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 March 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
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 554 453 539
Rank change year-on-year -101 +86 +72
Contract jobs citing Confluent 24 23 11
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.065% 0.094% 0.029%
As % of the Vendors category 0.15% 0.20% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 6
10th Percentile £416 £430 £463
25th Percentile £450 £510 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £526 £725
Median % change year-on-year -10.65% -27.45% +6.62%
75th Percentile £527 £600 £775
90th Percentile £548 £748 £875
UK median daily rate £465 £558 £700
% change year-on-year -16.59% -20.36% +2.94%

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 16,273 11,606 16,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.06% 47.36% 42.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,594 7,433 10,369
10th Percentile £307 £296 £250
25th Percentile £413 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +1.94% -4.19%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% -2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 872 399 946
10th Percentile £15.60 £15.26 £12.19
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.93 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.40 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.76% +21.60% -28.57%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £52.71
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £24.65
% change year-on-year -13.28% +17.65% -31.05%

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 March 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 18 March 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 -38 18 £450 -21.05% 4
North West -32 4 £528 -
North of England -64 4 £528 +14.11%
South East - 1 £475 - 2
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 (16.67%) Apache
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 23 (95.83%) AWS
2 12 (50.00%) Azure
3 9 (37.50%) GCP
4 8 (33.33%) Amazon S3
4 8 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (33.33%) Serverless
5 7 (29.17%) Amazon EventBridge
5 7 (29.17%) Amazon Kinesis
5 7 (29.17%) AWS Step Functions
6 5 (20.83%) Amazon MSK
6 5 (20.83%) GitHub
6 5 (20.83%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (16.67%) Apigee
8 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (8.33%) OpenShift
9 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (4.17%) Datadog
9 1 (4.17%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (37.50%) Amazon Redshift
1 9 (37.50%) Flink
2 7 (29.17%) Amazon Athena
2 7 (29.17%) Apache Iceberg
3 6 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (20.83%) NoSQL
5 4 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (16.67%) Amazon QuickSight
5 4 (16.67%) Data Vault
5 4 (16.67%) MongoDB
5 4 (16.67%) OLTP
5 4 (16.67%) Star Schema
5 4 (16.67%) Tableau
6 2 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (8.33%) Hazelcast
6 2 (8.33%) Redis
7 1 (4.17%) Apache Hive
7 1 (4.17%) DB2
7 1 (4.17%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (16.67%) Gatling
3 2 (8.33%) Git
3 2 (8.33%) GitLab
3 2 (8.33%) JIRA
3 2 (8.33%) JMeter
3 2 (8.33%) Mockito
4 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
General
1 8 (33.33%) Banking
1 8 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Architect
2 7 (29.17%) Data Architect
2 7 (29.17%) Kafka Architect
3 4 (16.67%) AWS Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 3 (12.50%) AWS Data Architect
5 2 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior
5 2 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Solution Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Data Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (100.00%) Kafka
2 11 (45.83%) Apache Avro
3 9 (37.50%) Protocol Buffers
4 4 (16.67%) JSON
4 4 (16.67%) Spring
4 4 (16.67%) Spring Boot
5 2 (8.33%) Micronaut
5 2 (8.33%) OAuth
5 2 (8.33%) OAuth2
5 2 (8.33%) OpenID
5 2 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (8.33%) Quarkus
5 2 (8.33%) Spring Security
6 1 (4.17%) PySpark
6 1 (4.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) PACS
1 4 (16.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (8.33%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) Event-Driven
1 16 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 8 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 8 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 7 (29.17%) Kalman Filter
3 7 (29.17%) Observability
4 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 6 (25.00%) High Availability
4 6 (25.00%) Microservices
5 5 (20.83%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (20.83%) Test Automation
6 4 (16.67%) Analytics
6 4 (16.67%) Clean Code
6 4 (16.67%) CQRS
6 4 (16.67%) Data Architecture
6 4 (16.67%) FinOps
6 4 (16.67%) Logical Data Model
6 4 (16.67%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 11 (45.83%) Java
2 9 (37.50%) Python
3 8 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (8.33%) Scala
4 2 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) ISO 20022
2 2 (8.33%) ISO 8583
2 2 (8.33%) PSD2
2 2 (8.33%) QA
2 2 (8.33%) SEPA
System Software
1 10 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 6 (25.00%) Grafana
2 6 (25.00%) Terraform
3 4 (16.67%) Prometheus
4 2 (8.33%) Ansible
4 2 (8.33%) Argo
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) IBM
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (8.33%) New Relic
1 2 (8.33%) Splunk
2 1 (4.17%) Cloudera
2 1 (4.17%) Informatica
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle
2 1 (4.17%) StreamSets