Kafka Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Apache Kafka
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Kafka skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
14 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 - 27
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing Kafka 8 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 3.81% - 0.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.51% - 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £423 - -
25th Percentile £458 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile £473 - £625
90th Percentile £477 - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £465 - £600
% change year-on-year - - -7.69%

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 41 30 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 19.52% 18.40% 31.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 17 38
10th Percentile £322 £356 £380
25th Percentile £409 £413 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £501 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% -16.58% +9.09%
75th Percentile £503 £610 £709
90th Percentile £575 £660 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £465 £501 £600
% change year-on-year -7.09% -16.58% +9.09%

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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

Kafka
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Kafka.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Kafka

Kafka
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 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Kong
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (25.00%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (37.50%) MySQL
2 3 (37.50%) NoSQL
2 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (12.50%) DocumentDB
3 1 (12.50%) Flink
3 1 (12.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 3 (37.50%) Artifactory
2 3 (37.50%) Git
2 3 (37.50%) GitLab
2 3 (37.50%) gulp
2 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (37.50%) Maven
2 3 (37.50%) Mockito
2 3 (37.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (37.50%) Java Developer
3 3 (37.50%) Senior
3 3 (37.50%) Senior Developer
3 3 (37.50%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) JAX-RS
2 4 (50.00%) React
3 3 (37.50%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (37.50%) AngularJS
3 3 (37.50%) Apache CXF
3 3 (37.50%) Dropwizard
3 3 (37.50%) Express.js
3 3 (37.50%) Hibernate
3 3 (37.50%) MEAN Stack
3 3 (37.50%) MERN Stack
3 3 (37.50%) Mongoose
3 3 (37.50%) Node.js
3 3 (37.50%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (37.50%) Sequelize
3 3 (37.50%) Spring
3 3 (37.50%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Mac OS X
1 3 (37.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Microservices
2 4 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (50.00%) TDD
2 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) BDD
3 3 (37.50%) Continuous Deployment
3 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven
3 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 3 (37.50%) Open Source
3 3 (37.50%) Operational Stability
3 3 (37.50%) Pair Programming
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Responsive Web Design
3 3 (37.50%) Web Design
3 3 (37.50%) Web Development
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Data Science
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (37.50%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) Python
4 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
3 Kafka jobs in Tyne and Wear