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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 487 509
Rank change year-on-year -72 +22 +102
Contract jobs citing Amazon Kinesis 75 32 80
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.11% 0.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.42% 0.29% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 21 65
10th Percentile £413 £358 £408
25th Percentile £452 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £447 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.86% -8.31% -22.00%
75th Percentile £608 £537 £600
90th Percentile £688 £625 £676
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 17,796 11,228 14,111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.45% 37.90% 32.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,899 7,582 9,936
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £631
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 582 279 359
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.14 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.31 £28.00 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +33.25% +29.39% -38.17%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.00 £19.95
% change year-on-year +97.37% -4.76% -26.38%

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 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 16 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 16 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 -78 68 £506 +12.88% 23
London -41 58 £525 - 14
Work from Home -30 17 £510 +23.22% 9
UK excluding London -109 9 £464 +15.42% 16
Midlands -59 4 £464 +2.03% 1
West Midlands - 4 £464 -
North of England -75 2 £350 -12.50% 4
East of England - 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 £350 -
South East -60 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 (16.00%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (13.33%) Apache Spark
3 6 (8.00%) Apache
3 6 (8.00%) Confluence
3 6 (8.00%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (4.00%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 73 (97.33%) AWS
2 52 (69.33%) Amazon S3
3 47 (62.67%) AWS Lambda
3 47 (62.67%) Serverless
4 29 (38.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 27 (36.00%) AWS Step Functions
6 18 (24.00%) Amazon EventBridge
7 16 (21.33%) Amazon EMR
7 16 (21.33%) Azure
8 15 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (18.67%) GitHub
10 13 (17.33%) Amazon MSK
10 13 (17.33%) Power Platform
11 12 (16.00%) dbt
12 11 (14.67%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (12.00%) GCP
14 9 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (10.67%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (10.67%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.33%) DNS
2 1 (1.33%) 4G
2 1 (1.33%) 5G
2 1 (1.33%) CTI
2 1 (1.33%) MQTT
2 1 (1.33%) PSTN
2 1 (1.33%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (45.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 28 (37.33%) Amazon Athena
3 23 (30.67%) DynamoDB
4 18 (24.00%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (21.33%) Apache Iceberg
5 16 (21.33%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (17.33%) Power BI
7 12 (16.00%) Data Lake
8 10 (13.33%) Amazon Aurora
8 10 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (13.33%) Tableau
9 9 (12.00%) Data Vault
9 9 (12.00%) NoSQL
9 9 (12.00%) Star Schema
10 8 (10.67%) MySQL
11 7 (9.33%) Amazon QuickSight
11 7 (9.33%) Apache Cassandra
11 7 (9.33%) Metadata
12 6 (8.00%) BusinessObjects
12 6 (8.00%) Flink
Development Applications
1 21 (28.00%) GitLab
2 10 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 7 (9.33%) Git
4 6 (8.00%) JIRA
5 3 (4.00%) Gradle
5 3 (4.00%) Maven
5 3 (4.00%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.67%) JUnit
7 1 (1.33%) MLflow
General
1 13 (17.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (5.33%) Finance
2 4 (5.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.67%) Banking
3 2 (2.67%) Billing
3 2 (2.67%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.33%) Legal
4 1 (1.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 24 (32.00%) Architect
3 20 (26.67%) Senior
4 17 (22.67%) AWS Engineer
5 14 (18.67%) AWS Architect
5 14 (18.67%) Data Architect
6 12 (16.00%) Senior Data Engineer
7 11 (14.67%) AWS Data Engineer
8 8 (10.67%) Developer
9 7 (9.33%) AWS Data Architect
10 5 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
10 5 (6.67%) Java Developer
10 5 (6.67%) Kafka Architect
10 5 (6.67%) Senior Developer
10 5 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
11 4 (5.33%) Java Architect
11 4 (5.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 4 (5.33%) Snowflake Engineer
11 4 (5.33%) Software Engineer
12 3 (4.00%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (45.33%) Kafka
2 10 (13.33%) Apache Avro
2 10 (13.33%) Protocol Buffers
3 9 (12.00%) RESTful
3 9 (12.00%) Spring
3 9 (12.00%) Spring Boot
4 8 (10.67%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (9.33%) REST
6 5 (6.67%) OAuth
7 4 (5.33%) Apache Beam
7 4 (5.33%) gRPC
7 4 (5.33%) Hibernate
7 4 (5.33%) JPA
7 4 (5.33%) Node.js
7 4 (5.33%) OAuth2
7 4 (5.33%) OpenID
7 4 (5.33%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (4.00%) JSON
8 3 (4.00%) PySpark
8 3 (4.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 27 (36.00%) Cloud Native
2 13 (17.33%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (8.00%) PACS
3 6 (8.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 4 (5.33%) Clustering
4 4 (5.33%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.00%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.67%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.67%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.33%) IoT
7 1 (1.33%) IVR
7 1 (1.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (65.33%) CI/CD
2 41 (54.67%) Analytics
3 40 (53.33%) DevOps
4 29 (38.67%) Data Modelling
5 26 (34.67%) Event-Driven
6 25 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
6 25 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (30.67%) Business Intelligence
8 22 (29.33%) Data Engineering
8 22 (29.33%) ETL
9 21 (28.00%) Observability
10 17 (22.67%) Agile
11 16 (21.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 16 (21.33%) Microservices
12 15 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
13 13 (17.33%) Data Governance
13 13 (17.33%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (17.33%) Test Automation
14 12 (16.00%) AI
14 12 (16.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 42 (56.00%) SQL
2 37 (49.33%) Python
3 17 (22.67%) Java
4 5 (6.67%) Go
5 4 (5.33%) Scala
6 3 (4.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.67%) Ada
7 2 (2.67%) Bicep
7 2 (2.67%) C#
7 2 (2.67%) C++
7 2 (2.67%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.67%) R
8 1 (1.33%) Bash
8 1 (1.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (22.67%) Security Cleared
2 14 (18.67%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.00%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (4.00%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (4.00%) SnowPro
6 2 (2.67%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 7 (9.33%) QA
3 6 (8.00%) ISO 20022
4 4 (5.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (5.33%) NIST
4 4 (5.33%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 15 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (2.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 33 (44.00%) Terraform
2 16 (21.33%) Grafana
3 13 (17.33%) Kubernetes
4 10 (13.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (13.33%) Confluent
1 10 (13.33%) Databricks
2 9 (12.00%) Informatica
3 7 (9.33%) Google
4 6 (8.00%) Denodo
4 6 (8.00%) Dynatrace
4 6 (8.00%) Oracle
5 5 (6.67%) Microsoft
6 4 (5.33%) OpenAI
7 3 (4.00%) SAP
8 2 (2.67%) Sybase
9 1 (1.33%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.33%) Splunk
9 1 (1.33%) Talend