Kafka Contracts in Central London

Apache Kafka
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 65 74 54
Rank change year-on-year +9 -20 -2
Contract jobs citing Kafka 65 62 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.25% 2.53% 3.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.52% 11.59% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 46 84
10th Percentile £420 £444 £470
25th Percentile £505 £488 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £613 £685
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% -10.58% +1.48%
75th Percentile £656 £705 £775
90th Percentile £738 £750 £863
London median daily rate £650 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% -1.89%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 519 535 1,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 25.99% 21.87% 28.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 386 707
10th Percentile £409 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £551 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.45% -11.92% +4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Central London

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Central London

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Central London

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +11 62 £585 -4.49% 12
Kafka
London

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 5 (7.69%) Apache
1 5 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (6.15%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.08%) Confluence
4 1 (1.54%) Alfresco
4 1 (1.54%) Camunda
4 1 (1.54%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (1.54%) Luigi
4 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Endur
2 1 (1.54%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 32 (49.23%) AWS
2 20 (30.77%) Azure
3 6 (9.23%) GitHub
4 5 (7.69%) GCP
5 4 (6.15%) Amazon S3
5 4 (6.15%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (6.15%) Azure AKS
5 4 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (6.15%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (6.15%) Entra ID
5 4 (6.15%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (6.15%) Serverless
6 3 (4.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (3.08%) dbt
7 2 (3.08%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.08%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.54%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.62%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (38.46%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (32.31%) MongoDB
3 20 (30.77%) NoSQL
4 7 (10.77%) SQL Server
5 5 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (6.15%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (6.15%) Crystal Reports
6 4 (6.15%) Relational Database
7 3 (4.62%) Big Data
7 3 (4.62%) Data Lake
7 3 (4.62%) DynamoDB
7 3 (4.62%) Redis
7 3 (4.62%) Tableau
8 2 (3.08%) Data Mining
8 2 (3.08%) Flink
8 2 (3.08%) MySQL
8 2 (3.08%) Oracle Database
8 2 (3.08%) Power BI
8 2 (3.08%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (3.08%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (12.31%) Git
2 6 (9.23%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.15%) JUnit
3 4 (6.15%) SonarQube
4 3 (4.62%) JIRA
4 3 (4.62%) Maven
5 2 (3.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (3.08%) Mockito
5 2 (3.08%) Postman
5 2 (3.08%) REST Assured
5 2 (3.08%) SoapUI
5 2 (3.08%) Subversion
5 2 (3.08%) Xcode
5 2 (3.08%) XCTest
6 1 (1.54%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.54%) GitLab
6 1 (1.54%) JBehave
6 1 (1.54%) Liquibase
6 1 (1.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (33.85%) Public Sector
2 12 (18.46%) Finance
3 11 (16.92%) Social Skills
4 7 (10.77%) Back Office
5 5 (7.69%) Banking
6 4 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.15%) Retail
7 2 (3.08%) Front Office
7 2 (3.08%) Police
8 1 (1.54%) Advertising
8 1 (1.54%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (46.15%) Developer
2 20 (30.77%) Java Developer
3 17 (26.15%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 10 (15.38%) Data Engineer
5 6 (9.23%) Analyst
6 5 (7.69%) Software Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Architect
7 4 (6.15%) C# Developer
7 4 (6.15%) ETRM Developer
7 4 (6.15%) Lead
8 3 (4.62%) Analyst Developer
8 3 (4.62%) Python Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Senior
8 3 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.62%) Technical Architect
8 3 (4.62%) Technical Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.08%) Product Analyst
9 2 (3.08%) Products Support Analyst
9 2 (3.08%) Technical Engineer
9 2 (3.08%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (33.85%) Spring
1 22 (33.85%) Spring Boot
2 16 (24.62%) React
3 8 (12.31%) .NET
4 7 (10.77%) REST
5 4 (6.15%) AngularJS
5 4 (6.15%) HTML
5 4 (6.15%) OAuth
5 4 (6.15%) OpenID
6 3 (4.62%) CSS
6 3 (4.62%) NumPy
6 3 (4.62%) OAuth2
6 3 (4.62%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (4.62%) Pandas
6 3 (4.62%) SOAP
6 3 (4.62%) Web Services
7 2 (3.08%) Bootstrap
7 2 (3.08%) Material-UI
7 2 (3.08%) Spring Cloud
7 2 (3.08%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (3.08%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.08%) Replication
2 2 (3.08%) Social Media
3 1 (1.54%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.54%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.54%) Derivative
3 1 (1.54%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (1.54%) Equities
3 1 (1.54%) Fixed Income
3 1 (1.54%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.54%) PKI
3 1 (1.54%) Reference Data
3 1 (1.54%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.69%) Linux
2 2 (3.08%) Unix
2 2 (3.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (58.46%) DevOps
2 30 (46.15%) Agile
3 29 (44.62%) Microservices
4 18 (27.69%) API Development
4 18 (27.69%) CI/CD
5 17 (26.15%) Clean Code
5 17 (26.15%) SOLID
6 11 (16.92%) Software Engineering
7 9 (13.85%) Test Automation
8 8 (12.31%) Analytics
8 8 (12.31%) Mentoring
8 8 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (10.77%) Data Engineering
9 7 (10.77%) Data Modelling
9 7 (10.77%) SDLC
9 7 (10.77%) TDD
10 6 (9.23%) ETL
10 6 (9.23%) Event-Driven
11 5 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
11 5 (7.69%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 40 (61.54%) SQL
2 34 (52.31%) Java
3 22 (33.85%) Python
4 19 (29.23%) JavaScript
5 8 (12.31%) C#
6 4 (6.15%) PL/SQL
7 3 (4.62%) Scala
7 3 (4.62%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.08%) Groovy
9 1 (1.54%) C++
9 1 (1.54%) COBOL
9 1 (1.54%) JCL
9 1 (1.54%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.54%) R
9 1 (1.54%) Ruby
9 1 (1.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (38.46%) SC Cleared
1 25 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 16 (24.62%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (3.08%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (3.08%) Degree
4 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.62%) EMIR
2 3 (4.62%) MiFID
3 2 (3.08%) QA
3 2 (3.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (18.46%) Docker
2 1 (1.54%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 40 (61.54%) Kubernetes
2 13 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (1.54%) Ansible
3 1 (1.54%) Argo
3 1 (1.54%) Grafana
3 1 (1.54%) Istio
3 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.54%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 8 (12.31%) Oracle
2 4 (6.15%) Confluent
2 4 (6.15%) OpenLink
3 3 (4.62%) IBM
4 2 (3.08%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (3.08%) Databricks
4 2 (3.08%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.08%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.08%) Splunk
5 1 (1.54%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.54%) CQG
5 1 (1.54%) Google
5 1 (1.54%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.54%) Murex
5 1 (1.54%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.54%) Reuters
5 1 (1.54%) TIBCO