Kafka Contracts in the City of London

Apache Kafka
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 59 49
Rank change year-on-year -12 -10 +15
Contract jobs citing Kafka 61 130 201
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.80% 3.64% 4.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.58% 12.97% 15.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 76 167
10th Percentile £440 £494 £510
25th Percentile £488 £548 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £638 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.92% -5.56% +11.94%
75th Percentile £710 £756 £775
90th Percentile £765 £863 £833
Central London median daily rate £630 £638 £675
% change year-on-year -1.18% -5.56% +12.22%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of 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 the City of 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 485 1,002 1,298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.25% 28.06% 30.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 652 1,044
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £506 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £713
90th Percentile £788 £820 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
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
Central London median hourly rate - - £62.25
% change year-on-year - - +255.71%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Kafka in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the City of London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 4 (6.56%) Apache
2 3 (4.92%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.28%) nginx
3 2 (3.28%) Tomcat
3 2 (3.28%) WebLogic
3 2 (3.28%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.64%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.64%) Tornado
Business Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Endur
2 1 (1.64%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 29 (47.54%) AWS
2 15 (24.59%) Azure
2 15 (24.59%) Serverless
3 9 (14.75%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (13.11%) GitHub
5 6 (9.84%) Azure AKS
5 6 (9.84%) Azure Functions
5 6 (9.84%) Azure Service Bus
5 6 (9.84%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (8.20%) Amazon S3
7 4 (6.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (6.56%) Amazon MSK
7 4 (6.56%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (6.56%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.28%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 2 (3.28%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (3.28%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (3.28%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) DHCP
1 1 (1.64%) DNS
1 1 (1.64%) Firewall
1 1 (1.64%) HTTP
1 1 (1.64%) Internet
1 1 (1.64%) Kerberos
1 1 (1.64%) MQTT
1 1 (1.64%) SSL
1 1 (1.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (22.95%) MongoDB
2 8 (13.11%) SQL Server
3 6 (9.84%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (8.20%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (8.20%) DynamoDB
4 5 (8.20%) MySQL
4 5 (8.20%) Parquet
4 5 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (6.56%) NoSQL
6 3 (4.92%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (4.92%) Relational Database
6 3 (4.92%) Tableau
7 2 (3.28%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (3.28%) Data Mart
7 2 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.64%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.64%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.64%) Redis
8 1 (1.64%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 6 (9.84%) Jenkins
1 6 (9.84%) Mockito
2 5 (8.20%) Cypress.io
2 5 (8.20%) JMeter
3 4 (6.56%) Maven
3 4 (6.56%) Selenium
3 4 (6.56%) SonarQube
4 3 (4.92%) Git
4 3 (4.92%) JUnit
4 3 (4.92%) TestNG
5 2 (3.28%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.28%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.28%) EasyMock
5 2 (3.28%) GitLab
5 2 (3.28%) Gradle
5 2 (3.28%) HP UFT
5 2 (3.28%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (3.28%) Katalon Studio
5 2 (3.28%) Postman
6 1 (1.64%) Spinnaker
General
1 16 (26.23%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.03%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (13.11%) Public Sector
4 7 (11.48%) Finance
5 4 (6.56%) Banking
6 3 (4.92%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.64%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (34.43%) Developer
2 13 (21.31%) Data Engineer
3 11 (18.03%) Site Engineer
3 11 (18.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 9 (14.75%) Python Engineer
5 8 (13.11%) Java Developer
6 7 (11.48%) Senior
7 5 (8.20%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) Java Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) Lead
8 4 (6.56%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.92%) Endur Developer
9 3 (4.92%) Full Stack Developer
9 3 (4.92%) OpenLink Developer
9 3 (4.92%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (4.92%) Software Engineer
10 2 (3.28%) Architect
10 2 (3.28%) Backend Developer
10 2 (3.28%) Murex Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (21.31%) RESTful
2 12 (19.67%) RabbitMQ
3 10 (16.39%) React
4 8 (13.11%) HTML
5 7 (11.48%) Node.js
5 7 (11.48%) Spring
6 6 (9.84%) Spring Boot
7 5 (8.20%) AngularJS
7 5 (8.20%) Apache Avro
7 5 (8.20%) CSS
7 5 (8.20%) JAX-RS
7 5 (8.20%) JSON
8 4 (6.56%) pytest
8 4 (6.56%) REST
8 4 (6.56%) WebSockets
9 3 (4.92%) .NET
9 3 (4.92%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (4.92%) GraphQL
9 3 (4.92%) Swagger
9 3 (4.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (24.59%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (13.11%) Algorithms
2 8 (13.11%) Data Structures
3 4 (6.56%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (4.92%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.92%) Machine to Machine
5 2 (3.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.64%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 26 (42.62%) Linux
2 6 (9.84%) Unix
3 3 (4.92%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (45.90%) DevOps
2 27 (44.26%) CI/CD
3 22 (36.07%) Microservices
4 13 (21.31%) Agile
5 12 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (19.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 10 (16.39%) SDLC
7 9 (14.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (13.11%) Analytical Thinking
8 8 (13.11%) ETL
8 8 (13.11%) Task Automation
9 7 (11.48%) Architectural Design
9 7 (11.48%) SFIA
9 7 (11.48%) Software Engineering
9 7 (11.48%) Test Automation
10 6 (9.84%) Data Pipeline
10 6 (9.84%) Platform Engineering
11 5 (8.20%) Data Engineering
11 5 (8.20%) TDD
11 5 (8.20%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 39 (63.93%) Python
2 27 (44.26%) Java
3 21 (34.43%) SQL
4 12 (19.67%) Shell Script
5 8 (13.11%) Go
5 8 (13.11%) JavaScript
6 5 (8.20%) C#
6 5 (8.20%) C++
7 3 (4.92%) Perl
7 3 (4.92%) Scala
8 2 (3.28%) PHP
8 2 (3.28%) Ruby
8 2 (3.28%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.64%) C
9 1 (1.64%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.64%) SPARQL
9 1 (1.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (24.59%) Security Cleared
2 14 (22.95%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.28%) Degree
4 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.28%) Data Quality
1 2 (3.28%) QA
2 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (37.70%) Docker
2 11 (18.03%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (65.57%) Kubernetes
2 15 (24.59%) Terraform
3 13 (21.31%) Grafana
4 12 (19.67%) Prometheus
5 11 (18.03%) Consul
6 5 (8.20%) Ansible
6 5 (8.20%) Argo
7 3 (4.92%) Packer
8 2 (3.28%) Kustomize
8 2 (3.28%) Puppet
9 1 (1.64%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (21.31%) Microsoft
2 11 (18.03%) SaltStack
3 5 (8.20%) Oracle
4 3 (4.92%) OpenLink
4 3 (4.92%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.28%) Confluent
5 2 (3.28%) Databricks
5 2 (3.28%) IBM
5 2 (3.28%) Micro Focus
5 2 (3.28%) Murex
5 2 (3.28%) New Relic
6 1 (1.64%) Adobe
6 1 (1.64%) Cisco
6 1 (1.64%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.64%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.64%) SAP
6 1 (1.64%) Terracotta