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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 595 511 521
Rank change year-on-year -84 +10 +88
Contract jobs citing Amazon Kinesis 64 39 72
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.12% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.34% 0.32% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 26 56
10th Percentile £409 £358 £419
25th Percentile £457 £400 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £519
Median % change year-on-year +16.60% -13.20% -15.31%
75th Percentile £641 £535 £648
90th Percentile £689 £606 £699
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £402 £447
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.07% -22.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £67.50 £46.25 -
25th Percentile £71.25 £51.88 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% - -
75th Percentile £86.25 £71.88 -
90th Percentile £88.50 £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 18,631 12,266 14,180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.36% 37.53% 33.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,358 8,213 9,943
10th Percentile £328 £313 £309
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.99% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £734 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 618 313 353
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.78 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.06 £27.76 £22.30
Median % change year-on-year +33.50% +24.48% -36.29%
75th Percentile £69.27 £48.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £82.56 £70.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.94 £21.00
% change year-on-year +98.05% -9.83% -20.75%

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 13 July 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 13 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Amazon Kinesis in the UK

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 13 July 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 -93 57 £538 +18.20% 43
London -45 44 £550 +8.91% 19
Work from Home -56 17 £510 +19.88% 14
UK excluding London -96 12 £469 +16.67% 30
Midlands -51 5 £469 +2.18% 5
West Midlands - 5 £469 - 3
North of England -80 2 £350 -12.50% 8
East of England - 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 £350 - 2
South West - 2 - - 13
South East -76 1 £459 +14.18% 2
Scotland - 1 £650 - 1

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 (18.75%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (10.94%) Apache Spark
3 6 (9.38%) Apache
3 6 (9.38%) Confluence
3 6 (9.38%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (4.69%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 62 (96.88%) AWS
2 42 (65.63%) Amazon S3
3 36 (56.25%) AWS Lambda
3 36 (56.25%) Serverless
4 27 (42.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 18 (28.13%) AWS Step Functions
6 17 (26.56%) Azure
7 15 (23.44%) Amazon EMR
8 13 (20.31%) Amazon EventBridge
8 13 (20.31%) Power Platform
9 12 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (18.75%) dbt
9 12 (18.75%) GitHub
10 9 (14.06%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (14.06%) GCP
11 7 (10.94%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (10.94%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (10.94%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (10.94%) Snowflake
12 6 (9.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.69%) CTI
2 1 (1.56%) 4G
2 1 (1.56%) 5G
2 1 (1.56%) MQTT
2 1 (1.56%) PSTN
2 1 (1.56%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (40.63%) Amazon Redshift
2 21 (32.81%) Amazon Athena
3 20 (31.25%) DynamoDB
4 16 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (23.44%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (20.31%) Power BI
7 11 (17.19%) Data Lake
8 9 (14.06%) Apache Iceberg
8 9 (14.06%) Metadata
9 7 (10.94%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (9.38%) BusinessObjects
10 6 (9.38%) Pentaho
10 6 (9.38%) Tableau
11 5 (7.81%) Data Vault
11 5 (7.81%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (7.81%) Star Schema
12 4 (6.25%) Amazon QuickSight
12 4 (6.25%) Hadoop
12 4 (6.25%) MySQL
12 4 (6.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (23.44%) GitLab
2 7 (10.94%) Git
3 6 (9.38%) JIRA
4 5 (7.81%) Jenkins
5 3 (4.69%) Gradle
5 3 (4.69%) Maven
5 3 (4.69%) SonarQube
6 2 (3.13%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.13%) MLflow
7 1 (1.56%) JUnit
7 1 (1.56%) Oracle Forms
General
1 10 (15.63%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.50%) Finance
3 5 (7.81%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.13%) Back Office
5 2 (3.13%) Banking
5 2 (3.13%) Billing
5 2 (3.13%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Legal
6 1 (1.56%) Multimedia
6 1 (1.56%) Publishing
6 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (45.31%) Data Engineer
2 20 (31.25%) Senior
3 19 (29.69%) AWS Engineer
4 15 (23.44%) Architect
5 14 (21.88%) Senior Data Engineer
6 12 (18.75%) AWS Data Engineer
7 9 (14.06%) Developer
8 8 (12.50%) AWS Architect
8 8 (12.50%) Data Architect
9 5 (7.81%) AWS Data Architect
10 4 (6.25%) Enterprise Architect
10 4 (6.25%) Java Developer
10 4 (6.25%) Lead
10 4 (6.25%) Senior Developer
10 4 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (6.25%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 4 (6.25%) Snowflake Engineer
10 4 (6.25%) Software Engineer
11 3 (4.69%) Java Engineer
11 3 (4.69%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (35.94%) Kafka
2 6 (9.38%) REST
3 5 (7.81%) RESTful
4 4 (6.25%) Apache Beam
4 4 (6.25%) Node.js
4 4 (6.25%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (6.25%) Spring
4 4 (6.25%) Spring Boot
5 3 (4.69%) Apache Avro
5 3 (4.69%) JSON
5 3 (4.69%) Protocol Buffers
5 3 (4.69%) pytest
5 3 (4.69%) React
6 2 (3.13%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (3.13%) GraphQL
6 2 (3.13%) Jest
6 2 (3.13%) OAuth
6 2 (3.13%) PySpark
6 2 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (3.13%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 22 (34.38%) Cloud Native
2 9 (14.06%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.25%) Clustering
4 3 (4.69%) IVR
4 3 (4.69%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.69%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.13%) PACS
5 2 (3.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (3.13%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.56%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.56%) IoT
6 1 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.56%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (68.75%) CI/CD
2 38 (59.38%) Analytics
3 34 (53.13%) DevOps
4 30 (46.88%) Data Modelling
5 24 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
6 23 (35.94%) Business Intelligence
7 21 (32.81%) Data Engineering
7 21 (32.81%) ETL
7 21 (32.81%) Event-Driven
7 21 (32.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (25.00%) Agile
9 15 (23.44%) Data Governance
10 14 (21.88%) AI
10 14 (21.88%) Observability
11 12 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
12 11 (17.19%) Machine Learning
12 11 (17.19%) Microservices
13 10 (15.63%) Containerisation
13 10 (15.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 10 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (54.69%) Python
1 35 (54.69%) SQL
2 10 (15.63%) Java
3 5 (7.81%) Go
4 4 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.69%) Bicep
5 3 (4.69%) Scala
5 3 (4.69%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.56%) Bash
6 1 (1.56%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (23.44%) Security Cleared
2 11 (17.19%) SC Cleared
3 9 (14.06%) AWS Certification
4 5 (7.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (6.25%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (4.69%) SnowPro
7 2 (3.13%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (1.56%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.69%) QA
3 2 (3.13%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.56%) GDPR
4 1 (1.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (15.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (45.31%) Terraform
2 15 (23.44%) Grafana
3 9 (14.06%) Prometheus
4 8 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (14.06%) Databricks
1 9 (14.06%) Informatica
2 7 (10.94%) Google
2 7 (10.94%) Oracle
3 6 (9.38%) Denodo
3 6 (9.38%) Dynatrace
4 5 (7.81%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.69%) Confluent
5 3 (4.69%) SAP
6 2 (3.13%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.56%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.56%) Splunk
7 1 (1.56%) Sybase
7 1 (1.56%) Talend