Kafka Contract Job Trends in Hounslow

Apache Kafka
West London > Hounslow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hounslow requiring Kafka skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 17 10
Rank change year-on-year +1 -7 +1
Contract jobs citing Kafka 2 2 15
As % of all contract jobs in Hounslow 2.60% 2.82% 13.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.33% 11.11% 30.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 9
10th Percentile £707 - £256
25th Percentile £708 £388 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £719 £395 £475
Median % change year-on-year +81.96% -16.84% -
75th Percentile £733 £403 £488
90th Percentile £736 - £515
West London median daily rate £625 £480 £475
% change year-on-year +30.21% +1.05% -19.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £36.25
Median hourly rate - - £37.50
75th Percentile - - £38.75
90th Percentile - - -
West London median hourly rate - - £37.50
% change year-on-year - - -58.33%

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 24 18 49
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hounslow 31.17% 25.35% 44.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 29
10th Percentile £574 £352 £280
25th Percentile £622 £368 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £478 £450
Median % change year-on-year +51.80% +6.13% -15.69%
75th Percentile £766 £538 £498
90th Percentile £788 - £500
West London median daily rate £625 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +31.58% -5.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £40.13
25th Percentile £21.15 - £45.94
Median hourly rate £21.80 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -60.37% -2.22% -25.00%
75th Percentile £22.44 - £65.94
90th Percentile - - £71.38
West London median hourly rate £21.80 £55.00 £30.65
% change year-on-year -60.37% +79.45% -65.94%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Hounslow

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in Hounslow

Kafka
Daily Rate Trend in Hounslow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hounslow citing Kafka

Kafka
Hourly Rate Trend in Hounslow

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hounslow citing Kafka

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hounslow 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 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Data Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Physical Data Model
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) Salesforce