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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 260 193 258
Rank change year-on-year -67 +65 +151
Permanent jobs citing Amazon SQS 11 119 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.13% 1.06% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.43% 3.60% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 18
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71,250 - £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -17.24% +7.41%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £82,188
90th Percentile - £82,000 £83,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £90,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -19.44% +24.14% -3.33%

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 2,574 3,305 2,867
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 29.46% 29.34% 36.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,675 1,818 2,354
10th Percentile £27,750 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,438 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,425 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -3.85%

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 8 November 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
Thames Valley -16 10 £72,500 +20.83% 13
Berkshire -28 10 £72,500 +20.83% 12
Surrey +9 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 3 (27.27%) Confluence
2 2 (18.18%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (63.64%) Serverless
3 5 (45.45%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (45.45%) AWS KMS
3 5 (45.45%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (36.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (36.36%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (36.36%) Azure
4 4 (36.36%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (36.36%) GCP
4 4 (36.36%) GitHub
4 4 (36.36%) Route 53
4 4 (36.36%) SaaS
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (9.09%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) DynamoDB
2 6 (54.55%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (45.45%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (36.36%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (36.36%) MySQL
4 4 (36.36%) NoSQL
5 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Jenkins
2 6 (54.55%) Git
3 4 (36.36%) Bitbucket Server
3 4 (36.36%) DbUnit
3 4 (36.36%) git-flow
3 4 (36.36%) jMock
3 4 (36.36%) JUnit
3 4 (36.36%) Maven
3 4 (36.36%) Mockito
3 4 (36.36%) SonarQube
4 3 (27.27%) JIRA
5 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
5 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
3 2 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Developer
2 6 (54.55%) Java Developer
3 5 (45.45%) Senior
3 5 (45.45%) Senior Developer
4 4 (36.36%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (36.36%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (27.27%) Lead
5 3 (27.27%) Lead Developer
5 3 (27.27%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) Kafka
1 6 (54.55%) React
1 6 (54.55%) Spring
1 6 (54.55%) Spring Boot
1 6 (54.55%) Web Services
2 4 (36.36%) .NET
2 4 (36.36%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (36.36%) AngularJS
2 4 (36.36%) AWS CDK
2 4 (36.36%) Bootstrap
2 4 (36.36%) CSS
2 4 (36.36%) Hibernate
2 4 (36.36%) JPA
2 4 (36.36%) Material-UI
2 4 (36.36%) PowerMock
2 4 (36.36%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (36.36%) RESTful
2 4 (36.36%) SOAP
2 4 (36.36%) Spring Batch
2 4 (36.36%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
1 4 (36.36%) Product Ownership
2 3 (27.27%) Distributed Architecture
2 3 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (18.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Agile
1 10 (90.91%) Microservices
2 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
3 6 (54.55%) Scrum
3 6 (54.55%) TDD
4 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (36.36%) B2B
5 4 (36.36%) BDD
5 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
5 4 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (36.36%) Data Modelling
5 4 (36.36%) DevOps
5 4 (36.36%) Event-Driven
5 4 (36.36%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 4 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (36.36%) Kanban
5 4 (36.36%) Open Source
5 4 (36.36%) Software Delivery
6 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
7 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Java
2 4 (36.36%) C#
2 4 (36.36%) TypeScript
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) Bash
4 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 1 (9.09%) Python
4 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) QA
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Atlassian
2 1 (9.09%) Jaspersoft