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 20 December 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
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 438 545
Rank change year-on-year -75 +107 +138
Contract jobs citing Confluent 24 58 16
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.076% 0.20% 0.043%
As % of the Vendors category 0.16% 0.44% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 33 9
10th Percentile £396 £502 £550
25th Percentile £412 £526 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £610 £740
Median % change year-on-year -22.95% -17.57% +10.45%
75th Percentile £541 £738 £810
90th Percentile £588 £785 -
UK median daily rate £470 £595 £695
% change year-on-year -21.01% -14.39% +3.73%

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 14,956 13,257 16,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.50% 45.90% 44.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,693 8,069 10,846
10th Percentile £293 £291 £250
25th Percentile £408 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £705 £725 £726
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 733 387 607
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.57 £14.54
25th Percentile £18.22 £17.60 £20.50
Median hourly rate £23.75 £30.78 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -22.84% -32.91% +77.76%
75th Percentile £47.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £78.50 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £45.11
% change year-on-year -17.84% -35.71% +76.74%

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 20 December 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 20 December 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 -37 13 £465 -21.68% 1
South East - 6 £423 - 1
North West -20 4 £528 -
North of England -46 4 £528 -8.22%
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 1 (4.17%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 19 (79.17%) AWS
2 12 (50.00%) Azure
3 9 (37.50%) Serverless
4 8 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (29.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (29.17%) GCP
6 6 (25.00%) OCI
7 3 (12.50%) Amazon S3
7 3 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (12.50%) Datadog
7 3 (12.50%) Entra ID
8 2 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (8.33%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (8.33%) GitHub
8 2 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (37.50%) Amazon Redshift
1 9 (37.50%) NoSQL
2 7 (29.17%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (25.00%) Couchbase
4 3 (12.50%) Flink
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (8.33%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
5 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (4.17%) Apache Hive
6 1 (4.17%) Data Vault
6 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (4.17%) DB2
6 1 (4.17%) Hadoop
6 1 (4.17%) OLTP
6 1 (4.17%) Star Schema
6 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.17%) Gatling
2 1 (4.17%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) GitLab
2 1 (4.17%) JMeter
2 1 (4.17%) Mockito
General
1 6 (25.00%) Banking
1 6 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Data Engineer
1 7 (29.17%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Developer
3 3 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Architect
4 2 (8.33%) C# Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Data Architect
4 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Architect
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Data Architect
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Kafka Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (100.00%) Kafka
2 4 (16.67%) REST
2 4 (16.67%) Spring
2 4 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 3 (12.50%) GraphQL
3 3 (12.50%) OAuth
3 3 (12.50%) OAuth2
3 3 (12.50%) Spring Batch
3 3 (12.50%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (8.33%) Apache Avro
4 2 (8.33%) JSON
4 2 (8.33%) Protocol Buffers
5 1 (4.17%) .NET
5 1 (4.17%) JSON Schema
5 1 (4.17%) PySpark
5 1 (4.17%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Replication
2 2 (8.33%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) PACS
3 1 (4.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (33.33%) Unix
2 6 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) High Availability
1 11 (45.83%) Performance Tuning
2 10 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 8 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 8 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 8 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
4 7 (29.17%) Containerisation
4 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (25.00%) Security Patching
6 5 (20.83%) DevOps
6 5 (20.83%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (16.67%) AI
7 4 (16.67%) Data Modelling
7 4 (16.67%) Microservices
8 3 (12.50%) API Design
8 3 (12.50%) API Management
9 2 (8.33%) Observability
9 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 2 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) Python
2 11 (45.83%) Java
3 8 (33.33%) Shell Script
4 2 (8.33%) C#
4 2 (8.33%) SQL
5 1 (4.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 10 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 7 (29.17%) Terraform
3 2 (8.33%) Grafana
3 2 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) IBM
2 4 (16.67%) Splunk
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.17%) Cloudera
4 1 (4.17%) Informatica
4 1 (4.17%) New Relic
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle
4 1 (4.17%) StreamSets