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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 538 494 504
Rank change year-on-year -44 +10 +128
Contract jobs citing Amazon Kinesis 84 25 87
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.085% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.50% 0.22% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 17 78
10th Percentile £413 £358 £421
25th Percentile £461 £391 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.69% -20.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £673 £459 £600
90th Percentile £713 £610 £691
UK excluding London median daily rate £446 £396 £538
% change year-on-year +12.83% -26.42% -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 16,654 11,122 14,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.42% 37.98% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,365 7,758 9,985
10th Percentile £314 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £737
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 473 242 344
10th Percentile £15.30 £15.50 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.98 £16.05
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £20.99
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% +31.05% -30.91%
75th Percentile £67.50 £48.56 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.45 £61.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.69
% change year-on-year +106.52% +30.02% -24.08%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -55 75 £525 +31.25% 26
London -14 67 £525 +27.27% 12
Work from Home -28 24 £675 +68.75% 9
UK excluding London -91 14 £446 +12.83% 19
Scotland - 7 £450 -
North of England -75 3 £425 +8.70% 5
Yorkshire - 3 £425 -
East Midlands -35 2 £446 +10.05%
Midlands -69 2 £446 +0.51%
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 17 (20.24%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (9.52%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.57%) Apache
4 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.19%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (1.19%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (4.76%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.19%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 81 (96.43%) AWS
2 46 (54.76%) Amazon S3
2 46 (54.76%) AWS Lambda
2 46 (54.76%) Serverless
3 26 (30.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 26 (30.95%) AWS Step Functions
3 26 (30.95%) GitHub
4 24 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 20 (23.81%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (22.62%) Amazon EventBridge
6 19 (22.62%) Azure
7 14 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
8 12 (14.29%) Amazon EMR
9 11 (13.10%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (13.10%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (13.10%) dbt
9 11 (13.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 10 (11.90%) Amazon MSK
11 9 (10.71%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.76%) DNS
2 1 (1.19%) 4G
2 1 (1.19%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (34.52%) Amazon Redshift
2 22 (26.19%) DynamoDB
3 19 (22.62%) Amazon Athena
4 16 (19.05%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (15.48%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (14.29%) Flink
7 11 (13.10%) Tableau
8 10 (11.90%) MySQL
8 10 (11.90%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (10.71%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (10.71%) Data Lake
9 9 (10.71%) NoSQL
9 9 (10.71%) Power BI
10 8 (9.52%) Apache Cassandra
10 8 (9.52%) Apache Iceberg
10 8 (9.52%) Metadata
10 8 (9.52%) Star Schema
11 7 (8.33%) Amazon QuickSight
11 7 (8.33%) Hadoop
12 6 (7.14%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 14 (16.67%) GitLab
2 9 (10.71%) Jenkins
3 7 (8.33%) Git
4 5 (5.95%) JUnit
4 5 (5.95%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.57%) Gradle
5 3 (3.57%) Maven
General
1 20 (23.81%) Finance
2 19 (22.62%) Social Skills
3 13 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.71%) Banking
5 8 (9.52%) Front Office
6 7 (8.33%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.57%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.38%) Billing
9 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (28.57%) Architect
1 24 (28.57%) Data Engineer
2 21 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 13 (15.48%) Data Architect
3 13 (15.48%) Senior
4 12 (14.29%) AWS Architect
5 11 (13.10%) Developer
6 9 (10.71%) AWS Data Engineer
6 9 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (9.52%) Java Developer
7 8 (9.52%) Senior Developer
7 8 (9.52%) Senior Java Developer
7 8 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 6 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
8 6 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 6 (7.14%) Kafka Engineer
8 6 (7.14%) Python Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) AWS Data Architect
9 5 (5.95%) Kafka Architect
9 5 (5.95%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (54.76%) Kafka
2 12 (14.29%) Spring
2 12 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 10 (11.90%) Node.js
4 9 (10.71%) RESTful
5 8 (9.52%) Apache Avro
5 8 (9.52%) OpenTelemetry
5 8 (9.52%) Protocol Buffers
6 6 (7.14%) REST
7 5 (5.95%) pytest
7 5 (5.95%) React
8 4 (4.76%) gRPC
8 4 (4.76%) Hibernate
8 4 (4.76%) JPA
8 4 (4.76%) JSON
8 4 (4.76%) OAuth
8 4 (4.76%) OAuth2
8 4 (4.76%) OpenID
8 4 (4.76%) PySpark
8 4 (4.76%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 22 (26.19%) Cloud Native
2 13 (15.48%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (8.33%) NHS
4 6 (7.14%) Fixed Income
4 6 (7.14%) IVR
5 5 (5.95%) Clustering
6 4 (4.76%) Onboarding
6 4 (4.76%) PACS
6 4 (4.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (3.57%) Product Ownership
7 3 (3.57%) Virtual Team
8 2 (2.38%) AI Agents
9 1 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.19%) Data Fabric
9 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.19%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 47 (55.95%) DevOps
3 43 (51.19%) Analytics
4 29 (34.52%) Data Pipeline
5 28 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 27 (32.14%) Data Modelling
7 24 (28.57%) Data Engineering
8 23 (27.38%) Agile
9 22 (26.19%) ETL
10 21 (25.00%) Event-Driven
11 19 (22.62%) Microservices
12 18 (21.43%) Data Governance
13 17 (20.24%) Performance Tuning
14 16 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
15 15 (17.86%) Test Automation
16 14 (16.67%) Observability
17 13 (15.48%) Data Architecture
17 13 (15.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 13 (15.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 12 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 44 (52.38%) Python
2 41 (48.81%) SQL
3 32 (38.10%) Java
4 4 (4.76%) Go
5 3 (3.57%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.38%) Ada
6 2 (2.38%) C#
6 2 (2.38%) C++
6 2 (2.38%) R
6 2 (2.38%) Scala
7 1 (1.19%) Bash
7 1 (1.19%) Bicep
7 1 (1.19%) C
7 1 (1.19%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.19%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (15.48%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.90%) AWS Certification
2 10 (11.90%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (3.57%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (3.57%) SnowPro
5 2 (2.38%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.38%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.19%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.48%) Data Quality
2 10 (11.90%) GDPR
2 10 (11.90%) PCI DSS
3 9 (10.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (8.33%) QA
5 4 (4.76%) ISO 20022
5 4 (4.76%) NIST
6 3 (3.57%) HIPAA
6 3 (3.57%) PMO
7 1 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (1.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (1.19%) MiFID
System Software
1 18 (21.43%) Docker
2 2 (2.38%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 35 (41.67%) Terraform
2 22 (26.19%) Kubernetes
3 8 (9.52%) Argo
3 8 (9.52%) Grafana
3 8 (9.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (21.43%) Databricks
2 9 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 8 (9.52%) Confluent
4 6 (7.14%) Cisco
4 6 (7.14%) ServiceNow
5 5 (5.95%) Avaya
5 5 (5.95%) Genesys
5 5 (5.95%) SAP
5 5 (5.95%) Sybase
6 4 (4.76%) Informatica
6 4 (4.76%) Salesforce
7 3 (3.57%) Google
7 3 (3.57%) OpenAI
7 3 (3.57%) Pega
8 2 (2.38%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (1.19%) Foundry
9 1 (1.19%) Percona
9 1 (1.19%) Proofpoint
9 1 (1.19%) Refinitiv
9 1 (1.19%) Talend