Kafka Contracts in England

Apache Kafka
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 128 107
Rank change year-on-year -40 -21 +7
Contract jobs citing Kafka 545 1,045 1,816
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.47% 2.06% 2.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.27% 8.89% 9.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 768 1,279
10th Percentile £376 £463 £475
25th Percentile £463 £525 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -16.54% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £738
90th Percentile £750 £800 £813
UK median daily rate £534 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -17.85% +4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 5
10th Percentile £22.24 £71.85 £54.80
25th Percentile £23.81 £75.00 £58.25
Median hourly rate £31.50 £76.50 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.82% -1.29% +37.17%
75th Percentile £38.94 £81.00 £78.75
90th Percentile £54.50 £90.00 -
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £76.50 £77.50
% change year-on-year -58.82% -1.29% +37.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 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 7,501 11,753 19,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.18% 23.19% 27.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,340 8,694 14,422
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 140 215
10th Percentile £21.54 £25.75 £21.40
25th Percentile £40.16 £45.94 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in England

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in England

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in England

Kafka
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Kafka in England

Kafka
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kafka in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Kafka in England

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Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 26 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
London -35 383 £550 -15.38% 153
North of England +31 61 £492 -8.84% 25
South East +29 45 £475 -14.03% 21
North West +19 40 £523 -2.79% 18
Yorkshire +28 21 £450 -21.74% 5
Midlands +23 8 £398 -24.29% 12
West Midlands +23 5 £406 -22.62% 8
East of England +4 5 £488 -7.14% 8
South West +3 4 £550 -4.35% 9
East Midlands - 3 £398 - 4
Kafka
UK

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 69 (12.66%) Apache
2 65 (11.93%) Apache Spark
3 22 (4.04%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (2.75%) Confluence
5 9 (1.65%) nginx
6 5 (0.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.92%) Tomcat
6 5 (0.92%) Tornado
7 4 (0.73%) Mule
8 3 (0.55%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.55%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.55%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.55%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.37%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.37%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.18%) CMS
10 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (1.28%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (1.65%) Endur
2 5 (0.92%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.37%) SAP Hybris
3 2 (0.37%) Shopify
4 1 (0.18%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.18%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 272 (49.91%) AWS
2 119 (21.83%) Azure
3 76 (13.94%) Serverless
4 65 (11.93%) GCP
5 43 (7.89%) Amazon Kinesis
6 40 (7.34%) AWS Lambda
7 32 (5.87%) Amazon S3
8 29 (5.32%) GitHub
9 22 (4.04%) Amazon EMR
10 19 (3.49%) Azure AKS
11 18 (3.30%) Azure Service Bus
12 17 (3.12%) Amazon MSK
12 17 (3.12%) OpenShift
13 16 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (2.57%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (2.57%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (2.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 12 (2.20%) Amazon SQS
17 11 (2.02%) Azure Functions
18 10 (1.83%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 34 (6.24%) HTTP
2 9 (1.65%) SSL
3 8 (1.47%) DNS
4 5 (0.92%) Firewall
5 4 (0.73%) VPN
6 3 (0.55%) DHCP
6 3 (0.55%) Internet
6 3 (0.55%) IPv4
7 2 (0.37%) SSH
8 1 (0.18%) FTP
8 1 (0.18%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.18%) MQTT
8 1 (0.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (16.51%) Apache Cassandra
2 79 (14.50%) MongoDB
3 64 (11.74%) NoSQL
4 61 (11.19%) PostgreSQL
5 44 (8.07%) Flink
6 41 (7.52%) Big Data
6 41 (7.52%) SQL Server
7 32 (5.87%) Relational Database
8 31 (5.69%) Hadoop
9 29 (5.32%) Amazon Redshift
10 24 (4.40%) Elasticsearch
11 21 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
12 17 (3.12%) DynamoDB
12 17 (3.12%) MySQL
13 15 (2.75%) Apache Hive
13 15 (2.75%) Couchbase
13 15 (2.75%) Redis
14 14 (2.57%) RDBMS
15 13 (2.39%) Data Lake
15 13 (2.39%) HBase
Development Applications
1 54 (9.91%) Jenkins
2 46 (8.44%) Git
3 32 (5.87%) JIRA
4 23 (4.22%) Mockito
5 16 (2.94%) Cypress.io
5 16 (2.94%) Maven
6 15 (2.75%) JMeter
7 14 (2.57%) Selenium
8 13 (2.39%) GitLab
8 13 (2.39%) JUnit
9 12 (2.20%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.65%) TeamCity
11 8 (1.47%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.47%) Subversion
12 7 (1.28%) Liquibase
12 7 (1.28%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.92%) Gradle
13 5 (0.92%) Pylint
14 4 (0.73%) Jasmine
14 4 (0.73%) webpack
General
1 85 (15.60%) Finance
1 85 (15.60%) Social Skills
2 49 (8.99%) Banking
3 48 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (7.16%) Public Sector
5 9 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (1.65%) Retail
5 9 (1.65%) Telecoms
6 6 (1.10%) Investment Banking
7 5 (0.92%) Marketing
8 4 (0.73%) Automotive
8 4 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (0.73%) Retail Banking
9 3 (0.55%) Back Office
9 3 (0.55%) Games
9 3 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.55%) Legal
9 3 (0.55%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.37%) Front Office
10 2 (0.37%) German Language
Job Titles
1 202 (37.06%) Developer
2 102 (18.72%) Senior
3 91 (16.70%) Java Developer
4 84 (15.41%) Software Engineer
5 82 (15.05%) Data Engineer
6 40 (7.34%) Architect
6 40 (7.34%) Senior Software Engineer
7 39 (7.16%) Scala Developer
8 34 (6.24%) Senior Developer
9 32 (5.87%) Lead
10 26 (4.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 25 (4.59%) Site Engineer
12 24 (4.40%) Python Engineer
13 23 (4.22%) AWS Engineer
14 21 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
14 21 (3.85%) Full Stack Developer
15 19 (3.49%) Data Architect
15 19 (3.49%) Senior Java Developer
16 15 (2.75%) .NET Developer
16 15 (2.75%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (11.01%) Spring
2 58 (10.64%) Spring Boot
3 57 (10.46%) RESTful
4 48 (8.81%) REST
5 47 (8.62%) React
6 39 (7.16%) RabbitMQ
7 36 (6.61%) .NET
8 35 (6.42%) Akka
9 32 (5.87%) ActiveMQ
10 31 (5.69%) Web Services
11 29 (5.32%) JSON
12 27 (4.95%) Node.js
13 24 (4.40%) .NET Core
13 24 (4.40%) AngularJS
14 21 (3.85%) JAX-RS
15 18 (3.30%) HTML
16 17 (3.12%) Elastic Stack
16 17 (3.12%) PySpark
17 13 (2.39%) pytest
17 13 (2.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (6.97%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (4.40%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.04%) Algorithms
4 15 (2.75%) Data Structures
4 15 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (2.57%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (2.02%) Public Cloud
7 9 (1.65%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.47%) Derivative
8 8 (1.47%) Hedge funds
8 8 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (1.47%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.28%) Machine to Machine
10 6 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (0.92%) DataPower
11 5 (0.92%) Market Risk
11 5 (0.92%) Solar Panel
12 3 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.55%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 89 (16.33%) Linux
2 39 (7.16%) Unix
3 21 (3.85%) Mac OS X
4 11 (2.02%) Windows
5 4 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.55%) zOS
7 2 (0.37%) VMS
7 2 (0.37%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.18%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (43.30%) Agile
2 165 (30.28%) DevOps
3 161 (29.54%) Microservices
4 131 (24.04%) Software Engineering
5 127 (23.30%) CI/CD
6 103 (18.90%) TDD
7 71 (13.03%) Test Automation
8 62 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
9 60 (11.01%) Data Pipeline
10 53 (9.72%) User Experience
11 49 (8.99%) Data Engineering
11 49 (8.99%) Fintech
11 49 (8.99%) Pair Programming
12 47 (8.62%) User Research
12 47 (8.62%) UX Design
13 46 (8.44%) UX Research
14 44 (8.07%) Scrum
15 43 (7.89%) Containerisation
16 42 (7.71%) ETL
17 40 (7.34%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 214 (39.27%) Java
2 173 (31.74%) Python
3 132 (24.22%) SQL
4 85 (15.60%) Scala
5 80 (14.68%) Go
6 50 (9.17%) JavaScript
7 47 (8.62%) C#
8 24 (4.40%) Shell Script
9 20 (3.67%) C++
10 17 (3.12%) Groovy
11 15 (2.75%) PHP
12 13 (2.39%) Perl
12 13 (2.39%) TypeScript
13 12 (2.20%) Bash
14 8 (1.47%) Ruby
15 5 (0.92%) C
15 5 (0.92%) Rust
16 4 (0.73%) Haskell
17 3 (0.55%) Clojure
17 3 (0.55%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 114 (20.92%) Security Cleared
2 103 (18.90%) SC Cleared
3 34 (6.24%) Degree
4 18 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (0.92%) DV Cleared
5 5 (0.92%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.73%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.39%) Data Quality
2 10 (1.83%) QA
3 4 (0.73%) GDPR
4 2 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (0.37%) MiFID
4 2 (0.37%) NIST
5 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.18%) GRC
System Software
1 147 (26.97%) Docker
2 16 (2.94%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 11 (2.02%) HDFS
4 4 (0.73%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 229 (42.02%) Kubernetes
2 66 (12.11%) Terraform
3 42 (7.71%) Grafana
4 39 (7.16%) Prometheus
5 29 (5.32%) Ansible
6 18 (3.30%) Argo
7 14 (2.57%) Consul
8 11 (2.02%) Istio
9 10 (1.83%) Kibana
10 8 (1.47%) Packer
11 7 (1.28%) Hadoop YARN
12 6 (1.10%) Puppet
13 4 (0.73%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.55%) Kustomize
14 3 (0.55%) Oozie
15 2 (0.37%) Ambari
16 1 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
16 1 (0.18%) Rancher
16 1 (0.18%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 54 (9.91%) Oracle
2 37 (6.79%) Microsoft
3 26 (4.77%) Databricks
4 19 (3.49%) Typelevel
5 18 (3.30%) IBM
6 17 (3.12%) SAP
7 13 (2.39%) Google
8 12 (2.20%) Confluent
8 12 (2.20%) Splunk
9 11 (2.02%) SaltStack
10 9 (1.65%) Informatica
11 6 (1.10%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.10%) Solace
12 5 (0.92%) Adobe
12 5 (0.92%) New Relic
12 5 (0.92%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.92%) TSYS
13 4 (0.73%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.73%) OpenLink
13 4 (0.73%) Red Hat