Hybrid/Remote Amazon MSK Job Trends

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Amazon MSK skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 437 478
Rank change year-on-year +69 +41 +228
Permanent jobs citing Amazon MSK 6 3 8
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.040% 0.018% 0.037%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.11% 0.040% 0.078%
Number of salaries quoted 6 1 8
10th Percentile £68,750 - -
25th Percentile £69,688 £85,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £90,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -9.72% +60.00% -25.50%
75th Percentile £88,438 £95,000 £68,438
90th Percentile £90,625 - £72,375
UK median annual salary £81,250 £77,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.84% +24.00% -47.92%

All Cloud Computing 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 permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,478 7,582 10,195
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.44% 46.33% 46.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3,901 4,830 8,799
10th Percentile £32,000 £36,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £98,750
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 for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Amazon MSK job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Amazon MSK
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon MSK.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon MSK

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 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%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
5 1 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
5 1 (16.67%) Kanban
5 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 1 (16.67%) Project Planning
5 1 (16.67%) Scrum
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
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