Amazon MSK Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Amazon MSK skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon MSK over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 401 454
Rank change year-on-year +71 +53 +67
Contract jobs citing Amazon MSK 4 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.031% 0.010% 0.008%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.098% 0.037% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £386 - £501
25th Percentile £395 £538 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -2.13% +17.50%
75th Percentile £513 £613 £647
90th Percentile £535 - £664
UK median daily rate £481 £500 £680
% change year-on-year -3.75% -26.47% +23.64%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,082 5,368 7,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.93% 25.98% 33.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,890 3,804 5,903
10th Percentile £237 £213 £248
25th Percentile £388 £370 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 259 227
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.69 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.31% -28.15% +29.58%
75th Percentile £33.10 £26.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.00 £61.60 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Amazon MSK
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Amazon MSK as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon MSK in the UK excluding London

Amazon MSK
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon MSK in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Amazon MSK in the UK excluding London

Amazon MSK
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon MSK in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon MSK in the UK excluding London

Amazon MSK
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 May 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 - 3 £400 - 2
North of England - 3 £400 - 2
Midlands - 1 £550 -
West Midlands - 1 £550 -
Amazon MSK
UK

Amazon MSK
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon Neptune
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (25.00%) DocumentDB
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Complex ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Data Extraction
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Security
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) Scala
1 2 (50.00%) SPARQL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform