Kafka Contracts in the City of London

Apache Kafka
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Kafka skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Kafka over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 56 52
Rank change year-on-year -11 -4 +14
Contract jobs citing Kafka 59 136 195
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.68% 3.74% 4.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.27% 13.09% 15.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 81 167
10th Percentile £425 £500 £510
25th Percentile £472 £550 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year -16.96% +3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £707 £775 £775
90th Percentile £750 £863 £841
Central London median daily rate £581 £685 £675
% change year-on-year -15.15% +1.48% +12.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London

Kafka is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 481 1,039 1,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.84% 28.57% 30.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 674 1,041
10th Percentile £405 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £505 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £713
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £551 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -11.92% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate - - £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +171.43%
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £47.50
% change year-on-year - - +171.43%

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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 27 April 2024.

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 3 (5.08%) Apache
1 3 (5.08%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.39%) nginx
2 2 (3.39%) Tomcat
2 2 (3.39%) WebLogic
2 2 (3.39%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.69%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.69%) Tornado
Business Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Endur
2 1 (1.69%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 28 (47.46%) AWS
2 15 (25.42%) Serverless
3 14 (23.73%) Azure
4 9 (15.25%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (11.86%) GitHub
6 6 (10.17%) Azure AKS
6 6 (10.17%) Azure Functions
6 6 (10.17%) Azure Service Bus
6 6 (10.17%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (8.47%) Amazon S3
8 4 (6.78%) Amazon MSK
8 4 (6.78%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (5.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (5.08%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (3.39%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 2 (3.39%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (3.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (3.39%) GCP
11 1 (1.69%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) DHCP
1 1 (1.69%) DNS
1 1 (1.69%) Firewall
1 1 (1.69%) Internet
1 1 (1.69%) MQTT
1 1 (1.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (22.03%) MongoDB
2 8 (13.56%) SQL Server
3 6 (10.17%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (10.17%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (8.47%) DynamoDB
4 5 (8.47%) MySQL
4 5 (8.47%) Parquet
4 5 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (6.78%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (6.78%) NoSQL
5 4 (6.78%) Tableau
6 3 (5.08%) Relational Database
7 2 (3.39%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (3.39%) Data Mart
7 2 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.69%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.69%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.69%) Redis
8 1 (1.69%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 6 (10.17%) Mockito
2 5 (8.47%) Cypress.io
2 5 (8.47%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.47%) JMeter
3 4 (6.78%) Maven
3 4 (6.78%) Selenium
3 4 (6.78%) SonarQube
4 3 (5.08%) Git
4 3 (5.08%) JUnit
4 3 (5.08%) TestNG
5 2 (3.39%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.39%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.39%) EasyMock
5 2 (3.39%) Gradle
5 2 (3.39%) HP UFT
5 2 (3.39%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (3.39%) Katalon Studio
5 2 (3.39%) Postman
6 1 (1.69%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.69%) Spinnaker
General
1 14 (23.73%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (13.56%) Public Sector
4 6 (10.17%) Finance
5 4 (6.78%) Banking
6 3 (5.08%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.69%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (35.59%) Developer
2 14 (23.73%) Data Engineer
3 10 (16.95%) Site Engineer
3 10 (16.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 8 (13.56%) Java Developer
4 8 (13.56%) Python Engineer
5 7 (11.86%) Senior
6 4 (6.78%) Java Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Endur Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Full Stack Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Lead
7 3 (5.08%) OpenLink Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Architect
8 2 (3.39%) Backend Developer
8 2 (3.39%) Murex Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (20.34%) RESTful
2 11 (18.64%) RabbitMQ
3 10 (16.95%) React
4 7 (11.86%) HTML
4 7 (11.86%) Node.js
4 7 (11.86%) Spring
5 6 (10.17%) Spring Boot
6 5 (8.47%) AngularJS
6 5 (8.47%) Apache Avro
6 5 (8.47%) JAX-RS
6 5 (8.47%) JSON
7 4 (6.78%) CSS
7 4 (6.78%) pytest
7 4 (6.78%) WebSockets
8 3 (5.08%) .NET
8 3 (5.08%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (5.08%) PySpark
8 3 (5.08%) REST
8 3 (5.08%) Swagger
8 3 (5.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (23.73%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (11.86%) Algorithms
2 7 (11.86%) Data Structures
3 4 (6.78%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (5.08%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.08%) Machine to Machine
5 2 (3.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 23 (38.98%) Linux
2 5 (8.47%) Unix
3 3 (5.08%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (42.37%) CI/CD
1 25 (42.37%) DevOps
2 21 (35.59%) Microservices
3 14 (23.73%) Agile
4 11 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (18.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 10 (16.95%) SDLC
6 9 (15.25%) ETL
7 8 (13.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (11.86%) Analytical Thinking
8 7 (11.86%) Architectural Design
8 7 (11.86%) SFIA
8 7 (11.86%) Software Engineering
8 7 (11.86%) Task Automation
8 7 (11.86%) Test Automation
9 6 (10.17%) Data Pipeline
9 6 (10.17%) Platform Engineering
10 5 (8.47%) Data Engineering
10 5 (8.47%) TDD
10 5 (8.47%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 38 (64.41%) Python
2 26 (44.07%) Java
3 22 (37.29%) SQL
4 10 (16.95%) Shell Script
5 8 (13.56%) Go
6 7 (11.86%) JavaScript
7 5 (8.47%) C#
7 5 (8.47%) C++
8 3 (5.08%) Perl
8 3 (5.08%) Scala
9 2 (3.39%) PHP
9 2 (3.39%) Ruby
9 2 (3.39%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.69%) C
10 1 (1.69%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (23.73%) Security Cleared
2 13 (22.03%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.39%) Degree
4 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.39%) Data Quality
1 2 (3.39%) QA
2 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (35.59%) Docker
2 10 (16.95%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (64.41%) Kubernetes
2 14 (23.73%) Terraform
3 11 (18.64%) Grafana
4 10 (16.95%) Consul
4 10 (16.95%) Prometheus
5 5 (8.47%) Argo
6 4 (6.78%) Ansible
7 2 (3.39%) Kustomize
7 2 (3.39%) Packer
7 2 (3.39%) Puppet
8 1 (1.69%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 12 (20.34%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.95%) SaltStack
3 5 (8.47%) Oracle
4 3 (5.08%) OpenLink
5 2 (3.39%) Databricks
5 2 (3.39%) IBM
5 2 (3.39%) Micro Focus
5 2 (3.39%) Murex
5 2 (3.39%) New Relic
5 2 (3.39%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.69%) Adobe
6 1 (1.69%) Cisco
6 1 (1.69%) Confluent
6 1 (1.69%) Informatica
6 1 (1.69%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.69%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.69%) SAP
6 1 (1.69%) Terracotta