Amazon MSK Contracts

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Amazon MSK skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon MSK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 687 795
Rank change year-on-year +125 +108 -126
Contract jobs citing Amazon MSK 36 32 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.083% 0.054% 0.061%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.26% 0.15% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 19 48
10th Percentile £396 £616 £500
25th Percentile £413 £653 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £680 £550
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% +23.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £563 £850 £759
90th Percentile £609 £883 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £588 £500
% change year-on-year -2.13% +17.50% -9.09%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,989 22,053 34,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 36.87% 38.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,925 15,944 24,923
10th Percentile £300 £325 £353
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 355 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.39
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%

Amazon MSK
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon MSK as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon MSK in the UK

Amazon MSK
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon MSK.

Daily rate trend for Amazon MSK in the UK

Amazon MSK
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon MSK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon MSK in the UK

Amazon MSK
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon MSK within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +133 36 £500 -26.47% 5
London +110 33 £475 -30.15% 3
Work from Home +122 6 £513 -24.63% 6
UK excluding London +65 2 £575 -2.13% 2
South East - 2 £575 -

Amazon MSK
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 6 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) Apache
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 36 (100.00%) AWS
2 23 (63.89%) Serverless
3 22 (61.11%) AWS Lambda
4 21 (58.33%) Amazon S3
5 19 (52.78%) AWS Step Functions
6 10 (27.78%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (13.89%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 4 (11.11%) Amazon ECR
9 3 (8.33%) GitHub
9 3 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (5.56%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (2.78%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) DNS
1 4 (11.11%) VPN
2 1 (2.78%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (77.78%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (58.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 21 (58.33%) DynamoDB
3 19 (52.78%) Parquet
4 4 (11.11%) Amazon QuickSight
4 4 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (11.11%) MariaDB
5 3 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (5.56%) MySQL
6 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.78%) DB2
7 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.78%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.78%) Redis
7 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) JIRA
2 4 (11.11%) Cypress.io
2 4 (11.11%) Snyk
3 2 (5.56%) Liquibase
4 1 (2.78%) GitLab
General
1 12 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 5 (13.89%) Finance
3 4 (11.11%) Banking
4 3 (8.33%) Retail Banking
5 1 (2.78%) Front Office
5 1 (2.78%) Games
5 1 (2.78%) Publishing
5 1 (2.78%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (52.78%) Data Engineer
2 12 (33.33%) Developer
3 3 (8.33%) Architect
4 2 (5.56%) AWS Architect
4 2 (5.56%) AWS Data Architect
4 2 (5.56%) Backend Developer
4 2 (5.56%) Data Architect
4 2 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Senior
4 2 (5.56%) Senior Developer
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Business Analyst
5 1 (2.78%) Java Developer
5 1 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.78%) VBA Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (52.78%) Apache Avro
1 19 (52.78%) JSON
2 17 (47.22%) Kafka
3 10 (27.78%) Spring
4 9 (25.00%) Spring Boot
5 7 (19.44%) Hibernate
5 7 (19.44%) JPA
6 5 (13.89%) REST
6 5 (13.89%) Spring Security
7 4 (11.11%) GraphQL
8 2 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (2.78%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.78%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (55.56%) Data Ingestion
2 19 (52.78%) ETL
3 14 (38.89%) Data Modelling
4 13 (36.11%) Data Pipeline
5 11 (30.56%) Predictive Modelling
6 10 (27.78%) Business Transformation
6 10 (27.78%) Microservices
7 8 (22.22%) Agile
8 6 (16.67%) DevOps
8 6 (16.67%) Migration
9 5 (13.89%) High Availability
9 5 (13.89%) Observability
9 5 (13.89%) Scrum
10 4 (11.11%) Database Migration
10 4 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
10 4 (11.11%) SFIA
11 3 (8.33%) Front End Development
11 3 (8.33%) Full Stack Development
11 3 (8.33%) Mentoring
11 3 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (61.11%) SQL
2 20 (55.56%) Python
3 14 (38.89%) Java
4 7 (19.44%) PHP
5 4 (11.11%) Go
6 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.56%) Lua
6 2 (5.56%) Perl
6 2 (5.56%) Scala
7 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.78%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (72.22%) SC Cleared
1 26 (72.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 4 (11.11%) Grafana
2 4 (11.11%) Prometheus
3 3 (8.33%) Terraform
4 1 (2.78%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (5.56%) SAP
2 1 (2.78%) Bloomberg
2 1 (2.78%) OpenLink
2 1 (2.78%) Trayport