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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 500 502
Rank change year-on-year -32 +2 +112
Contract jobs citing Amazon Kinesis 87 24 89
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.082% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.52% 0.22% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 16 79
10th Percentile £413 £358 £413
25th Percentile £463 £385 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -20.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £675 £450 £606
90th Percentile £713 £588 £699
UK excluding London median daily rate £433 £396 £525
% change year-on-year +9.36% -24.67% -8.70%
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 16,762 11,156 14,150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.35% 37.91% 32.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,421 7,770 10,058
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +0.21% -2.86% -3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 472 247 343
10th Percentile £15.51 £15.78 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £19.00 £16.03
Median hourly rate £42.59 £27.76 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.43% +32.19% -30.58%
75th Percentile £67.84 £48.75 £34.38
90th Percentile £82.13 £75.20 £59.99
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.69
% change year-on-year +106.52% +30.02% -23.59%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -50 78 £525 +31.25% 27
London +12 70 £538 +30.30% 14
Work from Home -24 24 £675 +68.75% 7
UK excluding London -91 13 £433 +9.36% 19
Scotland - 7 £450 - 1
North of England -69 3 £425 +8.70% 6
Yorkshire - 3 £425 -
East of England - 2 - - 2
East Midlands -37 1 £433 +6.66%
Midlands -70 1 £433 -2.59% 2

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 (19.54%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (11.49%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.45%) Apache
4 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.15%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (4.60%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (4.60%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.15%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 84 (96.55%) AWS
2 50 (57.47%) Amazon S3
2 50 (57.47%) AWS Lambda
2 50 (57.47%) Serverless
3 29 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
4 28 (32.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 26 (29.89%) GitHub
6 25 (28.74%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (24.14%) Amazon EventBridge
8 20 (22.99%) Azure
8 20 (22.99%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (16.09%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (16.09%) Amazon SQS
10 13 (14.94%) Amazon EMR
10 13 (14.94%) Amazon MSK
11 12 (13.79%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (13.79%) dbt
11 12 (13.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 11 (12.64%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (11.49%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.60%) DNS
2 1 (1.15%) 4G
2 1 (1.15%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (36.78%) Amazon Redshift
2 22 (25.29%) DynamoDB
3 21 (24.14%) Amazon Athena
4 16 (18.39%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (16.09%) Flink
6 13 (14.94%) Tableau
7 12 (13.79%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (12.64%) Amazon Aurora
9 10 (11.49%) Apache Iceberg
9 10 (11.49%) Data Lake
9 10 (11.49%) Star Schema
10 9 (10.34%) Amazon QuickSight
10 9 (10.34%) Data Vault
10 9 (10.34%) Metadata
10 9 (10.34%) MySQL
10 9 (10.34%) NoSQL
10 9 (10.34%) Power BI
11 7 (8.05%) Apache Cassandra
11 7 (8.05%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 16 (18.39%) GitLab
2 11 (12.64%) Jenkins
3 7 (8.05%) Git
4 5 (5.75%) JUnit
4 5 (5.75%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.45%) Gradle
5 3 (3.45%) Maven
General
1 19 (21.84%) Finance
2 18 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 12 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.34%) Banking
5 8 (9.20%) Front Office
5 8 (9.20%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.45%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.30%) Billing
8 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (32.18%) Architect
2 23 (26.44%) Data Engineer
3 21 (24.14%) AWS Engineer
4 17 (19.54%) Data Architect
5 15 (17.24%) AWS Architect
6 14 (16.09%) Senior
7 11 (12.64%) Developer
8 10 (11.49%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (10.34%) AWS Data Engineer
10 8 (9.20%) AWS Data Architect
10 8 (9.20%) Java Developer
10 8 (9.20%) Senior Developer
10 8 (9.20%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (9.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 7 (8.05%) AWS DevOps
11 7 (8.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 6 (6.90%) Kafka Engineer
12 6 (6.90%) Lead
12 6 (6.90%) Python Engineer
13 5 (5.75%) Kafka Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (55.17%) Kafka
2 12 (13.79%) Spring
2 12 (13.79%) Spring Boot
3 10 (11.49%) Apache Avro
3 10 (11.49%) Node.js
3 10 (11.49%) Protocol Buffers
4 9 (10.34%) RESTful
5 8 (9.20%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (6.90%) REST
7 5 (5.75%) pytest
7 5 (5.75%) React
8 4 (4.60%) gRPC
8 4 (4.60%) Hibernate
8 4 (4.60%) JPA
8 4 (4.60%) JSON
8 4 (4.60%) OAuth
8 4 (4.60%) OAuth2
8 4 (4.60%) OpenID
8 4 (4.60%) PySpark
8 4 (4.60%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 23 (26.44%) Cloud Native
2 12 (13.79%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (8.05%) NHS
4 6 (6.90%) Fixed Income
4 6 (6.90%) IVR
4 6 (6.90%) PACS
4 6 (6.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 5 (5.75%) Clustering
5 5 (5.75%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.45%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.30%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.30%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.15%) Data Fabric
8 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.15%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (68.97%) CI/CD
2 49 (56.32%) DevOps
3 45 (51.72%) Analytics
4 32 (36.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (33.33%) Data Modelling
6 28 (32.18%) Data Pipeline
7 25 (28.74%) Event-Driven
8 24 (27.59%) Agile
8 24 (27.59%) Data Engineering
9 22 (25.29%) ETL
10 18 (20.69%) Business Intelligence
10 18 (20.69%) Data Governance
10 18 (20.69%) Microservices
11 17 (19.54%) Performance Tuning
11 17 (19.54%) Test Automation
12 16 (18.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 16 (18.39%) Observability
13 15 (17.24%) Cost Optimisation
13 15 (17.24%) Data Architecture
14 14 (16.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 46 (52.87%) Python
2 43 (49.43%) SQL
3 30 (34.48%) Java
4 4 (4.60%) Go
4 4 (4.60%) Scala
5 3 (3.45%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.30%) Ada
6 2 (2.30%) Bicep
6 2 (2.30%) C#
6 2 (2.30%) C++
6 2 (2.30%) R
7 1 (1.15%) Bash
7 1 (1.15%) C
7 1 (1.15%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (14.94%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.49%) AWS Certification
2 10 (11.49%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (3.45%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (3.45%) SnowPro
5 2 (2.30%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.30%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.15%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.94%) Data Quality
2 10 (11.49%) GDPR
2 10 (11.49%) PCI DSS
3 9 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (8.05%) QA
5 6 (6.90%) ISO 20022
6 4 (4.60%) NIST
7 3 (3.45%) HIPAA
7 3 (3.45%) PMO
8 1 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (1.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (1.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 18 (20.69%) Docker
2 2 (2.30%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 39 (44.83%) Terraform
2 22 (25.29%) Kubernetes
3 10 (11.49%) Grafana
3 10 (11.49%) Prometheus
4 8 (9.20%) Argo
Vendors
1 19 (21.84%) Databricks
2 10 (11.49%) Confluent
3 9 (10.34%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.90%) Cisco
4 6 (6.90%) ServiceNow
5 5 (5.75%) Avaya
5 5 (5.75%) Genesys
5 5 (5.75%) SAP
5 5 (5.75%) Sybase
6 4 (4.60%) Informatica
6 4 (4.60%) OpenAI
6 4 (4.60%) Salesforce
7 3 (3.45%) Google
7 3 (3.45%) Pega
8 2 (2.30%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (1.15%) Bloomberg
9 1 (1.15%) Foundry
9 1 (1.15%) Proofpoint
9 1 (1.15%) Refinitiv
9 1 (1.15%) Splunk