Kafka Contract Job Trends in Bournemouth

Apache Kafka
Dorset > Bournemouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bournemouth requiring Kafka skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 15 20
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 -5
Contract jobs citing Kafka 6 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Bournemouth 7.14% 4.00% 1.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 20.00% 8.00% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £385 -
25th Percentile - £388 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £396 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.62% - -
75th Percentile £372 £400 -
90th Percentile £385 £400 -
Dorset median daily rate £350 £396 -
% change year-on-year -11.62% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Bournemouth

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 Bournemouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 30 25 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bournemouth 35.71% 50.00% 10.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 5
10th Percentile £350 £387 £302
25th Percentile £354 £403 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £386 £458 £364
Median % change year-on-year -15.78% +25.82% -44.00%
75th Percentile £409 £644 £469
90th Percentile £478 £728 £510
Dorset median daily rate £386 £500 £493
% change year-on-year -22.85% +1.52% -17.92%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Bournemouth

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in Bournemouth

Kafka
Daily Rate Trend in Bournemouth

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bournemouth citing Kafka

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bournemouth 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 3 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (50.00%) Datadog
1 3 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Flink
1 3 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (33.33%) KDB
2 2 (33.33%) Kdb+
3 1 (16.67%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) JUnit
1 1 (16.67%) Postman
1 1 (16.67%) REST Assured
1 1 (16.67%) SoapUI
1 1 (16.67%) TestNG
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Backend Developer
3 2 (33.33%) KDB Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Java Concurrency
1 3 (50.00%) RESTful
1 3 (50.00%) Spring
1 3 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (16.67%) pytest
2 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Analytics
1 5 (83.33%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Code Quality
3 3 (50.00%) Concurrent Programming
3 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (50.00%) Microservices
3 3 (50.00%) Multithreading
3 3 (50.00%) Observability
4 2 (33.33%) Low Latency
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) API Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Defect Tracking
5 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
5 1 (16.67%) QA Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk