Amazon MSK Contract Job Trends

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Amazon MSK skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 546 533 611
Rank change year-on-year -13 +78 +174
Contract jobs citing Amazon MSK 15 30 29
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.045% 0.080% 0.061%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.12% 0.23% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 15 18
10th Percentile £373 £438 £413
25th Percentile £431 £500 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £554
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% -5.01% -25.55%
75th Percentile £600 £564 £638
90th Percentile £633 £706 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £425 £625
% change year-on-year +20.59% -32.00% -

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 12,754 13,079 16,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.41% 34.74% 35.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,530 8,661 12,154
10th Percentile £308 £313 £300
25th Percentile £410 £418 £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 291 181 326
10th Percentile £15.25 £16.30 £14.57
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.41
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +7.99% +44.04%
75th Percentile £43.75 £66.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.64 £34.47 £22.51
% change year-on-year -43.03% +53.11% +15.44%

Amazon MSK
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon MSK relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Amazon MSK job vacancy trend in the UK

Amazon MSK
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon MSK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon MSK

Amazon MSK
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon MSK over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon MSK in the UK

Amazon MSK
Top 7 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 MSK within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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 -4 14 £531 +1.00% 12
UK excluding London -13 8 £513 +20.59% 9
Work from Home +31 6 £594 +11.71% 10
London -1 6 £594 +10.36% 7
North of England -15 6 £450 +5.88% 2
North West - 6 £450 - 2
East of England - 2 £531 -

Amazon MSK
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 2 (13.33%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 14 (93.33%) AWS
2 10 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 10 (66.67%) Serverless
3 7 (46.67%) Amazon ECS
3 7 (46.67%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (33.33%) Amazon EventBridge
4 5 (33.33%) Amazon S3
4 5 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
4 5 (33.33%) GitHub
5 3 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
5 3 (20.00%) Amazon Neptune
5 3 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (13.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (13.33%) Azure
6 2 (13.33%) Datadog
6 2 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) DynamoDB
2 6 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (33.33%) NoSQL
4 3 (20.00%) DocumentDB
4 3 (20.00%) MongoDB
5 2 (13.33%) Metadata
5 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (6.67%) Flink
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
1 2 (13.33%) Git
1 2 (13.33%) GitLab
1 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
1 2 (13.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
2 2 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Data Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Developer
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Applications Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Integration Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Lead
4 2 (13.33%) Lead Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) C# Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Data Storage Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Kafka Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Python Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Scala Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (66.67%) Kafka
2 5 (33.33%) Node.js
3 3 (20.00%) .NET
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Amplify
5 1 (6.67%) JSON
5 1 (6.67%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (6.67%) React
5 1 (6.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Low-Code
2 2 (13.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
1 7 (46.67%) DevOps
1 7 (46.67%) Event-Driven
1 7 (46.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 5 (33.33%) Microservices
3 4 (26.67%) Agile
3 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
4 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) TDD
5 2 (13.33%) Analytics
5 2 (13.33%) API Design
5 2 (13.33%) Change Management
5 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (13.33%) Document Management
5 2 (13.33%) Metadata Management
5 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (13.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 6 (40.00%) SQL
3 5 (33.33%) Java
4 2 (13.33%) Go
4 2 (13.33%) Perl
4 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (13.33%) Ruby
4 2 (13.33%) Scala
5 1 (6.67%) C#
5 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.67%) SPARQL
5 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Certified Developer
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Docker
2 2 (13.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Terraform
2 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) Grafana
3 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) Confluent
3 1 (6.67%) Cloudera
3 1 (6.67%) Splunk