Kafka Contracts in Gloucestershire

Apache Kafka
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 39 57 57
Rank change year-on-year +18 0 -4
Contract jobs citing Kafka 2 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 0.73% 0.23% 1.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.88% 1.35% 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 £725 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £750 £650
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £638 £775 £683
90th Percentile - - £699
South West median daily rate £513 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.82% -4.35% +8.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
South West median hourly rate £78.70 - £78.00

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 41 74 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 14.96% 17.25% 18.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 55 63
10th Percentile £408 £355 £438
25th Percentile £513 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.58% +2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £661 £688 £688
90th Percentile £746 £738 £725
South West median daily rate £548 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.38% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £71.34 £50.50
25th Percentile £62.50 £73.35 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £76.71 £73.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.26% +5.08% -
75th Percentile £67.50 £80.06 £78.00
90th Percentile - £82.07 -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £54.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year +18.72% -4.78% -9.52%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Gloucestershire

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Gloucestershire

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Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Gloucestershire 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
Filton - 2 £625 - 1
Kafka
South West

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Chief Systems Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Project Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Project Leader
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Def Stans
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware