Kafka Contracts in Leeds

Apache Kafka
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 38 52 92
Rank change year-on-year +14 +40 -39
Contract jobs citing Kafka 22 11 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 4.73% 1.38% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 20.18% 5.79% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 3
10th Percentile £505 - £600
25th Percentile £550 £400 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £450 £700
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -35.71% +21.74%
75th Percentile £738 - -
90th Percentile £749 £590 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £650 £450 £650
% change year-on-year +44.44% -30.77% +13.04%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 109 190 319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 23.44% 23.78% 23.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 136 253
10th Percentile £388 £325 £414
25th Percentile £441 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £770 £675 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 6
10th Percentile £84.38 - £61.25
25th Percentile £84.67 - £63.44
Median hourly rate £96.85 £13.87 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +598.23% -80.19% -
75th Percentile £102.00 - -
90th Percentile - - £75.00
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £96.85 £13.87 £70.00
% change year-on-year +598.23% -80.19% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Leeds

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

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

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Leeds

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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 9 (40.91%) Apache Spark
2 5 (22.73%) nginx
2 5 (22.73%) Traefik
3 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) Amazon ECS
1 7 (31.82%) AWS
1 7 (31.82%) AWS CloudFormation
1 7 (31.82%) AWS Fargate
1 7 (31.82%) GCP
2 6 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (27.27%) Entra ID
2 6 (27.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon S3
3 4 (18.18%) OpenShift
4 2 (9.09%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 6 (27.27%) DNS
1 6 (27.27%) TCP/IP
2 5 (22.73%) SSL
3 4 (18.18%) NAS
3 4 (18.18%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 7 (31.82%) Flink
3 4 (18.18%) NoSQL
3 4 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (13.64%) BigQuery
5 1 (4.55%) Looker
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) GitLab
1 7 (31.82%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 7 (31.82%) Banking
2 3 (13.64%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Military
3 2 (9.09%) Wholesale Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Architect
2 5 (22.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Senior
2 5 (22.73%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (13.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Applications Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Data Architect
5 1 (4.55%) GCP Architect
5 1 (4.55%) GCP Data Architect
5 1 (4.55%) GCP Data Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Lead
5 1 (4.55%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) Apache Beam
1 7 (31.82%) cloud-init
1 7 (31.82%) Spark Streaming
2 6 (27.27%) Keycloak
3 5 (22.73%) LDAP
3 5 (22.73%) REST
4 4 (18.18%) JDBC
4 4 (18.18%) Middleware
5 2 (9.09%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) PKI
2 4 (18.18%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 7 (31.82%) CentOS
1 7 (31.82%) Linux
1 7 (31.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 7 (31.82%) Unix
2 1 (4.55%) Mac OS
2 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) DevOps
2 9 (40.91%) High Availability
3 8 (36.36%) Observability
4 7 (31.82%) CI/CD
4 7 (31.82%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (31.82%) Secrets Management
5 6 (27.27%) Cloud Security
5 6 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (27.27%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 6 (27.27%) Event-Driven
5 6 (27.27%) Identity Management
5 6 (27.27%) Static Application Security Testing
6 5 (22.73%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (22.73%) Mobile Device Management
7 4 (18.18%) Containerisation
7 4 (18.18%) Data Ingestion
7 4 (18.18%) Decision-Making
7 4 (18.18%) Key Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) Python
2 7 (31.82%) Bash
2 7 (31.82%) Go
3 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) SC Cleared
1 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 6 (27.27%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) NCSC
2 1 (4.55%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (63.64%) Grafana
1 14 (63.64%) Prometheus
2 11 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (31.82%) Packer
3 7 (31.82%) Terraform
4 6 (27.27%) Consul
4 6 (27.27%) Istio
4 6 (27.27%) Jamf Pro
4 6 (27.27%) linkerd
4 6 (27.27%) Rancher
4 6 (27.27%) ZABBIX
5 5 (22.73%) HAProxy
6 1 (4.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (4.55%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) Splunk
2 6 (27.27%) Okta
3 5 (22.73%) Apple
3 5 (22.73%) Confluent
3 5 (22.73%) ESET
4 4 (18.18%) Oracle
5 2 (9.09%) AppDynamics
5 2 (9.09%) IBM
6 1 (4.55%) Google