Kafka Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Apache Kafka
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 - 49
Rank change year-on-year - - -13
Contract jobs citing Kafka 11 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 4.93% - 0.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.30% - 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 3
10th Percentile £439 - £515
25th Percentile £457 - £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £516 - £666
90th Percentile £662 - £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £465 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 57 40 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 25.56% 19.05% 34.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 14 97
10th Percentile £357 £354 £385
25th Percentile £380 £364 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -21.74% +11.65%
75th Percentile £550 £519 £700
90th Percentile £640 £620 £759
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £465 £431 £575
% change year-on-year +7.89% -25.04% +11.92%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kafka in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for Kafka in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 2 (18.18%) Jupyter
1 2 (18.18%) nginx
1 2 (18.18%) Traefik
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (45.45%) Serverless
3 4 (36.36%) Kong
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon EMR
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (18.18%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (18.18%) Azure
5 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
5 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (9.09%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
1 2 (18.18%) SMS
1 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) MongoDB
2 4 (36.36%) MySQL
2 4 (36.36%) NoSQL
2 4 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (27.27%) Metadata
3 3 (27.27%) Metadata Repository
4 2 (18.18%) Data Lake
5 1 (9.09%) DocumentDB
5 1 (9.09%) Flink
5 1 (9.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) GitLab
2 6 (54.55%) Jenkins
3 5 (45.45%) SonarQube
4 4 (36.36%) Artifactory
4 4 (36.36%) Git
4 4 (36.36%) gulp
4 4 (36.36%) Maven
4 4 (36.36%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (54.55%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
1 5 (45.45%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Technical Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) Spring
1 6 (54.55%) Spring Boot
2 5 (45.45%) React
3 4 (36.36%) AngularJS
3 4 (36.36%) Apache CXF
3 4 (36.36%) Dropwizard
3 4 (36.36%) Express.js
3 4 (36.36%) Hibernate
3 4 (36.36%) JAX-RS
3 4 (36.36%) MEAN Stack
3 4 (36.36%) MERN Stack
3 4 (36.36%) Mongoose
3 4 (36.36%) Node.js
3 4 (36.36%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (36.36%) Sequelize
4 2 (18.18%) cloud-init
4 2 (18.18%) Keycloak
4 2 (18.18%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) CentOS
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
1 5 (45.45%) Full-Stack Development
1 5 (45.45%) Microservices
2 4 (36.36%) Event-Driven
2 4 (36.36%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 4 (36.36%) Open Source
2 4 (36.36%) Operational Stability
3 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (18.18%) Data Development
4 2 (18.18%) Data Integration
4 2 (18.18%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Identity Management
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (18.18%) Mobile Device Management
4 2 (18.18%) Observability
4 2 (18.18%) Secrets Management
4 2 (18.18%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Java
2 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
2 5 (45.45%) Python
3 4 (36.36%) SQL
4 2 (18.18%) Bash
4 2 (18.18%) Go
5 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) Security Cleared
2 8 (72.73%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) NCSC
2 1 (9.09%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Consul
2 2 (18.18%) Grafana
2 2 (18.18%) HAProxy
2 2 (18.18%) Istio
2 2 (18.18%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) linkerd
2 2 (18.18%) Packer
2 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
2 2 (18.18%) Rancher
2 2 (18.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Databricks
2 2 (18.18%) Apple
2 2 (18.18%) ESET
2 2 (18.18%) Okta
2 2 (18.18%) Splunk