Kafka Contracts in Essex

Apache Kafka
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 17 31 27
Rank change year-on-year +14 -4 +27
Contract jobs citing Kafka 3 1 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 3.75% 0.45% 3.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 21.43% 1.96% 15.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £363 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 £375 £527
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% -28.77% +10.84%
75th Percentile £318 £388 £531
90th Percentile £320 - £570
East of England median daily rate £318 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -46.97% +14.29% +16.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 14 51 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 17.50% 22.97% 24.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 35 31
10th Percentile £315 £325 £464
25th Percentile £318 £444 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% -2.72% -6.55%
75th Percentile £400 £563 £583
90th Percentile £438 £599 £650
East of England median daily rate £500 £499 £520
% change year-on-year +0.25% -4.09% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £31.05
25th Percentile - - £43.88
Median hourly rate - £40.31 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - -38.46% -7.00%
75th Percentile - - £86.91
90th Percentile - - £99.60
East of England median hourly rate £80.68 £43.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +87.62% -33.85% +32.65%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Essex

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Essex

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Kafka in Essex

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Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Essex 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
Basildon - 3 £315 - 12
Kafka
East of England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 3 (100.00%) Apache
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) dbt
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (100.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 3 (100.00%) Looker
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
1 3 (100.00%) Tableau
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) GCP Data Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DBA
2 1 (33.33%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (100.00%) NumPy
1 3 (100.00%) Pandas
1 3 (100.00%) PySpark
1 3 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 3 (100.00%) Data Management
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
1 3 (100.00%) Data Security
1 3 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 3 (100.00%) DataOps
1 3 (100.00%) Open Source
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 3 (100.00%) Workflow
1 3 (100.00%) Workflow Management
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) GDPR
2 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Checkmarx
2 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace