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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 516 501 575
Rank change year-on-year -15 +74 -201
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 86 195 289
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.35% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.61% 0.96% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 146 181
10th Percentile £393 £450 £413
25th Percentile £488 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £694 £680 £675
90th Percentile £733 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £575 £513
% change year-on-year -11.30% +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 14,030 20,255 33,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.39% 36.45% 38.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,915 14,661 24,591
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 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 350 326 382
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.50 £37.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.28% +69.32% +0.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £68.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £27.50 £19.09
% change year-on-year -30.91% +44.05% -4.55%

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 9 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 10 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 9 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 +8 72 £550 -12.00% 37
London +27 52 £550 -12.00% 22
Work from Home +44 36 £563 -2.17% 21
UK excluding London +5 24 £510 -11.30% 16
North of England +27 16 £586 -13.15% 8
North West +27 16 £586 +6.59% 3
South East +5 4 £595 +3.48% 2
Scotland +27 3 £476 -2.11% 1
Midlands +20 1 £350 - 3
West Midlands +11 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%) OpenStack
5 2 (2.33%) GeoServer
6 1 (1.16%) nginx
6 1 (1.16%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 86 (100.00%) AWS
2 66 (76.74%) Amazon S3
3 47 (54.65%) Serverless
4 41 (47.67%) AWS Lambda
5 40 (46.51%) Amazon EC2
6 22 (25.58%) Amazon EKS
7 21 (24.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 19 (22.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 17 (19.77%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (17.44%) Amazon ECR
11 14 (16.28%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (16.28%) Route 53
12 12 (13.95%) AWS KMS
13 10 (11.63%) AWS Fargate
14 9 (10.47%) Amazon Kinesis
15 8 (9.30%) Amazon EventBridge
15 8 (9.30%) Amazon MSK
15 8 (9.30%) AWS CloudTrail
15 8 (9.30%) Azure
16 7 (8.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.14%) FTP
2 5 (5.81%) Kerberos
2 5 (5.81%) SSL
3 4 (4.65%) Firewall
3 4 (4.65%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (2.33%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (31.40%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (18.60%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (17.44%) DynamoDB
4 12 (13.95%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (12.79%) Relational Database
6 9 (10.47%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (10.47%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (9.30%) MySQL
8 7 (8.14%) NoSQL
9 6 (6.98%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (6.98%) Big Data
10 5 (5.81%) RDBMS
11 4 (4.65%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (4.65%) MongoDB
12 2 (2.33%) DB2
12 2 (2.33%) GIS
13 1 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (1.16%) Redis
13 1 (1.16%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 22 (25.58%) Git
2 20 (23.26%) GitLab
3 15 (17.44%) Jenkins
4 12 (13.95%) JIRA
5 9 (10.47%) webpack
6 8 (9.30%) Cucumber
6 8 (9.30%) JUnit
7 6 (6.98%) Maven
7 6 (6.98%) Selenium
8 5 (5.81%) Postman
9 4 (4.65%) Cypress.io
9 4 (4.65%) Mockito
9 4 (4.65%) PHPUnit
9 4 (4.65%) TestNG
10 3 (3.49%) CircleCI
10 3 (3.49%) Mocha
11 2 (2.33%) Bitbucket
11 2 (2.33%) Gradle
12 1 (1.16%) Liquibase
12 1 (1.16%) SoapUI
General
1 11 (12.79%) Social Skills
2 6 (6.98%) Public Sector
2 6 (6.98%) Retail
3 5 (5.81%) Banking
3 5 (5.81%) Manufacturing
3 5 (5.81%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (4.65%) Corporate Banking
4 4 (4.65%) Investment Banking
4 4 (4.65%) Retail Banking
5 3 (3.49%) Marketing
6 2 (2.33%) Finance
7 1 (1.16%) Games
7 1 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (41.86%) Developer
2 15 (17.44%) Lead
3 11 (12.79%) Architect
4 10 (11.63%) AWS Developer
4 10 (11.63%) Java Developer
4 10 (11.63%) Senior
5 9 (10.47%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (9.30%) Senior Developer
7 7 (8.14%) AWS Architect
8 5 (5.81%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (5.81%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Backend Developer
8 5 (5.81%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Data Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Python Developer
8 5 (5.81%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Snowflake Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Technical Leader
9 4 (4.65%) Consultant
9 4 (4.65%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (29.07%) Node.js
2 24 (27.91%) Spring
3 18 (20.93%) Spring Boot
4 17 (19.77%) React
5 16 (18.60%) REST
6 14 (16.28%) Kafka
7 10 (11.63%) Express.js
8 9 (10.47%) Redux
9 7 (8.14%) Web Services
10 6 (6.98%) AWS CDK
10 6 (6.98%) JSON
11 5 (5.81%) GraphQL
11 5 (5.81%) XML
12 4 (4.65%) Hibernate
12 4 (4.65%) JPA
12 4 (4.65%) Lambda Expressions
12 4 (4.65%) LDAP
12 4 (4.65%) OAuth
12 4 (4.65%) Spring Security
12 4 (4.65%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.98%) Cloud Native
1 6 (6.98%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (4.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 4 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.49%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.49%) Private Cloud
3 3 (3.49%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.49%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.33%) Replication
4 2 (2.33%) Video on Demand
4 2 (2.33%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.14%) Unix
2 6 (6.98%) Linux
3 5 (5.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.16%) CentOS
4 1 (1.16%) Windows
4 1 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (52.33%) CI/CD
2 34 (39.53%) Agile
3 30 (34.88%) Containerisation
4 27 (31.40%) Microservices
5 24 (27.91%) DevOps
5 24 (27.91%) Test Automation
6 15 (17.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (17.44%) Software Engineering
7 14 (16.28%) ETL
7 14 (16.28%) Scrum
8 13 (15.12%) Full Stack Development
9 12 (13.95%) Front End Development
9 12 (13.95%) Migration
10 10 (11.63%) End-to-End Testing
10 10 (11.63%) Event-Driven
10 10 (11.63%) OOP
11 9 (10.47%) API Development
11 9 (10.47%) Backlog Prioritisation
11 9 (10.47%) Design Patterns
11 9 (10.47%) OO
Programming Languages
1 37 (43.02%) Java
2 34 (39.53%) Python
3 19 (22.09%) SQL
4 15 (17.44%) JavaScript
5 14 (16.28%) TypeScript
6 6 (6.98%) Shell Script
7 5 (5.81%) C#
7 5 (5.81%) PHP
8 4 (4.65%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.33%) Scala
10 1 (1.16%) C
Qualifications
1 28 (32.56%) Security Cleared
2 27 (31.40%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.30%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.16%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.16%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.47%) QA
2 5 (5.81%) PCI DSS
3 4 (4.65%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.33%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.16%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.16%) GDPR
5 1 (1.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (34.88%) Docker
2 6 (6.98%) Active Directory
3 5 (5.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (39.53%) Kubernetes
2 28 (32.56%) Terraform
3 7 (8.14%) Grafana
4 6 (6.98%) Ansible
4 6 (6.98%) Packer
5 5 (5.81%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.65%) Podman
7 2 (2.33%) Argo
8 1 (1.16%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 6 (6.98%) SAP
2 5 (5.81%) Confluent
2 5 (5.81%) Informatica
2 5 (5.81%) Red Hat
2 5 (5.81%) Talend
3 4 (4.65%) Palo Alto
3 4 (4.65%) Salesforce
3 4 (4.65%) VMware
4 2 (2.33%) Adobe
4 2 (2.33%) Google
4 2 (2.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.33%) Oracle
4 2 (2.33%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.16%) Dell
5 1 (1.16%) Intel
5 1 (1.16%) New Relic
5 1 (1.16%) Splunk
5 1 (1.16%) Zuora