Amazon SQS Job Trends

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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 529 361 563
Rank change year-on-year -168 +202 +129
Permanent jobs citing Amazon SQS 106 395 145
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.72% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.52% 1.99% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 68 127 91
10th Percentile £52,500 £62,600 £53,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £76,000 £63,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £90,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £118,750 £96,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £138,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +11.11% -

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 20,518 19,807 21,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.63% 36.05% 41.50%
Number of salaries quoted 11,206 11,679 17,619
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,813 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,000
90th Percentile £98,375 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon SQS in the UK

Amazon SQS
Top 10 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 2 January 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 -183 92 £75,000 -16.67% 30
Work from Home -147 59 £75,000 -16.67% 29
UK excluding London -77 48 £62,500 -16.67% 17
London -124 38 £76,000 -24.00% 20
North of England +52 34 £60,000 -31.43% 5
Yorkshire - 26 £60,000 - 4
South East -84 14 £87,500 +45.83% 4
North West +40 8 £72,500 -17.14% 1
East of England -11 3 £100,000 -
South West +15 2 £62,500 -7.41% 4

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 13 (12.26%) Apache
2 10 (9.43%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (7.55%) OpenStack
4 5 (4.72%) Headless CMS
5 3 (2.83%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.94%) nginx
Business Applications
1 5 (4.72%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 106 (100.00%) AWS
2 86 (81.13%) Serverless
3 76 (71.70%) AWS Lambda
4 72 (67.92%) Amazon S3
5 34 (32.08%) Amazon ECS
6 27 (25.47%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (21.70%) AWS Step Functions
7 23 (21.70%) GitHub
8 20 (18.87%) Amazon EventBridge
8 20 (18.87%) Azure
9 17 (16.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (14.15%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (14.15%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (13.21%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (12.26%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (10.38%) SaaS
14 6 (5.66%) Azure Service Bus
14 6 (5.66%) Vercel
15 5 (4.72%) Amazon ECR
15 5 (4.72%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.89%) AMQP
2 1 (0.94%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (29.25%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (24.53%) DynamoDB
3 23 (21.70%) NoSQL
4 13 (12.26%) MongoDB
4 13 (12.26%) SQL Server
5 10 (9.43%) Relational Database
6 8 (7.55%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (7.55%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (6.60%) MySQL
8 4 (3.77%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (2.83%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.83%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (2.83%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.83%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.94%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.94%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (27.36%) Git
2 17 (16.04%) Cypress.io
3 13 (12.26%) Jenkins
4 6 (5.66%) GitLab
5 5 (4.72%) git-flow
6 4 (3.77%) Maven
6 4 (3.77%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.83%) ESLint
8 2 (1.89%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.94%) JUnit
9 1 (0.94%) NUnit
General
1 55 (51.89%) Social Skills
2 16 (15.09%) Organisational Skills
3 15 (14.15%) Health Technology
3 15 (14.15%) Influencing Skills
3 15 (14.15%) Publishing
3 15 (14.15%) Tech for Good
4 8 (7.55%) Finance
5 6 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.83%) Marketing
7 1 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.94%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 80 (75.47%) Developer
2 27 (25.47%) AWS Developer
3 25 (23.58%) Full-Stack Developer
4 21 (19.81%) Lead
4 21 (19.81%) React Developer
5 19 (17.92%) Lead Developer
6 18 (16.98%) Senior
7 15 (14.15%) Lead Python Developer
7 15 (14.15%) Python Developer
8 13 (12.26%) Java Developer
8 13 (12.26%) Senior Developer
9 12 (11.32%) .NET Developer
10 11 (10.38%) Backend Developer
11 10 (9.43%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (7.55%) Lead Software Developer
12 8 (7.55%) Software Developer
12 8 (7.55%) Software Engineer
13 5 (4.72%) DevOps Engineer
13 5 (4.72%) Principal Developer
14 4 (3.77%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (52.83%) React
2 50 (47.17%) RESTful
3 40 (37.74%) Node.js
4 32 (30.19%) Kafka
5 24 (22.64%) Spring Boot
6 23 (21.70%) AWS CDK
7 22 (20.75%) .NET
7 22 (20.75%) Spring
8 17 (16.04%) Jest
9 15 (14.15%) RabbitMQ
10 14 (13.21%) .NET Core
10 14 (13.21%) CSS
11 13 (12.26%) ASP.NET
11 13 (12.26%) ASP.NET Core
11 13 (12.26%) Blazor
11 13 (12.26%) Pandas
12 12 (11.32%) Hibernate
12 12 (11.32%) REST
13 10 (9.43%) JPA
14 9 (8.49%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 42 (39.62%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.32%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (9.43%) Distributed Architecture
3 10 (9.43%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.72%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.77%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.83%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.94%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (75.47%) CI/CD
2 57 (53.77%) Agile
3 55 (51.89%) Microservices
4 50 (47.17%) DevOps
5 38 (35.85%) Infrastructure as Code
6 34 (32.08%) Containerisation
7 33 (31.13%) Full-Stack Development
8 31 (29.25%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (26.42%) Event-Driven
10 26 (24.53%) Scrum
11 23 (21.70%) TDD
12 22 (20.75%) Code Quality
12 22 (20.75%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (20.75%) Mentoring
13 21 (19.81%) Pair Programming
14 18 (16.98%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 16 (15.09%) Coaching
15 16 (15.09%) Root Cause Analysis
16 15 (14.15%) Continuous Integration
16 15 (14.15%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 39 (36.79%) Python
2 32 (30.19%) JavaScript
3 29 (27.36%) TypeScript
4 28 (26.42%) SQL
5 27 (25.47%) Java
6 9 (8.49%) C#
7 8 (7.55%) Ruby
8 6 (5.66%) Bash
9 4 (3.77%) Groovy
10 1 (0.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (18.87%) AWS Certification
2 14 (13.21%) AWS Certified Developer
3 4 (3.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 4 (3.77%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.94%) Degree
4 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.94%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (19.81%) QA
2 5 (4.72%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.83%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.89%) GDPR
4 2 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.89%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.89%) SOC 2
System Software
1 49 (46.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (27.36%) Kubernetes
2 26 (24.53%) Terraform
3 7 (6.60%) Grafana
4 5 (4.72%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.77%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.94%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (4.72%) Apple
2 3 (2.83%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.89%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.94%) Cisco