Amazon MSK Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Amazon MSK skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 81 -
Rank change year-on-year -45 - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon MSK 2 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.098% 0.39% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.25% 1.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile - £430 -
25th Percentile £425 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
75th Percentile £475 £575 -
90th Percentile - £620 -
North West median daily rate £450 £450 -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 787 401 396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 38.60% 39.51% 33.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 475 300 253
10th Percentile £363 £324 £357
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.37% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £609 £575 £575
90th Percentile £725 £639 £675
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -2.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 7 5
10th Percentile £29.08 £17.92 £40.90
25th Percentile £45.25 £31.56 £58.00
Median hourly rate £66.66 £49.00 £66.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.04% -26.32% +270.89%
75th Percentile £77.00 £66.88 £71.50
90th Percentile £78.05 £82.25 £73.30
North West median hourly rate £60.00 £18.87 £36.00
% change year-on-year +217.97% -47.58% +9.09%

Amazon MSK
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Amazon MSK job vacancy trend in Manchester

Amazon MSK
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Amazon MSK
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
General
1 2 (100.00%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript