Amazon MSK Contracts

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Amazon MSK skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon MSK over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 550 674 776
Rank change year-on-year +124 +102 -82
Contract jobs citing Amazon MSK 37 32 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.087% 0.056% 0.062%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.27% 0.15% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 19 49
10th Percentile £394 £616 £500
25th Percentile £413 £625 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £680 £550
Median % change year-on-year -30.15% +23.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £563 £765 £788
90th Percentile £609 £883 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +30.00% -9.09%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Amazon MSK is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,842 21,188 33,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.44% 36.76% 38.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,830 15,319 24,772
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £744 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 340 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.00 £18.44 £15.37
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.73%
75th Percentile £35.50 £66.00 £54.81
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £19.63
% change year-on-year -29.12% +27.39% -1.88%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon MSK in the UK

Amazon MSK
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon MSK over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon MSK in the UK

Amazon MSK
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon MSK within the UK over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +120 37 £475 -30.15% 4
London +93 32 £450 -33.82% 3
Work from Home +105 6 £513 -24.63% 6
UK excluding London +66 4 £575 -11.54% 2
Midlands - 2 - -
South East - 2 £575 -
West Midlands - 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (16.22%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) Apache
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 37 (100.00%) AWS
2 23 (62.16%) Serverless
3 22 (59.46%) AWS Lambda
4 21 (56.76%) Amazon S3
5 20 (54.05%) AWS Step Functions
6 9 (24.32%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (10.81%) Amazon ECR
7 4 (10.81%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (10.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 3 (8.11%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (8.11%) GitHub
8 3 (8.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (2.70%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (2.70%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) DNS
1 4 (10.81%) VPN
2 1 (2.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (75.68%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (59.46%) Amazon Redshift
3 21 (56.76%) DynamoDB
4 19 (51.35%) Parquet
5 5 (13.51%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (10.81%) Amazon QuickSight
6 4 (10.81%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (10.81%) MariaDB
7 3 (8.11%) MySQL
7 3 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
9 1 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (2.70%) DB2
9 1 (2.70%) RDBMS
9 1 (2.70%) Redis
9 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
9 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (13.51%) JIRA
2 4 (10.81%) Cypress.io
2 4 (10.81%) Snyk
3 2 (5.41%) Liquibase
4 1 (2.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (2.70%) GitLab
General
1 12 (32.43%) Public Sector
2 5 (13.51%) Finance
3 4 (10.81%) Banking
4 3 (8.11%) Retail Banking
5 2 (5.41%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Front Office
6 1 (2.70%) Games
6 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 20 (54.05%) Data Engineer
2 11 (29.73%) Developer
3 3 (8.11%) Architect
4 2 (5.41%) AWS Architect
4 2 (5.41%) AWS Data Architect
4 2 (5.41%) AWS Data Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Backend Developer
4 2 (5.41%) Data Architect
4 2 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Analyst
5 1 (2.70%) Business Analyst
5 1 (2.70%) Data Analyst
5 1 (2.70%) Java Developer
5 1 (2.70%) Senior
5 1 (2.70%) Senior Developer
5 1 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.70%) VBA Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (51.35%) Apache Avro
1 19 (51.35%) JSON
2 17 (45.95%) Kafka
3 9 (24.32%) Spring
4 8 (21.62%) Spring Boot
5 6 (16.22%) Hibernate
5 6 (16.22%) JPA
6 4 (10.81%) GraphQL
6 4 (10.81%) REST
6 4 (10.81%) Spring Security
7 2 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (2.70%) .NET
8 1 (2.70%) BREW
8 1 (2.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.70%) Market Risk
3 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (56.76%) ETL
2 20 (54.05%) Data Ingestion
3 14 (37.84%) Data Modelling
4 13 (35.14%) Data Pipeline
5 11 (29.73%) Predictive Modelling
6 10 (27.03%) Business Transformation
7 9 (24.32%) Agile
7 9 (24.32%) Microservices
8 6 (16.22%) DevOps
8 6 (16.22%) Migration
9 4 (10.81%) Database Migration
9 4 (10.81%) High Availability
9 4 (10.81%) Kalman Filter
9 4 (10.81%) Observability
9 4 (10.81%) Scrum
9 4 (10.81%) SFIA
10 3 (8.11%) Business Analysis
10 3 (8.11%) Full Stack Development
10 3 (8.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 3 (8.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (64.86%) SQL
2 22 (59.46%) Python
3 14 (37.84%) Java
4 7 (18.92%) PHP
5 4 (10.81%) Go
6 3 (8.11%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.41%) Lua
7 2 (5.41%) Perl
7 2 (5.41%) Scala
8 1 (2.70%) R
8 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (67.57%) SC Cleared
1 25 (67.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) Degree
3 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (21.62%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.81%) Grafana
2 4 (10.81%) Prometheus
3 3 (8.11%) Terraform
4 1 (2.70%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (5.41%) SAP
2 1 (2.70%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.70%) Bloomberg
2 1 (2.70%) OpenLink
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle
2 1 (2.70%) Sage
2 1 (2.70%) Trayport