Amazon SQS Jobs

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 3 months to 23 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) UK
Location	3 months to 23 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	754	869	960
Rank change year-on-year	+115	+91
Permanent jobs citing Amazon SQS	116	44	28
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.13%	0.045%	0.025%
As % of the Cloud Services category	0.77%	0.38%	0.29%
Number of salaries quoted	90	38	20
Median salary	£57,500	£57,500	£45,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	-	+27.77%
90% offered a salary of more than	£37,350	£45,000	£40,000
10% offered a salary of more than	£70,000	£71,500	£58,250
UK excluding London median salary	£47,000	£43,750	£40,000
% change year-on-year	+7.42%	+9.37%

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

Cloud Computing Skills UK
Permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills	15109	11693	9635
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	16.95%	11.89%	8.69%
Number of salaries quoted	12530	9932	7798
Median salary	£52,500	£52,500	£50,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	-	+5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than	£32,500	£32,500	£30,500
10% offered a salary of more than	£80,000	£75,000	£77,500
UK excluding London median salary	£46,000	£47,500	£45,000
% change year-on-year	-3.15%	+5.55%

Amazon SQS
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing Amazon SQS as a proportion of all permanent or contract IT jobs with a match in the Cloud Services category.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon SQS in the UK

Amazon SQS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Amazon SQS.

Amazon SQS
Salary Histogram

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing Amazon SQS over the 3 months to 23 June 2017.

Salary histogram for Amazon SQS in the UK

Amazon SQS
Top 29 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 3 months to 23 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Last 3 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+124	115	£57,500	-	13
London	+42	61	£60,000	-7.69%	7
South East	+76	23	£47,000	-18.26%	2
City of London	+26	11	£60,000	+9.09%	2
East of England	+7	11	£55,000	+46.66%	2
Hertfordshire	-	11	£55,000	-	1
Berkshire	-	11	-	-	2
West Sussex	-	11	£47,000	-
Hatfield	-	10	£55,000	-	1
Newbury	-	9	-	-	1
West Midlands	+19	7	£55,000	+22.22%	1
Birmingham	+17	7	£55,000	+22.22%	1
Gatwick	-	7	£47,000	-
North West	-	7	£35,000	-
Yorkshire	-	5	£57,500	-
Hackney	-	5	-	-
West Yorkshire	-	5	£57,500	-
Liverpool	-	5	£35,000	-
Merseyside	-	5	£35,000	-
Leeds	-	4	£57,500	-
Chester	-	2	£30,750	-
Cheshire	-	2	£30,750	-
Scotland	+14	1	-	-
Glasgow	-	1	-	-
Hampshire	-	1	£35,000	-
South West	-	1	£60,000	-	1
Bristol	-	1	£60,000	-	1
Southampton	-	1	£35,000	-
Bradford	-	1	£26,000	-

Amazon SQS
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 June 2017, IT jobs citing Amazon SQS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads with a requirement for Amazon SQS.

1	176 (100.00%)	Amazon AWS
2	111 (63.07%)	Amazon EC2
3	108 (61.36%)	Amazon S3
4	94 (53.41%)	Agile Software Development
5	78 (44.32%)	Linux
6	75 (42.61%)	Docker
7	72 (40.91%)	DevOps
8	71 (40.34%)	Java
9	70 (39.77%)	Amazon DynamoDB
10	69 (39.20%)	AWS CloudFormation
11	65 (36.93%)	Python
12	61 (34.66%)	Amazon RDS
13	60 (34.09%)	SQL
13	60 (34.09%)	Web Services
14	59 (33.52%)	Git (software)

15	58 (32.95%)	MySQL
16	49 (27.84%)	Node.js
17	44 (25.00%)	Continuous Integration
18	43 (24.43%)	Microsoft Azure
18	43 (24.43%)	NoSQL
19	42 (23.86%)	Windows
20	41 (23.30%)	Spring
20	41 (23.30%)	Jenkins
21	40 (22.73%)	Microservices
22	39 (22.16%)	SQL Server
23	37 (21.02%)	AngularJS
24	35 (19.89%)	TDD
25	34 (19.32%)	Elasticsearch
26	33 (18.75%)	Business Intelligence
27	32 (18.18%)	Scrum

Amazon SQS
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	34 (19.32%)	Elasticsearch
2	13 (7.39%)	IIS
3	12 (6.82%)	Apache Solr
3	12 (6.82%)	Confluence
4	7 (3.98%)	Oracle SOA Suite
5	6 (3.41%)	Apache
5	6 (3.41%)	JBoss
5	6 (3.41%)	nginx
6	3 (1.70%)	Apache Spark
6	3 (1.70%)	Exchange Server 2010
6	3 (1.70%)	MS Exchange
6	3 (1.70%)	SharePoint
6	3 (1.70%)	Tomcat
7	2 (1.14%)	CMS
7	2 (1.14%)	Jetty

Applications
1	3 (1.70%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
1	3 (1.70%)	Microsoft Project
1	3 (1.70%)	MS Visio
2	1 (0.57%)	Microsoft Office

Business Applications
1	9 (5.11%)	SAP Oil and Gas

Cloud Services
1	176 (100.00%)	Amazon AWS
2	111 (63.07%)	Amazon EC2
3	108 (61.36%)	Amazon S3
4	69 (39.20%)	AWS CloudFormation
5	43 (24.43%)	Microsoft Azure
6	32 (18.18%)	AWS Lambda
7	31 (17.61%)	Amazon CloudWatch
7	31 (17.61%)	Virtual Private Cloud
8	23 (13.07%)	Amazon ELB
9	16 (9.09%)	IaaS
10	15 (8.52%)	PaaS
11	14 (7.95%)	Azure Active Directory
11	14 (7.95%)	GitHub
12	13 (7.39%)	AWS CloudTrail
13	11 (6.25%)	Amazon Glacier
13	11 (6.25%)	Amazon Kinesis
14	10 (5.68%)	Amazon CloudSearch
14	10 (5.68%)	Amazon ElastiCache
14	10 (5.68%)	SaaS
15	8 (4.55%)	Amazon EMR

Communications & Networking
1	29 (16.48%)	DNS
2	25 (14.20%)	Network Security
3	14 (7.95%)	HTTP
3	14 (7.95%)	VLAN
3	14 (7.95%)	WAN
4	12 (6.82%)	Firewall
4	12 (6.82%)	TCP/IP
5	11 (6.25%)	AMQP
6	10 (5.68%)	LAN
6	10 (5.68%)	Unified Communications
6	10 (5.68%)	Wi-Fi
7	9 (5.11%)	DHCP
7	9 (5.11%)	IP Telephony
8	6 (3.41%)	SMS
9	4 (2.27%)	NetScaler
10	3 (1.70%)	DMZ
10	3 (1.70%)	Skype
10	3 (1.70%)	SMTP
11	1 (0.57%)	SAN
11	1 (0.57%)	VoIP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	70 (39.77%)	Amazon DynamoDB
2	61 (34.66%)	Amazon RDS
3	58 (32.95%)	MySQL
4	43 (24.43%)	NoSQL
5	39 (22.16%)	SQL Server
6	30 (17.05%)	Apache Cassandra
7	21 (11.93%)	MongoDB
8	20 (11.36%)	Redis
9	18 (10.23%)	PostgreSQL
10	13 (7.39%)	Amazon Redshift
11	10 (5.68%)	Neo4j
12	9 (5.11%)	Big Data
13	7 (3.98%)	Relational Database
14	5 (2.84%)	Hadoop
14	5 (2.84%)	SQLPlus
15	3 (1.70%)	SQL Server 2005
16	2 (1.14%)	Hazelcast
16	2 (1.14%)	RethinkDB
16	2 (1.14%)	SQL Server 2008
17	1 (0.57%)	BigQuery

Development Applications
1	59 (33.52%)	Git (software)
2	41 (23.30%)	Jenkins
3	31 (17.61%)	JUnit
4	30 (17.05%)	JIRA
5	26 (14.77%)	Atlassian Bamboo
6	25 (14.20%)	TeamCity
7	23 (13.07%)	Maven
8	22 (12.50%)	Gradle
9	13 (7.39%)	Vagrant
10	10 (5.68%)	Codeship
10	10 (5.68%)	Octopus Deploy
11	7 (3.98%)	Artifactory
11	7 (3.98%)	GoCD
11	7 (3.98%)	Selenium
11	7 (3.98%)	Spock
12	6 (3.41%)	Ant
12	6 (3.41%)	Mockito
13	5 (2.84%)	Appium
13	5 (2.84%)	Gatling
13	5 (2.84%)	PHPUnit

General
1	24 (13.64%)	Finance
2	23 (13.07%)	Retail
3	22 (12.50%)	Marketing
4	12 (6.82%)	Advertising
4	12 (6.82%)	Banking
5	9 (5.11%)	Electronics
5	9 (5.11%)	Manufacturing
5	9 (5.11%)	Telecoms
6	5 (2.84%)	Music Industry
7	3 (1.70%)	Law
8	1 (0.57%)	Games
8	1 (0.57%)	Publishing

Job Titles
1	78 (44.32%)	Developer
2	47 (26.70%)	DevOps Engineer
2	47 (26.70%)	Java Developer
3	32 (18.18%)	Cloud Engineer
4	22 (12.50%)	AWS Engineer
5	21 (11.93%)	AWS DevOps
6	20 (11.36%)	Senior Developer
7	18 (10.23%)	AWS Developer
7	18 (10.23%)	AWS DevOps Engineer
8	16 (9.09%)	Senior Java Developer
9	15 (8.52%)	Software Engineer
10	11 (6.25%)	Full Stack Developer
10	11 (6.25%)	Java Engineer
10	11 (6.25%)	Senior DevOps
11	10 (5.68%)	Azure Engineer
11	10 (5.68%)	Creative Developer
11	10 (5.68%)	Senior DevOps Engineer
11	10 (5.68%)	Team Leader
12	9 (5.11%)	Ruby Developer
12	9 (5.11%)	Senior Cloud Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	60 (34.09%)	Web Services
2	49 (27.84%)	Node.js
3	41 (23.30%)	Spring
4	37 (21.02%)	AngularJS
5	26 (14.77%)	REST
6	23 (13.07%)	RabbitMQ
7	19 (10.80%)	Spring Boot
8	18 (10.23%)	Hibernate
8	18 (10.23%)	Spring MVC
9	16 (9.09%)	HTML
9	16 (9.09%)	React
9	16 (9.09%)	XML
10	15 (8.52%)	.NET
11	14 (7.95%)	Akka
11	14 (7.95%)	RESTful
12	13 (7.39%)	HTML5
13	12 (6.82%)	ASP.NET Web API
13	12 (6.82%)	Java EE
13	12 (6.82%)	Meteor
14	11 (6.25%)	Lucene

Miscellaneous
1	21 (11.93%)	Computer Science
2	15 (8.52%)	Fintech
3	14 (7.95%)	Analytical Skills
3	14 (7.95%)	Mobile App
4	11 (6.25%)	Data Centre
4	11 (6.25%)	Enterprise Software
4	11 (6.25%)	PKI
5	10 (5.68%)	Fat Client
5	10 (5.68%)	Thin Client
6	8 (4.55%)	iPad
7	7 (3.98%)	Social Media
8	6 (3.41%)	Greenfield Project
8	6 (3.41%)	N-Tier
9	3 (1.70%)	Clustering
9	3 (1.70%)	Public Cloud
9	3 (1.70%)	Replication
9	3 (1.70%)	User Experience
10	2 (1.14%)	Algorithms
10	2 (1.14%)	Digital Media
10	2 (1.14%)	Linux Command Line

Operating Systems
1	78 (44.32%)	Linux
2	42 (23.86%)	Windows
3	11 (6.25%)	CentOS
3	11 (6.25%)	Unix
4	10 (5.68%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	7 (3.98%)	Windows Server
6	3 (1.70%)	Windows Server 2003
7	2 (1.14%)	Debian
7	2 (1.14%)	Ubuntu
8	1 (0.57%)	Data ONTAP
8	1 (0.57%)	Windows 7
8	1 (0.57%)	Windows 8

Processes & Methodologies
1	94 (53.41%)	Agile Software Development
2	72 (40.91%)	DevOps
3	44 (25.00%)	Continuous Integration
4	40 (22.73%)	Microservices
5	35 (19.89%)	TDD
6	33 (18.75%)	Business Intelligence
7	32 (18.18%)	Scrum
8	31 (17.61%)	MVC
9	26 (14.77%)	High Availability
10	23 (13.07%)	Test Automation
11	21 (11.93%)	Software Engineering
12	19 (10.80%)	OO
12	19 (10.80%)	OOP
13	17 (9.66%)	Continuous Deployment
13	17 (9.66%)	Data Security
14	16 (9.09%)	Auto-Scaling
14	16 (9.09%)	Pair Programming
15	14 (7.95%)	ITIL
15	14 (7.95%)	OOD
15	14 (7.95%)	Project Management

Programming Languages
1	71 (40.34%)	Java
2	65 (36.93%)	Python
3	60 (34.09%)	SQL
4	30 (17.05%)	Ruby
5	26 (14.77%)	JavaScript
6	19 (10.80%)	Bash Shell
7	18 (10.23%)	PowerShell
8	17 (9.66%)	Scala
9	15 (8.52%)	C#
10	10 (5.68%)	Elixir
11	8 (4.55%)	PHP
11	8 (4.55%)	XPath
12	6 (3.41%)	Go
13	3 (1.70%)	VBScript
14	2 (1.14%)	R
15	1 (0.57%)	C
15	1 (0.57%)	Clojure
15	1 (0.57%)	Groovy
15	1 (0.57%)	Perl
15	1 (0.57%)	PL/SQL

Qualifications
1	25 (14.20%)	Degree
2	17 (9.66%)	AWS Certification
3	11 (6.25%)	ITIL Certification
4	7 (3.98%)	Computer Science Degree
5	2 (1.14%)	Sun Certification
6	1 (0.57%)	Master's Degree
6	1 (0.57%)	PhD

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	12 (6.82%)	QA
2	6 (3.41%)	PCI DSS
3	1 (0.57%)	ISO/IEC 27001
3	1 (0.57%)	SLA

System Software
1	75 (42.61%)	Docker
2	29 (16.48%)	Active Directory
3	13 (7.39%)	Virtual Machines
4	10 (5.68%)	Shibboleth
5	4 (2.27%)	VMware Infrastructure
6	3 (1.70%)	Varnish
6	3 (1.70%)	VMware ESXi
7	2 (1.14%)	Apache ZooKeeper
7	2 (1.14%)	VirtualBox
8	1 (0.57%)	LXC
8	1 (0.57%)	OpenSIPS

Systems Management
1	24 (13.64%)	Puppet
2	22 (12.50%)	Ansible
3	17 (9.66%)	Terraform
4	12 (6.82%)	Systems Management Server (SMS)
5	8 (4.55%)	Packer
6	7 (3.98%)	Opscode Chef
7	6 (3.41%)	Kubernetes
8	3 (1.70%)	Ambari
8	3 (1.70%)	Microsoft Clustering
8	3 (1.70%)	Nagios
8	3 (1.70%)	vCenter Server
9	2 (1.14%)	Grafana
9	2 (1.14%)	HAProxy
9	2 (1.14%)	Kibana
9	2 (1.14%)	logstash
10	1 (0.57%)	Consul
10	1 (0.57%)	Salt
10	1 (0.57%)	SCCM
10	1 (0.57%)	SCOM

Vendors
1	21 (11.93%)	Google
1	21 (11.93%)	Microsoft
2	14 (7.95%)	New Relic
2	14 (7.95%)	Oracle
3	11 (6.25%)	CheckPoint
3	11 (6.25%)	Cisco
3	11 (6.25%)	Citrix
4	10 (5.68%)	Atlassian
4	10 (5.68%)	Trend Micro
5	9 (5.11%)	SAP
5	9 (5.11%)	Twitter
6	5 (2.84%)	VMware
7	1 (0.57%)	Apigee
7	1 (0.57%)	Brocade
7	1 (0.57%)	NetApp
7	1 (0.57%)	Perforce
7	1 (0.57%)	Red Hat