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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 633 499 516
Rank change year-on-year -134 +17 +80
Contract jobs citing Amazon Kinesis 69 54 53
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.16% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.36% 0.43% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 38 33
10th Percentile £400 £402 £415
25th Percentile £441 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £505 £534
Median % change year-on-year +18.93% -5.52% -9.11%
75th Percentile £672 £600 £600
90th Percentile £738 £640 £717
UK excluding London median daily rate £464 £450 £444
% change year-on-year +3.11% +1.35% -11.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 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 19,011 12,605 13,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.66% 38.03% 34.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,612 8,423 8,683
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £720 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 633 295 189
10th Percentile £15.40 £15.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £31.50 £26.30 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.77% -24.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £67.50 £49.13 £64.73
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £33.00
% change year-on-year +55.68% -41.61% +42.00%

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 3 October 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 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 3 October 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 -118 54 £600 +18.81% 143
London -72 40 £661 +28.35% 74
Work from Home -71 21 £500 -5.84% 115
UK excluding London -113 16 £464 +3.11% 122
Midlands -49 5 £469 -12.66% 13
West Midlands - 5 £469 - 6
South West - 4 £500 - 15
Scotland - 3 £402 - 33
South East -62 2 £608 +51.31% 13
East of England - 2 £345 - 6
Northern Ireland - 1 £600 - 9

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 (17.39%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (15.94%) Apache Spark
3 10 (14.49%) Apache
4 7 (10.14%) Confluence
5 6 (8.70%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.45%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (1.45%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.45%) SAP BPC
1 1 (1.45%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 64 (92.75%) AWS
2 50 (72.46%) Amazon S3
3 42 (60.87%) AWS Lambda
3 42 (60.87%) Serverless
4 34 (49.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 25 (36.23%) Amazon EventBridge
6 17 (24.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (24.64%) AWS Step Functions
7 15 (21.74%) Azure
8 12 (17.39%) Amazon EMR
8 12 (17.39%) GitHub
9 11 (15.94%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (15.94%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (15.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 10 (14.49%) Power Platform
11 9 (13.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (11.59%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (11.59%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (11.59%) dbt
12 8 (11.59%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.35%) CTI
1 3 (4.35%) SMS
2 2 (2.90%) Network Security
3 1 (1.45%) MQTT
3 1 (1.45%) PSTN
3 1 (1.45%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (37.68%) Amazon Redshift
2 24 (34.78%) Amazon Athena
3 21 (30.43%) DynamoDB
4 18 (26.09%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (23.19%) Data Lake
6 15 (21.74%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (14.49%) Power BI
8 8 (11.59%) Apache Iceberg
9 7 (10.14%) Metadata
10 6 (8.70%) BusinessObjects
10 6 (8.70%) Flink
10 6 (8.70%) Pentaho
11 5 (7.25%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (7.25%) Delta Lake
12 3 (4.35%) Data Vault
12 3 (4.35%) NoSQL
12 3 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (4.35%) Tableau
13 2 (2.90%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (2.90%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 17 (24.64%) GitLab
2 7 (10.14%) JIRA
3 6 (8.70%) Bitbucket
4 5 (7.25%) SonarQube
5 3 (4.35%) Git
5 3 (4.35%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.90%) MLflow
7 1 (1.45%) Gradle
7 1 (1.45%) Maven
7 1 (1.45%) Oracle Forms
General
1 19 (27.54%) Finance
2 10 (14.49%) Public Sector
3 9 (13.04%) Social Skills
4 6 (8.70%) Back Office
5 4 (5.80%) Banking
5 4 (5.80%) Front Office
6 3 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.90%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.90%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.90%) Publishing
8 1 (1.45%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.45%) Automotive
8 1 (1.45%) Billing
8 1 (1.45%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.45%) Legal
8 1 (1.45%) Marketing
8 1 (1.45%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 28 (40.58%) Data Engineer
2 25 (36.23%) Senior
3 22 (31.88%) Architect
4 20 (28.99%) Senior Data Engineer
5 16 (23.19%) AWS Engineer
6 11 (15.94%) AWS Architect
6 11 (15.94%) Developer
7 10 (14.49%) AWS Data Engineer
7 10 (14.49%) Data Architect
8 6 (8.70%) Lead
8 6 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (7.25%) AWS Data Architect
10 4 (5.80%) Enterprise Architect
10 4 (5.80%) Platform Architect
11 3 (4.35%) AWS Developer
11 3 (4.35%) AWS Solution Architect
11 3 (4.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 3 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
12 2 (2.90%) AWS DevOps
12 2 (2.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (50.72%) Terraform
2 19 (27.54%) Kafka
3 9 (13.04%) REST
4 8 (11.59%) AWS CDK
4 8 (11.59%) PySpark
5 7 (10.14%) Node.js
6 6 (8.70%) ActiveMQ
6 6 (8.70%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (7.25%) pytest
8 4 (5.80%) Apache Beam
8 4 (5.80%) GraphQL
9 3 (4.35%) RESTful
10 2 (2.90%) Apache Avro
10 2 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (2.90%) gRPC
10 2 (2.90%) OAuth
10 2 (2.90%) Protocol Buffers
10 2 (2.90%) React
10 2 (2.90%) Spring
10 2 (2.90%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 24 (34.78%) Cloud Native
2 9 (13.04%) IVR
3 4 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.90%) Digital Media
5 2 (2.90%) PACS
5 2 (2.90%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.90%) PropTech
5 2 (2.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.45%) IoT
6 1 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.45%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (59.42%) CI/CD
2 40 (57.97%) Analytics
3 31 (44.93%) Data Modelling
3 31 (44.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (40.58%) DevOps
5 24 (34.78%) Event-Driven
6 21 (30.43%) Data Pipeline
7 19 (27.54%) Data Engineering
8 18 (26.09%) AI
9 17 (24.64%) Business Intelligence
9 17 (24.64%) Observability
10 16 (23.19%) ETL
10 16 (23.19%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 16 (23.19%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (21.74%) Migration
12 14 (20.29%) Machine Learning
13 12 (17.39%) Agile
14 11 (15.94%) Data Integration
14 11 (15.94%) Roadmaps
15 10 (14.49%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 41 (59.42%) Python
2 35 (50.72%) SQL
3 6 (8.70%) Go
3 6 (8.70%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.35%) Bicep
4 3 (4.35%) Java
5 2 (2.90%) Scala
5 2 (2.90%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.45%) Bash
6 1 (1.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (18.84%) Security Cleared
2 11 (15.94%) SC Cleared
3 10 (14.49%) AWS Certification
4 6 (8.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (5.80%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (2.90%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.90%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.45%) Degree
7 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (1.45%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (18.84%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.35%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.90%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.90%) GDPR
3 2 (2.90%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.90%) NCSC
4 1 (1.45%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (1.45%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (14.49%) Grafana
2 7 (10.14%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.80%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.45%) Istio
4 1 (1.45%) linkerd
4 1 (1.45%) QRadar
Vendors
1 15 (21.74%) Databricks
2 8 (11.59%) Oracle
3 6 (8.70%) Denodo
3 6 (8.70%) Dynatrace
4 5 (7.25%) Informatica
5 4 (5.80%) Google
5 4 (5.80%) Salesforce
6 3 (4.35%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.90%) Confluent
7 2 (2.90%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.90%) Splunk
8 1 (1.45%) ArcSight
8 1 (1.45%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.45%) Cribl.io
8 1 (1.45%) IBM
8 1 (1.45%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.45%) SAP
8 1 (1.45%) Sybase