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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 502 514
Rank change year-on-year -40 +12 +113
Contract jobs citing Amazon Kinesis 83 28 89
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.096% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.50% 0.25% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 20 80
10th Percentile £413 £355 £424
25th Percentile £461 £365 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -20.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £675 £450 £600
90th Percentile £713 £603 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £446 £388 £538
% change year-on-year +15.01% -27.81% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £67.50 - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile £86.25 - -
90th Percentile £88.50 - -
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 16,614 11,151 14,268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.74% 38.13% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,333 7,820 10,103
10th Percentile £313 £313 £296
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £490
% change year-on-year -0.31% -2.76% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 467 226 346
10th Percentile £15.57 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.43 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £26.81 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.18% +27.68% -25.43%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.66 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.72 £60.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +106.52% +29.83% -21.27%

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 April 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Amazon Kinesis over the 6 months to 6 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Amazon Kinesis in the UK

Amazon Kinesis
Top 10 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 April 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 -58 74 £525 +31.25% 40
London -6 66 £538 +34.38% 20
Work from Home -16 23 £675 +68.75% 20
UK excluding London -101 14 £446 +15.01% 28
Scotland +11 7 £450 +21.62% 3
North of England -74 3 £425 +8.70% 10
Yorkshire - 3 £425 - 1
East Midlands -35 2 £446 +10.05%
Midlands -71 2 £446 +0.51% 1
East of England - 2 - - 4

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 15 (18.07%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (9.64%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.61%) Apache
4 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.20%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (4.82%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.20%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 80 (96.39%) AWS
2 47 (56.63%) AWS Lambda
2 47 (56.63%) Serverless
3 44 (53.01%) Amazon S3
4 27 (32.53%) AWS Step Functions
5 26 (31.33%) GitHub
6 25 (30.12%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (27.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 20 (24.10%) Azure
8 20 (24.10%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (22.89%) Amazon EventBridge
10 14 (16.87%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (16.87%) Amazon SQS
11 12 (14.46%) Amazon EMR
12 11 (13.25%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (13.25%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (13.25%) Amazon MSK
12 11 (13.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (12.05%) Snowflake
14 9 (10.84%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.82%) DNS
2 1 (1.20%) 4G
2 1 (1.20%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (31.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 22 (26.51%) DynamoDB
3 18 (21.69%) Amazon Athena
4 16 (19.28%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (15.66%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (14.46%) Flink
6 12 (14.46%) Tableau
7 10 (12.05%) MySQL
7 10 (12.05%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (10.84%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (10.84%) Data Lake
8 9 (10.84%) NoSQL
8 9 (10.84%) Power BI
9 8 (9.64%) Apache Cassandra
9 8 (9.64%) Apache Iceberg
9 8 (9.64%) Star Schema
10 7 (8.43%) Amazon QuickSight
10 7 (8.43%) Data Vault
10 7 (8.43%) Hadoop
10 7 (8.43%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 14 (16.87%) GitLab
2 9 (10.84%) Jenkins
3 7 (8.43%) Git
4 5 (6.02%) JUnit
4 5 (6.02%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.61%) Gradle
5 3 (3.61%) Maven
General
1 21 (25.30%) Social Skills
2 20 (24.10%) Finance
3 14 (16.87%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.84%) Banking
5 8 (9.64%) Front Office
6 7 (8.43%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.41%) Billing
8 1 (1.20%) Aviation
8 1 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (28.92%) Data Engineer
2 23 (27.71%) Architect
3 19 (22.89%) AWS Engineer
4 14 (16.87%) Senior
5 12 (14.46%) Data Architect
6 11 (13.25%) AWS Architect
6 11 (13.25%) Developer
7 9 (10.84%) AWS Data Engineer
7 9 (10.84%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (9.64%) Java Developer
8 8 (9.64%) Senior Developer
8 8 (9.64%) Senior Java Developer
8 8 (9.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 6 (7.23%) AWS DevOps
9 6 (7.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 6 (7.23%) Kafka Engineer
9 6 (7.23%) Python Engineer
10 5 (6.02%) Kafka Architect
10 5 (6.02%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 5 (6.02%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (57.83%) Kafka
2 12 (14.46%) Spring
2 12 (14.46%) Spring Boot
3 10 (12.05%) Node.js
4 9 (10.84%) RESTful
5 8 (9.64%) Apache Avro
5 8 (9.64%) OpenTelemetry
5 8 (9.64%) Protocol Buffers
6 6 (7.23%) REST
7 5 (6.02%) pytest
7 5 (6.02%) React
8 4 (4.82%) gRPC
8 4 (4.82%) Hibernate
8 4 (4.82%) JPA
8 4 (4.82%) JSON
8 4 (4.82%) OAuth
8 4 (4.82%) OAuth2
8 4 (4.82%) OpenID
8 4 (4.82%) PySpark
8 4 (4.82%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 23 (27.71%) Cloud Native
2 13 (15.66%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (8.43%) NHS
4 6 (7.23%) Fixed Income
4 6 (7.23%) IVR
5 5 (6.02%) Clustering
6 4 (4.82%) Onboarding
6 4 (4.82%) PACS
6 4 (4.82%) Product Ownership
6 4 (4.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (3.61%) Virtual Team
8 2 (2.41%) AI Agents
9 1 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.20%) Data Fabric
9 1 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.20%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (65.06%) CI/CD
2 47 (56.63%) DevOps
3 40 (48.19%) Analytics
4 29 (34.94%) Data Modelling
4 29 (34.94%) Data Pipeline
4 29 (34.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (31.33%) Data Engineering
6 23 (27.71%) Agile
6 23 (27.71%) ETL
7 21 (25.30%) Event-Driven
8 19 (22.89%) Microservices
9 18 (21.69%) Data Governance
10 17 (20.48%) Performance Tuning
11 15 (18.07%) Test Automation
12 14 (16.87%) Business Intelligence
12 14 (16.87%) Observability
13 13 (15.66%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (15.66%) Data Architecture
13 13 (15.66%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 12 (14.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (54.22%) Python
2 40 (48.19%) SQL
3 32 (38.55%) Java
4 4 (4.82%) Go
5 3 (3.61%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.41%) Ada
6 2 (2.41%) C#
6 2 (2.41%) C++
6 2 (2.41%) R
6 2 (2.41%) Scala
7 1 (1.20%) Bash
7 1 (1.20%) Bicep
7 1 (1.20%) C
7 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (15.66%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.05%) AWS Certification
2 10 (12.05%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (3.61%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (3.61%) SnowPro
5 2 (2.41%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.41%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.20%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.66%) Data Quality
2 11 (13.25%) GDPR
3 10 (12.05%) PCI DSS
4 9 (10.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (8.43%) QA
6 4 (4.82%) HIPAA
6 4 (4.82%) ISO 20022
6 4 (4.82%) NIST
7 3 (3.61%) PMO
8 1 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (1.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (1.20%) MiFID
8 1 (1.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (21.69%) Docker
2 2 (2.41%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 36 (43.37%) Terraform
2 22 (26.51%) Kubernetes
3 8 (9.64%) Argo
3 8 (9.64%) Grafana
3 8 (9.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (21.69%) Databricks
2 8 (9.64%) Confluent
2 8 (9.64%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.23%) Cisco
3 6 (7.23%) ServiceNow
4 5 (6.02%) Avaya
4 5 (6.02%) Genesys
4 5 (6.02%) Informatica
4 5 (6.02%) SAP
4 5 (6.02%) Sybase
5 4 (4.82%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.61%) Google
6 3 (3.61%) OpenAI
6 3 (3.61%) Pega
7 2 (2.41%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (2.41%) Talend
8 1 (1.20%) Foundry
8 1 (1.20%) Palantir
8 1 (1.20%) Percona
8 1 (1.20%) Proofpoint