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

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 424 449 568
Rank change year-on-year +25 +119 -210
Permanent jobs citing Amazon SQS 29 140 94
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.42% 0.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.44% 0.96% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 26 66 72
10th Percentile £68,250 £58,750 £59,688
25th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +18.75% -
75th Percentile £118,750 £159,063 £95,625
90th Percentile £140,000 £182,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £76,250 £95,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -19.74% +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 6,533 14,570 19,678
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.24% 43.27% 48.04%
Number of salaries quoted 4,447 11,901 14,381
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £38,250
25th Percentile £46,125 £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 £82,500 £79,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,700 £97,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -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 15 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 29 (100.00%) AWS
2 27 (93.10%) Serverless
3 25 (86.21%) AWS Lambda
4 21 (72.41%) Amazon S3
5 16 (55.17%) Amazon EC2
5 16 (55.17%) Amazon ECS
5 16 (55.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (17.24%) Amazon EventBridge
7 4 (13.79%) GitHub
8 3 (10.34%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (6.90%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (6.90%) AWS CodePipeline
9 2 (6.90%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (6.90%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (6.90%) Azure
9 2 (6.90%) GCP
9 2 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (3.45%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (55.17%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (44.83%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (17.24%) DynamoDB
4 4 (13.79%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (13.79%) Data Lake
4 4 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (10.34%) MySQL
6 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (3.45%) Big Data
7 1 (3.45%) DocumentDB
7 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.45%) JUnit
2 1 (3.45%) Maven
2 1 (3.45%) Mockito
2 1 (3.45%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (51.72%) Finance
2 12 (41.38%) Banking
2 12 (41.38%) Front Office
3 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
4 4 (13.79%) Health Technology
4 4 (13.79%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (13.79%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (13.79%) Publishing
4 4 (13.79%) Tech for Good
5 2 (6.90%) Advertising
6 1 (3.45%) Games
6 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (51.72%) AWS Engineer
2 13 (44.83%) Python Engineer
3 12 (41.38%) AWS DevOps
3 12 (41.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 12 (41.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (41.38%) DevOps Manager
3 12 (41.38%) Finance Manager
4 10 (34.48%) Senior
5 9 (31.03%) Lead
6 6 (20.69%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
6 6 (20.69%) Senior DevOps
6 6 (20.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 6 (20.69%) Senior Manager
7 5 (17.24%) Developer
8 3 (10.34%) Architect
8 3 (10.34%) Senior Developer
8 3 (10.34%) Software Engineer
8 3 (10.34%) Technical Leader
9 2 (6.90%) Lead Software Engineer
9 2 (6.90%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) AngularJS
1 5 (17.24%) RESTful
2 4 (13.79%) Laravel
2 4 (13.79%) Vue
3 3 (10.34%) .NET
3 3 (10.34%) Serverless Framework
4 2 (6.90%) SOAP
5 1 (3.45%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (3.45%) Bootstrap
5 1 (3.45%) CSS
5 1 (3.45%) D3.js
5 1 (3.45%) GraphQL
5 1 (3.45%) Highcharts JS
5 1 (3.45%) JPA
5 1 (3.45%) Kafka
5 1 (3.45%) React
5 1 (3.45%) REST
5 1 (3.45%) Spring
5 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.45%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
1 3 (10.34%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.45%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (75.86%) Agile
1 22 (75.86%) CI/CD
2 17 (58.62%) DevOps
2 17 (58.62%) Software Engineering
3 12 (41.38%) Asset Management
3 12 (41.38%) Fintech
3 12 (41.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 11 (37.93%) Mentoring
5 8 (27.59%) Coaching
6 7 (24.14%) Code Quality
7 6 (20.69%) Scrum
7 6 (20.69%) TDD
8 5 (17.24%) Acceptance Criteria
8 5 (17.24%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (17.24%) User Experience
9 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (13.79%) Operational Stability
9 4 (13.79%) SQL Optimisation
9 4 (13.79%) Technical Debt
9 4 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 21 (72.41%) Python
2 20 (68.97%) JavaScript
3 5 (17.24%) SQL
4 4 (13.79%) PHP
4 4 (13.79%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.90%) Java
6 1 (3.45%) Elixir
6 1 (3.45%) Elm
6 1 (3.45%) Erlang
6 1 (3.45%) F#
6 1 (3.45%) Haskell
6 1 (3.45%) Lisp
6 1 (3.45%) PureScript
6 1 (3.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (6.90%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (51.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (68.97%) Terraform
2 13 (44.83%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.45%) Argo
3 1 (3.45%) Grafana
3 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (6.90%) Hitachi