Kafka Contract Job Trends in Brighton

Apache Kafka
East Sussex > Brighton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Brighton requiring Kafka skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 18 -
Rank change year-on-year +9 - -
Contract jobs citing Kafka 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Brighton 8.70% 1.82% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 26.67% 7.14% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £459 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 - -
75th Percentile £573 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Sussex median daily rate £565 £354 -
% change year-on-year +59.72% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Brighton

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 Brighton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 15 14 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Brighton 32.61% 25.45% 41.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 12
10th Percentile £319 - £303
25th Percentile £360 £380 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -10.64%
75th Percentile £463 £563 £575
90th Percentile £573 £608 £650
East Sussex median daily rate £375 £418 £525
% change year-on-year -10.18% -20.48% -8.70%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Brighton

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in Brighton

Kafka
Daily Rate Trend in Brighton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Brighton citing Kafka

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in Brighton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Brighton over the 6 months to 4 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Brighton

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Brighton 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 4 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 4 (100.00%) Couchbase
1 4 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 4 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 3 (75.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) Open Source
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Go
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Atlassian