Amazon MSK Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Amazon MSK skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon MSK 12 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.07% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.90% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £344 - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 - -
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £388 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 414 271 218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 37.00% 36.87% 31.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 174 152
10th Percentile £320 £313 £216
25th Percentile £400 £413 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £557 £538 £528
90th Percentile £644 £634 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.50
Median hourly rate - £15.09 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - -20.58% -46.22%
75th Percentile - - £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 £37.55 £20.29
% change year-on-year -57.89% +85.09% -14.98%

Amazon MSK
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Amazon MSK job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Amazon MSK
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Amazon MSK
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 12 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (91.67%) Kong
3 7 (58.33%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (41.67%) Akamai
4 5 (41.67%) Apigee
4 5 (41.67%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (41.67%) Cloudflare
4 5 (41.67%) Serverless
5 4 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) DNS
2 5 (41.67%) HTTP
3 4 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) Terraform
2 6 (50.00%) OAuth
2 6 (50.00%) OAuth2
2 6 (50.00%) OpenAPI
2 6 (50.00%) OpenID
2 6 (50.00%) RESTful
2 6 (50.00%) Swagger
3 5 (41.67%) gRPC
3 5 (41.67%) Kafka
3 5 (41.67%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (41.67%) React
3 5 (41.67%) WebSockets
4 4 (33.33%) SAML
5 1 (8.33%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 5 (41.67%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (33.33%) Algorithms
3 4 (33.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) CI/CD
2 7 (58.33%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (50.00%) API Management
3 6 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 6 (50.00%) DevOps
3 6 (50.00%) Operational Stability
4 5 (41.67%) GitOps
4 5 (41.67%) Low Latency
4 5 (41.67%) Observability
4 5 (41.67%) Runbook
4 5 (41.67%) SIEM
5 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
5 4 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
5 4 (33.33%) Incident Response
5 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 1 (8.33%) API Design
6 1 (8.33%) Auto-Scaling
6 1 (8.33%) Event-Driven
6 1 (8.33%) Load Balancing
6 1 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Go
2 6 (50.00%) Lua
3 5 (41.67%) TypeScript
4 1 (8.33%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (41.67%) Argo
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Dynatrace
1 5 (41.67%) MuleSoft
1 5 (41.67%) Splunk
2 4 (33.33%) ForgeRock