Kafka Engineer Contract Job Trends in Chester

Kafka Engineer
Cheshire > Chester

As of 30 May 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Kafka Engineer daily rate in Chester.

 6 months to
30 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Kafka Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 1.30% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Cheshire median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Chester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Chester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Chester with a recognized job title 133 68 52
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.36% 93.15% 91.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 22 28
10th Percentile £407 £325 £199
25th Percentile £444 £405 £244
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £618 £506
Median % change year-on-year -10.93% +21.98% +12.50%
75th Percentile £619 £734 £678
90th Percentile £759 £805 £738
Cheshire median daily rate £460 £441 £475
% change year-on-year +4.32% -7.11% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 16 11
10th Percentile £26.21 £17.50 £35.00
25th Percentile £29.99 £28.98 £38.13
Median hourly rate £35.00 £50.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +17.65% +38.19%
75th Percentile £37.50 £86.00 £45.63
90th Percentile £49.00 - £47.50
Cheshire median hourly rate £32.23 £33.40 £26.33
% change year-on-year -3.52% +26.85% +2.99%

Kafka Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Kafka Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester.

Kafka Engineer job vacancy trend in Chester

Kafka Engineer Skill Set
Top 12 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester

For the 6 months to 30 May 2026, Kafka Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Chester region featuring Kafka Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) Data Matching
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing

Kafka Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) Data Matching
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing