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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 213 278 210
Rank change year-on-year +65 -68 -19
Contract jobs citing Kafka 195 164 392
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.94% 0.72% 1.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.83% 3.96% 6.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 106 269
10th Percentile £366 £450 £408
25th Percentile £425 £500 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% - +21.05%
75th Percentile £550 £675 £675
90th Percentile £650 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £650 £638
% change year-on-year -15.38% +1.96% +10.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 0
10th Percentile £22.44 - -
25th Percentile £25.94 - -
Median hourly rate £28.00 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -64.10% - -
75th Percentile £36.31 - -
90th Percentile £48.80 - -
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £78.00 £69.50
% change year-on-year -64.10% +12.23% +27.45%

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 3,346 4,139 6,067
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.06% 18.17% 19.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,187 3,088 4,346
10th Percentile £325 £350 £361
25th Percentile £406 £424 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £588
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 86 134
10th Percentile £22.70 £22.37 £19.73
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.56 £35.00
Median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.49% +17.65% +22.78%
75th Percentile £68.38 £75.00 £67.84
90th Percentile £74.45 £79.19 £77.22
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 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
North of England +44 70 £504 -19.44% 24
South East +33 57 £475 -14.03% 25
Scotland +53 41 £475 -9.52% 11
North West +37 37 £514 -6.59% 17
Yorkshire +26 33 £480 -26.15% 6
South West -9 11 £585 -2.50% 4
Midlands +18 8 £398 -24.29% 9
West Midlands +6 5 £363 -30.95% 6
Wales +18 4 £550 +10.00% 4
East of England -5 4 £600 +13.21% 7
East Midlands - 3 £398 - 3
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 40 (20.51%) Apache Spark
2 19 (9.74%) Apache
3 15 (7.69%) Confluence
4 7 (3.59%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (3.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (2.05%) Mule
7 3 (1.54%) Jupyter
7 3 (1.54%) nginx
7 3 (1.54%) OpenStack
8 2 (1.03%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.51%) CMS
9 1 (0.51%) JBoss
Applications
1 7 (3.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.59%) Temenos T24
2 2 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.51%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 84 (43.08%) AWS
2 52 (26.67%) Azure
3 38 (19.49%) GCP
4 23 (11.79%) OpenShift
4 23 (11.79%) Serverless
5 21 (10.77%) Amazon S3
6 13 (6.67%) GitHub
7 12 (6.15%) Cloud Computing
8 10 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (4.10%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
10 7 (3.59%) Apigee
10 7 (3.59%) Kong
11 5 (2.56%) Amazon Cognito
11 5 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.05%) npm
12 4 (2.05%) Yarn
13 3 (1.54%) Azure Sentinel
13 3 (1.54%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.69%) HTTP
2 10 (5.13%) SSL
3 3 (1.54%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (21.03%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (14.36%) MongoDB
3 24 (12.31%) Big Data
4 23 (11.79%) Hadoop
4 23 (11.79%) NoSQL
5 19 (9.74%) Relational Database
6 18 (9.23%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (6.67%) Data Lake
8 12 (6.15%) Apache Cassandra
9 11 (5.64%) BigQuery
10 10 (5.13%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (5.13%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (5.13%) SQL Server
11 9 (4.62%) Couchbase
12 8 (4.10%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (4.10%) Apache Hive
12 8 (4.10%) RDBMS
13 7 (3.59%) OLAP
13 7 (3.59%) OLTP
13 7 (3.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 42 (21.54%) Git
2 35 (17.95%) Jenkins
3 33 (16.92%) JIRA
4 12 (6.15%) GitLab
5 10 (5.13%) Cucumber
5 10 (5.13%) JUnit
6 7 (3.59%) JMeter
7 6 (3.08%) Selenium
8 5 (2.56%) Postman
8 5 (2.56%) Subversion
9 4 (2.05%) Gatling
9 4 (2.05%) IntelliJ
9 4 (2.05%) Jasmine
9 4 (2.05%) Karma Test Runner
9 4 (2.05%) Liquibase
9 4 (2.05%) Log4j
9 4 (2.05%) Mocha
9 4 (2.05%) Mockito
9 4 (2.05%) WebDriver
9 4 (2.05%) webpack
General
1 34 (17.44%) Social Skills
2 32 (16.41%) Finance
3 30 (15.38%) Banking
4 19 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (5.64%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.56%) Retail
7 4 (2.05%) Automotive
7 4 (2.05%) German Language
8 3 (1.54%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.03%) Games
9 2 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Back Office
10 1 (0.51%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.51%) Legal
10 1 (0.51%) Marketing
10 1 (0.51%) Police
10 1 (0.51%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 80 (41.03%) Developer
2 59 (30.26%) Java Developer
3 27 (13.85%) Architect
4 23 (11.79%) Senior
5 15 (7.69%) Data Engineer
6 14 (7.18%) Solutions Architect
7 12 (6.15%) Site Engineer
7 12 (6.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 11 (5.64%) Senior Developer
9 10 (5.13%) Lead
9 10 (5.13%) Senior Java Developer
10 9 (4.62%) AWS Architect
10 9 (4.62%) Software Engineer
11 8 (4.10%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (3.59%) DBA
12 7 (3.59%) PostgreSQL DBA
13 5 (2.56%) Backend Developer
13 5 (2.56%) Java Engineer
13 5 (2.56%) Security Engineer
14 4 (2.05%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (30.26%) Spring
2 53 (27.18%) Spring Boot
3 34 (17.44%) REST
4 24 (12.31%) RabbitMQ
5 23 (11.79%) Web Services
6 20 (10.26%) RESTful
7 16 (8.21%) React
8 14 (7.18%) ActiveMQ
8 14 (7.18%) Elastic Stack
9 12 (6.15%) J2EE
10 11 (5.64%) Apache Camel
11 10 (5.13%) CSS
11 10 (5.13%) JSON
12 9 (4.62%) AngularJS
12 9 (4.62%) GraphQL
12 9 (4.62%) SOAP
12 9 (4.62%) XML
13 8 (4.10%) .NET
13 8 (4.10%) Node.js
13 8 (4.10%) OpenTracing
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.26%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (9.23%) Cloud Native
3 16 (8.21%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.59%) Algorithms
4 7 (3.59%) DataPower
5 6 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.56%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.05%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 4 (2.05%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.03%) PKI
9 2 (1.03%) Replication
10 1 (0.51%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.51%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.51%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.51%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (17.44%) Linux
2 15 (7.69%) Windows
3 11 (5.64%) Unix
4 7 (3.59%) Mac OS X
5 6 (3.08%) zOS
6 2 (1.03%) VMS
6 2 (1.03%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.51%) CentOS
7 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (42.05%) Agile
2 75 (38.46%) Microservices
3 74 (37.95%) DevOps
4 47 (24.10%) CI/CD
5 38 (19.49%) Containerisation
6 33 (16.92%) TDD
7 29 (14.87%) Software Engineering
8 27 (13.85%) Continuous Integration
8 27 (13.85%) Scrum
8 27 (13.85%) Test Automation
9 25 (12.82%) Design Patterns
10 23 (11.79%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (11.28%) Event-Driven
12 20 (10.26%) Disaster Recovery
12 20 (10.26%) High Availability
13 19 (9.74%) Analytics
13 19 (9.74%) Data Modelling
13 19 (9.74%) ETL
14 18 (9.23%) Change Management
14 18 (9.23%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 109 (55.90%) Java
2 42 (21.54%) SQL
3 39 (20.00%) Python
4 34 (17.44%) Scala
5 28 (14.36%) JavaScript
6 11 (5.64%) C#
7 9 (4.62%) Go
7 9 (4.62%) Groovy
7 9 (4.62%) Kotlin
8 6 (3.08%) PHP
9 5 (2.56%) Bash
9 5 (2.56%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.56%) SPARQL
10 4 (2.05%) ABAP
10 4 (2.05%) Perl
11 3 (1.54%) Ruby
11 3 (1.54%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.03%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.03%) R
13 1 (0.51%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 23 (11.79%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.18%) Degree
4 12 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.54%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.03%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.51%) OCP
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 4 (2.05%) NIST
2 3 (1.54%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.03%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.03%) ISO 8583
4 1 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.51%) GDPR
4 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.51%) QA
System Software
1 50 (25.64%) Docker
2 4 (2.05%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 4 (2.05%) HDFS
3 2 (1.03%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 60 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 23 (11.79%) Terraform
3 22 (11.28%) Prometheus
4 21 (10.77%) Grafana
5 15 (7.69%) Kibana
6 13 (6.67%) Ansible
7 12 (6.15%) Argo
7 12 (6.15%) Istio
8 8 (4.10%) Zipkin
9 6 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.51%) Control-M
10 1 (0.51%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.51%) logstash
10 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.51%) Puppet
Vendors
1 31 (15.90%) Oracle
2 23 (11.79%) IBM
3 19 (9.74%) Microsoft
4 10 (5.13%) Google
4 10 (5.13%) Splunk
5 7 (3.59%) SAP
5 7 (3.59%) Solace
5 7 (3.59%) TSYS
6 6 (3.08%) Confluent
6 6 (3.08%) F5
6 6 (3.08%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.56%) Qualys
8 3 (1.54%) CA Agile Central
8 3 (1.54%) Databricks
8 3 (1.54%) Informatica
9 2 (1.03%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.51%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.51%) Skytap
10 1 (0.51%) StreamSets
10 1 (0.51%) Typelevel