Amazon MSK Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 300 339 462
Rank change year-on-year +39 +123 +124
Contract jobs citing Amazon MSK 4 6 15
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.039% 0.058%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.10% 0.11% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 10
10th Percentile £431 £431 £618
25th Percentile £508 £459 £621
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £513 £680
Median % change year-on-year +11.22% -24.63% +23.64%
75th Percentile £593 £522 -
90th Percentile £597 £524 -
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £680
% change year-on-year -2.50% -26.47% +23.64%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Amazon MSK
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Amazon MSK as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Amazon MSK trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Amazon MSK
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Amazon MSK.

Amazon MSK daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon MSK
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Amazon MSK daily rate histogram 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Neptune
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) CloudFront
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) Route 53
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (25.00%) DocumentDB
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Amplify
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Complex ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Data Extraction
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Security
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) Scala
1 1 (25.00%) SPARQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Confluent
1 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace