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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 599 512 510
Rank change year-on-year -87 -2 +93
Contract jobs citing Amazon Kinesis 72 41 54
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.38% 0.33% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 28 36
10th Percentile £381 £364 £435
25th Percentile £445 £402 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £455 £600
Median % change year-on-year +18.20% -24.21% -1.03%
75th Percentile £665 £537 £665
90th Percentile £708 £630 £702
UK excluding London median daily rate £464 £450 £444
% change year-on-year +3.11% +1.35% -22.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
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 18,767 12,254 13,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.21% 37.23% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,385 8,215 9,213
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £410 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £614 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 625 310 274
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.15 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.45 £23.98
Median % change year-on-year +29.33% +14.49% -31.50%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.41 £52.73
90th Percentile £82.75 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +85.48% -11.70% -19.36%

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 6 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 6 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 -68 61 £550 +17.77% 44
London -41 45 £600 +18.81% 27
Work from Home -53 24 £525 +23.53% 6
UK excluding London -107 15 £464 +3.11% 19
Midlands -53 5 £469 -5.82% 2
West Midlands - 5 £469 - 2
South West - 3 £400 - 4
East of England - 3 £345 -
South East -58 2 £608 +51.31% 1
North of England -72 2 £350 -25.29% 10
Yorkshire - 2 £350 - 3
Scotland - 1 £650 - 2

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 16 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (12.50%) Apache Spark
3 8 (11.11%) Apache
4 6 (8.33%) Confluence
4 6 (8.33%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (4.17%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 68 (94.44%) AWS
2 49 (68.06%) Amazon S3
3 41 (56.94%) AWS Lambda
3 41 (56.94%) Serverless
4 35 (48.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 22 (30.56%) Amazon EventBridge
6 20 (27.78%) Azure
7 16 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (22.22%) GitHub
8 15 (20.83%) Amazon EMR
9 14 (19.44%) AWS Step Functions
9 14 (19.44%) Power Platform
10 13 (18.06%) dbt
11 11 (15.28%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (13.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 10 (13.89%) GCP
13 9 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (9.72%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (9.72%) Amazon SQS
14 7 (9.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.17%) CTI
2 2 (2.78%) SMS
3 1 (1.39%) 4G
3 1 (1.39%) 5G
3 1 (1.39%) MQTT
3 1 (1.39%) Network Security
3 1 (1.39%) PSTN
3 1 (1.39%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (41.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 25 (34.72%) DynamoDB
3 20 (27.78%) Amazon Athena
4 18 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (19.44%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (19.44%) Data Lake
5 14 (19.44%) Power BI
6 10 (13.89%) Metadata
7 9 (12.50%) Apache Iceberg
8 7 (9.72%) Tableau
9 6 (8.33%) BusinessObjects
9 6 (8.33%) NoSQL
9 6 (8.33%) Pentaho
10 5 (6.94%) Data Vault
10 5 (6.94%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (6.94%) Star Schema
11 4 (5.56%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (4.17%) MongoDB
12 3 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (19.44%) GitLab
2 7 (9.72%) Git
3 6 (8.33%) JIRA
3 6 (8.33%) SonarQube
4 5 (6.94%) Jenkins
5 3 (4.17%) Bitbucket
5 3 (4.17%) Gradle
5 3 (4.17%) Maven
6 2 (2.78%) MLflow
7 1 (1.39%) JUnit
7 1 (1.39%) Oracle Forms
General
1 14 (19.44%) Finance
2 11 (15.28%) Social Skills
3 9 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.17%) Back Office
5 3 (4.17%) Banking
6 2 (2.78%) Billing
6 2 (2.78%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Legal
7 1 (1.39%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.39%) Publishing
7 1 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (38.89%) Data Engineer
2 23 (31.94%) Senior
3 22 (30.56%) Architect
4 18 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
5 16 (22.22%) Senior Data Engineer
6 14 (19.44%) Developer
7 11 (15.28%) AWS Data Engineer
7 11 (15.28%) Data Architect
8 10 (13.89%) AWS Architect
9 5 (6.94%) AWS Data Architect
9 5 (6.94%) Lead
10 4 (5.56%) AWS Developer
10 4 (5.56%) Enterprise Architect
10 4 (5.56%) Java Developer
10 4 (5.56%) Platform Architect
10 4 (5.56%) Senior Developer
10 4 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (5.56%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 4 (5.56%) Snowflake Engineer
10 4 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (36.11%) Kafka
2 9 (12.50%) REST
3 7 (9.72%) Node.js
4 6 (8.33%) PySpark
4 6 (8.33%) pytest
4 6 (8.33%) RESTful
5 5 (6.94%) AWS CDK
5 5 (6.94%) Spring
5 5 (6.94%) Spring Boot
6 4 (5.56%) Apache Beam
6 4 (5.56%) GraphQL
6 4 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (5.56%) React
7 3 (4.17%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (4.17%) Apache Avro
7 3 (4.17%) JSON
7 3 (4.17%) Protocol Buffers
7 3 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (2.78%) OAuth
8 2 (2.78%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 24 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 8 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (9.72%) IVR
4 4 (5.56%) Clustering
5 3 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.17%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.78%) PACS
6 2 (2.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.39%) Digital Media
7 1 (1.39%) IoT
7 1 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.39%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 40 (55.56%) Analytics
3 39 (54.17%) DevOps
4 36 (50.00%) Data Modelling
5 25 (34.72%) Event-Driven
6 24 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (31.94%) Business Intelligence
7 23 (31.94%) Data Pipeline
8 21 (29.17%) Data Engineering
9 19 (26.39%) ETL
10 17 (23.61%) Agile
10 17 (23.61%) AI
10 17 (23.61%) Observability
11 15 (20.83%) Data Governance
12 14 (19.44%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 14 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (16.67%) Machine Learning
13 12 (16.67%) Migration
14 11 (15.28%) Data Integration
14 11 (15.28%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 41 (56.94%) Python
2 38 (52.78%) SQL
3 7 (9.72%) Java
4 6 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.56%) Go
5 4 (5.56%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.17%) Bicep
7 2 (2.78%) Scala
8 1 (1.39%) Bash
8 1 (1.39%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 11 (15.28%) SC Cleared
3 9 (12.50%) AWS Certification
4 6 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (5.56%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (4.17%) SnowPro
7 2 (2.78%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (1.39%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.39%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.17%) QA
3 2 (2.78%) GDPR
3 2 (2.78%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.78%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.39%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.39%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (45.83%) Terraform
2 14 (19.44%) Grafana
3 10 (13.89%) Kubernetes
4 8 (11.11%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.39%) Istio
5 1 (1.39%) linkerd
Vendors
1 13 (18.06%) Databricks
2 9 (12.50%) Informatica
3 7 (9.72%) Google
3 7 (9.72%) Oracle
4 6 (8.33%) Denodo
4 6 (8.33%) Dynatrace
5 5 (6.94%) Microsoft
6 3 (4.17%) Confluent
6 3 (4.17%) Salesforce
6 3 (4.17%) SAP
6 3 (4.17%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.78%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.39%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.39%) IBM
8 1 (1.39%) Splunk
8 1 (1.39%) Sybase
8 1 (1.39%) Talend