Kafka Contracts in County Antrim

Apache Kafka
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in County Antrim 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 22 - 15
Rank change year-on-year - - -1
Contract jobs citing Kafka 10 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim 6.67% - 4.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 27.03% - 26.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £410 - £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 - £490
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.03%
75th Percentile £523 - £535
90th Percentile £585 - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £470 - £490
% change year-on-year - - +1.03%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 37 26 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 24.67% 19.70% 17.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 7 17
10th Percentile £266 £495 -
25th Percentile £325 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 £600 £400
Median % change year-on-year -32.71% +50.00% -17.53%
75th Percentile £488 £650 £463
90th Percentile £544 - £536
Northern Ireland median daily rate £404 £600 £400
% change year-on-year -32.71% +50.00% -17.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.98 - -
Median hourly rate £73.23 £16.12 -
Median % change year-on-year +354.25% - -
75th Percentile £78.47 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £73.23 £16.12 -
% change year-on-year +354.25% - -

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in County Antrim.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in County Antrim

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kafka in County Antrim.

Daily rate trend for Kafka in County Antrim

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in County Antrim

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in County Antrim over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in County Antrim

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Belfast - 10 £470 - 22
Kafka
Northern Ireland

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim 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 (40.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (30.00%) Apache
3 2 (20.00%) GemFire
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (10.00%) Anypoint
4 1 (10.00%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Apache Hive
1 4 (40.00%) Big Data
2 3 (30.00%) Flink
2 3 (30.00%) HBase
3 2 (20.00%) Apache Ignite
3 2 (20.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (20.00%) Impala
3 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (80.00%) Finance
2 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (50.00%) Law
4 4 (40.00%) Banking
5 2 (20.00%) Financial Institution
5 2 (20.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (10.00%) Retail
6 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 6 (60.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Apache Spark Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Java Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Big Data Developer
5 1 (10.00%) MuleSoft Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Big Data Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) JSON
2 2 (20.00%) Apache Avro
2 2 (20.00%) Spring
2 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (10.00%) JMS
3 1 (10.00%) JWT
3 1 (10.00%) OAuth
3 1 (10.00%) OpenAPI
3 1 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (10.00%) RAML
3 1 (10.00%) RESTful
3 1 (10.00%) SAML
3 1 (10.00%) SOAP
3 1 (10.00%) Swagger
3 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Credit Risk
1 3 (30.00%) Equities
1 3 (30.00%) Fixed Income
1 3 (30.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Microservices
2 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (40.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (30.00%) Clean Code
4 3 (30.00%) Data Management
4 3 (30.00%) High Availability
4 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Low Latency
5 2 (20.00%) Multithreading
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) SOA
5 2 (20.00%) Storyboarding
5 2 (20.00%) Use Case
6 1 (10.00%) Electronic Trading
6 1 (10.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 1 (10.00%) Integration Testing
6 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Java
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (40.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) DataWeave
4 1 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
2 2 (20.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Cloudera
2 1 (10.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow