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 25 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
25 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 361 373
Rank change year-on-year +22 +12 +156
Contract jobs requiring a Kafka Developer 35 8 31
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.24% 0.053% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.057% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 5 25
10th Percentile £488 £648 £455
25th Percentile £555 £775 £635
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £975 £800 £850
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% -5.88% +36.00%
75th Percentile £988 £825 -
90th Percentile - - £1,000
England median daily rate £975 £800 £850
% change year-on-year +21.88% -5.88% +36.00%

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 13,345 13,995 17,271
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 93.49% 93.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,835 9,037 12,468
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -1.79% -3.03%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £752 £800 £788
England median daily rate £508 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -3.33% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 153 211
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.47 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.87 £23.80 £21.63
Median hourly rate £28.89 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.47% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 £55.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.30 £35.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -25.92% -22.62% +41.17%

Kafka Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

Kafka Developer job vacancy trend 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 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka Developer in London

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

For the 6 months to 25 December 2025, 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 London region featuring Kafka Developer in the job title.

1 35 (100.00%) Kafka
2 29 (82.86%) Java
3 22 (62.86%) AWS
4 21 (60.00%) SQL
4 21 (60.00%) TDD
5 18 (51.43%) Analytics
5 18 (51.43%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (51.43%) Risk Management
6 5 (14.29%) Fintech
6 5 (14.29%) Microservices
6 5 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 5 (14.29%) Spring
6 5 (14.29%) Spring Boot
7 4 (11.43%) C++
7 4 (11.43%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (11.43%) Linux
7 4 (11.43%) Migration
7 4 (11.43%) SDLC
8 3 (8.57%) C#
8 3 (8.57%) Clean Code
8 3 (8.57%) Collaborative Culture
8 3 (8.57%) Event-Driven
8 3 (8.57%) Low Latency
8 3 (8.57%) Mentoring
8 3 (8.57%) MQSeries
8 3 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
8 3 (8.57%) Security Cleared
9 2 (5.71%) .NET
9 2 (5.71%) Agile

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

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.57%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 22 (62.86%) AWS
2 2 (5.71%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (51.43%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.86%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.86%) MySQL
General
1 24 (68.57%) Finance
2 21 (60.00%) Banking
3 18 (51.43%) Investment Banking
4 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (100.00%) Kafka
2 5 (14.29%) Spring
2 5 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 2 (5.71%) .NET
4 1 (2.86%) J2EE
4 1 (2.86%) OLE
4 1 (2.86%) React
Miscellaneous
1 18 (51.43%) Derivative
1 18 (51.43%) Management Information System
1 18 (51.43%) Market Risk
2 4 (11.43%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (8.57%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (8.57%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (60.00%) TDD
2 18 (51.43%) Analytics
2 18 (51.43%) Risk Management
3 5 (14.29%) Fintech
3 5 (14.29%) Microservices
3 5 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 4 (11.43%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (11.43%) Migration
4 4 (11.43%) SDLC
5 3 (8.57%) Clean Code
5 3 (8.57%) Collaborative Culture
5 3 (8.57%) Event-Driven
5 3 (8.57%) Low Latency
5 3 (8.57%) Mentoring
5 3 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (5.71%) Agile
6 2 (5.71%) API Development
6 2 (5.71%) CI/CD
6 2 (5.71%) DevOps
6 2 (5.71%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 29 (82.86%) Java
2 21 (60.00%) SQL
3 4 (11.43%) C++
4 3 (8.57%) C#
5 2 (5.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
1 3 (8.57%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (5.71%) IBM
1 2 (5.71%) Salesforce
35 Kafka Developer jobs in England