Kafka Contract Job Trends in Fleet

Apache Kafka
Hampshire > Fleet

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Fleet requiring Kafka skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Kafka 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Fleet 5.13% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 33.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £351 - -
25th Percentile £352 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £354 - -
75th Percentile £356 - -
90th Percentile £357 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £433 £513 £625
% change year-on-year -15.61% -18.00% -4.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Fleet

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 Fleet.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Fleet 15.38% 50.00% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £354 £332 -
25th Percentile £380 £335 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £340 -
Median % change year-on-year +42.94% - -
75th Percentile £538 £345 -
90th Percentile £546 £348 -
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -2.33%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Fleet

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in Fleet

Kafka
Daily Rate Trend in Fleet

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Fleet citing Kafka

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Fleet 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Pulsar
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) Apigee
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 2 (100.00%) Kong
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Delivery Project Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (50.00%) Chip and PIN
2 1 (50.00%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Proactive Management
1 2 (100.00%) Re-Platforming
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (50.00%) PMP
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (50.00%) ISO 20022
2 1 (50.00%) ISO 8583
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Istio
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) linkerd
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk