Kafka Contracts in Berkshire

Apache Kafka
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Kafka skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Kafka over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 104 114
Rank change year-on-year -1 +10 -18
Contract jobs citing Kafka 15 11 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.76% 0.61% 0.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.95% 3.30% 4.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 6
10th Percentile £459 £431 £465
25th Percentile £463 - £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% -25.00% +100.00%
75th Percentile £495 £538 £617
90th Percentile £498 £545 £668
South East median daily rate £475 £555 £600
% change year-on-year -14.41% -7.50% +26.32%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Berkshire

Kafka is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 303 333 405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 15.31% 18.34% 16.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 244 293
10th Percentile £325 £366 £353
25th Percentile £413 £432 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +5.37% +13.89%
75th Percentile £619 £629 £588
90th Percentile £675 £713 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 5
10th Percentile £56.56 £52.90 £30.50
25th Percentile £56.65 £75.06 £35.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £78.75 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.78% +20.23% +63.75%
75th Percentile - £80.25 £68.25
90th Percentile £61.84 £80.48 £75.54
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +55.56% -

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Berkshire

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kafka in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Berkshire

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Reading -7 8 £475 -2.56% 2
Wokingham - 5 £489 - 1
Maidenhead - 1 - -
Kafka
South East

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (13.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Serverless
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.67%) Big Data
4 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.67%) NWDI
3 1 (6.67%) NWDS
General
1 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Developer
1 6 (40.00%) Java Developer
1 6 (40.00%) Site Engineer
1 6 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Consultant
2 1 (6.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Full Stack Developer
2 1 (6.67%) Full Stack Java Developer
2 1 (6.67%) Integration Consultant
2 1 (6.67%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (6.67%) SAP Integration Consultant
2 1 (6.67%) Senior
2 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) Spring Boot
2 6 (40.00%) Spring
3 5 (33.33%) Symfony
4 4 (26.67%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (20.00%) REST
6 2 (13.33%) Mustache
6 2 (13.33%) Node.js
6 2 (13.33%) React
6 2 (13.33%) Web Services
7 1 (6.67%) IDoc
7 1 (6.67%) SOAP
7 1 (6.67%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Microservices
2 9 (60.00%) Agile
3 7 (46.67%) DevOps
3 7 (46.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 7 (46.67%) Software Engineering
4 6 (40.00%) Change Management
4 6 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
4 6 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 6 (40.00%) GitOps
4 6 (40.00%) Incident Response
4 6 (40.00%) ITSM
4 6 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (40.00%) Task Automation
4 6 (40.00%) TDD
5 4 (26.67%) Event-Driven
5 4 (26.67%) SOLID
6 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (20.00%) Scrum
7 1 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Java
2 6 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (33.33%) PHP
4 1 (6.67%) Bash
4 1 (6.67%) Groovy
4 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) SC Cleared
1 8 (53.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 7 (46.67%) Prometheus
3 6 (40.00%) Argo
3 6 (40.00%) Grafana
3 6 (40.00%) Istio
3 6 (40.00%) Kibana
4 1 (6.67%) Ansible
4 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.67%) SAP