Kafka Architect Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Kafka Architect
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Kafka Architect daily rate in Leeds is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 - 83
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Kafka Architect 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.16% - 0.091%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.19% - 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £560 - -
25th Percentile £575 - £763
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £775
75th Percentile - - £788
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £600 - £775

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Leeds with a recognized job title 587 649 1,078
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.51% 91.80% 97.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 416 742
10th Percentile £306 £350 £341
25th Percentile £400 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +4.90%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £625
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £498 £525
% change year-on-year +0.50% -5.24% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 31 13
10th Percentile £25.05 £18.13 £12.00
25th Percentile £25.13 £19.50 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.50 £24.18 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.46% +27.26% -11.63%
75th Percentile £26.13 £43.75 £21.31
90th Percentile £26.35 £48.75 £23.45
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £50.00 £24.18 £19.00
% change year-on-year +106.78% +27.26% -9.52%

Kafka Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings that featured Kafka Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka Architect in Leeds

Kafka Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Kafka Architect job vacancies in Leeds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Kafka Architect job vacancies in Leeds

Kafka Architect Skill Set
Top 19 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 22 September 2025, Kafka Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Leeds region featuring Kafka Architect in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Kafka
1 7 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 7 (100.00%) Spark Streaming
1 7 (100.00%) Flink
1 7 (100.00%) Apache Beam
2 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (85.71%) Event-Driven
2 6 (85.71%) GCP
3 4 (57.14%) Data Ingestion
3 4 (57.14%) Decision-Making
3 4 (57.14%) JDBC
3 4 (57.14%) Amazon S3
3 4 (57.14%) MongoDB
3 4 (57.14%) NoSQL
3 4 (57.14%) High Availability
3 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (28.57%) Banking
4 2 (28.57%) Ansible

Kafka Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 7 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) GCP
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Flink
2 4 (57.14%) MongoDB
2 4 (57.14%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) Apache Beam
1 7 (100.00%) Kafka
1 7 (100.00%) Spark Streaming
2 4 (57.14%) JDBC
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Event-Driven
1 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) Data Ingestion
2 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (57.14%) Decision-Making
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) High Availability
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible