Kafka Contracts in the Midlands

Apache Kafka
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 132 146
Rank change year-on-year +40 +14 +34
Contract jobs citing Kafka 30 7 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.47% 0.25% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.94% 1.69% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 4 5
10th Percentile £313 - £490
25th Percentile £340 £275 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £349 £525
Median % change year-on-year +23.58% -33.57% -
75th Percentile £500 £492 £606
90th Percentile £542 £647 £639
England median daily rate £575 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.73 -
England median hourly rate £78.70 £28.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +181.07% -64.10% +12.23%

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 378 414 567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 18.57% 14.88% 17.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 283 441
10th Percentile £305 £290 £313
25th Percentile £373 £361 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +2.63% -
75th Percentile £539 £621 £594
90th Percentile £638 £710 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £556
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.08% -2.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 18 0
10th Percentile £31.46 £10.90 -
25th Percentile - £14.16 -
Median hourly rate £33.91 £26.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.18% - -
75th Percentile £50.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile - £57.38 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £48.43 £65.00
% change year-on-year +29.05% -25.49% +23.81%

Kafka
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

Kafka
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

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the Midlands over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

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 30 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
West Midlands +27 15 £500 +66.67% 191
East Midlands +21 14 £356 -10.44% 126
Kafka
England

Kafka
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 6 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (13.33%) Apache
3 2 (6.67%) Confluence
4 1 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (3.33%) Mule
4 1 (3.33%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 6 (20.00%) SAP PM
2 2 (6.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 12 (40.00%) AWS
2 8 (26.67%) Azure
2 8 (26.67%) Serverless
3 7 (23.33%) Amazon S3
3 7 (23.33%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (23.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 6 (20.00%) Collibra
4 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 5 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
6 4 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (13.33%) Power Platform
7 3 (10.00%) Amazon Glacier
7 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (10.00%) GitHub
7 3 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (6.67%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (6.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) Firewall
2 1 (3.33%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (3.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 8 (26.67%) Delta Lake
3 6 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (20.00%) Big Data
3 6 (20.00%) GIS
4 5 (16.67%) Hadoop
4 5 (16.67%) Oracle Database
5 4 (13.33%) Data Lake
5 4 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (13.33%) MongoDB
5 4 (13.33%) Power BI
6 3 (10.00%) DynamoDB
6 3 (10.00%) Flink
7 2 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (6.67%) Apache Hudi
7 2 (6.67%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (6.67%) Parquet
7 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (16.67%) GitLab
3 4 (13.33%) JUnit
4 3 (10.00%) IntelliJ
4 3 (10.00%) JIRA
4 3 (10.00%) Maven
5 2 (6.67%) Bitbucket
5 2 (6.67%) CA Release Automation
5 2 (6.67%) Git
5 2 (6.67%) Gradle
5 2 (6.67%) HP UFT
5 2 (6.67%) NetBeans
5 2 (6.67%) Selenium
5 2 (6.67%) Subversion
6 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
1 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Banking
3 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Finance
4 2 (6.67%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.33%) Legal
5 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Architect
1 9 (30.00%) Developer
2 7 (23.33%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Data Architect
5 4 (13.33%) Data Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Data Migration Specialist
6 3 (10.00%) Migration Specialist
7 2 (6.67%) AWS Architect
7 2 (6.67%) AWS Solution Architect
7 2 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Java Architect
7 2 (6.67%) Java Solutions Architect
7 2 (6.67%) Scala Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Senior
7 2 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Big Data Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) GCP Data Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) GCP Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (26.67%) Spring
2 6 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 4 (13.33%) J2EE
4 3 (10.00%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (10.00%) Hibernate
4 3 (10.00%) JSON
4 3 (10.00%) Node.js
4 3 (10.00%) REST
4 3 (10.00%) RESTful
4 3 (10.00%) Web Services
5 2 (6.67%) AngularJS
5 2 (6.67%) Apache Avro
5 2 (6.67%) Bootstrap
5 2 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (6.67%) Gherkin
5 2 (6.67%) HTML5
5 2 (6.67%) RAML
5 2 (6.67%) Spring Integration
5 2 (6.67%) Spring MVC
5 2 (6.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) IoT
2 6 (20.00%) SCADA
3 4 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 4 (13.33%) Public Cloud
4 3 (10.00%) Data Structures
4 3 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (10.00%) Onboarding
5 2 (6.67%) Mainframe
5 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
6 1 (3.33%) Data Fabric
6 1 (3.33%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) CI/CD
2 13 (43.33%) ETL
3 12 (40.00%) Data Governance
4 11 (36.67%) Agile
4 11 (36.67%) Microservices
5 9 (30.00%) Analytics
5 9 (30.00%) Data Engineering
5 9 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (30.00%) Event-Driven
6 8 (26.67%) Data Integration
6 8 (26.67%) Data Modelling
6 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (23.33%) Artificial Intelligence
7 7 (23.33%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (23.33%) DevOps
7 7 (23.33%) SDLC
8 6 (20.00%) Containerisation
8 6 (20.00%) Data Security
8 6 (20.00%) Machine Learning
9 5 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (53.33%) Java
2 15 (50.00%) SQL
3 10 (33.33%) Python
4 6 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (16.67%) Scala
6 3 (10.00%) Bicep
6 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (10.00%) Degree
3 2 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 5 (16.67%) GDPR
3 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 9 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) Kubernetes
2 6 (20.00%) Terraform
3 2 (6.67%) logstash
3 2 (6.67%) Progress Chef
3 2 (6.67%) Puppet
4 1 (3.33%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.33%) Grafana
4 1 (3.33%) Kibana
4 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.33%) QRadar
4 1 (3.33%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Databricks
2 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (23.33%) Oracle
3 6 (20.00%) Informatica
3 6 (20.00%) SAP
4 2 (6.67%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (6.67%) Google
4 2 (6.67%) Splunk
5 1 (3.33%) Checkmarx
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco
5 1 (3.33%) MuleSoft
5 1 (3.33%) Solace
5 1 (3.33%) Veracode