Kafka Contracts in the East of England

Apache Kafka
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 116 136
Rank change year-on-year +8 +20 -48
Contract jobs citing Kafka 5 14 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.26% 0.67% 0.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.81% 5.05% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 11
10th Percentile £319 £488 -
25th Percentile £347 £500 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £666 £549 £488
90th Percentile £694 £650 £575
England median daily rate £548 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -15.77% - +13.04%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East of England

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 East of England 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 276 277 415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 14.56% 13.34% 16.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 167 264
10th Percentile £325 £328 £361
25th Percentile £363 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.33% +4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £640 £599
90th Percentile £700 £700 £669
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 23 24
10th Percentile - £21.00 £31.65
25th Percentile - £21.75 £48.50
Median hourly rate £43.00 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.85% +32.65% +3.16%
75th Percentile £59.38 £73.75 £62.29
90th Percentile £66.25 £74.50 £73.30
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Kafka in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the East of England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Kafka in the East of England

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the East of England region over the 6 months to 27 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
Hertfordshire +3 3 £638 -1.92% 2
Essex -5 2 £338 -35.90%
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (40.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (20.00%) CMS
2 1 (20.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Serverless
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (20.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 1 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (40.00%) Big Data
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (20.00%) HBase
2 1 (20.00%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (20.00%) Redis
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Maven
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Games
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Scala Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) Akka
2 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) React Native
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) SDLC
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (20.00%) Data Management
2 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (20.00%) ETL
2 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (20.00%) Scorecard
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) Statistics
2 1 (20.00%) TDD
2 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Scala
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) PHP
3 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Hadoop YARN
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Informatica
2 1 (20.00%) Hortonworks
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Talend
2 1 (20.00%) Teradata
2 1 (20.00%) Typelevel