Kafka Developer Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Kafka Developer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

As of 13 August 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Kafka Developer daily rate in Leeds.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Kafka Developer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.095% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 991 563 659
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.56% 97.24% 91.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 595 369 433
10th Percentile £363 £306 £350
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -6.76%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £575
90th Percentile £650 £620 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -1.52% -1.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 22
10th Percentile £18.39 £25.15 £18.14
25th Percentile £25.88 £25.38 £18.75
Median hourly rate £26.25 £29.56 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% +2.80% +51.32%
75th Percentile £35.00 £50.48 £48.75
90th Percentile - £79.33 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 £26.00 £28.75
% change year-on-year -0.88% -9.57% +51.32%

Kafka Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Kafka Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Kafka Developer job vacancy trend in Leeds

Kafka Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Kafka Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 13 August 2026, Kafka Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Leeds region featuring Kafka Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Avro
1 1 (100.00%) Apigee
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Run
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Programming
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Hazelcast
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Kong
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices

Kafka Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) Apigee
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Run
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (100.00%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Hazelcast
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Avro
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (100.00%) Protocol Buffers
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring WebFlux
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) WireMock
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform