Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Amazon MSK skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon MSK over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 896 971 1189
Rank change year-on-year +75 +218 -297
Permanent jobs citing Amazon MSK 15 28 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.015% 0.027% 0.015%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.042% 0.063% 0.032%
Number of salaries quoted 8 17 10
10th Percentile £59,375 - £63,000
25th Percentile - £117,500 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £120,000 £106,250
Median % change year-on-year -45.83% +12.94% +18.06%
75th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £120,000
90th Percentile - £130,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 - -

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,310 44,297 75,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.84% 42.78% 48.22%
Number of salaries quoted 26,696 29,083 41,953
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,750 £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 £95,000 £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 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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Amazon MSK in the UK

Amazon MSK
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon MSK over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Amazon MSK in the UK

Amazon MSK
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon MSK within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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 - 11 £65,000 - 1
England +69 7 £65,000 -45.83% 3
Scotland - 7 - -
Work from Home +76 4 £100,000 - 5
North West - 4 £65,000 -
North of England - 4 £65,000 -
London +95 3 £100,000 -16.67% 2

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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) AWS
1 8 (53.33%) AWS Lambda
1 8 (53.33%) Serverless
2 7 (46.67%) Datadog
3 5 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (26.67%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (26.67%) Amazon ELB
4 4 (26.67%) Amazon EventBridge
4 4 (26.67%) Amazon Kinesis
4 4 (26.67%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (26.67%) GitHub
4 4 (26.67%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (20.00%) Amazon ECR
5 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (20.00%) Route 53
5 3 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) DNS
1 3 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 4 (26.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (26.67%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (26.67%) DocumentDB
2 4 (26.67%) MySQL
2 4 (26.67%) NoSQL
2 4 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.67%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) GitLab
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
1 7 (46.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 7 (46.67%) Law
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Advertising
3 1 (6.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Lead
1 7 (46.67%) Lead Software Engineer
1 7 (46.67%) Software Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) .NET Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Senior
2 4 (26.67%) Senior .NET Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Senior Developer
3 3 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Backend Developer
4 2 (13.33%) DynamoDB Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (80.00%) Kafka
2 7 (46.67%) JPA
2 7 (46.67%) Spring
3 4 (26.67%) .NET
3 4 (26.67%) React
4 3 (20.00%) AWS SAM
4 3 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (6.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Agile
1 11 (73.33%) Continuous Delivery
1 11 (73.33%) Software Engineering
2 8 (53.33%) DevOps
2 8 (53.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (46.67%) Community of Practice
3 7 (46.67%) Computer Science
3 7 (46.67%) Full Stack Development
3 7 (46.67%) Log Analytics
3 7 (46.67%) Operational Stability
4 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 4 (26.67%) Clean Code
5 4 (26.67%) Event-Driven
5 4 (26.67%) TDD
6 3 (20.00%) Auto-Scaling
6 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (20.00%) Fintech
6 3 (20.00%) Load Balancing
6 3 (20.00%) Log Aggregation
7 1 (6.67%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 7 (46.67%) Java
3 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (26.67%) SQL
4 1 (6.67%) Bash
4 1 (6.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (46.67%) Degree
2 4 (26.67%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) NIST
1 3 (20.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (93.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 8 (53.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Splunk