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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 497 536
Rank change year-on-year -15 +39 +124
Contract jobs citing Amazon Kinesis 74 38 67
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.53% 0.31% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 26 49
10th Percentile £413 £364 £463
25th Percentile £460 £400 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% -6.82% -15.38%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £600
90th Percentile £713 £712 £701
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 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 13,980 12,320 15,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.06% 36.28% 34.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,551 8,197 10,978
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £414 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £603 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £733 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 175 271
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.44 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.30 £27.50 £25.38
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% +8.35% +12.80%
75th Percentile £55.50 £45.59 £58.38
90th Percentile £76.90 £68.75 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £24.18 £20.75
% change year-on-year +3.39% +16.53% +5.84%

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 December 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 December 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 December 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 -1 61 £506 -5.20% 11
London +32 53 £525 -4.55% 8
Work from Home +9 29 £640 +28.00% 10
UK excluding London -30 14 £448 +7.96% 7
Scotland +10 7 £450 +21.62%
East Midlands -18 4 £448 +0.79%
Midlands -35 4 £448 -4.18%
North of England -42 3 £468 -4.59% 1
North West -33 2 £435 -0.57% 1
Yorkshire -44 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 (10.81%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (9.46%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.70%) Apache
4 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.35%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.35%) Actimize
2 1 (1.35%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 72 (97.30%) AWS
2 41 (55.41%) AWS Lambda
2 41 (55.41%) Serverless
3 40 (54.05%) Amazon S3
4 22 (29.73%) AWS CloudFormation
5 21 (28.38%) AWS Step Functions
6 17 (22.97%) GitHub
7 16 (21.62%) Amazon EMR
8 15 (20.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (17.57%) Azure
10 11 (14.86%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (14.86%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (14.86%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (13.51%) Amazon EventBridge
12 6 (8.11%) Amazon Glacier
12 6 (8.11%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (8.11%) Snowflake
12 6 (8.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (6.76%) GCP
13 5 (6.76%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (33.78%) Amazon Redshift
2 21 (28.38%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (28.38%) DynamoDB
3 14 (18.92%) Amazon Athena
4 9 (12.16%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (12.16%) Flink
4 9 (12.16%) Hadoop
4 9 (12.16%) MySQL
5 8 (10.81%) Data Lake
6 7 (9.46%) Apache Cassandra
6 7 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (9.46%) Relational Database
7 6 (8.11%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (8.11%) OLTP
8 5 (6.76%) OLAP
8 5 (6.76%) Power BI
8 5 (6.76%) Tableau
9 4 (5.41%) Amazon QuickSight
9 4 (5.41%) BigQuery
10 3 (4.05%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.05%) JUnit
3 2 (2.70%) CircleCI
3 2 (2.70%) GitLab
3 2 (2.70%) SonarQube
General
1 24 (32.43%) Finance
2 20 (27.03%) Social Skills
3 11 (14.86%) Banking
4 10 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (10.81%) Front Office
5 8 (10.81%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.70%) Marketing
7 1 (1.35%) Aviation
7 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (31.08%) Architect
2 18 (24.32%) AWS Engineer
2 18 (24.32%) Data Engineer
3 11 (14.86%) Data Architect
3 11 (14.86%) Senior
4 8 (10.81%) AWS Data Engineer
4 8 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (10.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 7 (9.46%) AWS Architect
5 7 (9.46%) Developer
6 6 (8.11%) AWS DevOps
6 6 (8.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 6 (8.11%) Cloud Architect
6 6 (8.11%) Java Engineer
6 6 (8.11%) Kafka Engineer
6 6 (8.11%) Python Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Java Software Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Lead
7 5 (6.76%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (47.30%) Kafka
2 10 (13.51%) Node.js
3 9 (12.16%) PySpark
4 6 (8.11%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (5.41%) LangChain
5 4 (5.41%) Pandas
6 3 (4.05%) HTML
6 3 (4.05%) React
6 3 (4.05%) RESTful
6 3 (4.05%) Spark Streaming
6 3 (4.05%) Spring
6 3 (4.05%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.70%) Apache Avro
7 2 (2.70%) Matplotlib
7 2 (2.70%) NumPy
7 2 (2.70%) Protocol Buffers
7 2 (2.70%) REST
7 2 (2.70%) SciPy
7 2 (2.70%) TensorFlow
7 2 (2.70%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.51%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (12.16%) Cloud Native
3 6 (8.11%) Fixed Income
3 6 (8.11%) IVR
3 6 (8.11%) NHS
3 6 (8.11%) Virtual Team
4 4 (5.41%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.70%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.70%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.35%) Clustering
6 1 (1.35%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.35%) PACS
6 1 (1.35%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.35%) Replication
6 1 (1.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (48.65%) Analytics
2 32 (43.24%) CI/CD
3 27 (36.49%) Data Pipeline
4 25 (33.78%) DevOps
5 24 (32.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (28.38%) Data Modelling
7 20 (27.03%) Agile
7 20 (27.03%) ETL
8 17 (22.97%) Data Engineering
8 17 (22.97%) Microservices
9 13 (17.57%) Event-Driven
10 12 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (16.22%) Data Security
10 12 (16.22%) Migration
10 12 (16.22%) Software Engineering
10 12 (16.22%) Technical Leadership
11 11 (14.86%) Data Governance
12 10 (13.51%) Data Architecture
12 10 (13.51%) Fintech
12 10 (13.51%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 42 (56.76%) Python
2 32 (43.24%) Java
3 27 (36.49%) SQL
4 5 (6.76%) Go
5 3 (4.05%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.70%) Ada
6 2 (2.70%) C#
6 2 (2.70%) C++
6 2 (2.70%) R
6 2 (2.70%) Scala
6 2 (2.70%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.35%) C
7 1 (1.35%) HiveQL
7 1 (1.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (9.46%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.11%) AWS Certification
2 6 (8.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.70%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.70%) MCP
3 2 (2.70%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.35%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (20.27%) GDPR
2 8 (10.81%) Data Quality
3 6 (8.11%) PCI DSS
4 5 (6.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (5.41%) HIPAA
6 3 (4.05%) PMO
7 1 (1.35%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (1.35%) ISO 20022
7 1 (1.35%) MiFID
7 1 (1.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (10.81%) Docker
2 2 (2.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 26 (35.14%) Terraform
2 13 (17.57%) Kubernetes
3 8 (10.81%) Argo
4 2 (2.70%) Grafana
Vendors
1 16 (21.62%) Databricks
2 6 (8.11%) Cisco
2 6 (8.11%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.76%) Avaya
3 5 (6.76%) Genesys
3 5 (6.76%) ServiceNow
4 4 (5.41%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.05%) Pega
5 3 (4.05%) Sybase
6 2 (2.70%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (2.70%) Confluent
6 2 (2.70%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.70%) SAP
6 2 (2.70%) Splunk
7 1 (1.35%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.35%) Google
7 1 (1.35%) Informatica
7 1 (1.35%) Percona
7 1 (1.35%) Refinitiv
7 1 (1.35%) Veritas