Amazon Kinesis Contract Job Trends

Amazon Kinesis
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Amazon Kinesis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 593 516 522
Rank change year-on-year -77 +6 +83
Contract jobs citing Amazon Kinesis 71 42 53
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.13% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.38% 0.34% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 29 34
10th Percentile £381 £372 £431
25th Percentile £450 £402 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £563
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -10.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £649
90th Percentile £705 £630 £702
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £450 £444
% change year-on-year +4.22% +1.35% -11.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £76.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

Amazon Kinesis 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 18,790 12,183 13,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.08% 37.17% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,435 8,132 9,072
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £725 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 603 321 247
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.28 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.57
Median hourly rate £34.13 £28.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% +12.00% -28.15%
75th Percentile £69.25 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £18.87 £21.42
% change year-on-year +80.13% -11.88% -15.52%

Amazon Kinesis
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Amazon Kinesis job vacancy trend in the UK

Amazon Kinesis
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon Kinesis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon Kinesis

Amazon Kinesis
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon Kinesis over the 6 months to 21 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon Kinesis in the UK

Amazon Kinesis
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon Kinesis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon Kinesis

Amazon Kinesis
Top 12 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon Kinesis within the UK over the 6 months to 21 August 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
England -100 58 £550 +4.76% 10
London -71 41 £575 +6.48% 4
Work from Home -61 25 £525 +13.51% 2
UK excluding London -95 16 £469 +4.22% 6
Midlands -48 5 £469 -12.66%
West Midlands - 5 £469 -
South West - 4 £500 - 3
East of England - 3 £345 -
South East -66 2 £608 +51.31%
North of England -79 2 £350 -25.29% 3
Yorkshire - 2 £350 -
Scotland - 1 £650 -

Amazon Kinesis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 13 (18.31%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (11.27%) Apache Spark
3 7 (9.86%) Apache
4 6 (8.45%) Confluence
4 6 (8.45%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.41%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (1.41%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.41%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 67 (94.37%) AWS
2 49 (69.01%) Amazon S3
3 41 (57.75%) AWS Lambda
3 41 (57.75%) Serverless
4 36 (50.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 24 (33.80%) Amazon EventBridge
6 19 (26.76%) Azure
7 16 (22.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (19.72%) Amazon EMR
8 14 (19.72%) Power Platform
9 13 (18.31%) AWS Step Functions
9 13 (18.31%) dbt
9 13 (18.31%) GitHub
10 11 (15.49%) GCP
11 8 (11.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 8 (11.27%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (11.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (9.86%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (9.86%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (9.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.23%) CTI
1 3 (4.23%) SMS
2 2 (2.82%) Network Security
3 1 (1.41%) MQTT
3 1 (1.41%) PSTN
3 1 (1.41%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (38.03%) Amazon Redshift
2 25 (35.21%) DynamoDB
3 19 (26.76%) Amazon Athena
4 17 (23.94%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (19.72%) Power BI
6 13 (18.31%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (18.31%) Data Lake
7 9 (12.68%) Metadata
8 8 (11.27%) Apache Iceberg
9 7 (9.86%) Tableau
10 6 (8.45%) BusinessObjects
10 6 (8.45%) Pentaho
11 5 (7.04%) Data Vault
11 5 (7.04%) NoSQL
11 5 (7.04%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (7.04%) Star Schema
12 4 (5.63%) Amazon QuickSight
12 4 (5.63%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (4.23%) MongoDB
13 3 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (19.72%) GitLab
2 6 (8.45%) Git
2 6 (8.45%) JIRA
3 4 (5.63%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.63%) SonarQube
4 3 (4.23%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.23%) Gradle
4 3 (4.23%) Maven
5 2 (2.82%) MLflow
6 1 (1.41%) Oracle Forms
General
1 15 (21.13%) Finance
2 11 (15.49%) Public Sector
2 11 (15.49%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.23%) Back Office
4 3 (4.23%) Banking
5 2 (2.82%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.41%) Billing
6 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Legal
6 1 (1.41%) Multimedia
6 1 (1.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 25 (35.21%) Data Engineer
2 23 (32.39%) Architect
2 23 (32.39%) Senior
3 16 (22.54%) Senior Data Engineer
4 15 (21.13%) AWS Engineer
5 14 (19.72%) Developer
6 11 (15.49%) Data Architect
7 10 (14.08%) AWS Architect
8 8 (11.27%) AWS Data Engineer
9 5 (7.04%) AWS Data Architect
9 5 (7.04%) Lead
9 5 (7.04%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (5.63%) Enterprise Architect
10 4 (5.63%) Platform Architect
10 4 (5.63%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 4 (5.63%) Snowflake Engineer
11 3 (4.23%) AWS Developer
11 3 (4.23%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (4.23%) Java Developer
11 3 (4.23%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (47.89%) Terraform
2 24 (33.80%) Kafka
3 10 (14.08%) REST
4 8 (11.27%) Node.js
5 6 (8.45%) AWS CDK
5 6 (8.45%) PySpark
6 5 (7.04%) RESTful
7 4 (5.63%) Apache Beam
7 4 (5.63%) GraphQL
7 4 (5.63%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (5.63%) pytest
7 4 (5.63%) React
7 4 (5.63%) Spring
7 4 (5.63%) Spring Boot
8 3 (4.23%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (4.23%) Apache Avro
8 3 (4.23%) JSON
8 3 (4.23%) Protocol Buffers
8 3 (4.23%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (2.82%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 23 (32.39%) Cloud Native
2 9 (12.68%) IVR
3 8 (11.27%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.63%) Clustering
5 3 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.23%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.82%) PACS
6 2 (2.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.41%) Digital Media
7 1 (1.41%) IoT
7 1 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.41%) NHS
7 1 (1.41%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (63.38%) CI/CD
2 38 (53.52%) Analytics
3 36 (50.70%) DevOps
4 33 (46.48%) Data Modelling
5 26 (36.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 24 (33.80%) Event-Driven
7 23 (32.39%) Business Intelligence
8 20 (28.17%) Data Pipeline
9 18 (25.35%) Data Engineering
9 18 (25.35%) ETL
9 18 (25.35%) Observability
10 17 (23.94%) Agile
10 17 (23.94%) AI
11 15 (21.13%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (19.72%) Data Governance
13 13 (18.31%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 12 (16.90%) Migration
15 11 (15.49%) Data Architecture
15 11 (15.49%) Machine Learning
15 11 (15.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 42 (59.15%) Python
2 34 (47.89%) SQL
3 6 (8.45%) Java
3 6 (8.45%) JavaScript
4 5 (7.04%) Go
5 4 (5.63%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.23%) Bicep
7 2 (2.82%) Scala
8 1 (1.41%) Bash
8 1 (1.41%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (22.54%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.90%) SC Cleared
3 9 (12.68%) AWS Certification
4 5 (7.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (4.23%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (4.23%) SnowPro
6 2 (2.82%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.82%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.41%) Degree
7 1 (1.41%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.49%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.23%) PCI DSS
2 3 (4.23%) QA
3 2 (2.82%) GDPR
3 2 (2.82%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.82%) NCSC
4 1 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.41%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 8 (11.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (19.72%) Grafana
2 10 (14.08%) Kubernetes
3 8 (11.27%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.41%) Istio
4 1 (1.41%) linkerd
4 1 (1.41%) QRadar
Vendors
1 11 (15.49%) Databricks
2 9 (12.68%) Informatica
3 7 (9.86%) Google
3 7 (9.86%) Oracle
4 6 (8.45%) Denodo
4 6 (8.45%) Dynatrace
5 5 (7.04%) Microsoft
6 4 (5.63%) Salesforce
7 3 (4.23%) Confluent
7 3 (4.23%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.82%) OpenAI
8 2 (2.82%) Splunk
9 1 (1.41%) ArcSight
9 1 (1.41%) Cloudera
9 1 (1.41%) Cribl.io
9 1 (1.41%) IBM
9 1 (1.41%) SAP
9 1 (1.41%) Talend