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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 490 485 555
Rank change year-on-year -5 +70 -177
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 89 199 297
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.35% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.64% 0.97% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 150 187
10th Percentile £398 £450 £413
25th Percentile £488 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £583 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +4.76%
75th Percentile £694 £679 £675
90th Percentile £728 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £543 £575 £513
% change year-on-year -5.65% +12.20% +7.89%
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 13,976 20,555 33,756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.43% 36.46% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,930 14,875 24,662
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 £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £748 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 330 390
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.00 £15.40
Median hourly rate £21.46 £37.75 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.15% +71.59% +0.32%
75th Percentile £42.50 £69.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.80 £78.12 £69.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.80 £27.50 £19.17
% change year-on-year -35.27% +43.47% -4.16%

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 2 June 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 11 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 2 June 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 +9 74 £550 -12.00% 44
London +44 53 £550 -12.00% 26
Work from Home +40 39 £563 -2.17% 22
UK excluding London +10 25 £543 -5.65% 21
North of England +31 17 £575 -14.81% 9
North West +29 16 £586 +6.59% 5
South East -1 4 £595 +3.48% 4
Scotland +27 3 £476 -2.61% 2
Midlands +24 1 £350 - 3
Yorkshire +18 1 £575 -11.54% 3
West Midlands +14 1 £350 - 1

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 8 (8.99%) Confluence
2 6 (6.74%) Apache
2 6 (6.74%) Apache Spark
3 5 (5.62%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (3.37%) OpenStack
5 2 (2.25%) GeoServer
6 1 (1.12%) nginx
6 1 (1.12%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 89 (100.00%) AWS
2 67 (75.28%) Amazon S3
3 49 (55.06%) Serverless
4 43 (48.31%) AWS Lambda
5 42 (47.19%) Amazon EC2
6 22 (24.72%) Amazon EKS
7 21 (23.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 20 (22.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 18 (20.22%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (16.85%) Amazon ECR
10 15 (16.85%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (15.73%) Route 53
12 12 (13.48%) AWS KMS
13 10 (11.24%) AWS Fargate
14 8 (8.99%) Amazon EventBridge
14 8 (8.99%) Amazon Kinesis
14 8 (8.99%) Amazon MSK
14 8 (8.99%) AWS CloudTrail
14 8 (8.99%) Azure
15 7 (7.87%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.87%) FTP
2 4 (4.49%) Firewall
2 4 (4.49%) Kerberos
2 4 (4.49%) OpenLDAP
2 4 (4.49%) SSL
3 2 (2.25%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (31.46%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (19.10%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (15.73%) DynamoDB
4 12 (13.48%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (12.36%) Relational Database
6 9 (10.11%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (10.11%) MySQL
7 8 (8.99%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (7.87%) NoSQL
9 6 (6.74%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (5.62%) Big Data
10 5 (5.62%) MongoDB
10 5 (5.62%) RDBMS
11 4 (4.49%) Amazon QuickSight
12 2 (2.25%) DB2
12 2 (2.25%) GIS
13 1 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (1.12%) Redis
13 1 (1.12%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 23 (25.84%) Git
2 22 (24.72%) GitLab
3 16 (17.98%) Jenkins
4 12 (13.48%) JIRA
5 10 (11.24%) Cucumber
6 9 (10.11%) JUnit
6 9 (10.11%) webpack
7 8 (8.99%) Maven
7 8 (8.99%) Selenium
8 6 (6.74%) TestNG
9 5 (5.62%) Cypress.io
9 5 (5.62%) Mockito
9 5 (5.62%) Postman
10 4 (4.49%) Mocha
10 4 (4.49%) PHPUnit
11 3 (3.37%) Bitbucket
11 3 (3.37%) CircleCI
11 3 (3.37%) Gradle
12 2 (2.25%) REST Assured
12 2 (2.25%) SoapUI
General
1 11 (12.36%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.87%) Public Sector
3 6 (6.74%) Retail
4 5 (5.62%) Banking
4 5 (5.62%) Manufacturing
4 5 (5.62%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (4.49%) Corporate Banking
5 4 (4.49%) Investment Banking
5 4 (4.49%) Retail Banking
6 3 (3.37%) Marketing
7 2 (2.25%) Finance
8 1 (1.12%) Games
8 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (42.70%) Developer
2 15 (16.85%) Lead
3 12 (13.48%) Architect
3 12 (13.48%) Java Developer
4 10 (11.24%) AWS Developer
4 10 (11.24%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (11.24%) Senior
5 8 (8.99%) AWS Architect
5 8 (8.99%) Senior Developer
6 6 (6.74%) AWS DevOps
6 6 (6.74%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (6.74%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 5 (5.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) Backend Developer
7 5 (5.62%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) Data Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) Python Developer
7 5 (5.62%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) Snowflake Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (29.21%) Node.js
2 25 (28.09%) Spring
3 20 (22.47%) Spring Boot
4 19 (21.35%) REST
5 17 (19.10%) React
6 13 (14.61%) Kafka
7 10 (11.24%) Express.js
8 9 (10.11%) Redux
9 8 (8.99%) Web Services
10 6 (6.74%) JSON
11 5 (5.62%) AWS CDK
11 5 (5.62%) GraphQL
11 5 (5.62%) JAX-RS
11 5 (5.62%) Lambda Expressions
11 5 (5.62%) OAuth
11 5 (5.62%) WireMock
11 5 (5.62%) XML
12 4 (4.49%) Elastic Stack
12 4 (4.49%) Mustache
12 4 (4.49%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.74%) Cloud Native
1 6 (6.74%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (5.62%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (4.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.37%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.37%) Private Cloud
4 3 (3.37%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.37%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.25%) Video on Demand
5 2 (2.25%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.12%) Replication
6 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.74%) Linux
1 6 (6.74%) Unix
2 4 (4.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.12%) CentOS
3 1 (1.12%) Windows
3 1 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (53.93%) CI/CD
2 36 (40.45%) Agile
3 30 (33.71%) Containerisation
3 30 (33.71%) Microservices
4 25 (28.09%) Test Automation
5 24 (26.97%) DevOps
6 17 (19.10%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (15.73%) ETL
7 14 (15.73%) Scrum
8 13 (14.61%) Full Stack Development
8 13 (14.61%) Software Engineering
9 12 (13.48%) Front End Development
9 12 (13.48%) Migration
10 11 (12.36%) End-to-End Testing
10 11 (12.36%) OOP
11 10 (11.24%) Event-Driven
12 9 (10.11%) API Development
12 9 (10.11%) Backlog Prioritisation
12 9 (10.11%) Design Patterns
12 9 (10.11%) OO
Programming Languages
1 39 (43.82%) Java
2 35 (39.33%) Python
3 20 (22.47%) SQL
4 16 (17.98%) JavaScript
5 13 (14.61%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.62%) C#
6 5 (5.62%) PHP
6 5 (5.62%) Shell Script
7 4 (4.49%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.25%) C
8 2 (2.25%) Scala
9 1 (1.12%) Bash
Qualifications
1 32 (35.96%) Security Cleared
2 31 (34.83%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.99%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.12%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.99%) QA
2 4 (4.49%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.49%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.25%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.12%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.12%) GDPR
4 1 (1.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (34.83%) Docker
2 5 (5.62%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (39.33%) Kubernetes
2 30 (33.71%) Terraform
3 7 (7.87%) Grafana
4 5 (5.62%) Ansible
4 5 (5.62%) Packer
5 4 (4.49%) Podman
5 4 (4.49%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.12%) Argo
6 1 (1.12%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 7 (7.87%) SAP
2 5 (5.62%) Informatica
2 5 (5.62%) Salesforce
2 5 (5.62%) Talend
3 4 (4.49%) Confluent
3 4 (4.49%) Palo Alto
3 4 (4.49%) Red Hat
3 4 (4.49%) VMware
4 3 (3.37%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.37%) Oracle
5 2 (2.25%) Adobe
5 2 (2.25%) Google
5 2 (2.25%) Sitecore
5 2 (2.25%) Splunk
6 1 (1.12%) Dell
6 1 (1.12%) Intel
6 1 (1.12%) New Relic
6 1 (1.12%) Zuora