Kafka Engineer Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Kafka Engineer
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The median Kafka Engineer daily rate in Newcastle upon Tyne is £510, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
25 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Kafka Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.22% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £510 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Newcastle upon Tyne

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne with a recognized job title 442 216 187
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.72% 97.30% 89.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 165 91
10th Percentile £260 £263 £335
25th Percentile £375 £358 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -8.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £590
90th Percentile £596 £625 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 3 22
10th Percentile £17.00 £21.05 £12.66
25th Percentile £47.25 £30.50 £18.69
Median hourly rate £61.16 £47.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.76% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.38 £50.00
90th Percentile - £51.35 £67.88
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £60.00 £13.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +361.54% -25.71% -

Kafka Engineer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne

For the 6 months to 25 April 2026, Kafka Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Newcastle upon Tyne region featuring Kafka Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) SFIA
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

Kafka Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) SFIA
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
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