Kafka Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Apache Kafka
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 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 68 45 67
Rank change year-on-year -23 +22 +1
Contract jobs citing Kafka 2 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.24% 0.30% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.35% 1.45% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £538 - £559
25th Percentile £556 - £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £638
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.92%
75th Percentile £631 - £697
90th Percentile £643 - £706
East of England median daily rate £500 £318 £488
% change year-on-year +57.14% -34.73% -7.14%

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 85 69 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 10.02% 20.54% 13.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 46 42
10th Percentile £425 £425 £325
25th Percentile £469 £465 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £454
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% +26.72% -9.25%
75th Percentile £713 £672 £553
90th Percentile £775 £675 £700
East of England median daily rate £550 £500 £498
% change year-on-year +10.00% +0.50% -4.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 11 37
10th Percentile £46.45 £65.00 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £66.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £80.68 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.43% +87.62% -37.45%
75th Percentile £75.00 £81.35 -
90th Percentile £76.75 £82.10 £65.00
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £80.68 £43.00
% change year-on-year -19.43% +87.62% -26.81%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Kafka
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Kafka

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Hemel Hempstead - 1 £550 - 1
Welwyn Garden City - 1 £650 -
Kafka
East of England

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Development Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) SOC Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Development Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (50.00%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk