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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 494 556
Rank change year-on-year -23 +62 +162
Contract jobs citing Amazon MSK 16 24 15
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.051% 0.078% 0.039%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.13% 0.22% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 14 12
10th Percentile £368 £431 -
25th Percentile £415 £511 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £526 £519
Median % change year-on-year +4.56% +1.40% -30.83%
75th Percentile £603 £540 £588
90th Percentile £650 £561 £633
UK median daily rate £475 £526 £525
% change year-on-year -9.70% +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 11,868 11,106 13,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.15% 36.32% 35.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,137 7,413 9,823
10th Percentile £305 £313 £291
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £650 £645
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 293 147 269
10th Percentile £15.05 £17.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.47 £31.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.14% +26.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £51.00 £56.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £78.50 £70.00 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £26.15 £30.00 £25.38
% change year-on-year -12.83% +18.20% +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 6 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 6 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 -10 9 £544 +3.37% 4
North of England -41 6 £550 +29.41% 2
North West - 6 £550 - 2
East of England - 1 £538 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 12 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
2 12 (75.00%) Serverless
3 10 (62.50%) Amazon ECS
3 10 (62.50%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (43.75%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (37.50%) Amazon S3
5 6 (37.50%) GitHub
6 5 (31.25%) Amazon EventBridge
6 5 (31.25%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
7 4 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (18.75%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (12.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 2 (12.50%) Amazon Neptune
9 2 (12.50%) Datadog
10 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 7 (43.75%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (37.50%) NoSQL
4 4 (25.00%) DocumentDB
4 4 (25.00%) MongoDB
5 3 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (12.50%) Metadata
7 1 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (6.25%) DB2
7 1 (6.25%) Flink
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) GitLab
2 4 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 4 (25.00%) Git
2 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (25.00%) JIRA
2 4 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 4 (25.00%) Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Aviation
5 1 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Applications Developer
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Developer
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Lead
3 2 (12.50%) Lead Software Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Data Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Data Storage Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Integration Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Mainframe Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Python Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (62.50%) Kafka
2 6 (37.50%) Node.js
3 4 (25.00%) .NET
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Amplify
4 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (12.50%) Mobile App
3 1 (6.25%) Low-Code
3 1 (6.25%) Mainframe
3 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
2 1 (6.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
1 9 (56.25%) DevOps
2 8 (50.00%) Microservices
3 7 (43.75%) Event-Driven
3 7 (43.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 4 (25.00%) TDD
5 3 (18.75%) Agile
5 3 (18.75%) Analytics
5 3 (18.75%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (12.50%) API Design
6 2 (12.50%) Change Management
6 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
6 2 (12.50%) Document Management
6 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 2 (12.50%) Metadata Management
6 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) Python
2 8 (50.00%) SQL
3 7 (43.75%) Java
4 4 (25.00%) Perl
4 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (25.00%) Ruby
5 2 (12.50%) Go
6 1 (6.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) AWS Certification
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified Developer
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 9 (56.25%) Docker
2 4 (25.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Terraform
2 7 (43.75%) Kubernetes
3 2 (12.50%) Grafana
4 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Cloudera
2 1 (6.25%) Confluent
2 1 (6.25%) IBM
2 1 (6.25%) Splunk