Amazon MSK Contracts

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Amazon MSK skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon MSK over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 542 656 794
Rank change year-on-year +114 +138 -77
Contract jobs citing Amazon MSK 42 41 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.096% 0.074% 0.062%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.30% 0.20% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 21 47
10th Percentile £399 £600 £500
25th Percentile £413 £620 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £680 £550
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% +23.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £566 - £788
90th Percentile £613 £875 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +30.00% -9.09%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Amazon MSK falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,152 20,251 33,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.40% 36.46% 38.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,986 14,657 24,479
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 327 381
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%
75th Percentile £43.75 £69.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.48 £69.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £27.35 £19.09
% change year-on-year -26.87% +43.27% -4.55%

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 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon MSK in the UK

Amazon MSK
Top 7 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 13 June 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 +89 42 £500 -26.47% 2
London +88 35 £500 -26.47% 1
UK excluding London +31 6 £575 -11.54% 2
Work from Home +99 5 £475 -28.57% 1
Midlands - 4 - -
West Midlands - 4 - -
South East +16 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 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) Apache
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 42 (100.00%) AWS
2 27 (64.29%) Serverless
3 26 (61.90%) AWS Lambda
4 22 (52.38%) Amazon S3
5 20 (47.62%) AWS Step Functions
6 8 (19.05%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
8 5 (11.90%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (9.52%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (7.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
10 3 (7.14%) GitHub
11 2 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (2.38%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) DNS
1 4 (9.52%) Firewall
1 4 (9.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (69.05%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (57.14%) Amazon Redshift
3 21 (50.00%) DynamoDB
4 19 (45.24%) Parquet
5 8 (19.05%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (11.90%) MySQL
8 4 (9.52%) Amazon QuickSight
8 4 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (9.52%) MariaDB
9 2 (4.76%) DB2
9 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
10 1 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (2.38%) RDBMS
10 1 (2.38%) Redis
10 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
10 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Cypress.io
1 4 (9.52%) JIRA
1 4 (9.52%) Snyk
2 1 (2.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (2.38%) Git
2 1 (2.38%) GitLab
2 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.38%) Liquibase
General
1 11 (26.19%) Public Sector
2 8 (19.05%) Finance
3 7 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 4 (9.52%) Banking
4 4 (9.52%) Front Office
4 4 (9.52%) Publishing
5 3 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (7.14%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.38%) Games
Job Titles
1 23 (54.76%) Data Engineer
2 12 (28.57%) Developer
3 4 (9.52%) Architect
3 4 (9.52%) AWS Data Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) VBA Developer
4 3 (7.14%) AWS Architect
4 3 (7.14%) AWS Data Architect
4 3 (7.14%) Data Architect
5 2 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Senior
6 1 (2.38%) Analyst
6 1 (2.38%) Backend Developer
6 1 (2.38%) Business Analyst
6 1 (2.38%) Data Analyst
6 1 (2.38%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) Senior Developer
6 1 (2.38%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (50.00%) Kafka
2 19 (45.24%) Apache Avro
2 19 (45.24%) JSON
3 8 (19.05%) Spring
4 6 (14.29%) Spring Boot
5 4 (9.52%) .NET
5 4 (9.52%) GraphQL
5 4 (9.52%) Hibernate
5 4 (9.52%) JPA
6 3 (7.14%) REST
6 3 (7.14%) RESTful
6 3 (7.14%) Spring Security
7 2 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (2.38%) BREW
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (9.52%) Market Risk
3 3 (7.14%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Unix
2 1 (2.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (54.76%) ETL
2 20 (47.62%) Data Ingestion
3 14 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 13 (30.95%) Agile
4 13 (30.95%) Data Pipeline
5 11 (26.19%) Predictive Modelling
6 10 (23.81%) Business Transformation
6 10 (23.81%) DevOps
7 8 (19.05%) Microservices
8 7 (16.67%) Migration
9 6 (14.29%) Business Analysis
10 5 (11.90%) Decision-Making
11 4 (9.52%) Analytics
11 4 (9.52%) Computer Science
11 4 (9.52%) Database Migration
11 4 (9.52%) Kalman Filter
11 4 (9.52%) SFIA
12 3 (7.14%) Data Extraction
12 3 (7.14%) Data Migration
12 3 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (61.90%) SQL
2 24 (57.14%) Python
3 15 (35.71%) Java
4 7 (16.67%) PHP
5 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
6 4 (9.52%) Go
6 4 (9.52%) VBA
7 2 (4.76%) Lua
7 2 (4.76%) Perl
7 2 (4.76%) Scala
8 1 (2.38%) R
8 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (54.76%) SC Cleared
1 23 (54.76%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.90%) Degree
3 4 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) QA
2 3 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (19.05%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.52%) Grafana
2 4 (9.52%) Prometheus
2 4 (9.52%) Terraform
3 1 (2.38%) Istio
3 1 (2.38%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (9.52%) Bloomberg
1 4 (9.52%) OpenLink
1 4 (9.52%) Trayport
2 3 (7.14%) SAP
3 1 (2.38%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle
3 1 (2.38%) Sage