Kafka Specialist Contract Job Trends in London

Kafka Specialist
England > London

The median Kafka Specialist daily rate in London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 367 399
Rank change year-on-year -67 +32 -
Contract jobs requiring a Kafka Specialist 1 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.005% 0.015% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% 0.016% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £672 -
25th Percentile £513 £677 £813
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £694 £875
Median % change year-on-year -24.32% -20.71% -
75th Percentile £538 £705 £938
90th Percentile - £706 -
England median daily rate £525 £694 £875
% change year-on-year -24.32% -20.71% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 18,372 12,697 16,357
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 93.28% 94.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,076 8,582 11,668
10th Percentile £359 £332 £330
25th Percentile £442 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 196 295
10th Percentile £17.69 £18.47 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.87 £22.98 £20.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £31.75 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.11% +13.39% -25.33%
75th Percentile £60.75 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £79.75 £63.75 £68.75
England median hourly rate £45.56 £28.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +59.84% -28.75% -6.98%

Kafka Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Kafka Specialist' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Kafka Specialist job vacancy trend in London

Kafka Specialist
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Kafka Specialist Skill Set
Top 18 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 13 July 2026, Kafka Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Confluent
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering

Kafka Specialist 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Confluent