Kafka Contracts in West London

Apache Kafka
London > West London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 21 46 40
Rank change year-on-year +25 -6 +8
Contract jobs citing Kafka 25 17 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 6.98% 2.98% 3.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 22.94% 16.19% 21.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 8 16
10th Percentile £256 £498 £425
25th Percentile £388 £569 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £494 - £613
90th Percentile £545 £654 £706
London median daily rate £550 £650 £663
% change year-on-year -15.38% -1.89% +15.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
London median hourly rate - £75.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year - -3.23% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West 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 West 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 109 105 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 30.45% 18.42% 18.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 71 78
10th Percentile £268 £425 £425
25th Percentile £413 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -5.17% +6.42%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £650
90th Percentile £627 - £675
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 13 3
10th Percentile £25.21 £71.00 £33.25
25th Percentile £27.33 - £34.38
Median hourly rate £50.62 £75.00 £37.06
Median % change year-on-year -32.51% +102.37% -21.98%
75th Percentile £69.00 - £38.13
90th Percentile £72.60 £90.00 £38.50
London median hourly rate £40.00 £67.25 £48.58
% change year-on-year -40.52% +38.43% -0.35%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in West London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in West London

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Daily Rate Histogram in West London

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

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in West London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for Kafka in West London

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Contract Job Locations in West 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 West 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
Hounslow +9 18 £475 -9.52% 1
Hillingdon +26 4 £475 -26.92%
Kafka
London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (52.00%) AWS
2 11 (44.00%) GCP
3 10 (40.00%) Azure
4 2 (8.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub
5 1 (4.00%) PaaS
5 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (36.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (48.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 9 (36.00%) Couchbase
3 6 (24.00%) MongoDB
4 4 (16.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.00%) GitLab
2 1 (4.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (4.00%) Spock
2 1 (4.00%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Developer
2 8 (32.00%) Development Engineer
2 8 (32.00%) Scala Developer
2 8 (32.00%) Software Development Engineer
2 8 (32.00%) Software Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) C++ Software Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Scala Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Software Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Lead
6 1 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Full Stack Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Lead Python Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Python Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Python Team Leader
6 1 (4.00%) Reliability Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (48.00%) Akka
2 9 (36.00%) RESTful
3 3 (12.00%) Web Services
4 1 (4.00%) .NET
4 1 (4.00%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (4.00%) Middleware
4 1 (4.00%) Node.js
4 1 (4.00%) pytest
4 1 (4.00%) React
4 1 (4.00%) Redux
4 1 (4.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Microservices
2 13 (52.00%) TDD
3 11 (44.00%) Agile
4 10 (40.00%) DevOps
4 10 (40.00%) Pair Programming
4 10 (40.00%) Software Engineering
5 9 (36.00%) Clean Code
5 9 (36.00%) GitOps
5 9 (36.00%) Machine Learning
5 9 (36.00%) Personalization
6 8 (32.00%) Feasibility Study
6 8 (32.00%) Product Management
6 8 (32.00%) Validation
7 7 (28.00%) Coaching
7 7 (28.00%) Scrum
8 4 (16.00%) Computer Science
8 4 (16.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
8 4 (16.00%) Customer-Centricity
8 4 (16.00%) Inventory Management
9 3 (12.00%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 12 (48.00%) Scala
2 8 (32.00%) C++
3 3 (12.00%) Groovy
4 2 (8.00%) Java
4 2 (8.00%) Python
5 1 (4.00%) C#
5 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) Degree
2 4 (16.00%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (24.00%) Grafana
2 6 (24.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Oracle
1 9 (36.00%) Typelevel
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Splunk
3 1 (4.00%) Google