Amazon SQS Job Trends in the North of England

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Amazon SQS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 283 259
Rank change year-on-year +55 -24 +103
Permanent jobs citing Amazon SQS 33 3 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.31% 0.032% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.80% 0.099% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 14 3 5
10th Percentile £55,750 £83,250 £51,550
25th Percentile £57,500 £84,375 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £87,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.43% +59.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £73,750 £88,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £74,625 - £74,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £90,000 £76,250
% change year-on-year -16.67% +18.03% +1.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,130 3,038 3,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 39.33% 32.13% 41.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,861 1,694 2,597
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,925 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £42,238 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Amazon SQS job vacancy trend in the North of England

Amazon SQS
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Amazon SQS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Amazon SQS

Amazon SQS
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon SQS in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon SQS in the North of England

Amazon SQS
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Yorkshire - 25 £60,000 - 7
North West +31 8 £72,500 -17.14% 2
Amazon SQS
England

Amazon SQS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 5 (15.15%) OpenStack
2 3 (9.09%) Apache
2 3 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 33 (100.00%) AWS
2 26 (78.79%) Serverless
3 25 (75.76%) Amazon S3
4 21 (63.64%) AWS CloudFormation
4 21 (63.64%) AWS Lambda
5 20 (60.61%) AWS Step Functions
6 16 (48.48%) GitHub
7 14 (42.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (39.39%) Amazon EventBridge
8 13 (39.39%) Azure
8 13 (39.39%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (39.39%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (15.15%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (12.12%) Amazon ECR
11 4 (12.12%) Apigee
12 3 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (9.09%) dbt
13 1 (3.03%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (54.55%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (51.52%) DynamoDB
3 13 (39.39%) NoSQL
4 11 (33.33%) SQL Server
5 5 (15.15%) Relational Database
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (9.09%) Apache Iceberg
6 3 (9.09%) Data Lake
6 3 (9.09%) Data Vault
6 3 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 18 (54.55%) Git
2 9 (27.27%) Jenkins
3 4 (12.12%) Cypress.io
3 4 (12.12%) GitLab
3 4 (12.12%) Maven
3 4 (12.12%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.03%) JUnit
General
1 18 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Marketing
4 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (66.67%) Developer
2 12 (36.36%) .NET Developer
3 9 (27.27%) AWS Developer
3 9 (27.27%) Java Developer
4 5 (15.15%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (12.12%) Senior
6 3 (9.09%) Data Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) DevOps Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Serverless Developer
7 1 (3.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Backend Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (60.61%) React
2 16 (48.48%) AWS CDK
3 13 (39.39%) .NET
3 13 (39.39%) .NET Core
3 13 (39.39%) ASP.NET
3 13 (39.39%) ASP.NET Core
3 13 (39.39%) Blazor
3 13 (39.39%) RESTful
4 9 (27.27%) Spring Boot
5 6 (18.18%) Kafka
6 5 (15.15%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (15.15%) Mustache
6 5 (15.15%) Node.js
6 5 (15.15%) REST
6 5 (15.15%) Spring
7 4 (12.12%) AngularJS
7 4 (12.12%) Gherkin
7 4 (12.12%) Jest
7 4 (12.12%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (12.12%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (39.39%) Cloud Native
2 5 (15.15%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (87.88%) CI/CD
2 27 (81.82%) Agile
3 26 (78.79%) DevOps
4 19 (57.58%) Microservices
5 18 (54.55%) Containerisation
5 18 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (48.48%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (45.45%) Root Cause Analysis
8 13 (39.39%) Application Security
8 13 (39.39%) Deployment Automation
9 9 (27.27%) SDLC
10 8 (24.24%) Scrum
11 7 (21.21%) Full-Stack Development
12 5 (15.15%) Clean Code
12 5 (15.15%) TDD
13 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Automation
13 4 (12.12%) ITIL
13 4 (12.12%) Secure Coding
13 4 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
13 4 (12.12%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 16 (48.48%) SQL
2 9 (27.27%) Java
3 7 (21.21%) TypeScript
4 5 (15.15%) JavaScript
5 4 (12.12%) Bash
5 4 (12.12%) Groovy
6 3 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (48.48%) AWS Certification
2 11 (33.33%) AWS Certified Developer
3 4 (12.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 29 (87.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (54.55%) Terraform
2 10 (30.30%) Kubernetes
3 4 (12.12%) Grafana
3 4 (12.12%) HP Fortify
3 4 (12.12%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft