Amazon SQS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 308 341 420
Rank change year-on-year +33 +79 -190
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 37 113 203
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.25% 0.46% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.69% 1.16% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 97 132
10th Percentile £463 £450 £409
25th Percentile £488 £500 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £648 £650 £653
90th Percentile £705 £680 £731
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £555
% change year-on-year -4.35% +3.60% +5.71%
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 median hourly rate - £35.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - -44.00% +149.35%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,396 9,727 18,246
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.55% 39.48% 41.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,890 7,218 13,626
10th Percentile £350 £371 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £738 £743 £730
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 129 169
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +35.00% -
75th Percentile £50.94 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.06 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.19
% change year-on-year -38.94% +57.73% -1.38%

Amazon SQS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Amazon SQS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Amazon SQS trend for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Amazon SQS.

Amazon SQS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Amazon SQS over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Amazon SQS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon SQS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Amazon SQS.

Amazon SQS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon SQS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (10.81%) Confluence
2 2 (5.41%) nginx
2 2 (5.41%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.70%) GeoServer
3 1 (2.70%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 37 (100.00%) AWS
2 26 (70.27%) Amazon S3
3 19 (51.35%) Amazon EC2
3 19 (51.35%) Serverless
4 17 (45.95%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (27.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (24.32%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (24.32%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (21.62%) Amazon ECR
7 8 (21.62%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (21.62%) AWS Fargate
7 8 (21.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (18.92%) Route 53
9 6 (16.22%) AWS CloudTrail
10 5 (13.51%) AWS KMS
11 4 (10.81%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 4 (10.81%) Amazon EventBridge
11 4 (10.81%) Azure
11 4 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (8.11%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) Firewall
1 3 (8.11%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (2.70%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (32.43%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (21.62%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (16.22%) MySQL
4 5 (13.51%) DynamoDB
4 5 (13.51%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (10.81%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (10.81%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (10.81%) Relational Database
6 3 (8.11%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (8.11%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (8.11%) NoSQL
6 3 (8.11%) RDBMS
7 2 (5.41%) MongoDB
8 1 (2.70%) GIS
Development Applications
1 11 (29.73%) GitLab
2 8 (21.62%) Cucumber
2 8 (21.62%) Git
2 8 (21.62%) Selenium
3 6 (16.22%) Jenkins
4 4 (10.81%) Bitbucket
4 4 (10.81%) Cypress.io
4 4 (10.81%) JIRA
4 4 (10.81%) JUnit
4 4 (10.81%) Maven
4 4 (10.81%) TestNG
5 3 (8.11%) PHPUnit
5 3 (8.11%) webpack
6 2 (5.41%) CircleCI
6 2 (5.41%) Gradle
6 2 (5.41%) Mockito
6 2 (5.41%) Postman
6 2 (5.41%) REST Assured
6 2 (5.41%) SoapUI
6 2 (5.41%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.81%) Retail
3 3 (8.11%) Banking
3 3 (8.11%) Corporate Banking
3 3 (8.11%) Investment Banking
3 3 (8.11%) Retail Banking
4 2 (5.41%) Marketing
4 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (40.54%) Developer
2 6 (16.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (16.22%) Lead
3 5 (13.51%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Architect
4 4 (10.81%) AWS Developer
4 4 (10.81%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (10.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Java Developer
4 4 (10.81%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 3 (8.11%) AWS Architect
5 3 (8.11%) AWS Consultant
5 3 (8.11%) Consultant
5 3 (8.11%) PHP Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior
6 2 (5.41%) Automation Tester
6 2 (5.41%) Backend Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Python Team Leader
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Serverless Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (32.43%) Node.js
2 11 (29.73%) REST
3 9 (24.32%) Spring
4 7 (18.92%) Spring Boot
5 6 (16.22%) React
6 5 (13.51%) Kafka
7 4 (10.81%) Express.js
7 4 (10.81%) JAX-RS
7 4 (10.81%) Web Services
8 3 (8.11%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (8.11%) Laravel
8 3 (8.11%) LDAP
8 3 (8.11%) Mustache
8 3 (8.11%) OAuth
8 3 (8.11%) Redux
8 3 (8.11%) Symfony
8 3 (8.11%) Yii
9 2 (5.41%) Chai
9 2 (5.41%) Swagger
9 2 (5.41%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Data Centre
1 3 (8.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 3 (8.11%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Private Cloud
1 3 (8.11%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.41%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.41%) Video on Demand
3 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Linux
1 1 (2.70%) Windows
1 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (54.05%) CI/CD
2 12 (32.43%) Agile
3 11 (29.73%) Containerisation
4 10 (27.03%) DevOps
4 10 (27.03%) Microservices
5 9 (24.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (24.32%) Test Automation
6 7 (18.92%) Event-Driven
7 5 (13.51%) OOP
8 4 (10.81%) BDD
8 4 (10.81%) Design Patterns
8 4 (10.81%) End-to-End Testing
8 4 (10.81%) Full Stack Development
8 4 (10.81%) High Availability
8 4 (10.81%) Migration
8 4 (10.81%) Open Source
8 4 (10.81%) Pair Programming
8 4 (10.81%) Technical Leadership
9 3 (8.11%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 3 (8.11%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 14 (37.84%) Python
2 11 (29.73%) Java
3 8 (21.62%) JavaScript
4 7 (18.92%) SQL
5 6 (16.22%) TypeScript
6 3 (8.11%) PHP
7 2 (5.41%) C
7 2 (5.41%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.70%) Bash
Qualifications
1 18 (48.65%) SC Cleared
1 18 (48.65%) Security Cleared
2 6 (16.22%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (40.54%) Docker
2 3 (8.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (45.95%) Kubernetes
2 15 (40.54%) Terraform
3 2 (5.41%) Ansible
3 2 (5.41%) Grafana
3 2 (5.41%) Kustomize
3 2 (5.41%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (10.81%) Salesforce
2 3 (8.11%) Palo Alto
2 3 (8.11%) SAP
2 3 (8.11%) VMware
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.41%) Oracle
3 2 (5.41%) Red Hat
3 2 (5.41%) Splunk
4 1 (2.70%) Adobe
4 1 (2.70%) Google
4 1 (2.70%) Sitecore
4 1 (2.70%) Zuora