Kafka Contract Job Trends in the North East

Apache Kafka
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Kafka skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
13 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - 32
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing Kafka 8 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 2.83% - 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.67% - 1.82%
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 - -
England median daily rate £550 £622 £675
% change year-on-year -11.58% -7.85% +5.88%

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 48 53 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 16.96% 19.49% 22.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 23 38
10th Percentile £325 £328 £355
25th Percentile £416 £375 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -25.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £509 £584 £709
90th Percentile £575 £646 £720
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.04%
England median hourly rate £54.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.60% +4.17% -3.23%

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

Kafka
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Kafka.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Kafka

Kafka
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 13 September 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 - 8 £465 - 3
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 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
295 Kafka jobs in England