Kafka Contracts in England

Apache Kafka
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Kafka skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Kafka over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 162 127 106
Rank change year-on-year -35 -21 +10
Contract jobs citing Kafka 551 1,010 1,821
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.51% 2.05% 2.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.38% 8.92% 9.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 753 1,288
10th Percentile £400 £463 £475
25th Percentile £463 £525 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £738
90th Percentile £750 £810 £813
UK median daily rate £538 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -17.31% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 4
10th Percentile £22.24 £72.90 £54.23
25th Percentile £23.81 £75.00 £56.81
Median hourly rate £31.50 £78.00 £69.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.62% +12.23% +23.01%
75th Percentile £38.94 £90.00 £78.75
90th Percentile £54.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £78.00 £69.50
% change year-on-year -59.62% +12.23% +23.01%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Kafka is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,463 11,324 19,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.42% 23.02% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,295 8,397 14,309
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £565
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -0.88% +13.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 139 213
10th Percentile £22.12 £29.15 £23.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.03 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.02 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

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 13 May 2024.

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 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Kafka in England

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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 13 May 2024. 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 -35 386 £550 -15.38% 168
North of England +13 60 £492 -14.39% 19
South East +29 48 £475 -14.41% 27
North West +23 38 £521 +5.30% 9
Yorkshire +15 22 £450 -30.77% 9
Midlands +28 8 £398 -24.29% 13
South West -1 8 £533 -11.17% 9
West Midlands +15 5 £400 -23.81% 7
East of England -3 3 £600 +13.21% 6
East Midlands - 3 £398 - 6
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 69 (12.52%) Apache
2 66 (11.98%) Apache Spark
3 20 (3.63%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (2.72%) Confluence
5 11 (2.00%) nginx
6 5 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.91%) Tornado
7 4 (0.73%) Mule
7 4 (0.73%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.54%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.54%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.54%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.36%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.36%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.36%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.18%) CMS
10 1 (0.18%) JBoss
Applications
1 7 (1.27%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (1.63%) Endur
2 5 (0.91%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.36%) Shopify
4 1 (0.18%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.18%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 281 (51.00%) AWS
2 125 (22.69%) Azure
3 75 (13.61%) Serverless
4 71 (12.89%) GCP
5 43 (7.80%) Amazon Kinesis
6 40 (7.26%) AWS Lambda
7 35 (6.35%) GitHub
8 30 (5.44%) Amazon S3
9 25 (4.54%) OpenShift
10 24 (4.36%) Amazon EMR
11 21 (3.81%) Azure AKS
12 19 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
13 17 (3.09%) Amazon MSK
14 14 (2.54%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (2.54%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (2.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (2.36%) Amazon EKS
16 12 (2.18%) Amazon SQS
17 10 (1.81%) AWS Step Functions
17 10 (1.81%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 44 (7.99%) HTTP
2 10 (1.81%) SSL
3 7 (1.27%) DNS
4 5 (0.91%) Firewall
5 4 (0.73%) VPN
6 3 (0.54%) IPv4
7 2 (0.36%) AMQP
7 2 (0.36%) DHCP
7 2 (0.36%) Internet
7 2 (0.36%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.18%) FTP
8 1 (0.18%) MQTT
8 1 (0.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (15.97%) Apache Cassandra
2 80 (14.52%) MongoDB
3 61 (11.07%) NoSQL
3 61 (11.07%) PostgreSQL
4 42 (7.62%) Flink
4 42 (7.62%) SQL Server
5 36 (6.53%) Big Data
6 33 (5.99%) Relational Database
7 28 (5.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 28 (5.08%) Hadoop
8 25 (4.54%) Elasticsearch
9 24 (4.36%) Data Warehouse
10 19 (3.45%) DynamoDB
11 17 (3.09%) Couchbase
12 15 (2.72%) Data Lake
13 14 (2.54%) Apache Hive
14 13 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
14 13 (2.36%) MySQL
14 13 (2.36%) RDBMS
15 12 (2.18%) HBase
Development Applications
1 57 (10.34%) Jenkins
2 48 (8.71%) Git
3 31 (5.63%) JIRA
4 22 (3.99%) Mockito
5 21 (3.81%) GitLab
6 19 (3.45%) Cypress.io
7 16 (2.90%) JMeter
8 14 (2.54%) Maven
8 14 (2.54%) Selenium
9 11 (2.00%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.63%) TeamCity
11 8 (1.45%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.45%) JUnit
11 8 (1.45%) Subversion
12 7 (1.27%) Liquibase
12 7 (1.27%) SonarQube
13 6 (1.09%) Mocha
14 5 (0.91%) Pylint
14 5 (0.91%) Travis CI
15 4 (0.73%) webpack
General
1 91 (16.52%) Finance
2 90 (16.33%) Social Skills
3 48 (8.71%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (8.35%) Banking
5 38 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 9 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (1.63%) Telecoms
7 8 (1.45%) Investment Banking
8 7 (1.27%) Retail
9 5 (0.91%) Marketing
10 4 (0.73%) Automotive
10 4 (0.73%) Front Office
10 4 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.73%) Retail Banking
11 3 (0.54%) Back Office
11 3 (0.54%) Games
11 3 (0.54%) Legal
11 3 (0.54%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.36%) German Language
12 2 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 199 (36.12%) Developer
2 96 (17.42%) Senior
3 87 (15.79%) Java Developer
4 80 (14.52%) Software Engineer
5 75 (13.61%) Data Engineer
6 43 (7.80%) Architect
7 41 (7.44%) Scala Developer
8 38 (6.90%) Senior Software Engineer
9 35 (6.35%) Lead
10 32 (5.81%) DevOps Engineer
11 30 (5.44%) Senior Developer
12 27 (4.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 25 (4.54%) Site Engineer
14 24 (4.36%) AWS Engineer
14 24 (4.36%) Python Engineer
15 20 (3.63%) Data Architect
15 20 (3.63%) Full Stack Developer
16 19 (3.45%) Senior Java Developer
17 16 (2.90%) Azure Engineer
18 15 (2.72%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (11.43%) RESTful
2 56 (10.16%) Spring
3 54 (9.80%) Spring Boot
4 48 (8.71%) React
5 45 (8.17%) REST
6 40 (7.26%) RabbitMQ
7 39 (7.08%) Akka
8 37 (6.72%) .NET
9 31 (5.63%) ActiveMQ
9 31 (5.63%) Web Services
10 28 (5.08%) Node.js
11 27 (4.90%) JSON
12 24 (4.36%) AngularJS
13 23 (4.17%) .NET Core
13 23 (4.17%) HTML
14 21 (3.81%) JAX-RS
15 19 (3.45%) GraphQL
16 15 (2.72%) CSS
16 15 (2.72%) Elastic Stack
16 15 (2.72%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.08%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (4.72%) Cloud Native
3 22 (3.99%) Algorithms
4 17 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (2.90%) Data Structures
6 13 (2.36%) Hedge funds
7 12 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (2.00%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.81%) Product Ownership
10 8 (1.45%) Derivative
10 8 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.27%) Machine to Machine
12 6 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (0.91%) DataPower
13 5 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.91%) Market Risk
13 5 (0.91%) Onboarding
13 5 (0.91%) Solar Panel
14 4 (0.73%) Cyber Threat
14 4 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 99 (17.97%) Linux
2 43 (7.80%) Unix
3 21 (3.81%) Mac OS X
4 14 (2.54%) Windows
5 5 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.73%) zOS
7 2 (0.36%) VMS
7 2 (0.36%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.18%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (42.47%) Agile
2 178 (32.30%) DevOps
3 165 (29.95%) Microservices
4 135 (24.50%) CI/CD
5 131 (23.77%) Software Engineering
6 99 (17.97%) TDD
7 74 (13.43%) Test Automation
8 62 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
9 60 (10.89%) Data Pipeline
10 55 (9.98%) Containerisation
11 51 (9.26%) User Experience
12 50 (9.07%) Pair Programming
13 47 (8.53%) Data Engineering
13 47 (8.53%) Fintech
14 45 (8.17%) User Research
14 45 (8.17%) UX Design
15 44 (7.99%) UX Research
16 43 (7.80%) Scrum
17 42 (7.62%) BDD
17 42 (7.62%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 211 (38.29%) Java
2 167 (30.31%) Python
3 126 (22.87%) SQL
4 86 (15.61%) Scala
5 77 (13.97%) Go
6 57 (10.34%) JavaScript
7 46 (8.35%) C#
8 26 (4.72%) Shell Script
9 22 (3.99%) C++
10 17 (3.09%) Groovy
10 17 (3.09%) TypeScript
11 15 (2.72%) PHP
12 13 (2.36%) Bash
12 13 (2.36%) Perl
13 9 (1.63%) Ruby
14 6 (1.09%) SPARQL
15 5 (0.91%) C
15 5 (0.91%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.91%) Rust
16 4 (0.73%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 117 (21.23%) Security Cleared
2 107 (19.42%) SC Cleared
3 37 (6.72%) Degree
4 20 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (0.91%) DV Cleared
5 5 (0.91%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.73%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.00%) Data Quality
2 5 (0.91%) QA
3 4 (0.73%) GDPR
3 4 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (0.36%) MiFID
4 2 (0.36%) NIST
5 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.18%) GRC
5 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 157 (28.49%) Docker
2 16 (2.90%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 10 (1.81%) HDFS
4 5 (0.91%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 245 (44.46%) Kubernetes
2 69 (12.52%) Terraform
3 48 (8.71%) Grafana
4 44 (7.99%) Prometheus
5 30 (5.44%) Ansible
6 19 (3.45%) Argo
7 15 (2.72%) Consul
8 13 (2.36%) Istio
9 12 (2.18%) Kibana
10 9 (1.63%) Packer
11 6 (1.09%) Hadoop YARN
11 6 (1.09%) Puppet
12 4 (0.73%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.54%) Kustomize
13 3 (0.54%) Oozie
14 2 (0.36%) Ambari
15 1 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
15 1 (0.18%) Nagios
15 1 (0.18%) Salt
Vendors
1 51 (9.26%) Oracle
2 39 (7.08%) Microsoft
3 26 (4.72%) Databricks
4 20 (3.63%) Typelevel
5 19 (3.45%) IBM
6 15 (2.72%) SAP
6 15 (2.72%) Splunk
7 14 (2.54%) Confluent
8 12 (2.18%) Google
8 12 (2.18%) SaltStack
9 6 (1.09%) Informatica
9 6 (1.09%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.09%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.09%) Solace
10 5 (0.91%) TSYS
11 4 (0.73%) Adobe
11 4 (0.73%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.73%) F5
11 4 (0.73%) OpenLink
11 4 (0.73%) Salesforce