Amazon MSK Contracts

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Amazon MSK skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon MSK over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 509 546 686
Rank change year-on-year +37 +140 +116
Contract jobs citing Amazon MSK 11 36 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.038% 0.083% 0.054%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.100% 0.26% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 27 19
10th Percentile £400 £396 £616
25th Percentile £444 £413 £653
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £680
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -26.47% +23.64%
75th Percentile £561 £563 £850
90th Percentile £590 £609 £883
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -21.74% -2.13% +17.50%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Amazon MSK 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 11,005 14,070 22,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.59% 32.30% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,639 9,993 15,919
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 346 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £47.58 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%

Amazon MSK
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon MSK as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon MSK in the UK

Amazon MSK
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon MSK.

Daily rate trend for Amazon MSK in the UK

Amazon MSK
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon MSK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon MSK in the UK

Amazon MSK
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon MSK within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +31 10 £481 -3.75% 7
London +11 6 £481 +1.32% 5
UK excluding London +65 4 £450 -21.74% 3
Work from Home +39 4 £570 +11.22% 7
North of England - 3 £400 - 2
North West - 3 £400 - 2
Midlands - 1 £550 -
West Midlands - 1 £550 -

Amazon MSK
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (63.64%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (63.64%) Serverless
3 4 (36.36%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (27.27%) GitHub
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon Neptune
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
5 2 (18.18%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (9.09%) Route 53
6 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (45.45%) Amazon Redshift
1 5 (45.45%) DynamoDB
2 4 (36.36%) Parquet
3 2 (18.18%) DocumentDB
3 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 1 (9.09%) MySQL
4 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
1 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Data Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Principal DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) Kafka
2 4 (36.36%) Apache Avro
2 4 (36.36%) JSON
3 2 (18.18%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (9.09%) .NET
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Amplify
4 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (9.09%) Node.js
4 1 (9.09%) React
4 1 (9.09%) REST
4 1 (9.09%) RESTful
4 1 (9.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) ETL
3 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) Data Ingestion
3 4 (36.36%) Data Modelling
3 4 (36.36%) Predictive Modelling
4 3 (27.27%) Business Analysis
4 3 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
5 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (18.18%) Microservices
5 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
6 1 (9.09%) Acceptance Criteria
6 1 (9.09%) Complex ETL
6 1 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (9.09%) Observability
6 1 (9.09%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 1 (9.09%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Python
1 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) Lua
3 2 (18.18%) Perl
3 2 (18.18%) PHP
3 2 (18.18%) Scala
3 2 (18.18%) SPARQL
3 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
4 1 (9.09%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Confluent
2 1 (9.09%) Dynatrace