Kafka Contracts with Work from Home Options

Apache Kafka
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 163 139 80
Rank change year-on-year -24 -59 +42
Contract jobs citing Kafka 201 456 1,389
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.33% 1.81% 3.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.54% 7.20% 10.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 343 1,014
10th Percentile £413 £463 £475
25th Percentile £463 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +6.19%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £725
90th Percentile £731 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £540 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -16.92% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £25.20 - £55.13
25th Percentile £28.88 £64.50 £59.06
Median hourly rate £35.00 £67.00 £66.88
Median % change year-on-year -47.76% +0.19% -
75th Percentile £51.88 £69.50 £73.44
90th Percentile £62.00 - £76.63
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 3,628 6,337 13,079
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.03% 25.22% 29.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,546 4,711 9,657
10th Percentile £331 £395 £400
25th Percentile £429 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +13.40%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £788 £750 £731
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 80 116
10th Percentile £24.68 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £43.60 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £60.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.65
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.65
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.93% +10.32%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Kafka trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Kafka.

Kafka daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Kafka over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Kafka daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Kafka.

Kafka hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Kafka over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Kafka hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (12.44%) Apache Spark
2 11 (5.47%) Apache
3 5 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.99%) Confluence
4 4 (1.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (1.49%) Cloud Foundry
5 3 (1.49%) nginx
5 3 (1.49%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.49%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.49%) WebSphere
6 2 (1.00%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.50%) Mule
Applications
1 4 (1.99%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.99%) Temenos T24
2 2 (1.00%) Endur
2 2 (1.00%) Shopify
3 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 101 (50.25%) AWS
2 36 (17.91%) Azure
3 21 (10.45%) Serverless
4 17 (8.46%) GCP
5 12 (5.97%) Amazon S3
6 9 (4.48%) Amazon Kinesis
7 6 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.49%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.49%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (2.49%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (2.49%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.99%) Amazon MSK
9 4 (1.99%) Apigee
9 4 (1.99%) Kong
10 3 (1.49%) Amazon ECR
10 3 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.49%) Azure AKS
10 3 (1.49%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (1.49%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.49%) HTTP
2 3 (1.49%) DNS
2 3 (1.49%) VPN
3 2 (1.00%) SSL
4 1 (0.50%) IPv4
4 1 (0.50%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (20.40%) MongoDB
2 40 (19.90%) Apache Cassandra
3 25 (12.44%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (11.44%) Relational Database
5 21 (10.45%) NoSQL
6 13 (6.47%) SQL Server
7 11 (5.47%) RDBMS
8 10 (4.98%) Big Data
8 10 (4.98%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (4.98%) Oracle Reports
9 9 (4.48%) Flink
10 7 (3.48%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (3.48%) Hadoop
10 7 (3.48%) OLAP
10 7 (3.48%) OLTP
11 5 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (2.49%) MySQL
12 4 (1.99%) Couchbase
12 4 (1.99%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.99%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 14 (6.97%) Git
2 10 (4.98%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.98%) JIRA
4 7 (3.48%) GitLab
5 5 (2.49%) Cypress.io
5 5 (2.49%) JUnit
5 5 (2.49%) Mockito
5 5 (2.49%) Selenium
6 4 (1.99%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.99%) Subversion
7 3 (1.49%) HP UFT
7 3 (1.49%) Katalon Studio
7 3 (1.49%) Snyk
7 3 (1.49%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.00%) EasyMock
8 2 (1.00%) Postman
8 2 (1.00%) Pylint
8 2 (1.00%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.00%) TestNG
8 2 (1.00%) Travis CI
General
1 54 (26.87%) Social Skills
2 34 (16.92%) Finance
3 23 (11.44%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.46%) Banking
5 7 (3.48%) Telecoms
6 6 (2.99%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.49%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.00%) Automotive
9 2 (1.00%) Front Office
9 2 (1.00%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.00%) Retail
10 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.50%) Games
10 1 (0.50%) German Language
10 1 (0.50%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.50%) Legal
10 1 (0.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 71 (35.32%) Developer
2 47 (23.38%) Senior
3 45 (22.39%) Software Engineer
4 32 (15.92%) Java Developer
5 22 (10.95%) Senior Software Engineer
6 21 (10.45%) Data Engineer
7 17 (8.46%) Senior Developer
8 15 (7.46%) Architect
9 14 (6.97%) Full Stack Developer
9 14 (6.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 13 (6.47%) Site Engineer
11 12 (5.97%) Python Engineer
12 11 (5.47%) Java Engineer
13 10 (4.98%) DBA
13 10 (4.98%) Lead
13 10 (4.98%) PostgreSQL DBA
14 8 (3.98%) Senior Java Developer
15 7 (3.48%) Azure Engineer
15 7 (3.48%) Scala Developer
16 6 (2.99%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (14.43%) Spring Boot
2 27 (13.43%) Spring
3 23 (11.44%) RESTful
4 22 (10.95%) RabbitMQ
4 22 (10.95%) REST
5 21 (10.45%) AngularJS
6 18 (8.96%) JSON
6 18 (8.96%) React
7 14 (6.97%) Web Services
8 12 (5.97%) XML
9 10 (4.98%) Node.js
9 10 (4.98%) PySpark
10 8 (3.98%) .NET
10 8 (3.98%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (3.98%) SOAP
11 7 (3.48%) Symfony
12 6 (2.99%) GraphQL
12 6 (2.99%) HTML
13 5 (2.49%) .NET Core
13 5 (2.49%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.44%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (6.97%) Data Structures
3 11 (5.47%) Algorithms
4 7 (3.48%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (2.99%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.99%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.99%) DataPower
6 4 (1.99%) Hedge funds
6 4 (1.99%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (1.49%) Derivative
7 3 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.49%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.00%) IoT
8 2 (1.00%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.00%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.50%) Machine to Machine
9 1 (0.50%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 38 (18.91%) Linux
2 7 (3.48%) Unix
3 5 (2.49%) Windows
4 3 (1.49%) Mac OS X
5 2 (1.00%) zOS
6 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (44.28%) Agile
2 61 (30.35%) Microservices
2 61 (30.35%) Software Engineering
3 59 (29.35%) DevOps
4 45 (22.39%) CI/CD
5 34 (16.92%) Fintech
5 34 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (16.42%) User Experience
7 31 (15.42%) UX Design
8 30 (14.93%) User Research
8 30 (14.93%) UX Research
9 27 (13.43%) Test Automation
10 26 (12.94%) Full Stack Development
11 25 (12.44%) TDD
12 17 (8.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 15 (7.46%) Continuous Integration
13 15 (7.46%) Disaster Recovery
13 15 (7.46%) Event-Driven
13 15 (7.46%) Mentoring
14 14 (6.97%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 90 (44.78%) Java
2 55 (27.36%) Python
3 43 (21.39%) Go
4 25 (12.44%) SQL
5 20 (9.95%) Scala
6 18 (8.96%) JavaScript
7 13 (6.47%) C++
7 13 (6.47%) PHP
7 13 (6.47%) Shell Script
8 10 (4.98%) C#
9 7 (3.48%) Bash
10 5 (2.49%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.49%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.49%) Groovy
12 2 (1.00%) Bicep
12 2 (1.00%) C
12 2 (1.00%) Perl
12 2 (1.00%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.50%) ABAP
13 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (8.96%) Security Cleared
2 13 (6.47%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.97%) Degree
4 9 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.00%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.50%) MiFID
2 1 (0.50%) QA
System Software
1 73 (36.32%) Docker
2 12 (5.97%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.50%) HDFS
3 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 99 (49.25%) Kubernetes
2 23 (11.44%) Prometheus
3 21 (10.45%) Grafana
4 14 (6.97%) Terraform
5 13 (6.47%) Consul
6 8 (3.98%) Ansible
7 4 (1.99%) Argo
8 3 (1.49%) Packer
8 3 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.49%) Zipkin
9 2 (1.00%) Istio
9 2 (1.00%) Kibana
9 2 (1.00%) Kustomize
9 2 (1.00%) Puppet
10 1 (0.50%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.50%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.50%) Nagios
10 1 (0.50%) Oozie
10 1 (0.50%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.50%) Rancher
Vendors
1 32 (15.92%) Oracle
2 16 (7.96%) IBM
2 16 (7.96%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.97%) SaltStack
4 10 (4.98%) Databricks
5 5 (2.49%) Confluent
6 4 (1.99%) TSYS
7 3 (1.49%) Google
7 3 (1.49%) Informatica
7 3 (1.49%) Micro Focus
7 3 (1.49%) Splunk
8 2 (1.00%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.00%) F5
8 2 (1.00%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.00%) SAP
8 2 (1.00%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.00%) Solace
8 2 (1.00%) StreamSets
8 2 (1.00%) Typelevel
9 1 (0.50%) CA Agile Central