Kafka Contracts in Cardiff

Apache Kafka
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 29 34 42
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 +9
Contract jobs citing Kafka 1 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 0.63% 0.47% 1.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.57% 1.56% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.00%
South Wales median daily rate - - £500
% change year-on-year - - -20.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 28 64 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 17.50% 30.19% 36.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 56 93
10th Percentile £196 £369 £300
25th Percentile £312 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% -6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £539 £586
90th Percentile £588 £623 £650
South Wales median daily rate £405 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -14.29% -

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Cardiff

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Cardiff

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG