Kafka Contracts in the UK excluding London

Apache Kafka
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 218 267 193
Rank change year-on-year +49 -74 0
Contract jobs citing Kafka 174 195 406
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.85% 0.83% 1.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.35% 4.54% 6.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 124 272
10th Percentile £359 £440 £413
25th Percentile £413 £485 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £540 £675 £675
90th Percentile £650 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -16.92% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £22.24 - -
25th Percentile £23.81 - -
Median hourly rate £31.50 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -59.62% - -
75th Percentile £38.94 - -
90th Percentile £54.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £78.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year -59.62% +0.65% +37.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding 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 3,250 4,294 6,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.84% 18.27% 19.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,122 3,209 4,365
10th Percentile £324 £356 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £690 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 91 138
10th Percentile £21.73 £22.50 £20.18
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.65 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.78% +30.61% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £63.60
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.65
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.93% +10.32%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the UK excluding London

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in the UK excluding London

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in the UK excluding London

Kafka
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Kafka in the UK excluding London

Kafka
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kafka in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Kafka in the UK excluding London

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
North of England +22 61 £492 -14.39% 23
Scotland +62 47 £475 -9.52% 21
South East +18 47 £475 -21.16% 22
North West +24 40 £523 +4.50% 14
Yorkshire +22 21 £450 -30.77% 8
Midlands +26 8 £398 -24.29% 13
West Midlands +18 5 £400 -23.81% 7
South West -2 5 £750 +25.00% 6
East of England -4 4 £600 +13.74% 7
East Midlands - 3 £398 - 6
Wales +17 2 £1,000 +100.00% 4
Kafka
UK

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 25 (14.37%) Apache Spark
2 19 (10.92%) Confluence
3 11 (6.32%) Apache
4 8 (4.60%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (2.30%) Mule
7 3 (1.72%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (1.72%) Jupyter
7 3 (1.72%) nginx
8 2 (1.15%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.57%) CMS
9 1 (0.57%) JBoss
Applications
1 5 (2.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.87%) Temenos T24
2 2 (1.15%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.57%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 61 (35.06%) AWS
2 35 (20.11%) Azure
3 28 (16.09%) GCP
4 20 (11.49%) Serverless
5 12 (6.90%) Amazon S3
6 11 (6.32%) OpenShift
7 8 (4.60%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (4.02%) GitHub
9 6 (3.45%) Apigee
10 5 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.87%) Kong
11 4 (2.30%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.30%) npm
11 4 (2.30%) Yarn
12 3 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (1.72%) Amazon EMR
12 3 (1.72%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (1.72%) CloudBees
12 3 (1.72%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.60%) HTTP
1 8 (4.60%) SSL
2 3 (1.72%) 5G
2 3 (1.72%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (22.41%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 26 (14.94%) NoSQL
4 25 (14.37%) Relational Database
5 12 (6.90%) RDBMS
6 11 (6.32%) Apache Cassandra
6 11 (6.32%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (6.32%) Hadoop
7 10 (5.75%) Big Data
7 10 (5.75%) Oracle Reports
7 10 (5.75%) SQL Server
8 8 (4.60%) Apache Hive
8 8 (4.60%) Couchbase
9 6 (3.45%) Redis
10 5 (2.87%) HBase
10 5 (2.87%) OLAP
10 5 (2.87%) OLTP
10 5 (2.87%) Oracle OLAP
11 4 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.30%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 40 (22.99%) Git
2 37 (21.26%) JIRA
3 34 (19.54%) Jenkins
4 19 (10.92%) Cucumber
4 19 (10.92%) JUnit
5 12 (6.90%) Postman
6 7 (4.02%) JMeter
7 6 (3.45%) IntelliJ
7 6 (3.45%) Selenium
8 5 (2.87%) GitLab
8 5 (2.87%) Subversion
9 4 (2.30%) Gatling
9 4 (2.30%) Jasmine
9 4 (2.30%) Karma Test Runner
9 4 (2.30%) Liquibase
9 4 (2.30%) Log4j
9 4 (2.30%) Mocha
9 4 (2.30%) Mockito
9 4 (2.30%) WebDriver
9 4 (2.30%) webpack
General
1 36 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 28 (16.09%) Finance
3 22 (12.64%) Banking
4 20 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.02%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.87%) Retail
7 4 (2.30%) Automotive
8 3 (1.72%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.15%) Games
9 2 (1.15%) German Language
9 2 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Back Office
10 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.57%) Legal
10 1 (0.57%) Marketing
10 1 (0.57%) Police
10 1 (0.57%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 82 (47.13%) Developer
2 63 (36.21%) Java Developer
3 26 (14.94%) Senior
4 14 (8.05%) Senior Developer
5 13 (7.47%) Architect
6 12 (6.90%) Senior Java Developer
7 11 (6.32%) Data Engineer
7 11 (6.32%) DBA
7 11 (6.32%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 9 (5.17%) Lead
8 9 (5.17%) Site Engineer
8 9 (5.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 8 (4.60%) Software Engineer
10 7 (4.02%) Java Engineer
11 5 (2.87%) AWS Architect
11 5 (2.87%) Backend Developer
12 4 (2.30%) AWS Developer
12 4 (2.30%) DevOps Engineer
12 4 (2.30%) Security Engineer
12 4 (2.30%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (33.91%) Spring
2 58 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 38 (21.84%) REST
4 21 (12.07%) RabbitMQ
4 21 (12.07%) RESTful
4 21 (12.07%) Web Services
5 17 (9.77%) Apache Camel
5 17 (9.77%) J2EE
5 17 (9.77%) React
6 14 (8.05%) JSON
7 13 (7.47%) ActiveMQ
7 13 (7.47%) Elastic Stack
7 13 (7.47%) XML
8 10 (5.75%) AngularJS
9 8 (4.60%) OpenTracing
10 7 (4.02%) .NET
10 7 (4.02%) Node.js
10 7 (4.02%) SOAP
11 6 (3.45%) .NET Core
11 6 (3.45%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.07%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (9.20%) Data Structures
3 10 (5.75%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.02%) Algorithms
4 7 (4.02%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.45%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.87%) DataPower
6 5 (2.87%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.72%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 3 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.15%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.15%) PKI
10 1 (0.57%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.57%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.57%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.57%) Online Gambling
10 1 (0.57%) Online Games
10 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (13.79%) Linux
2 13 (7.47%) Windows
3 9 (5.17%) Unix
4 6 (3.45%) Mac OS X
5 5 (2.87%) zOS
6 2 (1.15%) VMS
6 2 (1.15%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.57%) Android
7 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.57%) CentOS
7 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (51.15%) Agile
2 69 (39.66%) Microservices
3 56 (32.18%) DevOps
4 39 (22.41%) CI/CD
5 38 (21.84%) TDD
6 35 (20.11%) Continuous Integration
7 27 (15.52%) Software Engineering
8 26 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (14.94%) Scrum
8 26 (14.94%) Test Automation
9 25 (14.37%) End-to-End Testing
10 23 (13.22%) Event-Driven
11 22 (12.64%) Design Patterns
12 18 (10.34%) Containerisation
13 17 (9.77%) Disaster Recovery
14 16 (9.20%) Change Management
15 15 (8.62%) SDLC
16 13 (7.47%) Continuous Improvement
16 13 (7.47%) ITSM
16 13 (7.47%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 105 (60.34%) Java
2 41 (23.56%) SQL
3 33 (18.97%) Scala
4 28 (16.09%) Python
5 22 (12.64%) JavaScript
6 10 (5.75%) Go
6 10 (5.75%) Groovy
7 9 (5.17%) C#
7 9 (5.17%) Kotlin
8 7 (4.02%) Shell Script
9 6 (3.45%) PHP
9 6 (3.45%) PL/SQL
10 4 (2.30%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.72%) Bash
11 3 (1.72%) Ruby
12 2 (1.15%) ABAP
12 2 (1.15%) Perl
12 2 (1.15%) R
13 1 (0.57%) C
13 1 (0.57%) C++
Qualifications
1 15 (8.62%) Security Cleared
2 14 (8.05%) Degree
2 14 (8.05%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.72%) Data Quality
1 3 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 3 (1.72%) NIST
2 2 (1.15%) ISO 20022
2 2 (1.15%) ISO 8583
3 1 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.57%) GDPR
3 1 (0.57%) QA
System Software
1 42 (24.14%) Docker
2 6 (3.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 6 (3.45%) HDFS
3 2 (1.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 48 (27.59%) Kubernetes
2 19 (10.92%) Prometheus
3 17 (9.77%) Grafana
4 14 (8.05%) Terraform
5 13 (7.47%) Kibana
6 12 (6.90%) Ansible
7 9 (5.17%) Istio
8 8 (4.60%) Argo
8 8 (4.60%) Zipkin
9 4 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.15%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 37 (21.26%) Oracle
2 20 (11.49%) IBM
3 10 (5.75%) Splunk
4 8 (4.60%) Microsoft
5 7 (4.02%) Solace
6 6 (3.45%) Confluent
6 6 (3.45%) SAP
6 6 (3.45%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.87%) F5
7 5 (2.87%) TSYS
8 4 (2.30%) Informatica
8 4 (2.30%) Qualys
9 3 (1.72%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (1.15%) Databricks
10 2 (1.15%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.57%) Adobe
11 1 (0.57%) Google
11 1 (0.57%) ION Trading
11 1 (0.57%) StreamSets
11 1 (0.57%) Teradata