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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 495 521
Rank change year-on-year -4 +26 +126
Contract jobs citing Amazon Kinesis 83 34 67
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.59% 0.29% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 22 53
10th Percentile £415 £358 £433
25th Percentile £460 £400 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -5.71% -19.23%
75th Percentile £640 £559 £600
90th Percentile £713 £623 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £448 £415 £500
% change year-on-year +7.96% -17.10% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68.25 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 14,105 11,702 14,598
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.10% 36.29% 34.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,693 7,793 10,469
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £731 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 172 252
10th Percentile £14.48 £17.44 £14.26
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.36 £27.50 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% +18.46% +3.18%
75th Percentile £57.31 £43.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £79.13 £68.38 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £25.34 £20.50
% change year-on-year +7.38% +23.61% +5.13%

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 7 January 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 7 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Amazon Kinesis in the UK

Amazon Kinesis
Top 10 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 7 January 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 -5 70 £500 +2.04% 16
London +30 62 £519 +16.70% 9
Work from Home +16 29 £640 +28.00% 7
UK excluding London -60 14 £448 +7.96% 9
Scotland +6 7 £450 +21.62%
East Midlands -24 4 £448 +0.79%
Midlands -41 4 £448 -4.18%
North of England -53 3 £468 -4.59% 1
North West -29 2 £435 -0.57% 1
Yorkshire -49 1 £500 -6.37%

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 8 (9.64%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (9.64%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.41%) Apache
3 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.20%) Actimize
2 1 (1.20%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 81 (97.59%) AWS
2 50 (60.24%) AWS Lambda
2 50 (60.24%) Serverless
3 49 (59.04%) Amazon S3
4 27 (32.53%) AWS Step Functions
5 25 (30.12%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (24.10%) GitHub
7 19 (22.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 16 (19.28%) Amazon EMR
9 14 (16.87%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (16.87%) Amazon EventBridge
9 14 (16.87%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (15.66%) Azure
11 11 (13.25%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (10.84%) Amazon MSK
12 9 (10.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (8.43%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (8.43%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (7.23%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (7.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.61%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (34.94%) Amazon Redshift
2 24 (28.92%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (28.92%) DynamoDB
3 20 (24.10%) Amazon Athena
4 12 (14.46%) MySQL
4 12 (14.46%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (13.25%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (13.25%) Flink
6 9 (10.84%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (10.84%) Hadoop
7 8 (9.64%) Data Lake
7 8 (9.64%) OLTP
8 7 (8.43%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (8.43%) Relational Database
8 7 (8.43%) Tableau
9 6 (7.23%) Amazon QuickSight
9 6 (7.23%) Apache Iceberg
10 5 (6.02%) NoSQL
10 5 (6.02%) OLAP
10 5 (6.02%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (9.64%) GitLab
1 8 (9.64%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.61%) JUnit
3 2 (2.41%) CircleCI
3 2 (2.41%) SonarQube
General
1 24 (28.92%) Finance
2 22 (26.51%) Social Skills
3 11 (13.25%) Banking
4 10 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (9.64%) Front Office
5 8 (9.64%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.41%) Marketing
7 1 (1.20%) Aviation
7 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (36.14%) Architect
2 20 (24.10%) Data Engineer
3 18 (21.69%) AWS Engineer
4 15 (18.07%) Data Architect
5 12 (14.46%) AWS Architect
5 12 (14.46%) Senior
6 9 (10.84%) Cloud Architect
7 8 (9.64%) AWS Data Engineer
7 8 (9.64%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (9.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 7 (8.43%) Developer
9 6 (7.23%) AWS Data Architect
9 6 (7.23%) AWS DevOps
9 6 (7.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 6 (7.23%) Java Engineer
9 6 (7.23%) Kafka Engineer
9 6 (7.23%) Python Engineer
10 5 (6.02%) Java Software Engineer
10 5 (6.02%) Lead
10 5 (6.02%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (50.60%) Kafka
2 10 (12.05%) Node.js
3 9 (10.84%) PySpark
4 6 (7.23%) ActiveMQ
4 6 (7.23%) Apache Avro
4 6 (7.23%) Protocol Buffers
4 6 (7.23%) RESTful
4 6 (7.23%) Spring
4 6 (7.23%) Spring Boot
5 5 (6.02%) REST
6 4 (4.82%) LangChain
6 4 (4.82%) Pandas
7 3 (3.61%) gRPC
7 3 (3.61%) Hibernate
7 3 (3.61%) OAuth2
7 3 (3.61%) OpenID
7 3 (3.61%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (3.61%) React
7 3 (3.61%) Spark Streaming
7 3 (3.61%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.87%) Cloud Native
2 13 (15.66%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (7.23%) Fixed Income
3 6 (7.23%) IVR
3 6 (7.23%) NHS
3 6 (7.23%) Virtual Team
4 4 (4.82%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.61%) PACS
5 3 (3.61%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (2.41%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.20%) Clustering
7 1 (1.20%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.20%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (48.19%) Analytics
2 38 (45.78%) CI/CD
3 30 (36.14%) DevOps
3 30 (36.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (34.94%) Data Pipeline
5 23 (27.71%) Data Modelling
6 22 (26.51%) ETL
7 20 (24.10%) Agile
7 20 (24.10%) Microservices
8 19 (22.89%) Data Engineering
9 18 (21.69%) Event-Driven
10 14 (16.87%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (15.66%) Migration
12 12 (14.46%) Data Architecture
12 12 (14.46%) Data Security
12 12 (14.46%) Software Engineering
12 12 (14.46%) Technical Leadership
13 11 (13.25%) Cost Optimisation
13 11 (13.25%) Data Governance
13 11 (13.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (54.22%) Python
2 35 (42.17%) Java
3 33 (39.76%) SQL
4 5 (6.02%) Go
5 3 (3.61%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.61%) Scala
6 2 (2.41%) Ada
6 2 (2.41%) C#
6 2 (2.41%) C++
6 2 (2.41%) R
6 2 (2.41%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.20%) C
7 1 (1.20%) HiveQL
7 1 (1.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (10.84%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.64%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.23%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.41%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.41%) MCP
4 2 (2.41%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.20%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (18.07%) GDPR
2 9 (10.84%) PCI DSS
3 8 (9.64%) Data Quality
3 8 (9.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (4.82%) HIPAA
5 3 (3.61%) ISO 20022
5 3 (3.61%) NIST
5 3 (3.61%) PMO
5 3 (3.61%) QA
6 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.20%) MiFID
6 1 (1.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (13.25%) Docker
2 2 (2.41%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 32 (38.55%) Terraform
2 16 (19.28%) Kubernetes
3 8 (9.64%) Argo
4 3 (3.61%) Grafana
5 1 (1.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (19.28%) Databricks
2 6 (7.23%) Cisco
2 6 (7.23%) Confluent
2 6 (7.23%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.02%) Avaya
3 5 (6.02%) Genesys
3 5 (6.02%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.82%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.61%) Pega
5 3 (3.61%) Sybase
6 2 (2.41%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (2.41%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.41%) SAP
6 2 (2.41%) Splunk
7 1 (1.20%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.20%) Google
7 1 (1.20%) Informatica
7 1 (1.20%) Percona
7 1 (1.20%) Refinitiv
7 1 (1.20%) Veritas