Kafka Contracts in Knutsford

Apache Kafka
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford 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 17 16 23
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 +7
Contract jobs citing Kafka 13 9 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 8.90% 8.33% 9.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 27.08% 37.50% 29.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 13
10th Percentile £358 £309 £416
25th Percentile £375 £311 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £438 £445
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% -1.69% +37.35%
75th Percentile £537 £489 £485
90th Percentile £638 £493 £654
Cheshire median daily rate £406 £438 £445
% change year-on-year -7.20% -1.69% +37.35%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 48 24 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 32.88% 22.22% 30.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 21 44
10th Percentile £317 £311 £351
25th Percentile £358 £321 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £391 £445 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.13% -19.09% +34.47%
75th Percentile £467 £489 £575
90th Percentile £537 £507 £610
Cheshire median daily rate £402 £450 £540
% change year-on-year -10.67% -16.67% +32.52%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Knutsford

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Knutsford

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Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Knutsford over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Knutsford

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford 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 (7.69%) Camunda
1 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (38.46%) Serverless
3 4 (30.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (30.77%) Amazon Glacier
3 4 (30.77%) Amazon Kinesis
3 4 (30.77%) Amazon S3
3 4 (30.77%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) DynamoDB
2 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (61.54%) Jenkins
2 4 (30.77%) JUnit
3 2 (15.38%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (15.38%) GitLab
3 2 (15.38%) Gradle
3 2 (15.38%) HP UFT
3 2 (15.38%) IntelliJ
3 2 (15.38%) JIRA
3 2 (15.38%) Maven
3 2 (15.38%) NetBeans
3 2 (15.38%) Selenium
3 2 (15.38%) Subversion
4 1 (7.69%) Git
4 1 (7.69%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (30.77%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Legal
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Architect
1 6 (46.15%) Solutions Architect
2 4 (30.77%) AWS Architect
2 4 (30.77%) AWS Solution Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Lead
3 3 (23.08%) Senior
4 2 (15.38%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Java Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Java Solutions Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Python Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) Spring Boot
2 4 (30.77%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (30.77%) AngularJS
2 4 (30.77%) RESTful
3 3 (23.08%) React
3 3 (23.08%) Spring
4 2 (15.38%) CSS
4 2 (15.38%) Hibernate
4 2 (15.38%) HTML
4 2 (15.38%) HTML5
4 2 (15.38%) J2EE
4 2 (15.38%) Node.js
4 2 (15.38%) Spring Integration
4 2 (15.38%) Spring MVC
4 2 (15.38%) Web Services
5 1 (7.69%) Ajax
5 1 (7.69%) CSS3
5 1 (7.69%) jBPM
5 1 (7.69%) jQuery
5 1 (7.69%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Public Cloud
2 3 (23.08%) Product Ownership
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 2 (15.38%) Data Structures
3 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (15.38%) Private Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) Blockchain
4 1 (7.69%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Microservices
2 10 (76.92%) CI/CD
3 9 (69.23%) Agile
4 7 (53.85%) Containerisation
5 6 (46.15%) Event-Driven
6 5 (38.46%) SDLC
7 4 (30.77%) Budget Control
7 4 (30.77%) Contingency Planning
7 4 (30.77%) Creative Problem-Solving
7 4 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
7 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (30.77%) Project Planning
7 4 (30.77%) Scrum
7 4 (30.77%) Service Delivery
8 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
8 3 (23.08%) Observability
9 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
9 2 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
2 2 (15.38%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Ansible
1 4 (30.77%) Progress Chef
1 4 (30.77%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Puppet
3 1 (7.69%) Grafana
3 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.69%) TIBCO
2 1 (7.69%) VMware