Kafka Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Apache Kafka
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring Kafka skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 17 22
Rank change year-on-year -20 +5 +14
Contract jobs citing Kafka 4 6 2
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 1.35% 5.88% 1.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.67% 25.00% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £300
Median % change year-on-year - - -40.00%
75th Percentile £600 - £325
90th Percentile £660 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -21.84%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 60 24 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 20.20% 23.53% 25.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 12 21
10th Percentile £306 £226 £275
25th Percentile £397 £351 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £407 £394 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -17.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £501 £462 £600
90th Percentile £575 £534 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.39% -4.76% +5.00%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kafka relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry.

Kafka job vacancy trend in Coventry

Kafka
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Kafka.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Kafka

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in Coventry

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Coventry over the 6 months to 21 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Coventry

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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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub Actions
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (75.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (75.00%) Delta Lake
1 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Database
1 3 (75.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Metadata
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
2 3 (75.00%) Data Architect
2 3 (75.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (75.00%) IoT
1 3 (75.00%) SCADA
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 4 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 4 (100.00%) ETL
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) Batch Processing
2 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Data Mapping
2 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (75.00%) Event-Driven
2 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Management
2 3 (75.00%) RBAC
2 3 (75.00%) Threat Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bicep
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) GDPR
2 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Databricks
1 3 (75.00%) Informatica
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
1 3 (75.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) BiZZdesign
2 1 (25.00%) Sparx