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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 79 74
Rank change year-on-year -39 -5 +12
Contract jobs citing Kafka 378 856 1,371
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.12% 3.18% 3.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.45% 11.65% 11.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 642 999
10th Percentile £413 £463 £512
25th Percentile £463 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £663
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -1.89% +15.22%
75th Percentile £675 £757 £750
90th Percentile £756 £813 £828
England median daily rate £550 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -15.38% - +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 4,476 7,348 12,132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.14% 27.29% 31.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,352 5,471 9,397
10th Percentile £375 £413 £425
25th Percentile £456 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £813 £788
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 40 67
10th Percentile £16.25 £30.68 £32.00
25th Percentile £23.99 £37.84 £35.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £66.00 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -43.18% +35.86% -0.35%
75th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £68.20 £76.63 £79.70
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year -28.95% +31.31% +10.00%

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 2 May 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 2 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
Central London -7 62 £613 -8.58% 7
West London +25 24 £475 -26.92% 4
South London +5 8 £488 -2.50%
East London -6 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 59 (15.61%) Apache
2 51 (13.49%) Apache Spark
3 15 (3.97%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.12%) Confluence
5 7 (1.85%) nginx
6 5 (1.32%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.32%) Tornado
7 3 (0.79%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.79%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.53%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.53%) Apache Solr
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%) Shopify
3 1 (0.26%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.26%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.26%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 201 (53.17%) AWS
2 96 (25.40%) Azure
3 57 (15.08%) Serverless
4 53 (14.02%) GCP
5 43 (11.38%) Amazon Kinesis
6 38 (10.05%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (6.08%) Amazon S3
8 22 (5.82%) GitHub
9 18 (4.76%) Amazon EMR
9 18 (4.76%) Azure AKS
10 17 (4.50%) Azure Service Bus
11 15 (3.97%) Amazon MSK
12 13 (3.44%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
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 27 (7.14%) HTTP
2 7 (1.85%) DNS
3 4 (1.06%) VPN
4 3 (0.79%) IPv4
5 2 (0.53%) DHCP
5 2 (0.53%) Firewall
5 2 (0.53%) Internet
6 1 (0.26%) AMQP
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 49 (12.96%) Apache Cassandra
2 47 (12.43%) MongoDB
3 40 (10.58%) Flink
4 38 (10.05%) NoSQL
5 33 (8.73%) SQL Server
6 30 (7.94%) Big Data
7 25 (6.61%) PostgreSQL
8 24 (6.35%) Amazon Redshift
9 18 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
9 18 (4.76%) Hadoop
10 17 (4.50%) Relational Database
11 15 (3.97%) Elasticsearch
12 14 (3.70%) DynamoDB
13 12 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (3.17%) MySQL
13 12 (3.17%) Parquet
14 10 (2.65%) Data Lake
15 9 (2.38%) Apache Hive
15 9 (2.38%) HBase
16 8 (2.12%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 35 (9.26%) Jenkins
2 27 (7.14%) Git
3 19 (5.03%) Mockito
4 17 (4.50%) 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 66 (17.46%) Finance
2 64 (16.93%) Social Skills
3 37 (9.79%) 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 7 (1.85%) 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
1 157 (41.53%) Developer
2 68 (17.99%) Senior
3 66 (17.46%) Data Engineer
4 63 (16.67%) Java Developer
5 45 (11.90%) Software Engineer
6 38 (10.05%) Scala Developer
7 28 (7.41%) Architect
8 27 (7.14%) Senior Developer
9 25 (6.61%) Lead
10 23 (6.08%) Python Engineer
11 22 (5.82%) Senior Software Engineer
12 20 (5.29%) AWS Engineer
13 19 (5.03%) DevOps Engineer
13 19 (5.03%) Full Stack Developer
14 17 (4.50%) Data Architect
14 17 (4.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 16 (4.23%) Site Engineer
16 15 (3.97%) Azure Engineer
16 15 (3.97%) Full Stack Java Developer
16 15 (3.97%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (12.43%) RESTful
2 37 (9.79%) React
3 36 (9.52%) Spring
4 35 (9.26%) Spring Boot
5 34 (8.99%) Akka
6 30 (7.94%) .NET
7 29 (7.67%) REST
8 21 (5.56%) Node.js
9 19 (5.03%) RabbitMQ
10 18 (4.76%) .NET Core
10 18 (4.76%) ActiveMQ
10 18 (4.76%) JAX-RS
11 17 (4.50%) HTML
12 16 (4.23%) JSON
13 14 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
14 13 (3.44%) AngularJS
14 13 (3.44%) PySpark
14 13 (3.44%) pytest
14 13 (3.44%) Web Services
15 12 (3.17%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.94%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (4.23%) Algorithms
3 14 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 13 (3.44%) Data Protection Act
4 13 (3.44%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.91%) Data Structures
6 10 (2.65%) Hedge funds
7 8 (2.12%) Derivative
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%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (1.32%) Solar Panel
10 4 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.79%) Data Fabric
11 3 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.53%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 66 (17.46%) Linux
2 30 (7.94%) Unix
3 14 (3.70%) Mac OS X
4 3 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (38.10%) Agile
2 120 (31.75%) Microservices
3 114 (30.16%) DevOps
4 98 (25.93%) CI/CD
5 78 (20.63%) Software Engineering
6 77 (20.37%) TDD
7 55 (14.55%) Test Automation
8 50 (13.23%) Data Pipeline
9 42 (11.11%) Pair Programming
9 42 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (10.32%) Data Engineering
11 34 (8.99%) Machine Learning
12 32 (8.47%) ETL
12 32 (8.47%) Full Stack Development
13 29 (7.67%) Unit Testing
14 28 (7.41%) Clean Code
14 28 (7.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 26 (6.88%) BDD
15 26 (6.88%) Containerisation
15 26 (6.88%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 148 (39.15%) Java
2 138 (36.51%) Python
3 105 (27.78%) SQL
4 62 (16.40%) Scala
5 38 (10.05%) C#
5 38 (10.05%) Go
6 35 (9.26%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.03%) C++
7 19 (5.03%) Shell Script
8 11 (2.91%) Perl
8 11 (2.91%) TypeScript
9 9 (2.38%) Bash
9 9 (2.38%) PHP
10 8 (2.12%) Groovy
11 5 (1.32%) Rust
12 4 (1.06%) C
12 4 (1.06%) Haskell
12 4 (1.06%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.06%) Ruby
13 3 (0.79%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 94 (24.87%) Security Cleared
2 87 (23.02%) 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 8 (2.12%) QA
2 6 (1.59%) 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%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.26%) GRC
5 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
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
1 170 (44.97%) Kubernetes
2 55 (14.55%) Terraform
3 29 (7.67%) Grafana
4 28 (7.41%) Prometheus
5 16 (4.23%) Ansible
6 14 (3.70%) Consul
7 10 (2.65%) Argo
8 8 (2.12%) Packer
9 6 (1.59%) Hadoop YARN
10 4 (1.06%) Puppet
11 3 (0.79%) Istio
11 3 (0.79%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.79%) Oozie
12 2 (0.53%) Ambari
12 2 (0.53%) Progress Chef
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 27 (7.14%) Oracle
3 25 (6.61%) Databricks
4 18 (4.76%) Typelevel
5 12 (3.17%) Google
6 11 (2.91%) SaltStack
7 9 (2.38%) Splunk
8 8 (2.12%) Confluent
8 8 (2.12%) SAP
9 4 (1.06%) Adobe
9 4 (1.06%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.06%) IBM
9 4 (1.06%) OpenLink
9 4 (1.06%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.79%) Informatica
10 3 (0.79%) Micro Focus
10 3 (0.79%) New Relic
10 3 (0.79%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.53%) Murex
11 2 (0.53%) TIBCO