Kafka Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Kafka Engineer
UK > England

The median Kafka Engineer daily rate in England is £663, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 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
9 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 505 596
Rank change year-on-year -1 +91 +133
Contract jobs requiring a Kafka Engineer 16 28 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.058% 0.086% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.092% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 10
10th Percentile £428 £424 £613
25th Percentile £572 £538 £616
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £606 £694
Median % change year-on-year +9.28% -12.61% +1.28%
75th Percentile £738 £722 £810
90th Percentile - £774 -
UK median daily rate £625 £610 £650
% change year-on-year +2.46% -6.15% -5.11%

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 25,202 30,334 40,605
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 93.05% 94.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,241 19,130 28,481
10th Percentile £281 £305 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,343 1,529 1,333
10th Percentile £13.57 £14.55 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £21.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.05% +5.56% +73.08%
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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka Engineer in England

Kafka Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Kafka Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka Engineer in England over the 6 months to 9 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka Engineer in England

Kafka Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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 +14 15 £700 +21.74% 1
Yorkshire -18 1 £550 -18.52%
North of England -26 1 £550 -18.52%
Kafka Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 September 2025, Kafka Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Kafka
2 10 (62.50%) Finance
2 10 (62.50%) Software Engineering
3 9 (56.25%) Agile
4 8 (50.00%) C#
4 8 (50.00%) SQL
5 7 (43.75%) Unix
5 7 (43.75%) Linux
6 6 (37.50%) C++
6 6 (37.50%) Oracle
6 6 (37.50%) DevOps
7 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
7 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
7 5 (31.25%) Java
8 4 (25.00%) Microservices
8 4 (25.00%) Docker
9 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
9 3 (18.75%) Fintech
9 3 (18.75%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
9 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (18.75%) Event-Driven
9 3 (18.75%) Azure
9 3 (18.75%) AWS
10 2 (12.50%) QA
10 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
10 2 (12.50%) Cash Management
10 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
10 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
10 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared

Kafka Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.25%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
2 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Flink
1 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Gradle
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
1 1 (6.25%) JMeter
1 1 (6.25%) Selenium
General
1 10 (62.50%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (100.00%) Kafka
2 2 (12.50%) .NET
2 2 (12.50%) Apache Beam
2 2 (12.50%) Spark Streaming
2 2 (12.50%) Spring
2 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.25%) EDIFACT
3 1 (6.25%) Express.js
3 1 (6.25%) gRPC
3 1 (6.25%) JDBC
3 1 (6.25%) JSON
3 1 (6.25%) NestJS
3 1 (6.25%) Node.js
3 1 (6.25%) OAuth
3 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
3 1 (6.25%) OpenID
3 1 (6.25%) Redux
3 1 (6.25%) RESTful
3 1 (6.25%) WireMock
3 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Educational Technology
2 1 (6.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Linux
1 7 (43.75%) Unix
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Software Engineering
2 9 (56.25%) Agile
3 6 (37.50%) DevOps
4 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
5 4 (25.00%) Microservices
6 3 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (18.75%) Event-Driven
6 3 (18.75%) Fintech
6 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (12.50%) API Development
7 2 (12.50%) Cash Management
7 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 2 (12.50%) High Availability
7 2 (12.50%) Migration
7 2 (12.50%) OO
7 2 (12.50%) OOP
7 2 (12.50%) Scrum
7 2 (12.50%) SOLID
7 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
8 1 (6.25%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) C#
1 8 (50.00%) SQL
2 6 (37.50%) C++
3 5 (31.25%) Java
4 2 (12.50%) Python
4 2 (12.50%) T-SQL
5 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.25%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.25%) Confluent