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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 596 505 504
Rank change year-on-year -91 -1 +102
Contract jobs citing Amazon Kinesis 73 41 55
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.39% 0.33% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 28 36
10th Percentile £381 £364 £435
25th Percentile £450 £402 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £455 £575
Median % change year-on-year +20.95% -20.91% -8.00%
75th Percentile £663 £537 £653
90th Percentile £705 £630 £701
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £450 £444
% change year-on-year +4.22% +1.35% -17.40%
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 18,763 12,249 13,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.16% 37.16% 33.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,394 8,203 9,135
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £411 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £615 £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 616 315 265
10th Percentile £15.81 £15.19 £14.20
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £28.00 £24.84
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +12.72% -29.03%
75th Percentile £69.00 £47.31 £53.75
90th Percentile £82.31 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.13 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +80.84% -11.70% -15.37%

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 12 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 12 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 -82 62 £550 +17.77% 89
London -51 45 £600 +18.81% 59
Work from Home -47 24 £525 +23.53% 14
UK excluding London -98 16 £469 +4.22% 36
Midlands -52 5 £469 -5.82% 4
West Midlands - 5 £469 - 3
South West - 4 £500 - 6
East of England - 3 £345 - 1
South East -68 2 £608 +51.31% 1
North of England -75 2 £350 -25.29% 17
Yorkshire - 2 £350 - 5
Scotland - 1 £650 - 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 16 (21.92%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (12.33%) Apache Spark
3 8 (10.96%) Apache
4 6 (8.22%) Confluence
4 6 (8.22%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (4.11%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 69 (94.52%) AWS
2 49 (67.12%) Amazon S3
3 41 (56.16%) AWS Lambda
3 41 (56.16%) Serverless
4 35 (47.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 22 (30.14%) Amazon EventBridge
6 21 (28.77%) Azure
7 17 (23.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (21.92%) GitHub
9 15 (20.55%) Amazon EMR
10 14 (19.18%) AWS Step Functions
10 14 (19.18%) Power Platform
11 13 (17.81%) dbt
12 11 (15.07%) GCP
12 11 (15.07%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (13.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 9 (12.33%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (9.59%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (9.59%) Snowflake
15 7 (9.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.11%) CTI
2 2 (2.74%) Network Security
2 2 (2.74%) SMS
3 1 (1.37%) 4G
3 1 (1.37%) 5G
3 1 (1.37%) MQTT
3 1 (1.37%) PSTN
3 1 (1.37%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (41.10%) Amazon Redshift
2 25 (34.25%) DynamoDB
3 20 (27.40%) Amazon Athena
4 18 (24.66%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (19.18%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (19.18%) Data Lake
5 14 (19.18%) Power BI
6 10 (13.70%) Metadata
7 9 (12.33%) Apache Iceberg
8 7 (9.59%) Tableau
9 6 (8.22%) BusinessObjects
9 6 (8.22%) NoSQL
9 6 (8.22%) Pentaho
10 5 (6.85%) Data Vault
10 5 (6.85%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (6.85%) Star Schema
11 4 (5.48%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (5.48%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (4.11%) MongoDB
12 3 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (19.18%) GitLab
2 7 (9.59%) Git
3 6 (8.22%) JIRA
3 6 (8.22%) SonarQube
4 5 (6.85%) Jenkins
5 3 (4.11%) Bitbucket
5 3 (4.11%) Gradle
5 3 (4.11%) Maven
6 2 (2.74%) MLflow
7 1 (1.37%) JUnit
7 1 (1.37%) Oracle Forms
General
1 14 (19.18%) Finance
2 11 (15.07%) Social Skills
3 10 (13.70%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.11%) Back Office
5 3 (4.11%) Banking
6 2 (2.74%) Billing
6 2 (2.74%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Legal
7 1 (1.37%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.37%) Publishing
7 1 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (38.36%) Data Engineer
2 24 (32.88%) Senior
3 22 (30.14%) Architect
4 18 (24.66%) AWS Engineer
5 16 (21.92%) Senior Data Engineer
6 14 (19.18%) Developer
7 11 (15.07%) AWS Data Engineer
7 11 (15.07%) Data Architect
8 10 (13.70%) AWS Architect
9 5 (6.85%) AWS Data Architect
9 5 (6.85%) Lead
10 4 (5.48%) AWS Developer
10 4 (5.48%) Enterprise Architect
10 4 (5.48%) Java Developer
10 4 (5.48%) Platform Architect
10 4 (5.48%) Senior Developer
10 4 (5.48%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (5.48%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 4 (5.48%) Snowflake Engineer
10 4 (5.48%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (35.62%) Kafka
2 9 (12.33%) REST
3 7 (9.59%) Node.js
4 6 (8.22%) PySpark
4 6 (8.22%) pytest
4 6 (8.22%) RESTful
5 5 (6.85%) AWS CDK
5 5 (6.85%) Spring
5 5 (6.85%) Spring Boot
6 4 (5.48%) Apache Beam
6 4 (5.48%) GraphQL
6 4 (5.48%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (5.48%) React
7 3 (4.11%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (4.11%) Apache Avro
7 3 (4.11%) JSON
7 3 (4.11%) Protocol Buffers
7 3 (4.11%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (2.74%) OAuth
8 2 (2.74%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 25 (34.25%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.96%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (9.59%) IVR
4 4 (5.48%) Clustering
5 3 (4.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.11%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.74%) PACS
6 2 (2.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.37%) Digital Media
7 1 (1.37%) IoT
7 1 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.37%) NHS
7 1 (1.37%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (67.12%) CI/CD
2 40 (54.79%) Analytics
3 39 (53.42%) DevOps
4 36 (49.32%) Data Modelling
5 25 (34.25%) Event-Driven
5 25 (34.25%) Infrastructure as Code
6 23 (31.51%) Business Intelligence
6 23 (31.51%) Data Pipeline
7 21 (28.77%) Data Engineering
8 19 (26.03%) ETL
9 18 (24.66%) Observability
10 17 (23.29%) Agile
10 17 (23.29%) AI
11 15 (20.55%) Data Governance
12 14 (19.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 14 (19.18%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (16.44%) Machine Learning
13 12 (16.44%) Migration
14 11 (15.07%) Data Integration
14 11 (15.07%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 42 (57.53%) Python
2 38 (52.05%) SQL
3 7 (9.59%) Java
4 6 (8.22%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.85%) Go
6 4 (5.48%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.11%) Bicep
8 2 (2.74%) Scala
9 1 (1.37%) Bash
9 1 (1.37%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.37%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (21.92%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.44%) SC Cleared
3 10 (13.70%) AWS Certification
4 6 (8.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (5.48%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (4.11%) SnowPro
7 2 (2.74%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.74%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.37%) Degree
8 1 (1.37%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.44%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.11%) QA
3 2 (2.74%) GDPR
3 2 (2.74%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.74%) NCSC
3 2 (2.74%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.37%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.37%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 9 (12.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (46.58%) Terraform
2 14 (19.18%) Grafana
3 11 (15.07%) Kubernetes
4 8 (10.96%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.37%) Istio
5 1 (1.37%) linkerd
5 1 (1.37%) QRadar
Vendors
1 13 (17.81%) Databricks
2 9 (12.33%) Informatica
3 7 (9.59%) Google
3 7 (9.59%) Oracle
4 6 (8.22%) Denodo
4 6 (8.22%) Dynatrace
5 5 (6.85%) Microsoft
6 3 (4.11%) Confluent
6 3 (4.11%) Salesforce
6 3 (4.11%) SAP
6 3 (4.11%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.74%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.74%) Splunk
8 1 (1.37%) ArcSight
8 1 (1.37%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.37%) Cribl.io
8 1 (1.37%) IBM
8 1 (1.37%) Sybase
8 1 (1.37%) Talend