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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 628 564 709
Rank change year-on-year -64 +145 -31
Permanent jobs citing Amazon SQS 103 89 134
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.12% 0.21% 0.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.43% 0.62% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 62 63 101
10th Percentile £53,875 £56,850 £56,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £66,875 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -21.05% +28.81%
75th Percentile £87,188 £87,500 £138,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,500 £182,500
UK median annual salary £68,750 £75,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% -21.05% +31.03%

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 24,019 14,370 29,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.42% 33.17% 32.93%
Number of salaries quoted 16,013 10,271 22,870
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £30,250
25th Percentile £43,847 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%

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 16 July 2026.

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 16 July 2026. 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
North of England 0 43 £80,000 +6.67% 11
London -43 36 £80,000 +19.40% 17
Yorkshire -8 26 £80,000 +28.00% 1
North West +3 16 £70,000 -6.67% 5
Midlands -15 12 £85,000 +17.24% 1
East Midlands - 9 £82,500 - 1
South East -17 7 £65,000 -10.34% 7
West Midlands -34 3 £85,000 +17.24%
East of England -25 2 £62,500 -26.47% 1
North East - 1 £62,500 - 5
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 4 (3.88%) Apache
1 4 (3.88%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.94%) Anypoint
2 2 (1.94%) Apache Pulsar
2 2 (1.94%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (1.94%) Confluence
3 1 (0.97%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.97%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.97%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.97%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 103 (100.00%) AWS
2 84 (81.55%) Serverless
3 83 (80.58%) AWS Lambda
4 72 (69.90%) Amazon S3
5 47 (45.63%) Amazon ECS
6 40 (38.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 37 (35.92%) AWS Step Functions
8 35 (33.98%) Amazon EventBridge
9 27 (26.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 21 (20.39%) Amazon ECR
11 20 (19.42%) Apigee
12 14 (13.59%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (12.62%) Amazon Cognito
14 11 (10.68%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (10.68%) Azure
14 11 (10.68%) GitHub
15 10 (9.71%) GitHub Actions
16 9 (8.74%) SaaS
17 8 (7.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 7 (6.80%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.91%) AMQP
2 2 (1.94%) HTTP
2 2 (1.94%) MQTT
2 2 (1.94%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (61.17%) DynamoDB
2 25 (24.27%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (15.53%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (9.71%) NoSQL
5 7 (6.80%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.85%) MySQL
7 4 (3.88%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.91%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.91%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.91%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.94%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.97%) Apache Hudi
10 1 (0.97%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (0.97%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.97%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.97%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.97%) Flink
10 1 (0.97%) Metadata
10 1 (0.97%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 32 (31.07%) Jenkins
2 25 (24.27%) GitLab
3 21 (20.39%) Maven
4 20 (19.42%) Cypress.io
4 20 (19.42%) SonarQube
5 15 (14.56%) Git
6 4 (3.88%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.91%) Postman
7 3 (2.91%) Selenium
8 2 (1.94%) JIRA
9 1 (0.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.97%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.97%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.97%) git-flow
9 1 (0.97%) JetBrains Rider
9 1 (0.97%) JUnit
9 1 (0.97%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.97%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (24.27%) Social Skills
2 8 (7.77%) Public Sector
3 6 (5.83%) Finance
4 4 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.91%) Banking
5 3 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.94%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.97%) Games
7 1 (0.97%) iGaming
7 1 (0.97%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.97%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (60.19%) Developer
2 31 (30.10%) Senior
3 30 (29.13%) Java Developer
4 25 (24.27%) Full-Stack Developer
5 19 (18.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 15 (14.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 15 (14.56%) Senior Developer
7 13 (12.62%) Lead
7 13 (12.62%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
8 10 (9.71%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (9.71%) Integration Developer
9 8 (7.77%) Integration Engineer
10 7 (6.80%) Lead Developer
11 6 (5.83%) Python Engineer
11 6 (5.83%) Software Engineer
12 5 (4.85%) Architect
12 5 (4.85%) AWS Developer
13 4 (3.88%) Python Developer
13 4 (3.88%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 4 (3.88%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (33.01%) Node.js
2 31 (30.10%) Spring Boot
3 30 (29.13%) React
4 26 (25.24%) AngularJS
5 25 (24.27%) Gherkin
6 22 (21.36%) Jest
6 22 (21.36%) Kafka
7 15 (14.56%) RESTful
8 13 (12.62%) Spring
9 11 (10.68%) REST
10 10 (9.71%) OpenAPI
10 10 (9.71%) Swagger
11 9 (8.74%) AWS CDK
12 8 (7.77%) Hibernate
12 8 (7.77%) OAuth
13 7 (6.80%) JWT
13 7 (6.80%) OpenTelemetry
13 7 (6.80%) RabbitMQ
14 6 (5.83%) ASP.NET Core
14 6 (5.83%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 22 (21.36%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (17.48%) Cloud Native
3 14 (13.59%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (6.80%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.85%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.91%) Life Science
6 3 (2.91%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.94%) Blog
7 2 (1.94%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.97%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.97%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.97%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.97%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.94%) Amazon Linux
1 2 (1.94%) CentOS
1 2 (1.94%) Linux
1 2 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (1.94%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (58.25%) CI/CD
2 55 (53.40%) Agile
3 45 (43.69%) Full-Stack Development
4 43 (41.75%) DevOps
5 32 (31.07%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (30.10%) Microservices
7 30 (29.13%) Event-Driven
8 27 (26.21%) Mentoring
8 27 (26.21%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (26.21%) SDLC
9 26 (25.24%) AI
10 23 (22.33%) Observability
10 23 (22.33%) Secure Coding
11 21 (20.39%) Containerisation
11 21 (20.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 19 (18.45%) ITIL
12 19 (18.45%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 17 (16.50%) Collaborative Culture
14 15 (14.56%) Continuous Delivery
14 15 (14.56%) Personalization
Programming Languages
1 60 (58.25%) TypeScript
2 37 (35.92%) Java
3 34 (33.01%) Python
4 25 (24.27%) Bash
4 25 (24.27%) Groovy
5 13 (12.62%) SQL
6 10 (9.71%) JavaScript
7 5 (4.85%) C#
8 3 (2.91%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.91%) Scala
9 2 (1.94%) DataWeave
10 1 (0.97%) C++
10 1 (0.97%) Go
10 1 (0.97%) PHP
10 1 (0.97%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.97%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (24.27%) AWS Certification
2 19 (18.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 19 (18.45%) ITIL Certification
3 13 (12.62%) SC Cleared
3 13 (12.62%) Security Cleared
4 6 (5.83%) AWS Certified Developer
5 5 (4.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.94%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.97%) Degree
7 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.85%) QA
2 3 (2.91%) GDPR
3 2 (1.94%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.97%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.97%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.97%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 43 (41.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (29.13%) Terraform
2 20 (19.42%) HP Fortify
2 20 (19.42%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.94%) Grafana
3 2 (1.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (6.80%) HubSpot
2 4 (3.88%) Dynatrace
2 4 (3.88%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.88%) Splunk
3 2 (1.94%) IBM
3 2 (1.94%) MuleSoft
3 2 (1.94%) TIBCO
3 2 (1.94%) webMethods
4 1 (0.97%) Confluent
4 1 (0.97%) Infor
4 1 (0.97%) Veracode
4 1 (0.97%) Workday