Kafka Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Apache Kafka
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Kafka skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 - 50
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing Kafka 12 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 3.14% - 0.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.44% - 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £675 - £675
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £550 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -15.38% - +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
South West median hourly rate - - £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 73 83 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 19.11% 21.61% 23.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 44 69
10th Percentile £413 £454 £365
25th Percentile £478 £530 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £660 £688
90th Percentile £749 £734 £775
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 19
10th Percentile - £64.00 -
25th Percentile - £66.25 -
Median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +43.68% -11.42%
75th Percentile £73.25 - -
90th Percentile £82.70 - £78.00
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year - +25.26% -20.17%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Kafka
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Kafka

Kafka
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Kafka.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Kafka

Kafka
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 10 December 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
Gloucester - 11 £550 - 2
Cheltenham - 1 £650 -
Kafka
South West

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (91.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 10 (83.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (91.67%) Elasticsearch
1 11 (91.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Data Engineer
1 11 (91.67%) Senior
1 11 (91.67%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (91.67%) Keycloak
2 1 (8.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (83.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Batch Processing
1 11 (91.67%) Data Engineering
1 11 (91.67%) Data Pipeline
1 11 (91.67%) DataOps
1 11 (91.67%) DevOps
1 11 (91.67%) ETL
2 10 (83.33%) Containerisation
2 10 (83.33%) Data Architecture
3 1 (8.33%) Agile
3 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (8.33%) Cryptography
3 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (8.33%) Digital Innovation
3 1 (8.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) Go
1 11 (91.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (91.67%) Azure Certification
2 11 (91.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
1 1 (8.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 10 (83.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (91.67%) Kubernetes