Kafka Contracts in Cheshire

Apache Kafka
North West > Cheshire

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 46 54
Rank change year-on-year -2 +8 -6
Contract jobs citing Kafka 9 15 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.81% 2.82% 0.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.31% 14.15% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 3
10th Percentile £309 £416 -
25th Percentile £311 £440 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £445 £324
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% +37.35% -25.94%
75th Percentile £489 £485 £365
90th Percentile £493 £654 £390
North West median daily rate £523 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -2.79% -10.42% +14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cheshire

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 Cheshire 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 52 106 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 10.44% 19.96% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 89 56
10th Percentile £288 £325 £320
25th Percentile £320 £425 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £540 £408
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +32.52% +1.88%
75th Percentile £507 £575 £522
90th Percentile £575 £620 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £10.75 - -
Median hourly rate £11.50 - £28.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.65%
75th Percentile £12.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £47.31 £45.00 £40.62
% change year-on-year +5.12% +10.80% +19.46%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Cheshire

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Cheshire

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Cheshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Cheshire

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Knutsford +8 9 £438 -1.69%
Kafka
North West

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (55.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (44.44%) Confluence
2 4 (44.44%) Mule
Applications
1 5 (55.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Apigee
2 5 (55.56%) Kong
3 4 (44.44%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) MongoDB
1 5 (55.56%) OLAP
1 5 (55.56%) OLTP
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) JIRA
2 4 (44.44%) Liquibase
2 4 (44.44%) Log4j
3 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 2 (22.22%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (66.67%) Banking
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Architect
1 5 (55.56%) AWS Architect
2 4 (44.44%) AWS Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) Web Services
2 5 (55.56%) IBM Integration Bus
2 5 (55.56%) J2EE
2 5 (55.56%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (55.56%) SOAP
3 4 (44.44%) Apache Camel
3 4 (44.44%) Hibernate
3 4 (44.44%) REST
3 4 (44.44%) Spring
3 4 (44.44%) Spring Boot
3 4 (44.44%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) DataPower
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Microservices
2 5 (55.56%) API Management
2 5 (55.56%) CQRS
2 5 (55.56%) Design Patterns
2 5 (55.56%) Enterprise Architecture
2 5 (55.56%) Event-Driven
2 5 (55.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 5 (55.56%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (55.56%) OO
2 5 (55.56%) OOA/OOD
2 5 (55.56%) Risk Management
2 5 (55.56%) SOA
2 5 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Open Source
3 4 (44.44%) Technical Debt
3 4 (44.44%) TOGAF
3 4 (44.44%) Unit Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) IBM
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle
1 5 (55.56%) TSYS