Amazon MSK Job Trends in England

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Amazon MSK skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 666 686
Rank change year-on-year +74 +20 +280
Permanent jobs citing Amazon MSK 6 5 10
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.011% 0.010% 0.020%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.033% 0.028% 0.050%
Number of salaries quoted 6 5 10
10th Percentile £68,750 - £46,250
25th Percentile £69,688 £76,250 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £77,500 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% +16.98% -42.39%
75th Percentile £88,438 £95,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,625 £114,500 £110,500
UK median annual salary £81,250 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.84% +19.23% -43.48%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

Amazon MSK falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 18,457 17,609 20,024
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.32% 36.47% 40.44%
Number of salaries quoted 10,272 10,430 16,787
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,600 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.12% +7.67% -7.69%

Amazon MSK
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Amazon MSK job vacancy trend in England

Amazon MSK
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Amazon MSK.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Amazon MSK

Amazon MSK
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon MSK within the England region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +49 4 £81,250 -9.72% 5
South West - 2 £81,250 -
Amazon MSK
UK

Amazon MSK
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 6 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (83.33%) Cypress.io
General
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Principal Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Principal Software Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) React
2 5 (83.33%) Jest
2 5 (83.33%) Kafka
2 5 (83.33%) Redux
2 5 (83.33%) RESTful
2 5 (83.33%) Spring
2 5 (83.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
2 5 (83.33%) Coaching
2 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
3 4 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (16.67%) API Design
5 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 1 (16.67%) Kanban
5 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Project Planning
5 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kibana