Kafka Contract Job Trends in Canary Wharf

Apache Kafka
Tower Hamlets > Canary Wharf

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Canary Wharf requiring Kafka skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 17 31
Rank change year-on-year +2 +14 -
Contract jobs citing Kafka 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Canary Wharf 7.41% 1.61% 1.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.18% 5.00% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £416 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 - £500
75th Percentile £450 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tower Hamlets median daily rate £433 - £500

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Canary Wharf

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 Canary Wharf.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 22 20 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Canary Wharf 40.74% 32.26% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 19 23
10th Percentile £416 £440 £455
25th Percentile - £473 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -1.82% -6.38%
75th Percentile £540 £621 £568
90th Percentile - £638 £690
Tower Hamlets median daily rate £450 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% -1.82% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £55.75 - -
25th Percentile £56.88 - -
Median hourly rate £58.75 - -
75th Percentile £60.63 - -
90th Percentile £61.75 - -
Tower Hamlets median hourly rate £58.75 - -

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Canary Wharf

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in Canary Wharf

Kafka
Daily Rate Trend in Canary Wharf

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Canary Wharf citing Kafka.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Canary Wharf citing Kafka

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Canary Wharf 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure API Management
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MemSQL
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JUnit
1 2 (50.00%) SoapUI
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Middleware Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Middleware
2 2 (50.00%) EDI
2 2 (50.00%) IBM Integration Bus
2 2 (50.00%) SOAP
2 2 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (50.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) AIX
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) API Integration
1 2 (50.00%) API Management
1 2 (50.00%) Change Control
1 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Graceful Degradation
1 2 (50.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (50.00%) Multithreading
1 2 (50.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Korn
2 2 (50.00%) Perl
2 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SEPA
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) IBM
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle