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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 627 740 481
Rank change year-on-year +113 -259 +81
Permanent jobs citing Amazon SQS 282 234 1,135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.23% 0.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.80% 0.54% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 128 171 383
10th Percentile £61,750 £52,500 £43,750
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 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £182,500 £136,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% - +36.59%

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 35,381 43,379 75,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.70% 42.80% 48.33%
Number of salaries quoted 26,736 28,530 41,309
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,784 £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 £96,250 £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 9 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 9 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
UK excluding London +52 180 £72,500 +3.57% 11
England +58 179 £105,000 +40.00% 31
Work from Home +119 141 £95,000 +18.75% 21
London +101 95 £105,000 +13.51% 18
Scotland +18 87 £65,000 - 1
North of England +22 30 £65,000 -7.14% 4
South East -24 25 £82,500 +17.86% 5
North West +13 21 £65,000 -7.14% 3
Midlands +5 18 £165,000 +312.50% 1
East Midlands -8 10 £165,000 - 1
Yorkshire +60 9 £65,000 -7.14% 1
West Midlands +19 8 £165,000 +312.50%
South West -15 7 £67,500 -
Northern Ireland +31 6 £77,500 -3.13%
Wales - 4 - -
East of England +13 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 (28.72%) Apache Spark
2 52 (18.44%) Apache
3 46 (16.31%) WebLogic
4 7 (2.48%) Tomcat
5 5 (1.77%) Confluence
5 5 (1.77%) WordPress
6 1 (0.35%) nginx
Business Applications
1 46 (16.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 260 (92.20%) AWS
2 187 (66.31%) Serverless
3 183 (64.89%) AWS Lambda
4 128 (45.39%) Amazon EKS
5 123 (43.62%) Amazon ECS
6 107 (37.94%) Amazon S3
7 98 (34.75%) Amazon EC2
8 72 (25.53%) Azure
9 63 (22.34%) AWS CloudFormation
10 53 (18.79%) Amazon EMR
11 46 (16.31%) SaaS
12 42 (14.89%) GitHub
13 32 (11.35%) OpenShift
14 30 (10.64%) Amazon Kinesis
15 28 (9.93%) GCP
16 25 (8.87%) AWS Step Functions
17 23 (8.16%) Google Docs
17 23 (8.16%) Lucidchart
17 23 (8.16%) Miro
17 23 (8.16%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 46 (16.31%) BGP
1 46 (16.31%) DNS
1 46 (16.31%) SSL
1 46 (16.31%) TCP/IP
2 7 (2.48%) Internet
3 3 (1.06%) Firewall
4 2 (0.71%) HTTP
5 1 (0.35%) Network Security
5 1 (0.35%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (31.21%) Amazon RDS
2 82 (29.08%) Big Data
3 75 (26.60%) Hadoop
4 74 (26.24%) NoSQL
5 56 (19.86%) DynamoDB
6 55 (19.50%) Relational Database
7 52 (18.44%) Electronic Patient Records
8 47 (16.67%) RDBMS
9 46 (16.31%) Oracle Database
10 37 (13.12%) Amazon Redshift
11 27 (9.57%) Elasticsearch
12 24 (8.51%) Redis
13 23 (8.16%) Scylla
14 20 (7.09%) MySQL
15 18 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
16 13 (4.61%) Amazon Aurora
17 7 (2.48%) MongoDB
18 4 (1.42%) DocumentDB
18 4 (1.42%) Parquet
19 3 (1.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 44 (15.60%) Git
2 42 (14.89%) Jenkins
3 32 (11.35%) Artifactory
4 12 (4.26%) Maven
5 6 (2.13%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (1.77%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.77%) Eclipse
6 5 (1.77%) JIRA
7 4 (1.42%) Postman
8 3 (1.06%) NUnit
8 3 (1.06%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.71%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.71%) GitLab
9 2 (0.71%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.35%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.35%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.35%) JUnit
10 1 (0.35%) Mocha
10 1 (0.35%) Selenium
General
1 102 (36.17%) Finance
2 93 (32.98%) Social Skills
3 77 (27.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 57 (20.21%) Law
5 51 (18.09%) Legal
6 41 (14.54%) Front Office
7 16 (5.67%) Automotive
8 14 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (1.77%) Banking
9 5 (1.77%) Billing
10 4 (1.42%) Advertising
10 4 (1.42%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.06%) Retail
12 2 (0.71%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.35%) Music Industry
13 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 99 (35.11%) AWS Engineer
2 89 (31.56%) Lead
3 88 (31.21%) Software Engineer
4 55 (19.50%) Architect
4 55 (19.50%) AWS Software Engineer
5 54 (19.15%) Solutions Architect
6 51 (18.09%) Big Data Engineer
6 51 (18.09%) Big Data Software Engineer
6 51 (18.09%) Scala Engineer
6 51 (18.09%) Scala Software Engineer
7 46 (16.31%) Lead Architect
7 46 (16.31%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 45 (15.96%) AWS DevOps
9 41 (14.54%) Senior
10 40 (14.18%) DevOps Engineer
11 37 (13.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 35 (12.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 32 (11.35%) Developer
13 32 (11.35%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 26 (9.22%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (19.15%) RabbitMQ
2 51 (18.09%) Spring Boot
3 41 (14.54%) .NET
4 37 (13.12%) Kafka
5 34 (12.06%) J2EE
6 30 (10.64%) React
7 27 (9.57%) GraphQL
8 18 (6.38%) Node.js
9 17 (6.03%) .NET Framework
10 12 (4.26%) .NET Core
10 12 (4.26%) AngularJS
10 12 (4.26%) Spring
11 9 (3.19%) jQuery
11 9 (3.19%) JSON
11 9 (3.19%) REST
11 9 (3.19%) Unity DI Container
12 8 (2.84%) CSS
13 7 (2.48%) AWS CDK
13 7 (2.48%) RESTful
14 6 (2.13%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 74 (26.24%) Algorithms
2 46 (16.31%) Enterprise Software
2 46 (16.31%) Public Cloud
3 32 (11.35%) Tandem
4 23 (8.16%) Data Structures
5 17 (6.03%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (5.67%) Mobile App
7 9 (3.19%) Blog
7 9 (3.19%) Hedge funds
7 9 (3.19%) Private Cloud
8 8 (2.84%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.77%) Derivative
9 5 (1.77%) Educational Technology
9 5 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.77%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (1.77%) N-Tier
10 4 (1.42%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.35%) Cyber Defence
12 1 (0.35%) Digital Currency
Operating Systems
1 56 (19.86%) Linux
2 47 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.06%) Windows
4 2 (0.71%) Unix
5 1 (0.35%) CentOS
5 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (60.64%) Agile
2 135 (47.87%) Software Engineering
3 115 (40.78%) CI/CD
4 101 (35.82%) SDLC
5 87 (30.85%) Open Source
6 63 (22.34%) DevOps
6 63 (22.34%) Microservices
7 57 (20.21%) Continuous Improvement
7 57 (20.21%) Scrum
7 57 (20.21%) Visualisation
8 51 (18.09%) Operational Stability
8 51 (18.09%) Performance Tuning
8 51 (18.09%) Risk Management
9 50 (17.73%) Actionable Insight
10 49 (17.38%) Migration
11 48 (17.02%) Collaborative Working
12 47 (16.67%) Project Management
13 46 (16.31%) ArchiMate
13 46 (16.31%) Kanban
13 46 (16.31%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 170 (60.28%) Java
2 95 (33.69%) Python
3 80 (28.37%) Scala
4 70 (24.82%) SQL
5 61 (21.63%) Go
6 43 (15.25%) JavaScript
7 33 (11.70%) TypeScript
8 25 (8.87%) C#
9 24 (8.51%) Bash
10 5 (1.77%) PHP
11 1 (0.35%) C++
11 1 (0.35%) Groovy
11 1 (0.35%) Rust
11 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 48 (17.02%) AWS Certification
1 48 (17.02%) SC Cleared
1 48 (17.02%) Security Cleared
2 47 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 46 (16.31%) Azure Certification
4 16 (5.67%) Degree
5 7 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.77%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.42%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.19%) QA
2 5 (1.77%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.42%) SLA
4 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.35%) SEPA
System Software
1 75 (26.60%) Docker
2 16 (5.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 80 (28.37%) Kubernetes
2 45 (15.96%) Terraform
3 6 (2.13%) Ansible
4 3 (1.06%) Grafana
5 1 (0.35%) Consul
5 1 (0.35%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.35%) Packer
Vendors
1 48 (17.02%) Oracle
2 46 (16.31%) Sparx
3 23 (8.16%) Dell
3 23 (8.16%) Google
4 16 (5.67%) ForgeRock
4 16 (5.67%) Sitecore
5 7 (2.48%) Splunk
6 5 (1.77%) Bloomberg
6 5 (1.77%) MuleSoft
6 5 (1.77%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.42%) Dataiku
8 3 (1.06%) New Relic
8 3 (1.06%) Rackspace
8 3 (1.06%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.71%) Veracode
10 1 (0.35%) Red Hat