Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Amazon SQS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 669 573 661
Rank change year-on-year -96 +88 -2
Permanent jobs citing Amazon SQS 138 96 127
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.20% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.50% 0.62% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 108 70 72
10th Percentile - £52,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £64,000 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £74,500 £81,250
Median % change year-on-year -9.40% -8.31% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £107,500
90th Percentile £95,750 £92,000 £128,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year -3.33% +13.21% -5.36%

All Cloud Computing 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 27,488 15,514 24,422
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.13% 31.57% 31.49%
Number of salaries quoted 18,567 10,441 15,780
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £43,965 £39,750 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Amazon SQS job vacancy trend in the UK

Amazon SQS
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon SQS

Amazon SQS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon SQS over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

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 15 September 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
England -99 105 £72,500 -3.33% 182
UK excluding London -85 69 £72,500 -3.33% 99
Work from Home +4 63 £57,500 -23.33% 105
London -46 42 £78,750 +12.50% 102
North of England -28 39 £72,500 -3.33% 32
Yorkshire -27 18 £80,000 +33.33% 5
North West -13 17 £67,500 -10.00% 21
South East -40 11 £65,000 -10.34% 17
Midlands -46 11 £85,000 +17.24% 8
East Midlands - 8 - - 3
Wales - 8 £72,500 - 2
North East - 4 £67,500 - 6
West Midlands -44 3 £85,000 +17.24% 5

Amazon SQS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 7 (5.07%) Apache
1 7 (5.07%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.17%) Anypoint
2 3 (2.17%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (1.45%) Apache Pulsar
3 2 (1.45%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.72%) Confluence
4 1 (0.72%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.72%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.72%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 138 (100.00%) AWS
2 109 (78.99%) Serverless
3 108 (78.26%) AWS Lambda
4 92 (66.67%) Amazon S3
5 70 (50.72%) Amazon ECS
6 41 (29.71%) Amazon EC2
6 41 (29.71%) Amazon EventBridge
7 39 (28.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 33 (23.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 31 (22.46%) AWS Step Functions
10 17 (12.32%) Amazon ECR
10 17 (12.32%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (12.32%) GitHub
11 15 (10.87%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (10.14%) Azure
13 13 (9.42%) Apigee
14 11 (7.97%) SaaS
15 9 (6.52%) Amazon Cognito
15 9 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (6.52%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.45%) AMQP
1 2 (1.45%) HTTP
1 2 (1.45%) Internet
1 2 (1.45%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (39.86%) DynamoDB
2 43 (31.16%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (23.19%) MongoDB
4 26 (18.84%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (9.42%) NoSQL
6 9 (6.52%) MySQL
7 8 (5.80%) SQL Server
8 5 (3.62%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.90%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (2.90%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (2.90%) DocumentDB
10 3 (2.17%) Redis
11 2 (1.45%) Big Data
12 1 (0.72%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.72%) Apache Hudi
12 1 (0.72%) Apache Iceberg
12 1 (0.72%) DuckDB
12 1 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.72%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 38 (27.54%) Cypress.io
2 27 (19.57%) Jenkins
3 23 (16.67%) GitLab
4 21 (15.22%) Git
5 14 (10.14%) Maven
6 13 (9.42%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.17%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.17%) Postman
7 3 (2.17%) Selenium
8 2 (1.45%) minitest
8 2 (1.45%) RSpec
9 1 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.72%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.72%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.72%) JetBrains Rider
9 1 (0.72%) JIRA
9 1 (0.72%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (23.19%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.32%) Public Sector
3 8 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.07%) Finance
5 5 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.17%) Banking
7 2 (1.45%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 93 (67.39%) Developer
2 52 (37.68%) Full-Stack Developer
3 38 (27.54%) Senior
4 21 (15.22%) Java Developer
4 21 (15.22%) Senior Developer
5 20 (14.49%) Lead
6 17 (12.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 15 (10.87%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 11 (7.97%) Integration Developer
9 10 (7.25%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (5.80%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (5.80%) Integration Engineer
10 8 (5.80%) Lead Developer
11 7 (5.07%) Software Engineer
12 6 (4.35%) Backend Developer
12 6 (4.35%) Python Engineer
12 6 (4.35%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
12 6 (4.35%) Software Developer
13 5 (3.62%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (48.55%) Node.js
2 59 (42.75%) React
3 44 (31.88%) Jest
4 41 (29.71%) Kafka
5 39 (28.26%) Terraform
6 33 (23.91%) Ruby on Rails
7 31 (22.46%) Spring Boot
8 29 (21.01%) RESTful
9 22 (15.94%) AngularJS
10 21 (15.22%) Spring
11 18 (13.04%) Gherkin
11 18 (13.04%) REST
12 17 (12.32%) AWS CDK
13 13 (9.42%) OpenAPI
13 13 (9.42%) Swagger
14 12 (8.70%) OAuth
15 11 (7.97%) JWT
16 10 (7.25%) RabbitMQ
17 9 (6.52%) Hibernate
17 9 (6.52%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 33 (23.91%) Cloud Native
2 25 (18.12%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (7.97%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (7.97%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (7.25%) Onboarding
5 8 (5.80%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.35%) Mainframe
7 5 (3.62%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (2.90%) Blog
8 4 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.90%) Low-Code
9 3 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (2.17%) Life Science
10 2 (1.45%) IoT
10 2 (1.45%) Self-Driving Car
10 2 (1.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 1 (0.72%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.72%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.90%) Linux
2 2 (1.45%) Amazon Linux
2 2 (1.45%) CentOS
2 2 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (56.52%) Full-Stack Development
2 72 (52.17%) CI/CD
3 67 (48.55%) Microservices
4 58 (42.03%) Agile
5 47 (34.06%) Event-Driven
6 44 (31.88%) DevOps
7 40 (28.99%) Infrastructure as Code
8 34 (24.64%) AI
9 32 (23.19%) Observability
10 30 (21.74%) Mentoring
11 29 (21.01%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 28 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (18.12%) Mob Programming
13 25 (18.12%) SDLC
14 23 (16.67%) Containerisation
15 21 (15.22%) Software Engineering
16 20 (14.49%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 19 (13.77%) Roadmaps
17 19 (13.77%) Secure Coding
18 18 (13.04%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 57 (41.30%) TypeScript
2 42 (30.43%) JavaScript
3 37 (26.81%) Java
3 37 (26.81%) Python
4 33 (23.91%) Ruby
5 18 (13.04%) Groovy
6 15 (10.87%) Bash
7 13 (9.42%) SQL
8 7 (5.07%) C#
9 5 (3.62%) PHP
10 3 (2.17%) DataWeave
10 3 (2.17%) Kotlin
10 3 (2.17%) Scala
11 2 (1.45%) Go
12 1 (0.72%) C++
12 1 (0.72%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (13.77%) AWS Certification
2 16 (11.59%) Security Cleared
3 15 (10.87%) SC Cleared
4 12 (8.70%) ITIL Certification
5 11 (7.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 8 (5.80%) AWS Certified Developer
7 7 (5.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.17%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.72%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.70%) QA
2 7 (5.07%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.35%) WCAG
4 3 (2.17%) GDPR
5 2 (1.45%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.72%) Data Quality
System Software
1 42 (30.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (20.29%) Kubernetes
2 13 (9.42%) HP Fortify
3 2 (1.45%) Kibana
3 2 (1.45%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.72%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (5.07%) Dynatrace
1 7 (5.07%) HubSpot
2 4 (2.90%) Confluent
2 4 (2.90%) Splunk
3 3 (2.17%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.17%) MuleSoft
3 3 (2.17%) webMethods
4 2 (1.45%) Google
4 2 (1.45%) IBM
4 2 (1.45%) TIBCO
5 1 (0.72%) Databricks
5 1 (0.72%) Infor
5 1 (0.72%) Veracode
5 1 (0.72%) Workday