Kafka Contracts in East London

Apache Kafka
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East London 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 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 31 37
Rank change year-on-year +12 +6 -2
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Kafka 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 3.54% 0.61% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.67% 2.78% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £415 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 - -
75th Percentile £450 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £613 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -5.77% -3.70% +1.89%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East London

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 East London.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 24 36 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 21.24% 21.95% 17.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 33 34
10th Percentile £338 £300 £420
25th Percentile £408 £413 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £485 £540
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% -10.19% +13.68%
75th Percentile £558 £613 £688
90th Percentile £690 £680 £860
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £36.00
London median hourly rate £51.44 £42.50 £67.25
% change year-on-year +21.04% -36.80% +26.96%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in East London

Kafka
Daily Rate Trend in East London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Kafka.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Kafka

Kafka
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the East London region over the 6 months to 22 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tower Hamlets +3 2 £450 - 1
Kafka
London

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East London 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (50.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure API Management
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MemSQL
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Ant
1 2 (50.00%) JUnit
1 2 (50.00%) SoapUI
1 2 (50.00%) Toad
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Financial Institution
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Middleware
2 2 (50.00%) EDI
2 2 (50.00%) IBM Integration Bus
2 2 (50.00%) SOAP
2 2 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (50.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) AIX
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) API Management
1 2 (50.00%) Change Control
1 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (50.00%) Data Science
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Graceful Degradation
1 2 (50.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (50.00%) Multithreading
1 2 (50.00%) SDLC
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Korn
2 2 (50.00%) Perl
2 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SEPA
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) IBM
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) Perforce