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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 123 103
Rank change year-on-year -34 -20 +8
Contract jobs citing Kafka 566 993 1,793
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.56% 2.06% 2.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.58% 8.94% 9.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 740 1,272
10th Percentile £400 £463 £475
25th Percentile £463 £525 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £743
90th Percentile £750 £810 £815
UK median daily rate £538 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -17.31% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 4
10th Percentile £22.24 £72.90 £54.23
25th Percentile £23.81 £75.00 £56.81
Median hourly rate £31.50 £78.00 £69.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.62% +12.23% +23.01%
75th Percentile £38.94 £90.00 £78.75
90th Percentile £54.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £78.00 £69.50
% change year-on-year -59.62% +12.23% +23.01%

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 7,471 11,102 18,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.55% 22.99% 26.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,300 8,242 14,179
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £565
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -0.88% +13.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 133 215
10th Percentile £22.35 £26.60 £23.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +28.71% +10.99%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 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
London -27 389 £570 -12.31% 160
North of England +25 70 £507 -11.83% 18
South East +33 48 £475 -14.03% 24
North West +23 40 £524 +5.81% 8
Yorkshire +23 30 £475 -26.92% 9
South West +1 9 £533 -11.17% 9
Midlands +27 8 £398 -24.29% 13
West Midlands +11 5 £400 -23.81% 7
East of England +2 4 £600 +13.21% 5
East Midlands - 3 £398 - 6
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 72 (12.72%) Apache Spark
2 69 (12.19%) Apache
3 18 (3.18%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (3.00%) Confluence
5 11 (1.94%) nginx
6 6 (1.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.88%) Tornado
8 4 (0.71%) Mule
8 4 (0.71%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.53%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.53%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.53%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.35%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.35%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.35%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.18%) CMS
11 1 (0.18%) JBoss
Applications
1 9 (1.59%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (1.59%) Endur
2 7 (1.24%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.35%) Shopify
4 1 (0.18%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.18%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 292 (51.59%) AWS
2 137 (24.20%) Azure
3 79 (13.96%) GCP
3 79 (13.96%) Serverless
4 42 (7.42%) Amazon Kinesis
5 38 (6.71%) AWS Lambda
6 37 (6.54%) Amazon S3
7 36 (6.36%) GitHub
8 27 (4.77%) OpenShift
9 22 (3.89%) Amazon EMR
10 21 (3.71%) Azure AKS
11 19 (3.36%) Azure Service Bus
12 17 (3.00%) Amazon MSK
13 14 (2.47%) Cloud Computing
13 14 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (2.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (2.30%) Amazon EC2
14 13 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (2.12%) Amazon SQS
16 10 (1.77%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 46 (8.13%) HTTP
2 10 (1.77%) SSL
3 7 (1.24%) DNS
4 5 (0.88%) Firewall
5 4 (0.71%) VPN
6 3 (0.53%) IPv4
7 2 (0.35%) AMQP
7 2 (0.35%) DHCP
7 2 (0.35%) Internet
7 2 (0.35%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.18%) FTP
8 1 (0.18%) MQTT
8 1 (0.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (15.90%) Apache Cassandra
2 83 (14.66%) MongoDB
3 62 (10.95%) NoSQL
4 61 (10.78%) PostgreSQL
5 43 (7.60%) Flink
5 43 (7.60%) SQL Server
6 42 (7.42%) Big Data
7 35 (6.18%) Hadoop
8 33 (5.83%) Amazon Redshift
8 33 (5.83%) Relational Database
9 27 (4.77%) Elasticsearch
10 25 (4.42%) Data Warehouse
11 21 (3.71%) Data Lake
12 19 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
12 19 (3.36%) DynamoDB
13 18 (3.18%) Couchbase
14 17 (3.00%) Amazon Athena
15 14 (2.47%) Apache Hive
16 13 (2.30%) MySQL
16 13 (2.30%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 63 (11.13%) Jenkins
2 54 (9.54%) Git
3 33 (5.83%) JIRA
4 22 (3.89%) GitLab
4 22 (3.89%) Mockito
5 19 (3.36%) Cypress.io
6 16 (2.83%) JMeter
7 14 (2.47%) Maven
7 14 (2.47%) Selenium
8 11 (1.94%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.59%) TeamCity
10 8 (1.41%) Bitbucket
10 8 (1.41%) JUnit
10 8 (1.41%) Subversion
11 7 (1.24%) SonarQube
12 6 (1.06%) Liquibase
12 6 (1.06%) Mocha
13 5 (0.88%) Pylint
13 5 (0.88%) Travis CI
14 4 (0.71%) Gatling
General
1 96 (16.96%) Finance
2 92 (16.25%) Social Skills
3 51 (9.01%) Banking
4 48 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (7.07%) Public Sector
6 9 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (1.59%) Telecoms
7 8 (1.41%) Investment Banking
7 8 (1.41%) Retail
8 5 (0.88%) Marketing
9 4 (0.71%) Automotive
9 4 (0.71%) Front Office
9 4 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (0.71%) Retail Banking
10 3 (0.53%) Back Office
10 3 (0.53%) Games
10 3 (0.53%) Legal
10 3 (0.53%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.35%) German Language
11 2 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 202 (35.69%) Developer
2 97 (17.14%) Senior
3 88 (15.55%) Java Developer
4 79 (13.96%) Software Engineer
5 73 (12.90%) Data Engineer
6 56 (9.89%) Architect
7 42 (7.42%) Scala Developer
8 38 (6.71%) Senior Software Engineer
9 36 (6.36%) Lead
10 33 (5.83%) DevOps Engineer
11 31 (5.48%) Senior Developer
12 26 (4.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 24 (4.24%) Python Engineer
13 24 (4.24%) Site Engineer
14 23 (4.06%) AWS Engineer
15 21 (3.71%) Data Architect
16 20 (3.53%) Full Stack Developer
16 20 (3.53%) Senior Java Developer
17 18 (3.18%) AWS Architect
18 17 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (11.66%) RESTful
2 59 (10.42%) Spring
3 57 (10.07%) Spring Boot
4 48 (8.48%) React
5 45 (7.95%) REST
6 41 (7.24%) RabbitMQ
7 40 (7.07%) Akka
8 37 (6.54%) .NET
9 33 (5.83%) Web Services
10 31 (5.48%) ActiveMQ
11 28 (4.95%) Node.js
12 26 (4.59%) JSON
13 24 (4.24%) AngularJS
13 24 (4.24%) HTML
14 23 (4.06%) .NET Core
15 21 (3.71%) JAX-RS
16 20 (3.53%) GraphQL
17 16 (2.83%) CSS
18 15 (2.65%) Apache NiFi
19 14 (2.47%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 41 (7.24%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (4.77%) Cloud Native
3 22 (3.89%) Algorithms
4 18 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (2.83%) Data Structures
6 13 (2.30%) Hedge funds
7 12 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (1.94%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.77%) Product Ownership
10 8 (1.41%) Derivative
10 8 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.24%) DataPower
11 7 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.24%) Machine to Machine
12 6 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (0.88%) Market Risk
13 5 (0.88%) Onboarding
13 5 (0.88%) Solar Panel
14 4 (0.71%) Cyber Threat
14 4 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 100 (17.67%) Linux
2 44 (7.77%) Unix
3 21 (3.71%) Mac OS X
4 14 (2.47%) Windows
5 5 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.71%) zOS
7 2 (0.35%) VMS
7 2 (0.35%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.18%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (41.52%) Agile
2 191 (33.75%) DevOps
3 168 (29.68%) Microservices
4 137 (24.20%) CI/CD
5 129 (22.79%) Software Engineering
6 101 (17.84%) TDD
7 76 (13.43%) Test Automation
8 64 (11.31%) Containerisation
9 63 (11.13%) Problem-Solving
10 57 (10.07%) Data Pipeline
11 51 (9.01%) Pair Programming
11 51 (9.01%) User Experience
12 48 (8.48%) ETL
13 47 (8.30%) Fintech
14 46 (8.13%) Data Engineering
15 45 (7.95%) User Research
15 45 (7.95%) UX Design
16 44 (7.77%) UX Research
17 42 (7.42%) Design Patterns
17 42 (7.42%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 222 (39.22%) Java
2 174 (30.74%) Python
3 131 (23.14%) SQL
4 87 (15.37%) Scala
5 78 (13.78%) Go
6 58 (10.25%) JavaScript
7 47 (8.30%) C#
8 27 (4.77%) Shell Script
9 22 (3.89%) C++
10 18 (3.18%) Groovy
11 17 (3.00%) TypeScript
12 15 (2.65%) PHP
13 14 (2.47%) Bash
14 13 (2.30%) Perl
15 9 (1.59%) Ruby
16 7 (1.24%) SPARQL
17 5 (0.88%) C
17 5 (0.88%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.88%) Rust
18 4 (0.71%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 117 (20.67%) Security Cleared
2 108 (19.08%) SC Cleared
3 38 (6.71%) Degree
4 20 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (0.88%) DV Cleared
5 5 (0.88%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (0.71%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.35%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (1.94%) Data Quality
2 5 (0.88%) QA
3 4 (0.71%) GDPR
3 4 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (0.35%) MiFID
4 2 (0.35%) NIST
5 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.18%) GRC
5 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 162 (28.62%) Docker
2 16 (2.83%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 10 (1.77%) HDFS
4 5 (0.88%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 249 (43.99%) Kubernetes
2 74 (13.07%) Terraform
3 46 (8.13%) Grafana
4 43 (7.60%) Prometheus
5 31 (5.48%) Ansible
6 19 (3.36%) Argo
7 15 (2.65%) Consul
8 13 (2.30%) Istio
9 12 (2.12%) Kibana
10 9 (1.59%) Packer
11 7 (1.24%) Puppet
12 6 (1.06%) Hadoop YARN
12 6 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.71%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.53%) Kustomize
14 3 (0.53%) Oozie
15 2 (0.35%) Ambari
16 1 (0.18%) HAProxy
16 1 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
16 1 (0.18%) Salt
Vendors
1 53 (9.36%) Oracle
2 45 (7.95%) Microsoft
3 26 (4.59%) Databricks
4 21 (3.71%) IBM
5 20 (3.53%) Typelevel
6 17 (3.00%) Google
6 17 (3.00%) SAP
7 15 (2.65%) Confluent
7 15 (2.65%) Splunk
8 12 (2.12%) SaltStack
9 7 (1.24%) TSYS
10 6 (1.06%) Informatica
10 6 (1.06%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.06%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.06%) Solace
11 4 (0.71%) Adobe
11 4 (0.71%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.71%) F5
11 4 (0.71%) OpenLink
11 4 (0.71%) Salesforce