Kafka Contracts in Cheshire

Apache Kafka
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 44 49 48
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 +5
Contract jobs citing Kafka 14 9 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 3.12% 1.79% 2.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.67% 17.65% 14.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 13
10th Percentile £358 £309 £416
25th Percentile £383 £311 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £438 £445
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% -1.69% +37.35%
75th Percentile £537 £489 £485
90th Percentile £627 £493 £654
North West median daily rate £500 £521 £538
% change year-on-year -4.08% -3.02% -10.42%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 84 51 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 18.71% 10.12% 20.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 40 90
10th Percentile £322 £288 £325
25th Percentile £358 £318 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £450 £540
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% -16.67% +32.52%
75th Percentile £537 £509 £575
90th Percentile £615 £575 £620
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 £11.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +508.70% - -
North West median hourly rate £67.75 £47.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year +43.22% +5.12% +10.80%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Cheshire

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Cheshire

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Cheshire

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Cheshire 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
Knutsford -1 13 £402 -8.11% 1
Chester - 1 £410 - 3
Kafka
North West

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (7.14%) Camunda
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (35.71%) Serverless
3 4 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (28.57%) Amazon Glacier
3 4 (28.57%) Amazon Kinesis
3 4 (28.57%) Amazon S3
3 4 (28.57%) OpenShift
4 1 (7.14%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) DynamoDB
2 3 (21.43%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 4 (28.57%) JUnit
3 2 (14.29%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (14.29%) GitLab
3 2 (14.29%) Gradle
3 2 (14.29%) HP UFT
3 2 (14.29%) IntelliJ
3 2 (14.29%) JIRA
3 2 (14.29%) Maven
3 2 (14.29%) NetBeans
3 2 (14.29%) Selenium
3 2 (14.29%) Subversion
4 1 (7.14%) Git
4 1 (7.14%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Banking
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Legal
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Architect
1 6 (42.86%) Solutions Architect
2 4 (28.57%) AWS Architect
2 4 (28.57%) AWS Solution Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Lead
3 3 (21.43%) Senior
4 2 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Java Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Java Solutions Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Python Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Spring Boot
2 4 (28.57%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (28.57%) AngularJS
2 4 (28.57%) RESTful
3 3 (21.43%) React
3 3 (21.43%) Spring
4 2 (14.29%) CSS
4 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
4 2 (14.29%) HTML
4 2 (14.29%) HTML5
4 2 (14.29%) J2EE
4 2 (14.29%) Node.js
4 2 (14.29%) Spring Integration
4 2 (14.29%) Spring MVC
4 2 (14.29%) Web Services
5 1 (7.14%) .NET
5 1 (7.14%) Ajax
5 1 (7.14%) CSS3
5 1 (7.14%) jQuery
5 1 (7.14%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Public Cloud
2 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 2 (14.29%) Data Structures
3 2 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (14.29%) Private Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) Blockchain
4 1 (7.14%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Microservices
2 10 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 9 (64.29%) Agile
4 7 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 7 (50.00%) Event-Driven
5 5 (35.71%) SDLC
6 4 (28.57%) Budget Control
6 4 (28.57%) Contingency Planning
6 4 (28.57%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 4 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
6 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (28.57%) Project Planning
6 4 (28.57%) Scrum
6 4 (28.57%) Service Delivery
7 3 (21.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (21.43%) Observability
8 2 (14.29%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 2 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
1 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (7.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Terraform
2 4 (28.57%) Ansible
2 4 (28.57%) Progress Chef
3 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 2 (14.29%) Puppet
4 1 (7.14%) Grafana
4 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.14%) TIBCO
2 1 (7.14%) VMware