Kafka Contracts in Berkshire

Apache Kafka
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 8 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 94 103
Rank change year-on-year +10 +9 +19
Contract jobs citing Kafka 7 23 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.62% 1.19% 0.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.83% 7.67% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 5
10th Percentile £445 £413 £431
25th Percentile £503 £458 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% +5.56% -21.05%
75th Percentile £588 £494 £500
90th Percentile £595 £499 £530
South East median daily rate £443 £475 £553
% change year-on-year -6.84% -14.03% -3.91%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 247 300 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 21.88% 15.50% 16.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 195 215
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £638
90th Percentile £655 £650 £706
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 18 8
10th Percentile £30.87 £56.61 £52.90
25th Percentile £31.80 £56.65 £75.06
Median hourly rate £54.75 £61.60 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -11.12% -21.78% +28.05%
75th Percentile £81.02 - £80.25
90th Percentile £87.91 £61.72 £80.48
South East median hourly rate £54.88 £61.60 £70.00
% change year-on-year -10.92% -12.00% +55.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Berkshire over the 6 months to 8 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 8 June 2025. 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
Windsor - 4 £459 -
Reading +29 2 £588 +23.68% 3
Kafka
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 6 (85.71%) Apache Spark
2 2 (28.57%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
2 3 (42.86%) Snowflake
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Big Data
2 4 (57.14%) MongoDB
2 4 (57.14%) Spark SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Apache Hive
3 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (28.57%) Hadoop
3 2 (28.57%) MySQL
3 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
4 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 1 (14.29%) Power BI
4 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) ERwin
General
1 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Big Data Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Hadoop Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) PySpark
2 2 (28.57%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) ETL
2 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (42.86%) Data Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Data Collection
4 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (28.57%) Data Security
4 2 (28.57%) Generative AI
4 2 (28.57%) High Availability
4 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
4 2 (28.57%) Storage Management
4 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
5 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (14.29%) Customer Experience
5 1 (14.29%) LLM
5 1 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
5 1 (14.29%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks
1 1 (14.29%) Google