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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 498 510
Rank change year-on-year -18 +12 +117
Contract jobs citing Amazon Kinesis 86 31 84
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.10% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.56% 0.27% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 23 75
10th Percentile £417 £356 £413
25th Percentile £460 £384 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £444 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.61% -11.20% -23.08%
75th Percentile £673 £556 £575
90th Percentile £713 £625 £678
UK excluding London median daily rate £435 £391 £550
% change year-on-year +11.25% -28.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £66.30 - -
25th Percentile £68.25 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile £89.00 - -
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 15,481 11,563 14,853
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.80% 37.62% 33.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,618 7,801 10,592
10th Percentile £311 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.60% -1.45% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 392 178 335
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.93 £14.18
25th Percentile £20.29 £21.46 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +25.00% -12.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £44.58 £50.13
90th Percentile £80.18 £76.01 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.69 £24.42 £20.00
% change year-on-year +74.80% +22.10% -4.76%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -36 73 £500 +8.93% 18
London +10 66 £500 +17.65% 11
Work from Home +1 25 £675 +63.64% 7
UK excluding London -80 13 £435 +11.25% 10
Scotland +11 7 £450 +21.62%
East Midlands -27 3 £435 +7.27%
Midlands -57 3 £435 -2.03%
North of England -62 3 £468 -4.59% 5
North West -34 2 £435 -1.25% 5
Yorkshire -61 1 £500 -6.37%

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 10 (11.63%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (9.30%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.33%) Apache
4 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.16%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (4.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (3.49%) SAP BPC
3 1 (1.16%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 83 (96.51%) AWS
2 52 (60.47%) AWS Lambda
2 52 (60.47%) Serverless
3 51 (59.30%) Amazon S3
4 31 (36.05%) AWS Step Functions
5 27 (31.40%) AWS CloudFormation
6 22 (25.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 19 (22.09%) GitHub
8 18 (20.93%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (17.44%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (17.44%) Amazon EventBridge
10 14 (16.28%) Amazon EMR
11 13 (15.12%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (15.12%) Azure
12 11 (12.79%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (11.63%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (11.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (10.47%) Amazon MSK
15 7 (8.14%) Azure Data Factory
16 6 (6.98%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.65%) DNS
2 1 (1.16%) 4G
2 1 (1.16%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (34.88%) Amazon Redshift
2 25 (29.07%) DynamoDB
3 24 (27.91%) Amazon RDS
4 23 (26.74%) Amazon Athena
5 15 (17.44%) MySQL
6 12 (13.95%) Flink
7 11 (12.79%) Hadoop
8 10 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (10.47%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (10.47%) Apache Cassandra
9 9 (10.47%) OLTP
10 8 (9.30%) Apache Iceberg
10 8 (9.30%) Data Lake
10 8 (9.30%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (9.30%) Tableau
11 7 (8.14%) Amazon QuickSight
11 7 (8.14%) Relational Database
12 6 (6.98%) NoSQL
13 5 (5.81%) DB2
13 5 (5.81%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (12.79%) GitLab
2 10 (11.63%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.81%) JUnit
4 4 (4.65%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.16%) Git
General
1 24 (27.91%) Social Skills
2 23 (26.74%) Finance
3 11 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (11.63%) Banking
5 8 (9.30%) Front Office
5 8 (9.30%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.16%) Aviation
6 1 (1.16%) Billing
6 1 (1.16%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (37.21%) Architect
2 22 (25.58%) Data Engineer
3 19 (22.09%) AWS Engineer
4 16 (18.60%) Data Architect
5 13 (15.12%) AWS Architect
6 11 (12.79%) AWS Data Engineer
6 11 (12.79%) Senior
7 10 (11.63%) Cloud Architect
8 8 (9.30%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (9.30%) Java Engineer
8 8 (9.30%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (8.14%) Developer
9 7 (8.14%) Software Engineer
10 6 (6.98%) AWS Data Architect
10 6 (6.98%) AWS DevOps
10 6 (6.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 6 (6.98%) Java Developer
10 6 (6.98%) Java Software Engineer
10 6 (6.98%) Kafka Engineer
10 6 (6.98%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (50.00%) Kafka
2 9 (10.47%) Spring
2 9 (10.47%) Spring Boot
3 8 (9.30%) Node.js
4 7 (8.14%) Apache Avro
4 7 (8.14%) Protocol Buffers
4 7 (8.14%) PySpark
5 6 (6.98%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (6.98%) REST
5 6 (6.98%) RESTful
6 4 (4.65%) gRPC
6 4 (4.65%) Hibernate
6 4 (4.65%) JPA
6 4 (4.65%) OAuth
6 4 (4.65%) OAuth2
6 4 (4.65%) OpenID
6 4 (4.65%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (4.65%) pytest
6 4 (4.65%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (3.49%) React
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.93%) Cloud Native
2 15 (17.44%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.98%) Fixed Income
3 6 (6.98%) IVR
3 6 (6.98%) NHS
3 6 (6.98%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.98%) Virtual Team
4 4 (4.65%) PACS
4 4 (4.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (3.49%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.33%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.16%) Clustering
7 1 (1.16%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.16%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.16%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (54.65%) CI/CD
2 46 (53.49%) Analytics
3 35 (40.70%) DevOps
4 34 (39.53%) Data Pipeline
5 32 (37.21%) Infrastructure as Code
6 27 (31.40%) Data Modelling
7 24 (27.91%) Microservices
8 23 (26.74%) Agile
9 22 (25.58%) Data Engineering
9 22 (25.58%) ETL
10 21 (24.42%) Event-Driven
11 15 (17.44%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (15.12%) Data Architecture
12 13 (15.12%) Data Governance
12 13 (15.12%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 13 (15.12%) Software Engineering
13 12 (13.95%) Data Transformation
13 12 (13.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 11 (12.79%) Data Security
14 11 (12.79%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 44 (51.16%) Python
2 38 (44.19%) Java
3 35 (40.70%) SQL
4 4 (4.65%) Go
5 3 (3.49%) Scala
6 2 (2.33%) Ada
6 2 (2.33%) C#
6 2 (2.33%) C++
6 2 (2.33%) R
7 1 (1.16%) C
7 1 (1.16%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.79%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.47%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.33%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (2.33%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.33%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.16%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (17.44%) GDPR
2 10 (11.63%) Data Quality
2 10 (11.63%) PCI DSS
3 9 (10.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (4.65%) HIPAA
4 4 (4.65%) ISO 20022
4 4 (4.65%) NIST
4 4 (4.65%) QA
5 3 (3.49%) PMO
6 1 (1.16%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.16%) MiFID
6 1 (1.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (17.44%) Docker
2 2 (2.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 36 (41.86%) Terraform
2 18 (20.93%) Kubernetes
3 8 (9.30%) Argo
4 2 (2.33%) Grafana
4 2 (2.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (20.93%) Databricks
2 7 (8.14%) Confluent
3 6 (6.98%) Cisco
3 6 (6.98%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.98%) ServiceNow
4 5 (5.81%) Avaya
4 5 (5.81%) Genesys
4 5 (5.81%) Sybase
5 4 (4.65%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.65%) SAP
6 3 (3.49%) Pega
7 2 (2.33%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (2.33%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.16%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.16%) Foundry
8 1 (1.16%) Palantir
8 1 (1.16%) Percona
8 1 (1.16%) Proofpoint
8 1 (1.16%) Refinitiv
8 1 (1.16%) Talend