Kafka Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Apache Kafka
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Kafka skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 80 113
Rank change year-on-year -34 +33 +43
Contract jobs citing Kafka 137 93 71
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.04% 2.75% 1.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.22% 14.20% 7.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 65 50
10th Percentile £370 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £504
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -0.70% -16.08%
75th Percentile £550 £545 £539
90th Percentile £622 £622 £656
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £65.00 - -
25th Percentile £66.11 - £66.25
Median hourly rate £73.50 - £67.50
75th Percentile £86.75 - £68.75
90th Percentile £90.00 - -
England median hourly rate £73.50 £78.70 £28.00
% change year-on-year -6.61% +181.07% -64.10%

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 1,341 655 921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.92% 19.37% 19.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 863 478 613
10th Percentile £363 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £464 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% -7.20% -4.76%
75th Percentile £572 £545 £600
90th Percentile £640 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 4 30
10th Percentile £52.40 - £13.87
25th Percentile £55.75 £70.00 £37.63
Median hourly rate £67.50 £76.25 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -11.48% +65.11% -15.02%
75th Percentile £75.00 £91.20 £70.81
90th Percentile £78.20 £95.61 £72.70
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
% change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -25.49%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Kafka job vacancy trend in the North of England

Kafka
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

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 8 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in the North of England

Kafka
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Kafka.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Kafka

Kafka
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kafka in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Hourly 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 8 June 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
Yorkshire -18 71 £463 -15.91% 8
North West -43 55 £450 -10.00% 19
North East -14 20 £426 -8.00% 5
Kafka
England

Kafka
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:

Application Platforms
1 19 (13.87%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.65%) Apache
2 5 (3.65%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.65%) Confluence
3 1 (0.73%) Camunda
3 1 (0.73%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) FIS Private Capital Suite
1 1 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 68 (49.64%) AWS
2 28 (20.44%) Azure
3 26 (18.98%) GitHub
4 25 (18.25%) OpenShift
5 24 (17.52%) GCP
6 23 (16.79%) Serverless
7 12 (8.76%) dbt
8 9 (6.57%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (6.57%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (6.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 8 (5.84%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (5.84%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (5.84%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (4.38%) Apigee
10 6 (4.38%) BrowserStack
10 6 (4.38%) Snowflake
11 5 (3.65%) Kong
11 5 (3.65%) Power Platform
12 4 (2.92%) AWS KMS
12 4 (2.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.03%) Firewall
2 4 (2.92%) Network Security
3 3 (2.19%) DNS
3 3 (2.19%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.73%) HTTP
4 1 (0.73%) NAS
4 1 (0.73%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (33.58%) MongoDB
2 25 (18.25%) Relational Database
3 22 (16.06%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (10.95%) NoSQL
5 11 (8.03%) Hadoop
6 10 (7.30%) Big Data
6 10 (7.30%) RDBMS
7 9 (6.57%) Data Vault
7 9 (6.57%) MySQL
7 9 (6.57%) Redis
8 8 (5.84%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (5.11%) SQL Server
10 6 (4.38%) DynamoDB
11 5 (3.65%) Delta Lake
11 5 (3.65%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (2.92%) DocumentDB
12 4 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (2.92%) Hazelcast
12 4 (2.92%) Neo4j
13 3 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 35 (25.55%) GitLab
2 31 (22.63%) Jenkins
3 23 (16.79%) Git
4 20 (14.60%) Selenium
5 14 (10.22%) JIRA
5 14 (10.22%) REST Assured
6 11 (8.03%) Mockito
6 11 (8.03%) Serenity BDD
7 10 (7.30%) Gatling
7 10 (7.30%) Jaeger
8 6 (4.38%) Gradle
8 6 (4.38%) Maven
8 6 (4.38%) Postman
9 5 (3.65%) Cucumber
9 5 (3.65%) JUnit
10 4 (2.92%) JMeter
10 4 (2.92%) Snyk
11 3 (2.19%) CircleCI
11 3 (2.19%) SonarQube
12 2 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 44 (32.12%) Social Skills
2 24 (17.52%) Public Sector
3 23 (16.79%) Finance
4 11 (8.03%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (5.84%) Banking
5 8 (5.84%) Financial Institution
6 7 (5.11%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.92%) Law
8 4 (2.92%) Military
8 4 (2.92%) Retail
9 3 (2.19%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.46%) Games
11 1 (0.73%) Advertising
11 1 (0.73%) Automotive
11 1 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.73%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (22.63%) Developer
2 30 (21.90%) Data Engineer
3 27 (19.71%) Senior
4 26 (18.98%) Lead
5 21 (15.33%) Java Developer
6 15 (10.95%) Test Engineer
7 13 (9.49%) Senior Developer
8 12 (8.76%) Lead Test Engineer
9 11 (8.03%) Software Engineer
10 10 (7.30%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (7.30%) Senior Java Developer
11 9 (6.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 6 (4.38%) Architect
12 6 (4.38%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (4.38%) Backend Developer
12 6 (4.38%) DBA
12 6 (4.38%) PostgreSQL DBA
12 6 (4.38%) Senior Backend Developer
12 6 (4.38%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 5 (3.65%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (29.93%) Spring Boot
2 36 (26.28%) Spring
3 24 (17.52%) OpenTelemetry
4 17 (12.41%) JSON
5 16 (11.68%) Middleware
6 14 (10.22%) Playwright
6 14 (10.22%) REST
7 12 (8.76%) Apache Avro
7 12 (8.76%) Protocol Buffers
8 11 (8.03%) RabbitMQ
9 10 (7.30%) JAX-RS
9 10 (7.30%) RESTful
9 10 (7.30%) Spring Cloud
10 9 (6.57%) ActiveMQ
10 9 (6.57%) React
11 6 (4.38%) JPA
11 6 (4.38%) XML
12 5 (3.65%) Node.js
12 5 (3.65%) OAuth
12 5 (3.65%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.60%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (10.95%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.57%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.38%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.92%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.92%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.19%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.19%) Replication
7 2 (1.46%) CMDB
7 2 (1.46%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.73%) Clustering
8 1 (0.73%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.73%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.73%) NHS
8 1 (0.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 22 (16.06%) Linux
2 13 (9.49%) Unix
3 7 (5.11%) Mac OS X
4 6 (4.38%) Windows
5 2 (1.46%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.73%) Android
6 1 (0.73%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (59.85%) CI/CD
2 66 (48.18%) Microservices
3 63 (45.99%) Observability
4 59 (43.07%) DevOps
5 58 (42.34%) Agile
6 50 (36.50%) Test Automation
7 36 (26.28%) Data Pipeline
7 36 (26.28%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (23.36%) Data Modelling
9 30 (21.90%) Data Engineering
10 29 (21.17%) Event-Driven
10 29 (21.17%) Infrastructure as Code
11 24 (17.52%) BDD
12 22 (16.06%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (15.33%) Analytics
13 21 (15.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 21 (15.33%) TDD
14 20 (14.60%) Mentoring
15 18 (13.14%) DevSecOps
15 18 (13.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 67 (48.91%) Java
2 36 (26.28%) Python
3 31 (22.63%) SQL
4 10 (7.30%) TypeScript
5 9 (6.57%) Rust
6 8 (5.84%) Go
6 8 (5.84%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.38%) Bash
8 4 (2.92%) Groovy
8 4 (2.92%) Scala
9 3 (2.19%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.19%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.46%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.46%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.73%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 38 (27.74%) Security Cleared
2 25 (18.25%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.49%) Degree
4 8 (5.84%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.92%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.19%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.46%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.22%) Accessibility
1 14 (10.22%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.92%) QA
2 4 (2.92%) SLA
3 2 (1.46%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.73%) SEPA
4 1 (0.73%) WCAG
System Software
1 58 (42.34%) Docker
2 2 (1.46%) etcd
Systems Management
1 66 (48.18%) Kubernetes
2 41 (29.93%) Prometheus
3 37 (27.01%) Grafana
4 33 (24.09%) Terraform
5 9 (6.57%) Ansible
5 9 (6.57%) Kiali
6 5 (3.65%) Kustomize
7 4 (2.92%) Argo
8 3 (2.19%) Istio
8 3 (2.19%) Rancher
9 2 (1.46%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.73%) Kibana
Vendors
1 34 (24.82%) Splunk
2 14 (10.22%) Oracle
3 7 (5.11%) Databricks
3 7 (5.11%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.92%) Dynatrace
4 4 (2.92%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.19%) Informatica
5 3 (2.19%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.19%) PagerDuty
6 2 (1.46%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.73%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.73%) Confluent
7 1 (0.73%) New Relic
7 1 (0.73%) Talend