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 citing Kafka skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 2 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	101	96	77
Rank change year-on-year	-5	-19	+37
Contract jobs citing Kafka	27	4	14
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England	1.15%	0.28%	1.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category	9.78%	1.37%	6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted	21	4	7
10^th Percentile	£345	-	-
25^th Percentile	£400	£500	£300
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£475	£513	£315
Median % change year-on-year	-7.32%	+62.70%	-20.75%
75^th Percentile	£550	£539	£319
90^th Percentile	£575	£542	£340
England median daily rate	£550	£550	£602
% change year-on-year	-	-8.56%	-7.46%

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 citing technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the East of England.

	6 months to 2 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills	276	292	224
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England	11.76%	20.59%	16.91%
Number of daily rates quoted	128	128	117
10^th Percentile	£339	£350	£290
25^th Percentile	£404	£411	£318
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£511	£500	£420
Median % change year-on-year	+2.25%	+19.05%	-16.00%
75^th Percentile	£600	£580	£538
90^th Percentile	£741	£700	£600
England median daily rate	£537	£518	£550
% change year-on-year	+3.77%	-5.91%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	48	56	16
10^th Percentile	£16.36	£40.75	£30.00
25^th Percentile	£62.54	£43.00	£62.50
Median hourly rate	£73.00	£64.25	£65.00
Median % change year-on-year	+13.62%	-1.15%	+13.04%
75^th Percentile	£85.00	£65.06	-
90^th Percentile	£92.11	£75.63	£67.50
England median hourly rate	£65.48	£55.00	£65.00
% change year-on-year	+19.05%	-15.38%	+13.04%

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 Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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 2 November 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.

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 2 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Hertfordshire	-	12	£538	-	6
Suffolk	-	8	£415	-
Cambridgeshire	0	3	£345	-35.06%	1
Bedfordshire	-1	2	-	-
Essex	-	2	£350	-
Kafka England

Kafka Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 2 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Kafka also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East of England region citing Kafka.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Docker	63.0%	17
1	Event-Driven	63.0%	17
3	CI/CD	51.9%	14
4	Azure	44.4%	12
4	Microservices	44.4%	12
6	DevOps	40.7%	11
6	Event-Driven Architecture	40.7%	11
6	Kubernetes	40.7%	11
6	PostgreSQL	40.7%	11
6	SQL	40.7%	11
11	Agile	37.0%	10
11	Python	37.0%	10
13	Bash	29.6%	8
13	Java	29.6%	8
13	Selenium	29.6%	8
16	FastAPI	25.9%	7
16	High Availability	25.9%	7
16	Infrastructure as Code	25.9%	7
16	Linux	25.9%	7
16	Observability	25.9%	7
16	RabbitMQ	25.9%	7
16	SIEM	25.9%	7
16	Test Automation	25.9%	7
24	REST	22.2%	6
25	Amazon ECS	18.5%	5
25	Apache Cassandra	18.5%	5
25	API Development	18.5%	5
25	Check_MK	18.5%	5
25	DNS	18.5%	5
25	Elastic Stack	18.5%	5

Kafka Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	FastAPI	25.9%	7
1	RabbitMQ	25.9%	7
3	REST	22.2%	6
4	Elastic Stack	18.5%	5
4	pytest	18.5%	5
4	Spring	18.5%	5
4	Spring Boot	18.5%	5
4	Terraform	18.5%	5
9	RESTful	14.8%	4
10	CSS	11.1%	3
10	Flask	11.1%	3
10	HTML	11.1%	3
10	Jinja	11.1%	3
10	Pandas	11.1%	3
10	Playwright	11.1%	3
10	RxJava	11.1%	3
17	AWS CDK	7.4%	2
17	GraphQL	7.4%	2
17	gRPC	7.4%	2
20	.NET	3.7%	1