Amazon SQS Contracts

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Amazon SQS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon SQS over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 487 489 566
Rank change year-on-year +2 +77 -198
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 91 232 306
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.39% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.65% 1.07% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 177 186
10th Percentile £449 £453 £413
25th Percentile £497 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £670 £675 £650
90th Percentile £706 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £569 £500
% change year-on-year +1.10% +13.69% +11.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - -44.00% +149.35%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Amazon SQS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,036 21,742 34,241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.34% 36.81% 38.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,989 15,708 24,950
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £744 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 344 351 423
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.43
25th Percentile £15.88 £18.25 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.44%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £49.53
90th Percentile £62.00 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
% change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon SQS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon SQS in the UK

Amazon SQS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon SQS.

Daily rate trend for Amazon SQS in the UK

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon SQS over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon SQS in the UK

Amazon SQS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon SQS.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon SQS in the UK

Amazon SQS
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
England 0 79 £575 -4.17% 36
London +40 53 £569 -9.00% 23
Work from Home +44 38 £575 - 24
UK excluding London +14 30 £575 +1.10% 11
North of England +24 18 £600 -4.00% 4
North West +40 17 £625 +13.64% 2
South East +6 4 £595 +19.00% 5
East of England +6 4 - -
Scotland +21 3 £476 -1.60% 1
Yorkshire +18 1 £575 -11.54% 2
Midlands - 1 £350 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £350 -

Amazon SQS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (10.99%) Apache
1 10 (10.99%) Apache Spark
1 10 (10.99%) Confluence
2 6 (6.59%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.30%) nginx
3 3 (3.30%) OpenStack
3 3 (3.30%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.20%) GeoServer
Business Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 91 (100.00%) AWS
2 65 (71.43%) Amazon S3
3 46 (50.55%) Serverless
4 43 (47.25%) Amazon EC2
5 41 (45.05%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (21.98%) Amazon EKS
7 19 (20.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 15 (16.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (16.48%) Amazon ECR
8 15 (16.48%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (15.38%) Route 53
10 13 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (12.09%) Amazon EventBridge
11 11 (12.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 10 (10.99%) Amazon EMR
12 10 (10.99%) Amazon MSK
13 8 (8.79%) AWS Fargate
13 8 (8.79%) AWS Step Functions
13 8 (8.79%) Azure
14 7 (7.69%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.69%) FTP
2 4 (4.40%) Firewall
2 4 (4.40%) OpenLDAP
3 2 (2.20%) SMS
4 1 (1.10%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.10%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (32.97%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (20.88%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (14.29%) Relational Database
4 12 (13.19%) DynamoDB
5 11 (12.09%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (10.99%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (9.89%) NoSQL
8 8 (8.79%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (8.79%) Big Data
8 8 (8.79%) MySQL
9 7 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (5.49%) MongoDB
10 5 (5.49%) RDBMS
11 2 (2.20%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (2.20%) Apache Hive
11 2 (2.20%) GIS
11 2 (2.20%) Hadoop
11 2 (2.20%) Presto
11 2 (2.20%) SAP Data Services
11 2 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (28.57%) Git
2 23 (25.27%) GitLab
3 20 (21.98%) Jenkins
4 17 (18.68%) JIRA
5 15 (16.48%) Maven
6 13 (14.29%) JUnit
7 12 (13.19%) Cucumber
8 10 (10.99%) Selenium
8 10 (10.99%) TestNG
9 9 (9.89%) webpack
10 8 (8.79%) Mockito
11 5 (5.49%) Bitbucket
11 5 (5.49%) Cypress.io
11 5 (5.49%) EasyMock
11 5 (5.49%) Mocha
12 4 (4.40%) Gradle
13 3 (3.30%) PHPUnit
13 3 (3.30%) SoapUI
13 3 (3.30%) SonarQube
13 3 (3.30%) WebDriver
General
1 15 (16.48%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.79%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.49%) Manufacturing
3 5 (5.49%) Pharmaceutical
3 5 (5.49%) Retail
4 4 (4.40%) Banking
5 3 (3.30%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (3.30%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.30%) Marketing
5 3 (3.30%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.10%) Finance
6 1 (1.10%) Games
6 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (45.05%) Developer
2 18 (19.78%) Java Developer
3 16 (17.58%) Lead
4 11 (12.09%) Architect
4 11 (12.09%) AWS Developer
5 9 (9.89%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (8.79%) Backend Developer
6 8 (8.79%) Senior
7 7 (7.69%) AWS Architect
7 7 (7.69%) Data Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 6 (6.59%) Senior Developer
9 5 (5.49%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (5.49%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Technical Leader
10 4 (4.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Python Developer
10 4 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (31.87%) Spring
2 28 (30.77%) Spring Boot
3 27 (29.67%) REST
4 26 (28.57%) Node.js
5 17 (18.68%) React
6 14 (15.38%) Kafka
7 10 (10.99%) Express.js
8 9 (9.89%) JAX-RS
8 9 (9.89%) Redux
9 8 (8.79%) Web Services
9 8 (8.79%) WireMock
10 7 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (7.69%) Hibernate
10 7 (7.69%) JPA
10 7 (7.69%) Lambda Expressions
11 6 (6.59%) JSON
11 6 (6.59%) Mustache
11 6 (6.59%) RESTful
11 6 (6.59%) Spring Security
12 5 (5.49%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.59%) Cloud Native
1 6 (6.59%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (5.49%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.30%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.30%) Private Cloud
4 3 (3.30%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.30%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.20%) Video on Demand
5 2 (2.20%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.49%) Linux
1 5 (5.49%) Unix
2 1 (1.10%) CentOS
2 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.10%) Windows
2 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (53.85%) CI/CD
2 39 (42.86%) Agile
3 29 (31.87%) Microservices
4 28 (30.77%) Containerisation
5 26 (28.57%) Test Automation
6 24 (26.37%) DevOps
7 18 (19.78%) ETL
8 17 (18.68%) Scrum
9 13 (14.29%) Front End Development
10 12 (13.19%) Full Stack Development
10 12 (13.19%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (12.09%) End-to-End Testing
11 11 (12.09%) OOP
12 9 (9.89%) API Development
12 9 (9.89%) Backlog Prioritisation
12 9 (9.89%) Customer Engagement
12 9 (9.89%) QA Automation
13 8 (8.79%) Data Pipeline
13 8 (8.79%) Design Patterns
13 8 (8.79%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 49 (53.85%) Java
2 32 (35.16%) Python
3 23 (25.27%) SQL
4 18 (19.78%) JavaScript
5 13 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.49%) C#
6 5 (5.49%) Kotlin
7 4 (4.40%) PHP
7 4 (4.40%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.30%) Scala
9 2 (2.20%) C
10 1 (1.10%) Bash
Qualifications
1 38 (41.76%) Security Cleared
2 37 (40.66%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.59%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.10%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.89%) QA
2 2 (2.20%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.10%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.10%) GDPR
3 1 (1.10%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (28.57%) Docker
2 5 (5.49%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.10%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 38 (41.76%) Kubernetes
2 28 (30.77%) Terraform
3 5 (5.49%) Ansible
3 5 (5.49%) Packer
4 4 (4.40%) Grafana
5 3 (3.30%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.10%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (8.79%) SAP
2 7 (7.69%) Informatica
2 7 (7.69%) Talend
3 4 (4.40%) Palo Alto
3 4 (4.40%) Red Hat
3 4 (4.40%) Salesforce
3 4 (4.40%) VMware
4 3 (3.30%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.30%) Oracle
5 2 (2.20%) Adobe
5 2 (2.20%) Google
5 2 (2.20%) Sitecore
5 2 (2.20%) Splunk
6 1 (1.10%) Confluent
6 1 (1.10%) Dell
6 1 (1.10%) Intel
6 1 (1.10%) New Relic