Kafka Contracts in Hampshire

Apache Kafka
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 59 94 80
Rank change year-on-year +35 -14 +10
Contract jobs citing Kafka 10 1 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.34% 0.062% 1.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.80% 0.69% 7.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile £426 - £513
25th Percentile £464 - £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.73%
75th Percentile £588 - £700
90th Percentile £648 - £719
South East median daily rate £509 £475 £555
% change year-on-year +7.11% -14.41% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
South East median hourly rate - £31.50 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 102 144 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 13.67% 8.94% 18.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 82 169
10th Percentile £376 £325 £406
25th Percentile £419 £460 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +6.28%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £650
90th Percentile £650 - £717
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 11 22
10th Percentile £51.06 £35.00 £51.63
25th Percentile £53.75 £58.13 £57.96
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -10.71% +55.56%
75th Percentile £62.00 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £62.50 £77.50 -
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £61.60 £70.00
% change year-on-year -6.66% -12.00% +55.56%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Hampshire

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Hampshire

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Hampshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Hampshire

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Hampshire 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
Andover - 4 £594 - 2
Southampton - 4 £403 - 12
Portsmouth - 2 £527 - 12
Kafka
South East

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) GitHub
1 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) MongoDB
2 5 (50.00%) Redis
3 4 (40.00%) MySQL
3 4 (40.00%) NoSQL
4 3 (30.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (30.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
1 3 (30.00%) Subversion
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
1 4 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Project Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Project Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Data Scientist
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Systems Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) PHP Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Scientist
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Laravel
1 4 (40.00%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (40.00%) React
1 4 (40.00%) Vue
2 3 (30.00%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (30.00%) Phalcon
2 3 (30.00%) RESTful
2 3 (30.00%) Symfony
2 3 (30.00%) Web Services
3 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (10.00%) Keycloak
3 1 (10.00%) NumPy
3 1 (10.00%) Pandas
3 1 (10.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (10.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) CUDA
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
1 6 (60.00%) Scrum
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Analytics
3 4 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (40.00%) Data Analytics
3 4 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (40.00%) Microservices
3 4 (40.00%) MVC
3 4 (40.00%) OO
3 4 (40.00%) OO PHP
3 4 (40.00%) OWASP
4 3 (30.00%) API Development
4 3 (30.00%) API Integration
4 3 (30.00%) Code Quality
4 3 (30.00%) Integration Testing
4 3 (30.00%) SDLC
4 3 (30.00%) Software Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Systems Analysis
4 3 (30.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (40.00%) PHP
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Def Stans
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Grafana
2 1 (10.00%) Packer
2 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) VMware
1 4 (40.00%) Zend
2 2 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk