Kafka Developer Contract Job Trends in England

Kafka Developer
UK > England

The median Kafka Developer daily rate in England is £753, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 515 585
Rank change year-on-year +34 +70 +177
Contract jobs requiring a Kafka Developer 36 12 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.037% 0.047%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.039% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 8 17
10th Percentile £488 £300 £463
25th Percentile £515 £323 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £753 £381 £850
Median % change year-on-year +97.38% -55.15% +44.68%
75th Percentile £988 £488 £1,000
90th Percentile - £490 £1,040
UK median daily rate £530 £381 £850
% change year-on-year +39.02% -55.15% +41.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 25,379 30,460 40,300
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.31% 93.04% 94.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,358 19,213 28,262
10th Percentile £281 £305 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £532
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.22% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,348 1,535 1,329
10th Percentile £13.62 £14.56 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £21.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.05% +7.95% +67.05%
75th Percentile £55.00 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +63.46%

Kafka Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Kafka Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka Developer in England

Kafka Developer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Kafka Developer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Kafka Developer job vacancies in England

Kafka Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka Developer in England over the 6 months to 10 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka Developer in England

Kafka Developer
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 Kafka Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 10 September 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 +47 28 £975 +188.89% 1
North of England - 8 £530 -
North West - 6 £530 -
Yorkshire - 2 £425 -
Kafka Developer
UK

Kafka Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 10 September 2025, Kafka Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Kafka Developer in the job title.

1 36 (100.00%) Kafka
2 32 (88.89%) Finance
3 31 (86.11%) SQL
4 28 (77.78%) Java
5 27 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (75.00%) TDD
6 17 (47.22%) Banking
6 17 (47.22%) AWS
7 16 (44.44%) Management Information System
7 16 (44.44%) Risk Management
7 16 (44.44%) Derivative
7 16 (44.44%) Market Risk
7 16 (44.44%) Investment Banking
7 16 (44.44%) Software Engineering
7 16 (44.44%) Analytics
8 15 (41.67%) Migration
9 14 (38.89%) Event-Driven
10 13 (36.11%) CI/CD
10 13 (36.11%) DevOps
10 13 (36.11%) Agile
11 12 (33.33%) Spring
11 12 (33.33%) Microservices
11 12 (33.33%) Docker
11 12 (33.33%) SC Cleared
11 12 (33.33%) Security Cleared
11 12 (33.33%) Containerisation
11 12 (33.33%) React
11 12 (33.33%) Spring Boot
12 11 (30.56%) Build Automation
12 11 (30.56%) Swagger

Kafka Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 17 (47.22%) AWS
2 4 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (2.78%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (30.56%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (30.56%) GitLab
1 11 (30.56%) Gradle
1 11 (30.56%) Jenkins
1 11 (30.56%) JUnit
1 11 (30.56%) Liquibase
1 11 (30.56%) Mockito
General
1 32 (88.89%) Finance
2 17 (47.22%) Banking
3 16 (44.44%) Investment Banking
4 11 (30.56%) Electronics
4 11 (30.56%) Manufacturing
4 11 (30.56%) Marketing
4 11 (30.56%) Public Sector
4 11 (30.56%) Telecoms
5 3 (8.33%) Social Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (100.00%) Kafka
2 12 (33.33%) React
2 12 (33.33%) Spring
2 12 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 11 (30.56%) OpenAPI
3 11 (30.56%) Swagger
4 2 (5.56%) .NET
5 1 (2.78%) Django
5 1 (2.78%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.78%) Flask
5 1 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (44.44%) Derivative
1 16 (44.44%) Management Information System
1 16 (44.44%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (75.00%) TDD
2 16 (44.44%) Analytics
2 16 (44.44%) Risk Management
2 16 (44.44%) Software Engineering
3 15 (41.67%) Migration
4 14 (38.89%) Event-Driven
5 13 (36.11%) Agile
5 13 (36.11%) CI/CD
5 13 (36.11%) DevOps
6 12 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 12 (33.33%) Microservices
7 11 (30.56%) Build Automation
7 11 (30.56%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (30.56%) Clean Code
7 11 (30.56%) Digital Marketing
7 11 (30.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 11 (30.56%) Programme Management
8 3 (8.33%) API Development
8 3 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (5.56%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 31 (86.11%) SQL
2 28 (77.78%) Java
3 11 (30.56%) TypeScript
4 3 (8.33%) C#
4 3 (8.33%) C++
5 2 (5.56%) Python
5 2 (5.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 12 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 12 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (30.56%) SAP
2 2 (5.56%) Confluent
2 2 (5.56%) Salesforce