Kafka Contracts in London

Apache Kafka
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 113 77 73
Rank change year-on-year -36 -4 +12
Contract jobs citing Kafka 378 870 1,361
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.13% 3.21% 3.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.54% 11.72% 11.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 648 989
10th Percentile £413 £463 £512
25th Percentile £463 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £750
90th Percentile £756 £815 £825
England median daily rate £548 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -15.77% - +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 5
10th Percentile - £69.75 £54.80
25th Percentile - - £58.25
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year - -3.23% -
75th Percentile - £86.25 £78.75
90th Percentile - £90.00 -
England median hourly rate £31.50 £76.50 £77.50
% change year-on-year -58.82% -1.29% +37.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 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 4,425 7,424 12,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.99% 27.42% 31.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,324 5,530 9,406
10th Percentile £375 £413 £425
25th Percentile £457 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £730 £700
90th Percentile £821 £813 £788
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 40 68
10th Percentile £16.25 £30.68 £29.75
25th Percentile £23.80 £37.84 £35.00
Median hourly rate £36.84 £66.00 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -44.18% +35.86% -0.35%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £68.80 £76.63 £79.65
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 London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in London

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in London

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in London

Kafka
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Kafka in London

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the London 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
Central London -19 62 £581 -15.15% 7
West London +27 24 £475 -26.92% 4
South London +6 8 £488 -2.50%
East London -5 1 £436 -35.41% 4
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 61 (16.14%) Apache
2 49 (12.96%) Apache Spark
3 15 (3.97%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.12%) Confluence
5 6 (1.59%) nginx
6 5 (1.32%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.32%) Tornado
7 3 (0.79%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.79%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.79%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.53%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.53%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (0.53%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (2.38%) Endur
2 2 (0.53%) SAP Hybris
2 2 (0.53%) Shopify
3 1 (0.26%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.26%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 201 (53.17%) AWS
2 98 (25.93%) Azure
3 55 (14.55%) Serverless
4 51 (13.49%) GCP
5 43 (11.38%) Amazon Kinesis
6 36 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (6.08%) Amazon S3
8 22 (5.82%) GitHub
9 18 (4.76%) Azure AKS
10 17 (4.50%) Amazon EMR
10 17 (4.50%) Azure Service Bus
11 15 (3.97%) Amazon MSK
12 13 (3.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (3.44%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (2.91%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (2.91%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (2.91%) Azure Functions
15 9 (2.38%) AWS Step Functions
16 8 (2.12%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.88%) HTTP
2 8 (2.12%) DNS
3 4 (1.06%) VPN
4 3 (0.79%) DHCP
4 3 (0.79%) Internet
4 3 (0.79%) IPv4
5 2 (0.53%) Firewall
6 1 (0.26%) FTP
6 1 (0.26%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.26%) MQTT
6 1 (0.26%) SSH
6 1 (0.26%) SSL
6 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (13.23%) Apache Cassandra
2 47 (12.43%) MongoDB
3 41 (10.85%) Flink
4 38 (10.05%) NoSQL
5 34 (8.99%) SQL Server
6 30 (7.94%) Big Data
7 25 (6.61%) Amazon Redshift
7 25 (6.61%) PostgreSQL
8 20 (5.29%) Hadoop
9 17 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
10 16 (4.23%) Relational Database
11 15 (3.97%) Elasticsearch
12 14 (3.70%) DynamoDB
13 13 (3.44%) MySQL
14 12 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (3.17%) Parquet
15 9 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
15 9 (2.38%) Apache Hive
15 9 (2.38%) Data Lake
15 9 (2.38%) HBase
Development Applications
1 35 (9.26%) Jenkins
2 27 (7.14%) Git
3 19 (5.03%) Mockito
4 16 (4.23%) Cypress.io
5 13 (3.44%) JIRA
5 13 (3.44%) Maven
6 9 (2.38%) GitLab
6 9 (2.38%) JMeter
6 9 (2.38%) JUnit
7 7 (1.85%) Selenium
7 7 (1.85%) TeamCity
8 6 (1.59%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.59%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.59%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.32%) Pylint
9 5 (1.32%) Subversion
10 4 (1.06%) Snyk
10 4 (1.06%) TestNG
11 3 (0.79%) Katalon Studio
11 3 (0.79%) Postman
General
1 65 (17.20%) Finance
2 64 (16.93%) Social Skills
3 36 (9.52%) Banking
4 34 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 9 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (2.38%) Telecoms
7 6 (1.59%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.06%) Marketing
8 4 (1.06%) Retail
8 4 (1.06%) Retail Banking
9 3 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.53%) Back Office
10 2 (0.53%) Front Office
10 2 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.53%) Law
10 2 (0.53%) Legal
11 1 (0.26%) Electronics
11 1 (0.26%) Games
11 1 (0.26%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 155 (41.01%) Developer
2 68 (17.99%) Data Engineer
2 68 (17.99%) Senior
3 63 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 45 (11.90%) Software Engineer
5 36 (9.52%) Scala Developer
6 29 (7.67%) Architect
7 27 (7.14%) Senior Developer
8 25 (6.61%) Lead
9 23 (6.08%) Python Engineer
10 22 (5.82%) Senior Software Engineer
11 20 (5.29%) AWS Engineer
12 19 (5.03%) Full Stack Developer
12 19 (5.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 18 (4.76%) Data Architect
13 18 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
13 18 (4.76%) Site Engineer
14 15 (3.97%) Azure Engineer
14 15 (3.97%) Full Stack Java Developer
14 15 (3.97%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (12.17%) RESTful
2 36 (9.52%) React
2 36 (9.52%) Spring
3 35 (9.26%) Spring Boot
4 33 (8.73%) Akka
5 30 (7.94%) .NET
6 29 (7.67%) REST
7 20 (5.29%) Node.js
8 19 (5.03%) RabbitMQ
9 18 (4.76%) .NET Core
9 18 (4.76%) ActiveMQ
9 18 (4.76%) JAX-RS
10 17 (4.50%) HTML
11 16 (4.23%) JSON
12 15 (3.97%) Elastic Stack
13 13 (3.44%) PySpark
13 13 (3.44%) pytest
13 13 (3.44%) Web Services
14 12 (3.17%) AngularJS
14 12 (3.17%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.20%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (4.23%) Algorithms
3 15 (3.97%) Cloud Native
4 13 (3.44%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (2.91%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.12%) Derivative
7 8 (2.12%) Hedge funds
7 8 (2.12%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (1.85%) Machine to Machine
8 7 (1.85%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.85%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.32%) Market Risk
9 5 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (1.32%) Solar Panel
10 4 (1.06%) Product Ownership
11 3 (0.79%) Data Fabric
11 3 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.53%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 67 (17.72%) Linux
2 30 (7.94%) Unix
3 14 (3.70%) Mac OS X
4 3 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (37.57%) Agile
2 119 (31.48%) Microservices
3 115 (30.42%) DevOps
4 99 (26.19%) CI/CD
5 78 (20.63%) Software Engineering
6 77 (20.37%) TDD
7 55 (14.55%) Test Automation
8 49 (12.96%) Data Pipeline
9 43 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
10 42 (11.11%) Pair Programming
11 39 (10.32%) Data Engineering
12 34 (8.99%) Machine Learning
13 32 (8.47%) ETL
13 32 (8.47%) Full Stack Development
14 30 (7.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 29 (7.67%) Unit Testing
16 28 (7.41%) Clean Code
17 27 (7.14%) Containerisation
18 26 (6.88%) BDD
18 26 (6.88%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 147 (38.89%) Java
2 141 (37.30%) Python
3 106 (28.04%) SQL
4 59 (15.61%) Scala
5 39 (10.32%) C#
5 39 (10.32%) Go
6 34 (8.99%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.03%) C++
7 19 (5.03%) Shell Script
8 11 (2.91%) Perl
9 10 (2.65%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.38%) Bash
10 9 (2.38%) PHP
11 8 (2.12%) Groovy
12 5 (1.32%) Ruby
12 5 (1.32%) Rust
13 4 (1.06%) C
13 4 (1.06%) Haskell
14 3 (0.79%) Clojure
14 3 (0.79%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 95 (25.13%) Security Cleared
2 88 (23.28%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.35%) Degree
4 9 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.32%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.06%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.06%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.38%) QA
2 7 (1.85%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.79%) GDPR
4 2 (0.53%) MiFID
5 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.26%) GRC
System Software
1 95 (25.13%) Docker
2 11 (2.91%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 6 (1.59%) HDFS
4 2 (0.53%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.26%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 167 (44.18%) Kubernetes
2 53 (14.02%) Terraform
3 30 (7.94%) Grafana
4 28 (7.41%) Prometheus
5 17 (4.50%) Ansible
6 14 (3.70%) Consul
7 10 (2.65%) Argo
8 8 (2.12%) Packer
9 6 (1.59%) Hadoop YARN
10 5 (1.32%) Puppet
11 3 (0.79%) Istio
11 3 (0.79%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.79%) Oozie
11 3 (0.79%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.53%) Ambari
13 1 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.26%) Kibana
13 1 (0.26%) Rancher
13 1 (0.26%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 33 (8.73%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.41%) Oracle
3 25 (6.61%) Databricks
4 18 (4.76%) Typelevel
5 13 (3.44%) Google
6 11 (2.91%) SaltStack
7 9 (2.38%) SAP
7 9 (2.38%) Splunk
8 8 (2.12%) Confluent
9 5 (1.32%) Adobe
9 5 (1.32%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.06%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.06%) IBM
10 4 (1.06%) Informatica
10 4 (1.06%) New Relic
10 4 (1.06%) OpenLink
11 3 (0.79%) Micro Focus
11 3 (0.79%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.53%) Bloomberg
12 2 (0.53%) Murex