Kafka Engineer Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Kafka Engineer
West Midlands > Coventry

As of 20 August 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Kafka Engineer daily rate in Coventry.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Kafka Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 0.32% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £520 - £180

All Contract IT Job Roles
Coventry

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Coventry. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Coventry with a recognized job title 269 102 91
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.77% 86.44% 97.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 56 68
10th Percentile £306 £206 £275
25th Percentile £404 £272 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -
75th Percentile £525 £575 £603
90th Percentile £675 £644 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 1
10th Percentile £14.00 - -
25th Percentile £14.50 - £15.50
Median hourly rate £22.42 - £17.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -32.30%
75th Percentile £33.38 - £18.50
90th Percentile £38.75 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £31.10 £25.00 £19.59
% change year-on-year +24.40% +27.62% -5.52%

Kafka Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Kafka Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry.

Kafka Engineer job vacancy trend in Coventry

Kafka Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry

For the 6 months to 20 August 2026, Kafka Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Coventry region featuring Kafka Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Avro
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) Asynchronous Programming
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational AI
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) CQRS
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI

Kafka Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Google Gemini
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Avro
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) gRPC
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) LangGraph
1 1 (100.00%) LINQ
1 1 (100.00%) Protocol Buffers
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational AI
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI