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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 492 535
Rank change year-on-year -3 +43 +101
Contract jobs citing Amazon Kinesis 88 34 77
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.11% 0.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.61% 0.29% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 23 65
10th Percentile £415 £356 £425
25th Percentile £460 £389 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £640 £556 £575
90th Percentile £713 £625 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £435 £385 £500
% change year-on-year +12.99% -23.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £66.63 - -
25th Percentile £68.25 - -
Median hourly rate £79.25 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile £88.75 - -
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 14,341 11,539 14,656
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.06% 36.65% 33.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,890 7,673 10,491
10th Percentile £306 £313 £290
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
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 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 170 288
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.44 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.27 £17.67
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £24.02
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +14.49% +6.14%
75th Percentile £57.75 £43.75 £53.31
90th Percentile £79.75 £68.75 £74.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +2.68% +26.19% +9.60%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -16 75 £500 +2.15% 33
London +33 68 £500 +12.49% 10
Work from Home +4 28 £640 +28.00% 28
UK excluding London -70 13 £435 +12.99% 29
Scotland +14 7 £450 +21.62% 1
East Midlands -30 3 £435 +8.75% 1
Midlands -49 3 £435 -2.03% 1
North of England -53 3 £468 -4.59% 5
North West -36 2 £435 -0.57% 3
Yorkshire -51 1 £500 -6.37% 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 7 (7.95%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (7.95%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.14%) Apache
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.14%) Actimize
2 1 (1.14%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 86 (97.73%) AWS
2 53 (60.23%) AWS Lambda
2 53 (60.23%) Serverless
3 52 (59.09%) Amazon S3
4 31 (35.23%) AWS Step Functions
5 27 (30.68%) AWS CloudFormation
6 21 (23.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 20 (22.73%) GitHub
8 15 (17.05%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (17.05%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (17.05%) Amazon EventBridge
8 15 (17.05%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (15.91%) Amazon EMR
10 12 (13.64%) Azure
11 11 (12.50%) Amazon MSK
12 10 (11.36%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (11.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (10.23%) Amazon SQS
14 7 (7.95%) Amazon ElastiCache
15 6 (6.82%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.55%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (31.82%) Amazon Redshift
2 27 (30.68%) Amazon RDS
3 26 (29.55%) DynamoDB
4 22 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
5 16 (18.18%) MySQL
6 13 (14.77%) Amazon Aurora
6 13 (14.77%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (13.64%) Flink
7 12 (13.64%) Hadoop
8 10 (11.36%) Apache Cassandra
9 9 (10.23%) OLTP
10 8 (9.09%) Data Lake
10 8 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (9.09%) Tableau
11 7 (7.95%) Amazon QuickSight
11 7 (7.95%) Apache Iceberg
11 7 (7.95%) NoSQL
11 7 (7.95%) Relational Database
12 5 (5.68%) OLAP
12 5 (5.68%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (12.50%) GitLab
2 9 (10.23%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.55%) JUnit
4 2 (2.27%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.14%) CircleCI
General
1 24 (27.27%) Finance
1 24 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.50%) Banking
3 10 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.09%) Front Office
4 8 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.14%) Aviation
5 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.14%) Marketing
5 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (36.36%) Architect
2 21 (23.86%) Data Engineer
3 18 (20.45%) AWS Engineer
4 16 (18.18%) Data Architect
5 13 (14.77%) AWS Architect
6 12 (13.64%) Senior
7 10 (11.36%) Cloud Architect
8 8 (9.09%) AWS Data Engineer
8 8 (9.09%) Developer
8 8 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (9.09%) Java Engineer
8 8 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (7.95%) Software Engineer
10 6 (6.82%) AWS Data Architect
10 6 (6.82%) AWS DevOps
10 6 (6.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 6 (6.82%) Java Software Engineer
10 6 (6.82%) Kafka Engineer
10 6 (6.82%) Python Engineer
11 5 (5.68%) Kafka Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (50.00%) Kafka
2 9 (10.23%) Node.js
3 8 (9.09%) Spring
3 8 (9.09%) Spring Boot
4 7 (7.95%) Apache Avro
4 7 (7.95%) Protocol Buffers
4 7 (7.95%) PySpark
4 7 (7.95%) RESTful
5 6 (6.82%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (6.82%) REST
6 4 (4.55%) gRPC
6 4 (4.55%) Hibernate
6 4 (4.55%) JPA
6 4 (4.55%) LangChain
6 4 (4.55%) OAuth
6 4 (4.55%) OAuth2
6 4 (4.55%) OpenID
6 4 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (4.55%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (3.41%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.18%) Cloud Native
1 16 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (7.95%) Virtual Team
3 6 (6.82%) Fixed Income
3 6 (6.82%) IVR
3 6 (6.82%) NHS
3 6 (6.82%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.55%) PACS
4 4 (4.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (3.41%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.27%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.14%) Clustering
7 1 (1.14%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.14%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (50.00%) Analytics
2 42 (47.73%) CI/CD
3 33 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (36.36%) DevOps
5 31 (35.23%) Data Pipeline
6 25 (28.41%) Microservices
7 24 (27.27%) Data Modelling
8 22 (25.00%) Agile
8 22 (25.00%) ETL
9 20 (22.73%) Data Engineering
9 20 (22.73%) Event-Driven
10 16 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (15.91%) Software Engineering
12 13 (14.77%) Data Architecture
12 13 (14.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 13 (14.77%) Migration
13 12 (13.64%) Cost Optimisation
13 12 (13.64%) Fintech
13 12 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 12 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 46 (52.27%) Python
2 40 (45.45%) Java
3 34 (38.64%) SQL
4 6 (6.82%) Go
5 4 (4.55%) Scala
6 2 (2.27%) Ada
6 2 (2.27%) C#
6 2 (2.27%) C++
6 2 (2.27%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.27%) R
6 2 (2.27%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.14%) C
7 1 (1.14%) HiveQL
7 1 (1.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.36%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.95%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.27%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.27%) MCP
4 2 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.14%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (17.05%) GDPR
2 10 (11.36%) PCI DSS
3 9 (10.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (9.09%) Data Quality
5 4 (4.55%) HIPAA
5 4 (4.55%) ISO 20022
5 4 (4.55%) NIST
5 4 (4.55%) QA
6 3 (3.41%) PMO
7 1 (1.14%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (1.14%) MiFID
7 1 (1.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (15.91%) Docker
2 2 (2.27%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 35 (39.77%) Terraform
2 18 (20.45%) Kubernetes
3 8 (9.09%) Argo
4 2 (2.27%) Grafana
5 1 (1.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (17.05%) Databricks
2 7 (7.95%) Confluent
3 6 (6.82%) Cisco
3 6 (6.82%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.68%) Avaya
4 5 (5.68%) Genesys
4 5 (5.68%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.55%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.55%) Sybase
6 3 (3.41%) Pega
7 2 (2.27%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (2.27%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.27%) SAP
8 1 (1.14%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.14%) Foundry
8 1 (1.14%) Informatica
8 1 (1.14%) Proofpoint
8 1 (1.14%) Refinitiv
8 1 (1.14%) Splunk
8 1 (1.14%) Veritas