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

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 490 475 568
Rank change year-on-year -15 +93 -207
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 86 210 295
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.37% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.62% 1.00% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 162 179
10th Percentile £445 £450 £413
25th Percentile £488 £500 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £694 £675 £650
90th Percentile £709 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £543 £563 £513
% change year-on-year -3.56% +9.76% +13.89%
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 13,826 20,933 33,670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.49% 36.75% 38.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,828 15,157 24,567
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 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 336 412
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.44 £15.37
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%
75th Percentile £36.16 £66.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.87 £19.63
% change year-on-year -31.49% +31.80% -1.88%

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 16 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 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 16 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 +19 72 £550 -8.33% 37
London +42 51 £550 -12.00% 20
Work from Home +45 37 £569 -1.09% 22
UK excluding London +7 25 £543 -3.56% 18
North of England +24 17 £575 -11.54% 7
North West +32 16 £586 +6.59% 5
South East -2 4 £595 +19.00% 6
Scotland +17 3 £476 -1.60% 1
Yorkshire +11 1 £575 -11.54% 1
Midlands - 1 £350 - 2
West Midlands - 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 (9.30%) Confluence
2 6 (6.98%) Apache
2 6 (6.98%) Apache Spark
3 5 (5.81%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (3.49%) nginx
4 3 (3.49%) OpenStack
4 3 (3.49%) Tomcat
5 2 (2.33%) GeoServer
Business Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 86 (100.00%) AWS
2 61 (70.93%) Amazon S3
3 44 (51.16%) Serverless
4 39 (45.35%) Amazon EC2
4 39 (45.35%) AWS Lambda
5 21 (24.42%) Amazon EKS
6 20 (23.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 17 (19.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 17 (19.77%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (17.44%) Amazon ECR
9 14 (16.28%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (16.28%) Route 53
10 9 (10.47%) Amazon MSK
10 9 (10.47%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 9 (10.47%) AWS Fargate
11 8 (9.30%) Amazon EventBridge
11 8 (9.30%) Amazon Kinesis
11 8 (9.30%) AWS KMS
11 8 (9.30%) Azure
12 7 (8.14%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.14%) FTP
2 4 (4.65%) Firewall
2 4 (4.65%) OpenLDAP
3 2 (2.33%) SMS
4 1 (1.16%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (34.88%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (23.26%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (12.79%) Amazon Redshift
3 11 (12.79%) DynamoDB
3 11 (12.79%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (12.79%) Relational Database
4 8 (9.30%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (9.30%) MySQL
5 7 (8.14%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (8.14%) NoSQL
6 5 (5.81%) Big Data
6 5 (5.81%) MongoDB
6 5 (5.81%) RDBMS
7 3 (3.49%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (2.33%) DB2
8 2 (2.33%) GIS
9 1 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.16%) Redis
9 1 (1.16%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 23 (26.74%) Git
1 23 (26.74%) GitLab
2 18 (20.93%) Jenkins
3 13 (15.12%) Cucumber
3 13 (15.12%) JUnit
4 12 (13.95%) JIRA
4 12 (13.95%) Maven
5 11 (12.79%) Selenium
6 10 (11.63%) TestNG
7 9 (10.47%) webpack
8 8 (9.30%) Mockito
9 6 (6.98%) Cypress.io
10 5 (5.81%) Bitbucket
10 5 (5.81%) EasyMock
10 5 (5.81%) Mocha
11 4 (4.65%) Gradle
12 3 (3.49%) CircleCI
12 3 (3.49%) SoapUI
12 3 (3.49%) SonarQube
12 3 (3.49%) WebDriver
General
1 10 (11.63%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.30%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.81%) Manufacturing
3 5 (5.81%) Pharmaceutical
3 5 (5.81%) Retail
4 4 (4.65%) Banking
5 3 (3.49%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (3.49%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.49%) Marketing
5 3 (3.49%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.16%) Finance
6 1 (1.16%) Games
6 1 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (43.02%) Developer
2 16 (18.60%) Lead
3 14 (16.28%) Java Developer
4 12 (13.95%) Architect
5 9 (10.47%) AWS Developer
5 9 (10.47%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (9.30%) AWS Architect
6 8 (9.30%) Backend Developer
7 7 (8.14%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 7 (8.14%) Senior
8 5 (5.81%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (5.81%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Data Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Senior Developer
8 5 (5.81%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Technical Leader
9 4 (4.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Python Developer
9 4 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (33.72%) Spring
2 27 (31.40%) Node.js
3 25 (29.07%) Spring Boot
4 24 (27.91%) REST
5 18 (20.93%) React
6 13 (15.12%) Kafka
7 10 (11.63%) Express.js
8 9 (10.47%) JAX-RS
8 9 (10.47%) Redux
9 8 (9.30%) Web Services
9 8 (9.30%) WireMock
10 6 (6.98%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (6.98%) JSON
10 6 (6.98%) Mustache
11 5 (5.81%) GraphQL
11 5 (5.81%) Hibernate
11 5 (5.81%) JPA
11 5 (5.81%) Lambda Expressions
11 5 (5.81%) OAuth
11 5 (5.81%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.98%) Cloud Native
1 6 (6.98%) Greenfield Project
1 6 (6.98%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.49%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (3.49%) Private Cloud
3 3 (3.49%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.49%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.33%) Video on Demand
4 2 (2.33%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.49%) Linux
1 3 (3.49%) Unix
2 1 (1.16%) CentOS
2 1 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.16%) Windows
2 1 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (54.65%) CI/CD
2 33 (38.37%) Agile
3 30 (34.88%) Microservices
4 29 (33.72%) Containerisation
5 27 (31.40%) Test Automation
6 21 (24.42%) DevOps
7 14 (16.28%) ETL
8 13 (15.12%) Full Stack Development
9 12 (13.95%) Front End Development
9 12 (13.95%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (12.79%) End-to-End Testing
10 11 (12.79%) OOP
11 10 (11.63%) Scrum
12 9 (10.47%) API Development
12 9 (10.47%) Backlog Prioritisation
12 9 (10.47%) Customer Engagement
12 9 (10.47%) Event-Driven
12 9 (10.47%) Software Engineering
13 8 (9.30%) Design Patterns
13 8 (9.30%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 42 (48.84%) Java
2 29 (33.72%) Python
3 20 (23.26%) SQL
4 18 (20.93%) JavaScript
5 13 (15.12%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.81%) C#
7 4 (4.65%) Kotlin
7 4 (4.65%) PHP
8 2 (2.33%) C
8 2 (2.33%) Scala
8 2 (2.33%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.16%) Bash
Qualifications
1 37 (43.02%) Security Cleared
2 36 (41.86%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.14%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.16%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.16%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.30%) QA
2 2 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.16%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.16%) GDPR
3 1 (1.16%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (31.40%) Docker
2 5 (5.81%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (45.35%) Kubernetes
2 26 (30.23%) Terraform
3 5 (5.81%) Ansible
3 5 (5.81%) Packer
4 4 (4.65%) Grafana
5 3 (3.49%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.16%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (8.14%) SAP
2 5 (5.81%) Informatica
2 5 (5.81%) Salesforce
2 5 (5.81%) Talend
3 4 (4.65%) Palo Alto
3 4 (4.65%) Red Hat
3 4 (4.65%) VMware
4 3 (3.49%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.49%) Oracle
5 2 (2.33%) Adobe
5 2 (2.33%) Google
5 2 (2.33%) Sitecore
5 2 (2.33%) Splunk
6 1 (1.16%) Confluent
6 1 (1.16%) Dell
6 1 (1.16%) Intel
6 1 (1.16%) New Relic
6 1 (1.16%) Zuora