Amazon MSK Contracts in London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Amazon MSK skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon MSK over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 358 469
Rank change year-on-year +11 +111 +91
Contract jobs citing Amazon MSK 6 33 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.048% 0.19% 0.089%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.11% 0.49% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 24 15
10th Percentile £444 £408 -
25th Percentile £463 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £680
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -30.15% +13.33%
75th Percentile £556 £563 £850
90th Percentile £586 £589 £898
England median daily rate £481 £500 £680
% change year-on-year -3.75% -26.47% +18.26%

All Cloud Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,314 6,744 10,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.35% 37.82% 39.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,693 4,977 7,700
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £440 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £673 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £775 £782
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 71 90
10th Percentile £22.40 £17.78 £20.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.25 £24.63
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%
75th Percentile £53.75 £38.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.13 £58.75 £88.30
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Amazon MSK
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Amazon MSK as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon MSK in London

Amazon MSK
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon MSK in London.

Daily rate trend for Amazon MSK in London

Amazon MSK
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon MSK in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon MSK in London

Amazon MSK
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South London +5 4 £481 -6.10%
West London - 1 £565 -
Amazon MSK
England

Amazon MSK
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (83.33%) Serverless
3 4 (66.67%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (66.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 4 (66.67%) DynamoDB
1 4 (66.67%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Principal DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Kafka
2 4 (66.67%) Apache Avro
2 4 (66.67%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Ingestion
1 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 4 (66.67%) ETL
1 4 (66.67%) Predictive Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (16.67%) Software Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) Lua
3 2 (33.33%) Perl
3 2 (33.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Confluent
2 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace