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 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 146 125
Rank change year-on-year +35 -21 -17
Contract jobs citing Kafka 602 598 952
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.48% 1.62% 2.01%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.02% 7.81% 8.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 438 709
10th Percentile £400 £400 £463
25th Percentile £463 £463 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -15.38% -
75th Percentile £738 £675 £775
90th Percentile £838 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £650
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +3.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 11
10th Percentile £47.14 £22.44 -
25th Percentile £58.98 £25.94 £75.00
Median hourly rate £78.70 £28.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +181.07% -64.10% +12.23%
75th Percentile £86.23 £36.31 £90.00
90th Percentile £90.74 £48.80 -
UK median hourly rate £78.70 £28.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +181.07% -64.10% +12.23%

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 5,464 7,660 10,754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.53% 20.80% 22.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,411 7,992
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £419 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £661 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £521 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -3.07% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 242 130
10th Percentile £31.28 £22.53 £29.58
25th Percentile £43.70 £43.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £66.94 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £74.95 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +23.81%

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 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in England

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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 June 2025.

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 1 June 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 +21 394 £650 +11.83% 689
North of England +35 96 £500 -0.70% 828
North West +33 57 £500 -2.68% 393
Yorkshire +13 31 £550 +14.58% 337
Midlands +31 30 £431 +8.43% 726
South East +23 30 £464 -2.32% 1,048
West Midlands +21 15 £500 +37.93% 395
East Midlands +18 14 £356 -10.44% 280
South West +40 11 £550 -5.98% 436
East of England +35 9 £411 -31.55% 548
North East - 8 £463 - 98
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 87 (14.45%) Apache Spark
2 63 (10.47%) Apache
3 48 (7.97%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (4.49%) Confluence
5 9 (1.50%) Camunda
6 4 (0.66%) Alfresco
6 4 (0.66%) Oracle Coherence
7 3 (0.50%) JBoss
7 3 (0.50%) Mule
7 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.50%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.33%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.33%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.33%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.33%) nginx
8 2 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.33%) Traefik
9 1 (0.17%) Luigi
9 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (0.50%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.17%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (1.00%) SAP PM
2 5 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.50%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.33%) Magento
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle Retail
4 2 (0.33%) SAP CX
4 2 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.33%) Shopify
4 2 (0.33%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.17%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.17%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.17%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 300 (49.83%) AWS
2 133 (22.09%) Azure
3 88 (14.62%) Serverless
4 72 (11.96%) AWS Lambda
5 70 (11.63%) GCP
6 55 (9.14%) Amazon S3
7 47 (7.81%) GitHub
8 44 (7.31%) OpenShift
9 37 (6.15%) dbt
10 33 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
11 30 (4.98%) Amazon ECS
12 29 (4.82%) GitHub Actions
13 25 (4.15%) Snowflake
14 21 (3.49%) Amazon Kinesis
14 21 (3.49%) Azure AKS
15 19 (3.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 17 (2.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 16 (2.66%) Amazon EMR
18 15 (2.49%) Power Platform
19 14 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.33%) DNS
2 6 (1.00%) SSL
3 5 (0.83%) HTTP
4 4 (0.66%) NAS
4 4 (0.66%) SAN
5 3 (0.50%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (0.50%) Firewall
5 3 (0.50%) SMS
5 3 (0.50%) SSH
6 2 (0.33%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.17%) Internet
7 1 (0.17%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (22.92%) PostgreSQL
2 103 (17.11%) MongoDB
3 81 (13.46%) NoSQL
4 77 (12.79%) Relational Database
5 52 (8.64%) Apache Cassandra
6 43 (7.14%) Big Data
7 40 (6.64%) Data Warehouse
8 35 (5.81%) Redis
9 32 (5.32%) Amazon Athena
10 31 (5.15%) MySQL
11 29 (4.82%) Flink
12 27 (4.49%) Hadoop
13 26 (4.32%) Apache Iceberg
13 26 (4.32%) BigQuery
14 24 (3.99%) Amazon Redshift
14 24 (3.99%) Dremio
15 23 (3.82%) Apache Ignite
15 23 (3.82%) SQL Server
16 22 (3.65%) Apache Arrow
17 21 (3.49%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 103 (17.11%) Jenkins
2 66 (10.96%) JUnit
3 46 (7.64%) Git
4 45 (7.48%) JIRA
5 42 (6.98%) Gradle
6 36 (5.98%) Artifactory
6 36 (5.98%) Mockito
7 35 (5.81%) GitLab
8 33 (5.48%) Liquibase
9 21 (3.49%) Maven
10 12 (1.99%) Selenium
10 12 (1.99%) SonarQube
10 12 (1.99%) Subversion
11 11 (1.83%) Bitbucket
11 11 (1.83%) Postman
12 10 (1.66%) IntelliJ
13 9 (1.50%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.33%) REST Assured
14 8 (1.33%) SoapUI
15 7 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 162 (26.91%) Finance
2 134 (22.26%) Social Skills
3 101 (16.78%) Banking
4 82 (13.62%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (13.62%) Public Sector
5 48 (7.97%) Investment Banking
6 45 (7.48%) Front Office
7 24 (3.99%) Telecoms
8 23 (3.82%) Marketing
9 22 (3.65%) Manufacturing
10 21 (3.49%) Electronics
11 19 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
12 17 (2.82%) Retail
13 7 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.00%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.66%) Back Office
15 4 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.66%) Police
16 3 (0.50%) Legal
17 2 (0.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 210 (34.88%) Developer
2 109 (18.11%) Java Developer
3 106 (17.61%) Senior
4 94 (15.61%) Architect
5 91 (15.12%) Data Engineer
6 59 (9.80%) Lead
7 57 (9.47%) Senior Developer
8 44 (7.31%) DevOps Engineer
9 41 (6.81%) Senior Java Developer
10 38 (6.31%) AWS Engineer
11 36 (5.98%) Python Engineer
12 34 (5.65%) Data Architect
13 33 (5.48%) Solutions Architect
14 28 (4.65%) AWS DevOps
14 28 (4.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 27 (4.49%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 27 (4.49%) Software Engineer
16 25 (4.15%) C# Developer
16 25 (4.15%) Lead Developer
17 22 (3.65%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (18.94%) Spring
2 94 (15.61%) Spring Boot
3 78 (12.96%) React
4 53 (8.80%) REST
5 50 (8.31%) gRPC
6 41 (6.81%) Swagger
7 38 (6.31%) .NET
7 38 (6.31%) PySpark
8 35 (5.81%) AngularJS
8 35 (5.81%) J2EE
8 35 (5.81%) OpenAPI
8 35 (5.81%) RESTful
8 35 (5.81%) Web Services
9 34 (5.65%) RabbitMQ
10 27 (4.49%) OAuth
11 26 (4.32%) HTML
12 24 (3.99%) ActiveMQ
12 24 (3.99%) ASP.NET
13 22 (3.65%) Node.js
13 22 (3.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 66 (10.96%) Distributed Systems
2 32 (5.32%) Cloud Native
3 31 (5.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 25 (4.15%) Data Structures
5 20 (3.32%) Management Information System
6 19 (3.16%) Equities
7 15 (2.49%) Legacy Applications
8 13 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (2.16%) Public Cloud
9 12 (1.99%) Derivative
9 12 (1.99%) Product Ownership
10 10 (1.66%) PKI
11 9 (1.50%) Market Risk
12 8 (1.33%) Data Centre
12 8 (1.33%) Onboarding
13 7 (1.16%) IoT
14 6 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (1.00%) SCADA
15 5 (0.83%) Mainframe
15 5 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 60 (9.97%) Linux
2 27 (4.49%) Windows
3 19 (3.16%) Unix
4 7 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.66%) AIX
6 2 (0.33%) CentOS
6 2 (0.33%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.17%) Android
7 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.17%) Debian
7 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (39.04%) Agile
2 219 (36.38%) DevOps
3 203 (33.72%) CI/CD
4 202 (33.55%) Microservices
5 145 (24.09%) Software Engineering
6 109 (18.11%) Problem-Solving
7 102 (16.94%) Containerisation
8 96 (15.95%) Open Source
9 95 (15.78%) Analytics
10 89 (14.78%) TDD
11 83 (13.79%) Event-Driven
12 82 (13.62%) Data Pipeline
13 76 (12.62%) Data Engineering
14 66 (10.96%) Migration
15 62 (10.30%) ETL
16 57 (9.47%) Test Automation
17 54 (8.97%) Data Modelling
18 52 (8.64%) Mentoring
19 51 (8.47%) Scrum
20 50 (8.31%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 265 (44.02%) Java
2 198 (32.89%) Python
3 193 (32.06%) SQL
4 79 (13.12%) Go
5 53 (8.80%) JavaScript
6 52 (8.64%) TypeScript
7 49 (8.14%) C#
8 31 (5.15%) C++
8 31 (5.15%) Shell Script
9 28 (4.65%) Scala
10 21 (3.49%) Bash
11 15 (2.49%) Perl
12 7 (1.16%) Groovy
12 7 (1.16%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.83%) Bicep
14 5 (0.83%) PHP
14 5 (0.83%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.66%) Korn
15 4 (0.66%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 154 (25.58%) Security Cleared
2 142 (23.59%) SC Cleared
3 43 (7.14%) Degree
4 16 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.16%) AWS Certification
6 12 (1.99%) Numerate Degree
7 11 (1.83%) AWS Certified Developer
7 11 (1.83%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.83%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.33%) CISSP
11 1 (0.17%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.17%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.17%) IBM Certification
11 1 (0.17%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.15%) Data Quality
2 17 (2.82%) GDPR
3 15 (2.49%) QA
4 8 (1.33%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.33%) Def Stans
5 7 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (1.00%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.83%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.66%) NCSC
9 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.50%) SEPA
9 3 (0.50%) WCAG
10 2 (0.33%) EMIR
10 2 (0.33%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.33%) ISO 15022
10 2 (0.33%) MiFID
11 1 (0.17%) HL7
11 1 (0.17%) Section 508
System Software
1 196 (32.56%) Docker
2 9 (1.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 8 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.33%) HDFS
5 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 224 (37.21%) Kubernetes
2 115 (19.10%) Terraform
3 31 (5.15%) Grafana
4 30 (4.98%) Prometheus
5 25 (4.15%) Ansible
6 10 (1.66%) Puppet
7 9 (1.50%) Istio
8 7 (1.16%) Control-M
8 7 (1.16%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.00%) Kibana
10 5 (0.83%) logstash
11 3 (0.50%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.50%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.50%) Packer
11 3 (0.50%) QRadar
11 3 (0.50%) Rancher
11 3 (0.50%) Rundeck
11 3 (0.50%) Trend Micro Deep Security
12 2 (0.33%) CloudHub
12 2 (0.33%) Consul
Vendors
1 69 (11.46%) Oracle
2 31 (5.15%) SAP
3 30 (4.98%) Splunk
4 25 (4.15%) Databricks
5 24 (3.99%) Google
6 21 (3.49%) Microsoft
7 14 (2.33%) Sybase
8 13 (2.16%) IBM
8 13 (2.16%) MuleSoft
9 12 (1.99%) CA Agile Central
9 12 (1.99%) Confluent
10 11 (1.83%) Dynatrace
10 11 (1.83%) VMware
11 10 (1.66%) Cloudera
12 9 (1.50%) TIBCO
13 7 (1.16%) Informatica
13 7 (1.16%) Red Hat
14 6 (1.00%) Palantir
14 6 (1.00%) Salesforce
15 4 (0.66%) AppDynamics