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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 93 106
Rank change year-on-year +7 +13 -12
Contract jobs citing Kafka 5 6 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.39% 0.39% 0.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.43% 2.30% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 9
10th Percentile - - £495
25th Percentile £500 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £300 £530
Median % change year-on-year +70.83% -43.40% -5.78%
75th Percentile £539 £369 £650
90th Percentile £542 £538 £675
England median daily rate £550 £622 £675
% change year-on-year -11.58% -7.85% +5.88%

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 206 261 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.90% 17.16% 11.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 103 142
10th Percentile £353 £298 £363
25th Percentile £434 £340 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £413 £506
Median % change year-on-year +21.82% -18.52% -3.57%
75th Percentile £581 £531 £631
90th Percentile £700 £638 £700
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 57 8
10th Percentile £40.75 - £19.35
25th Percentile £43.00 - £21.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £43.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +46.51% -26.81% -9.62%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.94
90th Percentile £67.00 - £74.43
England median hourly rate £54.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.60% +4.17% -3.23%

Kafka
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

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 13 September 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 - 2 £500 - 2
Cambridgeshire - 2 £531 - 3
Hertfordshire +3 1 - - 4
Kafka
England

Kafka
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 2 (40.00%) Anypoint
1 2 (40.00%) Mule
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon MSK
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 2 (40.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (20.00%) Flink
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Integration Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Amplify
1 2 (40.00%) JWT
1 2 (40.00%) MUnit
1 2 (40.00%) OAuth
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) SOAP
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (20.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Low-Code
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Workflow
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) API Design
2 2 (40.00%) API Development
2 2 (40.00%) API Management
2 2 (40.00%) Batch Processing
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) OO
2 2 (40.00%) OOD
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Secrets Management
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) DataWeave
1 2 (40.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) CloudHub
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) MuleSoft
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
1 2 (40.00%) Salesforce