Kafka Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Kafka Architect
England > London

The median Kafka Architect daily rate in London is £688, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 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
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 380 -
Rank change year-on-year +8 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Kafka Architect 3 10 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.022% 0.061% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.065% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £581 £538 -
25th Percentile £609 £543 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £638 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% - -
75th Percentile £784 £700 -
90th Percentile £824 £769 -
England median daily rate £575 £575 £775
% change year-on-year - -25.81% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 12,474 15,321 20,870
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.00% 94.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,348 10,224 15,217
10th Percentile £331 £341 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.27% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 179 231
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.45 £18.16
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £22.27
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £36.54
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -4.21% +13.30%
75th Percentile £51.13 £55.50 £63.13
90th Percentile £66.54 £71.88 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

Kafka Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka Architect in London

Kafka Architect
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Kafka Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka Architect in London over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka Architect in London

Kafka Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 20 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +1 1 - -
Kafka Architect
England

Kafka Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 20 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 London region featuring Kafka Architect in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Kafka
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (33.33%) Target Operating Model
3 1 (33.33%) ISO 20022
3 1 (33.33%) ISO 15022
3 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (33.33%) Budgeting
3 1 (33.33%) COBOL
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Tandem
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 1 (33.33%) Spring
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (33.33%) MODAF
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture

Kafka Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (33.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) NonStop SQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (33.33%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) ArchiMate
2 1 (33.33%) Budgeting
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) MODAF
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Target Operating Model
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 1 (33.33%) UML
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) COBOL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO 15022
1 1 (33.33%) ISO 20022
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) HP
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat