Amazon SQS Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 388 443 566
Rank change year-on-year +55 +123 -200
Permanent jobs citing Amazon SQS 44 141 96
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.27% 0.42% 0.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.71% 0.96% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 41 67 72
10th Percentile £72,500 £59,000 £62,625
25th Percentile £76,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +12.50% -
75th Percentile £118,750 £143,125 £97,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £182,500 £99,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £95,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% +26.67% -6.25%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,193 14,660 20,207
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.75% 43.30% 47.68%
Number of salaries quoted 4,633 12,004 14,827
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £97,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,465 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.16% -11.54% +4.00%

Amazon SQS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Amazon SQS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Amazon SQS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Amazon SQS
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Amazon SQS.

Amazon SQS salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon SQS
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Amazon SQS over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Amazon SQS salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon SQS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 44 (100.00%) AWS
2 41 (93.18%) Serverless
3 39 (88.64%) AWS Lambda
4 35 (79.55%) Amazon S3
5 28 (63.64%) Amazon EC2
5 28 (63.64%) Amazon ECS
5 28 (63.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (11.36%) Amazon EventBridge
6 5 (11.36%) GitHub
7 4 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (6.82%) Azure
9 2 (4.55%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (4.55%) AWS CodePipeline
9 2 (4.55%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (4.55%) GCP
9 2 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (2.27%) Azure App Service
10 1 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (63.64%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (56.82%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (11.36%) DynamoDB
4 4 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (9.09%) Data Lake
4 4 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (6.82%) MySQL
6 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.27%) Big Data
7 1 (2.27%) DocumentDB
7 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Git
2 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.27%) JUnit
2 1 (2.27%) Maven
2 1 (2.27%) Mockito
2 1 (2.27%) SonarQube
General
1 27 (61.36%) Finance
2 24 (54.55%) Banking
2 24 (54.55%) Front Office
3 12 (27.27%) Social Skills
4 6 (13.64%) Health Technology
4 6 (13.64%) Influencing Skills
4 6 (13.64%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (13.64%) Publishing
4 6 (13.64%) Tech for Good
5 2 (4.55%) Advertising
6 1 (2.27%) Games
6 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 28 (63.64%) AWS Engineer
2 26 (59.09%) Python Engineer
3 24 (54.55%) AWS DevOps
3 24 (54.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 24 (54.55%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (54.55%) DevOps Manager
3 24 (54.55%) Finance Manager
4 16 (36.36%) Senior
5 12 (27.27%) Lead
5 12 (27.27%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
5 12 (27.27%) Senior DevOps
5 12 (27.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 12 (27.27%) Senior Manager
6 7 (15.91%) Developer
7 4 (9.09%) Lead Developer
7 4 (9.09%) Software Engineer
8 3 (6.82%) Architect
8 3 (6.82%) Senior Developer
8 3 (6.82%) Software Developer
8 3 (6.82%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.91%) RESTful
2 5 (11.36%) AngularJS
3 4 (9.09%) .NET
3 4 (9.09%) Laravel
3 4 (9.09%) Vue
4 3 (6.82%) Serverless Framework
5 2 (4.55%) Bootstrap
5 2 (4.55%) React
5 2 (4.55%) SOAP
6 1 (2.27%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (2.27%) CSS
6 1 (2.27%) D3.js
6 1 (2.27%) Highcharts JS
6 1 (2.27%) JPA
6 1 (2.27%) Kafka
6 1 (2.27%) KnockoutJS
6 1 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.27%) REST
6 1 (2.27%) Spring
6 1 (2.27%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.82%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.27%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (84.09%) Agile
1 37 (84.09%) CI/CD
2 30 (68.18%) DevOps
2 30 (68.18%) Software Engineering
3 24 (54.55%) Asset Management
3 24 (54.55%) Fintech
3 24 (54.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 14 (31.82%) Mentoring
5 10 (22.73%) Coaching
5 10 (22.73%) Code Quality
6 8 (18.18%) Scrum
6 8 (18.18%) TDD
7 7 (15.91%) Acceptance Criteria
7 7 (15.91%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (13.64%) Extreme Programming
8 6 (13.64%) Operational Stability
8 6 (13.64%) Process Improvement
8 6 (13.64%) Time Management
8 6 (13.64%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 35 (79.55%) Python
2 33 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (13.64%) SQL
4 4 (9.09%) PHP
4 4 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.55%) Java
6 1 (2.27%) C#
6 1 (2.27%) Elixir
6 1 (2.27%) Elm
6 1 (2.27%) Erlang
6 1 (2.27%) F#
6 1 (2.27%) Haskell
6 1 (2.27%) Lisp
6 1 (2.27%) PureScript
6 1 (2.27%) Scala
6 1 (2.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 27 (61.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (72.73%) Terraform
2 25 (56.82%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.27%) Argo
3 1 (2.27%) Grafana
3 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (4.55%) Hitachi