Kafka Developer Contract Job Trends in London

Kafka Developer
England > London

The median Kafka Developer daily rate in London is £975, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 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
10 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 393 425
Rank change year-on-year +47 +32 +155
Contract jobs requiring a Kafka Developer 28 4 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.21% 0.025% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.026% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 1 16
10th Percentile £497 - £463
25th Percentile £515 £331 £755
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £975 £338 £850
Median % change year-on-year +188.89% -60.29% +36.00%
75th Percentile £988 £344 £1,000
90th Percentile - - £1,050
England median daily rate £753 £381 £850
% change year-on-year +97.38% -55.15% +44.68%

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 12,523 15,194 21,071
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.07% 94.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,380 10,285 15,409
10th Percentile £325 £346 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £680 £694
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.62% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 183 231
10th Percentile £17.05 £17.58 £18.16
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £22.50
Median hourly rate £31.49 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.03% -6.67% +15.21%
75th Percentile £50.38 £55.50 £63.88
90th Percentile £66.34 £71.88 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% +7.95% +67.05%

Kafka Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka Developer in London

Kafka Developer
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Kafka Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka Developer in London over the 6 months to 10 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka Developer in London

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

For the 6 months to 10 September 2025, Kafka Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) Kafka
2 27 (96.43%) Finance
3 26 (92.86%) SQL
4 22 (78.57%) Java
4 22 (78.57%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (78.57%) TDD
5 16 (57.14%) Management Information System
5 16 (57.14%) Risk Management
5 16 (57.14%) Banking
5 16 (57.14%) Investment Banking
5 16 (57.14%) Derivative
5 16 (57.14%) Market Risk
5 16 (57.14%) AWS
5 16 (57.14%) Analytics
6 10 (35.71%) Software Engineering
7 9 (32.14%) Event-Driven
8 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
8 8 (28.57%) Agile
8 8 (28.57%) DevOps
8 8 (28.57%) Migration
9 7 (25.00%) Docker
9 7 (25.00%) Containerisation
9 7 (25.00%) React
10 6 (21.43%) Spring Boot
10 6 (21.43%) Build Automation
10 6 (21.43%) Swagger
10 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
10 6 (21.43%) Clean Code
10 6 (21.43%) OpenAPI
10 6 (21.43%) Event-Driven Architecture

Kafka Developer 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:

Cloud Services
1 16 (57.14%) AWS
2 3 (10.71%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (78.57%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (21.43%) Relational Database
3 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) GitLab
1 6 (21.43%) Gradle
1 6 (21.43%) Jenkins
1 6 (21.43%) JUnit
1 6 (21.43%) Liquibase
1 6 (21.43%) Mockito
General
1 27 (96.43%) Finance
2 16 (57.14%) Banking
2 16 (57.14%) Investment Banking
3 6 (21.43%) Electronics
3 6 (21.43%) Manufacturing
3 6 (21.43%) Marketing
3 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 6 (21.43%) Telecoms
4 2 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (100.00%) Kafka
2 7 (25.00%) React
3 6 (21.43%) OpenAPI
3 6 (21.43%) Spring
3 6 (21.43%) Spring Boot
3 6 (21.43%) Swagger
4 2 (7.14%) .NET
5 1 (3.57%) Django
5 1 (3.57%) FastAPI
5 1 (3.57%) Flask
5 1 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (57.14%) Derivative
1 16 (57.14%) Management Information System
1 16 (57.14%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (78.57%) TDD
2 16 (57.14%) Analytics
2 16 (57.14%) Risk Management
3 10 (35.71%) Software Engineering
4 9 (32.14%) Event-Driven
5 8 (28.57%) Agile
5 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 8 (28.57%) DevOps
5 8 (28.57%) Migration
6 7 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 6 (21.43%) Build Automation
7 6 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (21.43%) Clean Code
7 6 (21.43%) Digital Marketing
7 6 (21.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 6 (21.43%) Microservices
7 6 (21.43%) Programme Management
8 3 (10.71%) API Development
9 2 (7.14%) Fintech
9 2 (7.14%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 26 (92.86%) SQL
2 22 (78.57%) Java
3 6 (21.43%) TypeScript
4 3 (10.71%) C#
4 3 (10.71%) C++
5 2 (7.14%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 6 (21.43%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) SAP
2 2 (7.14%) Salesforce
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