Amazon SQS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Amazon SQS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon SQS over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 368 430
Rank change year-on-year -8 +62 -31
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 25 62 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.27% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.46% 0.84% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 47 42
10th Percentile £407 £450 £451
25th Percentile £473 £503 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £575 £513
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% +12.20% +7.89%
75th Percentile £694 £650 £650
90th Percentile - £700 £698
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% +7.14%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

Amazon SQS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,466 7,412 9,987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.63% 32.66% 32.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,807 5,454 7,397
10th Percentile £220 £238 £210
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £594
90th Percentile £674 £694 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 216 273
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.57 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.15 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £27.35 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -26.87% +43.27% -4.55%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.19 £29.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.63 £64.60
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Amazon SQS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon SQS in the UK excluding London

Amazon SQS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon SQS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Amazon SQS in the UK excluding London

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon SQS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon SQS in the UK excluding London

Amazon SQS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
North of England +20 17 £510 -24.44% 7
North West +29 16 £586 +6.59% 3
South East +5 4 £595 +3.48% 2
Scotland +36 3 £476 -2.11% 1
West Midlands +16 1 £350 - 1
Midlands +15 1 £350 - 2
Yorkshire +11 1 £413 -36.54% 4
Amazon SQS
UK

Amazon SQS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (20.00%) Apache
1 5 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (8.00%) Confluence
2 2 (8.00%) GeoServer
2 2 (8.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) AWS
2 24 (96.00%) Amazon S3
3 17 (68.00%) Amazon EC2
4 14 (56.00%) Serverless
5 12 (48.00%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (44.00%) Route 53
6 11 (44.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 10 (40.00%) Amazon ECR
7 10 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (20.00%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (20.00%) Snowflake
9 3 (12.00%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (12.00%) Azure
10 2 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (8.00%) AWS Direct Connect
10 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (4.00%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) FTP
2 2 (8.00%) Firewall
2 2 (8.00%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (32.00%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (20.00%) Big Data
3 4 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (12.00%) NoSQL
4 3 (12.00%) Relational Database
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (8.00%) GIS
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
6 1 (4.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (48.00%) GitLab
2 11 (44.00%) Git
3 8 (32.00%) webpack
4 7 (28.00%) JIRA
5 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
6 3 (12.00%) JUnit
7 2 (8.00%) Cucumber
7 2 (8.00%) Maven
7 2 (8.00%) Mockito
General
1 5 (20.00%) Manufacturing
1 5 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Banking
3 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Developer
2 6 (24.00%) Lead
3 5 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 5 (20.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Snowflake Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Technical Leader
5 2 (8.00%) Architect
5 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Full Stack Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Backend Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (52.00%) Node.js
1 13 (52.00%) React
2 8 (32.00%) Express.js
2 8 (32.00%) Redux
3 7 (28.00%) Spring
3 7 (28.00%) Spring Boot
4 5 (20.00%) JSON
4 5 (20.00%) XML
5 2 (8.00%) AWS CDK
5 2 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (8.00%) Kafka
5 2 (8.00%) LDAP
5 2 (8.00%) Mustache
5 2 (8.00%) PostGIS
5 2 (8.00%) REST
5 2 (8.00%) Web Services
5 2 (8.00%) WireMock
6 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
6 1 (4.00%) OAuth2
6 1 (4.00%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Unix
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
1 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (76.00%) CI/CD
2 15 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 14 (56.00%) Test Automation
4 13 (52.00%) Agile
4 13 (52.00%) ETL
5 10 (40.00%) Full Stack Development
6 9 (36.00%) DevOps
7 8 (32.00%) API Development
7 8 (32.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 8 (32.00%) Customer Engagement
7 8 (32.00%) End-to-End Testing
7 8 (32.00%) Front End Development
7 8 (32.00%) QA Automation
8 7 (28.00%) Microservices
8 7 (28.00%) Scrum
9 5 (20.00%) Data Management
9 5 (20.00%) OO
9 5 (20.00%) OOP
9 5 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 5 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (48.00%) Java
2 10 (40.00%) Python
3 6 (24.00%) SQL
4 5 (20.00%) C#
5 4 (16.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (4.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 12 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (44.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (32.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (52.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Terraform
3 1 (4.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Informatica
1 5 (20.00%) Talend
2 2 (8.00%) Google
2 2 (8.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (8.00%) VMware
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle