Kafka Contract Job Trends in Basingstoke

Apache Kafka
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Basingstoke requiring Kafka skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 39 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Contract jobs citing Kafka 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Basingstoke 0.35% 0.47% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.14% 5.56% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% - -
Hampshire median daily rate £435 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -17.14% -8.70% -11.54%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Basingstoke

Kafka falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Basingstoke.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 14 18 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 4.95% 8.37% 18.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 5
10th Percentile £405 £433 £261
25th Percentile £475 £479 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile - £625 £650
90th Percentile £664 £675 £688
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £561 £550
% change year-on-year -10.79% +1.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.75
Median hourly rate - - £23.50
75th Percentile - - £24.25
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year -24.00% +2.04% -5.77%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kafka relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke.

Kafka job vacancy trend in Basingstoke

Kafka
Daily Rate Trend in Basingstoke

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Kafka.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Kafka

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basingstoke by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Dagster
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Poetry
1 1 (100.00%) Pylint
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Data Capture
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Google