Hybrid/Remote Amazon MSK Contract Job Trends

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Amazon MSK skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 320 388
Rank change year-on-year +17 +68 +176
Contract jobs citing Amazon MSK 8 7 13
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.079% 0.057% 0.070%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.18% 0.15% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 7
10th Percentile £492 £413 £508
25th Percentile £550 £438 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £532 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.71% -11.42% -27.27%
75th Percentile £617 £538 £668
90th Percentile £650 £539 £677
UK median daily rate £500 £526 £525
% change year-on-year -4.94% +0.19% -30.00%

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 4,353 4,709 7,209
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 43.01% 38.57% 38.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,957 3,166 5,271
10th Percentile £325 £342 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 42 100
10th Percentile £18.03 £20.80 £15.72
25th Percentile £20.50 £26.62 £22.51
Median hourly rate £37.00 £37.14 £46.78
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -20.60% +33.65%
75th Percentile £65.17 £64.00 £70.50
90th Percentile £78.25 £78.50 £88.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +16.67% +35.87%

Amazon MSK
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon MSK and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Amazon MSK job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Amazon MSK
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon MSK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon MSK

Amazon MSK
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon MSK over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Amazon MSK daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Amazon MSK
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (87.50%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (75.00%) GitHub
4 5 (62.50%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (62.50%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (62.50%) Serverless
5 4 (50.00%) Amazon EventBridge
5 4 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (25.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 2 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
7 2 (25.00%) Datadog
8 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (12.50%) Azure
8 1 (12.50%) GCP
8 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 6 (75.00%) DynamoDB
1 6 (75.00%) NoSQL
2 4 (50.00%) DocumentDB
2 4 (50.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (12.50%) Flink
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Data Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Lead
3 2 (25.00%) Lead Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Data Storage Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) Kafka
2 4 (50.00%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Event-Driven
2 5 (62.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 5 (62.50%) Microservices
3 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (50.00%) TDD
4 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Change Management
5 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
5 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (25.00%) Service-Level Objective
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (12.50%) AI
6 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (25.00%) Go
3 2 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (12.50%) Perl
4 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (12.50%) Ruby
4 1 (12.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Terraform
2 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Grafana
3 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Cloudera
1 1 (12.50%) Confluent
1 1 (12.50%) Splunk