Amazon MSK Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Amazon MSK skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon MSK 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.30% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.91% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £359 - -
25th Percentile £361 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 - -
75th Percentile £366 - -
90th Percentile £367 - -
North West median daily rate £400 - -

All Cloud Skills
Cheshire

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 in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 219 167 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 32.78% 30.70% 29.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 117 86
10th Percentile £271 £346 £213
25th Percentile £354 £382 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £460 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% +2.22% +5.88%
75th Percentile £488 £569 £495
90th Percentile £545 £638 £558
North West median daily rate £450 £485 £488
% change year-on-year -7.22% -0.51% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 1 8
10th Percentile - - £22.37
25th Percentile £12.82 £82.50 £22.53
Median hourly rate £16.00 £85.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -81.18% +150.00% +56.11%
75th Percentile £18.68 £87.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £52.74 - £50.50
North West median hourly rate £18.87 £46.18 £39.60
% change year-on-year -59.14% +16.62% +40.18%

Amazon MSK
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 28 September 2025. 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
Knutsford - 2 £363 -
Amazon MSK
North West

Amazon MSK
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle