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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 602 502 505
Rank change year-on-year -100 +3 +101
Contract jobs citing Amazon Kinesis 72 43 52
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.38% 0.35% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 29 34
10th Percentile £381 £372 £431
25th Percentile £450 £402 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £505 £563
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% -10.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £600 £649
90th Percentile £705 £630 £702
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £450 £444
% change year-on-year +4.22% +1.35% -11.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £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 18,783 12,214 13,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.07% 37.16% 33.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,416 8,148 9,109
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £411 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 610 316 251
10th Percentile £15.73 £15.27 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £16.40
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.88 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.54% +11.52% -28.15%
75th Percentile £69.80 £47.50 £53.38
90th Percentile £82.26 £67.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +80.13% -11.70% -16.03%

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 August 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
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 18 August 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 -112 61 £550 +4.76% 53
London -58 44 £600 +11.11% 37
Work from Home -44 24 £525 +13.51% 8
UK excluding London -97 16 £469 +4.22% 20
Midlands -51 5 £469 -12.66% 3
West Midlands - 5 £469 - 2
South West - 4 £500 - 4
East of England - 3 £345 - 1
South East -76 2 £608 +51.31%
North of England -82 2 £350 -25.29% 8
Yorkshire - 2 £350 - 1
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 15 (20.83%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (11.11%) Apache Spark
3 7 (9.72%) Apache
4 6 (8.33%) Confluence
4 6 (8.33%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (4.17%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 68 (94.44%) AWS
2 48 (66.67%) Amazon S3
3 40 (55.56%) AWS Lambda
3 40 (55.56%) Serverless
4 35 (48.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 22 (30.56%) Amazon EventBridge
6 21 (29.17%) Azure
7 16 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (22.22%) GitHub
8 14 (19.44%) Amazon EMR
8 14 (19.44%) Power Platform
9 13 (18.06%) AWS Step Functions
9 13 (18.06%) dbt
10 11 (15.28%) GCP
10 11 (15.28%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (13.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (9.72%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (9.72%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (9.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.17%) CTI
2 2 (2.78%) Network Security
2 2 (2.78%) SMS
3 1 (1.39%) MQTT
3 1 (1.39%) PSTN
3 1 (1.39%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (40.28%) Amazon Redshift
2 25 (34.72%) DynamoDB
3 19 (26.39%) Amazon Athena
4 17 (23.61%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (19.44%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (19.44%) Power BI
6 13 (18.06%) Data Lake
7 9 (12.50%) Metadata
8 8 (11.11%) Apache Iceberg
9 7 (9.72%) Tableau
10 6 (8.33%) BusinessObjects
10 6 (8.33%) NoSQL
10 6 (8.33%) Pentaho
11 5 (6.94%) Data Vault
11 5 (6.94%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (6.94%) Star Schema
12 4 (5.56%) Amazon QuickSight
12 4 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (4.17%) MongoDB
13 3 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (19.44%) GitLab
2 6 (8.33%) Git
2 6 (8.33%) JIRA
2 6 (8.33%) SonarQube
3 5 (6.94%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.17%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.17%) Gradle
4 3 (4.17%) Maven
5 2 (2.78%) MLflow
6 1 (1.39%) JUnit
6 1 (1.39%) Oracle Forms
General
1 14 (19.44%) Finance
2 11 (15.28%) Social Skills
3 10 (13.89%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.17%) Back Office
5 3 (4.17%) Banking
6 2 (2.78%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.39%) Billing
7 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Legal
7 1 (1.39%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 27 (37.50%) Data Engineer
2 24 (33.33%) Senior
3 22 (30.56%) Architect
4 17 (23.61%) AWS Engineer
5 16 (22.22%) Senior Data Engineer
6 14 (19.44%) Developer
7 11 (15.28%) Data Architect
8 10 (13.89%) AWS Architect
8 10 (13.89%) AWS Data Engineer
9 5 (6.94%) AWS Data Architect
9 5 (6.94%) Lead
10 4 (5.56%) AWS Developer
10 4 (5.56%) Enterprise Architect
10 4 (5.56%) Java Developer
10 4 (5.56%) Platform Architect
10 4 (5.56%) Senior Developer
10 4 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (5.56%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 4 (5.56%) Snowflake Engineer
10 4 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (34.72%) Kafka
2 9 (12.50%) REST
3 7 (9.72%) Node.js
4 6 (8.33%) PySpark
4 6 (8.33%) pytest
4 6 (8.33%) RESTful
5 5 (6.94%) AWS CDK
5 5 (6.94%) Spring
5 5 (6.94%) Spring Boot
6 4 (5.56%) Apache Beam
6 4 (5.56%) GraphQL
6 4 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (5.56%) React
7 3 (4.17%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (4.17%) Apache Avro
7 3 (4.17%) JSON
7 3 (4.17%) Protocol Buffers
7 3 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (2.78%) OAuth
8 2 (2.78%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 25 (34.72%) Cloud Native
2 8 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (9.72%) IVR
4 4 (5.56%) Clustering
5 3 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.17%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.78%) PACS
6 2 (2.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.39%) Digital Media
7 1 (1.39%) IoT
7 1 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.39%) NHS
7 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 39 (54.17%) Analytics
3 38 (52.78%) DevOps
4 35 (48.61%) Data Modelling
5 25 (34.72%) Event-Driven
5 25 (34.72%) Infrastructure as Code
6 23 (31.94%) Business Intelligence
7 22 (30.56%) Data Pipeline
8 20 (27.78%) Data Engineering
9 18 (25.00%) ETL
9 18 (25.00%) Observability
10 17 (23.61%) Agile
10 17 (23.61%) AI
11 14 (19.44%) Data Governance
11 14 (19.44%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 14 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (16.67%) Migration
13 11 (15.28%) Machine Learning
13 11 (15.28%) Performance Tuning
13 11 (15.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 41 (56.94%) Python
2 37 (51.39%) SQL
3 7 (9.72%) Java
4 6 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.94%) Go
6 4 (5.56%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.17%) Bicep
8 2 (2.78%) Scala
9 1 (1.39%) Bash
9 1 (1.39%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 10 (13.89%) AWS Certification
4 6 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (5.56%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (4.17%) SnowPro
7 2 (2.78%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.78%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.39%) Degree
8 1 (1.39%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.28%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.17%) QA
3 2 (2.78%) GDPR
3 2 (2.78%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.78%) NCSC
3 2 (2.78%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.39%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 9 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (45.83%) Terraform
2 14 (19.44%) Grafana
3 11 (15.28%) Kubernetes
4 8 (11.11%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.39%) Istio
5 1 (1.39%) linkerd
5 1 (1.39%) QRadar
Vendors
1 13 (18.06%) Databricks
2 9 (12.50%) Informatica
3 7 (9.72%) Google
3 7 (9.72%) Oracle
4 6 (8.33%) Denodo
4 6 (8.33%) Dynatrace
5 5 (6.94%) Microsoft
6 3 (4.17%) Confluent
6 3 (4.17%) Salesforce
6 3 (4.17%) SAP
6 3 (4.17%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.78%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.78%) Splunk
8 1 (1.39%) ArcSight
8 1 (1.39%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.39%) Cribl.io
8 1 (1.39%) IBM
8 1 (1.39%) Sybase
8 1 (1.39%) Talend