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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 490 486 574
Rank change year-on-year -4 +88 -204
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 89 210 297
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.37% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.64% 1.00% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 163 185
10th Percentile £411 £451 £413
25th Percentile £488 £500 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £686 £675 £650
90th Percentile £702 £723 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £543 £575 £507
% change year-on-year -5.65% +13.52% +9.51%
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 13,842 21,041 34,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.54% 36.74% 38.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,846 15,232 24,816
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 £748 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 332 411
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £18.50 £15.35
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +59.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £38.13 £66.00 £53.88
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £19.25
% change year-on-year -29.12% +29.89% -3.76%

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 20 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 20 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 +23 75 £550 -12.00% 43
London +45 54 £550 -12.00% 28
Work from Home +34 38 £563 -2.17% 24
UK excluding London +6 25 £543 -5.65% 20
North of England +29 17 £575 -11.54% 6
North West +29 16 £586 +6.59% 3
South East +8 4 £595 +10.70% 8
Scotland +23 3 £476 -1.60% 3
Yorkshire +16 1 £575 -11.54% 2
Midlands - 1 £350 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £350 -

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 (8.99%) Confluence
2 6 (6.74%) Apache
2 6 (6.74%) Apache Spark
3 5 (5.62%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (3.37%) nginx
4 3 (3.37%) OpenStack
4 3 (3.37%) Tomcat
5 2 (2.25%) GeoServer
Business Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 89 (100.00%) AWS
2 64 (71.91%) Amazon S3
3 46 (51.69%) Serverless
4 41 (46.07%) AWS Lambda
5 40 (44.94%) Amazon EC2
6 21 (23.60%) Amazon EKS
7 20 (22.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 18 (20.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 17 (19.10%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (16.85%) Amazon ECR
11 14 (15.73%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (15.73%) Route 53
12 9 (10.11%) Amazon MSK
12 9 (10.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 9 (10.11%) AWS Fargate
12 9 (10.11%) AWS KMS
13 8 (8.99%) Amazon EventBridge
13 8 (8.99%) Amazon Kinesis
13 8 (8.99%) Azure
14 7 (7.87%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.87%) FTP
2 4 (4.49%) Firewall
2 4 (4.49%) OpenLDAP
3 2 (2.25%) Kerberos
3 2 (2.25%) SMS
3 2 (2.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (33.71%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (22.47%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (14.61%) DynamoDB
4 11 (12.36%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (12.36%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (12.36%) Relational Database
5 8 (8.99%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (8.99%) MySQL
6 7 (7.87%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (7.87%) NoSQL
7 5 (5.62%) Big Data
7 5 (5.62%) MongoDB
7 5 (5.62%) RDBMS
8 3 (3.37%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (2.25%) DB2
9 2 (2.25%) GIS
10 1 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.12%) Redis
10 1 (1.12%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 23 (25.84%) Git
1 23 (25.84%) GitLab
2 19 (21.35%) Jenkins
3 13 (14.61%) Cucumber
3 13 (14.61%) JUnit
4 12 (13.48%) JIRA
4 12 (13.48%) Maven
5 11 (12.36%) Selenium
6 10 (11.24%) TestNG
7 9 (10.11%) webpack
8 8 (8.99%) Mockito
9 6 (6.74%) Cypress.io
10 5 (5.62%) Bitbucket
10 5 (5.62%) EasyMock
10 5 (5.62%) Mocha
10 5 (5.62%) Postman
11 4 (4.49%) Gradle
12 3 (3.37%) PHPUnit
12 3 (3.37%) SoapUI
12 3 (3.37%) WebDriver
General
1 10 (11.24%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.99%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.62%) Manufacturing
3 5 (5.62%) Pharmaceutical
3 5 (5.62%) Retail
4 4 (4.49%) Banking
5 3 (3.37%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (3.37%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.37%) Marketing
5 3 (3.37%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.12%) Finance
6 1 (1.12%) Games
6 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (43.82%) Developer
2 16 (17.98%) Lead
3 14 (15.73%) Java Developer
4 12 (13.48%) Architect
5 10 (11.24%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (10.11%) AWS Developer
7 8 (8.99%) AWS Architect
7 8 (8.99%) Backend Developer
7 8 (8.99%) Senior
8 7 (7.87%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 6 (6.74%) AWS DevOps
9 6 (6.74%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (6.74%) Senior Developer
10 5 (5.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.62%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (5.62%) Data Engineer
10 5 (5.62%) Python Developer
10 5 (5.62%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 5 (5.62%) Snowflake Engineer
10 5 (5.62%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (32.58%) Spring
2 27 (30.34%) Node.js
3 25 (28.09%) Spring Boot
4 24 (26.97%) REST
5 18 (20.22%) React
6 14 (15.73%) Kafka
7 10 (11.24%) Express.js
8 9 (10.11%) JAX-RS
8 9 (10.11%) Redux
9 8 (8.99%) Web Services
9 8 (8.99%) WireMock
10 6 (6.74%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (6.74%) JSON
10 6 (6.74%) Mustache
11 5 (5.62%) GraphQL
11 5 (5.62%) Hibernate
11 5 (5.62%) JPA
11 5 (5.62%) Lambda Expressions
11 5 (5.62%) OAuth
11 5 (5.62%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.74%) Cloud Native
1 6 (6.74%) Greenfield Project
1 6 (6.74%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.37%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (3.37%) Private Cloud
3 3 (3.37%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.37%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.25%) Video on Demand
4 2 (2.25%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.49%) Linux
1 4 (4.49%) Unix
2 2 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.12%) CentOS
3 1 (1.12%) Windows
3 1 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (55.06%) CI/CD
2 35 (39.33%) Agile
3 32 (35.96%) Microservices
4 29 (32.58%) Containerisation
5 27 (30.34%) Test Automation
6 22 (24.72%) DevOps
7 14 (15.73%) ETL
7 14 (15.73%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (14.61%) Full Stack Development
9 12 (13.48%) Front End Development
9 12 (13.48%) Scrum
10 11 (12.36%) End-to-End Testing
10 11 (12.36%) OOP
10 11 (12.36%) Software Engineering
11 9 (10.11%) API Development
11 9 (10.11%) Backlog Prioritisation
11 9 (10.11%) Customer Engagement
11 9 (10.11%) Event-Driven
11 9 (10.11%) Migration
12 8 (8.99%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 43 (48.31%) Java
2 32 (35.96%) Python
3 20 (22.47%) SQL
4 18 (20.22%) JavaScript
5 13 (14.61%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.62%) C#
7 4 (4.49%) Kotlin
7 4 (4.49%) PHP
8 3 (3.37%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.25%) C
9 2 (2.25%) Scala
10 1 (1.12%) Bash
Qualifications
1 37 (41.57%) Security Cleared
2 36 (40.45%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.87%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.12%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.99%) QA
2 2 (2.25%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.25%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.25%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.12%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.12%) GDPR
3 1 (1.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (33.71%) Docker
2 5 (5.62%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (43.82%) Kubernetes
2 29 (32.58%) Terraform
3 6 (6.74%) Ansible
3 6 (6.74%) Packer
4 5 (5.62%) Grafana
5 3 (3.37%) Kustomize
6 2 (2.25%) Podman
6 2 (2.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (7.87%) SAP
2 5 (5.62%) Informatica
2 5 (5.62%) Red Hat
2 5 (5.62%) Salesforce
2 5 (5.62%) Talend
3 4 (4.49%) Palo Alto
3 4 (4.49%) VMware
4 3 (3.37%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.37%) Oracle
5 2 (2.25%) Adobe
5 2 (2.25%) Confluent
5 2 (2.25%) Google
5 2 (2.25%) Sitecore
5 2 (2.25%) Splunk
6 1 (1.12%) Dell
6 1 (1.12%) Intel
6 1 (1.12%) New Relic
6 1 (1.12%) Zuora