Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Amazon SQS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon SQS over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 652 732 464
Rank change year-on-year +80 -268 +77
Permanent jobs citing Amazon SQS 269 221 1,284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.23% 0.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.75% 0.53% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 119 161 399
10th Percentile £58,500 £52,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £71,250 £66,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £138,750 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £182,500 £136,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% +60.00%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,821 42,083 81,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.91% 43.23% 48.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,874 27,585 41,557
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,723 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +7.76%
75th Percentile £76,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Amazon SQS.

Salary trend for Amazon SQS in the UK

Amazon SQS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon SQS over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Amazon SQS in the UK

Amazon SQS
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon SQS within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +36 175 £97,500 +30.00% 43
UK excluding London +22 174 £75,000 +7.14% 19
Work from Home +106 131 £95,000 +18.75% 26
London +146 90 £105,000 +13.51% 24
Scotland +20 80 £65,000 - 3
North of England +18 31 £65,000 -7.14% 7
South East -23 24 £95,000 +35.71% 4
North West +4 22 £65,000 -7.14% 4
Midlands +10 18 £165,000 +312.50% 2
East Midlands -7 10 £165,000 - 2
Yorkshire +52 9 £65,000 -7.14% 2
West Midlands +17 8 £165,000 +312.50%
South West -19 8 £67,500 - 1
Northern Ireland +24 6 £77,500 -3.13% 1
Wales - 4 - -
East of England -11 3 £42,500 -52.11% 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 74 (27.51%) Apache Spark
2 51 (18.96%) Apache
3 46 (17.10%) WebLogic
4 5 (1.86%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.12%) Confluence
5 3 (1.12%) WordPress
6 1 (0.37%) nginx
Business Applications
1 46 (17.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 249 (92.57%) AWS
2 180 (66.91%) Serverless
3 176 (65.43%) AWS Lambda
4 127 (47.21%) Amazon EKS
5 117 (43.49%) Amazon ECS
6 99 (36.80%) Amazon S3
7 89 (33.09%) Amazon EC2
8 74 (27.51%) Azure
9 58 (21.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 52 (19.33%) Amazon EMR
11 40 (14.87%) SaaS
12 38 (14.13%) GitHub
13 30 (11.15%) Amazon Kinesis
14 26 (9.67%) OpenShift
15 25 (9.29%) AWS Step Functions
16 23 (8.55%) CloudFront
17 22 (8.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 20 (7.43%) GCP
19 17 (6.32%) AWS Fargate
19 17 (6.32%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 46 (17.10%) BGP
1 46 (17.10%) DNS
1 46 (17.10%) SSL
1 46 (17.10%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.49%) Internet
3 2 (0.74%) Firewall
3 2 (0.74%) HTTP
4 1 (0.37%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (30.86%) Amazon RDS
2 76 (28.25%) NoSQL
3 75 (27.88%) Big Data
4 68 (25.28%) Hadoop
5 53 (19.70%) Relational Database
6 52 (19.33%) DynamoDB
7 51 (18.96%) Electronic Patient Records
8 47 (17.47%) RDBMS
9 46 (17.10%) Oracle Database
10 31 (11.52%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (7.81%) Elasticsearch
12 18 (6.69%) Redis
13 17 (6.32%) PostgreSQL
13 17 (6.32%) Scylla
14 16 (5.95%) MySQL
15 11 (4.09%) Amazon Aurora
16 7 (2.60%) MongoDB
17 4 (1.49%) DocumentDB
17 4 (1.49%) Parquet
18 3 (1.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 47 (17.47%) Git
2 36 (13.38%) Jenkins
3 26 (9.67%) Artifactory
4 10 (3.72%) Maven
5 6 (2.23%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (1.86%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.86%) Eclipse
6 5 (1.86%) Postman
7 3 (1.12%) GitLab
7 3 (1.12%) JIRA
7 3 (1.12%) NUnit
7 3 (1.12%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.74%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.74%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.74%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.37%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.37%) JUnit
9 1 (0.37%) Mocha
9 1 (0.37%) Selenium
General
1 96 (35.69%) Finance
2 88 (32.71%) Social Skills
3 72 (26.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 58 (21.56%) Law
5 50 (18.59%) Legal
6 37 (13.75%) Front Office
7 16 (5.95%) Automotive
8 14 (5.20%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (1.86%) Advertising
9 5 (1.86%) Banking
9 5 (1.86%) Billing
10 4 (1.49%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.12%) Retail
12 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.37%) Marketing
13 1 (0.37%) Music Industry
13 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 94 (34.94%) AWS Engineer
2 88 (32.71%) Lead
3 83 (30.86%) Software Engineer
4 55 (20.45%) Architect
4 55 (20.45%) AWS Software Engineer
5 54 (20.07%) Solutions Architect
6 50 (18.59%) Big Data Engineer
6 50 (18.59%) Big Data Software Engineer
6 50 (18.59%) Scala Engineer
6 50 (18.59%) Scala Software Engineer
7 46 (17.10%) Lead Architect
7 46 (17.10%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 41 (15.24%) Senior
9 39 (14.50%) AWS DevOps
10 34 (12.64%) DevOps Engineer
11 31 (11.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 30 (11.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 29 (10.78%) Developer
14 26 (9.67%) Kubernetes Engineer
15 20 (7.43%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (19.33%) RabbitMQ
2 51 (18.96%) Spring Boot
3 43 (15.99%) .NET
4 31 (11.52%) Kafka
5 29 (10.78%) React
6 28 (10.41%) J2EE
7 22 (8.18%) GraphQL
8 19 (7.06%) .NET Framework
9 15 (5.58%) Node.js
10 14 (5.20%) .NET Core
11 11 (4.09%) Unity DI Container
12 10 (3.72%) AngularJS
12 10 (3.72%) Spring
13 9 (3.35%) JSON
13 9 (3.35%) REST
14 7 (2.60%) CSS
14 7 (2.60%) jQuery
14 7 (2.60%) Lambda Expressions
14 7 (2.60%) RESTful
15 6 (2.23%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 67 (24.91%) Algorithms
2 46 (17.10%) Enterprise Software
2 46 (17.10%) Public Cloud
3 26 (9.67%) Tandem
4 17 (6.32%) Data Structures
4 17 (6.32%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (5.95%) Mobile App
6 11 (4.09%) Blog
6 11 (4.09%) Hedge funds
6 11 (4.09%) Private Cloud
7 8 (2.97%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.60%) Derivative
8 7 (2.60%) Legacy Applications
8 7 (2.60%) N-Tier
9 6 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.86%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.12%) Educational Technology
11 3 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.37%) Cyber Defence
12 1 (0.37%) Digital Currency
Operating Systems
1 56 (20.82%) Linux
2 47 (17.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.12%) Windows
4 2 (0.74%) Unix
5 1 (0.37%) CentOS
5 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (61.34%) Agile
2 128 (47.58%) Software Engineering
3 109 (40.52%) CI/CD
4 100 (37.17%) SDLC
5 83 (30.86%) Open Source
6 65 (24.16%) Microservices
7 59 (21.93%) Scrum
8 58 (21.56%) DevOps
9 56 (20.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 54 (20.07%) Visualisation
11 50 (18.59%) Actionable Insight
11 50 (18.59%) Operational Stability
11 50 (18.59%) Performance Tuning
11 50 (18.59%) Risk Management
12 48 (17.84%) Collaborative Working
12 48 (17.84%) Migration
13 47 (17.47%) Project Management
14 46 (17.10%) ArchiMate
14 46 (17.10%) Kanban
14 46 (17.10%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 158 (58.74%) Java
2 88 (32.71%) Python
3 73 (27.14%) Scala
3 73 (27.14%) SQL
4 49 (18.22%) Go
5 42 (15.61%) JavaScript
6 32 (11.90%) TypeScript
7 27 (10.04%) C#
8 18 (6.69%) Bash
9 3 (1.12%) PHP
10 1 (0.37%) C++
10 1 (0.37%) Groovy
10 1 (0.37%) Rust
10 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 48 (17.84%) AWS Certification
1 48 (17.84%) SC Cleared
1 48 (17.84%) Security Cleared
2 47 (17.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 46 (17.10%) Azure Certification
4 14 (5.20%) Degree
5 7 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.49%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.12%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.09%) QA
2 5 (1.86%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.86%) SLA
3 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.37%) SEPA
System Software
1 65 (24.16%) Docker
2 16 (5.95%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 69 (25.65%) Kubernetes
2 40 (14.87%) Terraform
3 6 (2.23%) Ansible
4 3 (1.12%) Grafana
5 1 (0.37%) Consul
5 1 (0.37%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.37%) Packer
Vendors
1 48 (17.84%) Oracle
2 46 (17.10%) Sparx
3 17 (6.32%) Dell
3 17 (6.32%) Google
4 16 (5.95%) ForgeRock
4 16 (5.95%) Sitecore
5 7 (2.60%) Bloomberg
5 7 (2.60%) Splunk
6 5 (1.86%) MuleSoft
6 5 (1.86%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.49%) Dataiku
8 3 (1.12%) New Relic
8 3 (1.12%) Rackspace
8 3 (1.12%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.74%) Veracode
10 1 (0.37%) Red Hat