Kafka Contracts in Belfast

Apache Kafka
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Belfast requiring Kafka skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kafka over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 - 16
Rank change year-on-year - - -1
Contract jobs citing Kafka 10 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 6.80% - 4.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 27.03% - 26.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £410 - £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 - £490
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.03%
75th Percentile £523 - £535
90th Percentile £585 - -
County Antrim median daily rate £470 - £490
% change year-on-year - - +1.03%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Belfast

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 Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 37 26 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 25.17% 20.97% 18.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 7 17
10th Percentile £266 £495 -
25th Percentile £325 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 £600 £400
Median % change year-on-year -32.71% +50.00% -17.53%
75th Percentile £488 £650 £463
90th Percentile £544 - £536
County Antrim median daily rate £404 £600 £400
% change year-on-year -32.71% +50.00% -17.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.98 - -
Median hourly rate £73.23 £16.12 -
Median % change year-on-year +354.25% - -
75th Percentile £78.47 - -
90th Percentile - - -
County Antrim median hourly rate £73.23 £16.12 -
% change year-on-year +354.25% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Belfast

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Belfast

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Daily Rate Histogram in Belfast

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Belfast over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Belfast

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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 4 (40.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (30.00%) Apache
3 2 (20.00%) GemFire
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (10.00%) Anypoint
4 1 (10.00%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Apache Hive
1 4 (40.00%) Big Data
2 3 (30.00%) Flink
2 3 (30.00%) HBase
3 2 (20.00%) Apache Ignite
3 2 (20.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (20.00%) Impala
3 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (80.00%) Finance
2 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (50.00%) Law
4 4 (40.00%) Banking
5 2 (20.00%) Financial Institution
5 2 (20.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (10.00%) Retail
6 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 6 (60.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Apache Spark Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Java Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Big Data Developer
5 1 (10.00%) MuleSoft Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Big Data Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) JSON
2 2 (20.00%) Apache Avro
2 2 (20.00%) Spring
2 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (10.00%) JMS
3 1 (10.00%) JWT
3 1 (10.00%) OAuth
3 1 (10.00%) OpenAPI
3 1 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (10.00%) RAML
3 1 (10.00%) RESTful
3 1 (10.00%) SAML
3 1 (10.00%) SOAP
3 1 (10.00%) Swagger
3 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Credit Risk
1 3 (30.00%) Equities
1 3 (30.00%) Fixed Income
1 3 (30.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Microservices
2 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (40.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (30.00%) Clean Code
4 3 (30.00%) Data Management
4 3 (30.00%) High Availability
4 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Low Latency
5 2 (20.00%) Multithreading
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) SOA
5 2 (20.00%) Storyboarding
5 2 (20.00%) Use Case
6 1 (10.00%) Electronic Trading
6 1 (10.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 1 (10.00%) Integration Testing
6 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Java
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (40.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) DataWeave
4 1 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
2 2 (20.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Cloudera
2 1 (10.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow