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 18 November 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
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 524 440 542
Rank change year-on-year -84 +102 +152
Contract jobs citing Confluent 20 69 35
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.066% 0.22% 0.088%
As % of the Vendors category 0.14% 0.50% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 41 23
10th Percentile £394 £475 £600
25th Percentile £411 £526 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £680
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% -8.09% +1.49%
75th Percentile £588 £750 £810
90th Percentile £604 £788 £822
UK median daily rate £475 £625 £678
% change year-on-year -24.00% -7.75% +1.12%

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 14,322 13,843 17,794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.55% 45.12% 44.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,222 8,310 11,734
10th Percentile £286 £300 £255
25th Percentile £405 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 714 430 624
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.50 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -22.22% +74.55%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £71.85 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £30.45 £44.50
% change year-on-year -17.90% -31.57% +74.51%

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 18 November 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 18 November 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 -38 14 £525 -21.88% 7
South East - 6 £423 - 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 4 (20.00%) MQSeries
2 1 (5.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) AWS
2 7 (35.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 7 (35.00%) Azure
2 7 (35.00%) Serverless
3 6 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (30.00%) OCI
4 3 (15.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (15.00%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (15.00%) Datadog
4 3 (15.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (10.00%) GCP
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (5.00%) Azure AKS
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
6 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (45.00%) NoSQL
2 7 (35.00%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (35.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (30.00%) Couchbase
4 4 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (20.00%) Redis
5 2 (10.00%) Flink
6 1 (5.00%) Apache Hive
6 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (5.00%) DB2
6 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
6 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (45.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Banking
2 1 (5.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Data Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Developer
5 2 (10.00%) C# Developer
5 2 (10.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Java Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Kafka Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior
6 1 (5.00%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (100.00%) Kafka
2 6 (30.00%) JSON
3 4 (20.00%) EDIFACT
3 4 (20.00%) REST
3 4 (20.00%) XML
4 3 (15.00%) GraphQL
4 3 (15.00%) OAuth
4 3 (15.00%) OAuth2
4 3 (15.00%) Spring
4 3 (15.00%) Spring Batch
4 3 (15.00%) Spring Boot
4 3 (15.00%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (5.00%) .NET
5 1 (5.00%) JSON Schema
5 1 (5.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (50.00%) Replication
2 2 (10.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Unix
2 6 (30.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (45.00%) Platform Engineering
2 8 (40.00%) DevOps
3 7 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (30.00%) High Availability
4 6 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (30.00%) Security Patching
5 3 (15.00%) AI
5 3 (15.00%) API Design
5 3 (15.00%) API Management
5 3 (15.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (15.00%) Microservices
6 2 (10.00%) API Integration
6 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
7 1 (5.00%) API Development
7 1 (5.00%) Data Pipeline
7 1 (5.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) Java
2 8 (40.00%) Python
3 7 (35.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (10.00%) C#
4 2 (10.00%) SQL
5 1 (5.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 9 (45.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
1 7 (35.00%) Terraform
2 2 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (5.00%) Grafana
3 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) IBM
2 4 (20.00%) Splunk
3 1 (5.00%) Cloudera
3 1 (5.00%) Informatica
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) StreamSets