Kafka Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Apache Kafka
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Kafka skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 93 85
Rank change year-on-year -2 -8 +21
Contract jobs citing Kafka 26 4 11
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.07% 0.30% 0.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.15% 1.56% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 4 8
10th Percentile £350 - -
25th Percentile £404 £500 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £513 £317
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% +61.93% -44.96%
75th Percentile £556 £539 £332
90th Percentile £575 £542 £453
England median daily rate £550 £550 £605
% change year-on-year - -9.02% -8.06%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 319 256 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.19% 19.28% 20.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 123 122
10th Percentile £335 £351 £298
25th Percentile £413 £425 £332
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £420
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +19.05% -16.00%
75th Percentile £592 £578 £550
90th Percentile £720 £686 £623
England median daily rate £538 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +3.37% -5.45% -0.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 53 58
10th Percentile £17.12 £40.75 -
25th Percentile £61.25 £43.00 -
Median hourly rate £73.00 £63.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.96% +47.67% -33.85%
75th Percentile £85.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £92.11 £73.40 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in the East of England

Kafka
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Kafka.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Kafka

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the East of England over the 6 months to 3 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in the East of England

Kafka
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Kafka.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Kafka

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 3 October 2026. 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
Hertfordshire - 12 £550 - 18
Suffolk - 8 £415 - 5
Cambridgeshire +3 3 £345 -35.06% 19
Bedfordshire -3 2 - - 3
Essex - 1 £350 - 3
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (11.54%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.85%) Apache
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) Azure
2 7 (26.92%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (15.38%) Serverless
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon S3
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (11.54%) AWS
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Control Tower
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (7.69%) Azure AKS
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Functions
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (7.69%) CloudFront
5 2 (7.69%) Snowflake
5 2 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) 4G
1 3 (11.54%) 5G
1 3 (11.54%) DNS
1 3 (11.54%) HTTP
1 3 (11.54%) SSH
1 3 (11.54%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (34.62%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (19.23%) Apache Cassandra
2 5 (19.23%) Hazelcast
3 4 (15.38%) Couchbase
3 4 (15.38%) NoSQL
3 4 (15.38%) Redis
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (11.54%) MongoDB
4 3 (11.54%) MySQL
5 2 (7.69%) Data Lake
5 2 (7.69%) DynamoDB
5 2 (7.69%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.85%) Flink
6 1 (3.85%) InfluxDB
6 1 (3.85%) Power BI
6 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.85%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 8 (30.77%) Selenium
2 3 (11.54%) Git
3 2 (7.69%) GitLab
3 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (26.92%) Telecoms
2 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Retail
4 1 (3.85%) Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Developer
2 4 (15.38%) Java Developer
2 4 (15.38%) Python Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) SOC Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Lead
3 3 (11.54%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Python Developer
4 2 (7.69%) AWS Architect
4 2 (7.69%) AWS Solution Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Lead Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Lead Java Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Platform Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Senior
4 2 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Systems Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Automation Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Data Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) Elastic Stack
1 7 (26.92%) FastAPI
1 7 (26.92%) RabbitMQ
2 6 (23.08%) REST
2 6 (23.08%) Terraform
3 5 (19.23%) pytest
3 5 (19.23%) Spring
3 5 (19.23%) Spring Boot
4 4 (15.38%) RESTful
5 3 (11.54%) CSS
5 3 (11.54%) Flask
5 3 (11.54%) HTML
5 3 (11.54%) Jinja
5 3 (11.54%) Pandas
5 3 (11.54%) Playwright
5 3 (11.54%) RxJava
6 2 (7.69%) AWS CDK
6 2 (7.69%) GraphQL
6 2 (7.69%) gRPC
7 1 (3.85%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (23.08%) Cloud Native
3 4 (15.38%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (15.38%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (15.38%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (11.54%) IoT
5 2 (7.69%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (7.69%) Replication
6 1 (3.85%) AI Agents
6 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
6 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (3.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (26.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (61.54%) Event-Driven
2 14 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 11 (42.31%) Microservices
4 10 (38.46%) Agile
4 10 (38.46%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 9 (34.62%) DevOps
5 9 (34.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (34.62%) SIEM
6 6 (23.08%) Data Ingestion
6 6 (23.08%) Observability
7 5 (19.23%) API Development
7 5 (19.23%) High Availability
7 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
8 4 (15.38%) Capacity Management
8 4 (15.38%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 4 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (15.38%) Migration
8 4 (15.38%) Security Operations
8 4 (15.38%) Threat Detection
8 4 (15.38%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 10 (38.46%) SQL
2 9 (34.62%) Python
3 8 (30.77%) Bash
3 8 (30.77%) Java
4 4 (15.38%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (15.38%) Search Processing Language
5 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.85%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 4 (15.38%) DV Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.69%) Degree
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.85%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (61.54%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (34.62%) Kubernetes
2 5 (19.23%) Check_MK
3 4 (15.38%) Ansible
3 4 (15.38%) Podman
4 3 (11.54%) Grafana
4 3 (11.54%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.85%) Istio
5 1 (3.85%) linkerd
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Splunk
2 4 (15.38%) VMware
3 2 (7.69%) Databricks
4 1 (3.85%) AppDynamics
4 1 (3.85%) New Relic