Kafka Contracts in Hertfordshire

Apache Kafka
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 44 70 71
Rank change year-on-year +26 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Kafka 1 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 0.31% 0.36% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.47% 2.36% 3.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £559 -
25th Percentile - £572 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £638 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -1.92% -
75th Percentile - £697 £675
90th Percentile - £706 -
East of England median daily rate £318 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -46.97% +14.29% +16.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 68 127 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 21.18% 15.23% 9.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 41 33
10th Percentile £425 £325 £363
25th Percentile £465 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £433 £500
Median % change year-on-year +32.95% -13.50% -
75th Percentile £672 £563 £672
90th Percentile £675 £700 £820
East of England median daily rate £500 £499 £520
% change year-on-year +0.25% -4.09% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 45 16
10th Percentile £65.00 - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - £21.00
Median hourly rate £80.68 £43.00 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +87.62% -37.45% +40.31%
75th Percentile £81.35 - £73.94
90th Percentile £82.10 £65.00 £74.50
East of England median hourly rate £80.68 £43.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +87.62% -33.85% +32.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Hertfordshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Hertfordshire

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) Flink
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (100.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes