Amazon MSK Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Amazon MSK skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon MSK 12 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.52% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.42% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £344 - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 - -
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £496 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -0.80% -7.06% -10.33%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 846 560 618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 36.78% 35.20% 33.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 344 406
10th Percentile £308 £315 £213
25th Percentile £402 £420 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £554 £538 £538
90th Percentile £638 £625 £607
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 9
10th Percentile - £19.58 £15.84
25th Percentile £13.97 £26.32 £18.19
Median hourly rate £15.81 £37.55 £20.29
Median % change year-on-year -57.89% +85.09% -14.98%
75th Percentile - £48.77 £24.18
90th Percentile £18.75 £55.51 -
UK median hourly rate £33.75 £29.07 £30.00
% change year-on-year +16.08% -3.10% -14.29%

Amazon MSK
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Amazon MSK job vacancy trend in Scotland

Amazon MSK
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Amazon MSK
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 5 September 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
Glasgow - 12 £388 - 6
Amazon MSK
UK

Amazon MSK
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 12 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (91.67%) Kong
3 7 (58.33%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (41.67%) Akamai
4 5 (41.67%) Apigee
4 5 (41.67%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (41.67%) Cloudflare
4 5 (41.67%) Serverless
5 4 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) DNS
2 5 (41.67%) HTTP
3 4 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) Terraform
2 6 (50.00%) OAuth
2 6 (50.00%) OAuth2
2 6 (50.00%) OpenAPI
2 6 (50.00%) OpenID
2 6 (50.00%) RESTful
2 6 (50.00%) Swagger
3 5 (41.67%) gRPC
3 5 (41.67%) Kafka
3 5 (41.67%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (41.67%) React
3 5 (41.67%) WebSockets
4 4 (33.33%) SAML
5 1 (8.33%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 5 (41.67%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (33.33%) Algorithms
3 4 (33.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) CI/CD
2 7 (58.33%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (50.00%) API Management
3 6 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 6 (50.00%) DevOps
3 6 (50.00%) Operational Stability
4 5 (41.67%) GitOps
4 5 (41.67%) Low Latency
4 5 (41.67%) Observability
4 5 (41.67%) Runbook
4 5 (41.67%) SIEM
5 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
5 4 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
5 4 (33.33%) Incident Response
5 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 1 (8.33%) API Design
6 1 (8.33%) Auto-Scaling
6 1 (8.33%) Event-Driven
6 1 (8.33%) Load Balancing
6 1 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Go
2 6 (50.00%) Lua
3 5 (41.67%) TypeScript
4 1 (8.33%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (41.67%) Argo
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Dynatrace
1 5 (41.67%) MuleSoft
1 5 (41.67%) Splunk
2 4 (33.33%) ForgeRock