Kafka Engineer Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Kafka Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Kafka Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Kafka Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.11% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £520 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Birmingham with a recognized job title 817 466 690
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.39% 89.27% 92.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 337 485
10th Percentile £313 £174 £250
25th Percentile £413 £325 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +7.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £653 £700 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -0.51% +2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 23 38
10th Percentile £13.25 - £12.80
25th Percentile £17.09 £12.62 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.00 £14.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -50.88% +42.50%
75th Percentile £26.91 £26.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £32.25 £30.68 £61.24
West Midlands median hourly rate £26.30 £18.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +46.13% -18.18% +15.79%

Kafka Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Kafka Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Kafka Engineer job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Kafka Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Kafka Engineer job vacancies in Birmingham.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Kafka Engineer job vacancies in Birmingham

Kafka Engineer Skill Set
Top 14 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 5 April 2026, Kafka Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Kafka Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Apache Avro
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) JSON Schema
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Parquet
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Protocol Buffers
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Scala

Kafka Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Parquet
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Avro
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) JSON Schema
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Protocol Buffers
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft