Kafka Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Apache Kafka
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire 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 56 62 95
Rank change year-on-year +6 +33 +3
Contract jobs citing Kafka 34 8 3
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 2.45% 1.08% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 22.08% 10.39% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 5 3
10th Percentile £360 £426 £533
25th Percentile £364 £463 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £513 £625
Median % change year-on-year -15.61% -18.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £467 £538 £688
90th Percentile £521 £628 £718
South East median daily rate £433 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -17.62% +5.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £40.00 - -

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 154 77 151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 11.10% 10.43% 10.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 37 58
10th Percentile £360 £395 £415
25th Percentile £415 £484 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £605 £613 £636
90th Percentile £725 £665 £702
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 21
10th Percentile £40.63 £58.26 £51.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £60.81 £55.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £48.75 - £70.00
90th Percentile £49.88 £62.88 £77.50
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +0.81% -4.62%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Kafka
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Kafka

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Hampshire over the 6 months to 7 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Hampshire

Kafka
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Kafka

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 7 February 2026. 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
Farnborough - 11 £423 -
Portsmouth +6 9 £434 -8.68% 1
Andover -10 3 £450 -12.20%
Fleet - 2 £354 - 2
Basingstoke -14 1 £375 -28.57%
Kafka
South East

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 (5.88%) Apache Pulsar
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 29 (85.29%) GitHub
2 28 (82.35%) AWS
3 21 (61.76%) OpenShift
4 19 (55.88%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (32.35%) Azure
6 6 (17.65%) Datadog
7 5 (14.71%) GCP
8 3 (8.82%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (5.88%) Apigee
9 2 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (5.88%) AWS KMS
9 2 (5.88%) Azure AKS
9 2 (5.88%) Azure API Management
9 2 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (5.88%) Kong
9 2 (5.88%) Serverless
9 2 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
10 1 (2.94%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.71%) Kerberos
2 2 (5.88%) Firewall
3 1 (2.94%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (79.41%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (29.41%) NoSQL
3 9 (26.47%) MongoDB
3 9 (26.47%) Redis
4 8 (23.53%) HBase
5 7 (20.59%) DynamoDB
6 2 (5.88%) Big Data
7 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.94%) Metadata
7 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 17 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 17 (50.00%) JUnit
1 17 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 11 (32.35%) GitLab
3 10 (29.41%) JMeter
4 8 (23.53%) Artifactory
4 8 (23.53%) Gradle
5 3 (8.82%) Maven
6 2 (5.88%) Git
7 1 (2.94%) Gatling
7 1 (2.94%) Poetry
7 1 (2.94%) Pylint
7 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (38.24%) Finance
2 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Aerospace
4 2 (5.88%) Banking
4 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (50.00%) Developer
1 17 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 9 (26.47%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (20.59%) Full-Stack Developer
3 7 (20.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 6 (17.65%) AWS Developer
4 6 (17.65%) Senior
4 6 (17.65%) Senior Developer
4 6 (17.65%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (14.71%) Java Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) Kafka Developer
7 3 (8.82%) Lead
8 2 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) Kafka Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) Project Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) Project Leader
8 2 (5.88%) Project Manager
9 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Manager
9 1 (2.94%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (52.94%) Spring
2 13 (38.24%) Spring Boot
3 9 (26.47%) Keycloak
4 8 (23.53%) Hibernate
5 6 (17.65%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (14.71%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (5.88%) OAuth
7 2 (5.88%) OAuth2
7 2 (5.88%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (5.88%) YAML
8 1 (2.94%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (2.94%) gRPC
8 1 (2.94%) PySpark
8 1 (2.94%) pytest
8 1 (2.94%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
1 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.94%) Chip and PIN
2 1 (2.94%) EMV
2 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (38.24%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Windows
3 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (88.24%) CI/CD
2 21 (61.76%) Observability
3 16 (47.06%) Containerisation
4 11 (32.35%) DevOps
4 11 (32.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (29.41%) Platform Engineering
6 9 (26.47%) Agile
6 9 (26.47%) Full-Stack Development
6 9 (26.47%) Microservices
7 7 (20.59%) Event-Driven
7 7 (20.59%) GitOps
8 6 (17.65%) DevSecOps
8 6 (17.65%) Performance Testing
8 6 (17.65%) SOA
9 5 (14.71%) SBOM
9 5 (14.71%) Test Automation
9 5 (14.71%) User Stories
10 4 (11.76%) Epics
10 4 (11.76%) Migration
10 4 (11.76%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 21 (61.76%) Java
2 10 (29.41%) Python
3 8 (23.53%) Bash
4 3 (8.82%) Bicep
5 2 (5.88%) SQL
6 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.94%) Rust
6 1 (2.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (38.24%) Security Cleared
2 12 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 8 (23.53%) OCP
3 8 (23.53%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.88%) Degree
5 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.94%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.94%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) NCSC
2 3 (8.82%) Def Stans
3 2 (5.88%) PCI DSS
3 2 (5.88%) QA
4 1 (2.94%) ISO 20022
4 1 (2.94%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (82.35%) Kubernetes
2 21 (61.76%) Grafana
3 19 (55.88%) Ansible
4 15 (44.12%) Prometheus
5 13 (38.24%) Terraform
6 9 (26.47%) Progress Chef
7 8 (23.53%) Istio
7 8 (23.53%) linkerd
8 7 (20.59%) Argo
9 2 (5.88%) Packer
10 1 (2.94%) Podman
10 1 (2.94%) Puppet
10 1 (2.94%) Rancher
Vendors
1 19 (55.88%) VMware
2 11 (32.35%) Splunk
3 7 (20.59%) Red Hat
4 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.94%) Ab Initio
5 1 (2.94%) Databricks
5 1 (2.94%) Google
5 1 (2.94%) Teradata