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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 561 499 486
Rank change year-on-year -62 -13 +134
Contract jobs citing Amazon Kinesis 77 21 87
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.072% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.45% 0.19% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 15 72
10th Percentile £431 £358 £413
25th Percentile £462 £379 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £447 £494
Median % change year-on-year +14.65% -9.47% -21.00%
75th Percentile £621 £544 £600
90th Percentile £700 £610 £687
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £400 £447
% change year-on-year +17.25% -10.51% -22.26%
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 17,124 10,944 13,829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.65% 37.57% 32.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,559 7,525 9,823
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £623 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.63% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 518 250 348
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.77 £18.50 £16.05
Median hourly rate £37.31 £27.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +35.67% +28.69% -38.94%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.50 £38.13
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.75 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.53 £21.28 £17.72
% change year-on-year +90.46% +20.09% -29.12%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -71 68 £513 +14.65% 18
London -15 59 £525 +2.74% 8
Work from Home -15 17 £550 +29.41% 12
UK excluding London -104 11 £469 +17.25% 13
West Midlands -59 4 £464 -15.64%
Midlands -69 4 £464 -6.83% 1
Scotland - 3 £575 - 1
North of England -69 2 £350 -12.50% 8
East of England - 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 £350 -
South East - 1 £459 - 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 13 (16.88%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (9.09%) Apache Spark
3 6 (7.79%) Confluence
3 6 (7.79%) SAS
4 3 (3.90%) Apache
5 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (5.19%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.30%) Actimize
2 1 (1.30%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 73 (94.81%) AWS
2 49 (63.64%) Amazon S3
3 44 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
3 44 (57.14%) Serverless
4 28 (36.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 26 (33.77%) AWS Step Functions
6 20 (25.97%) GitHub
7 18 (23.38%) Amazon EventBridge
7 18 (23.38%) Azure
8 15 (19.48%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (18.18%) Amazon EMR
9 14 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (16.88%) Amazon MSK
11 12 (15.58%) Amazon SQS
11 12 (15.58%) dbt
11 12 (15.58%) Power Platform
12 10 (12.99%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (12.99%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (11.69%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (10.39%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.19%) DNS
2 1 (1.30%) 4G
2 1 (1.30%) 5G
2 1 (1.30%) CTI
2 1 (1.30%) MQTT
2 1 (1.30%) PSTN
2 1 (1.30%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (40.26%) Amazon Redshift
2 25 (32.47%) Amazon Athena
3 22 (28.57%) DynamoDB
4 19 (24.68%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (20.78%) Apache Iceberg
6 14 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (15.58%) Data Lake
7 12 (15.58%) Power BI
8 11 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
8 11 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (12.99%) Flink
9 10 (12.99%) Star Schema
9 10 (12.99%) Tableau
10 9 (11.69%) Data Vault
10 9 (11.69%) MySQL
10 9 (11.69%) NoSQL
11 8 (10.39%) Metadata
12 7 (9.09%) Amazon QuickSight
12 7 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
12 7 (9.09%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 22 (28.57%) GitLab
2 11 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 7 (9.09%) Git
4 6 (7.79%) JIRA
5 4 (5.19%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.90%) Gradle
6 3 (3.90%) Maven
7 2 (2.60%) JUnit
8 1 (1.30%) MLflow
General
1 11 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.09%) Finance
3 5 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.49%) Banking
4 4 (5.19%) Front Office
4 4 (5.19%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.90%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.60%) Billing
7 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (36.36%) Data Engineer
2 24 (31.17%) Architect
3 19 (24.68%) AWS Engineer
4 18 (23.38%) Senior
5 16 (20.78%) Data Architect
6 13 (16.88%) AWS Architect
7 12 (15.58%) AWS Data Engineer
8 10 (12.99%) Senior Data Engineer
9 7 (9.09%) AWS Data Architect
9 7 (9.09%) Developer
10 6 (7.79%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (6.49%) Cloud Architect
11 5 (6.49%) Java Developer
11 5 (6.49%) Kafka Architect
11 5 (6.49%) Lead
11 5 (6.49%) Senior Developer
11 5 (6.49%) Senior Java Developer
12 4 (5.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 4 (5.19%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 4 (5.19%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (50.65%) Kafka
2 10 (12.99%) Apache Avro
2 10 (12.99%) Protocol Buffers
3 9 (11.69%) RESTful
3 9 (11.69%) Spring
3 9 (11.69%) Spring Boot
4 8 (10.39%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (9.09%) REST
6 5 (6.49%) Node.js
6 5 (6.49%) OAuth
7 4 (5.19%) gRPC
7 4 (5.19%) Hibernate
7 4 (5.19%) JPA
7 4 (5.19%) JSON
7 4 (5.19%) OAuth2
7 4 (5.19%) OpenID
7 4 (5.19%) PySpark
7 4 (5.19%) pytest
7 4 (5.19%) React
7 4 (5.19%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 27 (35.06%) Cloud Native
2 13 (16.88%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (7.79%) PACS
3 6 (7.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 5 (6.49%) Clustering
5 4 (5.19%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.90%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.60%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.60%) Fixed Income
7 2 (2.60%) IVR
7 2 (2.60%) NHS
7 2 (2.60%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.30%) Data Fabric
8 1 (1.30%) IoT
8 1 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.30%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (67.53%) CI/CD
2 45 (58.44%) DevOps
3 43 (55.84%) Analytics
4 30 (38.96%) Data Modelling
5 29 (37.66%) Data Pipeline
5 29 (37.66%) Event-Driven
6 25 (32.47%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (29.87%) Business Intelligence
7 23 (29.87%) Data Engineering
7 23 (29.87%) ETL
8 22 (28.57%) Agile
8 22 (28.57%) Observability
9 18 (23.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 16 (20.78%) Microservices
10 16 (20.78%) Performance Tuning
11 14 (18.18%) Data Governance
12 13 (16.88%) Test Automation
13 12 (15.58%) Scrum
13 12 (15.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 12 (15.58%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 42 (54.55%) SQL
2 40 (51.95%) Python
3 21 (27.27%) Java
4 4 (5.19%) Go
4 4 (5.19%) Scala
5 3 (3.90%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.60%) Ada
6 2 (2.60%) Bicep
6 2 (2.60%) C#
6 2 (2.60%) C++
6 2 (2.60%) R
7 1 (1.30%) Bash
7 1 (1.30%) C
7 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (23.38%) Security Cleared
2 15 (19.48%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.09%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (3.90%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (3.90%) SnowPro
6 2 (2.60%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.60%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.30%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.99%) Data Quality
2 7 (9.09%) QA
3 6 (7.79%) ISO 20022
4 5 (6.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (6.49%) PCI DSS
5 4 (5.19%) NIST
6 2 (2.60%) GDPR
7 1 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (1.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (1.30%) MiFID
7 1 (1.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (23.38%) Docker
2 2 (2.60%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 37 (48.05%) Terraform
2 18 (23.38%) Kubernetes
3 16 (20.78%) Grafana
4 10 (12.99%) Prometheus
5 4 (5.19%) Argo
Vendors
1 13 (16.88%) Databricks
2 10 (12.99%) Confluent
3 9 (11.69%) Informatica
4 7 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 6 (7.79%) Denodo
5 6 (7.79%) Dynatrace
5 6 (7.79%) Oracle
6 4 (5.19%) Google
6 4 (5.19%) OpenAI
6 4 (5.19%) SAP
7 2 (2.60%) Cisco
7 2 (2.60%) Sybase
8 1 (1.30%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.30%) Percona
8 1 (1.30%) Proofpoint
8 1 (1.30%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.30%) Splunk
8 1 (1.30%) Talend
8 1 (1.30%) Veritas