Kafka Contract Job Trends in Leicester

Apache Kafka
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring Kafka skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Kafka 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leicester 1.28% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
Leicestershire median daily rate £400 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 14 20 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 17.95% 21.98% 20.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 15
10th Percentile £376 £365 £270
25th Percentile £396 £456 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £463 £325
Median % change year-on-year -7.57% +42.31% -21.69%
75th Percentile £509 £488 £405
90th Percentile £538 £551 £511
Leicestershire median daily rate £525 £463 £350
% change year-on-year +13.51% +32.14% -15.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £14.33 - -
25th Percentile £15.52 - £22.50
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £25.00
75th Percentile £23.75 - £28.13
90th Percentile £27.50 - £28.50
Leicestershire median hourly rate £17.50 £20.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -14.63% -18.00% -

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in Leicester

Kafka
Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Kafka

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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%) AWS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect