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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 483 522
Rank change year-on-year -23 +39 +128
Contract jobs citing Amazon Kinesis 87 35 80
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.11% 0.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.60% 0.30% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 24 70
10th Percentile £418 £356 £413
25th Percentile £462 £388 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.55% -2.10% -23.08%
75th Percentile £640 £553 £575
90th Percentile £713 £625 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £435 £388 £500
% change year-on-year +12.11% -22.40% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £66.63 - -
25th Percentile £68.25 - -
Median hourly rate £79.25 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile £88.75 - -
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 14,580 11,565 14,815
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.98% 36.95% 33.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,051 7,681 10,622
10th Percentile £306 £313 £286
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 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 339 167 307
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.26 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.35 £23.24
Median % change year-on-year +18.83% +17.69% +0.39%
75th Percentile £58.75 £43.75 £50.92
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £24.66 £21.00
% change year-on-year +29.76% +17.43% +7.69%

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 28 January 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 28 January 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 28 January 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 -30 74 £500 +2.25% 34
London +27 67 £513 +15.30% 11
Work from Home -3 26 £640 +29.29% 32
UK excluding London -57 13 £435 +12.11% 32
Scotland +11 7 £450 +21.62% 1
East Midlands -32 3 £435 +8.75% 1
Midlands -51 3 £435 -2.03% 2
North of England -60 3 £468 +6.13% 5
North West -32 2 £435 +11.25% 3
Yorkshire -49 1 £500 -6.37% 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 7 (8.05%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (8.05%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.15%) Apache
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (4.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.15%) Actimize
2 1 (1.15%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 85 (97.70%) AWS
2 53 (60.92%) Amazon S3
3 52 (59.77%) AWS Lambda
3 52 (59.77%) Serverless
4 32 (36.78%) AWS Step Functions
5 27 (31.03%) AWS CloudFormation
6 21 (24.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 20 (22.99%) GitHub
8 16 (18.39%) Amazon EventBridge
9 15 (17.24%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (17.24%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (17.24%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (16.09%) Amazon EMR
11 11 (12.64%) Amazon MSK
11 11 (12.64%) Azure
12 10 (11.49%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (11.49%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (11.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (8.05%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 6 (6.90%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.60%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (32.18%) Amazon Redshift
2 27 (31.03%) Amazon RDS
3 26 (29.89%) DynamoDB
4 22 (25.29%) Amazon Athena
5 16 (18.39%) MySQL
6 13 (14.94%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (13.79%) Flink
7 12 (13.79%) Hadoop
8 11 (12.64%) Amazon Aurora
9 10 (11.49%) Apache Cassandra
10 9 (10.34%) OLTP
11 8 (9.20%) Data Lake
11 8 (9.20%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (9.20%) Tableau
12 7 (8.05%) Amazon QuickSight
12 7 (8.05%) Apache Iceberg
12 7 (8.05%) NoSQL
12 7 (8.05%) Relational Database
13 5 (5.75%) OLAP
13 5 (5.75%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (12.64%) GitLab
2 9 (10.34%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.60%) JUnit
4 2 (2.30%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.15%) CircleCI
General
1 24 (27.59%) Finance
1 24 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.64%) Banking
3 10 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.20%) Front Office
4 8 (9.20%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.15%) Aviation
5 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.15%) Marketing
5 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (36.78%) Architect
2 21 (24.14%) Data Engineer
3 19 (21.84%) AWS Engineer
4 16 (18.39%) Data Architect
5 13 (14.94%) AWS Architect
6 11 (12.64%) Senior
7 10 (11.49%) Cloud Architect
8 9 (10.34%) AWS Data Engineer
9 8 (9.20%) Developer
9 8 (9.20%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (9.20%) Java Engineer
9 8 (9.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 7 (8.05%) Software Engineer
11 6 (6.90%) AWS Data Architect
11 6 (6.90%) AWS DevOps
11 6 (6.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 6 (6.90%) Java Software Engineer
11 6 (6.90%) Kafka Engineer
11 6 (6.90%) Python Engineer
12 5 (5.75%) Kafka Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (48.28%) Kafka
2 9 (10.34%) Node.js
3 8 (9.20%) Spring
3 8 (9.20%) Spring Boot
4 7 (8.05%) Apache Avro
4 7 (8.05%) Protocol Buffers
4 7 (8.05%) PySpark
5 6 (6.90%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (6.90%) REST
6 5 (5.75%) RESTful
7 4 (4.60%) gRPC
7 4 (4.60%) Hibernate
7 4 (4.60%) JPA
7 4 (4.60%) OAuth
7 4 (4.60%) OAuth2
7 4 (4.60%) OpenID
7 4 (4.60%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (4.60%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (3.45%) Pandas
8 3 (3.45%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.54%) Cloud Native
2 16 (18.39%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (8.05%) Virtual Team
4 6 (6.90%) Fixed Income
4 6 (6.90%) IVR
4 6 (6.90%) NHS
4 6 (6.90%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.60%) PACS
5 4 (4.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (3.45%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.30%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.15%) Clustering
8 1 (1.15%) Data Fabric
8 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.15%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.15%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (50.57%) Analytics
2 43 (49.43%) CI/CD
3 34 (39.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (37.93%) DevOps
5 32 (36.78%) Data Pipeline
6 25 (28.74%) Microservices
7 24 (27.59%) Data Modelling
8 22 (25.29%) Agile
8 22 (25.29%) ETL
9 21 (24.14%) Event-Driven
10 19 (21.84%) Data Engineering
11 16 (18.39%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (16.09%) Software Engineering
13 13 (14.94%) Data Architecture
13 13 (14.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 12 (13.79%) Data Governance
14 12 (13.79%) Fintech
14 12 (13.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 11 (12.64%) Data Security
15 11 (12.64%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 46 (52.87%) Python
2 40 (45.98%) Java
3 35 (40.23%) SQL
4 6 (6.90%) Go
5 4 (4.60%) Scala
6 2 (2.30%) Ada
6 2 (2.30%) C#
6 2 (2.30%) C++
6 2 (2.30%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.30%) R
6 2 (2.30%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.15%) C
7 1 (1.15%) HiveQL
7 1 (1.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.64%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.20%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.30%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.30%) MCP
4 2 (2.30%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.15%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (17.24%) GDPR
2 10 (11.49%) PCI DSS
3 9 (10.34%) Data Quality
3 9 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (4.60%) HIPAA
4 4 (4.60%) ISO 20022
4 4 (4.60%) NIST
4 4 (4.60%) QA
5 3 (3.45%) PMO
6 1 (1.15%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.15%) MiFID
6 1 (1.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (16.09%) Docker
2 2 (2.30%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 36 (41.38%) Terraform
2 18 (20.69%) Kubernetes
3 8 (9.20%) Argo
4 2 (2.30%) Grafana
5 1 (1.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (18.39%) Databricks
2 7 (8.05%) Confluent
3 6 (6.90%) Cisco
3 6 (6.90%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.75%) Avaya
4 5 (5.75%) Genesys
4 5 (5.75%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.60%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.60%) Sybase
6 3 (3.45%) Pega
7 2 (2.30%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (2.30%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.30%) SAP
8 1 (1.15%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.15%) Foundry
8 1 (1.15%) Informatica
8 1 (1.15%) Proofpoint
8 1 (1.15%) Refinitiv
8 1 (1.15%) Splunk
8 1 (1.15%) Veritas