Apache Kafka
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 136 98
Rank change year-on-year -34 -38 +17
Contract jobs citing Kafka 625 1,147 2,366
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.44% 1.92% 2.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.04% 8.23% 9.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 819 1,643
10th Percentile £383 £463 £475
25th Percentile £456 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -17.85% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £675 £746 £725
90th Percentile £747 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -9.56% -2.50% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 5
10th Percentile £22.24 £71.85 £54.80
25th Percentile £23.81 £75.00 £58.25
Median hourly rate £31.50 £76.50 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.82% -1.29% +37.17%
75th Percentile £38.94 £81.00 £78.75
90th Percentile £54.50 £90.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.50 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year -59.62% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the UK

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in the UK

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in the UK

Kafka
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Kafka in the UK

Kafka
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kafka over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Kafka in the UK

Kafka
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
England -28 540 £548 -15.77% 225
London -36 378 £550 -15.38% 144
Work from Home -24 201 £575 -11.54% 161
UK excluding London +51 164 £485 -9.56% 97
North of England +36 61 £492 -8.84% 24
South East +31 45 £475 -14.41% 21
Scotland +42 40 £470 -10.48% 17
North West +15 40 £523 -2.79% 17
Yorkshire +28 21 £450 -25.00% 5
Midlands +19 8 £398 -24.29% 12
West Midlands +23 5 £406 -22.62% 8
East of England +8 5 £488 -7.14% 7
South West +2 4 £550 -4.35% 9
East Midlands - 3 £398 - 4
Wales +13 1 - - 3

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 77 (12.32%) Apache Spark
2 74 (11.84%) Apache
3 27 (4.32%) Confluence
4 26 (4.16%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.44%) nginx
6 5 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.80%) Tomcat
6 5 (0.80%) Tornado
7 4 (0.64%) Cloud Foundry
7 4 (0.64%) Mule
7 4 (0.64%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.48%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.48%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.48%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.48%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.32%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.16%) CMS
10 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (1.12%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (1.44%) Endur
2 5 (0.80%) Temenos T24
3 4 (0.64%) Shopify
4 2 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.32%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.16%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.16%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.16%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 308 (49.28%) AWS
2 144 (23.04%) Azure
3 82 (13.12%) Serverless
4 78 (12.48%) GCP
5 45 (7.20%) Amazon Kinesis
6 44 (7.04%) AWS Lambda
7 37 (5.92%) Amazon S3
8 29 (4.64%) GitHub
9 25 (4.00%) Amazon EMR
10 22 (3.52%) OpenShift
11 19 (3.04%) Azure AKS
11 19 (3.04%) Azure Service Bus
12 17 (2.72%) Amazon EKS
12 17 (2.72%) Amazon MSK
13 16 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
15 11 (1.76%) Azure Functions
15 11 (1.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 36 (5.76%) HTTP
2 11 (1.76%) SSL
3 8 (1.28%) DNS
4 5 (0.80%) Firewall
5 4 (0.64%) VPN
6 3 (0.48%) 5G
6 3 (0.48%) DHCP
6 3 (0.48%) Internet
6 3 (0.48%) IPv4
7 1 (0.16%) FTP
7 1 (0.16%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.16%) MQTT
7 1 (0.16%) SSH
7 1 (0.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (15.36%) Apache Cassandra
2 85 (13.60%) MongoDB
3 68 (10.88%) PostgreSQL
4 67 (10.72%) NoSQL
5 50 (8.00%) Big Data
6 46 (7.36%) Flink
7 45 (7.20%) SQL Server
8 39 (6.24%) Relational Database
9 38 (6.08%) Hadoop
10 31 (4.96%) Amazon Redshift
11 29 (4.64%) Data Warehouse
11 29 (4.64%) Elasticsearch
12 19 (3.04%) Apache Hive
12 19 (3.04%) MySQL
13 17 (2.72%) Data Lake
13 17 (2.72%) DynamoDB
13 17 (2.72%) Redis
14 15 (2.40%) Couchbase
14 15 (2.40%) RDBMS
15 14 (2.24%) HBase
Development Applications
1 67 (10.72%) Git
1 67 (10.72%) Jenkins
2 47 (7.52%) JIRA
3 27 (4.32%) JUnit
4 25 (4.00%) Cucumber
5 23 (3.68%) Mockito
6 16 (2.56%) Cypress.io
6 16 (2.56%) Maven
7 15 (2.40%) JMeter
7 15 (2.40%) Postman
8 14 (2.24%) GitLab
9 13 (2.08%) Selenium
10 11 (1.76%) Subversion
11 9 (1.44%) Bitbucket
11 9 (1.44%) TeamCity
12 7 (1.12%) Liquibase
12 7 (1.12%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.96%) IntelliJ
14 5 (0.80%) Gradle
14 5 (0.80%) Pylint
General
1 118 (18.88%) Social Skills
2 92 (14.72%) Finance
3 62 (9.92%) Banking
4 57 (9.12%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (6.08%) Public Sector
6 12 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (1.76%) Telecoms
8 9 (1.44%) Retail
9 7 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.12%) Investment Banking
10 5 (0.80%) Marketing
11 4 (0.64%) Automotive
11 4 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.64%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.48%) Back Office
12 3 (0.48%) Games
12 3 (0.48%) Legal
12 3 (0.48%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.32%) Front Office
13 2 (0.32%) Law
Job Titles
1 243 (38.88%) Developer
2 120 (19.20%) Senior
3 118 (18.88%) Java Developer
4 93 (14.88%) Data Engineer
5 89 (14.24%) Software Engineer
6 48 (7.68%) Architect
7 43 (6.88%) Senior Software Engineer
8 42 (6.72%) Senior Developer
9 40 (6.40%) Scala Developer
10 33 (5.28%) Lead
11 27 (4.32%) DevOps Engineer
11 27 (4.32%) Senior Java Developer
11 27 (4.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 26 (4.16%) Site Engineer
13 25 (4.00%) Full Stack Developer
13 25 (4.00%) Python Engineer
14 24 (3.84%) AWS Engineer
15 22 (3.52%) Azure Engineer
16 20 (3.20%) Java Engineer
17 19 (3.04%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (14.56%) Spring
2 86 (13.76%) Spring Boot
3 74 (11.84%) REST
4 67 (10.72%) RESTful
5 53 (8.48%) React
6 42 (6.72%) RabbitMQ
7 38 (6.08%) .NET
8 37 (5.92%) Akka
9 35 (5.60%) Web Services
10 34 (5.44%) ActiveMQ
11 32 (5.12%) JSON
11 32 (5.12%) Node.js
12 31 (4.96%) AngularJS
13 25 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
14 24 (3.84%) .NET Core
15 22 (3.52%) PySpark
16 21 (3.36%) JAX-RS
17 20 (3.20%) J2EE
18 18 (2.88%) Apache Camel
18 18 (2.88%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (4.16%) Cloud Native
3 23 (3.68%) Algorithms
4 21 (3.36%) Data Structures
5 20 (3.20%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (3.04%) Greenfield Project
7 16 (2.56%) Public Cloud
8 9 (1.44%) Product Ownership
9 8 (1.28%) Derivative
9 8 (1.28%) Hedge funds
9 8 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (1.28%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.12%) Machine to Machine
11 6 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
12 5 (0.80%) DataPower
12 5 (0.80%) IoT
12 5 (0.80%) Market Risk
12 5 (0.80%) Solar Panel
13 4 (0.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 97 (15.52%) Linux
2 41 (6.56%) Unix
3 21 (3.36%) Mac OS X
4 14 (2.24%) Windows
5 4 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.48%) zOS
7 2 (0.32%) VMS
7 2 (0.32%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.16%) Android
8 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.16%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (42.40%) Agile
2 189 (30.24%) Microservices
3 182 (29.12%) DevOps
4 140 (22.40%) Software Engineering
5 139 (22.24%) CI/CD
6 116 (18.56%) TDD
7 79 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
7 79 (12.64%) Test Automation
8 65 (10.40%) Data Pipeline
9 57 (9.12%) Continuous Integration
9 57 (9.12%) Data Engineering
10 53 (8.48%) Fintech
10 53 (8.48%) User Experience
11 51 (8.16%) Pair Programming
12 48 (7.68%) Scrum
13 47 (7.52%) Full Stack Development
13 47 (7.52%) User Research
13 47 (7.52%) UX Design
14 46 (7.36%) Containerisation
14 46 (7.36%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 263 (42.08%) Java
2 188 (30.08%) Python
3 158 (25.28%) SQL
4 97 (15.52%) Scala
5 82 (13.12%) Go
6 55 (8.80%) JavaScript
7 50 (8.00%) C#
8 26 (4.16%) Shell Script
9 20 (3.20%) C++
10 19 (3.04%) Groovy
11 18 (2.88%) PHP
12 14 (2.24%) TypeScript
13 13 (2.08%) Bash
13 13 (2.08%) Perl
14 9 (1.44%) Kotlin
15 8 (1.28%) PL/SQL
15 8 (1.28%) Ruby
16 5 (0.80%) C
16 5 (0.80%) Rust
17 4 (0.64%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 116 (18.56%) Security Cleared
2 104 (16.64%) SC Cleared
3 38 (6.08%) Degree
4 19 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.12%) Master's Degree
6 5 (0.80%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.64%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.32%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.08%) Data Quality
2 10 (1.60%) QA
3 4 (0.64%) GDPR
4 2 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (0.32%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.32%) ISO 8583
4 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (0.32%) MiFID
4 2 (0.32%) NIST
5 1 (0.16%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.16%) GRC
System Software
1 179 (28.64%) Docker
2 17 (2.72%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 12 (1.92%) HDFS
4 4 (0.64%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 262 (41.92%) Kubernetes
2 70 (11.20%) Terraform
3 46 (7.36%) Prometheus
4 43 (6.88%) Grafana
5 32 (5.12%) Ansible
6 19 (3.04%) Argo
7 14 (2.24%) Consul
8 13 (2.08%) Kibana
9 12 (1.92%) Istio
10 8 (1.28%) Hadoop YARN
10 8 (1.28%) Packer
11 6 (0.96%) Puppet
12 5 (0.80%) Zipkin
13 4 (0.64%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.48%) Kustomize
14 3 (0.48%) Oozie
15 2 (0.32%) Ambari
15 2 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
16 1 (0.16%) SCOM
Vendors
1 70 (11.20%) Oracle
2 41 (6.56%) Microsoft
3 28 (4.48%) Databricks
4 25 (4.00%) IBM
5 19 (3.04%) Typelevel
6 17 (2.72%) SAP
7 14 (2.24%) Confluent
7 14 (2.24%) Google
7 14 (2.24%) Splunk
8 11 (1.76%) SaltStack
9 9 (1.44%) Informatica
9 9 (1.44%) Solace
10 8 (1.28%) ServiceNow
11 6 (0.96%) Adobe
12 5 (0.80%) New Relic
12 5 (0.80%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.80%) TSYS
13 4 (0.64%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.64%) OpenLink
13 4 (0.64%) Red Hat