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

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 48 54
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 +6
Contract jobs citing Kafka 14 11 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.86% 2.06% 0.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.14% 17.74% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 4
10th Percentile £342 - £442
25th Percentile £358 £311 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £397 £489 £563
Median % change year-on-year -18.92% -13.07% +38.55%
75th Percentile £537 £498 £680
90th Percentile - £712 -
North West median daily rate £500 £514 £550
% change year-on-year -2.68% -6.59% -8.33%

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 99 62 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 20.20% 11.59% 17.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 50 79
10th Percentile £316 £288 £325
25th Percentile £358 £320 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £445 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% -19.09% +17.15%
75th Percentile £494 £513 £575
90th Percentile £596 £620 £638
North West median daily rate £463 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.50% - -3.29%
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 £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
% change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -42.01%

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 June 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 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
Knutsford -8 12 £391 -20.04% 1
Chester - 2 £523 - 52
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
1 1 (7.14%) Mule
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
4 2 (14.29%) OpenShift
5 1 (7.14%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) DynamoDB
2 3 (21.43%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.14%) MariaDB
3 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (28.57%) JUnit
3 2 (14.29%) Bitbucket
3 2 (14.29%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (14.29%) Git
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%) Artifactory
4 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
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%) Retail
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
2 4 (28.57%) Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Lead
4 2 (14.29%) Java Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Java Solutions Architect
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
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) Spring Boot
2 4 (28.57%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (28.57%) AngularJS
2 4 (28.57%) RESTful
2 4 (28.57%) Spring
3 3 (21.43%) J2EE
3 3 (21.43%) React
4 2 (14.29%) CSS
4 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
4 2 (14.29%) HTML
4 2 (14.29%) HTML5
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%) jBPM
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%) 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 11 (78.57%) Microservices
2 9 (64.29%) Agile
2 9 (64.29%) CI/CD
3 7 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 6 (42.86%) 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%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (28.57%) Project Planning
6 4 (28.57%) Scrum
6 4 (28.57%) Service Delivery
7 3 (21.43%) API Development
7 3 (21.43%) DevOps
7 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (21.43%) Migration
8 2 (14.29%) Data Transformation
8 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) Python
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 4 (28.57%) Terraform
2 3 (21.43%) Ansible
2 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 2 (14.29%) Progress Chef
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%) Checkmarx
2 1 (7.14%) Dynatrace
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.14%) Splunk
2 1 (7.14%) TIBCO
2 1 (7.14%) VMware