Kafka Contract Job Trends in Chester

Apache Kafka
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Chester requiring Kafka skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Kafka 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 0.83% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £433 £520 -
% change year-on-year -16.83% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6 5 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 4.96% 7.58% 6.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile £435 £557 -
25th Percentile £450 £565 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £577 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.98% - -
75th Percentile £688 £594 -
90th Percentile £733 £603 -
Cheshire median daily rate £430 £450 £488
% change year-on-year -4.44% -7.69% +9.55%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kafka relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester.

Kafka job vacancy trend in Chester

Kafka
Daily Rate Trend in Chester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Kafka.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Kafka

Kafka
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 1 (100.00%) Anypoint
1 1 (100.00%) Mule
1 1 (100.00%) Mule ESB
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk