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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 536 489 516
Rank change year-on-year -47 +27 +113
Contract jobs citing Amazon Kinesis 74 29 86
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.098% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.45% 0.26% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 20 78
10th Percentile £415 £355 £421
25th Percentile £463 £365 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -20.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £681 £478 £597
90th Percentile £713 £603 £691
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £388 £538
% change year-on-year +18.56% -27.81% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £68.50 - -
25th Percentile £73.75 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile £89.50 - -
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 16,264 11,239 14,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.16% 38.03% 32.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,097 7,822 10,239
10th Percentile £313 £313 £288
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £488
% change year-on-year -0.84% -1.74% -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 209 359
10th Percentile £15.56 £15.28 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £19.97 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.00 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.62% +26.19% -18.48%
75th Percentile £61.44 £41.97 £40.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.10 £62.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.69 £24.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +77.85% +35.44% -20.04%

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 23 March 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 23 March 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 23 March 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 -69 65 £525 +27.27% 46
London +2 60 £550 +37.50% 25
Work from Home -15 23 £675 +68.75% 21
UK excluding London -90 11 £460 +18.56% 29
Scotland +12 7 £450 +21.62% 3
East Midlands -37 2 £446 +10.05%
Midlands -65 2 £446 +0.51% 1
North of England -68 2 £500 +27.88% 11
North West -28 1 - - 8
Yorkshire -63 1 £500 -6.37% 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 13 (17.57%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (10.81%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.70%) Apache
4 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.35%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (1.35%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (4.05%) SAP BPC
3 1 (1.35%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 71 (95.95%) AWS
2 41 (55.41%) Amazon S3
2 41 (55.41%) AWS Lambda
2 41 (55.41%) Serverless
3 28 (37.84%) AWS Step Functions
4 22 (29.73%) AWS CloudFormation
5 21 (28.38%) GitHub
6 19 (25.68%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (24.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (20.27%) Amazon EventBridge
8 15 (20.27%) Azure
9 14 (18.92%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (17.57%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (14.86%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (14.86%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (14.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 10 (13.51%) Amazon EMR
13 9 (12.16%) Amazon MSK
13 9 (12.16%) Power Platform
13 9 (12.16%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.41%) DNS
2 1 (1.35%) 4G
2 1 (1.35%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (31.08%) Amazon Redshift
2 18 (24.32%) Amazon Athena
2 18 (24.32%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (22.97%) DynamoDB
4 12 (16.22%) Flink
4 12 (16.22%) MySQL
4 12 (16.22%) Tableau
5 11 (14.86%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (13.51%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (12.16%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (12.16%) Hadoop
7 9 (12.16%) Power BI
8 8 (10.81%) Apache Cassandra
8 8 (10.81%) Apache Iceberg
8 8 (10.81%) Data Lake
8 8 (10.81%) Star Schema
9 7 (9.46%) Amazon QuickSight
9 7 (9.46%) NoSQL
10 6 (8.11%) Data Vault
10 6 (8.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (16.22%) GitLab
2 8 (10.81%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.76%) JUnit
4 4 (5.41%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.70%) Git
6 1 (1.35%) Gradle
6 1 (1.35%) Maven
General
1 21 (28.38%) Finance
2 18 (24.32%) Social Skills
3 12 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (12.16%) Banking
5 8 (10.81%) Front Office
6 6 (8.11%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.70%) Billing
8 1 (1.35%) Aviation
8 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (31.08%) Data Engineer
2 20 (27.03%) Architect
3 18 (24.32%) AWS Engineer
4 12 (16.22%) Senior
5 11 (14.86%) AWS Architect
6 10 (13.51%) Data Architect
7 9 (12.16%) AWS Data Engineer
8 8 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (10.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (9.46%) Developer
10 6 (8.11%) AWS DevOps
10 6 (8.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 6 (8.11%) Java Developer
10 6 (8.11%) Java Engineer
10 6 (8.11%) Kafka Engineer
10 6 (8.11%) Python Engineer
10 6 (8.11%) Senior Developer
10 6 (8.11%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (8.11%) Software Engineer
11 5 (6.76%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (56.76%) Kafka
2 10 (13.51%) Spring
2 10 (13.51%) Spring Boot
3 8 (10.81%) Node.js
4 7 (9.46%) Apache Avro
4 7 (9.46%) Protocol Buffers
5 6 (8.11%) RESTful
6 5 (6.76%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (5.41%) gRPC
7 4 (5.41%) Hibernate
7 4 (5.41%) JPA
7 4 (5.41%) OAuth
7 4 (5.41%) OAuth2
7 4 (5.41%) OpenID
7 4 (5.41%) PySpark
7 4 (5.41%) pytest
7 4 (5.41%) REST
7 4 (5.41%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (4.05%) React
8 3 (4.05%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 18 (24.32%) Cloud Native
2 12 (16.22%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (8.11%) Fixed Income
3 6 (8.11%) IVR
3 6 (8.11%) NHS
4 5 (6.76%) Onboarding
5 4 (5.41%) Clustering
5 4 (5.41%) PACS
5 4 (5.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 4 (5.41%) Virtual Team
6 3 (4.05%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.70%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.35%) Data Fabric
8 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.35%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (62.16%) CI/CD
2 39 (52.70%) Analytics
3 38 (51.35%) DevOps
4 27 (36.49%) Data Pipeline
4 27 (36.49%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (33.78%) Data Modelling
6 24 (32.43%) Data Engineering
7 20 (27.03%) ETL
8 17 (22.97%) Agile
8 17 (22.97%) Microservices
9 15 (20.27%) Data Governance
10 14 (18.92%) Event-Driven
11 13 (17.57%) Business Intelligence
11 13 (17.57%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (16.22%) Data Architecture
12 12 (16.22%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (16.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 11 (14.86%) Cost Optimisation
13 11 (14.86%) Observability
13 11 (14.86%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 41 (55.41%) Python
2 37 (50.00%) SQL
3 31 (41.89%) Java
4 4 (5.41%) Go
5 2 (2.70%) Ada
5 2 (2.70%) C#
5 2 (2.70%) C++
5 2 (2.70%) R
5 2 (2.70%) Scala
6 1 (1.35%) Bash
6 1 (1.35%) C
6 1 (1.35%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.16%) AWS Certification
3 8 (10.81%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (4.05%) SnowPro
5 2 (2.70%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (2.70%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.70%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.35%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.22%) Data Quality
2 11 (14.86%) GDPR
3 10 (13.51%) PCI DSS
4 9 (12.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (6.76%) QA
6 4 (5.41%) HIPAA
6 4 (5.41%) ISO 20022
6 4 (5.41%) NIST
7 3 (4.05%) PMO
8 1 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (1.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (1.35%) MiFID
8 1 (1.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (18.92%) Docker
2 2 (2.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 31 (41.89%) Terraform
2 18 (24.32%) Kubernetes
3 8 (10.81%) Argo
4 4 (5.41%) Grafana
4 4 (5.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (21.62%) Databricks
2 8 (10.81%) Microsoft
3 7 (9.46%) Confluent
4 6 (8.11%) Cisco
4 6 (8.11%) ServiceNow
5 5 (6.76%) Avaya
5 5 (6.76%) Genesys
5 5 (6.76%) Sybase
6 4 (5.41%) Informatica
6 4 (5.41%) Salesforce
6 4 (5.41%) SAP
7 3 (4.05%) Google
7 3 (4.05%) Pega
8 2 (2.70%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (2.70%) OpenAI
9 1 (1.35%) Foundry
9 1 (1.35%) Percona
9 1 (1.35%) Proofpoint
9 1 (1.35%) Refinitiv
9 1 (1.35%) Talend