Kafka Contracts in the North of England

Apache Kafka
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 68 126 162
Rank change year-on-year +58 +36 -55
Contract jobs citing Kafka 104 60 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.16% 1.26% 1.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.18% 6.67% 5.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 41 50
10th Percentile £400 £400 £424
25th Percentile £447 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £490 £545
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.09% -9.17%
75th Percentile £608 £534 £650
90th Percentile £719 £575 £700
England median daily rate £585 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +6.36% -15.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
England median hourly rate £85.60 £31.50 £76.50
% change year-on-year +171.75% -58.82% -1.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 685 900 1,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 20.79% 18.88% 19.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 615 875
10th Percentile £358 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £558 £596 £597
90th Percentile £650 £691 £675
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 29 10
10th Percentile £65.25 £13.87 £44.28
25th Percentile £68.81 £21.25 £45.88
Median hourly rate £86.46 £46.18 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.22% -26.11% +48.81%
75th Percentile £99.42 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £72.50 £71.00
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the North of England

Kafka
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in the North of England

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in the North of England

Kafka
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 Kafka within the North of England 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
North West +41 64 £500 -4.08% 62
Yorkshire +16 29 £675 +50.00% 31
North East - 11 £465 - 13
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 16 (15.38%) Apache Spark
2 7 (6.73%) nginx
2 7 (6.73%) Traefik
3 3 (2.88%) Confluence
4 2 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.92%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.96%) Apache
5 1 (0.96%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 51 (49.04%) AWS
2 23 (22.12%) Serverless
3 16 (15.38%) GCP
4 13 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 13 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (11.54%) Amazon S3
6 11 (10.58%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (9.62%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (9.62%) AWS Fargate
7 10 (9.62%) GitHub
7 10 (9.62%) OpenShift
8 9 (8.65%) Entra ID
8 9 (8.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 8 (7.69%) Azure
9 8 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (4.81%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (4.81%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (4.81%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (4.81%) Kong
11 4 (3.85%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.65%) DNS
1 9 (8.65%) TCP/IP
2 5 (4.81%) SSL
3 4 (3.85%) NAS
3 4 (3.85%) SAN
4 2 (1.92%) SMS
5 1 (0.96%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (31.73%) MongoDB
1 33 (31.73%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 20 (19.23%) Relational Database
4 11 (10.58%) MySQL
5 10 (9.62%) Oracle Reports
5 10 (9.62%) RDBMS
6 9 (8.65%) Flink
7 8 (7.69%) Big Data
8 7 (6.73%) Hadoop
9 6 (5.77%) BigQuery
9 6 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (5.77%) DynamoDB
10 3 (2.88%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (2.88%) Data Lake
10 3 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (2.88%) Metadata
10 3 (2.88%) Metadata Repository
10 3 (2.88%) SQL Server
11 2 (1.92%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 39 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 28 (26.92%) GitLab
3 15 (14.42%) JUnit
4 13 (12.50%) Gradle
5 11 (10.58%) Mockito
6 10 (9.62%) Liquibase
7 8 (7.69%) Maven
8 7 (6.73%) Git
9 6 (5.77%) JIRA
9 6 (5.77%) SonarQube
10 5 (4.81%) Artifactory
10 5 (4.81%) gulp
10 5 (4.81%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (2.88%) Selenium
12 2 (1.92%) CA Release Automation
12 2 (1.92%) CircleCI
12 2 (1.92%) HP UFT
12 2 (1.92%) IntelliJ
12 2 (1.92%) NetBeans
12 2 (1.92%) Subversion
General
1 20 (19.23%) Public Sector
2 18 (17.31%) Finance
3 16 (15.38%) Banking
4 15 (14.42%) Social Skills
5 10 (9.62%) Electronics
5 10 (9.62%) Manufacturing
5 10 (9.62%) Marketing
5 10 (9.62%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.92%) Legal
8 2 (1.92%) Military
8 2 (1.92%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (0.96%) Aviation
9 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.96%) Front Office
9 1 (0.96%) International Banking
9 1 (0.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (25.96%) Architect
2 23 (22.12%) Developer
3 21 (20.19%) Senior
4 12 (11.54%) Java Developer
5 10 (9.62%) DBA
6 9 (8.65%) Data Architect
6 9 (8.65%) Software Engineer
7 8 (7.69%) Data Engineer
7 8 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
8 7 (6.73%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (6.73%) React Developer
8 7 (6.73%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (5.77%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (5.77%) Java Engineer
9 6 (5.77%) Lead
9 6 (5.77%) PostgreSQL DBA
9 6 (5.77%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 5 (4.81%) Python Engineer
10 5 (4.81%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
10 5 (4.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (24.04%) Spring Boot
2 21 (20.19%) Spring
3 19 (18.27%) React
4 12 (11.54%) OpenAPI
4 12 (11.54%) Swagger
5 10 (9.62%) cloud-init
5 10 (9.62%) JSON
5 10 (9.62%) XML
6 9 (8.65%) AngularJS
6 9 (8.65%) Keycloak
6 9 (8.65%) RESTful
7 8 (7.69%) Apache Beam
7 8 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
7 8 (7.69%) Spark Streaming
8 7 (6.73%) Hibernate
8 7 (6.73%) Node.js
9 6 (5.77%) OAuth
10 5 (4.81%) Apache CXF
10 5 (4.81%) Express.js
10 5 (4.81%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.65%) Cloud Native
1 9 (8.65%) PKI
2 7 (6.73%) Public Cloud
3 4 (3.85%) Clustering
4 3 (2.88%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.88%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.92%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.92%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.92%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.96%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.96%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.96%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.96%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (12.50%) Unix
2 12 (11.54%) Linux
3 10 (9.62%) CentOS
3 10 (9.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.96%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (50.96%) CI/CD
2 44 (42.31%) DevOps
3 40 (38.46%) Microservices
4 38 (36.54%) Agile
5 33 (31.73%) Containerisation
6 29 (27.88%) Event-Driven
7 22 (21.15%) Continuous Integration
8 21 (20.19%) Mentoring
9 19 (18.27%) Data Pipeline
9 19 (18.27%) Software Engineering
10 18 (17.31%) Migration
11 17 (16.35%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 16 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
13 15 (14.42%) Disaster Recovery
13 15 (14.42%) Observability
13 15 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (14.42%) TDD
14 11 (10.58%) Cloud Security
14 11 (10.58%) Stakeholder Management
15 10 (9.62%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (38.46%) Java
2 30 (28.85%) Python
3 27 (25.96%) SQL
4 17 (16.35%) TypeScript
5 12 (11.54%) Bash
6 10 (9.62%) Go
7 8 (7.69%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.88%) Clojure
9 2 (1.92%) Groovy
10 1 (0.96%) C#
Qualifications
1 37 (35.58%) Security Cleared
2 32 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.62%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.88%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.92%) Degree
6 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.96%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.65%) NCSC
2 4 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.96%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.96%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.96%) QA
3 1 (0.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (25.00%) Docker
2 6 (5.77%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.96%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 29 (27.88%) Kubernetes
1 29 (27.88%) Terraform
2 20 (19.23%) Grafana
3 19 (18.27%) Prometheus
4 11 (10.58%) Istio
5 10 (9.62%) Packer
6 9 (8.65%) Consul
6 9 (8.65%) Jamf Pro
6 9 (8.65%) linkerd
6 9 (8.65%) Rancher
6 9 (8.65%) ZABBIX
7 7 (6.73%) Ansible
7 7 (6.73%) HAProxy
8 6 (5.77%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.88%) Kibana
10 2 (1.92%) Control-M
10 2 (1.92%) Kiali
10 2 (1.92%) Puppet
11 1 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 19 (18.27%) Splunk
2 17 (16.35%) Oracle
3 10 (9.62%) SAP
4 9 (8.65%) Okta
5 8 (7.69%) Confluent
6 7 (6.73%) Apple
6 7 (6.73%) ESET
7 4 (3.85%) AppDynamics
7 4 (3.85%) Databricks
7 4 (3.85%) Google
8 3 (2.88%) Cloudera
9 2 (1.92%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (1.92%) IBM
9 2 (1.92%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.92%) xMatters
10 1 (0.96%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.96%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.96%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.96%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.96%) Virgin Media