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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 60 51
Rank change year-on-year 0 -9 +12
Contract jobs citing Kafka 67 124 196
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.09% 3.55% 4.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.32% 12.74% 15.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 74 161
10th Percentile £455 £513 £513
25th Percentile £488 £550 £580
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £638 £675
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% -5.56% +11.94%
75th Percentile £713 £750 £775
90th Percentile £780 £863 £825
Central London median daily rate £650 £638 £675
% change year-on-year +1.96% -5.56% +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 503 973 1,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 23.22% 27.82% 30.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 626 1,031
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £505 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £713
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.33
25th Percentile - - £53.94
Median hourly rate - - £62.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +255.71%
75th Percentile - - £69.94
90th Percentile - - £74.18
Central London median hourly rate - - £62.25
% change year-on-year - - +255.71%

Kafka
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

Kafka
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 23 May 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 4 (5.97%) Apache
1 4 (5.97%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.99%) WebLogic
2 2 (2.99%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.49%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.49%) nginx
3 1 (1.49%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Endur
2 1 (1.49%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 32 (47.76%) AWS
2 19 (28.36%) Azure
3 15 (22.39%) Serverless
4 9 (13.43%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (11.94%) Azure AKS
5 8 (11.94%) Azure Service Bus
5 8 (11.94%) GitHub
6 7 (10.45%) Amazon S3
7 6 (8.96%) Azure Functions
7 6 (8.96%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (7.46%) GCP
9 4 (5.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (5.97%) Amazon MSK
9 4 (5.97%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (4.48%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (4.48%) Azure App Service
10 3 (4.48%) Azure Event Grid
11 2 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (2.99%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.49%) DHCP
1 1 (1.49%) DNS
1 1 (1.49%) Firewall
1 1 (1.49%) HTTP
1 1 (1.49%) Internet
1 1 (1.49%) Kerberos
1 1 (1.49%) MQTT
1 1 (1.49%) SSL
1 1 (1.49%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.90%) MongoDB
2 8 (11.94%) SQL Server
3 6 (8.96%) NoSQL
4 5 (7.46%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (7.46%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (7.46%) DynamoDB
4 5 (7.46%) MySQL
4 5 (7.46%) Parquet
5 4 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (4.48%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (4.48%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (4.48%) Relational Database
6 3 (4.48%) Tableau
7 2 (2.99%) Data Mart
7 2 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.49%) Big Data
8 1 (1.49%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.49%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.49%) Redis
8 1 (1.49%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 5 (7.46%) Cypress.io
1 5 (7.46%) Jenkins
1 5 (7.46%) JMeter
1 5 (7.46%) Mockito
2 3 (4.48%) Git
2 3 (4.48%) Maven
2 3 (4.48%) Selenium
2 3 (4.48%) SonarQube
3 2 (2.99%) GitLab
3 2 (2.99%) Gradle
3 2 (2.99%) HP UFT
3 2 (2.99%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (2.99%) JUnit
3 2 (2.99%) Katalon Studio
3 2 (2.99%) TestNG
4 1 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.49%) Postman
4 1 (1.49%) Pylint
4 1 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.49%) Spinnaker
General
1 19 (28.36%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.91%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (14.93%) Finance
4 8 (11.94%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.46%) Banking
6 3 (4.48%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.49%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (34.33%) Developer
2 13 (19.40%) Data Engineer
3 11 (16.42%) Site Engineer
3 11 (16.42%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 9 (13.43%) Java Developer
4 9 (13.43%) Python Engineer
5 7 (10.45%) Senior
6 5 (7.46%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (7.46%) Java Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Architect
7 4 (5.97%) Lead
7 4 (5.97%) Python Developer
7 4 (5.97%) Senior Developer
8 3 (4.48%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Full Stack Developer
8 3 (4.48%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (4.48%) Software Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) Murex Developer
9 2 (2.99%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (23.88%) RESTful
2 12 (17.91%) RabbitMQ
3 10 (14.93%) React
4 9 (13.43%) HTML
5 6 (8.96%) CSS
5 6 (8.96%) Node.js
5 6 (8.96%) Spring
6 5 (7.46%) .NET
6 5 (7.46%) AngularJS
6 5 (7.46%) Apache Avro
6 5 (7.46%) JSON
6 5 (7.46%) Spring Boot
7 4 (5.97%) .NET Core
7 4 (5.97%) JAX-RS
8 3 (4.48%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (4.48%) GraphQL
8 3 (4.48%) HTML5
8 3 (4.48%) pytest
8 3 (4.48%) REST
8 3 (4.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (25.37%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (13.43%) Algorithms
2 9 (13.43%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.97%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (4.48%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.48%) Machine to Machine
5 2 (2.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.49%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 26 (38.81%) Linux
2 6 (8.96%) Unix
3 3 (4.48%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (41.79%) CI/CD
2 27 (40.30%) DevOps
3 23 (34.33%) Microservices
4 14 (20.90%) Agile
4 14 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (17.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 11 (16.42%) SDLC
7 9 (13.43%) Analytical Thinking
7 9 (13.43%) Architectural Design
7 9 (13.43%) ETL
7 9 (13.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (13.43%) Task Automation
8 7 (10.45%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (10.45%) Software Engineering
9 6 (8.96%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (8.96%) SFIA
9 6 (8.96%) Test Automation
10 5 (7.46%) Data Engineering
10 5 (7.46%) TDD
10 5 (7.46%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 43 (64.18%) Python
2 28 (41.79%) Java
3 23 (34.33%) SQL
4 12 (17.91%) Shell Script
5 9 (13.43%) Go
6 8 (11.94%) JavaScript
7 6 (8.96%) C#
7 6 (8.96%) C++
8 3 (4.48%) Perl
8 3 (4.48%) Scala
9 2 (2.99%) PHP
9 2 (2.99%) Ruby
9 2 (2.99%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.49%) C
10 1 (1.49%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.49%) SPARQL
10 1 (1.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (20.90%) Security Cleared
2 13 (19.40%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.48%) Degree
4 2 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.99%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.99%) QA
2 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (35.82%) Docker
2 11 (16.42%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (59.70%) Kubernetes
2 14 (20.90%) Terraform
3 13 (19.40%) Grafana
4 12 (17.91%) Prometheus
5 11 (16.42%) Consul
6 5 (7.46%) Argo
7 4 (5.97%) Ansible
8 2 (2.99%) Packer
8 2 (2.99%) Puppet
9 1 (1.49%) Kustomize
9 1 (1.49%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 15 (22.39%) Microsoft
2 11 (16.42%) SaltStack
3 4 (5.97%) Oracle
4 2 (2.99%) Databricks
4 2 (2.99%) IBM
4 2 (2.99%) Micro Focus
4 2 (2.99%) Murex
4 2 (2.99%) New Relic
4 2 (2.99%) OpenLink
4 2 (2.99%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.99%) SAP
5 1 (1.49%) Adobe
5 1 (1.49%) Cisco
5 1 (1.49%) Confluent
5 1 (1.49%) PagerDuty
5 1 (1.49%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.49%) Terracotta
5 1 (1.49%) Unisys