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 May 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
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 566 466 521
Rank change year-on-year -100 +55 +50
Contract jobs citing Confluent 29 14 16
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.071% 0.057% 0.044%
As % of the Vendors category 0.17% 0.12% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 6 9
10th Percentile £404 £456 £275
25th Percentile £447 £503 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £750
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% -27.33% +10.29%
75th Percentile £538 £593 £825
90th Percentile £597 £650 £915
UK median daily rate £465 £565 £725
% change year-on-year -17.70% -22.07% +6.62%

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 16,929 11,649 15,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.18% 47.62% 41.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,957 7,504 9,714
10th Percentile £313 £276 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.99%
75th Percentile £611 £625 £635
90th Percentile £710 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 899 465 1,004
10th Percentile £15.37 £14.84 £12.04
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.44 £14.27
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.87% +17.56% -40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £57.33
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +27.45% +15.91% -48.24%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 -43 23 £450 -22.75% 1
North West -34 4 £528 -
North of England -71 4 £528 +14.11%
East of England - 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 (17.24%) Apache
2 3 (10.34%) Apache Spark
3 2 (6.90%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 28 (96.55%) AWS
2 13 (44.83%) Azure
3 10 (34.48%) Amazon EventBridge
3 10 (34.48%) Amazon Kinesis
3 10 (34.48%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (34.48%) Serverless
4 9 (31.03%) Amazon MSK
4 9 (31.03%) Amazon S3
4 9 (31.03%) AWS Step Functions
4 9 (31.03%) GCP
5 6 (20.69%) Apigee
6 4 (13.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (13.79%) GitHub
6 4 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (6.90%) OpenShift
9 1 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (41.38%) Flink
2 10 (34.48%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (31.03%) Amazon Athena
3 9 (31.03%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (31.03%) Apache Iceberg
4 6 (20.69%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (20.69%) Amazon QuickSight
4 6 (20.69%) Data Vault
4 6 (20.69%) OLTP
4 6 (20.69%) Star Schema
4 6 (20.69%) Tableau
5 5 (17.24%) NoSQL
6 4 (13.79%) MongoDB
6 4 (13.79%) Redis
7 2 (6.90%) Hazelcast
8 1 (3.45%) Big Data
8 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
8 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Jenkins
2 4 (13.79%) Gatling
3 3 (10.34%) Git
3 3 (10.34%) GitLab
3 3 (10.34%) JIRA
4 2 (6.90%) JMeter
4 2 (6.90%) Mockito
General
1 7 (24.14%) Banking
1 7 (24.14%) Finance
2 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (48.28%) Architect
2 9 (31.03%) Data Architect
3 7 (24.14%) Kafka Architect
4 6 (20.69%) AWS Architect
5 5 (17.24%) AWS Data Architect
6 4 (13.79%) Developer
6 4 (13.79%) Java Developer
6 4 (13.79%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (6.90%) Java Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Java Software Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Kafka Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Lead
7 2 (6.90%) Lead Architect
7 2 (6.90%) Lead Data Architect
7 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Senior
7 2 (6.90%) Software Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) AWS Solution Architect
8 1 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (100.00%) Kafka
2 15 (51.72%) Apache Avro
3 13 (44.83%) Protocol Buffers
4 8 (27.59%) JSON
5 6 (20.69%) Spring
6 4 (13.79%) Spring Boot
7 3 (10.34%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (6.90%) EDIFACT
8 2 (6.90%) Micronaut
8 2 (6.90%) OAuth
8 2 (6.90%) OAuth2
8 2 (6.90%) OpenID
8 2 (6.90%) Quarkus
8 2 (6.90%) REST
8 2 (6.90%) Spring Security
8 2 (6.90%) XML
9 1 (3.45%) GraphQL
9 1 (3.45%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) PACS
1 6 (20.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 4 (13.79%) Product Ownership
3 3 (10.34%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (6.90%) Replication
5 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (72.41%) Event-Driven
1 21 (72.41%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 10 (34.48%) CI/CD
3 9 (31.03%) Data Modelling
3 9 (31.03%) Kalman Filter
3 9 (31.03%) Microservices
3 9 (31.03%) Observability
4 8 (27.59%) Containerisation
4 8 (27.59%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (24.14%) Analytics
5 7 (24.14%) CQRS
6 6 (20.69%) Dashboard Development
6 6 (20.69%) Data Architecture
6 6 (20.69%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (20.69%) Domain Models
6 6 (20.69%) High Availability
6 6 (20.69%) Logical Data Model
6 6 (20.69%) Physical Data Model
6 6 (20.69%) Test Automation
6 6 (20.69%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 14 (48.28%) Java
2 11 (37.93%) Python
3 9 (31.03%) SQL
4 5 (17.24%) Scala
5 2 (6.90%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (27.59%) ISO 20022
2 2 (6.90%) ISO 8583
2 2 (6.90%) PSD2
2 2 (6.90%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) SEPA
System Software
1 14 (48.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (51.72%) Kubernetes
2 9 (31.03%) Grafana
3 7 (24.14%) Prometheus
3 7 (24.14%) Terraform
4 3 (10.34%) Ansible
5 2 (6.90%) Argo
Vendors
1 2 (6.90%) Cloudera
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
1 2 (6.90%) MKS
1 2 (6.90%) New Relic
2 1 (3.45%) Splunk