Kafka Contracts in the South East

Apache Kafka
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 177 172
Rank change year-on-year +18 -5 -25
Contract jobs citing Kafka 47 43 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.84% 0.73% 1.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.16% 4.04% 6.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 18 53
10th Percentile £313 £441 £361
25th Percentile £406 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.33% -10.42% +26.32%
75th Percentile £500 £684 £675
90th Percentile £613 £700 £723
England median daily rate £550 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -15.38% - +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £24.03 - -
25th Percentile £25.94 - -
Median hourly rate £31.50 - -
75th Percentile £36.31 - -
90th Percentile £38.68 - -
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
South East

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 the South East 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 763 1,065 1,585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.61% 17.98% 20.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 760 1,057
10th Percentile £314 £363 £350
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £619 £643 £600
90th Percentile £675 £725 £663
England median daily rate £550 £570 £553
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.17% +10.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 33 43
10th Percentile £35.00 £37.50 £22.30
25th Percentile £55.75 £52.50 £33.13
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +36.84% +17.28%
75th Percentile £67.50 £75.00 £65.52
90th Percentile £76.50 £80.04 £67.80
England median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -27.94% +32.65% +8.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Kafka in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the South East over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Kafka in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kafka in the South East over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Kafka in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 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
Thames Valley +19 27 £500 - 11
Berkshire 0 17 £484 +1.79% 3
West Sussex - 13 £368 - 5
Buckinghamshire +33 10 £575 +15.00% 6
East Sussex - 3 £490 - 2
Surrey +9 2 £418 -38.15% 6
Hampshire -9 1 - - 8
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (8.51%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.38%) Apache
3 2 (4.26%) Confluence
3 2 (4.26%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (19.15%) AWS
1 9 (19.15%) OpenShift
2 5 (10.64%) Amazon S3
2 5 (10.64%) Azure
3 4 (8.51%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (6.38%) GitHub
4 3 (6.38%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (4.26%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (4.26%) Amazon MSK
5 2 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (4.26%) GCP
5 2 (4.26%) PaaS
5 2 (4.26%) Serverless
5 2 (4.26%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) HTTP
1 2 (4.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (48.94%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (14.89%) Couchbase
2 7 (14.89%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (8.51%) Hadoop
4 3 (6.38%) Apache Hive
4 3 (6.38%) Big Data
4 3 (6.38%) NoSQL
4 3 (6.38%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.26%) DynamoDB
5 2 (4.26%) Impala
5 2 (4.26%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.26%) Sqoop
6 1 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.13%) Apache Zeppelin
6 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 9 (19.15%) Git
2 6 (12.77%) Jenkins
2 6 (12.77%) JIRA
3 3 (6.38%) Subversion
4 2 (4.26%) Bitbucket
4 2 (4.26%) JMeter
4 2 (4.26%) Selenium
5 1 (2.13%) GitLab
5 1 (2.13%) NWDI
5 1 (2.13%) NWDS
General
1 9 (19.15%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.77%) Finance
3 3 (6.38%) Automotive
4 2 (4.26%) Banking
4 2 (4.26%) German Language
4 2 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (4.26%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Legal
5 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (51.06%) Developer
2 20 (42.55%) Java Developer
3 7 (14.89%) Site Engineer
3 7 (14.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 6 (12.77%) Software Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Cloud Developer
6 3 (6.38%) Operations Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Senior
7 2 (4.26%) Coordinator
7 2 (4.26%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (2.13%) Architect
8 1 (2.13%) Consultant
8 1 (2.13%) Data Architect
8 1 (2.13%) ETL Developer
8 1 (2.13%) Integration Consultant
8 1 (2.13%) Java Software Engineer
8 1 (2.13%) SAP Consultant
8 1 (2.13%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (2.13%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (38.30%) Spring
2 16 (34.04%) Spring Boot
3 13 (27.66%) RabbitMQ
4 11 (23.40%) REST
5 5 (10.64%) Symfony
6 4 (8.51%) RESTful
6 4 (8.51%) Vert.x
7 3 (6.38%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (6.38%) GraphQL
7 3 (6.38%) gRPC
7 3 (6.38%) Node.js
8 2 (4.26%) .NET
8 2 (4.26%) .NET Core
8 2 (4.26%) AngularJS
8 2 (4.26%) BAPI
8 2 (4.26%) Mustache
8 2 (4.26%) React
8 2 (4.26%) SAP ALE
8 2 (4.26%) Web Services
9 1 (2.13%) IDoc
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.89%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.26%) PKI
2 2 (4.26%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.51%) Linux
2 2 (4.26%) VMS
2 2 (4.26%) Windows
2 2 (4.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (48.94%) Agile
2 22 (46.81%) Microservices
3 13 (27.66%) Software Engineering
4 12 (25.53%) Scrum
5 10 (21.28%) TDD
6 9 (19.15%) CI/CD
6 9 (19.15%) DevOps
7 8 (17.02%) Change Management
7 8 (17.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 7 (14.89%) GitOps
8 7 (14.89%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (14.89%) Task Automation
9 6 (12.77%) Collaborative Working
9 6 (12.77%) Containerisation
9 6 (12.77%) Incident Response
9 6 (12.77%) ITSM
10 5 (10.64%) Computer Science
10 5 (10.64%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (10.64%) High Availability
11 4 (8.51%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 27 (57.45%) Java
2 9 (19.15%) Scala
3 7 (14.89%) Go
3 7 (14.89%) JavaScript
4 5 (10.64%) PHP
5 3 (6.38%) Python
5 3 (6.38%) SQL
6 2 (4.26%) ABAP
7 1 (2.13%) Bash
7 1 (2.13%) Groovy
7 1 (2.13%) R
7 1 (2.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (21.28%) SC Cleared
1 10 (21.28%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.64%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (10.64%) Degree
System Software
1 8 (17.02%) Docker
2 2 (4.26%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.26%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 17 (36.17%) Kubernetes
2 9 (19.15%) Prometheus
3 7 (14.89%) Argo
3 7 (14.89%) Grafana
3 7 (14.89%) Istio
3 7 (14.89%) Kibana
4 3 (6.38%) Terraform
5 1 (2.13%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (10.64%) SAP
2 3 (6.38%) CA Agile Central
2 3 (6.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.26%) IBM
3 2 (4.26%) Informatica
3 2 (4.26%) Oracle
4 1 (2.13%) Cloudera
4 1 (2.13%) Databricks
4 1 (2.13%) Dynatrace