Amazon MSK Contract Job Trends in England

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Amazon MSK skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 528 493 548
Rank change year-on-year -35 +55 +175
Contract jobs citing Amazon MSK 17 22 16
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.054% 0.076% 0.043%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.14% 0.21% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 15 13
10th Percentile £368 £418 -
25th Percentile £415 £493 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £526 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.56% +2.63% -31.67%
75th Percentile £603 £539 £586
90th Percentile £650 £559 £629
UK median daily rate £463 £526 £525
% change year-on-year -12.07% +0.19% -30.00%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,951 10,569 12,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.09% 36.70% 34.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,213 7,064 9,459
10th Percentile £304 £313 £281
25th Percentile £406 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £638
90th Percentile £709 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 137 247
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.90 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.50 £29.00 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year -8.62% +22.83% +4.93%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £75.67 £68.75 £77.70
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £27.50 £25.38
% change year-on-year -4.36% +8.35% +12.80%

Amazon MSK
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon MSK relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Amazon MSK job vacancy trend in England

Amazon MSK
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Amazon MSK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Amazon MSK

Amazon MSK
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon MSK in England over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon MSK in England

Amazon MSK
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
London -12 11 £525 -0.19%
North of England -33 6 £550 +29.41%
North West - 6 £550 -
Amazon MSK
UK

Amazon MSK
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (76.47%) AWS Lambda
2 13 (76.47%) Serverless
3 11 (64.71%) Amazon ECS
3 11 (64.71%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (47.06%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (41.18%) Amazon S3
6 6 (35.29%) GitHub
7 5 (29.41%) Amazon EventBridge
7 5 (29.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (23.53%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (23.53%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (23.53%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (23.53%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (23.53%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (11.76%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 2 (11.76%) Amazon Neptune
9 2 (11.76%) Datadog
10 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (47.06%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (47.06%) DynamoDB
3 6 (35.29%) NoSQL
4 4 (23.53%) DocumentDB
4 4 (23.53%) MongoDB
4 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (17.65%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (17.65%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (11.76%) Flink
6 2 (11.76%) Metadata
7 1 (5.88%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (5.88%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (5.88%) Data Vault
7 1 (5.88%) DB2
7 1 (5.88%) OLTP
7 1 (5.88%) Star Schema
7 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) GitLab
2 4 (23.53%) Bitbucket
2 4 (23.53%) Git
2 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 4 (23.53%) JIRA
2 4 (23.53%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (5.88%) Snyk
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Finance
3 4 (23.53%) Banking
4 2 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Cloud Engineer
1 4 (23.53%) Data Engineer
1 4 (23.53%) Software Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Applications Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Data Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Developer
3 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Lead Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Data Storage Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Mainframe Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (64.71%) Kafka
2 6 (35.29%) Node.js
3 4 (23.53%) .NET
4 1 (5.88%) Apache Avro
4 1 (5.88%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (11.76%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.88%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.88%) PACS
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
2 9 (52.94%) DevOps
3 8 (47.06%) Event-Driven
3 8 (47.06%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 8 (47.06%) Microservices
4 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (23.53%) Analytics
5 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
5 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
5 4 (23.53%) TDD
6 3 (17.65%) Agile
6 3 (17.65%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
6 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (11.76%) API Design
7 2 (11.76%) Dashboard Development
7 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
7 2 (11.76%) Metadata Management
7 2 (11.76%) Runbook
7 2 (11.76%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) Python
2 8 (47.06%) Java
2 8 (47.06%) SQL
3 4 (23.53%) Perl
3 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
3 4 (23.53%) Ruby
4 2 (11.76%) Go
5 1 (5.88%) Bash
5 1 (5.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) AWS Certification
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Developer
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) ISO 20022
1 1 (5.88%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Docker
2 4 (23.53%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) Terraform
2 7 (41.18%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.76%) Grafana
4 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Oracle
2 2 (11.76%) Confluent
3 1 (5.88%) Cloudera
3 1 (5.88%) IBM
3 1 (5.88%) Qualys
3 1 (5.88%) Splunk
3 1 (5.88%) Tenable