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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 294 319
Rank change year-on-year -25 +25 -40
Permanent jobs citing Amazon SQS 39 11 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.16% 0.11% 0.066%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.79% 0.45% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 31 9 5
10th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £54,500
25th Percentile £61,326 £65,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +11.54% -7.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £86,750 £83,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -9.38% +6.67%

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 4,963 2,455 3,947
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 20.59% 25.58% 29.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3,622 1,688 2,316
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,350 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £33,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £82,072 £83,750
England median annual salary £63,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.69% +3.17%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 West -27 15 £67,500 -6.90% 17
Yorkshire -29 15 £80,000 +33.33% 6
North East - 9 £67,500 - 3
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 3 (7.69%) Anypoint
1 3 (7.69%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (2.56%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 39 (100.00%) AWS
2 32 (82.05%) Serverless
3 31 (79.49%) AWS Lambda
4 30 (76.92%) Amazon ECS
5 29 (74.36%) Amazon S3
6 19 (48.72%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (46.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (35.90%) AWS Step Functions
9 13 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
10 11 (28.21%) Amazon EventBridge
11 9 (23.08%) AWS KMS
12 8 (20.51%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (17.95%) Apigee
13 7 (17.95%) AWS Fargate
14 6 (15.38%) Azure
14 6 (15.38%) GitHub
14 6 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (15.38%) Kong
15 5 (12.82%) Datadog
16 4 (10.26%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (41.03%) DynamoDB
2 11 (28.21%) MongoDB
3 6 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (15.38%) DocumentDB
4 2 (5.13%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.13%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 19 (48.72%) Jenkins
2 16 (41.03%) GitLab
3 10 (25.64%) Git
4 7 (17.95%) Cypress.io
4 7 (17.95%) Maven
4 7 (17.95%) SonarQube
5 3 (7.69%) Cucumber
5 3 (7.69%) Gatling
5 3 (7.69%) Postman
5 3 (7.69%) Selenium
General
1 12 (30.77%) Public Sector
2 10 (25.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (10.26%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 36 (92.31%) Developer
2 19 (48.72%) Java Developer
3 13 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 12 (30.77%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 9 (23.08%) Integration Developer
6 8 (20.51%) Senior
6 8 (20.51%) Senior Developer
7 6 (15.38%) Angular Developer
8 5 (12.82%) Integration Engineer
8 5 (12.82%) Lead
8 5 (12.82%) Lead Developer
8 5 (12.82%) Node.js Developer
8 5 (12.82%) Software Developer
9 3 (7.69%) MuleSoft Developer
9 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 3 (7.69%) Senior Integration Developer
9 3 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
10 2 (5.13%) AWS Developer
10 2 (5.13%) Digital Developer
10 2 (5.13%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (53.85%) Kafka
2 18 (46.15%) AngularJS
3 17 (43.59%) Node.js
4 15 (38.46%) Gherkin
5 14 (35.90%) Spring Boot
5 14 (35.90%) Terraform
6 13 (33.33%) Jest
7 12 (30.77%) RESTful
8 9 (23.08%) Spring
9 8 (20.51%) REST
10 6 (15.38%) Express.js
10 6 (15.38%) MEAN Stack
10 6 (15.38%) Nunjucks
11 5 (12.82%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (12.82%) React
12 4 (10.26%) Hibernate
13 3 (7.69%) EDI
13 3 (7.69%) JPA
13 3 (7.69%) OAuth
13 3 (7.69%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 7 (17.95%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (15.38%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.13%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.56%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (61.54%) CI/CD
2 23 (58.97%) DevOps
3 20 (51.28%) Agile
3 20 (51.28%) Full-Stack Development
4 16 (41.03%) SDLC
5 13 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 12 (30.77%) Test Automation
7 11 (28.21%) Clean Code
7 11 (28.21%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (28.21%) Event-Driven
7 11 (28.21%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (25.64%) Collaborative Working
8 10 (25.64%) Microservices
9 9 (23.08%) Observability
9 9 (23.08%) Secure Coding
9 9 (23.08%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 7 (17.95%) AI
10 7 (17.95%) Collaborative Culture
11 6 (15.38%) ITIL
11 6 (15.38%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 23 (58.97%) TypeScript
2 19 (48.72%) Java
3 13 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 12 (30.77%) Groovy
5 7 (17.95%) Bash
5 7 (17.95%) Python
6 3 (7.69%) DataWeave
6 3 (7.69%) Kotlin
6 3 (7.69%) Scala
6 3 (7.69%) SQL
7 1 (2.56%) Go
7 1 (2.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (25.64%) Security Cleared
2 9 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 6 (15.38%) AWS Certification
3 6 (15.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 6 (15.38%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (7.69%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 25 (64.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (48.72%) Kubernetes
2 7 (17.95%) HP Fortify
3 1 (2.56%) Grafana
3 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (23.08%) Dynatrace
2 6 (15.38%) Confluent
3 5 (12.82%) HubSpot
4 3 (7.69%) MuleSoft
4 3 (7.69%) Splunk
4 3 (7.69%) webMethods