Kafka Contracts in Yorkshire

Apache Kafka
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 102 83
Rank change year-on-year +17 -19 +7
Contract jobs citing Kafka 21 25 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.26% 1.08% 2.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.16% 5.79% 11.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 21 37
10th Percentile £400 £513 £500
25th Percentile £413 £575 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +13.04% +22.67%
75th Percentile £453 £700 £675
90th Percentile £630 - £750
England median daily rate £550 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -15.38% - +13.04%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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 341 432 541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 20.43% 18.67% 19.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 327 406
10th Percentile £352 £413 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £700 £638
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 1
10th Percentile £13.50 £61.25 -
25th Percentile £13.87 £63.44 £33.59
Median hourly rate £22.50 £70.00 £33.84
Median % change year-on-year -67.86% +106.86% +30.25%
75th Percentile £63.75 - £34.09
90th Percentile - £75.00 -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year -26.92% +31.31% +8.79%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Yorkshire

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Yorkshire

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Yorkshire

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 4 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
West Yorkshire +25 11 £450 -35.71% 3
South Yorkshire -2 9 £442 -26.42% 2
North Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 5 (23.81%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (19.05%) Apache Spark
3 3 (14.29%) Jupyter
3 3 (14.29%) nginx
4 2 (9.52%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) GCP
2 4 (19.05%) AWS
3 3 (14.29%) Azure
3 3 (14.29%) CloudBees
3 3 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (9.52%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) SSL
2 3 (14.29%) Firewall
2 3 (14.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 4 (19.05%) Big Data
3 3 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (14.29%) ClickHouse
3 3 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (9.52%) Apache Hive
4 2 (9.52%) BigQuery
4 2 (9.52%) Data Lake
4 2 (9.52%) Hadoop
4 2 (9.52%) Spark SQL
5 1 (4.76%) Flink
5 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Jenkins
2 4 (19.05%) Git
3 2 (9.52%) Cucumber
3 2 (9.52%) Gatling
3 2 (9.52%) JIRA
3 2 (9.52%) JMeter
3 2 (9.52%) Mockito
3 2 (9.52%) Selenium
3 2 (9.52%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (38.10%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Lead
2 3 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Build Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Senior
3 2 (9.52%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Software Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Test Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Administrator
4 1 (4.76%) Architect
4 1 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Cassandra Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Data Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Scala Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Scala Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Security Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Security Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (47.62%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (19.05%) Web Services
3 3 (14.29%) Apache Beam
3 3 (14.29%) Keycloak
4 2 (9.52%) JAX-RS
5 1 (4.76%) Akka
5 1 (4.76%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (4.76%) J2EE
5 1 (4.76%) RESTful
5 1 (4.76%) Spark Streaming
5 1 (4.76%) Spring
5 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 13 (61.90%) Linux
2 6 (28.57%) Unix
2 6 (28.57%) Windows
3 4 (19.05%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) DevOps
2 11 (52.38%) CI/CD
2 11 (52.38%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (38.10%) Agile
4 6 (28.57%) Change Management
4 6 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 6 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (28.57%) ITIL
4 6 (28.57%) ITSM
5 5 (23.81%) BDD
5 5 (23.81%) TDD
6 4 (19.05%) Design Patterns
6 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (19.05%) Migration
6 4 (19.05%) Test Automation
7 3 (14.29%) Configuration Management
7 3 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
7 3 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (14.29%) Open Source
7 3 (14.29%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) Java
2 8 (38.10%) Scala
3 7 (33.33%) Python
4 5 (23.81%) Groovy
5 3 (14.29%) Go
5 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 3 (14.29%) Ruby
6 2 (9.52%) Shell Script
6 2 (9.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Docker
2 3 (14.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (9.52%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (42.86%) Ansible
2 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
2 5 (23.81%) Terraform
3 4 (19.05%) Grafana
4 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) IBM
1 6 (28.57%) ServiceNow
1 6 (28.57%) Solace
2 1 (4.76%) Confluent
2 1 (4.76%) Databricks
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle
2 1 (4.76%) Splunk