Amazon MSK Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of 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 204 163 -
Rank change year-on-year -41 - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon MSK 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.13% 0.026% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.34% 0.078% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £363 - -
25th Percentile £414 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% - -
75th Percentile £625 £438 -
90th Percentile £650 - -
England median daily rate £550 £526 £519
% change year-on-year +4.56% +1.40% -30.83%

All Cloud Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,769 1,283 1,642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 38.12% 33.60% 34.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,290 826 1,221
10th Percentile £220 £275 £260
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £656 £650
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 27 60
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.22 £21.05 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.68 £31.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +11.49% +23.58%
75th Percentile £58.06 £52.09 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.06 £91.16 £53.00
England median hourly rate £25.47 £31.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -19.14% +26.00% +11.11%

Amazon MSK
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Amazon MSK job vacancy trend in the North of England

Amazon MSK
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Amazon MSK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Amazon MSK

Amazon MSK
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon MSK in the North of England over the 6 months to 6 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon MSK in the North of England

Amazon MSK
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West - 6 £550 - 2
Amazon MSK
England

Amazon MSK
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 6 (100.00%) Serverless
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon EventBridge
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon SQS
2 4 (66.67%) GitHub
2 4 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (66.67%) DocumentDB
1 4 (66.67%) DynamoDB
1 4 (66.67%) MongoDB
1 4 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
1 4 (66.67%) Kafka
2 2 (33.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 4 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) TDD
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
4 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (16.67%) AI
5 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Perl
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle