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 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 75 106
Rank change year-on-year -23 +31 +2
Contract jobs citing Kafka 17 10 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.75% 0.87% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.83% 5.38% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 4
10th Percentile £406 £315 £358
25th Percentile £506 £318 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +2.56% -8.02%
75th Percentile £575 £519 £666
90th Percentile £654 £540 £694
England median daily rate £550 £554 £575
% change year-on-year -0.63% -3.74% -11.54%

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 249 186 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 11.00% 16.27% 15.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 112 143
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £438 £414 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £479
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +4.38% -7.35%
75th Percentile £600 £578 £575
90th Percentile £713 £675 £690
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 20 65
10th Percentile £17.12 £58.25 £41.20
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year - +51.16% -25.22%
75th Percentile £75.00 £81.01 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.60 £81.43 £66.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £58.30
% change year-on-year +12.55% -0.94% -10.31%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 -19 6 £550 - 3
Norfolk - 6 £425 -
Bedfordshire -7 3 £500 -
Cambridgeshire +3 1 £688 +29.41% 1
Essex -16 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 2 (11.76%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.88%) Apache
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) AWS
3 5 (29.41%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (29.41%) GCP
4 4 (23.53%) Azure AKS
5 3 (17.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (17.65%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (17.65%) Snowflake
6 2 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (11.76%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
6 2 (11.76%) Serverless
7 1 (5.88%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
7 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
7 1 (5.88%) Boomi
7 1 (5.88%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Metadata
2 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (17.65%) Data Lake
4 2 (11.76%) Power BI
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (5.88%) Big Data
5 1 (5.88%) BigQuery
5 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
5 1 (5.88%) MySQL
5 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
5 1 (5.88%) Redis
5 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) GitLab
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Banking
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Retail
2 1 (5.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Developer
1 4 (23.53%) Java Developer
1 4 (23.53%) SOC Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Data Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Designer
4 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) DataOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Development Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Data Architect
4 1 (5.88%) ETL Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Integration Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Software Development Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) REST
2 4 (23.53%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (23.53%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (23.53%) Spring
2 4 (23.53%) Spring Boot
3 3 (17.65%) JSON
3 3 (17.65%) RESTful
4 2 (11.76%) Node.js
5 1 (5.88%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
5 1 (5.88%) Apache Avro
5 1 (5.88%) FastAPI
5 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
5 1 (5.88%) JWT
5 1 (5.88%) OAuth
5 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
5 1 (5.88%) Protocol Buffers
5 1 (5.88%) Spring MVC
5 1 (5.88%) Spring Security
5 1 (5.88%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Cloud Native
2 4 (23.53%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (23.53%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (23.53%) Onboarding
2 4 (23.53%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (11.76%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (11.76%) Reference Data
4 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.88%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (5.88%) IoT
4 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
2 9 (52.94%) Event-Driven
3 7 (41.18%) ETL
3 7 (41.18%) Microservices
4 6 (35.29%) Data Governance
4 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (29.41%) Data Ingestion
5 5 (29.41%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (29.41%) DevOps
5 5 (29.41%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (23.53%) Analytics
6 4 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (23.53%) Data Modelling
6 4 (23.53%) Security Monitoring
6 4 (23.53%) SIEM
6 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (23.53%) Threat Detection
6 4 (23.53%) Threat Intelligence
6 4 (23.53%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Java
2 4 (23.53%) Kusto Query Language
2 4 (23.53%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) Search Processing Language
2 4 (23.53%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) DV Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) Degree
4 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.88%) DBS Check
4 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
4 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Kubernetes
2 6 (35.29%) Terraform
3 4 (23.53%) Ansible
4 2 (11.76%) Grafana
4 2 (11.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Informatica
1 4 (23.53%) Splunk
1 4 (23.53%) Talend
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Confluent
3 1 (5.88%) Databricks
3 1 (5.88%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle