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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 615 646 760
Rank change year-on-year +31 +114 -290
Permanent jobs citing Amazon SQS 87 267 209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.26% 0.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.56% 0.74% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 70 119 158
10th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,688 £69,375 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £95,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +26.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £87,500 £138,750 £95,000
90th Percentile - £182,500 £126,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -12.50%

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 15,400 35,996 41,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.58% 34.72% 43.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,158 26,922 27,386
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £34,605
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,450 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% -9.09% +4.76%

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 31 May 2025.

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 31 May 2025. 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 +73 77 £75,000 -23.08% 138
UK excluding London +65 54 £75,000 - 60
London +48 33 £64,000 -39.05% 91
East of England +62 15 £85,000 +100.00% 3
North of England +21 14 £75,000 +15.38% 26
Work from Home +7 14 £75,000 -21.05% 91
South East +67 13 £72,500 -23.68% 6
North West -7 13 £75,000 +15.38% 21
West Midlands +55 7 £73,750 -55.30% 6
Midlands +54 7 £73,750 -55.30% 6
Northern Ireland +41 5 £55,000 -29.03% 6
Yorkshire +48 1 £62,500 -3.85% 4
Scotland +44 1 £75,000 +15.38% 7

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 8 (9.20%) nginx
1 8 (9.20%) Tomcat
2 7 (8.05%) Apache
3 6 (6.90%) Confluence
3 6 (6.90%) OpenStack
4 3 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.15%) CMS
5 1 (1.15%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (2.30%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 87 (100.00%) AWS
2 51 (58.62%) Serverless
3 43 (49.43%) AWS Lambda
4 39 (44.83%) Amazon S3
5 26 (29.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 25 (28.74%) Amazon EC2
6 25 (28.74%) Amazon ECS
6 25 (28.74%) Amazon EventBridge
7 20 (22.99%) AWS Step Functions
8 18 (20.69%) SaaS
9 15 (17.24%) AWS CodePipeline
9 15 (17.24%) GitHub
10 14 (16.09%) AWS CodeBuild
10 14 (16.09%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 14 (16.09%) AWS KMS
10 14 (16.09%) Boomi
11 13 (14.94%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (14.94%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (11.49%) Route 53
13 9 (10.34%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.75%) MQTT
1 5 (5.75%) SMS
1 5 (5.75%) VPN
2 2 (2.30%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (44.83%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (43.68%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (32.18%) Amazon Aurora
4 24 (27.59%) DynamoDB
5 16 (18.39%) Big Data
6 13 (14.94%) MySQL
7 10 (11.49%) MongoDB
8 8 (9.20%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (8.05%) NoSQL
9 7 (8.05%) Relational Database
10 6 (6.90%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (6.90%) Data Lake
11 4 (4.60%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (2.30%) Apache Iceberg
12 2 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (2.30%) Electronic Patient Records
12 2 (2.30%) Flink
12 2 (2.30%) OLAP
12 2 (2.30%) OLTP
13 1 (1.15%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 28 (32.18%) Jenkins
2 27 (31.03%) Git
3 22 (25.29%) JUnit
4 20 (22.99%) Maven
4 20 (22.99%) Mockito
4 20 (22.99%) SonarQube
5 11 (12.64%) DbUnit
5 11 (12.64%) jMock
6 10 (11.49%) Bitbucket Server
6 10 (11.49%) JIRA
6 10 (11.49%) Postman
7 8 (9.20%) Bitbucket
7 8 (9.20%) Cucumber
7 8 (9.20%) Selenium
7 8 (9.20%) TestNG
8 3 (3.45%) GitLab
9 2 (2.30%) JMeter
9 2 (2.30%) REST Assured
9 2 (2.30%) SoapUI
9 2 (2.30%) Spinnaker
General
1 38 (43.68%) Public Sector
2 37 (42.53%) Social Skills
3 21 (24.14%) Finance
4 18 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (20.69%) Law
5 8 (9.20%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.75%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (5.75%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.60%) Marketing
8 3 (3.45%) Banking
9 2 (2.30%) Health Technology
9 2 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.30%) Publishing
9 2 (2.30%) Tech for Good
10 1 (1.15%) Advertising
10 1 (1.15%) Automotive
10 1 (1.15%) Games
10 1 (1.15%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (45.98%) Developer
2 33 (37.93%) Lead
3 17 (19.54%) Java Developer
4 14 (16.09%) Senior
5 11 (12.64%) Lead Developer
6 10 (11.49%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (9.20%) Backend Developer
7 8 (9.20%) Java Engineer
7 8 (9.20%) Lead Java Developer
7 8 (9.20%) Python Developer
7 8 (9.20%) Senior Developer
8 7 (8.05%) JavaScript Developer
8 7 (8.05%) React Developer
9 6 (6.90%) Node.js Developer
10 5 (5.75%) Architect
11 4 (4.60%) AWS Developer
11 4 (4.60%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
11 4 (4.60%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (4.60%) Software Engineer
12 3 (3.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (49.43%) RESTful
2 31 (35.63%) Spring
3 28 (32.18%) Spring Boot
4 27 (31.03%) Kafka
5 25 (28.74%) REST
6 19 (21.84%) AngularJS
7 18 (20.69%) JWT
7 18 (20.69%) OAuth
7 18 (20.69%) Web Services
8 16 (18.39%) React
9 15 (17.24%) JPA
10 14 (16.09%) Elastic Stack
10 14 (16.09%) Hibernate
10 14 (16.09%) Mustache
10 14 (16.09%) Node.js
11 13 (14.94%) Bootstrap
12 12 (13.79%) ActiveMQ
12 12 (13.79%) SOAP
13 11 (12.64%) PowerMock
14 10 (11.49%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.99%) Cloud Native
2 11 (12.64%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (10.34%) Distributed Architecture
4 8 (9.20%) Life Science
5 6 (6.90%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (5.75%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (4.60%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.30%) AI Agents
9 1 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (1.15%) Legacy Code
9 1 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.15%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (21.84%) Linux
2 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.15%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (72.41%) CI/CD
2 41 (47.13%) Agile
3 37 (42.53%) DevOps
4 35 (40.23%) Microservices
5 29 (33.33%) Event-Driven
6 26 (29.89%) TDD
7 22 (25.29%) BDD
7 22 (25.29%) Containerisation
8 21 (24.14%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 20 (22.99%) Coaching
9 20 (22.99%) Code Quality
9 20 (22.99%) Scrum
10 19 (21.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (21.84%) Test Automation
11 17 (19.54%) Infrastructure as Code
11 17 (19.54%) Mentoring
11 17 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (18.39%) Analytics
12 16 (18.39%) Data Analytics
12 16 (18.39%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (55.17%) Java
2 27 (31.03%) JavaScript
3 21 (24.14%) Python
4 20 (22.99%) SQL
5 17 (19.54%) TypeScript
6 14 (16.09%) C#
7 7 (8.05%) PHP
8 2 (2.30%) Rust
9 1 (1.15%) Bash
9 1 (1.15%) Elixir
9 1 (1.15%) Elm
9 1 (1.15%) Erlang
9 1 (1.15%) F#
9 1 (1.15%) Go
9 1 (1.15%) Groovy
9 1 (1.15%) Haskell
9 1 (1.15%) Lisp
9 1 (1.15%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.15%) PureScript
9 1 (1.15%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 13 (14.94%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.90%) Degree
4 3 (3.45%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.30%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.30%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (2.30%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.15%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.60%) Accessibility
1 4 (4.60%) QA
2 2 (2.30%) GDPR
2 2 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.30%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.30%) SLA
3 1 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.15%) NCSC
3 1 (1.15%) NIST
System Software
1 42 (48.28%) Docker
2 4 (4.60%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 28 (32.18%) Terraform
2 26 (29.89%) Kubernetes
3 9 (10.34%) Ansible
4 8 (9.20%) Kustomize
4 8 (9.20%) Packer
5 4 (4.60%) Grafana
5 4 (4.60%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (17.24%) ServiceNow
2 14 (16.09%) Informatica
2 14 (16.09%) MuleSoft
2 14 (16.09%) Salesforce
3 10 (11.49%) Atlassian
4 8 (9.20%) Red Hat
5 7 (8.05%) Google
6 4 (4.60%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (2.30%) Databricks
7 2 (2.30%) Hitachi
7 2 (2.30%) Okta
7 2 (2.30%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.30%) SimCorp
7 2 (2.30%) Splunk
8 1 (1.15%) IBM
8 1 (1.15%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.15%) Oracle
8 1 (1.15%) Workday