Amazon SQS Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Amazon SQS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 170 232
Rank change year-on-year +9 +62 +6
Permanent jobs citing Amazon SQS 8 14 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.14% 0.42% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.56% 1.56% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £62,250 -
25th Percentile £81,250 £65,625 £78,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £72,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.69% -12.12% +6.45%
75th Percentile £93,750 £94,375 £86,250
90th Percentile - £106,750 -
South East median annual salary £87,500 £72,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +20.69% -12.12% +17.86%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,422 895 1,885
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 25.27% 26.63% 28.89%
Number of salaries quoted 922 493 1,491
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Amazon SQS job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Amazon SQS
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Amazon SQS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Amazon SQS

Amazon SQS
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon SQS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Berkshire -4 7 - - 1
Oxfordshire +6 1 £87,500 -20.45%
Amazon SQS
South East

Amazon SQS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (75.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
1 8 (100.00%) Serverless
2 6 (75.00%) Amazon ECS
2 6 (75.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (12.50%) Azure
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (75.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Git
1 6 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) git-flow
2 1 (12.50%) JUnit
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (75.00%) Java Developer
3 4 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 3 (37.50%) Senior
4 3 (37.50%) Senior Developer
5 2 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (12.50%) Lead
6 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
6 1 (12.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) React
2 7 (87.50%) Kafka
2 7 (87.50%) REST
3 6 (75.00%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (75.00%) Mustache
3 6 (75.00%) Node.js
3 6 (75.00%) Spring
3 6 (75.00%) Spring Boot
4 5 (62.50%) Web Services
5 1 (12.50%) .NET
5 1 (12.50%) AWS CDK
5 1 (12.50%) CSS
5 1 (12.50%) HTML
5 1 (12.50%) Material-UI
5 1 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 7 (87.50%) Microservices
3 6 (75.00%) Scrum
3 6 (75.00%) SDLC
3 6 (75.00%) TDD
4 5 (62.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (25.00%) DevOps
6 1 (12.50%) B2B
6 1 (12.50%) Biometrics
6 1 (12.50%) Client Onboarding
6 1 (12.50%) Coaching
6 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
6 1 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 1 (12.50%) Software Delivery
6 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) JavaScript
2 6 (75.00%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes