42.86%) Argo
3 3 (42.86%) Grafana
3 3 (42.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks