Kafka Contracts in Dorset

Apache Kafka
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset 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 26 33
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 -5
Contract jobs citing Kafka 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 2.04% 1.21% 0.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.13% 8.70% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £290 - -
25th Percentile £306 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £336 - -
75th Percentile £370 - -
90th Percentile £388 - -
South West median daily rate £513 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.82% -4.35% +8.49%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 39 23 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 39.80% 13.94% 9.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 15 10
10th Percentile £381 £398 £404
25th Percentile £437 £409 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £438 £619
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -29.29% +30.26%
75th Percentile £634 £653 £647
90th Percentile £694 £769 £700
South West median daily rate £548 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.38% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £50.05
Median % change year-on-year - +24.88% -3.51%
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £54.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year +18.72% -4.78% -9.52%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Dorset

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Dorset

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Dorset 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
Bournemouth +1 2 £336 - 13
Kafka
South West

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Junior
2 1 (50.00%) Junior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Junior Oracle Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) CSS3
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
1 1 (50.00%) Jest
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) OpenTracing
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Service Design
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle