Kafka Contracts in London

Apache Kafka
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Kafka skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Kafka over the 6 months to 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 77 72
Rank change year-on-year -33 -5 +14
Contract jobs citing Kafka 393 820 1,375
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.26% 3.19% 3.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.76% 11.86% 11.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 620 1,008
10th Percentile £413 £463 £504
25th Percentile £463 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £700 £775 £750
90th Percentile £795 £825 £828
England median daily rate £550 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -15.38% - +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 4
10th Percentile - £71.85 £54.23
25th Percentile - £75.00 £56.81
Median hourly rate - £82.50 £69.50
Median % change year-on-year - +18.71% -
75th Percentile - £90.00 £78.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £28.00 £78.00 £69.50
% change year-on-year -64.10% +12.23% +23.01%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

Kafka is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,485 6,912 11,980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.76% 26.89% 31.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,351 5,176 9,300
10th Percentile £375 £413 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £710
90th Percentile £838 £810 £800
England median daily rate £550 £557 £575
% change year-on-year -1.26% -3.13% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 37 65
10th Percentile £16.25 £30.45 £31.75
25th Percentile £23.80 £46.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £70.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +47.37% -4.67%
75th Percentile £62.50 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £71.80 £85.80 £76.54
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +5.26%

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 22 May 2024.

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
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 22 May 2024. 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 +2 71 £650 +1.96% 15
West London +26 25 £475 -26.92% 3
South London +7 9 £488 -2.50%
East London -5 1 £436 -35.41% 1
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 56 (14.25%) Apache
2 52 (13.23%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.29%) Confluence
5 7 (1.78%) nginx
6 3 (0.76%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.76%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.76%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.51%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.51%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.51%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (2.29%) Endur
2 2 (0.51%) Shopify
3 1 (0.25%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.25%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.25%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 210 (53.44%) AWS
2 107 (27.23%) Azure
3 61 (15.52%) GCP
4 55 (13.99%) Serverless
5 42 (10.69%) Amazon Kinesis
6 37 (9.41%) AWS Lambda
7 26 (6.62%) Amazon S3
8 25 (6.36%) Azure AKS
8 25 (6.36%) GitHub
9 24 (6.11%) Azure Service Bus
10 20 (5.09%) Amazon EMR
11 16 (4.07%) Amazon MSK
12 15 (3.82%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (3.82%) Azure App Service
12 15 (3.82%) Azure Event Grid
13 14 (3.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (3.31%) OpenShift
15 12 (3.05%) Azure Data Factory
15 12 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (2.80%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (8.65%) HTTP
2 7 (1.78%) DNS
3 4 (1.02%) VPN
4 3 (0.76%) Firewall
4 3 (0.76%) IPv4
4 3 (0.76%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.76%) SSL
5 2 (0.51%) AMQP
5 2 (0.51%) DHCP
5 2 (0.51%) Internet
6 1 (0.25%) FTP
6 1 (0.25%) MQTT
6 1 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (12.98%) Apache Cassandra
2 48 (12.21%) MongoDB
3 44 (11.20%) NoSQL
4 38 (9.67%) Flink
5 34 (8.65%) SQL Server
6 24 (6.11%) Amazon Redshift
7 23 (5.85%) Big Data
7 23 (5.85%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (5.85%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (4.83%) Hadoop
8 19 (4.83%) Relational Database
9 16 (4.07%) Azure SQL Database
9 16 (4.07%) DynamoDB
10 15 (3.82%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (3.05%) Parquet
12 11 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (2.80%) Data Lake
12 11 (2.80%) MySQL
13 9 (2.29%) Couchbase
14 8 (2.04%) HBase
Development Applications
1 39 (9.92%) Jenkins
2 29 (7.38%) Git
3 19 (4.83%) Cypress.io
4 18 (4.58%) Mockito
5 15 (3.82%) JIRA
6 13 (3.31%) GitLab
7 12 (3.05%) Maven
8 9 (2.29%) JMeter
9 8 (2.04%) TeamCity
10 7 (1.78%) Selenium
11 6 (1.53%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.27%) Pylint
12 5 (1.27%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.27%) Subversion
13 4 (1.02%) Cucumber
13 4 (1.02%) JUnit
13 4 (1.02%) Snyk
14 3 (0.76%) IBM UrbanCode
14 3 (0.76%) Katalon Studio
14 3 (0.76%) Travis CI
General
1 77 (19.59%) Finance
2 69 (17.56%) Social Skills
3 37 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (9.41%) Banking
4 24 (6.11%) Public Sector
5 9 (2.29%) Investment Banking
5 9 (2.29%) Telecoms
6 7 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (1.27%) Front Office
8 4 (1.02%) Marketing
8 4 (1.02%) Retail
8 4 (1.02%) Retail Banking
9 2 (0.51%) Back Office
9 2 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.51%) Legal
9 2 (0.51%) Publishing
10 1 (0.25%) Electronics
10 1 (0.25%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.25%) Games
10 1 (0.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 162 (41.22%) Developer
2 64 (16.28%) Data Engineer
3 63 (16.03%) Senior
4 60 (15.27%) Java Developer
5 44 (11.20%) Software Engineer
6 40 (10.18%) Scala Developer
7 33 (8.40%) Architect
8 28 (7.12%) Lead
9 26 (6.62%) DevOps Engineer
10 24 (6.11%) Senior Developer
11 23 (5.85%) Python Engineer
12 20 (5.09%) AWS Engineer
12 20 (5.09%) Senior Software Engineer
13 19 (4.83%) Data Architect
13 19 (4.83%) Full Stack Developer
14 18 (4.58%) Azure Engineer
15 16 (4.07%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 15 (3.82%) Senior Java Developer
17 14 (3.56%) Full Stack Java Developer
17 14 (3.56%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (14.50%) RESTful
2 39 (9.92%) Akka
3 36 (9.16%) .NET
4 33 (8.40%) React
5 31 (7.89%) Spring
6 30 (7.63%) Spring Boot
7 23 (5.85%) REST
8 20 (5.09%) .NET Core
8 20 (5.09%) HTML
9 18 (4.58%) RabbitMQ
10 17 (4.33%) ActiveMQ
10 17 (4.33%) JAX-RS
11 16 (4.07%) Node.js
12 14 (3.56%) JSON
13 13 (3.31%) AngularJS
13 13 (3.31%) Elastic Stack
13 13 (3.31%) Web Services
14 12 (3.05%) Apache Avro
14 12 (3.05%) CSS
15 11 (2.80%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.40%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (4.33%) Algorithms
3 15 (3.82%) Greenfield Project
4 14 (3.56%) Cloud Native
5 13 (3.31%) Hedge funds
6 12 (3.05%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (2.29%) Derivative
9 8 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.78%) Machine to Machine
10 7 (1.78%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.53%) Market Risk
12 5 (1.27%) Product Ownership
13 4 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (1.02%) Onboarding
14 3 (0.76%) Data Fabric
14 3 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
14 3 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
14 3 (0.76%) Solar Panel
15 2 (0.51%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 71 (18.07%) Linux
2 42 (10.69%) Unix
3 14 (3.56%) Mac OS X
4 4 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.51%) Windows
6 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (37.66%) Agile
2 127 (32.32%) Microservices
3 125 (31.81%) DevOps
4 102 (25.95%) CI/CD
5 79 (20.10%) TDD
6 73 (18.58%) Software Engineering
7 63 (16.03%) Test Automation
8 51 (12.98%) Data Pipeline
9 47 (11.96%) Pair Programming
10 44 (11.20%) Problem-Solving
11 38 (9.67%) ETL
11 38 (9.67%) Machine Learning
12 34 (8.65%) Containerisation
12 34 (8.65%) Unit Testing
13 33 (8.40%) Full Stack Development
14 32 (8.14%) Data Engineering
15 30 (7.63%) Clean Code
15 30 (7.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 29 (7.38%) GitOps
17 28 (7.12%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 151 (38.42%) Java
2 145 (36.90%) Python
3 107 (27.23%) SQL
4 67 (17.05%) Scala
5 42 (10.69%) Go
6 41 (10.43%) C#
7 32 (8.14%) JavaScript
8 28 (7.12%) Shell Script
9 21 (5.34%) C++
10 12 (3.05%) Perl
11 11 (2.80%) Bash
12 10 (2.54%) Groovy
12 10 (2.54%) TypeScript
13 9 (2.29%) PHP
14 6 (1.53%) Ruby
15 5 (1.27%) Kotlin
15 5 (1.27%) Rust
16 4 (1.02%) C
16 4 (1.02%) Haskell
17 3 (0.76%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 86 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 81 (20.61%) SC Cleared
3 31 (7.89%) Degree
4 11 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.04%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.02%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.02%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.29%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.27%) QA
3 3 (0.76%) GDPR
4 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.51%) MiFID
4 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.25%) GRC
System Software
1 104 (26.46%) Docker
2 11 (2.80%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 5 (1.27%) HDFS
4 4 (1.02%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 185 (47.07%) Kubernetes
2 52 (13.23%) Terraform
3 31 (7.89%) Grafana
3 31 (7.89%) Prometheus
4 19 (4.83%) Ansible
5 14 (3.56%) Consul
6 10 (2.54%) Argo
7 8 (2.04%) Packer
8 7 (1.78%) Puppet
9 5 (1.27%) Hadoop YARN
10 3 (0.76%) Istio
10 3 (0.76%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.51%) Ambari
11 2 (0.51%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.51%) Oozie
12 1 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.25%) Kibana
12 1 (0.25%) Rancher
12 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
12 1 (0.25%) Salt
Vendors
1 36 (9.16%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.38%) Oracle
3 21 (5.34%) Databricks
4 20 (5.09%) Typelevel
5 11 (2.80%) SaltStack
6 10 (2.54%) Google
6 10 (2.54%) SAP
6 10 (2.54%) Splunk
7 8 (2.04%) Confluent
8 7 (1.78%) Informatica
9 5 (1.27%) IBM
10 4 (1.02%) Adobe
10 4 (1.02%) Bloomberg
10 4 (1.02%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.02%) OpenLink
10 4 (1.02%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.02%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.76%) Micro Focus
11 3 (0.76%) New Relic
11 3 (0.76%) TIBCO