Kafka Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Apache Kafka
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Kafka skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 116 123
Rank change year-on-year -5 +7 +47
Contract jobs citing Kafka 43 16 11
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 1.39% 0.64% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.84% 3.68% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 9 7
10th Percentile £341 £321 £393
25th Percentile £409 £356 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -10.11%
75th Percentile £575 £490 £535
90th Percentile £588 £728 £600
England median daily rate £550 £613 £635
% change year-on-year -10.20% -3.54% +0.79%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 629 435 393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 20.35% 17.34% 14.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 276 293
10th Percentile £358 £350 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year - +9.79% -8.92%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £569
90th Percentile £686 £725 £685
England median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 7
10th Percentile £20.25 - £17.35
25th Percentile £25.15 £26.25 £19.16
Median hourly rate £50.00 £27.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% -9.84% +55.10%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £49.88
90th Percentile - - £59.60
England median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -12.46% +21.50% -17.69%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kafka relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Kafka job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Kafka
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Kafka.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Kafka

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in the Midlands

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
West Midlands -11 26 £550 -2.22% 6
East Midlands -5 17 £420 +17.98% 6
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (11.63%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.98%) Apache
2 3 (6.98%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.98%) OpenStack
3 2 (4.65%) Mule
4 1 (2.33%) Camunda
4 1 (2.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 17 (39.53%) GitHub
2 16 (37.21%) Azure
3 15 (34.88%) Azure Data Factory
4 13 (30.23%) AWS
5 6 (13.95%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (9.30%) GCP
7 3 (6.98%) Amazon S3
7 3 (6.98%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon Glacier
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (2.33%) AWS Data Pipeline
8 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.33%) Kong
8 1 (2.33%) Serverless
8 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) SSL
1 1 (2.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (30.23%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (27.91%) NoSQL
2 12 (27.91%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (23.26%) MongoDB
4 6 (13.95%) Metadata
5 3 (6.98%) Aerospike
5 3 (6.98%) Apache Hive
5 3 (6.98%) Big Data
5 3 (6.98%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (6.98%) Hadoop
5 3 (6.98%) HBase
5 3 (6.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (4.65%) DynamoDB
6 2 (4.65%) MariaDB
6 2 (4.65%) Redis
7 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.33%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 9 (20.93%) GitLab
2 8 (18.60%) JUnit
3 6 (13.95%) Git
3 6 (13.95%) Jenkins
4 4 (9.30%) JIRA
5 3 (6.98%) SonarQube
6 2 (4.65%) Bitbucket
6 2 (4.65%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (4.65%) CircleCI
General
1 16 (37.21%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.93%) Banking
3 8 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (13.95%) Finance
5 3 (6.98%) Retail Banking
5 3 (6.98%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.65%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (39.53%) Developer
2 14 (32.56%) Senior
3 13 (30.23%) Data Engineer
4 12 (27.91%) Java Developer
5 11 (25.58%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Architect
7 3 (6.98%) AWS Architect
7 3 (6.98%) Hadoop Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Kafka Architect
7 3 (6.98%) Lead
7 3 (6.98%) Scala Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.65%) AWS Data Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) AWS Solution Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Elasticsearch Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Engineering Specialist
8 2 (4.65%) Search Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Security Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (25.58%) Keycloak
2 9 (20.93%) Spring
3 7 (16.28%) Gherkin
3 7 (16.28%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (13.95%) Spring Boot
5 5 (11.63%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (9.30%) pytest
6 4 (9.30%) REST
7 3 (6.98%) Node.js
7 3 (6.98%) RAML
7 3 (6.98%) RESTful
7 3 (6.98%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (6.98%) Swagger
8 2 (4.65%) J2EE
8 2 (4.65%) PySpark
8 2 (4.65%) Spring Batch
9 1 (2.33%) Jest
9 1 (2.33%) SignalR
9 1 (2.33%) Spring WebFlux
9 1 (2.33%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (13.95%) Cloud Native
3 4 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (9.30%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (6.98%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (6.98%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (6.98%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.98%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.33%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Linux
1 2 (4.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (48.84%) Data Engineering
2 18 (41.86%) Data Pipeline
3 17 (39.53%) Microservices
4 16 (37.21%) DevOps
4 16 (37.21%) ETL
5 15 (34.88%) Containerisation
6 13 (30.23%) CI/CD
6 13 (30.23%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (27.91%) Agile
7 12 (27.91%) Data Architecture
8 11 (25.58%) Batch Processing
8 11 (25.58%) DataOps
8 11 (25.58%) Test Automation
9 10 (23.26%) Unit Testing
10 9 (20.93%) SDLC
11 6 (13.95%) Analytics
11 6 (13.95%) Data Protection
11 6 (13.95%) Integration Testing
11 6 (13.95%) Mentoring
11 6 (13.95%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (46.51%) Python
2 14 (32.56%) Go
2 14 (32.56%) Java
3 6 (13.95%) SQL
4 4 (9.30%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.98%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (30.23%) Security Cleared
2 11 (25.58%) Azure Certification
2 11 (25.58%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.65%) QA
System Software
1 15 (34.88%) Docker
2 3 (6.98%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (34.88%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.98%) Ansible
2 3 (6.98%) Argo
2 3 (6.98%) Grafana
2 3 (6.98%) Hadoop YARN
2 3 (6.98%) Oozie
2 3 (6.98%) Terraform
3 2 (4.65%) Kibana
3 2 (4.65%) logstash
Vendors
1 4 (9.30%) Databricks
2 3 (6.98%) Checkmarx
2 3 (6.98%) Informatica
2 3 (6.98%) Talend
3 2 (4.65%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.33%) AVEVA
4 1 (2.33%) Solace