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 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Kafka 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Canary Wharf 5.97% - 0.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.39% - 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £412 - -
25th Percentile £415 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 - £436
75th Percentile £479 - -
90th Percentile £593 - -
Tower Hamlets median daily rate £416 - £436

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 23 11 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Canary Wharf 34.33% 20.75% 10.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 11 11
10th Percentile £416 £250 £436
25th Percentile £432 £411 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £585 £540
Median % change year-on-year -23.16% +8.33% -11.84%
75th Percentile £609 £638 £660
90th Percentile £674 - £750
Tower Hamlets median daily rate £450 £585 £540
% change year-on-year -23.16% +8.33% -11.84%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Canary Wharf

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Canary Wharf over the 6 months to 3 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Canary Wharf

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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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure API Management
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon MSK
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (25.00%) Flink
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JUnit
1 2 (50.00%) SoapUI
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Middleware Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) EDI
1 2 (50.00%) IBM Integration Bus
1 2 (50.00%) Middleware
1 2 (50.00%) SOAP
1 2 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) CSS3
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) Redux
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
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 3 (75.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (75.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) API Integration
2 2 (50.00%) API Management
2 2 (50.00%) Change Control
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Lineage
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) Korn
3 2 (50.00%) Perl
3 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (25.00%) Python
4 1 (25.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SEPA
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) IBM
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Cloudera
2 1 (25.00%) Confluent