Amazon MSK Contract Job Trends in London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Amazon MSK skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 360 418
Rank change year-on-year -1 +58 +142
Contract jobs citing Amazon MSK 6 22 18
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.045% 0.14% 0.087%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.10% 0.33% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 11
10th Percentile £481 £493 -
25th Percentile £517 £526 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £538 £583
Median % change year-on-year +10.36% -7.64% -22.33%
75th Percentile £605 £565 £619
90th Percentile £778 £753 £660
England median daily rate £531 £526 £591
% change year-on-year +1.00% -11.04% -21.17%

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 5,854 6,596 8,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.76% 41.03% 39.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,977 4,535 5,986
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% -2.22% -3.18%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
England median daily rate £503 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.29% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 40 60
10th Percentile £21.10 £23.62 £17.90
25th Percentile £24.77 £24.06 £22.38
Median hourly rate £26.40 £31.25 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.52% -28.98% +25.71%
75th Percentile £47.31 £50.00 £65.50
90th Percentile £79.88 £67.03 £90.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.36% +43.56%

Amazon MSK
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Amazon MSK job vacancy trend in London

Amazon MSK
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Amazon MSK
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon MSK in London over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon MSK in London

Amazon MSK
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) Amazon S3
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 3 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 3 (50.00%) Serverless
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon Neptune
4 2 (33.33%) Datadog
4 2 (33.33%) GitHub
5 1 (16.67%) Azure
5 1 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (66.67%) DynamoDB
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (33.33%) Metadata
2 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (16.67%) Flink
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Applications Developer
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Storage Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Python Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Kafka
2 2 (33.33%) Node.js
3 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 3 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) API Design
3 2 (33.33%) Change Management
3 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Document Management
3 2 (33.33%) Metadata Management
3 2 (33.33%) Service-Level Objective
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
4 1 (16.67%) Design Thinking
4 1 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Go
4 1 (16.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Developer
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Cloudera
1 1 (16.67%) Confluent
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk