Kafka Contracts in the North East

Apache Kafka
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 27 - 56
Rank change year-on-year - - -16
Contract jobs citing Kafka 11 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 3.44% - 0.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.46% - 2.50%
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
England median daily rate £585 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +6.36% -15.38% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 63 56 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 19.69% 16.57% 28.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 17 100
10th Percentile £354 £334 £380
25th Percentile £380 £363 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £431 £575
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -25.04% +12.20%
75th Percentile £538 £501 £681
90th Percentile £629 £590 £758
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.50
Median hourly rate - £20.77 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year - -57.61% -1.01%
75th Percentile - £27.12 £49.50
90th Percentile - £38.56 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Kafka as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the North East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kafka in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Kafka in the North East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in the North East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in the North East

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the North East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Tyne and Wear - 11 £465 - 10
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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