Kafka Contracts in Birmingham

Apache Kafka
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 63 70 85
Rank change year-on-year +7 +15 -20
Contract jobs citing Kafka 4 5 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.52% 0.55% 0.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.28% 2.92% 5.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile £335 - £363
25th Percentile £378 £620 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £640 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% +28.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £619
90th Percentile £710 - £728
West Midlands median daily rate £313 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -40.48% +5.00% +21.21%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Birmingham

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 Birmingham 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 122 171 197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 15.78% 18.92% 14.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 123 141
10th Percentile £226 £330 £363
25th Percentile £362 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% +5.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £563
90th Percentile £700 - £650
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £495
% change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% +23.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £24.48 - -
25th Percentile £40.00 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £56.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £40.00 - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Birmingham over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) Flink
1 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (25.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Data Science
1 2 (50.00%) Data Security
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Algorithmic Trading
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Cryptography
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (25.00%) Kanban
2 1 (25.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) Scala
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) F5
1 1 (25.00%) ION Trading
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Qualys
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk