Kafka Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Apache Kafka
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Kafka skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 15 -
Rank change year-on-year -32 - -
Contract jobs citing Kafka 8 12 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 3.17% 10.53% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.78% 26.09% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 0
10th Percentile £359 £360 -
25th Percentile £398 £368 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £441 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.52% - -
75th Percentile £450 £616 -
90th Percentile £467 £638 -
Cheshire median daily rate £425 £410 -
% change year-on-year +3.66% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate - £85.00 -

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 118 46 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 46.83% 40.35% 15.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 36 14
10th Percentile £326 £306 £454
25th Percentile £358 £356 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £390 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% -27.44% +20.79%
75th Percentile £468 £506 £562
90th Percentile £500 £619 £582
Cheshire median daily rate £425 £391 £500
% change year-on-year +8.70% -21.80% +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £96.50 £85.00 £11.50
% change year-on-year +13.53% +639.13% -

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Kafka
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Kafka

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Knutsford over the 6 months to 5 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Knutsford

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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 5 (62.50%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (12.50%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Serverless
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (37.50%) IaaS
3 3 (37.50%) PaaS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon Glacier
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 3 (37.50%) DocumentDB
2 3 (37.50%) NoSQL
2 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) JIRA
2 4 (50.00%) GitLab
2 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (12.50%) CircleCI
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
2 3 (37.50%) AWS Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Product Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Product Business Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Product Owner
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 1 (12.50%) Middleware
2 1 (12.50%) React
2 1 (12.50%) Spring
2 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (37.50%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (25.00%) Virtual Team
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (12.50%) PKI
4 1 (12.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Microservices
2 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) Containerisation
3 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) DevOps
3 5 (62.50%) Event-Driven
4 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (37.50%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
5 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 3 (37.50%) Observability
5 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (37.50%) TOGAF
5 3 (37.50%) Translating Business Requirements
6 2 (25.00%) Business Analysis
6 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 2 (25.00%) Data Security
6 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) AWS Certification
1 3 (37.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (25.00%) CBAP
2 2 (25.00%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
1 2 (25.00%) ISO 20022
1 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) SEPA
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) IBM
2 2 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (25.00%) IBM Sterling
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle