Amazon SQS Job Trends in England

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Amazon SQS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 520 344 566
Rank change year-on-year -176 +222 +118
Permanent jobs citing Amazon SQS 92 387 94
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.78% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.49% 2.13% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 55 123 72
10th Percentile £56,000 £63,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £60,625 £76,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £90,000 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +18.03% +1.67%
75th Percentile £76,875 £118,750 £101,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £138,750
UK median annual salary £72,500 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -19.44% +20.00% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

Amazon SQS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 18,588 18,167 18,840
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.75% 36.49% 41.70%
Number of salaries quoted 10,318 10,864 15,767
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £47,500 £45,193
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,548
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,450 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year -4.76% +4.57% -7.31%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Amazon SQS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Amazon SQS job vacancy trend in England

Amazon SQS
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Amazon SQS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Amazon SQS

Amazon SQS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon SQS in England over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Amazon SQS in England

Amazon SQS
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon SQS within the England region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. 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
London -113 39 £76,000 -24.00% 56
North of England +43 33 £60,000 -31.43% 71
Yorkshire - 25 £60,000 - 41
South East -79 13 £87,500 +45.83% 80
North West +31 8 £72,500 -17.14% 26
East of England -15 3 £100,000 - 49
South West +16 2 £62,500 -7.41% 37
Amazon SQS
UK

Amazon SQS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (14.13%) Apache
2 10 (10.87%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (7.61%) OpenStack
4 6 (6.52%) Headless CMS
5 3 (3.26%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 6 (6.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 92 (100.00%) AWS
2 72 (78.26%) Serverless
3 64 (69.57%) AWS Lambda
4 63 (68.48%) Amazon S3
5 27 (29.35%) AWS CloudFormation
6 25 (27.17%) Amazon ECS
7 22 (23.91%) AWS Step Functions
7 22 (23.91%) GitHub
8 20 (21.74%) Amazon EventBridge
8 20 (21.74%) Azure
9 16 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (15.22%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (14.13%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (11.96%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (7.61%) SaaS
13 7 (7.61%) Vercel
14 6 (6.52%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (6.52%) Azure Service Bus
14 6 (6.52%) Figma
14 6 (6.52%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.17%) AMQP
2 1 (1.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (28.26%) DynamoDB
2 24 (26.09%) NoSQL
3 22 (23.91%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (14.13%) SQL Server
5 8 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (8.70%) Relational Database
6 6 (6.52%) MySQL
7 5 (5.43%) MongoDB
8 4 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (3.26%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (3.26%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (3.26%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (3.26%) Data Lake
9 3 (3.26%) Data Vault
10 1 (1.09%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (26.09%) Git
2 12 (13.04%) Jenkins
3 10 (10.87%) Cypress.io
4 5 (5.43%) git-flow
4 5 (5.43%) GitLab
5 4 (4.35%) Maven
5 4 (4.35%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.26%) ESLint
7 2 (2.17%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.09%) JUnit
General
1 56 (60.87%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.39%) Organisational Skills
3 15 (16.30%) Health Technology
3 15 (16.30%) Influencing Skills
3 15 (16.30%) Publishing
3 15 (16.30%) Tech for Good
4 8 (8.70%) Finance
5 6 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.26%) Marketing
7 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 67 (72.83%) Developer
2 27 (29.35%) AWS Developer
3 21 (22.83%) Lead
4 19 (20.65%) Lead Developer
5 18 (19.57%) Full-Stack Developer
6 17 (18.48%) React Developer
6 17 (18.48%) Senior
7 15 (16.30%) Lead Python Developer
7 15 (16.30%) Python Developer
8 13 (14.13%) Senior Developer
9 12 (13.04%) .NET Developer
9 12 (13.04%) Java Developer
10 11 (11.96%) Backend Developer
10 11 (11.96%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (8.70%) Lead Software Developer
11 8 (8.70%) Software Developer
11 8 (8.70%) Software Engineer
12 5 (5.43%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (5.43%) Principal Developer
13 4 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (51.09%) RESTful
2 44 (47.83%) React
3 27 (29.35%) Kafka
3 27 (29.35%) Node.js
4 23 (25.00%) Spring Boot
5 22 (23.91%) AWS CDK
6 21 (22.83%) .NET
6 21 (22.83%) Spring
7 15 (16.30%) CSS
7 15 (16.30%) RabbitMQ
8 13 (14.13%) .NET Core
8 13 (14.13%) ASP.NET
8 13 (14.13%) ASP.NET Core
8 13 (14.13%) Blazor
8 13 (14.13%) Pandas
9 12 (13.04%) Hibernate
10 10 (10.87%) HTML
10 10 (10.87%) Jest
10 10 (10.87%) JPA
10 10 (10.87%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 41 (44.57%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.87%) Distributed Architecture
2 10 (10.87%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (10.87%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (5.43%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.35%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.26%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.09%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (79.35%) CI/CD
2 57 (61.96%) Agile
3 49 (53.26%) DevOps
4 41 (44.57%) Microservices
5 36 (39.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 32 (34.78%) Containerisation
7 27 (29.35%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (28.26%) Full-Stack Development
9 25 (27.17%) Scrum
10 23 (25.00%) Event-Driven
11 22 (23.91%) Code Quality
11 22 (23.91%) Mentoring
11 22 (23.91%) TDD
12 21 (22.83%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (22.83%) Pair Programming
13 16 (17.39%) Coaching
13 16 (17.39%) Root Cause Analysis
14 15 (16.30%) Acceptance Criteria
14 15 (16.30%) Fintech
14 15 (16.30%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 38 (41.30%) Python
2 30 (32.61%) TypeScript
3 29 (31.52%) SQL
4 26 (28.26%) Java
5 20 (21.74%) JavaScript
6 8 (8.70%) C#
7 5 (5.43%) Bash
8 4 (4.35%) Groovy
9 1 (1.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (21.74%) AWS Certification
2 14 (15.22%) AWS Certified Developer
3 4 (4.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 4 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.09%) Degree
4 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (21.74%) QA
2 6 (6.52%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.26%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.17%) GDPR
4 2 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.17%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 43 (46.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (30.43%) Kubernetes
2 24 (26.09%) Terraform
3 5 (5.43%) Grafana
4 4 (4.35%) HP Fortify
4 4 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (6.52%) Apple
2 3 (3.26%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.17%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.09%) Cisco