Amazon SQS Jobs

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Amazon SQS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Amazon SQS over the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 530 672 529
Rank change year-on-year +142 -143 -53
Permanent jobs citing Amazon SQS 278 105 847
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.17% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.14% 0.40% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 78 85 244
10th Percentile £58,150 £53,750 £51,588
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -3.33% -9.09%
75th Percentile £105,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £128,750 £97,500 £109,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year - - +35.00%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 24,355 25,931 66,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.13% 42.83% 45.86%
Number of salaries quoted 14,085 20,209 37,973
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,250 £34,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,450 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon SQS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon SQS in the UK

Amazon SQS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Amazon SQS.

Salary trend for Amazon SQS in the UK

Amazon SQS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon SQS over the 6 months to 11 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Amazon SQS in the UK

Amazon SQS
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 11 October 2024. 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
England +122 263 £81,250 +10.17% 40
Work from Home +185 231 £90,000 +20.00% 101
London +115 152 £90,000 +12.50% 29
UK excluding London +52 127 £67,500 - 14
South East -2 69 £85,000 +13.33% 2
East of England -21 22 - -
North of England -7 11 £70,000 +3.70% 5
Scotland +9 9 £56,250 +2.27% 2
North West -26 8 £75,000 +22.45% 3
South West -12 7 £67,500 +22.73% 4
Midlands -36 5 £39,750 -22.44%
Yorkshire +27 3 £65,000 -5.45% 2
East Midlands -35 3 - -
Wales +35 2 - -
West Midlands -27 2 £39,750 -22.44%
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1

Amazon SQS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 23 (8.27%) WebLogic
2 4 (1.44%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.72%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.72%) nginx
3 2 (0.72%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.36%) Apache
4 1 (0.36%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 23 (8.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 275 (98.92%) AWS
2 236 (84.89%) Serverless
3 231 (83.09%) AWS Lambda
4 193 (69.42%) Amazon S3
5 137 (49.28%) GitHub
6 129 (46.40%) Amazon Kinesis
7 60 (21.58%) Amazon ECS
8 52 (18.71%) Azure
9 39 (14.03%) Amazon EKS
10 30 (10.79%) AWS Step Functions
11 23 (8.27%) AWS CloudFormation
12 20 (7.19%) Amazon EC2
12 20 (7.19%) GCP
13 18 (6.47%) Cloud Functions
14 11 (3.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (2.52%) CloudFront
15 7 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (2.16%) Amazon EventBridge
16 6 (2.16%) SaaS
17 3 (1.08%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.27%) BGP
1 23 (8.27%) DNS
1 23 (8.27%) SSL
1 23 (8.27%) TCP/IP
2 18 (6.47%) Broadband
3 2 (0.72%) MQTT
3 2 (0.72%) SMS
3 2 (0.72%) VPN
4 1 (0.36%) Internet
4 1 (0.36%) RTP
4 1 (0.36%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (51.80%) PostgreSQL
2 138 (49.64%) DynamoDB
3 128 (46.04%) Redis
4 64 (23.02%) Amazon RDS
5 32 (11.51%) Relational Database
6 31 (11.15%) Amazon Redshift
7 23 (8.27%) Oracle Database
7 23 (8.27%) RDBMS
8 21 (7.55%) Amazon Aurora
9 18 (6.47%) BigQuery
9 18 (6.47%) NoSQL
10 9 (3.24%) MongoDB
11 6 (2.16%) MySQL
12 4 (1.44%) Big Data
12 4 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.36%) Amazon QuickSight
13 1 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.36%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.36%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 144 (51.80%) Jenkins
2 27 (9.71%) Git
3 5 (1.80%) GitLab
3 5 (1.80%) Postman
4 4 (1.44%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.08%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.08%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.72%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.72%) JUnit
6 2 (0.72%) Maven
6 2 (0.72%) Mockito
6 2 (0.72%) Selenium
6 2 (0.72%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.72%) TestNG
7 1 (0.36%) Mocha
7 1 (0.36%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.36%) TeamCity
General
1 135 (48.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 130 (46.76%) Marketing
3 129 (46.40%) Advertising
4 61 (21.94%) Social Skills
5 47 (16.91%) Finance
6 39 (14.03%) Front Office
7 34 (12.23%) Banking
8 20 (7.19%) Investment Banking
8 20 (7.19%) Publishing
8 20 (7.19%) Tech for Good
9 18 (6.47%) Games
10 11 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (3.60%) Analytical Skills
11 10 (3.60%) Health Technology
11 10 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (2.88%) Law
13 4 (1.44%) Public Sector
14 3 (1.08%) Automotive
14 3 (1.08%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 189 (67.99%) Software Engineer
2 58 (20.86%) Senior
3 51 (18.35%) Developer
4 49 (17.63%) AWS Engineer
5 40 (14.39%) Lead
6 38 (13.67%) Python Engineer
7 35 (12.59%) AWS Software Engineer
8 32 (11.51%) Senior Software Engineer
9 30 (10.79%) AWS Developer
10 28 (10.07%) Senior Developer
11 26 (9.35%) Architect
12 25 (8.99%) Python Software Engineer
12 25 (8.99%) Senior Software Developer
12 25 (8.99%) Solutions Architect
13 23 (8.27%) Lead Architect
13 23 (8.27%) Lead Solutions Architect
14 20 (7.19%) Angular Developer
14 20 (7.19%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 20 (7.19%) Java Developer
14 20 (7.19%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (52.88%) AngularJS
2 146 (52.52%) React
3 140 (50.36%) Node.js
4 138 (49.64%) REST
5 127 (45.68%) Tailwind CSS
6 34 (12.23%) Spring Boot
7 29 (10.43%) RabbitMQ
8 28 (10.07%) RESTful
9 24 (8.63%) Lambda Expressions
10 12 (4.32%) .NET
10 12 (4.32%) Spring
11 10 (3.60%) Kafka
12 7 (2.52%) .NET Core
12 7 (2.52%) .NET Framework
12 7 (2.52%) Unity DI Container
13 6 (2.16%) Elastic Stack
13 6 (2.16%) Mustache
14 5 (1.80%) GraphQL
14 5 (1.80%) Web Services
15 4 (1.44%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 133 (47.84%) Blog
2 126 (45.32%) Digital Media
3 28 (10.07%) Hedge funds
4 27 (9.71%) Derivative
5 23 (8.27%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (8.27%) Public Cloud
6 20 (7.19%) Equities
6 20 (7.19%) Fixed Income
6 20 (7.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 19 (6.83%) Video\Live Streaming
8 7 (2.52%) Legacy Applications
8 7 (2.52%) N-Tier
8 7 (2.52%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.44%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.44%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.08%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.08%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.72%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 27 (9.71%) Linux
2 24 (8.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.72%) Android
3 2 (0.72%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.36%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (0.36%) CentOS
4 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (88.49%) Agile
2 211 (75.90%) Software Engineering
3 184 (66.19%) Scrum
4 162 (58.27%) Full-Stack Development
5 138 (49.64%) Continuous Delivery
6 129 (46.40%) E-Commerce
7 127 (45.68%) User Experience
8 126 (45.32%) Epics
9 56 (20.14%) CI/CD
10 45 (16.19%) DevOps
11 42 (15.11%) Microservices
12 39 (14.03%) Asset Management
13 38 (13.67%) TDD
14 35 (12.59%) Containerisation
14 35 (12.59%) Test Automation
15 32 (11.51%) Open Source
16 31 (11.15%) Code Quality
17 26 (9.35%) Migration
17 26 (9.35%) SDLC
18 25 (8.99%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 162 (58.27%) TypeScript
2 95 (34.17%) Python
3 52 (18.71%) JavaScript
4 50 (17.99%) Java
5 35 (12.59%) SQL
6 22 (7.91%) Go
7 12 (4.32%) C#
8 2 (0.72%) PHP
9 1 (0.36%) C++
9 1 (0.36%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.36%) Rust
9 1 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 30 (10.79%) SC Cleared
1 30 (10.79%) Security Cleared
2 29 (10.43%) AWS Certification
3 28 (10.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 23 (8.27%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.08%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (1.08%) Degree
6 2 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.47%) QA
2 10 (3.60%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.44%) SLA
4 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.36%) GDPR
System Software
1 162 (58.27%) Docker
2 2 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 157 (56.47%) Kubernetes
2 27 (9.71%) Terraform
3 2 (0.72%) Ansible
3 2 (0.72%) Kustomize
3 2 (0.72%) Packer
Vendors
1 23 (8.27%) Oracle
1 23 (8.27%) Sparx
2 7 (2.52%) Bloomberg
3 2 (0.72%) ForgeRock
3 2 (0.72%) Google
3 2 (0.72%) Red Hat
3 2 (0.72%) Sitecore
4 1 (0.36%) HubSpot
4 1 (0.36%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.36%) SAP
4 1 (0.36%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.36%) Splunk
4 1 (0.36%) Zend