Kafka Contracts in the East Midlands

Apache Kafka
England > East Midlands

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

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 61 -
Rank change year-on-year +16 - -
Contract jobs citing Kafka 14 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.41% 0.39% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.07% 2.26% -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 0
10th Percentile £311 - -
25th Percentile £321 £389 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 £398 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.44% - -
75th Percentile £413 £406 -
90th Percentile £537 - -
England median daily rate £575 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.73 -
England median hourly rate £85.60 £28.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +205.71% -64.10% +12.23%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 116 133 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 19.93% 17.23% 22.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 90 211
10th Percentile £256 £265 £308
25th Percentile £313 £314 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £396 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% -2.86% -2.78%
75th Percentile £488 £573 £540
90th Percentile £537 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.70% -1.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.67 £10.90 -
Median hourly rate £23.41 £23.37 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.19% - -
75th Percentile £25.16 £28.44 -
90th Percentile - £35.93 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Kafka in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 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
Northamptonshire +13 14 £356 -10.44% 30
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (21.43%) Apache Spark
2 2 (14.29%) Apache
2 2 (14.29%) Confluence
3 1 (7.14%) Mule
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) Amazon Kinesis
2 5 (35.71%) Amazon S3
2 5 (35.71%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (35.71%) Serverless
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon Glacier
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (7.14%) Apigee
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (7.14%) Kong
5 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (21.43%) Big Data
2 3 (21.43%) DynamoDB
2 3 (21.43%) Hadoop
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (14.29%) Apache Hudi
3 2 (14.29%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (14.29%) Delta Lake
3 2 (14.29%) Flink
3 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 2 (14.29%) Parquet
4 1 (7.14%) Aerospike
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (7.14%) MariaDB
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (64.29%) Jenkins
2 3 (21.43%) IntelliJ
2 3 (21.43%) Maven
3 2 (14.29%) Bitbucket
3 2 (14.29%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (14.29%) GitLab
3 2 (14.29%) Gradle
3 2 (14.29%) HP UFT
3 2 (14.29%) JIRA
3 2 (14.29%) JUnit
3 2 (14.29%) NetBeans
3 2 (14.29%) Selenium
3 2 (14.29%) Subversion
4 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (7.14%) Git
4 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (35.71%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Java Developer
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Architect
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Solution Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Java Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Java Solutions Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Scala Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Junior
5 1 (7.14%) Junior Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Spring
1 5 (35.71%) Spring Boot
2 4 (28.57%) J2EE
3 3 (21.43%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (21.43%) Hibernate
3 3 (21.43%) JSON
3 3 (21.43%) RESTful
4 2 (14.29%) Ajax
4 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 2 (14.29%) Apache Avro
4 2 (14.29%) Bootstrap
4 2 (14.29%) HTML5
4 2 (14.29%) jQuery
4 2 (14.29%) Node.js
4 2 (14.29%) RAML
4 2 (14.29%) REST
4 2 (14.29%) Spring Integration
4 2 (14.29%) Spring MVC
4 2 (14.29%) Swagger
4 2 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Public Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (14.29%) Mainframe
2 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) CI/CD
2 8 (57.14%) Agile
2 8 (57.14%) Microservices
3 6 (42.86%) Event-Driven
3 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
4 5 (35.71%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (35.71%) Open Source
5 4 (28.57%) Data Governance
5 4 (28.57%) DevOps
5 4 (28.57%) ETL
5 4 (28.57%) SDLC
6 3 (21.43%) API Development
6 3 (21.43%) Contingency Planning
6 3 (21.43%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 3 (21.43%) Project Planning
6 3 (21.43%) Scrum
6 3 (21.43%) Secure Coding
6 3 (21.43%) Service Delivery
6 3 (21.43%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Java
2 5 (35.71%) SQL
3 4 (28.57%) Scala
4 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 2 (14.29%) Python
4 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 2 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Progress Chef
2 2 (14.29%) Puppet
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) CA Agile Central
1 2 (14.29%) Databricks
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Checkmarx
2 1 (7.14%) MuleSoft
2 1 (7.14%) Solace
2 1 (7.14%) Splunk
2 1 (7.14%) Veracode