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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 601 516 527
Rank change year-on-year -85 +11 +65
Contract jobs citing Amazon Kinesis 71 47 55
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.14% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.38% 0.39% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 34 35
10th Percentile £381 £401 £433
25th Percentile £450 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -12.17% -8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £656
90th Percentile £705 £637 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £450 £444
% change year-on-year +4.16% +1.41% -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 18,719 12,123 13,111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.93% 37.27% 33.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,419 8,074 8,999
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £416
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 £713 £725 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 606 310 224
10th Percentile £15.41 £15.48 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.50 £57.63
90th Percentile £81.75 £71.27 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.50 £19.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +65.79% -21.42% -10.44%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -96 58 £550 +8.91% 89
London -64 41 £600 +16.50% 64
Work from Home -55 25 £525 - 14
UK excluding London -97 16 £469 +4.16% 34
Midlands -54 5 £469 -12.66% 2
West Midlands - 5 £469 -
South West - 4 £500 - 7
East of England - 3 £345 - 1
South East -67 2 £608 +51.31%
North of England -79 2 £350 -34.82% 17
Yorkshire - 2 £350 - 4
Scotland - 1 £650 - 3

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 12 (16.90%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (11.27%) Apache
2 8 (11.27%) Apache Spark
3 6 (8.45%) Confluence
3 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 48 (67.61%) Amazon S3
3 40 (56.34%) AWS Lambda
3 40 (56.34%) 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
9 13 (18.31%) AWS Step Functions
9 13 (18.31%) dbt
9 13 (18.31%) GitHub
9 13 (18.31%) Power Platform
10 10 (14.08%) 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 26 (36.62%) Amazon Redshift
2 25 (35.21%) DynamoDB
3 19 (26.76%) Amazon Athena
4 17 (23.94%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (18.31%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (18.31%) Data Lake
5 13 (18.31%) Power BI
6 8 (11.27%) Apache Iceberg
6 8 (11.27%) Metadata
7 6 (8.45%) BusinessObjects
7 6 (8.45%) Pentaho
7 6 (8.45%) Tableau
8 5 (7.04%) NoSQL
8 5 (7.04%) Star Schema
9 4 (5.63%) Amazon QuickSight
9 4 (5.63%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (5.63%) Data Vault
9 4 (5.63%) Flink
9 4 (5.63%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (4.23%) Delta Lake
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
11 3 (4.23%) AWS Developer
11 3 (4.23%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (4.23%) Java Developer
11 3 (4.23%) Senior Developer
11 3 (4.23%) Senior Java Developer
11 3 (4.23%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (49.30%) Terraform
2 24 (33.80%) Kafka
3 10 (14.08%) REST
4 8 (11.27%) Node.js
5 6 (8.45%) AWS CDK
6 5 (7.04%) 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 24 (33.80%) 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 44 (61.97%) CI/CD
2 38 (53.52%) Analytics
3 35 (49.30%) DevOps
4 33 (46.48%) Data Modelling
5 26 (36.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (35.21%) Event-Driven
7 22 (30.99%) Business Intelligence
8 20 (28.17%) Data Pipeline
9 18 (25.35%) ETL
9 18 (25.35%) Observability
10 17 (23.94%) Agile
10 17 (23.94%) AI
10 17 (23.94%) Data Engineering
11 15 (21.13%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (19.72%) Data Governance
12 14 (19.72%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 11 (15.49%) Data Architecture
13 11 (15.49%) Machine Learning
13 11 (15.49%) Migration
13 11 (15.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 41 (57.75%) 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 7 (9.86%) 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 8 (11.27%) Oracle
4 7 (9.86%) Google
5 6 (8.45%) Denodo
5 6 (8.45%) Dynatrace
6 4 (5.63%) 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%) Sybase
9 1 (1.41%) Talend