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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 618 502 509
Rank change year-on-year -116 +7 +69
Contract jobs citing Amazon Kinesis 67 56 53
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.17% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.36% 0.44% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 38 34
10th Percentile £400 £402 £386
25th Percentile £445 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £505 £530
Median % change year-on-year +18.93% -4.72% -6.90%
75th Percentile £672 £600 £600
90th Percentile £738 £640 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £450 £427
% change year-on-year +4.22% +5.39% -14.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
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 18,872 12,667 13,115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.63% 38.19% 34.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,527 8,448 8,687
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 633 288 184
10th Percentile £15.27 £15.43 £16.30
25th Percentile £17.60 £18.87 £22.38
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.84 £65.04
90th Percentile £78.95 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.00 £33.93
% change year-on-year +57.89% -44.00% +46.00%

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 9 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 9 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 -108 52 £600 +18.81% 92
London -95 36 £661 +28.35% 68
Work from Home -68 20 £500 -5.84% 27
UK excluding London -87 18 £469 +4.22% 31
Midlands -42 5 £469 -12.66% 1
West Midlands - 5 £469 - 1
South East -59 4 £600 +49.25% 1
South West - 4 £500 - 3
Scotland - 3 £402 - 6
East of England - 2 £345 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £600 - 3

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 11 (16.42%) Apache Airflow
1 11 (16.42%) Apache Spark
2 10 (14.93%) Apache
3 7 (10.45%) Confluence
4 6 (8.96%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.49%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (1.49%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.49%) SAP BPC
1 1 (1.49%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 62 (92.54%) AWS
2 49 (73.13%) Amazon S3
3 42 (62.69%) AWS Lambda
3 42 (62.69%) Serverless
4 34 (50.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 26 (38.81%) Amazon EventBridge
6 18 (26.87%) AWS Step Functions
7 15 (22.39%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (19.40%) Amazon EMR
8 13 (19.40%) Azure
9 11 (16.42%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (16.42%) GitHub
9 11 (16.42%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (16.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 10 (14.93%) Power Platform
11 8 (11.94%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (11.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 8 (11.94%) GCP
12 7 (10.45%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (10.45%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.48%) CTI
1 3 (4.48%) SMS
2 2 (2.99%) Network Security
3 1 (1.49%) MQTT
3 1 (1.49%) PSTN
3 1 (1.49%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (38.81%) Amazon Athena
1 26 (38.81%) Amazon Redshift
2 20 (29.85%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (28.36%) DynamoDB
4 17 (25.37%) Data Lake
5 15 (22.39%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (14.93%) Power BI
7 8 (11.94%) Apache Iceberg
8 6 (8.96%) BusinessObjects
8 6 (8.96%) Flink
8 6 (8.96%) Metadata
8 6 (8.96%) Pentaho
9 5 (7.46%) Amazon QuickSight
9 5 (7.46%) Delta Lake
10 3 (4.48%) Data Vault
10 3 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (4.48%) Tableau
11 2 (2.99%) NoSQL
11 2 (2.99%) OLTP
11 2 (2.99%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (25.37%) GitLab
2 7 (10.45%) JIRA
3 6 (8.96%) Bitbucket
4 5 (7.46%) SonarQube
5 3 (4.48%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.99%) Git
6 2 (2.99%) MLflow
7 1 (1.49%) Oracle Forms
General
1 19 (28.36%) Finance
2 9 (13.43%) Public Sector
3 8 (11.94%) Social Skills
4 6 (8.96%) Back Office
5 4 (5.97%) Banking
5 4 (5.97%) Front Office
6 3 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.99%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.99%) Publishing
8 1 (1.49%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.49%) Automotive
8 1 (1.49%) Billing
8 1 (1.49%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.49%) Legal
8 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.49%) Marketing
8 1 (1.49%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 29 (43.28%) Data Engineer
2 24 (35.82%) Senior
3 21 (31.34%) Architect
4 20 (29.85%) Senior Data Engineer
5 15 (22.39%) AWS Engineer
6 11 (16.42%) AWS Architect
7 10 (14.93%) AWS Data Engineer
8 9 (13.43%) Data Architect
8 9 (13.43%) Developer
9 6 (8.96%) Lead
9 6 (8.96%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (7.46%) AWS Data Architect
11 4 (5.97%) Enterprise Architect
12 3 (4.48%) AWS Solution Architect
12 3 (4.48%) Platform Architect
13 2 (2.99%) AWS Developer
13 2 (2.99%) AWS DevOps
13 2 (2.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 2 (2.99%) DevOps Engineer
13 2 (2.99%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (50.75%) Terraform
2 18 (26.87%) Kafka
3 10 (14.93%) PySpark
4 9 (13.43%) REST
5 7 (10.45%) AWS CDK
6 6 (8.96%) ActiveMQ
6 6 (8.96%) Node.js
6 6 (8.96%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (7.46%) pytest
8 4 (5.97%) Apache Beam
8 4 (5.97%) GraphQL
9 2 (2.99%) Apache Avro
9 2 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (2.99%) gRPC
9 2 (2.99%) OAuth
9 2 (2.99%) Protocol Buffers
9 2 (2.99%) React
9 2 (2.99%) RESTful
10 1 (1.49%) PostGIS
10 1 (1.49%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 22 (32.84%) Cloud Native
2 9 (13.43%) IVR
3 3 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.48%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.99%) Digital Media
4 2 (2.99%) PACS
4 2 (2.99%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.99%) PropTech
4 2 (2.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.49%) IoT
5 1 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.49%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (59.70%) Analytics
2 38 (56.72%) CI/CD
3 30 (44.78%) Data Modelling
3 30 (44.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (38.81%) DevOps
5 21 (31.34%) Data Pipeline
5 21 (31.34%) Event-Driven
6 18 (26.87%) Data Engineering
6 18 (26.87%) ETL
7 17 (25.37%) AI
8 16 (23.88%) Business Intelligence
8 16 (23.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 16 (23.88%) Observability
8 16 (23.88%) Stakeholder Management
9 15 (22.39%) Migration
10 13 (19.40%) Data Integration
10 13 (19.40%) Machine Learning
11 12 (17.91%) Agile
12 10 (14.93%) Data Architecture
12 10 (14.93%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 43 (64.18%) Python
2 34 (50.75%) SQL
3 6 (8.96%) Go
3 6 (8.96%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.99%) Bicep
4 2 (2.99%) Java
4 2 (2.99%) Scala
5 1 (1.49%) Bash
5 1 (1.49%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (22.39%) Security Cleared
2 13 (19.40%) SC Cleared
3 9 (13.43%) AWS Certification
4 5 (7.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (4.48%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (2.99%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.99%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.49%) Degree
7 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (1.49%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (19.40%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.48%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.99%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.99%) GDPR
3 2 (2.99%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.99%) NCSC
4 1 (1.49%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.49%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 3 (4.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (13.43%) Grafana
2 6 (8.96%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.48%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.49%) Istio
4 1 (1.49%) linkerd
4 1 (1.49%) QRadar
Vendors
1 14 (20.90%) Databricks
2 8 (11.94%) Oracle
3 6 (8.96%) Denodo
3 6 (8.96%) Dynatrace
4 5 (7.46%) Informatica
5 4 (5.97%) Google
5 4 (5.97%) Salesforce
6 3 (4.48%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.99%) Confluent
7 2 (2.99%) Splunk
8 1 (1.49%) ArcSight
8 1 (1.49%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.49%) Cribl.io
8 1 (1.49%) IBM
8 1 (1.49%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.49%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.49%) SAP
8 1 (1.49%) Sybase