Kafka Contracts in the East of England

Apache Kafka
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 73 108 109
Rank change year-on-year +35 +1 +23
Contract jobs citing Kafka 9 4 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.96% 0.21% 0.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.04% 1.39% 5.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 11
10th Percentile - £400 £488
25th Percentile £315 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £318 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -46.97% +14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £375 £681 £549
90th Percentile £473 £700 £650
England median daily rate £585 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +6.36% -15.38% -

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 149 288 277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.88% 15.09% 13.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 148 165
10th Percentile £336 £325 £327
25th Percentile £425 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £499 £520
Median % change year-on-year +0.25% -4.09% +4.00%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £630
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 57 23
10th Percentile £65.00 - £21.00
25th Percentile £66.25 - £21.75
Median hourly rate £80.68 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +87.62% -33.85% +32.65%
75th Percentile £81.35 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £82.10 £66.25 £74.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in the East of England

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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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Kafka in the East of England

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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 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
Essex +14 3 £315 -16.00% 10
Bedfordshire - 2 - - 6
Suffolk - 2 - - 4
Hertfordshire +26 1 - - 12
Cambridgeshire - 1 £525 - 10
Kafka
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (44.44%) Apache
1 4 (44.44%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
1 5 (55.56%) GCP
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) dbt
2 3 (33.33%) GitHub
2 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 3 (33.33%) Vertex AI
3 2 (22.22%) Snowflake
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) BigQuery
1 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (33.33%) Looker
1 3 (33.33%) Power BI
1 3 (33.33%) Tableau
2 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
3 1 (11.11%) Flink
3 1 (11.11%) Metadata
3 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Data Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) GCP Data Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Software Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) DBA
3 1 (11.11%) Snowflake Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Snowflake Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) SQL DBA
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 3 (33.33%) NumPy
1 3 (33.33%) Pandas
1 3 (33.33%) PySpark
1 3 (33.33%) React
2 1 (11.11%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (11.11%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (55.56%) Workflow
2 4 (44.44%) Analytics
2 4 (44.44%) Data Management
2 4 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (44.44%) Data Security
3 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 3 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
3 3 (33.33%) Data Science
3 3 (33.33%) DataOps
3 3 (33.33%) Open Source
3 3 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
3 3 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
3 3 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 3 (33.33%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Java
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) Go
4 1 (11.11%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) GDPR
2 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) logstash
2 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Checkmarx
2 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace