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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 510 581
Rank change year-on-year +14 +71 +104
Contract jobs citing Amazon Kinesis 61 47 49
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.13% 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.48% 0.36% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 30 30
10th Percentile £403 £371 -
25th Percentile £450 £488 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £623
90th Percentile £640 £705 £755
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £385 £500
% change year-on-year +16.95% -23.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £57.95 - -
25th Percentile £68.25 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud 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 12,837 12,897 17,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.37% 34.81% 35.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,575 8,517 12,216
10th Percentile £307 £313 £300
25th Percentile £408 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 174 325
10th Percentile £15.24 £17.44 £14.74
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +9.38% +44.93%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.73 £62.50
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £78.52
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £33.93 £22.50
% change year-on-year -41.06% +50.80% +16.70%

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 October 2025.

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 October 2025.

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 October 2025. 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 +17 54 £500 -14.89% 42
London +27 41 £505 -15.83% 19
Work from Home +33 25 £525 - 44
UK excluding London -9 13 £450 +16.95% 28
East Midlands -5 7 £460 +8.75% 1
Midlands -21 7 £460 +8.75% 1
North of England -29 5 £519 +5.82% 12
North West -20 4 £537 +22.74% 8
South East +8 3 £402 - 8
Yorkshire -28 1 £500 -6.37% 3

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 6 (9.84%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (6.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.64%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.64%) Endur
2 1 (1.64%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.64%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 61 (100.00%) AWS
2 41 (67.21%) AWS Lambda
2 41 (67.21%) Serverless
3 39 (63.93%) Amazon S3
4 18 (29.51%) AWS CloudFormation
5 16 (26.23%) Amazon EMR
6 15 (24.59%) AWS Step Functions
7 14 (22.95%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (19.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (14.75%) Amazon SQS
9 9 (14.75%) Azure
10 8 (13.11%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (13.11%) Amazon Glacier
10 8 (13.11%) AWS Fargate
10 8 (13.11%) GitHub
11 7 (11.48%) GCP
12 6 (9.84%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (6.56%) Azure Data Factory
14 3 (4.92%) AWS CodeBuild
14 3 (4.92%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (37.70%) DynamoDB
2 22 (36.07%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (31.15%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (16.39%) MySQL
5 9 (14.75%) Hadoop
5 9 (14.75%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (14.75%) Relational Database
6 8 (13.11%) Apache Cassandra
6 8 (13.11%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (11.48%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (11.48%) NoSQL
8 5 (8.20%) BigQuery
9 4 (6.56%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (6.56%) OLAP
9 4 (6.56%) OLTP
10 2 (3.28%) DB2
10 2 (3.28%) Pinecone
10 2 (3.28%) RDBMS
10 2 (3.28%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (3.28%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 10 (16.39%) Jenkins
2 8 (13.11%) Cucumber
3 7 (11.48%) JUnit
4 5 (8.20%) Maven
5 2 (3.28%) Artifactory
5 2 (3.28%) CircleCI
5 2 (3.28%) git-flow
5 2 (3.28%) Gradle
6 1 (1.64%) MLflow
6 1 (1.64%) SonarQube
General
1 24 (39.34%) Social Skills
2 12 (19.67%) Finance
3 10 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.48%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (8.20%) Banking
6 3 (4.92%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.28%) Aviation
7 2 (3.28%) Marketing
8 1 (1.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (27.87%) Architect
2 16 (26.23%) Data Engineer
3 13 (21.31%) Developer
4 12 (19.67%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (18.03%) Senior
6 8 (13.11%) AWS Developer
6 8 (13.11%) Java Developer
6 8 (13.11%) Java Engineer
7 7 (11.48%) Cloud Architect
7 7 (11.48%) Data Architect
8 6 (9.84%) AWS Architect
8 6 (9.84%) AWS Data Engineer
8 6 (9.84%) Java Software Engineer
8 6 (9.84%) Senior Data Engineer
8 6 (9.84%) Software Engineer
9 4 (6.56%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (6.56%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (6.56%) Lead
9 4 (6.56%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (4.92%) AWS Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (42.62%) Kafka
2 10 (16.39%) Spring
3 8 (13.11%) ActiveMQ
4 7 (11.48%) Spring Boot
5 6 (9.84%) Jest
5 6 (9.84%) PySpark
5 6 (9.84%) RESTful
6 3 (4.92%) Node.js
7 2 (3.28%) LangChain
7 2 (3.28%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (3.28%) REST
8 1 (1.64%) .NET
8 1 (1.64%) Apache Beam
8 1 (1.64%) AWS CDK
8 1 (1.64%) Pandas
8 1 (1.64%) pytest
8 1 (1.64%) Ray
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.03%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (16.39%) Cloud Native
3 7 (11.48%) Virtual Team
4 4 (6.56%) Onboarding
4 4 (6.56%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.92%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.64%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.64%) IVR
6 1 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (39.34%) Analytics
2 23 (37.70%) Data Pipeline
2 23 (37.70%) Microservices
3 22 (36.07%) CI/CD
4 21 (34.43%) Agile
5 19 (31.15%) ETL
6 18 (29.51%) Containerisation
7 16 (26.23%) Data Engineering
7 16 (26.23%) Data Modelling
8 15 (24.59%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (22.95%) Technical Leadership
10 13 (21.31%) Data Security
10 13 (21.31%) Event-Driven
10 13 (21.31%) Mentoring
11 11 (18.03%) Fintech
11 11 (18.03%) Infrastructure as Code
12 10 (16.39%) DevOps
12 10 (16.39%) Software Engineering
13 9 (14.75%) Data Governance
13 9 (14.75%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 39 (63.93%) Java
2 29 (47.54%) Python
3 21 (34.43%) SQL
4 9 (14.75%) TypeScript
5 7 (11.48%) Scala
6 4 (6.56%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.92%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.28%) Go
9 1 (1.64%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 5 (8.20%) AWS Certification
1 5 (8.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 5 (8.20%) Degree
2 3 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (4.92%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.92%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.84%) Data Quality
1 6 (9.84%) QA
2 5 (8.20%) GDPR
3 2 (3.28%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.28%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.64%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.64%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (27.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (19.67%) Terraform
2 9 (14.75%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.28%) Ansible
3 2 (3.28%) Grafana
4 1 (1.64%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 6 (9.84%) CA Agile Central
2 5 (8.20%) Databricks
2 5 (8.20%) ServiceNow
3 3 (4.92%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.28%) Splunk
4 2 (3.28%) Sybase
5 1 (1.64%) Google
5 1 (1.64%) Informatica
5 1 (1.64%) SAP
5 1 (1.64%) Talend