The first table below looks at the demand for Kafka skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Kafka over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category for the England region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Kafka
Rank 514 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Kafka 4 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.010% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.053% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £500 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
7582 8779 9623
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 18.26% 16.44% 16.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4342 4956 5207
Average daily rate £363 £350 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -9.67%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £521 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 424 405 536
Average hourly rate £21.34 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.67% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £42.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
Kafka
UK

Kafka
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Kafka across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

England Kafka Jobs Demand Trend

Kafka
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London - 4 £500 -
Kafka
UK

Kafka
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Kafka also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Kafka.

1 4 (80.00%) Hadoop
1 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 4 (80.00%) NoSQL
1 4 (80.00%) Big Data
2 3 (60.00%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) Apache Hive
3 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (40.00%) MapReduce
3 2 (40.00%) Apache Pig
4 1 (20.00%) Hypertable
4 1 (20.00%) StreamBase
4 1 (20.00%) Esper
4 1 (20.00%) HBase
4 1 (20.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (20.00%) OpenStack
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) C++
4 1 (20.00%) Perl
4 1 (20.00%) PHP
4 1 (20.00%) Process Management
4 1 (20.00%) MVC
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Extreme Programming
4 1 (20.00%) CouchDB

Kafka
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Kafka also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Kafka. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (40.00%) MapReduce
2 1 (20.00%) Esper
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
2 1 (20.00%) XML
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (40.00%) Apache Pig
3 1 (20.00%) OpenStack
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Hadoop
1 4 (80.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 4 (80.00%) NoSQL
1 4 (80.00%) Big Data
2 2 (40.00%) Apache Hive
2 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (20.00%) Hypertable
3 1 (20.00%) HBase
3 1 (20.00%) CouchDB
3 1 (20.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Subversion
1 1 (20.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (20.00%) Mercurial
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Hadoop Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (40.00%) TDD
2 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Process Management
2 1 (20.00%) MVC
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) Extreme Programming
2 1 (20.00%) Complex Event Processing
2 1 (20.00%) BDD
2 1 (20.00%) Pattern Recognition
2 1 (20.00%) RDF
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) C++
3 1 (20.00%) Perl
3 1 (20.00%) PHP
3 1 (20.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) StreamBase