Kafka Contracts in London

Apache Kafka
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Kafka skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kafka over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 109 77
Rank change year-on-year +29 -32 -3
Contract jobs citing Kafka 417 378 865
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.32% 2.12% 3.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.75% 8.47% 11.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 275 649
10th Percentile £427 £413 £463
25th Percentile £513 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% -1.89%
75th Percentile £825 £675 £750
90th Percentile £838 £758 £814
England median daily rate £585 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +6.36% -15.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £49.65 - £69.75
25th Percentile £65.25 - -
Median hourly rate £92.50 - £75.00
75th Percentile £93.75 - £86.25
90th Percentile - - £90.00
England median hourly rate £85.60 £31.50 £76.50
% change year-on-year +171.75% -58.82% -1.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,271 4,464 7,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.07% 25.04% 27.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 3,349 5,511
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £730
90th Percentile £838 £825 £813
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 40
10th Percentile £33.25 £16.25 £30.68
25th Percentile £36.06 £23.90 £37.84
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.17 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.24% -43.68% +35.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £68.50 £76.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in London

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kafka in London.

Daily rate trend for Kafka in London

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in London

Kafka
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kafka in London.

Hourly rate trend for Kafka in London

Kafka
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kafka in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Kafka in London

Kafka
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +9 65 £585 -4.49% 18
South London +18 19 £600 +23.08% 2
West London -7 5 £480 +1.05% 11
East London +15 1 £415 -4.78% 2
Kafka
England

Kafka
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 65 (15.59%) Apache Spark
2 59 (14.15%) Apache
3 43 (10.31%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (3.60%) Confluence
5 5 (1.20%) Camunda
5 5 (1.20%) nginx
5 5 (1.20%) Traefik
6 4 (0.96%) Oracle Coherence
7 3 (0.72%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.72%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.48%) Alfresco
8 2 (0.48%) JBoss
8 2 (0.48%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.24%) CICS
9 1 (0.24%) Luigi
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.48%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.96%) Endur
2 2 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.48%) Magento
2 2 (0.48%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (0.48%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (0.48%) SAP CX
2 2 (0.48%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.48%) Shopify
3 1 (0.24%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.24%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 228 (54.68%) AWS
2 98 (23.50%) Azure
3 58 (13.91%) Serverless
4 53 (12.71%) AWS Lambda
5 41 (9.83%) dbt
6 39 (9.35%) OpenShift
7 35 (8.39%) Amazon ECS
8 29 (6.95%) Amazon S3
8 29 (6.95%) GCP
9 27 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (6.24%) GitHub
11 22 (5.28%) Azure AKS
11 22 (5.28%) Snowflake
12 19 (4.56%) Entra ID
13 17 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (3.60%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (3.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 14 (3.36%) Azure Service Bus
16 12 (2.88%) Amazon Kinesis
16 12 (2.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.88%) DNS
2 5 (1.20%) HTTP
2 5 (1.20%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.72%) SSH
4 2 (0.48%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.24%) Firewall
5 1 (0.24%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (18.94%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (15.83%) MongoDB
3 41 (9.83%) NoSQL
4 39 (9.35%) Relational Database
5 38 (9.11%) Amazon Athena
6 32 (7.67%) Apache Iceberg
7 30 (7.19%) Dremio
8 29 (6.95%) Apache Ignite
9 28 (6.71%) Apache Arrow
9 28 (6.71%) Redis
10 25 (6.00%) Apache Cassandra
10 25 (6.00%) SQL Server
11 24 (5.76%) Big Data
11 24 (5.76%) Data Warehouse
12 21 (5.04%) Data Lake
13 18 (4.32%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (3.12%) DynamoDB
14 13 (3.12%) Flink
14 13 (3.12%) MySQL
15 12 (2.88%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 50 (11.99%) Jenkins
2 33 (7.91%) Git
2 33 (7.91%) JUnit
3 32 (7.67%) Artifactory
4 21 (5.04%) GitLab
5 20 (4.80%) Gradle
5 20 (4.80%) JIRA
6 17 (4.08%) Mockito
7 14 (3.36%) Maven
8 13 (3.12%) Liquibase
9 9 (2.16%) Postman
10 7 (1.68%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.68%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.68%) JMeter
10 7 (1.68%) REST Assured
10 7 (1.68%) Selenium
11 6 (1.44%) Cypress.io
11 6 (1.44%) SoapUI
11 6 (1.44%) TeamCity
11 6 (1.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 150 (35.97%) Finance
2 96 (23.02%) Social Skills
3 70 (16.79%) Banking
4 68 (16.31%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (14.15%) Public Sector
6 51 (12.23%) Front Office
7 41 (9.83%) Investment Banking
8 17 (4.08%) Retail
9 13 (3.12%) Marketing
10 11 (2.64%) Electronics
10 11 (2.64%) Manufacturing
10 11 (2.64%) Telecoms
11 10 (2.40%) Back Office
12 8 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.72%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.72%) Military
15 2 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 160 (38.37%) Developer
2 76 (18.23%) Data Engineer
3 75 (17.99%) Java Developer
4 68 (16.31%) Senior
5 50 (11.99%) DevOps Engineer
6 49 (11.75%) AWS Engineer
7 46 (11.03%) Python Engineer
8 39 (9.35%) Lead
8 39 (9.35%) Senior Developer
9 35 (8.39%) AWS DevOps
9 35 (8.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 34 (8.15%) C# Developer
11 33 (7.91%) Architect
12 26 (6.24%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 26 (6.24%) Senior Java Developer
13 23 (5.52%) C++ Developer
14 22 (5.28%) C++/C# Developer
15 21 (5.04%) Software Engineer
16 16 (3.84%) Java Engineer
17 15 (3.60%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (19.18%) Spring
2 66 (15.83%) Spring Boot
3 48 (11.51%) .NET
3 48 (11.51%) React
4 36 (8.63%) PySpark
5 35 (8.39%) J2EE
6 31 (7.43%) ASP.NET
7 30 (7.19%) REST
8 28 (6.71%) Web Services
9 27 (6.47%) .NET Core
10 26 (6.24%) RESTful
11 23 (5.52%) gRPC
12 22 (5.28%) WCF
13 21 (5.04%) HTML
14 19 (4.56%) OAuth
14 19 (4.56%) Swagger
15 17 (4.08%) AngularJS
15 17 (4.08%) RabbitMQ
16 16 (3.84%) OpenAPI
17 15 (3.60%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.83%) Distributed Systems
2 36 (8.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 18 (4.32%) Legacy Applications
4 15 (3.60%) Data Structures
4 15 (3.60%) Equities
5 13 (3.12%) Cloud Native
5 13 (3.12%) Management Information System
6 11 (2.64%) PKI
7 9 (2.16%) Derivative
7 9 (2.16%) Replication
8 8 (1.92%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.68%) Market Risk
10 5 (1.20%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.96%) Product Ownership
11 4 (0.96%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.96%) Social Media
12 3 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (0.72%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 51 (12.23%) Linux
2 23 (5.52%) Windows
3 14 (3.36%) Unix
4 11 (2.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.44%) CentOS
6 3 (0.72%) AIX
7 1 (0.24%) Debian
7 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (42.93%) DevOps
2 170 (40.77%) Agile
3 129 (30.94%) CI/CD
4 119 (28.54%) Microservices
5 102 (24.46%) Software Engineering
6 66 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
7 64 (15.35%) Analytics
7 64 (15.35%) Data Engineering
8 57 (13.67%) Open Source
9 54 (12.95%) Containerisation
10 52 (12.47%) Test Automation
11 49 (11.75%) TDD
12 44 (10.55%) Event-Driven
13 42 (10.07%) Data Pipeline
14 36 (8.63%) Data Modelling
14 36 (8.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 32 (7.67%) Clean Code
15 32 (7.67%) ETL
15 32 (7.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 31 (7.43%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 194 (46.52%) Java
2 154 (36.93%) Python
3 136 (32.61%) SQL
4 60 (14.39%) C#
5 55 (13.19%) Go
6 45 (10.79%) JavaScript
7 35 (8.39%) C++
8 26 (6.24%) TypeScript
9 21 (5.04%) Shell Script
10 19 (4.56%) Scala
11 15 (3.60%) Bash
12 11 (2.64%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.92%) Perl
14 6 (1.44%) Groovy
15 4 (0.96%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.96%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.96%) Rust
16 3 (0.72%) Korn
17 2 (0.48%) Lua
17 2 (0.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 99 (23.74%) Security Cleared
2 96 (23.02%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.00%) Degree
4 16 (3.84%) AWS Certified Developer
5 10 (2.40%) AWS Certification
5 10 (2.40%) Numerate Degree
6 5 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.72%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.72%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.24%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.08%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.36%) QA
3 9 (2.16%) GDPR
4 8 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (1.20%) NCSC
5 5 (1.20%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.96%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.96%) EMIR
6 4 (0.96%) MiFID
7 2 (0.48%) SEPA
8 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 144 (34.53%) Docker
2 3 (0.72%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 3 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.24%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 186 (44.60%) Kubernetes
2 105 (25.18%) Terraform
3 22 (5.28%) Prometheus
4 18 (4.32%) Grafana
5 17 (4.08%) Istio
6 13 (3.12%) Ansible
7 7 (1.68%) Rancher
8 6 (1.44%) Argo
8 6 (1.44%) HAProxy
8 6 (1.44%) Packer
9 5 (1.20%) Consul
9 5 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (1.20%) linkerd
9 5 (1.20%) Puppet
9 5 (1.20%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.72%) Control-M
10 3 (0.72%) logstash
10 3 (0.72%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.72%) Rundeck
11 2 (0.48%) Kibana
Vendors
1 53 (12.71%) Oracle
2 15 (3.60%) SAP
3 13 (3.12%) Databricks
4 12 (2.88%) Splunk
5 11 (2.64%) Microsoft
5 11 (2.64%) Sybase
6 9 (2.16%) Confluent
7 8 (1.92%) Google
7 8 (1.92%) IBM
8 7 (1.68%) TIBCO
9 6 (1.44%) MuleSoft
9 6 (1.44%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.20%) Apple
10 5 (1.20%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.20%) ESET
10 5 (1.20%) Okta
11 4 (0.96%) Cloudera
11 4 (0.96%) OpenLink
11 4 (0.96%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.96%) StreamSets