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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 71 107
Rank change year-on-year -28 +36 -5
Contract jobs citing Kafka 1 16 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.064% 1.31% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.37% 8.60% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £531 £300 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £317 £300
Median % change year-on-year +69.83% +5.50% -48.28%
75th Percentile £544 £332 £409
90th Percentile - £419 £474
England median daily rate £550 £613 £635
% change year-on-year -10.20% -3.54% +0.79%

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 269 186 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 17.16% 15.21% 11.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 100 126
10th Percentile £384 £289 £300
25th Percentile £425 £309 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £406 £500
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -18.75% -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £523 £600
90th Percentile £796 £605 £675
England median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 13 12
10th Percentile £38.85 £44.50 £18.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £62.50 £42.98
Median hourly rate £63.50 £65.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +20.37% -16.92%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £65.44
90th Percentile £75.25 £67.50 £69.68
England median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -12.46% +21.50% -17.69%

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
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 7 December 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
Cambridgeshire -5 1 £538 +2.38% 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 1 (100.00%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon MSK
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Amplify
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle