Kafka Contracts in England

Apache Kafka
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Kafka skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kafka over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 164 131
Rank change year-on-year +60 -33 -26
Contract jobs citing Kafka 614 538 1,035
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.52% 1.45% 2.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.26% 7.16% 8.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 395 767
10th Percentile £400 £393 £463
25th Percentile £469 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% -15.38% -
75th Percentile £750 £675 £750
90th Percentile £838 £750 £810
UK median daily rate £565 £536 £650
% change year-on-year +5.36% -17.50% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 8
10th Percentile £51.09 £22.24 £71.85
25th Percentile £68.84 £23.81 £75.00
Median hourly rate £85.60 £31.50 £76.50
Median % change year-on-year +171.75% -58.82% -1.29%
75th Percentile £93.75 £38.94 £81.00
90th Percentile - £54.50 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £85.60 £31.50 £76.50
% change year-on-year +171.75% -58.82% -1.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Kafka falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in England

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kafka in England.

Daily rate trend for Kafka in England

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in England

Kafka
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kafka in England.

Hourly rate trend for Kafka in England

Kafka
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kafka in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Kafka in England

Kafka
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +29 417 £650 +18.18% 341
North of England +58 104 £525 +7.14% 106
North West +41 64 £500 -4.08% 62
Yorkshire +16 29 £675 +50.00% 31
South East +27 26 £509 +7.11% 168
Midlands +31 17 £399 +0.38% 89
East Midlands +19 12 £358 -9.94% 32
North East - 11 £465 - 13
South West +51 9 £513 -6.82% 50
East of England +35 9 £318 -46.97% 49
West Midlands +14 5 £550 +37.50% 50
Kafka
UK

Kafka
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 95 (15.47%) Apache Spark
2 73 (11.89%) Apache
3 50 (8.14%) Apache Airflow
4 24 (3.91%) Confluence
5 12 (1.95%) nginx
5 12 (1.95%) Traefik
6 8 (1.30%) Camunda
7 4 (0.65%) Oracle Coherence
8 3 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.49%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.33%) Alfresco
9 2 (0.33%) JBoss
9 2 (0.33%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.33%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.16%) CICS
10 1 (0.16%) Luigi
10 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.65%) Endur
2 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.33%) Magento
2 2 (0.33%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (0.33%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.33%) SAP CX
2 2 (0.33%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.33%) Shopify
3 1 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.16%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.16%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.16%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.16%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 320 (52.12%) AWS
2 120 (19.54%) Azure
3 86 (14.01%) Serverless
4 70 (11.40%) AWS Lambda
5 54 (8.79%) GCP
6 51 (8.31%) OpenShift
7 49 (7.98%) Amazon S3
8 48 (7.82%) Amazon ECS
9 47 (7.65%) GitHub
10 46 (7.49%) dbt
11 31 (5.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 29 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
13 28 (4.56%) Entra ID
14 27 (4.40%) GitHub Actions
14 27 (4.40%) Snowflake
15 25 (4.07%) AWS CloudFormation
16 22 (3.58%) Azure AKS
17 20 (3.26%) Amazon Kinesis
18 18 (2.93%) AWS Fargate
19 17 (2.77%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.42%) DNS
2 14 (2.28%) TCP/IP
3 6 (0.98%) SSL
4 5 (0.81%) HTTP
5 4 (0.65%) NAS
5 4 (0.65%) SAN
6 3 (0.49%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (0.49%) SSH
7 2 (0.33%) Firewall
7 2 (0.33%) SMS
8 1 (0.16%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (21.50%) PostgreSQL
2 117 (19.06%) MongoDB
3 80 (13.03%) NoSQL
4 72 (11.73%) Relational Database
5 50 (8.14%) Apache Cassandra
6 43 (7.00%) Big Data
7 42 (6.84%) Data Warehouse
8 38 (6.19%) Amazon Athena
9 35 (5.70%) Redis
10 34 (5.54%) Apache Iceberg
11 32 (5.21%) MySQL
12 30 (4.89%) Dremio
13 29 (4.72%) Apache Ignite
14 28 (4.56%) Apache Arrow
14 28 (4.56%) Data Lake
14 28 (4.56%) Flink
14 28 (4.56%) SQL Server
15 27 (4.40%) Hadoop
16 23 (3.75%) Amazon Redshift
17 22 (3.58%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 106 (17.26%) Jenkins
2 56 (9.12%) JUnit
3 54 (8.79%) GitLab
4 46 (7.49%) Git
5 41 (6.68%) Gradle
6 37 (6.03%) Artifactory
7 35 (5.70%) JIRA
8 34 (5.54%) Mockito
9 29 (4.72%) Liquibase
10 25 (4.07%) Maven
11 12 (1.95%) Selenium
11 12 (1.95%) SonarQube
12 10 (1.63%) Postman
13 9 (1.47%) IntelliJ
13 9 (1.47%) Subversion
14 8 (1.30%) Bitbucket
14 8 (1.30%) Cucumber
15 7 (1.14%) JMeter
15 7 (1.14%) REST Assured
15 7 (1.14%) TeamCity
General
1 174 (28.34%) Finance
2 126 (20.52%) Social Skills
3 89 (14.50%) Banking
3 89 (14.50%) Public Sector
4 79 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (8.47%) Front Office
6 41 (6.68%) Investment Banking
7 23 (3.75%) Marketing
8 22 (3.58%) Telecoms
9 21 (3.42%) Electronics
9 21 (3.42%) Manufacturing
10 18 (2.93%) Retail
11 15 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.63%) Back Office
13 6 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.81%) Military
15 4 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.49%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 3 (0.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 205 (33.39%) Developer
2 116 (18.89%) Senior
3 97 (15.80%) Data Engineer
4 96 (15.64%) Java Developer
5 79 (12.87%) Architect
6 60 (9.77%) DevOps Engineer
7 59 (9.61%) Lead
8 51 (8.31%) Python Engineer
9 50 (8.14%) Senior Developer
10 49 (7.98%) AWS Engineer
11 35 (5.70%) AWS DevOps
11 35 (5.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 34 (5.54%) C# Developer
12 34 (5.54%) Senior Java Developer
13 32 (5.21%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 32 (5.21%) Software Engineer
14 26 (4.23%) Data Architect
15 24 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
16 23 (3.75%) C++ Developer
17 22 (3.58%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (17.92%) Spring
2 103 (16.78%) Spring Boot
3 81 (13.19%) React
4 50 (8.14%) .NET
5 48 (7.82%) PySpark
6 43 (7.00%) gRPC
7 42 (6.84%) RESTful
8 40 (6.51%) REST
9 39 (6.35%) J2EE
10 38 (6.19%) Swagger
11 35 (5.70%) Web Services
12 34 (5.54%) OpenAPI
13 33 (5.37%) AngularJS
14 32 (5.21%) RabbitMQ
15 31 (5.05%) ASP.NET
16 28 (4.56%) .NET Core
17 26 (4.23%) HTML
17 26 (4.23%) OAuth
18 23 (3.75%) ActiveMQ
18 23 (3.75%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 64 (10.42%) Distributed Systems
2 37 (6.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 27 (4.40%) Cloud Native
4 20 (3.26%) Data Structures
4 20 (3.26%) PKI
5 18 (2.93%) Legacy Applications
5 18 (2.93%) Management Information System
6 16 (2.61%) Equities
7 14 (2.28%) Public Cloud
8 11 (1.79%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.63%) Derivative
9 10 (1.63%) Replication
10 9 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.30%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.30%) Market Risk
12 6 (0.98%) Algorithms
13 5 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (0.81%) Mainframe
14 4 (0.65%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 67 (10.91%) Linux
2 29 (4.72%) Unix
3 27 (4.40%) Windows
4 21 (3.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (2.61%) CentOS
6 3 (0.49%) AIX
7 2 (0.33%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.16%) Debian
8 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (39.25%) DevOps
2 233 (37.95%) Agile
3 222 (36.16%) CI/CD
4 199 (32.41%) Microservices
5 147 (23.94%) Software Engineering
6 106 (17.26%) Containerisation
7 100 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
8 96 (15.64%) Analytics
9 90 (14.66%) Open Source
10 82 (13.36%) Event-Driven
11 81 (13.19%) Data Engineering
12 80 (13.03%) Data Pipeline
13 72 (11.73%) TDD
14 63 (10.26%) Test Automation
15 59 (9.61%) ETL
16 54 (8.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 52 (8.47%) Infrastructure as Code
17 52 (8.47%) Migration
18 51 (8.31%) Continuous Integration
18 51 (8.31%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 261 (42.51%) Java
2 206 (33.55%) Python
3 194 (31.60%) SQL
4 92 (14.98%) Go
5 62 (10.10%) C#
6 59 (9.61%) JavaScript
7 51 (8.31%) TypeScript
8 35 (5.70%) C++
9 30 (4.89%) Bash
10 24 (3.91%) Scala
11 22 (3.58%) Shell Script
12 11 (1.79%) PL/SQL
13 9 (1.47%) Perl
14 8 (1.30%) Groovy
15 6 (0.98%) PHP
16 5 (0.81%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.81%) PowerShell
17 4 (0.65%) Clojure
17 4 (0.65%) Rust
18 3 (0.49%) Korn
Qualifications
1 162 (26.38%) Security Cleared
2 152 (24.76%) SC Cleared
3 35 (5.70%) Degree
4 24 (3.91%) AWS Certification
5 16 (2.61%) AWS Certified Developer
6 11 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.63%) Numerate Degree
8 9 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (1.47%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.49%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.33%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.33%) CISSP
11 1 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.16%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.16%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.72%) Data Quality
2 16 (2.61%) NCSC
2 16 (2.61%) QA
3 12 (1.95%) GDPR
4 8 (1.30%) Def Stans
4 8 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (0.98%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.81%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.65%) EMIR
7 4 (0.65%) MiFID
8 2 (0.33%) SEPA
8 2 (0.33%) WCAG
9 1 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.16%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 208 (33.88%) Docker
2 11 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.33%) HDFS
5 1 (0.16%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 256 (41.69%) Kubernetes
2 145 (23.62%) Terraform
3 51 (8.31%) Prometheus
4 47 (7.65%) Grafana
5 28 (4.56%) Istio
6 22 (3.58%) Ansible
7 17 (2.77%) Packer
8 16 (2.61%) Rancher
9 14 (2.28%) Consul
9 14 (2.28%) Jamf Pro
9 14 (2.28%) linkerd
9 14 (2.28%) ZABBIX
10 13 (2.12%) HAProxy
11 11 (1.79%) Progress Chef
12 9 (1.47%) Puppet
13 8 (1.30%) logstash
14 7 (1.14%) Kibana
15 6 (0.98%) Argo
16 5 (0.81%) Control-M
17 3 (0.49%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 72 (11.73%) Oracle
2 38 (6.19%) Splunk
3 27 (4.40%) SAP
4 22 (3.58%) Databricks
5 19 (3.09%) Google
6 17 (2.77%) Confluent
7 15 (2.44%) Microsoft
8 14 (2.28%) Okta
8 14 (2.28%) VMware
9 12 (1.95%) Apple
9 12 (1.95%) ESET
10 11 (1.79%) Sybase
11 10 (1.63%) IBM
12 9 (1.47%) MuleSoft
13 8 (1.30%) CA Agile Central
13 8 (1.30%) Red Hat
13 8 (1.30%) TIBCO
14 7 (1.14%) Cloudera
14 7 (1.14%) Dynatrace
15 5 (0.81%) AppDynamics