Amazon MSK Jobs

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Amazon MSK skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Amazon MSK over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 689 893 943
Rank change year-on-year +204 +50 +289
Permanent jobs citing Amazon MSK 13 14 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.014% 0.026%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.084% 0.039% 0.061%
Number of salaries quoted 9 7 17
10th Percentile £73,000 - -
25th Percentile £85,000 - £117,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 £65,000 £120,000
Median % change year-on-year +84.62% -45.83% +29.73%
75th Percentile £127,500 £100,000 £130,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 -
% change year-on-year +11.54% - -

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 permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,400 35,996 41,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.58% 34.72% 43.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,158 26,922 27,386
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £34,605
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,450 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% -9.09% +4.76%

Amazon MSK
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon MSK as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon MSK in the UK

Amazon MSK
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Amazon MSK.

Salary trend for Amazon MSK in the UK

Amazon MSK
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon MSK over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Amazon MSK in the UK

Amazon MSK
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon MSK within the UK over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +175 11 £120,000 +84.62% 15
Work from Home +127 9 £120,000 +20.00% 10
London +111 9 £120,000 +20.00% 8
UK excluding London +176 4 £72,500 +11.54% 8
Scotland +117 2 - - 1
North of England +36 2 £72,500 +11.54% 6
North West -1 1 £75,000 +15.38% 4
Yorkshire - 1 £70,000 - 2

Amazon MSK
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (69.23%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (46.15%) Azure
3 6 (46.15%) GCP
3 6 (46.15%) OpenShift
4 4 (30.77%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (23.08%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (23.08%) Serverless
6 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (15.38%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
6 2 (15.38%) Datadog
6 2 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (7.69%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (7.69%) GitHub
7 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (15.38%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (7.69%) DocumentDB
3 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
3 1 (7.69%) MySQL
3 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
1 2 (15.38%) Maven
General
1 10 (76.92%) Banking
1 10 (76.92%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (30.77%) Law
3 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Games
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Senior
2 6 (46.15%) AWS DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) AWS Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Java Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Java Software Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Software Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 2 (15.38%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
5 2 (15.38%) Lead
5 2 (15.38%) Lead Java Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) React Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) Kafka
2 4 (30.77%) Spring
3 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
3 2 (15.38%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (15.38%) HTML
3 2 (15.38%) jQuery
3 2 (15.38%) Lambda Expressions
3 2 (15.38%) React
3 2 (15.38%) RESTful
3 2 (15.38%) Spring Boot
4 1 (7.69%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Derivative
3 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (7.69%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) DevOps
1 8 (61.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 7 (53.85%) Containerisation
3 6 (46.15%) Open Source
3 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (38.46%) Agile
5 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
6 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
6 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (23.08%) TDD
7 2 (15.38%) Application Security
7 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Culture
7 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
7 2 (15.38%) Front End Development
7 2 (15.38%) Incident Response
7 2 (15.38%) Order Management
7 2 (15.38%) Scrum
7 2 (15.38%) SDLC
7 2 (15.38%) System Integration Testing
7 2 (15.38%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 6 (46.15%) Go
3 4 (30.77%) Java
4 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
5 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
6 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
2 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Docker
2 6 (46.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Terraform
2 8 (61.54%) Kubernetes
3 6 (46.15%) Istio
4 2 (15.38%) Ansible
4 2 (15.38%) Argo
4 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Confluent
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle