Confluent Contract Job Trends in England

Confluent
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of Confluent products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Confluent over the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Confluent, Inc.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 497 438 539
Rank change year-on-year -59 +101 +148
Contract jobs citing Confluent 19 70 43
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.066% 0.22% 0.11%
As % of the Vendors category 0.14% 0.50% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 43 30
10th Percentile £391 £425 £600
25th Percentile £411 £526 £624
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £733
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -11.26% +9.33%
75th Percentile £588 £755 £810
90th Percentile £604 £885 £812
UK median daily rate £463 £625 £725
% change year-on-year -26.00% -13.79% +8.21%

All Vendors
England

Confluent falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,744 14,003 17,911
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.76% 44.94% 44.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,766 8,385 11,848
10th Percentile £278 £300 £259
25th Percentile £404 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £640
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 670 455 626
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.99 £15.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.04 £35.36 £43.85
Median % change year-on-year -29.19% -19.36% +75.40%
75th Percentile £43.24 £65.00 £62.54
90th Percentile £70.02 £73.75 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £32.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% -25.29% +74.00%

Confluent
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Confluent relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Confluent job vacancy trend in England

Confluent
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Confluent.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Confluent

Confluent
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Confluent in England over the 6 months to 28 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Confluent in England

Confluent
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Confluent within the England region over the 6 months to 28 October 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
London -29 13 £550 -21.43% 2
South East - 6 £423 - 2
Confluent
UK

Confluent
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 4 (21.05%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) AWS
2 7 (36.84%) Azure
2 7 (36.84%) Serverless
3 6 (31.58%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (31.58%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (31.58%) OCI
4 3 (15.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (15.79%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (10.53%) Datadog
5 2 (10.53%) GCP
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.26%) Azure AKS
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (47.37%) NoSQL
2 6 (31.58%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (31.58%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (31.58%) Couchbase
3 4 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (21.05%) Redis
4 1 (5.26%) Apache Hive
4 1 (5.26%) DB2
4 1 (5.26%) Flink
4 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (47.37%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) GitLab
General
1 1 (5.26%) Banking
1 1 (5.26%) Finance
1 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Platform Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Data Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Developer
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) C# Developer
5 2 (10.53%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Java Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Kafka Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior
6 1 (5.26%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (100.00%) Kafka
2 6 (31.58%) JSON
3 4 (21.05%) EDIFACT
3 4 (21.05%) REST
3 4 (21.05%) XML
4 3 (15.79%) GraphQL
4 3 (15.79%) OAuth
4 3 (15.79%) OAuth2
4 3 (15.79%) Spring
4 3 (15.79%) Spring Batch
4 3 (15.79%) Spring Boot
4 3 (15.79%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (5.26%) .NET
5 1 (5.26%) JSON Schema
5 1 (5.26%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (52.63%) Replication
2 2 (10.53%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (42.11%) Unix
2 6 (31.58%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) CI/CD
1 9 (47.37%) Platform Engineering
2 8 (42.11%) DevOps
3 6 (31.58%) High Availability
3 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (31.58%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (31.58%) Security Patching
4 3 (15.79%) AI
4 3 (15.79%) API Design
4 3 (15.79%) API Management
4 3 (15.79%) Data Modelling
4 3 (15.79%) Microservices
5 2 (10.53%) API Integration
5 2 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (5.26%) API Development
6 1 (5.26%) Data Pipeline
6 1 (5.26%) Event-Driven
6 1 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (5.26%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) Java
2 7 (36.84%) Python
2 7 (36.84%) Shell Script
3 2 (10.53%) C#
4 1 (5.26%) Scala
4 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Kubernetes
2 6 (31.58%) Terraform
3 2 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (5.26%) Grafana
4 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) IBM
2 3 (15.79%) Splunk
3 1 (5.26%) Cloudera
3 1 (5.26%) Informatica
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) StreamSets