Amazon MSK Contract Job Trends in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West 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 181 127 -
Rank change year-on-year -54 - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon MSK 2 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.050% 0.27% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.16% 0.79% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile - £363 -
25th Percentile £425 £376 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 -
75th Percentile £475 £538 -
90th Percentile - £600 -
England median daily rate £492 £531 £532
% change year-on-year -7.39% -0.14% -10.02%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,255 760 728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.17% 34.28% 30.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 793 580 452
10th Percentile £240 £310 £303
25th Percentile £400 £375 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -2.06%
75th Percentile £604 £537 £575
90th Percentile £688 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 28 15
10th Percentile £21.08 £12.82 £17.44
25th Percentile £29.96 £15.50 £22.61
Median hourly rate £60.00 £18.87 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +217.97% -47.58% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76.00 £51.19 £63.88
90th Percentile £77.00 £68.51 £73.30
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.36%

Amazon MSK
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Amazon MSK job vacancy trend in the North West

Amazon MSK
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Amazon MSK
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 14 October 2026. 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
Manchester -45 2 £450 -14.29% 6
Amazon MSK
England

Amazon MSK
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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