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 8 September 2026, 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
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 607 500 469
Rank change year-on-year -107 -31 +73
Contract jobs citing Confluent 32 17 53
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.070% 0.062% 0.16%
As % of the Vendors category 0.17% 0.13% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 13 33
10th Percentile £400 £388 £360
25th Percentile £401 £410 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £525 £700
Median % change year-on-year -14.57% -25.00% -3.45%
75th Percentile £607 £588 £760
90th Percentile £694 £605 £885
UK median daily rate £449 £483 £661
% change year-on-year -7.05% -27.00% -2.79%

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 19,133 12,881 14,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.61% 47.10% 44.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,965 8,166 8,904
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -4.10% -
75th Percentile £619 £619 £631
90th Percentile £706 £713 £734
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,053 601 611
10th Percentile £14.45 £14.75 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.79 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.23 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.13% -28.14% -17.65%
75th Percentile £65.58 £47.12 £64.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £31.00
% change year-on-year +15.59% -18.87% -27.91%

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 8 September 2026.

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 8 September 2026. 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 -63 22 £488 -11.36% 24
North of England -69 6 £400 -5.88% 2
North East - 4 £400 -
East of England - 3 £688 -
North West - 2 - - 1
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 5 (15.63%) Apache
2 3 (9.38%) Apache Spark
3 2 (6.25%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 26 (81.25%) AWS
2 16 (50.00%) Azure
3 10 (31.25%) GCP
4 9 (28.13%) Amazon S3
5 7 (21.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (21.88%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (21.88%) GitHub
5 7 (21.88%) Serverless
6 6 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (15.63%) Amazon MSK
7 5 (15.63%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (15.63%) Kong
8 4 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (12.50%) AWS KMS
8 4 (12.50%) Entra ID
9 3 (9.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) SSL
2 1 (3.13%) DNS
2 1 (3.13%) Firewall
2 1 (3.13%) Kerberos
2 1 (3.13%) SAN
2 1 (3.13%) SSH
2 1 (3.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.00%) Flink
2 6 (18.75%) NoSQL
3 5 (15.63%) Metadata
3 5 (15.63%) MongoDB
4 4 (12.50%) DocumentDB
4 4 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (9.38%) Redis
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (6.25%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (6.25%) Data Lake
6 2 (6.25%) Data Vault
6 2 (6.25%) OLTP
6 2 (6.25%) Star Schema
6 2 (6.25%) Tableau
7 1 (3.13%) Db2
7 1 (3.13%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) GitLab
2 6 (18.75%) Git
3 5 (15.63%) Jenkins
4 4 (12.50%) JIRA
5 1 (3.13%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.13%) Gradle
5 1 (3.13%) JMeter
5 1 (3.13%) Maven
5 1 (3.13%) REST Assured
General
1 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Public Sector
4 4 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.13%) Aviation
5 1 (3.13%) Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Architect
2 5 (15.63%) Developer
2 5 (15.63%) Java Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Lead
3 4 (12.50%) Administrator
3 4 (12.50%) Kafka Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Angular Developer
4 3 (9.38%) Data Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Node.js Developer
4 3 (9.38%) Software Developer
4 3 (9.38%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Architect
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Data Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Lead Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Lead Data Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Platform Architect
5 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (93.75%) Kafka
2 13 (40.63%) Terraform
3 10 (31.25%) REST
4 7 (21.88%) JSON
5 6 (18.75%) Apache Avro
5 6 (18.75%) Protocol Buffers
5 6 (18.75%) Spring
6 5 (15.63%) Node.js
7 4 (12.50%) AngularJS
7 4 (12.50%) Express.js
7 4 (12.50%) GraphQL
7 4 (12.50%) Jest
7 4 (12.50%) MEAN Stack
7 4 (12.50%) Nunjucks
7 4 (12.50%) OAuth
7 4 (12.50%) Spring Boot
8 3 (9.38%) LangChain
8 3 (9.38%) OAuth2
8 3 (9.38%) Spring Batch
8 3 (9.38%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 10 (31.25%) Cloud Native
2 8 (25.00%) Product Ownership
3 6 (18.75%) Replication
4 4 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (9.38%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (6.25%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (6.25%) Onboarding
6 2 (6.25%) PACS
6 2 (6.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
7 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (3.13%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (53.13%) Agile
1 17 (53.13%) CI/CD
1 17 (53.13%) DevOps
2 16 (50.00%) Event-Driven
3 15 (46.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 11 (34.38%) Microservices
5 10 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (31.25%) Observability
6 9 (28.13%) Data Pipeline
7 8 (25.00%) Data Modelling
7 8 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 8 (25.00%) Test Automation
8 7 (21.88%) Clean Code
8 7 (21.88%) Containerisation
8 7 (21.88%) Data Governance
8 7 (21.88%) Integration Patterns
8 7 (21.88%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (18.75%) Cost Optimisation
9 6 (18.75%) RBAC
10 5 (15.63%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 10 (31.25%) Java
2 7 (21.88%) Python
2 7 (21.88%) SQL
3 4 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 4 (12.50%) Scala
3 4 (12.50%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.13%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) QA
2 2 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.25%) ISO 20022
3 1 (3.13%) GDPR
3 1 (3.13%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (46.88%) Docker
2 3 (9.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 19 (59.38%) Kubernetes
2 7 (21.88%) Grafana
2 7 (21.88%) Prometheus
3 3 (9.38%) Ansible
4 2 (6.25%) Argo
5 1 (3.13%) logstash
5 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (3.13%) systemd
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Dynatrace
2 4 (12.50%) Databricks
3 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.25%) Braze
4 2 (6.25%) Cloudera
4 2 (6.25%) MKS
4 2 (6.25%) mParticle
5 1 (3.13%) Informatica
5 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.13%) Snow
5 1 (3.13%) Splunk