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 28 July 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
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 603 498 515
Rank change year-on-year -105 +17 0
Contract jobs citing Confluent 22 14 32
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.049% 0.051% 0.093%
As % of the Vendors category 0.12% 0.11% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 21
10th Percentile £401 £483 £306
25th Percentile £404 £513 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £703
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -18.21% +3.38%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £775
90th Percentile £684 £644 £938
UK median daily rate £450 £570 £702
% change year-on-year -21.05% -18.75% +3.16%

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 18,497 12,959 14,864
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.03% 47.23% 43.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,698 8,202 9,541
10th Percentile £313 £280 £290
25th Percentile £413 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £610 £622 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +0.10% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 977 624 828
10th Percentile £16.44 £14.75 £13.44
25th Percentile £20.31 £17.49 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.91 £25.15 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.78% -8.55% -30.47%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.13 £61.33
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.90 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.11 £25.15 £27.00
% change year-on-year +39.60% -6.85% -35.41%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -59 15 £450 -21.74% 9
North of England -75 4 £400 -13.51% 2
East of England - 3 £688 -
North East - 2 £400 - 2
North West - 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 5 (22.73%) Apache
2 3 (13.64%) Apache Spark
3 2 (9.09%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 19 (86.36%) AWS
2 9 (40.91%) Azure
3 5 (22.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (22.73%) Amazon MSK
3 5 (22.73%) Amazon S3
3 5 (22.73%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (22.73%) GCP
3 5 (22.73%) Serverless
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon EventBridge
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon Kinesis
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (13.64%) GitHub
4 3 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (9.09%) Apigee
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (9.09%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) Flink
2 5 (22.73%) MongoDB
2 5 (22.73%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (13.64%) NoSQL
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (9.09%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (9.09%) Data Lake
4 2 (9.09%) Data Vault
4 2 (9.09%) DocumentDB
4 2 (9.09%) OLTP
4 2 (9.09%) Redis
4 2 (9.09%) Star Schema
4 2 (9.09%) Tableau
5 1 (4.55%) Big Data
5 1 (4.55%) Db2
5 1 (4.55%) Metadata
5 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
2 4 (18.18%) GitLab
3 3 (13.64%) Git
3 3 (13.64%) JIRA
4 1 (4.55%) Gatling
4 1 (4.55%) JMeter
4 1 (4.55%) Mockito
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Public Sector
3 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.55%) Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Architect
2 4 (18.18%) Kafka Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Data Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Administrator
4 2 (9.09%) AWS Data Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Java Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Kafka Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Lead
4 2 (9.09%) Lead Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Lead Data Architect
4 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Kafka Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Node.js Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (90.91%) Kafka
2 6 (27.27%) Apache Avro
2 6 (27.27%) JSON
2 6 (27.27%) Protocol Buffers
3 4 (18.18%) REST
4 3 (13.64%) Node.js
4 3 (13.64%) Spring
5 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
5 2 (9.09%) EDIFACT
5 2 (9.09%) Express.js
5 2 (9.09%) Jest
5 2 (9.09%) MEAN Stack
5 2 (9.09%) Nunjucks
5 2 (9.09%) XML
6 1 (4.55%) GraphQL
6 1 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (4.55%) PySpark
6 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
6 1 (4.55%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Cloud Native
1 5 (22.73%) Product Ownership
2 4 (18.18%) Replication
3 3 (13.64%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (9.09%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (9.09%) PACS
4 2 (9.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (4.55%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Event-Driven
1 12 (54.55%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 11 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 10 (45.45%) DevOps
4 9 (40.91%) Microservices
5 8 (36.36%) Agile
5 8 (36.36%) Software Engineering
6 7 (31.82%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (27.27%) Observability
8 5 (22.73%) Clean Code
8 5 (22.73%) Data Modelling
8 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (18.18%) Analytics
9 4 (18.18%) Containerisation
9 4 (18.18%) Data Architecture
9 4 (18.18%) Integration Patterns
9 4 (18.18%) Test Automation
10 3 (13.64%) Cost Optimisation
10 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) SQL
2 6 (27.27%) Java
3 5 (22.73%) Python
4 4 (18.18%) Scala
5 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 2 (9.09%) ISO 20022
1 2 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (45.45%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 13 (59.09%) Kubernetes
2 8 (36.36%) Terraform
3 7 (31.82%) Grafana
4 6 (27.27%) Prometheus
5 3 (13.64%) Ansible
6 2 (9.09%) Argo
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Dynatrace
2 3 (13.64%) Databricks
3 2 (9.09%) Braze
3 2 (9.09%) Cloudera
3 2 (9.09%) MKS
3 2 (9.09%) mParticle
4 1 (4.55%) New Relic
4 1 (4.55%) Splunk