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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 117 79
Rank change year-on-year +34 -38 -6
Contract jobs citing Kafka 400 384 832
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.21% 2.17% 3.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.33% 8.54% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 281 626
10th Percentile £425 £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 £688 £773
90th Percentile £838 £775 £816
England median daily rate £585 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +6.36% -15.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile £49.65 - £70.80
25th Percentile £65.25 - -
Median hourly rate £92.50 - £75.00
75th Percentile £93.75 - £90.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £85.60 £31.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year +171.75% -59.62% +0.65%

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 3,245 4,499 7,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.02% 25.44% 27.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,283 3,363 5,352
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £725
90th Percentile £838 £825 £810
England median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 24 40
10th Percentile £33.25 £16.25 £30.68
25th Percentile £35.00 £23.80 £41.97
Median hourly rate £52.50 £40.00 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -40.52% +38.43%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.13 £75.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £72.60 £82.33
England median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.65%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +3 62 £585 -7.14% 27
South London +13 18 £600 +23.08% 1
West London -4 5 £480 +1.05% 5
East London +18 2 £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 63 (15.75%) Apache Spark
2 58 (14.50%) Apache
3 45 (11.25%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (3.75%) Confluence
5 4 (1.00%) Camunda
5 4 (1.00%) Oracle Coherence
6 3 (0.75%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.50%) Alfresco
7 2 (0.50%) JBoss
7 2 (0.50%) MQSeries
7 2 (0.50%) nginx
7 2 (0.50%) Traefik
8 1 (0.25%) CICS
8 1 (0.25%) Luigi
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (0.75%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.00%) Endur
2 3 (0.75%) Oracle 11i
3 2 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.50%) Magento
3 2 (0.50%) Oracle Retail
3 2 (0.50%) SAP CX
3 2 (0.50%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.50%) Shopify
4 1 (0.25%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.25%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 218 (54.50%) AWS
2 99 (24.75%) Azure
3 59 (14.75%) Serverless
4 54 (13.50%) AWS Lambda
5 41 (10.25%) dbt
6 37 (9.25%) OpenShift
7 31 (7.75%) Amazon ECS
8 28 (7.00%) Amazon S3
8 28 (7.00%) Azure DevOps
9 27 (6.75%) GCP
9 27 (6.75%) GitHub
10 22 (5.50%) Azure AKS
11 20 (5.00%) Snowflake
12 17 (4.25%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (4.00%) Entra ID
14 14 (3.50%) Azure Service Bus
15 13 (3.25%) Amazon Kinesis
15 13 (3.25%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (3.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 11 (2.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.25%) DNS
2 6 (1.50%) HTTP
3 3 (0.75%) SSH
4 2 (0.50%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (0.50%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.25%) Firewall
5 1 (0.25%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (19.75%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (15.50%) MongoDB
3 40 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 39 (9.75%) NoSQL
5 38 (9.50%) Amazon Athena
6 32 (8.00%) Apache Iceberg
7 30 (7.50%) Dremio
8 29 (7.25%) Apache Ignite
9 28 (7.00%) Apache Arrow
9 28 (7.00%) Redis
10 25 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
11 24 (6.00%) Big Data
11 24 (6.00%) SQL Server
12 21 (5.25%) Data Warehouse
13 19 (4.75%) Data Lake
14 18 (4.50%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (3.25%) DynamoDB
15 13 (3.25%) MySQL
16 12 (3.00%) DB2
16 12 (3.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 47 (11.75%) Jenkins
2 35 (8.75%) JUnit
3 33 (8.25%) Artifactory
4 32 (8.00%) Git
5 21 (5.25%) Gradle
5 21 (5.25%) JIRA
6 17 (4.25%) Mockito
7 15 (3.75%) GitLab
8 13 (3.25%) Liquibase
9 11 (2.75%) Maven
10 9 (2.25%) Postman
11 8 (2.00%) Cucumber
12 7 (1.75%) Bitbucket
12 7 (1.75%) REST Assured
12 7 (1.75%) Selenium
12 7 (1.75%) SoapUI
13 6 (1.50%) Cypress.io
13 6 (1.50%) JMeter
13 6 (1.50%) TeamCity
13 6 (1.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 146 (36.50%) Finance
2 96 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 68 (17.00%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (16.75%) Banking
5 57 (14.25%) Public Sector
6 48 (12.00%) Front Office
7 42 (10.50%) Investment Banking
8 16 (4.00%) Retail
9 13 (3.25%) Marketing
10 11 (2.75%) Electronics
10 11 (2.75%) Manufacturing
10 11 (2.75%) Telecoms
11 9 (2.25%) Back Office
12 8 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.00%) Police
15 3 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.75%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 2 (0.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 157 (39.25%) Developer
2 77 (19.25%) Java Developer
3 75 (18.75%) Data Engineer
4 64 (16.00%) Senior
5 48 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 47 (11.75%) AWS Engineer
7 42 (10.50%) Python Engineer
8 41 (10.25%) Senior Developer
9 38 (9.50%) Lead
10 35 (8.75%) AWS DevOps
10 35 (8.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 33 (8.25%) Architect
12 30 (7.50%) C# Developer
13 28 (7.00%) Senior Java Developer
14 24 (6.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 21 (5.25%) C++ Developer
16 20 (5.00%) C++/C# Developer
17 19 (4.75%) Software Engineer
18 17 (4.25%) Lead Developer
19 14 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (18.50%) Spring
2 59 (14.75%) Spring Boot
3 46 (11.50%) React
4 43 (10.75%) .NET
5 35 (8.75%) J2EE
5 35 (8.75%) PySpark
6 30 (7.50%) REST
7 28 (7.00%) ASP.NET
8 27 (6.75%) Web Services
9 25 (6.25%) RESTful
10 24 (6.00%) .NET Core
11 23 (5.75%) gRPC
12 21 (5.25%) WCF
13 20 (5.00%) HTML
14 19 (4.75%) OAuth
14 19 (4.75%) Swagger
15 16 (4.00%) ActiveMQ
15 16 (4.00%) AngularJS
15 16 (4.00%) OpenAPI
15 16 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 41 (10.25%) Distributed Systems
2 33 (8.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 17 (4.25%) Legacy Applications
4 16 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 16 (4.00%) Equities
5 14 (3.50%) Management Information System
6 11 (2.75%) Cloud Native
6 11 (2.75%) Derivative
7 8 (2.00%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.00%) Market Risk
7 8 (2.00%) PKI
8 7 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.75%) Replication
9 5 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.00%) Social Media
11 3 (0.75%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.75%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (0.75%) Educational Technology
11 3 (0.75%) Product Ownership
11 3 (0.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 50 (12.50%) Linux
2 24 (6.00%) Windows
3 12 (3.00%) Unix
4 8 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.00%) AIX
6 3 (0.75%) CentOS
7 1 (0.25%) Debian
7 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (43.25%) DevOps
2 161 (40.25%) Agile
3 121 (30.25%) CI/CD
4 110 (27.50%) Microservices
5 100 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 65 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
7 61 (15.25%) Analytics
8 60 (15.00%) Data Engineering
9 57 (14.25%) Open Source
10 52 (13.00%) TDD
11 51 (12.75%) Test Automation
12 50 (12.50%) Containerisation
13 43 (10.75%) Event-Driven
14 41 (10.25%) Data Pipeline
15 36 (9.00%) Data Modelling
15 36 (9.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 31 (7.75%) Asset Management
16 31 (7.75%) ETL
16 31 (7.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 30 (7.50%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 188 (47.00%) Java
2 149 (37.25%) Python
3 134 (33.50%) SQL
4 54 (13.50%) C#
5 51 (12.75%) Go
6 42 (10.50%) JavaScript
7 32 (8.00%) C++
8 25 (6.25%) TypeScript
9 22 (5.50%) Shell Script
10 14 (3.50%) Scala
11 12 (3.00%) Bash
12 11 (2.75%) PL/SQL
13 9 (2.25%) Perl
14 6 (1.50%) Groovy
15 4 (1.00%) Korn
15 4 (1.00%) Kotlin
15 4 (1.00%) PowerShell
16 3 (0.75%) Rust
17 2 (0.50%) Lua
17 2 (0.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 93 (23.25%) Security Cleared
2 90 (22.50%) SC Cleared
3 27 (6.75%) Degree
4 14 (3.50%) AWS Certified Developer
5 11 (2.75%) Numerate Degree
6 6 (1.50%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.75%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.75%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.50%) QA
3 9 (2.25%) GDPR
4 8 (2.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (1.50%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.75%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.75%) EMIR
6 3 (0.75%) MiFID
6 3 (0.75%) SEPA
7 2 (0.50%) NCSC
8 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.25%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 132 (33.00%) Docker
2 3 (0.75%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.25%) HDFS
3 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 169 (42.25%) Kubernetes
2 98 (24.50%) Terraform
3 18 (4.50%) Prometheus
4 14 (3.50%) Ansible
4 14 (3.50%) Grafana
5 11 (2.75%) Istio
6 5 (1.25%) Puppet
7 4 (1.00%) Rancher
8 3 (0.75%) Argo
8 3 (0.75%) Control-M
8 3 (0.75%) HAProxy
8 3 (0.75%) Packer
8 3 (0.75%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.75%) Rundeck
9 2 (0.50%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.50%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.50%) linkerd
9 2 (0.50%) logstash
9 2 (0.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 53 (13.25%) Oracle
2 15 (3.75%) SAP
3 12 (3.00%) Sybase
4 11 (2.75%) Databricks
4 11 (2.75%) Microsoft
5 9 (2.25%) Confluent
5 9 (2.25%) IBM
5 9 (2.25%) Splunk
6 8 (2.00%) Google
7 7 (1.75%) TIBCO
8 6 (1.50%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.25%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.00%) Cloudera
10 4 (1.00%) OpenLink
10 4 (1.00%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.75%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (0.75%) Palantir
11 3 (0.75%) Perforce
11 3 (0.75%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.50%) Jitterbit