Kafka Contracts in Hounslow

Apache Kafka
West London > Hounslow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hounslow 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 16 11 19
Rank change year-on-year -5 +8 -1
Contract jobs citing Kafka 2 17 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hounslow 2.94% 13.28% 6.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.67% 35.42% 21.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 3
10th Percentile - £81 £473
25th Percentile £388 £315 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.84% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £403 £494 £600
90th Percentile - £500 £638
West London median daily rate £480 £475 £650
% change year-on-year +1.05% -26.92% +30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £69.75
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £86.25
90th Percentile - - £90.00
West London median hourly rate - - £75.00

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Hounslow

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 Hounslow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 12 48 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hounslow 17.65% 37.50% 28.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 27 19
10th Percentile £371 £182 £454
25th Percentile £375 £290 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -31.82% -0.63%
75th Percentile £478 £481 £604
90th Percentile £595 £500 £633
West London median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 12
10th Percentile - £32.36 £70.50
25th Percentile - £38.13 -
Median hourly rate - £50.62 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -32.51% -
75th Percentile - £60.24 -
90th Percentile - £64.30 £88.50
West London median hourly rate - £35.54 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -52.62% +102.37%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Hounslow

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Hounslow

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hounslow

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Hounslow

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hounslow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kafka in Hounslow.

Hourly rate trend for Kafka in Hounslow

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Contract Job Locations in Hounslow

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Hounslow 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
Osterley +5 1 - -
Kafka
West London

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hounslow 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 (50.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) Sauce Labs
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Appium
1 1 (50.00%) HP UFT
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) Robot Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) QA Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Hystrix
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Swagger
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce