Confluent Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Confluent
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring knowledge or experience of Confluent products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Confluent over the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Confluent, Inc.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 206 158 187
Rank change year-on-year -48 +29 +57
Contract jobs citing Confluent 4 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.087% 0.079% 0.021%
As % of the Vendors category 0.18% 0.18% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £509 £443 -
25th Percentile £509 £488 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.22% - -
75th Percentile £541 £663 -
90th Percentile £548 £708 -
England median daily rate £519 £611 £740
% change year-on-year -15.17% -17.40% +10.45%

All Vendors
North of England

Confluent falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,188 1,696 2,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 47.55% 44.62% 48.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,460 932 1,447
10th Percentile £255 £264 £225
25th Percentile £363 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £576 £588
90th Percentile £678 £675 £673
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 78 105
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.41 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.07 £21.10 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +49.03%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.25 £78.43 £55.51
England median hourly rate £24.31 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -25.20% -26.97% +71.15%

Confluent
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Confluent relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Confluent job vacancy trend in the North of England

Confluent
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Confluent.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Confluent

Confluent
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Confluent within the North of England region over the 6 months to 2 December 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
North West -21 4 £528 - 1
Confluent
England

Confluent
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 4 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) High Availability
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft