Amazon SQS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 303 351 436
Rank change year-on-year +48 +85 -199
Contract jobs citing Amazon SQS 38 106 191
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.26% 0.44% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.70% 1.13% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 90 126
10th Percentile £463 £450 £409
25th Percentile £494 £500 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £641 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £714 £731
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% +7.14%
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 median hourly rate - £35.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - -44.00% +149.35%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,402 9,416 18,029
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.61% 39.44% 41.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,898 7,013 13,524
10th Percentile £350 £363 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 131 149
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.03
25th Percentile £16.90 £21.28 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% +25.00% +41.02%
75th Percentile £50.19 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.19 £75.00 £75.17
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

Amazon SQS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Amazon SQS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Amazon SQS trend for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Amazon SQS.

Amazon SQS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon SQS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Amazon SQS over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Amazon SQS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon SQS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Amazon SQS.

Amazon SQS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon SQS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (10.53%) Confluence
2 1 (2.63%) GeoServer
2 1 (2.63%) nginx
2 1 (2.63%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.63%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 38 (100.00%) AWS
2 28 (73.68%) Amazon S3
3 20 (52.63%) Serverless
4 18 (47.37%) Amazon EC2
5 16 (42.11%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (26.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (23.68%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (23.68%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (23.68%) AWS Fargate
8 8 (21.05%) Amazon ECR
8 8 (21.05%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (18.42%) AWS CloudTrail
9 7 (18.42%) Route 53
9 7 (18.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (15.79%) AWS KMS
10 6 (15.79%) Azure
11 4 (10.53%) Amazon EventBridge
11 4 (10.53%) AWS Control Tower
11 4 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (10.53%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) Firewall
1 3 (7.89%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (2.63%) FTP
2 1 (2.63%) Kerberos
2 1 (2.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (31.58%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (23.68%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (15.79%) MySQL
4 5 (13.16%) DynamoDB
5 4 (10.53%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (10.53%) Amazon QuickSight
5 4 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (10.53%) Relational Database
6 3 (7.89%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (7.89%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (7.89%) NoSQL
6 3 (7.89%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.63%) GIS
7 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (23.68%) GitLab
2 8 (21.05%) Git
3 7 (18.42%) Jenkins
4 6 (15.79%) JIRA
5 5 (13.16%) Cucumber
5 5 (13.16%) Selenium
6 4 (10.53%) PHPUnit
7 3 (7.89%) Cypress.io
7 3 (7.89%) JUnit
7 3 (7.89%) webpack
8 2 (5.26%) Bitbucket
8 2 (5.26%) CircleCI
8 2 (5.26%) Maven
8 2 (5.26%) Mockito
8 2 (5.26%) TestNG
9 1 (2.63%) Gradle
9 1 (2.63%) Mocha
9 1 (2.63%) Moq
9 1 (2.63%) SoapUI
9 1 (2.63%) SpecFlow
General
1 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.16%) Retail
3 4 (10.53%) Banking
3 4 (10.53%) Corporate Banking
3 4 (10.53%) Investment Banking
3 4 (10.53%) Retail Banking
4 2 (5.26%) Marketing
4 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (42.11%) Developer
2 6 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (15.79%) Lead
3 5 (13.16%) AWS Developer
3 5 (13.16%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Senior
4 4 (10.53%) Architect
4 4 (10.53%) AWS Consultant
4 4 (10.53%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (10.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Consultant
4 4 (10.53%) Java Developer
4 4 (10.53%) PHP Developer
4 4 (10.53%) Senior Developer
5 3 (7.89%) AWS Architect
5 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Python Team Leader
6 2 (5.26%) Serverless Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Technical Architect
7 1 (2.63%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (28.95%) Node.js
2 8 (21.05%) REST
2 8 (21.05%) Spring
3 6 (15.79%) React
3 6 (15.79%) Spring Boot
4 5 (13.16%) Kafka
5 4 (10.53%) Express.js
5 4 (10.53%) Laravel
5 4 (10.53%) Symfony
5 4 (10.53%) Yii
6 3 (7.89%) LDAP
6 3 (7.89%) Redux
6 3 (7.89%) Swagger
6 3 (7.89%) Web Services
7 2 (5.26%) AWS CDK
7 2 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (5.26%) JAX-RS
7 2 (5.26%) Mustache
7 2 (5.26%) OAuth
7 2 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (7.89%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.89%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (7.89%) Private Cloud
2 3 (7.89%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.26%) Video on Demand
4 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Linux
1 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.63%) Unix
1 1 (2.63%) Windows
1 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (44.74%) CI/CD
2 13 (34.21%) Agile
2 13 (34.21%) Containerisation
3 10 (26.32%) DevOps
4 8 (21.05%) Event-Driven
4 8 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (21.05%) Microservices
4 8 (21.05%) Test Automation
5 7 (18.42%) Design Patterns
6 6 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (15.79%) OO
7 5 (13.16%) Kanban
7 5 (13.16%) Migration
7 5 (13.16%) OOP
8 4 (10.53%) High Availability
8 4 (10.53%) Open Source
8 4 (10.53%) Presales
8 4 (10.53%) Unit Testing
8 4 (10.53%) Wealth Management
8 4 (10.53%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 13 (34.21%) Python
2 9 (23.68%) Java
2 9 (23.68%) SQL
3 7 (18.42%) JavaScript
4 6 (15.79%) TypeScript
5 4 (10.53%) PHP
6 2 (5.26%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.63%) C
7 1 (2.63%) C#
7 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (36.84%) SC Cleared
1 14 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 7 (18.42%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) QA
2 1 (2.63%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (47.37%) Docker
2 3 (7.89%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (47.37%) Kubernetes
2 14 (36.84%) Terraform
3 2 (5.26%) Ansible
3 2 (5.26%) Docker Swarm
3 2 (5.26%) Grafana
3 2 (5.26%) Packer
4 1 (2.63%) Kustomize
4 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (7.89%) Palo Alto
1 3 (7.89%) Salesforce
1 3 (7.89%) VMware
2 2 (5.26%) Apiary
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.26%) Red Hat
2 2 (5.26%) SAP
3 1 (2.63%) Adobe
3 1 (2.63%) Confluent
3 1 (2.63%) Google
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle
3 1 (2.63%) Sitecore
3 1 (2.63%) Splunk
3 1 (2.63%) Zuora