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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 182 263
Rank change year-on-year -77 +81 +95
Permanent jobs citing Amazon SQS 13 125 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.13% 1.38% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.40% 4.19% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 22
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81,250 - £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.83% -14.29% +3.70%
75th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £74,375
90th Percentile - £104,000 £84,625
England median annual salary £75,000 £95,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -21.05% +18.75% +4.92%

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 3,210 2,983 2,826
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 30.94% 32.95% 32.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,732 1,616 2,356
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £69,840 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 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
Thames Valley -18 12 £87,500 +45.83% 15
Berkshire -34 11 - - 9
Oxfordshire +22 1 £87,500 -20.45% 3
Surrey -2 1 - - 3
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 6 (46.15%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
1 13 (100.00%) Serverless
2 7 (53.85%) Amazon ECS
2 7 (53.85%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (46.15%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (38.46%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (38.46%) Azure
4 5 (38.46%) Azure Service Bus
4 5 (38.46%) GCP
4 5 (38.46%) GitHub
4 5 (38.46%) SaaS
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (7.69%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (46.15%) Relational Database
2 5 (38.46%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (38.46%) DynamoDB
2 5 (38.46%) MySQL
2 5 (38.46%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Jenkins
2 6 (46.15%) Git
3 5 (38.46%) git-flow
4 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
4 1 (7.69%) GitLab
4 1 (7.69%) JUnit
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Developer
2 8 (61.54%) Full-Stack Developer
3 7 (53.85%) Senior
3 7 (53.85%) Senior Developer
4 6 (46.15%) Java Developer
5 5 (38.46%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (15.38%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
8 1 (7.69%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (7.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (7.69%) Lead
8 1 (7.69%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (92.31%) React
2 11 (84.62%) Kafka
3 7 (53.85%) REST
4 6 (46.15%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (46.15%) Mustache
4 6 (46.15%) Node.js
4 6 (46.15%) Spring
4 6 (46.15%) Spring Boot
5 5 (38.46%) .NET
5 5 (38.46%) AWS CDK
5 5 (38.46%) CSS
5 5 (38.46%) Material-UI
5 5 (38.46%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (38.46%) Web Services
6 4 (30.77%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (38.46%) Cloud Native
2 5 (38.46%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Agile
1 12 (92.31%) CI/CD
2 11 (84.62%) Microservices
3 9 (69.23%) Full-Stack Development
4 6 (46.15%) DevOps
4 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (46.15%) Scrum
4 6 (46.15%) SDLC
4 6 (46.15%) TDD
5 5 (38.46%) B2B
5 5 (38.46%) Data Modelling
5 5 (38.46%) Event-Driven
5 5 (38.46%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 5 (38.46%) Software Delivery
6 1 (7.69%) Client Onboarding
6 1 (7.69%) Coaching
6 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
6 1 (7.69%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Java
1 7 (53.85%) JavaScript
2 5 (38.46%) C#
2 5 (38.46%) TypeScript
3 2 (15.38%) Python
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) QA
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes