Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
UK

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 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 636 743 486
Rank change year-on-year +107 -257 +72
Permanent jobs citing Amazon SQS 279 242 1,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.23% 0.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.79% 0.55% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 130 176 390
10th Percentile £62,250 £52,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £75,000 £66,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £138,750 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £182,500 £136,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% - +36.59%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,418 44,196 75,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.85% 42.74% 48.28%
Number of salaries quoted 26,806 29,064 41,941
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Amazon SQS in the UK

Amazon SQS
Top 16 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 6 May 2024. 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
UK excluding London +35 182 £72,500 +3.57% 12
England +49 176 £105,000 +40.00% 37
Work from Home +123 141 £90,000 +12.50% 26
London +114 91 £105,000 +10.53% 24
Scotland +20 87 £65,000 - 2
North of England +22 30 £65,000 -7.14% 4
South East -8 27 £82,500 +17.86% 5
North West +17 21 £65,000 -7.14% 2
Midlands +30 18 £165,000 +312.50% 1
East Midlands -5 10 £165,000 - 1
Yorkshire +65 9 £65,000 -7.14% 2
West Midlands +33 8 £165,000 +312.50%
South West -26 7 £67,500 -
Northern Ireland +28 6 £77,500 -3.13%
Wales - 4 - -
East of England +10 3 £42,500 -52.11%

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 81 (29.03%) Apache Spark
2 52 (18.64%) Apache
3 46 (16.49%) WebLogic
4 7 (2.51%) Tomcat
5 5 (1.79%) Confluence
5 5 (1.79%) WordPress
6 1 (0.36%) nginx
Business Applications
1 46 (16.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 259 (92.83%) AWS
2 185 (66.31%) Serverless
3 181 (64.87%) AWS Lambda
4 128 (45.88%) Amazon EKS
5 125 (44.80%) Amazon ECS
6 105 (37.63%) Amazon S3
7 101 (36.20%) Amazon EC2
8 70 (25.09%) Azure
9 64 (22.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 53 (19.00%) Amazon EMR
11 45 (16.13%) SaaS
12 40 (14.34%) GitHub
13 34 (12.19%) OpenShift
14 30 (10.75%) Amazon Kinesis
15 28 (10.04%) GCP
16 23 (8.24%) Google Docs
16 23 (8.24%) Lucidchart
16 23 (8.24%) Miro
16 23 (8.24%) Slack
17 22 (7.89%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 46 (16.49%) BGP
1 46 (16.49%) DNS
1 46 (16.49%) SSL
1 46 (16.49%) TCP/IP
2 7 (2.51%) Internet
3 3 (1.08%) Firewall
4 2 (0.72%) HTTP
5 1 (0.36%) Network Security
5 1 (0.36%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (32.62%) Amazon RDS
2 80 (28.67%) Big Data
3 75 (26.88%) Hadoop
4 70 (25.09%) NoSQL
5 56 (20.07%) DynamoDB
5 56 (20.07%) Relational Database
6 52 (18.64%) Electronic Patient Records
7 47 (16.85%) RDBMS
8 46 (16.49%) Oracle Database
9 39 (13.98%) Amazon Redshift
10 27 (9.68%) Elasticsearch
11 24 (8.60%) Redis
12 23 (8.24%) Scylla
13 20 (7.17%) MySQL
14 19 (6.81%) PostgreSQL
15 13 (4.66%) Amazon Aurora
16 6 (2.15%) MongoDB
17 4 (1.43%) DocumentDB
17 4 (1.43%) Parquet
18 3 (1.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 44 (15.77%) Jenkins
2 41 (14.70%) Git
3 34 (12.19%) Artifactory
4 13 (4.66%) Maven
5 6 (2.15%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (1.79%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.79%) Eclipse
6 5 (1.79%) JIRA
6 5 (1.79%) Postman
7 3 (1.08%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.08%) NUnit
7 3 (1.08%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.08%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.72%) JUnit
8 2 (0.72%) Selenium
9 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.36%) DbUnit
9 1 (0.36%) jMock
9 1 (0.36%) Mockito
9 1 (0.36%) TestNG
General
1 102 (36.56%) Finance
2 95 (34.05%) Social Skills
3 74 (26.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 54 (19.35%) Law
5 51 (18.28%) Legal
6 40 (14.34%) Front Office
7 15 (5.38%) Automotive
8 12 (4.30%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (1.79%) Banking
9 5 (1.79%) Billing
10 4 (1.43%) Advertising
10 4 (1.43%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.08%) Retail
12 2 (0.72%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.36%) Music Industry
13 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 101 (36.20%) AWS Engineer
2 88 (31.54%) Lead
3 87 (31.18%) Software Engineer
4 56 (20.07%) Architect
5 55 (19.71%) AWS Software Engineer
6 54 (19.35%) Solutions Architect
7 51 (18.28%) Big Data Engineer
7 51 (18.28%) Big Data Software Engineer
7 51 (18.28%) Scala Engineer
7 51 (18.28%) Scala Software Engineer
8 46 (16.49%) AWS DevOps
8 46 (16.49%) Lead Architect
8 46 (16.49%) Lead Solutions Architect
9 42 (15.05%) DevOps Engineer
10 39 (13.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 39 (13.98%) Senior
11 37 (13.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 34 (12.19%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 32 (11.47%) Developer
14 26 (9.32%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (19.71%) RabbitMQ
2 50 (17.92%) Spring Boot
3 39 (13.98%) Kafka
4 37 (13.26%) .NET
5 36 (12.90%) J2EE
6 27 (9.68%) GraphQL
6 27 (9.68%) React
7 18 (6.45%) Node.js
8 14 (5.02%) .NET Framework
9 12 (4.30%) AngularJS
9 12 (4.30%) Spring
10 10 (3.58%) REST
11 9 (3.23%) .NET Core
11 9 (3.23%) jQuery
11 9 (3.23%) JSON
12 8 (2.87%) RESTful
13 7 (2.51%) AWS CDK
13 7 (2.51%) CSS
13 7 (2.51%) Lambda Expressions
14 6 (2.15%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 74 (26.52%) Algorithms
2 46 (16.49%) Enterprise Software
2 46 (16.49%) Public Cloud
3 34 (12.19%) Tandem
4 23 (8.24%) Data Structures
5 18 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (5.38%) Mobile App
7 6 (2.15%) Blog
7 6 (2.15%) Hedge funds
7 6 (2.15%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.15%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.79%) Educational Technology
8 5 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.43%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.72%) Derivative
10 2 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.72%) N-Tier
10 2 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.36%) Cyber Defence
11 1 (0.36%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 56 (20.07%) Linux
2 47 (16.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.08%) Windows
4 2 (0.72%) Unix
5 1 (0.36%) CentOS
5 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (61.29%) Agile
2 134 (48.03%) Software Engineering
3 116 (41.58%) CI/CD
4 99 (35.48%) SDLC
5 87 (31.18%) Open Source
6 64 (22.94%) DevOps
7 59 (21.15%) Microservices
8 57 (20.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 57 (20.43%) Visualisation
9 54 (19.35%) Scrum
10 51 (18.28%) Operational Stability
10 51 (18.28%) Performance Tuning
10 51 (18.28%) Risk Management
11 50 (17.92%) Actionable Insight
12 49 (17.56%) Migration
13 48 (17.20%) Collaborative Working
14 47 (16.85%) Project Management
15 46 (16.49%) ArchiMate
15 46 (16.49%) Load Balancing
15 46 (16.49%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 166 (59.50%) Java
2 95 (34.05%) Python
3 80 (28.67%) Scala
4 67 (24.01%) SQL
5 63 (22.58%) Go
6 39 (13.98%) JavaScript
7 29 (10.39%) TypeScript
8 24 (8.60%) Bash
9 21 (7.53%) C#
10 5 (1.79%) PHP
11 1 (0.36%) Groovy
11 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.36%) R
11 1 (0.36%) Rust
11 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 48 (17.20%) AWS Certification
1 48 (17.20%) SC Cleared
1 48 (17.20%) Security Cleared
2 47 (16.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 46 (16.49%) Azure Certification
4 14 (5.02%) Degree
5 5 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.79%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.43%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.15%) QA
2 5 (1.79%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.43%) SLA
4 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.36%) SEPA
System Software
1 76 (27.24%) Docker
2 15 (5.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 82 (29.39%) Kubernetes
2 47 (16.85%) Terraform
3 7 (2.51%) Ansible
4 3 (1.08%) Grafana
5 2 (0.72%) Consul
6 1 (0.36%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.36%) Packer
Vendors
1 48 (17.20%) Oracle
2 46 (16.49%) Sparx
3 23 (8.24%) Dell
3 23 (8.24%) Google
4 15 (5.38%) ForgeRock
4 15 (5.38%) Sitecore
5 7 (2.51%) Splunk
6 5 (1.79%) MuleSoft
6 5 (1.79%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.43%) Dataiku
8 3 (1.08%) New Relic
8 3 (1.08%) Rackspace
8 3 (1.08%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.72%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.72%) Veracode
10 1 (0.36%) Red Hat