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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 322 289
Rank change year-on-year +42 -33 +130
Permanent jobs citing Amazon SQS 10 14 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.11% 0.11% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.42% 0.40% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 21
10th Percentile - £88,500 -
25th Percentile £71,250 £97,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £105,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.95% +40.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £73,750 £107,500 £82,500
90th Percentile - - £85,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +13.33% -3.85%

All Cloud 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 2,389 3,530 3,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 26.51% 27.46% 36.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,443 2,112 2,717
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.08% +4.00%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Amazon SQS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon SQS 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 16 September 2025. 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
Berkshire -10 9 £72,500 -14.71% 1
Thames Valley -11 9 £72,500 -14.71% 1
Surrey +29 1 - - 1
Amazon SQS
England

Amazon SQS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Confluence
2 2 (20.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (90.00%) Amazon S3
3 8 (80.00%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (70.00%) AWS KMS
5 5 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (50.00%) Route 53
6 3 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (30.00%) Serverless
7 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (10.00%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (90.00%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (80.00%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (60.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (50.00%) DynamoDB
5 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (90.00%) Git
3 7 (70.00%) JUnit
3 7 (70.00%) Maven
3 7 (70.00%) Mockito
3 7 (70.00%) SonarQube
4 6 (60.00%) DbUnit
4 6 (60.00%) jMock
5 5 (50.00%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (30.00%) JIRA
7 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
7 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 7 (70.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Developer
1 9 (90.00%) Java Developer
2 5 (50.00%) Lead
2 5 (50.00%) Lead Developer
2 5 (50.00%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) Spring
2 8 (80.00%) Spring Boot
2 8 (80.00%) Web Services
3 7 (70.00%) ActiveMQ
3 7 (70.00%) JPA
3 7 (70.00%) SOAP
4 6 (60.00%) AngularJS
4 6 (60.00%) Bootstrap
4 6 (60.00%) Hibernate
4 6 (60.00%) PowerMock
4 6 (60.00%) REST
4 6 (60.00%) RESTful
5 5 (50.00%) Spring Batch
5 5 (50.00%) Spring Integration
6 3 (30.00%) Spring Cloud
7 2 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (20.00%) Kafka
7 2 (20.00%) Mustache
7 2 (20.00%) Node.js
7 2 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (30.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
1 9 (90.00%) Microservices
1 9 (90.00%) Scrum
1 9 (90.00%) TDD
2 6 (60.00%) BDD
2 6 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 6 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (60.00%) Kanban
2 6 (60.00%) Open Source
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Biometrics
5 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
5 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) Bash
4 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Docker
2 2 (20.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Grafana
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (20.00%) Jaspersoft