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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 73 104
Rank change year-on-year -28 +31 +8
Contract jobs citing Kafka 14 8 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.62% 0.84% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.57% 5.37% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile £435 - £400
25th Percentile £475 £315 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £318 £600
Median % change year-on-year +72.85% -46.97% +13.74%
75th Percentile £575 £375 £681
90th Percentile £605 £473 £700
England median daily rate £530 £585 £550
% change year-on-year -9.40% +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 213 149 285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 9.50% 15.73% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 108 146
10th Percentile £410 £338 £325
25th Percentile £463 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £495 £499
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -0.75% -4.09%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £578
90th Percentile £738 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 11 57
10th Percentile £20.38 £65.00 -
25th Percentile £47.88 £66.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £80.68 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.43% +87.62% -33.85%
75th Percentile £73.46 £81.35 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.13 £82.10 £66.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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
Norfolk - 6 £425 - 2
Hertfordshire -23 4 £550 - 4
Bedfordshire -8 3 £500 - 2
Suffolk -4 1 £450 - 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 2 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.14%) Apache
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) AWS
3 5 (35.71%) GCP
4 3 (21.43%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (21.43%) Azure AKS
4 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (7.14%) Boomi
6 1 (7.14%) Collibra
6 1 (7.14%) dbt
6 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
6 1 (7.14%) Serverless
6 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Metadata
2 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (7.14%) Big Data
4 1 (7.14%) BigQuery
4 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
4 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
4 1 (7.14%) MySQL
4 1 (7.14%) Power BI
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Developer
1 4 (28.57%) Java Developer
2 3 (21.43%) SOC Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Designer
4 1 (7.14%) Data Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) DataOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Development Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) ETL Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Integration Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Node.js Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Development Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) REST
2 4 (28.57%) Spring
3 3 (21.43%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (21.43%) JSON
3 3 (21.43%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (21.43%) RESTful
3 3 (21.43%) Spring Boot
4 2 (14.29%) Node.js
5 1 (7.14%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (7.14%) Apache Avro
5 1 (7.14%) Express.js
5 1 (7.14%) GraphQL
5 1 (7.14%) MERN Stack
5 1 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (7.14%) Protocol Buffers
5 1 (7.14%) React
5 1 (7.14%) Spring MVC
5 1 (7.14%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Cloud Native
2 3 (21.43%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (21.43%) Onboarding
2 3 (21.43%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (14.29%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (14.29%) Reference Data
4 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
4 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 6 (42.86%) Data Governance
2 6 (42.86%) ETL
2 6 (42.86%) Event-Driven
2 6 (42.86%) Microservices
3 5 (35.71%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (35.71%) DevOps
3 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (28.57%) Analytics
4 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 4 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (28.57%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (21.43%) Agile
5 3 (21.43%) AI
5 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (21.43%) Data Management
5 3 (21.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 3 (21.43%) SIEM
5 3 (21.43%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Java
2 3 (21.43%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (21.43%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) Search Processing Language
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 5 (35.71%) Terraform
3 3 (21.43%) Ansible
4 2 (14.29%) Grafana
4 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Informatica
1 4 (28.57%) Talend
2 3 (21.43%) Splunk
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.14%) Confluent
4 1 (7.14%) Google
4 1 (7.14%) MuleSoft
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle