Amazon MSK Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Amazon MSK skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 364 408
Rank change year-on-year -13 +44 -
Contract jobs citing Amazon MSK 8 6 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.050% 0.035% 0.028%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.15% 0.12% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 5
10th Percentile £365 - -
25th Percentile £392 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £425 £625
Median % change year-on-year +20.59% -32.00% -
75th Percentile £545 £438 £675
90th Percentile £580 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £526 £554
% change year-on-year -0.19% -5.01% -25.55%

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 5,282 4,956 6,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.11% 28.63% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,559 3,173 4,822
10th Percentile £235 £250 £225
25th Percentile £378 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 128 239
10th Percentile £14.73 £15.84 £14.21
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.94 £16.25
Median hourly rate £19.64 £34.47 £22.51
Median % change year-on-year -43.03% +53.11% +15.44%
75th Percentile £35.84 £69.70 £50.00
90th Percentile £66.55 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.41
% change year-on-year -28.14% +7.99% +44.04%

Amazon MSK
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Amazon MSK job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Amazon MSK
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Amazon MSK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Amazon MSK

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 of England -15 6 £450 +5.88% 2
North West - 6 £450 - 2
East of England - 2 £531 -
Amazon MSK
UK

Amazon MSK
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (87.50%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (87.50%) Serverless
3 5 (62.50%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (62.50%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (62.50%) Amazon EventBridge
3 5 (62.50%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (37.50%) GitHub
4 3 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon Neptune
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (37.50%) DocumentDB
1 3 (37.50%) DynamoDB
1 3 (37.50%) MongoDB
1 3 (37.50%) NoSQL
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) GitLab
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
1 2 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Integration Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Lead Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Scala Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Kafka
2 3 (37.50%) .NET
2 3 (37.50%) Node.js
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Amplify
4 1 (12.50%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (12.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (25.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps
1 5 (62.50%) Microservices
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven
2 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
2 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) TDD
3 2 (25.00%) API Management
3 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (25.00%) Secrets Management
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) Workflow
4 1 (12.50%) AI
4 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) Perl
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Ruby
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Scala
3 1 (12.50%) SPARQL
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle