Kafka Contracts in the South West

Apache Kafka
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 137 134 138
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 -44
Contract jobs citing Kafka 11 26 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.34% 0.77% 0.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.30% 5.08% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 20 29
10th Percentile £530 £386 £445
25th Percentile £533 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £630 £681 £625
90th Percentile £781 £732 £658
England median daily rate £550 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -15.38% - +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £78.00 -
England median hourly rate £28.00 £78.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -64.10% +26.83% +12.78%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

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 West 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 478 512 646
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.60% 15.13% 17.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 404 476
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £642 £625 £589
90th Percentile £700 £714 £658
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 22 27
10th Percentile £43.75 £52.63 £49.20
25th Percentile £45.00 £56.56 £54.63
Median hourly rate £66.25 £65.00 £63.60
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% +2.20% +27.20%
75th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £65.13
90th Percentile £85.00 - £75.00
England median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £53.00
% change year-on-year -25.49% +22.64% +15.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the South West over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Kafka in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Bristol +8 5 £533 +14.62% 4
Gloucestershire -7 4 £630 -3.08% 2
Wiltshire -1 1 £600 +9.59%
Dorset - 1 - - 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (45.45%) Apache
2 2 (18.18%) Apache Spark
3 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) OpenShift
2 5 (45.45%) Amazon Cognito
2 5 (45.45%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Triplestore
2 2 (18.18%) Big Data
2 2 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (18.18%) Hadoop
3 1 (9.09%) CockroachDB
3 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
3 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) GitLab
2 2 (18.18%) Cypress.io
3 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Django Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Python Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Python/Django Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) Apache NiFi
1 6 (54.55%) REST
2 5 (45.45%) Apache Jena
2 5 (45.45%) CSS
2 5 (45.45%) GraphQL
2 5 (45.45%) HTML
2 5 (45.45%) PostGIS
3 2 (18.18%) .NET
3 2 (18.18%) .NET Core
3 2 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (18.18%) React
4 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
4 1 (9.09%) Django
4 1 (9.09%) JWT
4 1 (9.09%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) CentOS
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 7 (63.64%) Containerisation
3 6 (54.55%) DevOps
4 4 (36.36%) Agile
5 3 (27.27%) Microservices
5 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
5 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
6 2 (18.18%) Analytics
6 2 (18.18%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics
6 2 (18.18%) High Availability
6 2 (18.18%) Low Latency
6 2 (18.18%) Manual Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (9.09%) Business Development
7 1 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (9.09%) Cryptography
7 1 (9.09%) Pair Programming
7 1 (9.09%) Scrum
7 1 (9.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) JavaScript
2 5 (45.45%) SPARQL
3 4 (36.36%) Python
4 3 (27.27%) Java
5 2 (18.18%) Bash
5 2 (18.18%) C#
5 2 (18.18%) Perl
6 1 (9.09%) C
6 1 (9.09%) C++
6 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 3 (27.27%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (81.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle
1 1 (9.09%) Qualys
1 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
1 1 (9.09%) Splunk