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 6 October 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
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 607 495 454
Rank change year-on-year -112 -41 +85
Contract jobs citing Confluent 30 20 68
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.065% 0.072% 0.21%
As % of the Vendors category 0.16% 0.15% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 15 40
10th Percentile - £394 £461
25th Percentile £400 £411 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £686
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -30.76% -5.38%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £764
90th Percentile £694 £604 £904
UK median daily rate £449 £458 £650
% change year-on-year -1.97% -29.62% -7.47%

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 19,213 13,244 14,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.48% 47.71% 44.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,427 8,570
10th Percentile £309 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £625 £619 £630
90th Percentile £715 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,240 639 535
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.96 £14.84
25th Percentile £16.72 £18.06 £15.62
Median hourly rate £25.92 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% -28.14% -20.16%
75th Percentile £62.50 £43.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.65 £72.45
UK median hourly rate £25.04 £25.15 £31.50
% change year-on-year -0.45% -20.17% -26.74%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -84 20 £525 -4.55% 15
North of England -67 7 £400 -5.88% 5
North East - 5 £400 - 1
North West - 2 - - 4
East of England - 2 £688 -
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 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.67%) Apache
2 2 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (6.67%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 24 (80.00%) AWS
2 13 (43.33%) Azure
3 11 (36.67%) Amazon S3
4 9 (30.00%) GCP
5 7 (23.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (23.33%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (23.33%) GitHub
5 7 (23.33%) Serverless
6 6 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (20.00%) Kong
7 5 (16.67%) Amazon ECR
7 5 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
7 5 (16.67%) AWS KMS
7 5 (16.67%) Snowflake
8 4 (13.33%) Entra ID
9 3 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 3 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) DNS
1 2 (6.67%) Kerberos
1 2 (6.67%) SAN
1 2 (6.67%) SSL
2 1 (3.33%) Firewall
2 1 (3.33%) SSH
2 1 (3.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) Metadata
2 6 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 5 (16.67%) DocumentDB
4 4 (13.33%) Flink
4 4 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (10.00%) Data Vault
5 3 (10.00%) NoSQL
5 3 (10.00%) Redis
6 2 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (6.67%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (6.67%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (6.67%) OLTP
6 2 (6.67%) Star Schema
6 2 (6.67%) Tableau
7 1 (3.33%) Db2
7 1 (3.33%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (26.67%) GitLab
2 5 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 4 (13.33%) Git
4 1 (3.33%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.33%) Gradle
4 1 (3.33%) JIRA
4 1 (3.33%) JMeter
4 1 (3.33%) Maven
4 1 (3.33%) REST Assured
General
1 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.67%) Retail
4 1 (3.33%) Aviation
4 1 (3.33%) Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Finance
4 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Architect
2 6 (20.00%) Developer
2 6 (20.00%) Lead
3 5 (16.67%) Administrator
3 5 (16.67%) Data Architect
3 5 (16.67%) Java Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Angular Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Kafka Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Node.js Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Software Developer
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Architect
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Data Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Lead Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Lead Data Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Platform Architect
5 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (93.33%) Kafka
2 14 (46.67%) Terraform
3 10 (33.33%) REST
4 6 (20.00%) Spring
5 5 (16.67%) AngularJS
5 5 (16.67%) Express.js
5 5 (16.67%) Jest
5 5 (16.67%) MEAN Stack
5 5 (16.67%) Node.js
5 5 (16.67%) Nunjucks
6 4 (13.33%) OAuth
6 4 (13.33%) Spring Boot
7 3 (10.00%) GraphQL
7 3 (10.00%) JSON
7 3 (10.00%) LangChain
7 3 (10.00%) OAuth2
7 3 (10.00%) RESTful
7 3 (10.00%) Spring Batch
7 3 (10.00%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (36.67%) Cloud Native
2 9 (30.00%) Product Ownership
3 7 (23.33%) Replication
4 5 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (6.67%) Data Centre
5 2 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (6.67%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
5 2 (6.67%) PACS
5 2 (6.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (3.33%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 14 (46.67%) Agile
2 14 (46.67%) DevOps
3 12 (40.00%) Event-Driven
4 10 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (30.00%) Observability
5 9 (30.00%) Test Automation
6 8 (26.67%) Microservices
7 7 (23.33%) Data Modelling
8 6 (20.00%) Containerisation
8 6 (20.00%) Data Architecture
8 6 (20.00%) Data Governance
8 6 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
8 6 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (20.00%) Software Delivery
9 5 (16.67%) Clean Code
9 5 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (16.67%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 7 (23.33%) Java
2 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 5 (16.67%) SQL
2 5 (16.67%) TypeScript
3 4 (13.33%) Python
4 2 (6.67%) Scala
5 1 (3.33%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (23.33%) QA
2 3 (10.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (6.67%) Accessibility
3 2 (6.67%) GDPR
3 2 (6.67%) HIPAA
3 2 (6.67%) ISO 20022
3 2 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (40.00%) Docker
2 4 (13.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 15 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (20.00%) Grafana
2 6 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (6.67%) Ansible
3 2 (6.67%) Argo
3 2 (6.67%) systemd
4 1 (3.33%) logstash
4 1 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Dynatrace
2 4 (13.33%) Databricks
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.67%) Braze
4 2 (6.67%) MKS
4 2 (6.67%) mParticle
5 1 (3.33%) Informatica
5 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.33%) Snow