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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 87 94
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 +15
Contract jobs citing Kafka 23 8 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.06% 0.63% 0.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.54% 3.81% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 7
10th Percentile £407 £389 -
25th Percentile £430 - £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £363
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +37.93% -31.60%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £519
90th Percentile - £541 £675
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -7.69%

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 241 210 254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 11.16% 16.64% 15.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 104 113
10th Percentile £284 £346 £311
25th Percentile £425 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +7.53% -11.26%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £563
90th Percentile £704 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 48 62
10th Percentile £17.12 £37.90 -
25th Percentile £55.50 £43.00 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year - +51.16% -25.22%
75th Percentile £73.46 £67.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £90.80 £81.35 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -8.16%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -4 8 £550 - 3
Norfolk - 6 £425 -
Suffolk - 5 £415 - 1
Bedfordshire +1 2 £500 -
Cambridgeshire +10 1 £688 +29.41% 1
Essex -19 1 £350 +11.11%
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 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) Azure
2 5 (21.74%) Amazon ECS
2 5 (21.74%) AWS
3 4 (17.39%) Azure AKS
3 4 (17.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 4 (17.39%) Azure Service Bus
3 4 (17.39%) GCP
4 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (13.04%) Serverless
4 3 (13.04%) Snowflake
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Functions
5 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.35%) Boomi
6 1 (4.35%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Apache Cassandra
1 5 (21.74%) Hazelcast
2 4 (17.39%) Metadata
2 4 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.70%) Data Lake
3 2 (8.70%) InterSystems Cache
3 2 (8.70%) Power BI
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
4 1 (4.35%) Couchbase
4 1 (4.35%) InfluxDB
4 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.35%) Redis
4 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.35%) Tableau
4 1 (4.35%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Selenium
2 4 (17.39%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.35%) Git
3 1 (4.35%) GitLab
General
1 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Telecoms
3 2 (8.70%) Retail
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Developer
1 5 (21.74%) Java Developer
2 4 (17.39%) SOC Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Python Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Designer
4 2 (8.70%) Lead
4 2 (8.70%) Platform Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Systems Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Data Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) DataOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Integration Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Lead Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) REST
2 6 (26.09%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (21.74%) Spring
3 5 (21.74%) Spring Boot
4 4 (17.39%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (13.04%) FastAPI
5 3 (13.04%) JSON
5 3 (13.04%) RESTful
6 2 (8.70%) Node.js
7 1 (4.35%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
7 1 (4.35%) Apache Avro
7 1 (4.35%) OAuth
7 1 (4.35%) OAuth2
7 1 (4.35%) Protocol Buffers
7 1 (4.35%) pytest
7 1 (4.35%) RxJava
7 1 (4.35%) Spring MVC
7 1 (4.35%) Spring Security
7 1 (4.35%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Cloud Native
2 6 (26.09%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (17.39%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (17.39%) Onboarding
3 4 (17.39%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (13.04%) IoT
5 2 (8.70%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (8.70%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (8.70%) Reference Data
5 2 (8.70%) Replication
6 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
6 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (4.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Event-Driven
2 10 (43.48%) CI/CD
3 9 (39.13%) Microservices
3 9 (39.13%) SIEM
4 7 (30.43%) Agile
4 7 (30.43%) High Availability
5 6 (26.09%) Data Ingestion
5 6 (26.09%) DevOps
5 6 (26.09%) ETL
5 6 (26.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (21.74%) Data Governance
7 4 (17.39%) Capacity Management
7 4 (17.39%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (17.39%) Migration
7 4 (17.39%) Security Monitoring
7 4 (17.39%) Security Operations
7 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (17.39%) Threat Detection
7 4 (17.39%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Java
1 8 (34.78%) SQL
2 6 (26.09%) Python
3 5 (21.74%) Bash
4 4 (17.39%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (17.39%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (17.39%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.35%) DBS Check
3 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (56.52%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Kubernetes
2 5 (21.74%) Check_MK
2 5 (21.74%) Terraform
3 4 (17.39%) Ansible
3 4 (17.39%) Podman
4 2 (8.70%) Grafana
4 2 (8.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Splunk
1 4 (17.39%) VMware
2 3 (13.04%) Informatica
2 3 (13.04%) Talend
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.35%) Confluent
4 1 (4.35%) Databricks
4 1 (4.35%) MuleSoft