Amazon SQS Job Trends in the Midlands

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Amazon SQS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 221 306
Rank change year-on-year -28 +85 -31
Permanent jobs citing Amazon SQS 12 8 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.091% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.37% 0.46% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 11
10th Percentile £80,625 - £56,750
25th Percentile £83,438 £71,250 £147,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £72,500 £165,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% -56.06% +221.95%
75th Percentile £89,438 £75,000 £185,000
90th Percentile £95,175 £76,500 £187,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -21.05% +31.03%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,237 1,746 3,926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.56% 31.32% 29.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,101 1,406 3,126
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Amazon SQS job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Amazon SQS
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Amazon SQS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Amazon SQS

Amazon SQS
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon SQS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon SQS in the Midlands

Amazon SQS
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon SQS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 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
East Midlands - 9 £82,500 - 2
West Midlands -23 3 £85,000 +17.24% 3
Amazon SQS
England

Amazon SQS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 12 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
1 12 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 12 (100.00%) Serverless
2 9 (75.00%) Amazon Cognito
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (75.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
General
1 11 (91.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Senior
2 9 (75.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 9 (75.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) AWS Software Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Lead
4 2 (16.67%) Python Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Python Software Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) E-Commerce Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Server Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Server Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Serverless Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (75.00%) Node.js
1 9 (75.00%) React
2 1 (8.33%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) A/B Testing
1 9 (75.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 9 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 9 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 8 (66.67%) Agile
2 8 (66.67%) Collaborative Culture
2 8 (66.67%) Personalization
2 8 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (66.67%) Process Improvement
2 8 (66.67%) Re-Platforming
2 8 (66.67%) Software Delivery
3 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 3 (25.00%) API Design
4 3 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 3 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 3 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (25.00%) Microservices
5 2 (16.67%) Backlog Refinement
5 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (25.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform