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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 611 499 514
Rank change year-on-year -112 +15 +95
Contract jobs citing Amazon Kinesis 72 54 53
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.16% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.38% 0.43% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 38 34
10th Percentile £400 £402 £416
25th Percentile £441 £450 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £505 £542
Median % change year-on-year +9.02% -6.92% -8.72%
75th Percentile £672 £600 £628
90th Percentile £738 £640 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £459 £450 £444
% change year-on-year +2.00% +1.35% -11.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £76.75 -
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 19,046 12,484 12,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.70% 38.02% 34.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,648 8,342 8,561
10th Percentile £325 £308 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £719 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 617 292 180
10th Percentile £15.35 £15.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.40 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -24.57% +6.06%
75th Percentile £67.50 £52.50 £65.04
90th Percentile £79.40 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £33.00
% change year-on-year +55.68% -41.61% +39.86%

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 30 September 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 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 30 September 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 -113 58 £600 +18.81% 79
London -78 44 £643 +24.85% 48
Work from Home -72 22 £500 -5.84% 29
UK excluding London -95 15 £459 +2.00% 38
Midlands -39 5 £469 -12.66% 2
West Midlands - 5 £469 - 2
South West - 4 £500 - 6
Scotland - 3 £402 - 4
South East -60 2 £608 +51.31% 4
East of England - 2 £345 - 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 13 (18.06%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (15.28%) Apache
2 11 (15.28%) Apache Spark
3 7 (9.72%) Confluence
4 6 (8.33%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.78%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.39%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.39%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 67 (93.06%) AWS
2 50 (69.44%) Amazon S3
3 42 (58.33%) AWS Lambda
3 42 (58.33%) Serverless
4 35 (48.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 25 (34.72%) Amazon EventBridge
6 17 (23.61%) AWS Step Functions
6 17 (23.61%) Azure
7 16 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (19.44%) GitHub
9 13 (18.06%) Amazon EMR
10 12 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (13.89%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (13.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 10 (13.89%) Power Platform
11 10 (13.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (12.50%) dbt
13 8 (11.11%) GCP
14 7 (9.72%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.17%) CTI
1 3 (4.17%) SMS
2 2 (2.78%) Network Security
3 1 (1.39%) MQTT
3 1 (1.39%) PSTN
3 1 (1.39%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (37.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 23 (31.94%) Amazon Athena
3 22 (30.56%) DynamoDB
4 17 (23.61%) Amazon RDS
4 17 (23.61%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (22.22%) Data Lake
6 10 (13.89%) Power BI
7 8 (11.11%) Apache Iceberg
8 7 (9.72%) Metadata
9 6 (8.33%) BusinessObjects
9 6 (8.33%) Flink
9 6 (8.33%) Pentaho
10 5 (6.94%) Amazon QuickSight
10 5 (6.94%) Delta Lake
11 4 (5.56%) Data Vault
11 4 (5.56%) NoSQL
12 3 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (4.17%) Tableau
13 2 (2.78%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 16 (22.22%) GitLab
2 7 (9.72%) JIRA
3 6 (8.33%) Bitbucket
3 6 (8.33%) SonarQube
4 3 (4.17%) Git
5 2 (2.78%) Gradle
5 2 (2.78%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.78%) Maven
5 2 (2.78%) MLflow
6 1 (1.39%) Oracle Forms
General
1 19 (26.39%) Finance
2 10 (13.89%) Public Sector
2 10 (13.89%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.33%) Back Office
4 4 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.56%) Banking
4 4 (5.56%) Front Office
5 2 (2.78%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (2.78%) Publishing
6 1 (1.39%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.39%) Automotive
6 1 (1.39%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.39%) Legal
6 1 (1.39%) Marketing
6 1 (1.39%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 28 (38.89%) Data Engineer
2 26 (36.11%) Senior
3 23 (31.94%) Architect
4 20 (27.78%) Senior Data Engineer
5 15 (20.83%) AWS Engineer
6 12 (16.67%) Developer
7 11 (15.28%) AWS Architect
7 11 (15.28%) Data Architect
8 10 (13.89%) AWS Data Engineer
9 6 (8.33%) Lead
9 6 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (6.94%) AWS Data Architect
11 4 (5.56%) Enterprise Architect
11 4 (5.56%) Platform Architect
12 3 (4.17%) AWS Developer
12 3 (4.17%) AWS Solution Architect
12 3 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
13 2 (2.78%) Lead Architect
13 2 (2.78%) Real Time Engineer
13 2 (2.78%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (48.61%) Terraform
2 20 (27.78%) Kafka
3 9 (12.50%) REST
4 8 (11.11%) PySpark
5 7 (9.72%) AWS CDK
5 7 (9.72%) Node.js
6 6 (8.33%) ActiveMQ
6 6 (8.33%) pytest
6 6 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (5.56%) Apache Beam
7 4 (5.56%) GraphQL
7 4 (5.56%) RESTful
8 3 (4.17%) Spring
8 3 (4.17%) Spring Boot
9 2 (2.78%) Apache Avro
9 2 (2.78%) gRPC
9 2 (2.78%) OAuth
9 2 (2.78%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (2.78%) Protocol Buffers
9 2 (2.78%) React
Miscellaneous
1 26 (36.11%) Cloud Native
2 9 (12.50%) IVR
3 5 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.78%) Digital Media
5 2 (2.78%) PACS
5 2 (2.78%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.78%) PropTech
5 2 (2.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.39%) Clustering
6 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.39%) IoT
6 1 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (58.33%) CI/CD
2 40 (55.56%) Analytics
3 33 (45.83%) Data Modelling
4 30 (41.67%) DevOps
4 30 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (34.72%) Event-Driven
6 21 (29.17%) Data Pipeline
7 19 (26.39%) Data Engineering
8 18 (25.00%) Observability
9 17 (23.61%) AI
9 17 (23.61%) Business Intelligence
9 17 (23.61%) ETL
10 16 (22.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 16 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (20.83%) Migration
12 14 (19.44%) Agile
13 13 (18.06%) Machine Learning
14 12 (16.67%) Data Integration
15 11 (15.28%) Data Architecture
15 11 (15.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 41 (56.94%) Python
2 37 (51.39%) SQL
3 6 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 5 (6.94%) Go
5 4 (5.56%) Java
6 3 (4.17%) Bicep
7 2 (2.78%) Scala
7 2 (2.78%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 10 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 9 (12.50%) AWS Certification
4 5 (6.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (5.56%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (2.78%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.78%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.39%) Degree
7 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (1.39%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (18.06%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.17%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.78%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.78%) GDPR
3 2 (2.78%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.78%) NCSC
3 2 (2.78%) QA
4 1 (1.39%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 5 (6.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (13.89%) Grafana
2 8 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.56%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.39%) Istio
4 1 (1.39%) linkerd
4 1 (1.39%) QRadar
Vendors
1 16 (22.22%) Databricks
2 8 (11.11%) Oracle
3 6 (8.33%) Denodo
3 6 (8.33%) Dynatrace
4 5 (6.94%) Informatica
5 4 (5.56%) Google
5 4 (5.56%) Salesforce
6 3 (4.17%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.78%) Confluent
7 2 (2.78%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.78%) SAP
7 2 (2.78%) Splunk
8 1 (1.39%) ArcSight
8 1 (1.39%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.39%) Cribl.io
8 1 (1.39%) IBM
8 1 (1.39%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.39%) Sybase