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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 498 508
Rank change year-on-year -36 +10 +110
Contract jobs citing Amazon Kinesis 84 25 90
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.085% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.50% 0.23% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 18 78
10th Percentile £413 £358 £413
25th Percentile £454 £393 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £413 £500
Median % change year-on-year +24.24% -17.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £651 £537 £584
90th Percentile £713 £599 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £459 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +14.75% -11.11% -21.74%
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 16,969 11,037 14,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.87% 37.63% 32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,518 7,652 9,987
10th Percentile £320 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £631
90th Percentile £701 £737 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +1.32% -2.86% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 491 249 348
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.69 £27.35 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.07% +30.24% -40.00%
75th Percentile £67.67 £48.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £61.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £21.46 £17.71
% change year-on-year +121.34% +21.21% -28.09%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -55 73 £519 +25.76% 22
London -19 63 £525 +23.53% 11
Work from Home -30 20 £550 +37.50% 10
UK excluding London -97 15 £459 +14.75% 15
Scotland - 7 £450 - 2
West Midlands -58 4 £464 -15.64% 1
Midlands -71 4 £464 -6.83% 2
North of England -64 2 £350 -12.50% 8
Yorkshire - 2 £350 -
East of England - 2 - -
South East - 1 £459 - 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 14 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (9.52%) Apache Spark
3 6 (7.14%) Confluence
3 6 (7.14%) SAS
4 3 (3.57%) Apache
5 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.19%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (1.19%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (4.76%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.19%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 80 (95.24%) AWS
2 49 (58.33%) Amazon S3
3 48 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
3 48 (57.14%) Serverless
4 31 (36.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 27 (32.14%) AWS Step Functions
6 23 (27.38%) GitHub
7 21 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
8 20 (23.81%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (23.81%) Azure
9 17 (20.24%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (19.05%) Amazon EMR
11 13 (15.48%) Amazon MSK
11 13 (15.48%) dbt
11 13 (15.48%) Power Platform
12 12 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (13.10%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (10.71%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.76%) DNS
2 1 (1.19%) 4G
2 1 (1.19%) 5G
2 1 (1.19%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (40.48%) Amazon Redshift
2 27 (32.14%) Amazon Athena
3 25 (29.76%) DynamoDB
4 19 (22.62%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (19.05%) Apache Iceberg
6 14 (16.67%) Data Lake
6 14 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (15.48%) Power BI
8 12 (14.29%) Flink
8 12 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (13.10%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (13.10%) Tableau
10 10 (11.90%) Star Schema
11 9 (10.71%) Data Vault
11 9 (10.71%) Metadata
11 9 (10.71%) MySQL
11 9 (10.71%) NoSQL
12 7 (8.33%) Amazon QuickSight
12 7 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
12 7 (8.33%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 22 (26.19%) GitLab
2 11 (13.10%) Jenkins
3 7 (8.33%) Git
4 6 (7.14%) JIRA
5 4 (4.76%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.57%) Gradle
6 3 (3.57%) Maven
7 2 (2.38%) JUnit
8 1 (1.19%) MLflow
General
1 14 (16.67%) Finance
2 13 (15.48%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.33%) Banking
3 7 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.14%) Front Office
5 3 (3.57%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.38%) Billing
7 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 27 (32.14%) Architect
3 22 (26.19%) AWS Engineer
4 18 (21.43%) Senior
5 17 (20.24%) Data Architect
6 15 (17.86%) AWS Architect
7 13 (15.48%) AWS Data Engineer
8 9 (10.71%) Senior Data Engineer
9 8 (9.52%) AWS Data Architect
9 8 (9.52%) Developer
9 8 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 5 (5.95%) AWS DevOps
11 5 (5.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 5 (5.95%) Java Developer
11 5 (5.95%) Kafka Architect
11 5 (5.95%) Lead
11 5 (5.95%) Senior Developer
11 5 (5.95%) Senior Java Developer
12 4 (4.76%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (48.81%) Kafka
2 10 (11.90%) Apache Avro
2 10 (11.90%) Node.js
2 10 (11.90%) Protocol Buffers
3 9 (10.71%) RESTful
3 9 (10.71%) Spring
3 9 (10.71%) Spring Boot
4 8 (9.52%) OpenTelemetry
5 6 (7.14%) REST
6 5 (5.95%) React
7 4 (4.76%) gRPC
7 4 (4.76%) Hibernate
7 4 (4.76%) JPA
7 4 (4.76%) JSON
7 4 (4.76%) OAuth
7 4 (4.76%) OAuth2
7 4 (4.76%) OpenID
7 4 (4.76%) PySpark
7 4 (4.76%) pytest
7 4 (4.76%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 28 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 12 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (8.33%) NHS
4 6 (7.14%) IVR
4 6 (7.14%) PACS
4 6 (7.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 5 (5.95%) Clustering
5 5 (5.95%) Product Ownership
6 4 (4.76%) Fixed Income
7 3 (3.57%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.38%) AI Agents
8 2 (2.38%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.19%) Data Fabric
9 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.19%) IoT
9 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.19%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 51 (60.71%) DevOps
3 49 (58.33%) Analytics
4 32 (38.10%) Data Modelling
5 30 (35.71%) Data Pipeline
5 30 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 26 (30.95%) Event-Driven
7 24 (28.57%) Agile
8 23 (27.38%) Business Intelligence
8 23 (27.38%) Data Engineering
8 23 (27.38%) ETL
9 22 (26.19%) Observability
10 17 (20.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 17 (20.24%) Migration
10 17 (20.24%) Performance Tuning
10 17 (20.24%) Test Automation
11 15 (17.86%) Cost Optimisation
11 15 (17.86%) Data Governance
11 15 (17.86%) Microservices
11 15 (17.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 48 (57.14%) Python
2 43 (51.19%) SQL
3 24 (28.57%) Java
4 4 (4.76%) Go
4 4 (4.76%) Scala
5 3 (3.57%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.38%) Ada
6 2 (2.38%) Bicep
6 2 (2.38%) C#
6 2 (2.38%) C++
6 2 (2.38%) R
7 1 (1.19%) Bash
7 1 (1.19%) C
7 1 (1.19%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.19%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 15 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.52%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (3.57%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (3.57%) SnowPro
6 2 (2.38%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.38%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.19%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.90%) Data Quality
1 10 (11.90%) PCI DSS
2 9 (10.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (9.52%) GDPR
4 7 (8.33%) QA
5 6 (7.14%) ISO 20022
6 4 (4.76%) NIST
7 3 (3.57%) HIPAA
7 3 (3.57%) PMO
8 1 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (1.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (1.19%) MiFID
System Software
1 18 (21.43%) Docker
2 2 (2.38%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 43 (51.19%) Terraform
2 20 (23.81%) Kubernetes
3 16 (19.05%) Grafana
4 10 (11.90%) Prometheus
5 6 (7.14%) Argo
Vendors
1 17 (20.24%) Databricks
2 10 (11.90%) Confluent
3 9 (10.71%) Informatica
3 9 (10.71%) Microsoft
4 6 (7.14%) Cisco
4 6 (7.14%) Denodo
4 6 (7.14%) Dynatrace
4 6 (7.14%) Oracle
5 5 (5.95%) Avaya
5 5 (5.95%) Genesys
5 5 (5.95%) ServiceNow
6 4 (4.76%) OpenAI
6 4 (4.76%) Salesforce
6 4 (4.76%) SAP
7 3 (3.57%) Google
7 3 (3.57%) Pega
8 2 (2.38%) Sybase
9 1 (1.19%) Foundry
9 1 (1.19%) Proofpoint
9 1 (1.19%) Veritas