Amazon SQS Job Trends in the South East

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Amazon SQS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 264 372
Rank change year-on-year -21 +108 -33
Permanent jobs citing Amazon SQS 6 11 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.042% 0.14% 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.17% 0.55% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 10
10th Percentile - - £67,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £70,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% -23.68% +35.71%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £105,000
90th Percentile - - £107,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £97,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -23.08% +30.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,471 2,004 5,287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 24.12% 25.79% 29.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,307 1,225 4,130
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,840 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £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 South East

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

Amazon SQS job vacancy trend in the South East

Amazon SQS
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Amazon SQS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Amazon SQS

Amazon SQS
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon SQS within the South East region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
Thames Valley +4 4 - - 1
Berkshire +2 4 - -
East Sussex - 2 £65,000 - 1
Amazon SQS
England

Amazon SQS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (66.67%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Serverless
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (33.33%) Anthropic Claude
3 2 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 4 (66.67%) Senior Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (66.67%) Kafka
1 4 (66.67%) Mustache
1 4 (66.67%) Node.js
1 4 (66.67%) React
1 4 (66.67%) REST
1 4 (66.67%) Spring
1 4 (66.67%) Spring Boot
1 4 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (33.33%) Entity Framework
2 2 (33.33%) MediatR
2 2 (33.33%) OAuth
2 2 (33.33%) OAuth2
2 2 (33.33%) OpenAPI
2 2 (33.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Microservices
2 4 (66.67%) Scrum
2 4 (66.67%) SDLC
2 4 (66.67%) TDD
3 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (33.33%) AI
4 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
4 2 (33.33%) CQRS
4 2 (33.33%) CRM
4 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
4 2 (33.33%) Intelligent Automation
4 2 (33.33%) LLM
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Developer
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes