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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 57 69
Rank change year-on-year -14 +12 -19
Contract jobs citing Kafka 56 81 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.91% 3.41% 3.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.62% 14.39% 11.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 61 65
10th Percentile £400 £463 £513
25th Percentile £507 £513 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% - -
75th Percentile £634 £750 £788
90th Percentile £679 £850 £870
London median daily rate £625 £600 £675
% change year-on-year +4.17% -11.11% +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 482 563 968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 25.05% 23.73% 26.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 394 618
10th Percentile £400 £413 £425
25th Percentile £425 £463 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -10.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £699 £738
90th Percentile £760 £800 £829
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £54.27 - -
25th Percentile £59.60 - -
Median hourly rate £69.47 - £53.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.58%
75th Percentile £79.60 - -
90th Percentile £85.09 - -
London median hourly rate £44.75 £42.50 £67.00
% change year-on-year +5.29% -36.57% +45.65%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -17 53 £585 -13.65% 129
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 6 (10.71%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (7.14%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.36%) Confluence
4 2 (3.57%) Apache
4 2 (3.57%) Camunda
4 2 (3.57%) Luigi
5 1 (1.79%) Alfresco
5 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 33 (58.93%) AWS
2 19 (33.93%) Azure
3 11 (19.64%) Amazon S3
4 5 (8.93%) GCP
5 3 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (5.36%) Azure AKS
5 3 (5.36%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (5.36%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.36%) GitHub
5 3 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (5.36%) Serverless
6 2 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.79%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (1.79%) Collibra
7 1 (1.79%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (46.43%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (28.57%) MongoDB
2 16 (28.57%) NoSQL
3 6 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (7.14%) Data Mining
4 4 (7.14%) Metadata
4 4 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 4 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.36%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (5.36%) Big Data
5 3 (5.36%) Oracle Database
5 3 (5.36%) Redis
6 2 (3.57%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.57%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.57%) Hadoop
6 2 (3.57%) MySQL
6 2 (3.57%) Star Schema
6 2 (3.57%) Tableau
7 1 (1.79%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (10.71%) Git
2 5 (8.93%) JIRA
2 5 (8.93%) JUnit
3 3 (5.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (5.36%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.36%) Maven
3 3 (5.36%) Mockito
3 3 (5.36%) Postman
3 3 (5.36%) REST Assured
3 3 (5.36%) SoapUI
3 3 (5.36%) SonarQube
3 3 (5.36%) Subversion
3 3 (5.36%) Xcode
3 3 (5.36%) XCTest
4 1 (1.79%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.79%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.79%) ER Studio
4 1 (1.79%) JBehave
4 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (35.71%) Finance
2 14 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 13 (23.21%) Social Skills
4 10 (17.86%) Front Office
5 8 (14.29%) Banking
6 6 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (7.14%) Police
7 4 (7.14%) Retail
8 1 (1.79%) Advertising
8 1 (1.79%) Back Office
8 1 (1.79%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (42.86%) Developer
2 14 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 10 (17.86%) Data Engineer
3 10 (17.86%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 5 (8.93%) Architect
5 4 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (7.14%) Senior
6 3 (5.36%) Analyst
6 3 (5.36%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (5.36%) Python Developer
6 3 (5.36%) Python Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Software Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.36%) Technical Architect
6 3 (5.36%) Technical Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.57%) Administrator
7 2 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Data Architect
7 2 (3.57%) Data Modeller
7 2 (3.57%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (26.79%) React
1 15 (26.79%) Spring
1 15 (26.79%) Spring Boot
2 13 (23.21%) REST
3 5 (8.93%) AngularJS
3 5 (8.93%) GraphQL
3 5 (8.93%) Svelte
4 4 (7.14%) HTML
4 4 (7.14%) JPA
4 4 (7.14%) SOAP
4 4 (7.14%) Web Services
5 3 (5.36%) .NET
5 3 (5.36%) CSS
5 3 (5.36%) CSS3
5 3 (5.36%) Hibernate
5 3 (5.36%) HTML5
5 3 (5.36%) J2EE
5 3 (5.36%) OAuth
5 3 (5.36%) OpenID
5 3 (5.36%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.93%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (5.36%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (3.57%) Replication
3 2 (3.57%) Social Media
4 1 (1.79%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.79%) Derivative
4 1 (1.79%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (1.79%) Equities
4 1 (1.79%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.79%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.79%) PKI
4 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.79%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.36%) Linux
1 3 (5.36%) Unix
2 1 (1.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (53.57%) Agile
2 26 (46.43%) Microservices
3 24 (42.86%) DevOps
4 16 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 12 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (19.64%) API Development
7 10 (17.86%) Clean Code
8 9 (16.07%) Software Engineering
8 9 (16.07%) SOLID
9 8 (14.29%) Data Engineering
9 8 (14.29%) Data Integration
9 8 (14.29%) Data Modelling
9 8 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
9 8 (14.29%) Mentoring
10 7 (12.50%) Analytics
10 7 (12.50%) Data Science
11 6 (10.71%) Data Pipeline
11 6 (10.71%) Front End Development
11 6 (10.71%) TDD
12 5 (8.93%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 28 (50.00%) Python
2 27 (48.21%) SQL
3 25 (44.64%) Java
4 13 (23.21%) JavaScript
5 5 (8.93%) Shell Script
5 5 (8.93%) TypeScript
6 3 (5.36%) C#
6 3 (5.36%) Groovy
6 3 (5.36%) Scala
7 2 (3.57%) R
8 1 (1.79%) C++
8 1 (1.79%) COBOL
8 1 (1.79%) JCL
8 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.79%) Ruby
8 1 (1.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (26.79%) SC Cleared
1 15 (26.79%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.07%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (3.57%) Degree
4 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.79%) EMIR
2 1 (1.79%) MiFID
2 1 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (10.71%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 27 (48.21%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.71%) Terraform
3 1 (1.79%) Ansible
3 1 (1.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (8.93%) Oracle
2 3 (5.36%) CA Agile Central
2 3 (5.36%) Dynatrace
2 3 (5.36%) Splunk
3 2 (3.57%) Confluent
3 2 (3.57%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.79%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.79%) CQG
4 1 (1.79%) Databricks
4 1 (1.79%) Google
4 1 (1.79%) IBM
4 1 (1.79%) ION Trading
4 1 (1.79%) Murex
4 1 (1.79%) Reuters
4 1 (1.79%) TIBCO