Kafka Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Apache Kafka
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Farnborough requiring Kafka skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Kafka 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 4.20% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 22.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £382 - -
25th Percentile £410 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 - -
75th Percentile £469 - -
90th Percentile £473 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £433 £495 £575
% change year-on-year -12.67% -13.87% -12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £40.00 - £35.00

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Farnborough

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 Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 45 12 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 18.91% 13.95% 7.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 9 10
10th Percentile £313 £481 £457
25th Percentile £422 £500 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £551 £610
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% -9.67% +28.42%
75th Percentile £566 £700 £667
90th Percentile £609 £761 £720
Hampshire median daily rate £523 £516 £600
% change year-on-year +1.21% -13.96% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -24.00% - -3.85%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kafka relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough.

Kafka job vacancy trend in Farnborough

Kafka
Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Kafka.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Kafka

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in Farnborough

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Farnborough over the 6 months to 18 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Farnborough

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
1 10 (100.00%) GitHub
2 5 (50.00%) Datadog
3 3 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (30.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (70.00%) HBase
3 5 (50.00%) DynamoDB
3 5 (50.00%) MongoDB
3 5 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 10 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 10 (100.00%) JUnit
1 10 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 7 (70.00%) Artifactory
2 7 (70.00%) Gradle
3 3 (30.00%) JMeter
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Developer
1 10 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 6 (60.00%) AWS Developer
3 5 (50.00%) Senior
3 5 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 5 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (20.00%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) Spring
2 8 (80.00%) Spring Boot
3 5 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (20.00%) Hibernate
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 5 (50.00%) Microservices
2 5 (50.00%) Observability
2 5 (50.00%) SOA
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) Epics
3 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (30.00%) Performance Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Test Scripting
3 3 (30.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) OCP
1 7 (70.00%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (50.00%) Grafana
3 3 (30.00%) Ansible
3 3 (30.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft