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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 567 492 502
Rank change year-on-year -75 +10 +125
Contract jobs citing Amazon Kinesis 74 32 82
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.11% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.42% 0.29% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 21 67
10th Percentile £413 £358 £410
25th Percentile £450 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £447 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.86% -8.31% -22.00%
75th Percentile £588 £537 £600
90th Percentile £683 £625 £686
UK excluding London median daily rate £464 £402 £447
% change year-on-year +15.42% -10.07% -22.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £67.50 - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £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 17,740 11,169 14,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 37.85% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,861 7,555 9,988
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £634
90th Percentile £712 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +4.21% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 580 270 359
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.80 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.86 £28.55 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +29.09% +31.93% -39.26%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.63 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.27 £20.00
% change year-on-year +94.60% -3.65% -26.87%

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 June 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 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Amazon Kinesis in the UK

Amazon Kinesis
Top 11 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 June 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 -87 67 £500 +11.48% 14
London -22 57 £519 -1.19% 8
Work from Home -64 16 £469 +13.42% 5
UK excluding London -111 9 £464 +15.42% 12
Midlands -59 4 £464 +2.03% 2
West Midlands - 4 £464 - 1
North of England -64 2 £350 -12.50% 2
East of England - 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 £350 -
South East -63 1 £459 +14.18%
Scotland - 1 £650 -

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 (16.22%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (13.51%) Apache Spark
3 6 (8.11%) Apache
3 6 (8.11%) Confluence
3 6 (8.11%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (4.05%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 72 (97.30%) AWS
2 51 (68.92%) Amazon S3
3 46 (62.16%) AWS Lambda
3 46 (62.16%) Serverless
4 29 (39.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 27 (36.49%) AWS Step Functions
6 18 (24.32%) Amazon EventBridge
7 15 (20.27%) Amazon EMR
7 15 (20.27%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (20.27%) Azure
8 14 (18.92%) GitHub
9 13 (17.57%) Amazon MSK
10 12 (16.22%) dbt
10 12 (16.22%) Power Platform
11 11 (14.86%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (13.51%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (12.16%) GCP
13 9 (12.16%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (10.81%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (10.81%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.41%) DNS
2 1 (1.35%) 4G
2 1 (1.35%) 5G
2 1 (1.35%) CTI
2 1 (1.35%) MQTT
2 1 (1.35%) PSTN
2 1 (1.35%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (44.59%) Amazon Redshift
2 27 (36.49%) Amazon Athena
3 23 (31.08%) DynamoDB
4 18 (24.32%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (21.62%) Apache Iceberg
5 16 (21.62%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (16.22%) Data Lake
6 12 (16.22%) Power BI
7 10 (13.51%) Amazon Aurora
7 10 (13.51%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (13.51%) Tableau
8 9 (12.16%) Data Vault
8 9 (12.16%) NoSQL
8 9 (12.16%) Star Schema
9 8 (10.81%) MySQL
10 7 (9.46%) Amazon QuickSight
10 7 (9.46%) Apache Cassandra
10 7 (9.46%) Metadata
11 6 (8.11%) BusinessObjects
11 6 (8.11%) Flink
Development Applications
1 21 (28.38%) GitLab
2 10 (13.51%) Jenkins
3 7 (9.46%) Git
4 6 (8.11%) JIRA
5 3 (4.05%) Gradle
5 3 (4.05%) Maven
5 3 (4.05%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.70%) JUnit
7 1 (1.35%) MLflow
General
1 12 (16.22%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (5.41%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.05%) Finance
4 2 (2.70%) Billing
4 2 (2.70%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.35%) Banking
5 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.35%) Legal
5 1 (1.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (40.54%) Data Engineer
2 23 (31.08%) Architect
3 20 (27.03%) Senior
4 17 (22.97%) AWS Engineer
5 14 (18.92%) Data Architect
6 13 (17.57%) AWS Architect
7 12 (16.22%) Senior Data Engineer
8 11 (14.86%) AWS Data Engineer
9 8 (10.81%) Developer
10 7 (9.46%) AWS Data Architect
11 5 (6.76%) Cloud Architect
11 5 (6.76%) Java Developer
11 5 (6.76%) Kafka Architect
11 5 (6.76%) Senior Developer
11 5 (6.76%) Senior Java Developer
12 4 (5.41%) Java Architect
12 4 (5.41%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 4 (5.41%) Snowflake Engineer
12 4 (5.41%) Software Engineer
13 3 (4.05%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (45.95%) Kafka
2 10 (13.51%) Apache Avro
2 10 (13.51%) Protocol Buffers
3 9 (12.16%) RESTful
3 9 (12.16%) Spring
3 9 (12.16%) Spring Boot
4 8 (10.81%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (9.46%) REST
6 5 (6.76%) OAuth
7 4 (5.41%) Apache Beam
7 4 (5.41%) gRPC
7 4 (5.41%) Hibernate
7 4 (5.41%) JPA
7 4 (5.41%) Node.js
7 4 (5.41%) OAuth2
7 4 (5.41%) OpenID
7 4 (5.41%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (4.05%) JSON
8 3 (4.05%) PySpark
8 3 (4.05%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 26 (35.14%) Cloud Native
2 13 (17.57%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (8.11%) PACS
3 6 (8.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 4 (5.41%) Clustering
4 4 (5.41%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.05%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.70%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.70%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.35%) IoT
7 1 (1.35%) IVR
7 1 (1.35%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (64.86%) CI/CD
2 41 (55.41%) Analytics
3 39 (52.70%) DevOps
4 28 (37.84%) Data Modelling
5 26 (35.14%) Event-Driven
6 25 (33.78%) Data Pipeline
7 24 (32.43%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (29.73%) Business Intelligence
8 22 (29.73%) ETL
9 21 (28.38%) Data Engineering
9 21 (28.38%) Observability
10 17 (22.97%) Agile
11 16 (21.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 16 (21.62%) Microservices
12 15 (20.27%) Performance Tuning
13 13 (17.57%) Test Automation
14 12 (16.22%) AI
14 12 (16.22%) Data Governance
14 12 (16.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 12 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (56.76%) SQL
2 37 (50.00%) Python
3 17 (22.97%) Java
4 5 (6.76%) Go
5 4 (5.41%) Scala
6 3 (4.05%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.70%) Ada
7 2 (2.70%) Bicep
7 2 (2.70%) C#
7 2 (2.70%) C++
7 2 (2.70%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.70%) R
8 1 (1.35%) Bash
8 1 (1.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (22.97%) Security Cleared
2 14 (18.92%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.11%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (4.05%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (4.05%) SnowPro
6 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.35%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.51%) Data Quality
2 7 (9.46%) QA
3 6 (8.11%) ISO 20022
4 4 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (5.41%) NIST
4 4 (5.41%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 15 (20.27%) Docker
2 2 (2.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 33 (44.59%) Terraform
2 16 (21.62%) Grafana
3 13 (17.57%) Kubernetes
4 10 (13.51%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (13.51%) Confluent
1 10 (13.51%) Databricks
2 9 (12.16%) Informatica
3 7 (9.46%) Google
4 6 (8.11%) Denodo
4 6 (8.11%) Dynatrace
4 6 (8.11%) Oracle
5 5 (6.76%) Microsoft
6 4 (5.41%) OpenAI
7 3 (4.05%) SAP
8 2 (2.70%) Sybase
9 1 (1.35%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.35%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.35%) Splunk
9 1 (1.35%) Talend