Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Amazon SQS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon SQS over the 6 months to 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 612 663 484
Rank change year-on-year +51 -179 +108
Permanent jobs citing Amazon SQS 115 473 841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.37% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.50% 0.87% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 86 194 398
10th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £62,813 £61,438 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -14.71% +25.93%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £113,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £136,250 £135,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +17.39% -8.00%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Amazon SQS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 22,975 54,604 60,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 42.66% 43.21% 46.73%
Number of salaries quoted 18,185 36,102 42,496
10th Percentile £32,750 £34,575 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% +5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +5.00%

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 30 November 2023.

Salary histogram for Amazon SQS in the UK

Amazon SQS
Top 13 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 30 November 2023. 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 +50 86 £75,000 - 50
Work from Home +79 60 £71,250 +5.56% 38
UK excluding London +109 46 £65,000 -3.70% 25
London +106 45 £85,000 -2.86% 36
South East +135 23 £70,000 +3.70% 11
Scotland +39 10 £55,000 - 3
North of England +84 9 £55,000 -15.38% 7
North West +68 5 £54,500 -24.83% 3
Yorkshire +59 4 £70,000 +7.69% 2
South West +72 2 £55,000 -15.38% 4
East of England +119 1 £65,000 -23.53%
Midlands +113 1 £62,500 -10.71% 1
West Midlands - 1 £62,500 -

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 29 (25.22%) Confluence
2 12 (10.43%) SharePoint
3 9 (7.83%) Apache Spark
4 8 (6.96%) Tomcat
5 3 (2.61%) Tornado
6 2 (1.74%) WordPress
7 1 (0.87%) Apache
7 1 (0.87%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 96 (83.48%) AWS
2 76 (66.09%) AWS Lambda
3 75 (65.22%) Serverless
4 33 (28.70%) Amazon ECS
5 29 (25.22%) Amazon S3
6 26 (22.61%) Amazon EC2
7 21 (18.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 20 (17.39%) GitHub
9 18 (15.65%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (13.04%) CloudFront
11 14 (12.17%) Amazon Cognito
12 13 (11.30%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (11.30%) GCP
12 13 (11.30%) SaaS
13 12 (10.43%) AWS CodeCommit
13 12 (10.43%) BlazeMeter
14 11 (9.57%) Amazon EventBridge
15 10 (8.70%) Azure
15 10 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
15 10 (8.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.43%) AMQP
2 9 (7.83%) Internet
3 4 (3.48%) DNS
4 3 (2.61%) HTTP
4 3 (2.61%) IPv6
5 2 (1.74%) Firewall
6 1 (0.87%) FTP
6 1 (0.87%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (33.91%) DynamoDB
2 21 (18.26%) MongoDB
3 19 (16.52%) MySQL
3 19 (16.52%) Relational Database
4 18 (15.65%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (14.78%) SQL Server
6 16 (13.91%) Amazon Redshift
6 16 (13.91%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (10.43%) Big Data
7 12 (10.43%) Oracle Database
7 12 (10.43%) Oracle Database 10g
7 12 (10.43%) Oracle Database 11g
8 10 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (7.83%) Hadoop
9 9 (7.83%) Redis
10 8 (6.96%) NoSQL
10 8 (6.96%) Scylla
11 6 (5.22%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.87%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 40 (34.78%) Git
2 30 (26.09%) Jenkins
3 29 (25.22%) JIRA
4 23 (20.00%) Maven
5 15 (13.04%) JUnit
5 15 (13.04%) Mockito
6 14 (12.17%) GitLab
7 13 (11.30%) Cucumber
7 13 (11.30%) Postman
7 13 (11.30%) SoapUI
8 12 (10.43%) ClearCase
8 12 (10.43%) eggPlant
8 12 (10.43%) JMeter
8 12 (10.43%) REST Assured
8 12 (10.43%) The Grinder
9 10 (8.70%) Artifactory
9 10 (8.70%) LoadRunner
10 7 (6.09%) SonarQube
11 6 (5.22%) TeamCity
12 5 (4.35%) Gradle
General
1 32 (27.83%) Finance
2 23 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 19 (16.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (8.70%) Front Office
5 7 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.09%) Retail
6 6 (5.22%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.48%) Legal
8 2 (1.74%) Banking
8 2 (1.74%) Games
8 2 (1.74%) Law
9 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (45.22%) Developer
2 38 (33.04%) Senior
3 33 (28.70%) Senior Developer
4 16 (13.91%) Lead
5 15 (13.04%) Analyst
5 15 (13.04%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (12.17%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (11.30%) Software Engineer
8 12 (10.43%) .NET Developer
8 12 (10.43%) Automation Test Analyst
8 12 (10.43%) AWS DevOps
8 12 (10.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 12 (10.43%) C# Developer
8 12 (10.43%) Java Developer
8 12 (10.43%) Test Analyst
9 11 (9.57%) Senior C# Developer
9 11 (9.57%) Senior Java Developer
9 11 (9.57%) Software Developer
10 10 (8.70%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 10 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (29.57%) RabbitMQ
2 26 (22.61%) .NET
3 24 (20.87%) GraphQL
4 22 (19.13%) REST
5 21 (18.26%) Kafka
5 21 (18.26%) Node.js
6 20 (17.39%) React
7 19 (16.52%) Flask
8 17 (14.78%) JSON
9 16 (13.91%) Spring
10 15 (13.04%) Swagger
11 14 (12.17%) OpenAPI
11 14 (12.17%) XML
12 13 (11.30%) Gherkin
12 13 (11.30%) Lambda Expressions
13 12 (10.43%) Flutter
13 12 (10.43%) LDAP
13 12 (10.43%) Middleware
13 12 (10.43%) WireMock
14 10 (8.70%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.17%) Cloud Native
2 12 (10.43%) Mobile App
3 10 (8.70%) Tandem
4 9 (7.83%) Algorithms
5 8 (6.96%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.48%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.61%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.74%) BBC
8 2 (1.74%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.74%) Online Games
8 2 (1.74%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.87%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.30%) Unix
2 11 (9.57%) Linux
3 5 (4.35%) Windows
4 3 (2.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (54.78%) Agile
2 48 (41.74%) CI/CD
3 42 (36.52%) Microservices
4 37 (32.17%) DevOps
5 29 (25.22%) Software Engineering
6 27 (23.48%) SDLC
7 22 (19.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 22 (19.13%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (16.52%) OOP
9 18 (15.65%) Full Stack Development
10 17 (14.78%) Continuous Integration
11 16 (13.91%) BDD
11 16 (13.91%) Test Automation
12 15 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence
12 15 (13.04%) Containerisation
12 15 (13.04%) Design Patterns
12 15 (13.04%) Event-Driven
12 15 (13.04%) Scrum
13 14 (12.17%) Open Source
13 14 (12.17%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 47 (40.87%) Java
2 46 (40.00%) C#
2 46 (40.00%) Python
3 28 (24.35%) SQL
4 20 (17.39%) Go
4 20 (17.39%) JavaScript
5 13 (11.30%) Bash
6 12 (10.43%) C
6 12 (10.43%) Groovy
6 12 (10.43%) Perl
6 12 (10.43%) Tcl
7 11 (9.57%) TypeScript
8 9 (7.83%) Scala
9 5 (4.35%) PHP
9 5 (4.35%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.61%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.74%) R
11 2 (1.74%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.87%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (4.35%) AWS Certification
2 4 (3.48%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.61%) Degree
3 3 (2.61%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.74%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.74%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.48%) SLA
2 2 (1.74%) QA
3 1 (0.87%) NIST
System Software
1 49 (42.61%) Docker
2 4 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.74%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 30 (26.09%) Kubernetes
2 24 (20.87%) Terraform
3 10 (8.70%) HP Quality Center
4 6 (5.22%) Ansible
5 4 (3.48%) Grafana
6 3 (2.61%) Packer
7 1 (0.87%) Consul
Vendors
1 12 (10.43%) MKS
1 12 (10.43%) Oracle
2 10 (8.70%) HP
3 9 (7.83%) Google
4 8 (6.96%) Dell
5 4 (3.48%) Splunk
6 3 (2.61%) Veracode
7 2 (1.74%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.74%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.74%) New Relic
7 2 (1.74%) Zend
8 1 (0.87%) Darktrace
8 1 (0.87%) WooCommerce