Kafka Contracts in Bristol

Apache Kafka
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 51 73 90
Rank change year-on-year +22 +17 -12
Contract jobs citing Kafka 4 1 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.74% 0.095% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.54% 0.46% 5.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 8
10th Percentile - - £350
25th Percentile £506 £325 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £350 £558
Median % change year-on-year +46.43% -37.22% +1.36%
75th Percentile £578 £375 £631
90th Percentile £614 - £671
South West median daily rate £513 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.82% -4.35% +8.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £78.70 - -
South West median hourly rate £78.70 - £78.00

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 113 216 207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 21.04% 20.44% 16.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 124 166
10th Percentile £333 £300 £338
25th Percentile £355 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £450 £455
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% -1.10% -9.00%
75th Percentile £538 £541 £575
90th Percentile £631 £642 £675
South West median daily rate £548 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.38% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 45 8
10th Percentile £61.25 - £48.13
25th Percentile - £43.75 £53.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -22.45% -5.77%
75th Percentile £68.00 £74.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £85.00 £66.50
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £54.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year +18.72% -4.78% -9.52%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Bristol

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Project Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Project Leader
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Chief Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Data Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) API Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Def Stans
2 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kibana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) logstash
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) VMware