Amazon SQS Contracts in England

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 468 477 568
Rank change year-on-year +9 +91 -214
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 74 163 227
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.34% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.63% 0.94% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 124 146
10th Percentile £375 £463 £413
25th Percentile £475 £500 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £566
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +10.38% +7.86%
75th Percentile £694 £680 £675
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £583 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - -44.00% +149.35%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,813 17,321 27,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.99% 36.28% 38.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,512 12,705 20,077
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £415 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 285 323
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £15.98 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +62.79% +2.14%
75th Percentile £38.75 £70.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £37.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year -43.15% +71.59% +0.32%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon SQS in England

Amazon SQS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon SQS in England

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon SQS in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon SQS in England

Amazon SQS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Amazon SQS in England

Amazon SQS
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region 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
London +44 53 £550 -12.00% 26
North of England +31 17 £575 -14.81% 8
North West +29 16 £586 +6.59% 4
South East -1 4 £595 +3.48% 4
Midlands +24 1 £350 - 3
Yorkshire +18 1 £575 -11.54% 3
West Midlands +14 1 £350 - 1
Amazon SQS
UK

Amazon SQS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (10.81%) Confluence
2 6 (8.11%) Apache
2 6 (8.11%) Apache Spark
3 5 (6.76%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.70%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.35%) nginx
5 1 (1.35%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 74 (100.00%) AWS
2 56 (75.68%) Amazon S3
3 39 (52.70%) Serverless
4 34 (45.95%) Amazon EC2
4 34 (45.95%) AWS Lambda
5 20 (27.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 17 (22.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 15 (20.27%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (18.92%) Route 53
9 13 (17.57%) Amazon ECR
10 11 (14.86%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (10.81%) Amazon EventBridge
11 8 (10.81%) Amazon Kinesis
11 8 (10.81%) Amazon MSK
11 8 (10.81%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (10.81%) AWS KMS
12 7 (9.46%) Azure
13 6 (8.11%) Amazon EMR
13 6 (8.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 6 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.46%) FTP
2 4 (5.41%) Firewall
2 4 (5.41%) Kerberos
2 4 (5.41%) OpenLDAP
2 4 (5.41%) SSL
3 2 (2.70%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (29.73%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (18.92%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (16.22%) DynamoDB
4 9 (12.16%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (12.16%) MySQL
4 9 (12.16%) Relational Database
5 8 (10.81%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (9.46%) NoSQL
7 5 (6.76%) Big Data
7 5 (6.76%) MongoDB
7 5 (6.76%) RDBMS
8 4 (5.41%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (4.05%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (2.70%) DB2
11 1 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.35%) Redis
11 1 (1.35%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 20 (27.03%) Git
2 18 (24.32%) GitLab
3 12 (16.22%) JIRA
4 11 (14.86%) Jenkins
5 9 (12.16%) webpack
6 6 (8.11%) Cucumber
6 6 (8.11%) JUnit
6 6 (8.11%) Maven
7 5 (6.76%) Mockito
7 5 (6.76%) Postman
8 4 (5.41%) PHPUnit
8 4 (5.41%) Selenium
8 4 (5.41%) TestNG
9 3 (4.05%) Bitbucket
10 2 (2.70%) EasyMock
10 2 (2.70%) Mocha
11 1 (1.35%) Cypress.io
11 1 (1.35%) Gradle
11 1 (1.35%) Liquibase
11 1 (1.35%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (12.16%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.11%) Retail
3 5 (6.76%) Manufacturing
3 5 (6.76%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (5.41%) Banking
4 4 (5.41%) Corporate Banking
4 4 (5.41%) Investment Banking
4 4 (5.41%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.41%) Retail Banking
5 3 (4.05%) Marketing
6 2 (2.70%) Finance
7 1 (1.35%) Games
7 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (45.95%) Developer
2 14 (18.92%) Lead
3 11 (14.86%) Architect
4 10 (13.51%) AWS Developer
4 10 (13.51%) Java Developer
4 10 (13.51%) Senior
5 9 (12.16%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (10.81%) AWS Architect
6 8 (10.81%) Senior Developer
7 5 (6.76%) AWS DevOps
7 5 (6.76%) Backend Developer
7 5 (6.76%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Data Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Python Developer
7 5 (6.76%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 5 (6.76%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Snowflake Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Technical Leader
8 4 (5.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (29.73%) Node.js
2 17 (22.97%) Spring
3 14 (18.92%) Spring Boot
4 13 (17.57%) React
4 13 (17.57%) REST
5 12 (16.22%) Kafka
6 9 (12.16%) Express.js
6 9 (12.16%) Redux
7 6 (8.11%) Web Services
8 5 (6.76%) GraphQL
8 5 (6.76%) JSON
8 5 (6.76%) Lambda Expressions
8 5 (6.76%) WireMock
8 5 (6.76%) XML
9 4 (5.41%) JPA
9 4 (5.41%) Laravel
9 4 (5.41%) LDAP
9 4 (5.41%) OAuth
9 4 (5.41%) Symfony
9 4 (5.41%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.76%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.05%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (4.05%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (4.05%) Private Cloud
2 3 (4.05%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.05%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.70%) Video on Demand
4 1 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.35%) Replication
4 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.11%) Linux
2 5 (6.76%) Unix
3 4 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.35%) CentOS
4 1 (1.35%) Windows
4 1 (1.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (45.95%) CI/CD
2 30 (40.54%) Agile
3 24 (32.43%) Containerisation
4 22 (29.73%) Microservices
5 21 (28.38%) DevOps
5 21 (28.38%) Test Automation
6 14 (18.92%) ETL
6 14 (18.92%) Scrum
7 13 (17.57%) Software Engineering
8 12 (16.22%) Front End Development
8 12 (16.22%) Full Stack Development
9 11 (14.86%) End-to-End Testing
9 11 (14.86%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (12.16%) API Development
10 9 (12.16%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 9 (12.16%) Customer Engagement
10 9 (12.16%) Design Patterns
10 9 (12.16%) OO
10 9 (12.16%) OOP
11 8 (10.81%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 31 (41.89%) Java
1 31 (41.89%) Python
2 17 (22.97%) SQL
3 11 (14.86%) TypeScript
4 10 (13.51%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.76%) C#
5 5 (6.76%) PHP
5 5 (6.76%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.70%) Kotlin
6 2 (2.70%) Scala
7 1 (1.35%) Bash
Qualifications
1 26 (35.14%) SC Cleared
1 26 (35.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.05%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.81%) QA
2 4 (5.41%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.41%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.35%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (29.73%) Docker
2 5 (6.76%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (5.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (37.84%) Kubernetes
2 24 (32.43%) Terraform
3 6 (8.11%) Grafana
4 5 (6.76%) Ansible
4 5 (6.76%) Packer
5 4 (5.41%) Podman
5 4 (5.41%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.35%) Argo
6 1 (1.35%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 5 (6.76%) Informatica
1 5 (6.76%) SAP
1 5 (6.76%) Talend
2 4 (5.41%) Confluent
2 4 (5.41%) Palo Alto
2 4 (5.41%) Red Hat
2 4 (5.41%) VMware
3 3 (4.05%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.70%) Adobe
4 2 (2.70%) Sitecore
4 2 (2.70%) Splunk
5 1 (1.35%) Dell
5 1 (1.35%) Google
5 1 (1.35%) Intel
5 1 (1.35%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.35%) New Relic
5 1 (1.35%) Zuora