Kafka Contract Job Trends in Hemel Hempstead

Apache Kafka
Hertfordshire > Hemel Hempstead

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hemel Hempstead requiring Kafka skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 - 16
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Kafka 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Hemel Hempstead 1.75% - 2.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 20.00% - 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £600
75th Percentile £575 - £650
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £600 - £638
% change year-on-year - - -1.92%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Hemel Hempstead

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 Hemel Hempstead.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hemel Hempstead 8.77% 27.27% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile £533 £355 £403
25th Percentile £544 £372 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £400 £575
Median % change year-on-year +46.88% -30.43% +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £488 £663
90th Percentile £720 £540 £685
Hertfordshire median daily rate £565 £575 £454
% change year-on-year -1.74% +26.72% -9.25%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Hemel Hempstead

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in Hemel Hempstead

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hemel Hempstead 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk