Kafka Contracts in the East of England

Apache Kafka
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Kafka skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kafka over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 108 109
Rank change year-on-year +29 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Kafka 10 5 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.90% 0.26% 0.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.49% 1.68% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 11
10th Percentile £315 £358 £488
25th Percentile £318 £361 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £530
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -8.02% -5.78%
75th Percentile £519 £666 £606
90th Percentile £540 £694 £675
England median daily rate £550 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -4.35% -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 182 298 259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 16.29% 15.51% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 145 175
10th Percentile £325 £325 £336
25th Percentile £414 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £514
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -5.64% -1.75%
75th Percentile £581 £575 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 64 15
10th Percentile £58.25 £40.90 -
25th Percentile - - £21.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -25.22% +6.98%
75th Percentile £81.01 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.43 £66.25 £73.75
England median hourly rate £57.63 £58.15 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.90% -10.54% +22.64%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Kafka in the East of England

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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 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Kafka in the East of England

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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 3 July 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
Bedfordshire - 4 £500 - 11
Essex +15 3 £315 -16.00% 11
Cambridgeshire - 2 £531 - 18
Hertfordshire +26 1 - - 20
Kafka
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) Apache
1 4 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (20.00%) Anypoint
2 2 (20.00%) Mule
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) dbt
2 3 (30.00%) GCP
2 3 (30.00%) GitHub
2 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (30.00%) Vertex AI
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon MSK
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (20.00%) Serverless
3 2 (20.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (10.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) BigQuery
1 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (30.00%) Looker
1 3 (30.00%) Power BI
1 3 (30.00%) Tableau
2 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (10.00%) Flink
2 1 (10.00%) Metadata
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) GCP Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Integration Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) DBA
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (30.00%) NumPy
1 3 (30.00%) Pandas
1 3 (30.00%) PySpark
1 3 (30.00%) React
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Amplify
2 2 (20.00%) JWT
2 2 (20.00%) MUnit
2 2 (20.00%) OAuth
2 2 (20.00%) REST
2 2 (20.00%) SOAP
2 2 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (10.00%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (10.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Workflow
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Analytics
3 4 (40.00%) Data Management
3 4 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (40.00%) Data Security
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (30.00%) Data Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Data Governance
4 3 (30.00%) Data Ingestion
4 3 (30.00%) Data Science
4 3 (30.00%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (30.00%) DataOps
4 3 (30.00%) Open Source
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 3 (30.00%) Technical Architecture
4 3 (30.00%) Visualisation
4 3 (30.00%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Java
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) GDPR
2 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) CloudHub
3 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Google
1 2 (20.00%) MuleSoft
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
1 2 (20.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (10.00%) Checkmarx
2 1 (10.00%) Dynatrace