Amazon SQS Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Amazon SQS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 478 644
Rank change year-on-year -54 +166 -51
Permanent jobs citing Amazon SQS 68 53 123
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.18% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.42% 0.62% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 34 43 46
10th Percentile £55,375 £50,150 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £71,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £85,938 £87,500 £182,500
90th Percentile £97,500 - -
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% -21.05% +26.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 16,244 8,533 23,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.14% 28.67% 30.21%
Number of salaries quoted 10,361 5,863 18,004
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,685
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +3.58% -7.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,840 £66,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -9.45%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Amazon SQS job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Amazon SQS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Amazon SQS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Amazon SQS

Amazon SQS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon SQS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon SQS in the UK excluding London

Amazon SQS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon SQS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
North of England -1 46 £80,000 +6.67% 25
Yorkshire -11 32 £80,000 +28.00% 8
North West -2 13 £95,000 +26.67% 14
Midlands -16 12 £85,000 +17.24% 9
East Midlands - 9 £82,500 - 6
South East -21 5 £65,000 -10.34% 14
West Midlands -22 3 £85,000 +17.24% 3
East of England -26 2 £62,500 -26.47% 10
South West - 2 £62,500 - 6
Wales - 2 £72,500 - 6
Scotland +8 1 £58,565 - 5
North East - 1 £62,500 - 3
Amazon SQS
UK

Amazon SQS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (4.41%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.47%) Apache
2 1 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 68 (100.00%) AWS
2 66 (97.06%) Serverless
3 63 (92.65%) AWS Lambda
4 55 (80.88%) Amazon S3
5 45 (66.18%) Amazon ECS
6 41 (60.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 33 (48.53%) AWS Step Functions
8 25 (36.76%) Amazon EventBridge
9 23 (33.82%) Amazon ECR
10 22 (32.35%) Apigee
11 16 (23.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (13.24%) Amazon Cognito
13 8 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (10.29%) Datadog
15 6 (8.82%) GitHub
15 6 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (7.35%) Amazon EC2
17 4 (5.88%) Azure
17 4 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 2 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.94%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (66.18%) DynamoDB
2 12 (17.65%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (8.82%) NoSQL
5 4 (5.88%) Relational Database
6 3 (4.41%) MongoDB
6 3 (4.41%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.47%) DocumentDB
7 1 (1.47%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 31 (45.59%) Jenkins
2 23 (33.82%) GitLab
3 22 (32.35%) Cypress.io
3 22 (32.35%) Maven
3 22 (32.35%) SonarQube
4 8 (11.76%) Git
5 2 (2.94%) Postman
5 2 (2.94%) Selenium
6 1 (1.47%) MLflow
General
1 18 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.82%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.41%) Finance
4 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 46 (67.65%) Developer
2 30 (44.12%) Java Developer
3 21 (30.88%) Senior
4 14 (20.59%) Full-Stack Developer
5 12 (17.65%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 11 (16.18%) Lead
7 10 (14.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 10 (14.71%) Senior Developer
8 9 (13.24%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 7 (10.29%) Integration Developer
9 7 (10.29%) Integration Engineer
9 7 (10.29%) Lead Developer
10 5 (7.35%) AWS Developer
10 5 (7.35%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (7.35%) Software Engineer
11 3 (4.41%) .NET Developer
11 3 (4.41%) AWS Engineer
12 2 (2.94%) Senior Software Engineer
12 2 (2.94%) Software Developer
12 2 (2.94%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (42.65%) Spring Boot
2 28 (41.18%) Node.js
3 27 (39.71%) AngularJS
4 26 (38.24%) Gherkin
5 23 (33.82%) Jest
6 21 (30.88%) React
7 15 (22.06%) Kafka
8 10 (14.71%) Spring
9 8 (11.76%) AWS CDK
10 7 (10.29%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (8.82%) RESTful
12 5 (7.35%) REST
12 5 (7.35%) Web Services
13 4 (5.88%) .NET
13 4 (5.88%) ASP.NET
13 4 (5.88%) ASP.NET Core
13 4 (5.88%) OpenAPI
13 4 (5.88%) Swagger
14 3 (4.41%) Elastic Stack
14 3 (4.41%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.59%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (16.18%) Cloud Native
3 10 (14.71%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.41%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.94%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.47%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (69.12%) CI/CD
2 44 (64.71%) Agile
3 32 (47.06%) DevOps
4 30 (44.12%) Full-Stack Development
5 27 (39.71%) SDLC
6 24 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (33.82%) Secure Coding
7 23 (33.82%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 21 (30.88%) ITIL
9 20 (29.41%) Microservices
10 19 (27.94%) Mentoring
11 17 (25.00%) Containerisation
11 17 (25.00%) Event-Driven
12 16 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (20.59%) Observability
13 14 (20.59%) Prototyping
14 13 (19.12%) Clean Code
14 13 (19.12%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 11 (16.18%) Continuous Delivery
16 10 (14.71%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (66.18%) TypeScript
2 35 (51.47%) Java
3 26 (38.24%) Groovy
4 24 (35.29%) Bash
5 14 (20.59%) Python
6 10 (14.71%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.41%) SQL
8 2 (2.94%) C#
8 2 (2.94%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.94%) Ruby
8 2 (2.94%) Scala
9 1 (1.47%) Go
9 1 (1.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 24 (35.29%) AWS Certification
2 21 (30.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 21 (30.88%) ITIL Certification
3 6 (8.82%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.82%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.41%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.94%) WCAG
3 1 (1.47%) QA
System Software
1 41 (60.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (32.35%) HP Fortify
2 21 (30.88%) Terraform
3 18 (26.47%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.94%) Grafana
5 1 (1.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (10.29%) HubSpot
2 3 (4.41%) Dynatrace
3 2 (2.94%) Splunk
4 1 (1.47%) Confluent