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 17 September 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
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 467 533
Rank change year-on-year -15 +66 +185
Contract jobs citing Confluent 19 66 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.068% 0.20% 0.16%
As % of the Vendors category 0.15% 0.46% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 38 40
10th Percentile £391 £432 £592
25th Percentile £411 £539 £617
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £686 £725
Median % change year-on-year -29.66% -5.38% +8.21%
75th Percentile £588 £758 £810
90th Percentile £604 £848 £825
UK median daily rate £440 £650 £703
% change year-on-year -32.31% -7.47% +4.85%

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 13,101 14,461 18,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.19% 44.23% 43.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,316 8,828 12,292
10th Percentile £275 £300 £260
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -1.59%
75th Percentile £616 £630 £650
90th Percentile £713 £732 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 620 594 586
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.26 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.88 £15.62 £18.95
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.25 £42.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.36% -22.22% +78.80%
75th Percentile £43.84 £65.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £69.69 £70.00 £75.38
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -16.17% -31.56% +83.33%

Confluent
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Confluent as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Confluent 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 17 September 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 17 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
London -20 12 £550 -21.43%
South East - 5 £420 - 1
Yorkshire -10 2 £425 -38.18%
North of England -12 2 £425 -38.18%
Confluent
UK

Confluent
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (21.05%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) AWS
2 7 (36.84%) Azure
3 6 (31.58%) Serverless
4 5 (26.32%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (26.32%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (26.32%) OCI
5 3 (15.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (15.79%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (10.53%) Datadog
6 2 (10.53%) GCP
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon MSK
7 1 (5.26%) Azure AKS
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) NoSQL
2 5 (26.32%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (26.32%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (26.32%) Couchbase
3 4 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (21.05%) Redis
4 1 (5.26%) Flink
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Data Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) Developer
3 5 (26.32%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) C# Developer
4 2 (10.53%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Kafka Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Principal DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Kafka Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Senior C# Developer
5 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
Miscellaneous
1 9 (47.37%) Replication
2 2 (10.53%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) Unix
2 5 (26.32%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) CI/CD
2 8 (42.11%) DevOps
2 8 (42.11%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (26.32%) High Availability
3 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (26.32%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (26.32%) Security Patching
4 3 (15.79%) API Design
4 3 (15.79%) API Management
4 3 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (15.79%) Data Modelling
4 3 (15.79%) Microservices
5 2 (10.53%) API Integration
5 2 (10.53%) Migration
5 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (5.26%) Data Pipeline
6 1 (5.26%) Event-Driven
6 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) Java
2 7 (36.84%) Python
2 7 (36.84%) Shell Script
3 2 (10.53%) C#
4 1 (5.26%) Scala
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
2 1 (5.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Kubernetes
2 5 (26.32%) Terraform
3 2 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (5.26%) Grafana
4 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) IBM
2 3 (15.79%) Splunk
3 1 (5.26%) Cloudera