Kafka Contracts in Central London

Apache Kafka
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 62 51
Rank change year-on-year -8 -11 +9
Contract jobs citing Kafka 63 133 212
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.59% 3.47% 4.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.60% 12.56% 15.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 80 176
10th Percentile £448 £463 £509
25th Percentile £488 £539 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £638 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.92% -5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £708 £775 £775
90th Percentile £760 £864 £825
London median daily rate £550 £650 £663
% change year-on-year -15.38% -1.89% +15.22%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

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 Central London 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 543 1,059 1,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.30% 27.63% 30.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 390 697 1,115
10th Percentile £413 £413 £421
25th Percentile £456 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £713
90th Percentile £788 £820 £800
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.33
25th Percentile - - £53.94
Median hourly rate - - £62.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +255.71%
75th Percentile - - £69.94
90th Percentile - - £74.18
London median hourly rate £37.50 £67.25 £48.58
% change year-on-year -44.24% +38.43% -0.35%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Central London

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Central London

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Central London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Central London

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Central London region over the 6 months to 6 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
City of London -8 59 £613 -3.92% 8
City of Westminster +2 3 £650 -22.39%
West End of London - 1 - - 2
Kafka
London

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 5 (7.94%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.35%) Apache
3 3 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (3.17%) nginx
4 2 (3.17%) Tomcat
4 2 (3.17%) WebLogic
4 2 (3.17%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.59%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.59%) Tornado
Business Applications
1 4 (6.35%) Endur
2 1 (1.59%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 32 (50.79%) AWS
2 15 (23.81%) Azure
2 15 (23.81%) Serverless
3 9 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (11.11%) GitHub
5 6 (9.52%) Amazon S3
5 6 (9.52%) Azure AKS
5 6 (9.52%) Azure Functions
5 6 (9.52%) Azure Service Bus
5 6 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (6.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (6.35%) Amazon MSK
6 4 (6.35%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (6.35%) AWS Step Functions
7 3 (4.76%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (4.76%) GCP
8 2 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.17%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 2 (3.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.59%) DHCP
1 1 (1.59%) DNS
1 1 (1.59%) Firewall
1 1 (1.59%) Internet
1 1 (1.59%) Kerberos
1 1 (1.59%) MQTT
1 1 (1.59%) SSL
1 1 (1.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (22.22%) MongoDB
2 9 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 6 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (9.52%) Parquet
3 6 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (7.94%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (7.94%) DynamoDB
4 5 (7.94%) MySQL
4 5 (7.94%) NoSQL
5 4 (6.35%) Relational Database
6 3 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (4.76%) Data Lake
6 3 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (4.76%) Tableau
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (3.17%) Big Data
7 2 (3.17%) Data Mart
7 2 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (9.52%) Jenkins
1 6 (9.52%) Mockito
2 5 (7.94%) Cypress.io
2 5 (7.94%) JMeter
3 4 (6.35%) Maven
3 4 (6.35%) Selenium
3 4 (6.35%) SonarQube
4 3 (4.76%) Git
4 3 (4.76%) JUnit
4 3 (4.76%) TestNG
5 2 (3.17%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.17%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.17%) EasyMock
5 2 (3.17%) Gradle
5 2 (3.17%) HP UFT
5 2 (3.17%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (3.17%) Katalon Studio
5 2 (3.17%) Postman
6 1 (1.59%) Deequ
6 1 (1.59%) Spinnaker
General
1 14 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (12.70%) Public Sector
4 7 (11.11%) Finance
5 4 (6.35%) Banking
6 3 (4.76%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.59%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (38.10%) Developer
2 14 (22.22%) Data Engineer
3 10 (15.87%) Site Engineer
3 10 (15.87%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 8 (12.70%) Java Developer
4 8 (12.70%) Python Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) Senior
6 4 (6.35%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Java Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Lead
6 4 (6.35%) Senior Developer
7 3 (4.76%) .NET Developer
7 3 (4.76%) C# .NET Developer
7 3 (4.76%) C# Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Endur Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Full Stack Developer
7 3 (4.76%) OpenLink Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (19.05%) React
1 12 (19.05%) RESTful
2 11 (17.46%) RabbitMQ
3 7 (11.11%) AngularJS
3 7 (11.11%) HTML
3 7 (11.11%) Node.js
3 7 (11.11%) Spring
4 6 (9.52%) Apache Avro
4 6 (9.52%) JSON
4 6 (9.52%) Spring Boot
5 5 (7.94%) .NET
5 5 (7.94%) JAX-RS
6 4 (6.35%) .NET Core
6 4 (6.35%) CSS
6 4 (6.35%) PySpark
6 4 (6.35%) pytest
6 4 (6.35%) WebSockets
7 3 (4.76%) REST
7 3 (4.76%) Swagger
7 3 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 7 (11.11%) Data Structures
3 4 (6.35%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (6.35%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.76%) Hedge funds
4 3 (4.76%) Machine to Machine
5 2 (3.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.59%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 24 (38.10%) Linux
2 6 (9.52%) Unix
3 3 (4.76%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (41.27%) CI/CD
1 26 (41.27%) DevOps
2 23 (36.51%) Microservices
3 14 (22.22%) Agile
4 11 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (17.46%) SDLC
4 11 (17.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 10 (15.87%) ETL
6 8 (12.70%) Data Pipeline
6 8 (12.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (12.70%) Software Engineering
7 7 (11.11%) Analytical Thinking
7 7 (11.11%) Architectural Design
7 7 (11.11%) Data Engineering
7 7 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (11.11%) SFIA
7 7 (11.11%) Task Automation
7 7 (11.11%) Test Automation
8 5 (7.94%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (7.94%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 40 (63.49%) Python
2 26 (41.27%) Java
3 23 (36.51%) SQL
4 11 (17.46%) Shell Script
5 8 (12.70%) Go
5 8 (12.70%) JavaScript
6 7 (11.11%) C#
7 5 (7.94%) C++
7 5 (7.94%) Scala
8 3 (4.76%) Perl
9 2 (3.17%) PHP
9 2 (3.17%) Ruby
9 2 (3.17%) T-SQL
9 2 (3.17%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.59%) C
10 1 (1.59%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 14 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 13 (20.63%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.17%) Degree
4 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.17%) QA
3 1 (1.59%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.59%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (34.92%) Docker
2 10 (15.87%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (60.32%) Kubernetes
2 16 (25.40%) Terraform
3 12 (19.05%) Grafana
4 11 (17.46%) Prometheus
5 10 (15.87%) Consul
6 5 (7.94%) Ansible
6 5 (7.94%) Argo
7 3 (4.76%) Packer
8 2 (3.17%) Kustomize
8 2 (3.17%) Puppet
9 1 (1.59%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 12 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 10 (15.87%) SaltStack
3 5 (7.94%) Oracle
4 3 (4.76%) Databricks
4 3 (4.76%) OpenLink
4 3 (4.76%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.17%) Confluent
5 2 (3.17%) IBM
5 2 (3.17%) Micro Focus
5 2 (3.17%) Murex
5 2 (3.17%) New Relic
6 1 (1.59%) Adobe
6 1 (1.59%) Cisco
6 1 (1.59%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.59%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.59%) SAP
6 1 (1.59%) Terracotta