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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 609 512 519
Rank change year-on-year -97 +7 +77
Contract jobs citing Amazon Kinesis 66 40 55
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.35% 0.33% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 27 40
10th Percentile £387 £363 £424
25th Percentile £445 £401 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £451 £588
Median % change year-on-year +19.31% -23.32% -6.00%
75th Percentile £665 £537 £665
90th Percentile £696 £627 £705
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £450 £444
% change year-on-year +4.22% +1.35% -22.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 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 18,718 12,228 13,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.25% 37.28% 33.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,357 8,194 9,320
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £411 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £622 £615 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 625 312 284
10th Percentile £16.12 £15.16 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £23.15
Median % change year-on-year +29.09% +18.79% -33.86%
75th Percentile £69.75 £47.50 £52.18
90th Percentile £83.15 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.57 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +88.47% -10.14% -20.00%

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 31 July 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 12 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 31 July 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 -104 57 £550 +19.83% 32
London -48 43 £575 +13.86% 19
Work from Home -41 23 £500 +17.65% 6
UK excluding London -82 13 £469 +4.22% 15
Midlands -53 5 £469 -5.82% 2
West Midlands - 5 £469 - 2
South East -65 2 £608 +51.31% 1
North of England -75 2 £350 -25.29% 7
South West - 2 - - 3
Yorkshire - 2 £350 - 2
East of England - 2 - -
Scotland - 1 £650 - 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 14 (21.21%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (13.64%) Apache Spark
3 8 (12.12%) Apache
4 6 (9.09%) Confluence
4 6 (9.09%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (4.55%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.52%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.52%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.52%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 63 (95.45%) AWS
2 45 (68.18%) Amazon S3
3 37 (56.06%) AWS Lambda
3 37 (56.06%) Serverless
4 32 (48.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 18 (27.27%) Amazon EventBridge
5 18 (27.27%) Azure
6 15 (22.73%) Amazon EMR
6 15 (22.73%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (21.21%) Power Platform
8 13 (19.70%) AWS Step Functions
8 13 (19.70%) dbt
8 13 (19.70%) GitHub
9 10 (15.15%) GCP
10 8 (12.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (12.12%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (10.61%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (10.61%) Snowflake
12 6 (9.09%) Amazon MSK
12 6 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.55%) CTI
2 1 (1.52%) 4G
2 1 (1.52%) 5G
2 1 (1.52%) MQTT
2 1 (1.52%) Network Security
2 1 (1.52%) PSTN
2 1 (1.52%) RTP
2 1 (1.52%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (42.42%) Amazon Redshift
2 23 (34.85%) DynamoDB
3 19 (28.79%) Amazon Athena
4 17 (25.76%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (21.21%) Power BI
6 13 (19.70%) Data Lake
7 12 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (15.15%) Metadata
9 9 (13.64%) Apache Iceberg
10 7 (10.61%) Tableau
11 6 (9.09%) BusinessObjects
11 6 (9.09%) Pentaho
12 5 (7.58%) Data Vault
12 5 (7.58%) NoSQL
12 5 (7.58%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (7.58%) Star Schema
13 4 (6.06%) Amazon QuickSight
13 4 (6.06%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (4.55%) MongoDB
14 3 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (19.70%) GitLab
2 7 (10.61%) Git
3 6 (9.09%) JIRA
4 5 (7.58%) Jenkins
5 4 (6.06%) SonarQube
6 3 (4.55%) Gradle
6 3 (4.55%) Maven
7 2 (3.03%) Bitbucket
7 2 (3.03%) MLflow
8 1 (1.52%) JUnit
8 1 (1.52%) Oracle Forms
General
1 10 (15.15%) Finance
1 10 (15.15%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.12%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.55%) Banking
5 2 (3.03%) Back Office
5 2 (3.03%) Billing
5 2 (3.03%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Legal
6 1 (1.52%) Multimedia
6 1 (1.52%) Publishing
6 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (40.91%) Data Engineer
2 22 (33.33%) Senior
3 20 (30.30%) Architect
4 17 (25.76%) AWS Engineer
5 15 (22.73%) Senior Data Engineer
6 12 (18.18%) Developer
7 11 (16.67%) Data Architect
8 10 (15.15%) AWS Data Engineer
9 9 (13.64%) AWS Architect
10 5 (7.58%) AWS Data Architect
11 4 (6.06%) AWS Developer
11 4 (6.06%) Enterprise Architect
11 4 (6.06%) Java Developer
11 4 (6.06%) Lead
11 4 (6.06%) Platform Architect
11 4 (6.06%) Senior Developer
11 4 (6.06%) Senior Java Developer
11 4 (6.06%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 4 (6.06%) Snowflake Engineer
12 3 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (37.88%) Kafka
2 8 (12.12%) REST
3 5 (7.58%) Node.js
3 5 (7.58%) RESTful
3 5 (7.58%) Spring
3 5 (7.58%) Spring Boot
4 4 (6.06%) Apache Beam
4 4 (6.06%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (6.06%) PySpark
4 4 (6.06%) pytest
5 3 (4.55%) Apache Avro
5 3 (4.55%) AWS CDK
5 3 (4.55%) JSON
5 3 (4.55%) Protocol Buffers
5 3 (4.55%) React
6 2 (3.03%) AWS Amplify
6 2 (3.03%) Jest
6 2 (3.03%) Next.js
6 2 (3.03%) OpenAPI
6 2 (3.03%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 21 (31.82%) Cloud Native
2 8 (12.12%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (7.58%) IVR
4 4 (6.06%) Clustering
5 3 (4.55%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.03%) PACS
6 2 (3.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.52%) Digital Media
7 1 (1.52%) IoT
7 1 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.52%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (68.18%) CI/CD
2 37 (56.06%) Analytics
3 36 (54.55%) DevOps
4 33 (50.00%) Data Modelling
5 23 (34.85%) Business Intelligence
6 22 (33.33%) Event-Driven
6 22 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (31.82%) Data Pipeline
8 19 (28.79%) Data Engineering
8 19 (28.79%) ETL
9 16 (24.24%) Agile
9 16 (24.24%) AI
9 16 (24.24%) Observability
10 15 (22.73%) Data Governance
11 13 (19.70%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (18.18%) Machine Learning
12 12 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
13 11 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 11 (16.67%) Migration
14 10 (15.15%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 37 (56.06%) Python
2 34 (51.52%) SQL
3 7 (10.61%) Java
4 6 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.06%) Go
6 3 (4.55%) Bicep
6 3 (4.55%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.03%) Scala
8 1 (1.52%) Bash
8 1 (1.52%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 11 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.12%) AWS Certification
4 5 (7.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (6.06%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (4.55%) SnowPro
7 2 (3.03%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (1.52%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.52%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.55%) QA
3 2 (3.03%) GDPR
3 2 (3.03%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.52%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.52%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.52%) NCSC
4 1 (1.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (45.45%) Terraform
2 15 (22.73%) Grafana
3 9 (13.64%) Kubernetes
3 9 (13.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (16.67%) Databricks
2 9 (13.64%) Informatica
3 7 (10.61%) Google
3 7 (10.61%) Oracle
4 6 (9.09%) Denodo
4 6 (9.09%) Dynatrace
5 5 (7.58%) Microsoft
6 3 (4.55%) Confluent
6 3 (4.55%) SAP
7 2 (3.03%) OpenAI
7 2 (3.03%) Salesforce
7 2 (3.03%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.52%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.52%) IBM
8 1 (1.52%) Splunk
8 1 (1.52%) Sybase
8 1 (1.52%) Talend