Kafka Contracts in Croydon

Apache Kafka
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon 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 9 26 27
Rank change year-on-year +17 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Kafka 18 8 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 19.78% 5.52% 5.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 50.00% 19.51% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 7
10th Percentile £446 £425 £480
25th Percentile £456 £436 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £488 £600
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -18.75% -
75th Percentile £722 £539 £625
90th Percentile £738 £550 £647
South London median daily rate £600 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +23.08% -2.50% -16.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 36 41 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 39.56% 28.28% 28.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 24 33
10th Percentile £389 - £451
25th Percentile £456 £425 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £510 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.92% +4.62% -18.75%
75th Percentile £638 £550 £625
90th Percentile £732 £599 £649
South London median daily rate £498 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.93% +2.50% -13.87%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Croydon

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Croydon

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Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

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

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Croydon

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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 (16.67%) Apache
2 2 (11.11%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) Amazon MSK
3 3 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
3 3 (16.67%) Serverless
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (27.78%) Relational Database
3 3 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (16.67%) DynamoDB
3 3 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 3 (16.67%) MySQL
3 3 (16.67%) Parquet
4 2 (11.11%) GIS
4 2 (11.11%) Redis
5 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (27.78%) Gradle
2 5 (27.78%) JUnit
2 5 (27.78%) Liquibase
2 5 (27.78%) Mockito
3 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
3 1 (5.56%) Git
3 1 (5.56%) Postman
3 1 (5.56%) REST Assured
General
1 12 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 5 (27.78%) Electronics
2 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Manufacturing
2 5 (27.78%) Marketing
2 5 (27.78%) Telecoms
3 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Java Engineer
1 5 (27.78%) Java Software Engineer
1 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 5 (27.78%) Software Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) Developer
3 2 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Automation Tester
4 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) QA Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) QA Test Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) QA Tester
4 1 (5.56%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) Spring
1 7 (38.89%) Spring Boot
2 5 (27.78%) OpenAPI
2 5 (27.78%) React
2 5 (27.78%) Swagger
3 3 (16.67%) Apache Avro
3 3 (16.67%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (16.67%) JSON
3 3 (16.67%) Keycloak
4 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 2 (11.11%) HTML
4 2 (11.11%) XML
5 1 (5.56%) RESTful
5 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) PKI
2 2 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Microservices
2 9 (50.00%) Agile
2 9 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 9 (50.00%) DevOps
3 8 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 5 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (27.78%) Code Quality
4 5 (27.78%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (27.78%) Digital Marketing
4 5 (27.78%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (27.78%) Migration
4 5 (27.78%) Programme Management
4 5 (27.78%) Software Engineering
4 5 (27.78%) TDD
5 4 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
6 3 (16.67%) Data Transformation
6 3 (16.67%) High Availability
6 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) SQL
2 8 (44.44%) Java
3 6 (33.33%) Python
4 5 (27.78%) TypeScript
5 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 2 (11.11%) Lua
6 2 (11.11%) Perl
6 2 (11.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 17 (94.44%) Security Cleared
2 15 (83.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 9 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (11.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) Istio
3 1 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) HAProxy
3 1 (5.56%) Kibana
3 1 (5.56%) Puppet
3 1 (5.56%) Rancher
3 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) SAP
2 1 (5.56%) Confluent
2 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace