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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 622 726 498
Rank change year-on-year +104 -228 +70
Permanent jobs citing Amazon SQS 278 248 1,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.24% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.79% 0.55% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 132 179 385
10th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £45,750
25th Percentile £75,000 £66,250 £63,750
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 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £182,500 £136,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +10.71% -9.68% +40.91%

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 35,208 45,118 74,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.91% 43.11% 48.06%
Number of salaries quoted 26,662 29,500 41,930
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
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% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £100,000
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 27 April 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 27 April 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
UK excluding London +57 180 £77,500 +10.71% 11
England +48 173 £105,000 +40.00% 36
Work from Home +136 142 £90,000 +12.50% 20
London +114 90 £105,000 +10.53% 24
Scotland +20 87 £65,000 - 1
North of England +14 29 £65,000 -7.14% 4
South East +8 28 £77,500 +10.71% 5
North West +10 20 £65,000 -7.14% 2
Midlands +23 18 £165,000 +312.50% 1
East Midlands -6 10 £165,000 - 1
Yorkshire +59 9 £65,000 -5.45% 2
West Midlands +33 8 £165,000 +312.50%
Northern Ireland +35 6 £77,500 -3.13%
South West +3 5 £55,000 -
Wales - 4 - -
East of England +6 3 £42,500 -52.11%

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 81 (29.14%) Apache Spark
2 52 (18.71%) Apache
3 46 (16.55%) WebLogic
4 7 (2.52%) Tomcat
5 5 (1.80%) Confluence
5 5 (1.80%) WordPress
6 1 (0.36%) CMS
6 1 (0.36%) nginx
Business Applications
1 46 (16.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.36%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 257 (92.45%) AWS
2 183 (65.83%) Serverless
3 179 (64.39%) AWS Lambda
4 127 (45.68%) Amazon EKS
5 126 (45.32%) Amazon ECS
6 105 (37.77%) Amazon S3
7 104 (37.41%) Amazon EC2
8 69 (24.82%) Azure
9 65 (23.38%) AWS CloudFormation
10 53 (19.06%) Amazon EMR
11 45 (16.19%) SaaS
12 36 (12.95%) GitHub
12 36 (12.95%) OpenShift
13 31 (11.15%) Amazon Kinesis
14 28 (10.07%) GCP
15 23 (8.27%) Google Docs
15 23 (8.27%) Lucidchart
15 23 (8.27%) Miro
15 23 (8.27%) Slack
16 21 (7.55%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 46 (16.55%) BGP
1 46 (16.55%) DNS
1 46 (16.55%) SSL
1 46 (16.55%) TCP/IP
2 7 (2.52%) Internet
3 3 (1.08%) Firewall
4 2 (0.72%) HTTP
5 1 (0.36%) Network Security
5 1 (0.36%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (33.81%) Amazon RDS
2 80 (28.78%) Big Data
3 75 (26.98%) Hadoop
4 70 (25.18%) NoSQL
5 57 (20.50%) DynamoDB
5 57 (20.50%) Relational Database
6 52 (18.71%) Electronic Patient Records
7 47 (16.91%) RDBMS
8 46 (16.55%) Oracle Database
9 41 (14.75%) Amazon Redshift
10 28 (10.07%) Elasticsearch
11 25 (8.99%) Redis
12 23 (8.27%) Scylla
13 20 (7.19%) MySQL
13 20 (7.19%) PostgreSQL
14 14 (5.04%) Amazon Aurora
15 7 (2.52%) MongoDB
16 4 (1.44%) DocumentDB
16 4 (1.44%) Parquet
17 3 (1.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 45 (16.19%) Jenkins
2 39 (14.03%) Git
3 36 (12.95%) Artifactory
4 13 (4.68%) Maven
5 6 (2.16%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (1.80%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.80%) Eclipse
6 5 (1.80%) JIRA
6 5 (1.80%) Postman
7 3 (1.08%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.08%) NUnit
7 3 (1.08%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.08%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.72%) JUnit
8 2 (0.72%) Selenium
9 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.36%) DbUnit
9 1 (0.36%) jMock
9 1 (0.36%) Mockito
9 1 (0.36%) TestNG
General
1 105 (37.77%) Finance
2 95 (34.17%) Social Skills
3 72 (25.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 52 (18.71%) Law
5 51 (18.35%) Legal
6 40 (14.39%) Front Office
7 14 (5.04%) Automotive
8 12 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (1.80%) Banking
9 5 (1.80%) Billing
10 4 (1.44%) Advertising
10 4 (1.44%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.08%) Retail
12 2 (0.72%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.36%) Music Industry
13 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 103 (37.05%) AWS Engineer
2 87 (31.29%) Lead
3 86 (30.94%) Software Engineer
4 57 (20.50%) Architect
5 55 (19.78%) AWS Software Engineer
6 54 (19.42%) Solutions Architect
7 51 (18.35%) Big Data Engineer
7 51 (18.35%) Big Data Software Engineer
7 51 (18.35%) Scala Engineer
7 51 (18.35%) Scala Software Engineer
8 47 (16.91%) AWS DevOps
9 46 (16.55%) Lead Architect
9 46 (16.55%) Lead Solutions Architect
10 43 (15.47%) DevOps Engineer
11 41 (14.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 38 (13.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 36 (12.95%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 36 (12.95%) Senior
14 33 (11.87%) Developer
15 26 (9.35%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (20.14%) RabbitMQ
2 50 (17.99%) Spring Boot
3 38 (13.67%) J2EE
3 38 (13.67%) Kafka
4 33 (11.87%) .NET
5 27 (9.71%) GraphQL
6 25 (8.99%) React
7 19 (6.83%) Node.js
8 12 (4.32%) .NET Framework
8 12 (4.32%) AngularJS
8 12 (4.32%) Spring
9 10 (3.60%) CSS
9 10 (3.60%) REST
10 9 (3.24%) jQuery
10 9 (3.24%) JSON
11 8 (2.88%) RESTful
12 7 (2.52%) .NET Core
12 7 (2.52%) AWS CDK
12 7 (2.52%) Lambda Expressions
13 6 (2.16%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 74 (26.62%) Algorithms
2 46 (16.55%) Enterprise Software
2 46 (16.55%) Public Cloud
3 36 (12.95%) Tandem
4 23 (8.27%) Data Structures
5 18 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (5.04%) Mobile App
7 6 (2.16%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.80%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.80%) Educational Technology
8 5 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.44%) Blog
9 4 (1.44%) Hedge funds
9 4 (1.44%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.36%) Cyber Defence
11 1 (0.36%) Digital Currency
11 1 (0.36%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.36%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.36%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 56 (20.14%) Linux
2 47 (16.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.08%) Windows
4 2 (0.72%) Unix
5 1 (0.36%) CentOS
5 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (61.51%) Agile
2 133 (47.84%) Software Engineering
3 117 (42.09%) CI/CD
4 99 (35.61%) SDLC
5 88 (31.65%) Open Source
6 65 (23.38%) DevOps
7 57 (20.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 57 (20.50%) Visualisation
8 56 (20.14%) Microservices
9 51 (18.35%) Operational Stability
9 51 (18.35%) Performance Tuning
9 51 (18.35%) Risk Management
9 51 (18.35%) Scrum
10 50 (17.99%) Actionable Insight
11 49 (17.63%) Migration
12 48 (17.27%) Collaborative Working
13 47 (16.91%) Project Management
14 46 (16.55%) ArchiMate
14 46 (16.55%) Load Balancing
14 46 (16.55%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 165 (59.35%) Java
2 95 (34.17%) Python
3 80 (28.78%) Scala
4 66 (23.74%) SQL
5 65 (23.38%) Go
6 38 (13.67%) JavaScript
7 28 (10.07%) TypeScript
8 24 (8.63%) Bash
9 20 (7.19%) C#
10 6 (2.16%) PHP
11 2 (0.72%) R
12 1 (0.36%) Groovy
12 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.36%) Rust
12 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 48 (17.27%) AWS Certification
1 48 (17.27%) SC Cleared
1 48 (17.27%) Security Cleared
2 47 (16.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 46 (16.55%) Azure Certification
4 14 (5.04%) Degree
5 5 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.80%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.44%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.80%) Data Quality
1 5 (1.80%) QA
2 3 (1.08%) SLA
3 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.36%) SEPA
System Software
1 79 (28.42%) Docker
2 14 (5.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 84 (30.22%) Kubernetes
2 46 (16.55%) Terraform
3 7 (2.52%) Ansible
4 3 (1.08%) Grafana
5 2 (0.72%) Consul
6 1 (0.36%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.36%) Packer
Vendors
1 48 (17.27%) Oracle
2 46 (16.55%) Sparx
3 24 (8.63%) Google
4 23 (8.27%) Dell
5 14 (5.04%) ForgeRock
5 14 (5.04%) Sitecore
6 7 (2.52%) Splunk
7 5 (1.80%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.80%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.44%) Dataiku
9 3 (1.08%) New Relic
9 3 (1.08%) Rackspace
9 3 (1.08%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.72%) Veracode
11 1 (0.36%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.36%) WooCommerce