Kafka Contracts in the Midlands

Apache Kafka
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 147 176
Rank change year-on-year +20 +29 -33
Contract jobs citing Kafka 8 13 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.30% 0.39% 0.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.06% 2.23% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 15
10th Percentile - £490 £398
25th Percentile £275 £494 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -24.29% +5.00% +23.46%
75th Percentile £550 £606 £731
90th Percentile £670 £639 £850
England median daily rate £550 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -15.38% - +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £21.73 - -
England median hourly rate £31.50 £78.00 £69.50
% change year-on-year -59.62% +12.23% +23.01%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

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 the Midlands 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 388 582 899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.42% 17.46% 18.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 452 690
10th Percentile £278 £313 £360
25th Percentile £361 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - +18.75%
75th Percentile £622 £588 £550
90th Percentile £723 £700 £638
England median daily rate £550 £560 £565
% change year-on-year -1.79% -0.88% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 9
10th Percentile £10.90 - £16.65
25th Percentile £14.16 - £20.25
Median hourly rate £26.25 - £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.08%
75th Percentile £39.98 - £45.00
90th Percentile £56.25 - £46.67
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +9.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in the Midlands

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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 14 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
West Midlands +14 5 £400 -23.81% 6
East Midlands - 3 £398 - 6
Kafka
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (12.50%) Apache Hive
3 1 (12.50%) Flink
3 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) GitLab
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) Travis CI
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) JUnit
General
1 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Back Office
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Police
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Full Stack Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
2 1 (12.50%) gRPC
2 1 (12.50%) JMS
2 1 (12.50%) RAML
2 1 (12.50%) React
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) SOAP
2 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 1 (12.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (25.00%) Data Management
3 2 (25.00%) Data Science
3 2 (25.00%) Data Security
3 2 (25.00%) ETL
3 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) Service Management
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Optimisation
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) C#
4 1 (12.50%) R
4 1 (12.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Confluent
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) F5
2 1 (12.50%) ION Trading
2 1 (12.50%) Qualys
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk