Kafka Contracts in Reading

Apache Kafka
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 78 83
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 -21
Contract jobs citing Kafka 10 8 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.84% 0.78% 1.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.00% 3.62% 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 5
10th Percentile £451 - £513
25th Percentile £463 £450 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -16.67% +71.43%
75th Percentile £501 £538 £623
90th Percentile £528 £545 £677
Berkshire median daily rate £484 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +1.79% -20.83% +140.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Reading

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 Reading 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 200 221 232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 16.84% 21.41% 17.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 173 179
10th Percentile £325 £407 £361
25th Percentile £425 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £680 £595
90th Percentile £678 £725 £638
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £543 £506
% change year-on-year -3.23% +7.16% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 2
10th Percentile £56.50 £72.76 £28.25
25th Percentile £56.65 £76.89 £29.38
Median hourly rate £58.30 £79.19 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.38% +143.66% -45.83%
75th Percentile £61.60 - £34.38
90th Percentile - - £34.75
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £78.75 £65.50
% change year-on-year -21.78% +20.23% +63.75%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Reading

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 2 (20.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Serverless
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Big Data
1 2 (20.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Zeppelin
2 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
2 6 (60.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) ETL Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Full Stack Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) Spring Boot
2 6 (60.00%) Spring
3 5 (50.00%) Symfony
4 4 (40.00%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (30.00%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (20.00%) Mustache
6 2 (20.00%) Node.js
6 2 (20.00%) React
6 2 (20.00%) REST
6 2 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
1 6 (60.00%) Microservices
1 6 (60.00%) TDD
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Event-Driven
2 4 (40.00%) Scrum
2 4 (40.00%) SOLID
3 2 (20.00%) Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (20.00%) Open Source
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (10.00%) High Availability
4 1 (10.00%) Kanban
4 1 (10.00%) MapReduce
4 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Java
2 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (50.00%) PHP
4 2 (20.00%) Python
5 1 (10.00%) Bash
5 1 (10.00%) R
5 1 (10.00%) Scala
5 1 (10.00%) SQL
5 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Databricks
1 1 (10.00%) Dynatrace