Kafka Contract Job Trends in Norfolk

Apache Kafka
East of England > Norfolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Norfolk requiring Kafka skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Kafka 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Norfolk 2.75% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 46.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £500 £318 £488
% change year-on-year +57.14% -34.73% -7.14%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Norfolk

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 Norfolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 13 8 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Norfolk 5.96% 25.81% 8.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 3
10th Percentile - £356 £202
25th Percentile £413 - £204
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £208
Median % change year-on-year - +116.35% -40.57%
75th Percentile £509 - £298
90th Percentile £549 - £352
East of England median daily rate £550 £500 £498
% change year-on-year +10.00% +0.50% -4.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.38 - £22.75
Median hourly rate £20.75 - £24.50
75th Percentile £21.13 - £26.25
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £80.68 £43.00
% change year-on-year -19.43% +87.62% -26.81%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Norfolk

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kafka relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Norfolk.

Kafka job vacancy trend in Norfolk

Kafka
Daily Rate Trend in Norfolk

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Norfolk citing Kafka.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Norfolk citing Kafka

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in Norfolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Norfolk region over the 6 months to 27 April 2026. 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
Norwich - 6 £425 - 1
Kafka
East of England

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Norfolk 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) GCP
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Boomi
4 1 (16.67%) Collibra
4 1 (16.67%) dbt
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Metadata
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DataOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) REST
2 3 (50.00%) JSON
3 1 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (16.67%) Apache Avro
3 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
3 1 (16.67%) Node.js
3 1 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (16.67%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) Spring
3 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (16.67%) Spring MVC
3 1 (16.67%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (33.33%) Marketing Technology
2 2 (33.33%) Reference Data
3 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Data Governance
1 5 (83.33%) ETL
2 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 4 (66.67%) Translating Business Requirements
3 3 (50.00%) Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
3 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (50.00%) Validation
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (33.33%) CRM
4 2 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
4 2 (33.33%) Data Management
4 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
4 2 (33.33%) ERP
4 2 (33.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Grafana
2 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Informatica
1 3 (50.00%) Talend
2 1 (16.67%) Confluent
2 1 (16.67%) MuleSoft