Amazon MSK Contracts with Work from Home Options

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Amazon MSK skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon MSK over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 459 577
Rank change year-on-year +116 +118 -107
Contract jobs citing Amazon MSK 6 15 46
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.039% 0.058% 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.11% 0.15% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 42
10th Percentile £431 £618 £500
25th Percentile £459 £621 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £680 £550
Median % change year-on-year -24.63% +23.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £522 - £844
90th Percentile £524 - £863
UK median daily rate £500 £680 £550
% change year-on-year -26.47% +23.64% -4.35%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Amazon MSK is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,542 10,183 18,494
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.18% 39.58% 41.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,973 7,474 13,808
10th Percentile £350 £373 £375
25th Percentile £429 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 126 173
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.44 £14.40
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.52 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £55.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.73% +83.33% -18.23%
75th Percentile £50.25 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £64.37 £75.50 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.99%

Amazon MSK
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Amazon MSK as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Amazon MSK trend for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon MSK
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Amazon MSK.

Amazon MSK daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon MSK
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
1 3 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (50.00%) MariaDB
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
2 1 (16.67%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 3 (50.00%) Snyk
2 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Retail Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Kafka
2 3 (50.00%) GraphQL
3 2 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 2 (33.33%) JPA
3 2 (33.33%) REST
3 2 (33.33%) Spring
3 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 2 (33.33%) Spring Security
4 1 (16.67%) Apache Avro
4 1 (16.67%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Database Migration
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
1 3 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
1 3 (50.00%) Migration
1 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) High Availability
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Observability
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
2 2 (33.33%) Static Code Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (16.67%) ETL
3 1 (16.67%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) Go
2 3 (50.00%) PHP
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Grafana
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Prometheus