Kafka Developer Contract Job Trends in England

Kafka Developer
UK > England

The median Kafka Developer daily rate in England is £975, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 504 518
Rank change year-on-year -10 +14 +200
Contract jobs requiring a Kafka Developer 39 10 31
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.035% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.037% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 7 25
10th Percentile £363 £300 £455
25th Percentile £525 £431 £635
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £975 £800 £850
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% -5.88% +36.00%
75th Percentile £988 £825 -
90th Percentile - - £1,000
UK median daily rate £975 £575 £850
% change year-on-year +69.57% -32.35% +39.34%

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 28,956 26,703 34,238
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 92.91% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,454 16,603 23,422
10th Percentile £295 £300 £283
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -0.47% -4.09%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,777 840 1,400
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.75 £15.16
25th Percentile £18.22 £21.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.50 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -25.92% -22.62% +41.17%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.20 £74.47 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.20 £33.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.64% -26.67% +45.77%

Kafka Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Kafka Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Kafka Developer job vacancy trend 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 25 December 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 25 December 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 +22 35 £975 +21.88% 2
South East - 4 £375 - 9
Kafka Developer
UK

Kafka Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 25 December 2025, Kafka Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Kafka Developer in the job title.

1 39 (100.00%) Kafka
2 33 (84.62%) Java
3 25 (64.10%) AWS
4 21 (53.85%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (53.85%) SQL
4 21 (53.85%) TDD
5 19 (48.72%) Analytics
6 18 (46.15%) Risk Management
7 8 (20.51%) Spring
8 7 (17.95%) Linux
9 6 (15.38%) Spring Boot
10 5 (12.82%) CI/CD
10 5 (12.82%) Fintech
10 5 (12.82%) Microservices
10 5 (12.82%) Software Engineering
11 4 (10.26%) C++
11 4 (10.26%) Data Pipeline
11 4 (10.26%) Full-Stack Development
11 4 (10.26%) GitHub
11 4 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (10.26%) Kubernetes
11 4 (10.26%) Migration
11 4 (10.26%) OpenShift
11 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared
11 4 (10.26%) SDLC
11 4 (10.26%) Security Cleared
11 4 (10.26%) VMware
12 3 (7.69%) Ansible
12 3 (7.69%) C#
12 3 (7.69%) Clean Code

Kafka Developer Skill Set
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 3 (7.69%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 25 (64.10%) AWS
2 4 (10.26%) GitHub
2 4 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (10.26%) OpenShift
3 2 (5.13%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (53.85%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Cucumber
1 3 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 3 (7.69%) JMeter
1 3 (7.69%) JUnit
1 3 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.56%) GitLab
2 1 (2.56%) Maven
General
1 27 (69.23%) Finance
2 21 (53.85%) Banking
3 18 (46.15%) Investment Banking
4 7 (17.95%) Social Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (100.00%) Kafka
2 8 (20.51%) Spring
3 6 (15.38%) Spring Boot
4 3 (7.69%) Hibernate
5 2 (5.13%) .NET
6 1 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.56%) J2EE
6 1 (2.56%) OLE
6 1 (2.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 18 (46.15%) Derivative
1 18 (46.15%) Management Information System
1 18 (46.15%) Market Risk
2 4 (10.26%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.95%) Linux
2 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (53.85%) TDD
2 19 (48.72%) Analytics
3 18 (46.15%) Risk Management
4 5 (12.82%) CI/CD
4 5 (12.82%) Fintech
4 5 (12.82%) Microservices
4 5 (12.82%) Software Engineering
5 4 (10.26%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (10.26%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (10.26%) Migration
5 4 (10.26%) SDLC
6 3 (7.69%) Clean Code
6 3 (7.69%) Collaborative Culture
6 3 (7.69%) DevOps
6 3 (7.69%) Event-Driven
6 3 (7.69%) Low Latency
6 3 (7.69%) Mentoring
6 3 (7.69%) Observability
6 3 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (7.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 33 (84.62%) Java
2 21 (53.85%) SQL
3 4 (10.26%) C++
4 3 (7.69%) C#
5 2 (5.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared
1 4 (10.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) Def Stans
Systems Management
1 4 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.69%) Ansible
2 3 (7.69%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.56%) Grafana
3 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (10.26%) VMware
2 2 (5.13%) IBM
2 2 (5.13%) Salesforce