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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 138 100
Rank change year-on-year -11 -38 +15
Contract jobs citing Kafka 658 1,099 2,313
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.55% 1.93% 2.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.37% 8.34% 9.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 794 1,613
10th Percentile £400 £463 £475
25th Percentile £463 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £738
90th Percentile £763 £810 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -10.91% -4.35% +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 4
10th Percentile £22.24 £72.90 £54.23
25th Percentile £23.81 £75.00 £56.81
Median hourly rate £31.50 £78.00 £69.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.62% +12.23% +23.01%
75th Percentile £38.94 £90.00 £78.75
90th Percentile £54.50 - -
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 8,924 13,173 23,604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.96% 23.13% 26.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,198 9,621 17,311
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £665
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 144 237
10th Percentile £21.25 £25.75 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £74.47 £80.25 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.25
% change year-on-year -26.92% +29.35% +11.67%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 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
England -22 573 £550 -15.38% 308
London -30 395 £575 -11.54% 219
Work from Home -26 207 £550 -15.38% 191
UK excluding London +62 183 £490 -10.91% 153
North of England +40 70 £507 -13.70% 27
South East +48 50 £479 -13.39% 67
Scotland +58 40 £475 -9.52% 18
North West +27 40 £524 +6.89% 14
Yorkshire +19 30 £475 -26.92% 12
South West -11 9 £533 -11.17% 7
Midlands +17 7 £349 -33.57% 17
West Midlands +14 4 £300 -42.86% 10
East of England -6 4 £600 +13.21% 7
Wales +17 3 £775 +55.00% 6
East Midlands - 3 £398 - 7

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 86 (13.07%) Apache Spark
2 74 (11.25%) Apache
3 23 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (3.50%) Confluence
4 11 (1.67%) nginx
5 6 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.76%) Tornado
7 4 (0.61%) Mule
7 4 (0.61%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.61%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.46%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.46%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.46%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.46%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.30%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.30%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.15%) CMS
10 1 (0.15%) JBoss
Applications
1 9 (1.37%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (1.52%) Endur
2 7 (1.06%) Temenos T24
3 4 (0.61%) Shopify
4 2 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.15%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.15%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.15%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 338 (51.37%) AWS
2 172 (26.14%) Azure
3 101 (15.35%) GCP
4 85 (12.92%) Serverless
5 44 (6.69%) Amazon S3
6 43 (6.53%) Amazon Kinesis
7 42 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
8 36 (5.47%) GitHub
8 36 (5.47%) OpenShift
9 24 (3.65%) Amazon EMR
10 21 (3.19%) Azure AKS
10 21 (3.19%) Azure Service Bus
11 18 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
11 18 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
11 18 (2.74%) Amazon MSK
12 14 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
12 14 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (1.98%) Amazon SQS
14 12 (1.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 49 (7.45%) HTTP
2 13 (1.98%) SSL
3 7 (1.06%) DNS
4 6 (0.91%) Firewall
5 4 (0.61%) VPN
6 3 (0.46%) IPv4
7 2 (0.30%) AMQP
7 2 (0.30%) DHCP
7 2 (0.30%) Internet
7 2 (0.30%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.15%) FTP
8 1 (0.15%) MQTT
8 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (14.74%) Apache Cassandra
2 89 (13.53%) MongoDB
3 71 (10.79%) PostgreSQL
4 65 (9.88%) NoSQL
5 48 (7.29%) Big Data
6 47 (7.14%) Flink
7 45 (6.84%) SQL Server
8 42 (6.38%) Relational Database
9 39 (5.93%) Hadoop
10 36 (5.47%) Elasticsearch
11 34 (5.17%) Amazon Redshift
12 31 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
13 23 (3.50%) Data Lake
14 19 (2.89%) Amazon RDS
14 19 (2.89%) DynamoDB
15 18 (2.74%) Amazon Athena
15 18 (2.74%) Couchbase
16 15 (2.28%) Apache Hive
16 15 (2.28%) MySQL
17 14 (2.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 70 (10.64%) Jenkins
2 69 (10.49%) Git
3 47 (7.14%) JIRA
4 23 (3.50%) GitLab
4 23 (3.50%) Mockito
5 19 (2.89%) Cypress.io
6 17 (2.58%) Cucumber
7 16 (2.43%) JMeter
7 16 (2.43%) JUnit
8 14 (2.13%) Maven
8 14 (2.13%) Selenium
9 11 (1.67%) Subversion
10 9 (1.37%) Postman
10 9 (1.37%) TeamCity
11 8 (1.22%) Bitbucket
12 7 (1.06%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.91%) Liquibase
13 6 (0.91%) Mocha
14 5 (0.76%) Pylint
14 5 (0.76%) Travis CI
General
1 118 (17.93%) Social Skills
2 106 (16.11%) Finance
3 73 (11.09%) Banking
4 56 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (6.08%) Public Sector
6 11 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (1.67%) Telecoms
7 10 (1.52%) Investment Banking
8 8 (1.22%) Retail
9 5 (0.76%) Front Office
9 5 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (0.76%) Marketing
10 4 (0.61%) Automotive
10 4 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.61%) Retail Banking
11 3 (0.46%) Back Office
11 3 (0.46%) Games
11 3 (0.46%) Legal
11 3 (0.46%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.30%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 249 (37.84%) Developer
2 116 (17.63%) Java Developer
3 112 (17.02%) Senior
4 87 (13.22%) Data Engineer
5 85 (12.92%) Software Engineer
6 63 (9.57%) Architect
7 45 (6.84%) Scala Developer
8 41 (6.23%) Senior Software Engineer
9 40 (6.08%) DevOps Engineer
10 38 (5.78%) Lead
11 35 (5.32%) Senior Developer
12 28 (4.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 26 (3.95%) Site Engineer
14 25 (3.80%) Full Stack Developer
14 25 (3.80%) Python Engineer
15 24 (3.65%) AWS Engineer
15 24 (3.65%) Azure Engineer
15 24 (3.65%) Senior Java Developer
16 21 (3.19%) Data Architect
17 20 (3.04%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (13.53%) Spring
2 86 (13.07%) Spring Boot
3 79 (12.01%) RESTful
4 63 (9.57%) REST
5 57 (8.66%) React
6 44 (6.69%) RabbitMQ
7 43 (6.53%) Akka
8 41 (6.23%) .NET
9 37 (5.62%) Web Services
10 33 (5.02%) ActiveMQ
10 33 (5.02%) Node.js
11 31 (4.71%) AngularJS
12 29 (4.41%) JSON
13 25 (3.80%) HTML
14 24 (3.65%) .NET Core
14 24 (3.65%) Elastic Stack
15 22 (3.34%) CSS
15 22 (3.34%) GraphQL
16 21 (3.19%) JAX-RS
17 19 (2.89%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 54 (8.21%) Distributed Systems
2 31 (4.71%) Cloud Native
3 28 (4.26%) Data Structures
4 25 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
5 24 (3.65%) Algorithms
6 16 (2.43%) Public Cloud
7 15 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (1.98%) Hedge funds
9 10 (1.52%) Product Ownership
10 8 (1.22%) Derivative
10 8 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.06%) DataPower
11 7 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.06%) Machine to Machine
12 6 (0.91%) Market Risk
12 6 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (0.76%) Onboarding
13 5 (0.76%) Solar Panel
14 4 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (0.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 107 (16.26%) Linux
2 46 (6.99%) Unix
3 21 (3.19%) Mac OS X
4 18 (2.74%) Windows
5 5 (0.76%) zOS
6 4 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.30%) VMS
7 2 (0.30%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.15%) Android
8 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.15%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (39.97%) Agile
2 213 (32.37%) DevOps
3 205 (31.16%) Microservices
4 153 (23.25%) CI/CD
5 142 (21.58%) Software Engineering
6 111 (16.87%) TDD
7 88 (13.37%) Test Automation
8 78 (11.85%) Problem-Solving
9 68 (10.33%) Containerisation
10 61 (9.27%) Data Pipeline
11 56 (8.51%) Pair Programming
12 54 (8.21%) Data Engineering
13 53 (8.05%) Continuous Integration
14 51 (7.75%) ETL
14 51 (7.75%) Fintech
14 51 (7.75%) User Experience
15 49 (7.45%) Scrum
16 48 (7.29%) Design Patterns
16 48 (7.29%) Full Stack Development
16 48 (7.29%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 274 (41.64%) Java
2 194 (29.48%) Python
3 155 (23.56%) SQL
4 103 (15.65%) Scala
5 80 (12.16%) Go
6 63 (9.57%) JavaScript
7 50 (7.60%) C#
8 28 (4.26%) Shell Script
9 22 (3.34%) C++
10 19 (2.89%) Groovy
10 19 (2.89%) TypeScript
11 17 (2.58%) PHP
12 14 (2.13%) Bash
12 14 (2.13%) Kotlin
13 13 (1.98%) Perl
14 9 (1.37%) Ruby
15 7 (1.06%) SPARQL
16 5 (0.76%) C
16 5 (0.76%) Rust
17 4 (0.61%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 122 (18.54%) Security Cleared
2 112 (17.02%) SC Cleared
3 43 (6.53%) Degree
4 22 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.06%) Master's Degree
6 5 (0.76%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (0.46%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (1.67%) Data Quality
2 6 (0.91%) QA
3 5 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.61%) GDPR
5 3 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (0.46%) NIST
6 2 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.30%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.30%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.30%) MiFID
7 1 (0.15%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.15%) GRC
7 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 195 (29.64%) Docker
2 16 (2.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 10 (1.52%) HDFS
4 5 (0.76%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.15%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 290 (44.07%) Kubernetes
2 77 (11.70%) Terraform
3 55 (8.36%) Prometheus
4 53 (8.05%) Grafana
5 34 (5.17%) Ansible
6 22 (3.34%) Argo
7 16 (2.43%) Istio
7 16 (2.43%) Kibana
8 15 (2.28%) Consul
9 9 (1.37%) Packer
10 8 (1.22%) Zipkin
11 7 (1.06%) Puppet
12 6 (0.91%) Hadoop YARN
12 6 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.61%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.46%) Kustomize
14 3 (0.46%) Oozie
15 2 (0.30%) Ambari
16 1 (0.15%) HAProxy
16 1 (0.15%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 66 (10.03%) Oracle
2 50 (7.60%) Microsoft
3 28 (4.26%) Databricks
3 28 (4.26%) IBM
4 21 (3.19%) Typelevel
5 20 (3.04%) Splunk
6 19 (2.89%) Google
7 17 (2.58%) Confluent
7 17 (2.58%) SAP
8 12 (1.82%) SaltStack
9 9 (1.37%) Solace
10 8 (1.22%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.06%) Informatica
11 7 (1.06%) TSYS
12 6 (0.91%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.76%) Adobe
13 5 (0.76%) F5
13 5 (0.76%) OpenLink
14 4 (0.61%) Qualys
14 4 (0.61%) Salesforce