Kafka Contracts in the City of London

Apache Kafka
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 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 59 70 61
Rank change year-on-year +11 -9 -9
Contract jobs citing Kafka 62 58 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.53% 2.64% 3.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.94% 12.08% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 43 81
10th Percentile £483 £433 £500
25th Percentile £519 £481 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £613 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% -12.50% +3.70%
75th Percentile £666 £708 £775
90th Percentile £783 £750 £863
Central London median daily rate £585 £613 £685
% change year-on-year -4.49% -10.58% +1.48%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 479 480 1,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.28% 21.85% 28.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 343 676
10th Percentile £413 £401 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -10.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £551 £625
% change year-on-year +4.45% -11.92% +4.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Kafka in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 5 (8.06%) Apache
1 5 (8.06%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (6.45%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.23%) Confluence
4 1 (1.61%) Alfresco
4 1 (1.61%) Camunda
4 1 (1.61%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (1.61%) Luigi
4 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Endur
2 1 (1.61%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 31 (50.00%) AWS
2 18 (29.03%) Azure
3 6 (9.68%) GitHub
4 5 (8.06%) GCP
5 4 (6.45%) Amazon S3
5 4 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (6.45%) Azure AKS
5 4 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (6.45%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (6.45%) Entra ID
5 4 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (6.45%) Serverless
6 3 (4.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (3.23%) dbt
7 2 (3.23%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.23%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (1.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.84%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (37.10%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (33.87%) MongoDB
3 20 (32.26%) NoSQL
4 7 (11.29%) SQL Server
5 5 (8.06%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (6.45%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (6.45%) Crystal Reports
6 4 (6.45%) Relational Database
7 3 (4.84%) Big Data
7 3 (4.84%) Data Lake
7 3 (4.84%) DynamoDB
7 3 (4.84%) Tableau
8 2 (3.23%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (3.23%) Data Mining
8 2 (3.23%) Flink
8 2 (3.23%) Metadata
8 2 (3.23%) MySQL
8 2 (3.23%) Power BI
8 2 (3.23%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (3.23%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (8.06%) Git
2 4 (6.45%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.23%) JUnit
3 2 (3.23%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.61%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.61%) JBehave
4 1 (1.61%) JIRA
4 1 (1.61%) Liquibase
4 1 (1.61%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (35.48%) Public Sector
2 10 (16.13%) Finance
3 8 (12.90%) Social Skills
4 7 (11.29%) Back Office
5 4 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.45%) Retail
6 3 (4.84%) Banking
7 2 (3.23%) Front Office
7 2 (3.23%) Police
8 1 (1.61%) Advertising
8 1 (1.61%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (46.77%) Developer
2 19 (30.65%) Java Developer
3 17 (27.42%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 10 (16.13%) Data Engineer
5 6 (9.68%) Analyst
6 4 (6.45%) Architect
6 4 (6.45%) C# Developer
6 4 (6.45%) ETRM Developer
6 4 (6.45%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Analyst Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Lead
7 3 (4.84%) Python Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Senior
7 3 (4.84%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.84%) Technical Architect
7 3 (4.84%) Technical Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.23%) Data Product Analyst
8 2 (3.23%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (3.23%) Lead Data Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (30.65%) Spring
1 19 (30.65%) Spring Boot
2 16 (25.81%) React
3 8 (12.90%) .NET
4 5 (8.06%) REST
5 4 (6.45%) OAuth
5 4 (6.45%) OpenID
6 3 (4.84%) NumPy
6 3 (4.84%) OAuth2
6 3 (4.84%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (4.84%) Pandas
7 2 (3.23%) AngularJS
7 2 (3.23%) ASP.NET
7 2 (3.23%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (3.23%) HTML
7 2 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.61%) CSS
8 1 (1.61%) SOAP
8 1 (1.61%) Web Services
8 1 (1.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (3.23%) Product Ownership
1 2 (3.23%) Replication
1 2 (3.23%) Social Media
2 1 (1.61%) Algorithms
2 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.61%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.61%) Derivative
2 1 (1.61%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.61%) Equities
2 1 (1.61%) Fixed Income
2 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.61%) PKI
2 1 (1.61%) Reference Data
2 1 (1.61%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.06%) Linux
2 2 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (61.29%) DevOps
2 27 (43.55%) Agile
2 27 (43.55%) Microservices
3 18 (29.03%) API Development
4 17 (27.42%) CI/CD
4 17 (27.42%) Clean Code
4 17 (27.42%) SOLID
5 10 (16.13%) Software Engineering
6 9 (14.52%) Test Automation
7 8 (12.90%) Analytics
8 7 (11.29%) Data Engineering
8 7 (11.29%) Data Modelling
9 6 (9.68%) ETL
9 6 (9.68%) Mentoring
10 5 (8.06%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (8.06%) Data Science
10 5 (8.06%) Event-Driven
10 5 (8.06%) SDLC
10 5 (8.06%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (8.06%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 38 (61.29%) SQL
2 31 (50.00%) Java
3 22 (35.48%) Python
4 17 (27.42%) JavaScript
5 8 (12.90%) C#
6 4 (6.45%) PL/SQL
7 3 (4.84%) Scala
8 1 (1.61%) C++
8 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.61%) R
8 1 (1.61%) Ruby
8 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (40.32%) SC Cleared
1 25 (40.32%) Security Cleared
2 16 (25.81%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.61%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.61%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.84%) EMIR
2 3 (4.84%) MiFID
3 2 (3.23%) QA
3 2 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (14.52%) Docker
2 1 (1.61%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 37 (59.68%) Kubernetes
2 12 (19.35%) Terraform
3 1 (1.61%) Ansible
3 1 (1.61%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 6 (9.68%) Oracle
2 4 (6.45%) Confluent
2 4 (6.45%) OpenLink
3 3 (4.84%) IBM
4 2 (3.23%) Databricks
4 2 (3.23%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.61%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.61%) CQG
5 1 (1.61%) Google
5 1 (1.61%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.61%) Murex
5 1 (1.61%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.61%) Reuters
5 1 (1.61%) TIBCO