Kafka Contracts in the North of England

Apache Kafka
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Kafka skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Kafka over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 149 118
Rank change year-on-year +20 -31 +14
Contract jobs citing Kafka 61 68 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.30% 1.17% 1.99%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.84% 6.05% 8.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 57 96
10th Percentile £400 £434 £481
25th Percentile £435 £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.39% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £534 £680 £675
90th Percentile £643 £700 £744
England median daily rate £550 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -15.38% - +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £31.50 £78.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year -59.62% +0.65% +37.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

Kafka is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 892 1,124 1,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 18.95% 19.36% 22.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 607 879 1,230
10th Percentile £350 £369 £363
25th Percentile £425 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £598 £597 £575
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -2.22% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 9 26
10th Percentile £13.87 £43.56 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £48.50 £25.69
Median hourly rate £46.18 £62.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.11% +47.06% +25.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £70.00 £56.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.00 £62.50
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +8.15%

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 May 2024. 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 +26 40 £523 +4.50% 11
Yorkshire +17 21 £450 -30.77% 8
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 8 (13.11%) Apache Spark
2 5 (8.20%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (8.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (6.56%) Confluence
3 4 (6.56%) Mule
4 3 (4.92%) Jupyter
4 3 (4.92%) nginx
5 2 (3.28%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (8.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (8.20%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 17 (27.87%) AWS
2 13 (21.31%) Serverless
3 10 (16.39%) Azure
4 7 (11.48%) GCP
5 5 (8.20%) Apigee
5 5 (8.20%) Kong
6 4 (6.56%) npm
6 4 (6.56%) Yarn
7 3 (4.92%) CloudBees
7 3 (4.92%) GitHub
7 3 (4.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (3.28%) AWS Data Pipeline
8 2 (3.28%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.64%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.64%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.64%) Datadog
9 1 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.84%) SSL
2 5 (8.20%) HTTP
3 3 (4.92%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (42.62%) MongoDB
2 15 (24.59%) NoSQL
3 12 (19.67%) Relational Database
4 11 (18.03%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (18.03%) RDBMS
5 10 (16.39%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (11.48%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (8.20%) Big Data
7 5 (8.20%) Hadoop
7 5 (8.20%) OLAP
7 5 (8.20%) OLTP
7 5 (8.20%) Oracle OLAP
7 5 (8.20%) Redis
8 4 (6.56%) SQL Server
9 3 (4.92%) ClickHouse
9 3 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (4.92%) HBase
9 3 (4.92%) MySQL
9 3 (4.92%) Spark SQL
10 2 (3.28%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 11 (18.03%) Jenkins
1 11 (18.03%) JIRA
2 8 (13.11%) Git
3 5 (8.20%) Cucumber
4 4 (6.56%) Gatling
4 4 (6.56%) Jasmine
4 4 (6.56%) JMeter
4 4 (6.56%) Karma Test Runner
4 4 (6.56%) Liquibase
4 4 (6.56%) Log4j
4 4 (6.56%) Mocha
4 4 (6.56%) Selenium
4 4 (6.56%) WebDriver
4 4 (6.56%) webpack
5 3 (4.92%) Mockito
6 2 (3.28%) GitLab
6 2 (3.28%) JUnit
6 2 (3.28%) Maven
6 2 (3.28%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.64%) RStudio
General
1 12 (19.67%) Finance
2 10 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (11.48%) Banking
3 7 (11.48%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.56%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.92%) Retail
6 1 (1.64%) Automotive
6 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.64%) Games
6 1 (1.64%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.64%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (22.95%) Developer
2 11 (18.03%) DBA
2 11 (18.03%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 8 (13.11%) Senior
4 7 (11.48%) Lead
5 6 (9.84%) Architect
5 6 (9.84%) Java Developer
6 5 (8.20%) AWS Architect
6 5 (8.20%) Data Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) AWS Developer
7 4 (6.56%) Senior Test Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Test Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Java Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Software Developer
9 2 (3.28%) .NET Developer
9 2 (3.28%) Build Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) Cassandra Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (29.51%) Web Services
2 13 (21.31%) ActiveMQ
3 12 (19.67%) JSON
4 11 (18.03%) XML
5 8 (13.11%) Spring Boot
6 7 (11.48%) Spring
7 6 (9.84%) J2EE
8 5 (8.20%) AngularJS
8 5 (8.20%) IBM Integration Bus
8 5 (8.20%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (8.20%) REST
8 5 (8.20%) RESTful
8 5 (8.20%) SOAP
9 4 (6.56%) Apache Camel
9 4 (6.56%) Hibernate
9 4 (6.56%) React
9 4 (6.56%) Spring Integration
10 3 (4.92%) .NET
10 3 (4.92%) .NET Core
10 3 (4.92%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.84%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (8.20%) DataPower
3 4 (6.56%) Algorithms
3 4 (6.56%) Data Structures
3 4 (6.56%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.28%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.28%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.64%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.64%) Online Gambling
5 1 (1.64%) Online Games
5 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (26.23%) Linux
2 9 (14.75%) Windows
3 8 (13.11%) Unix
4 6 (9.84%) Mac OS X
5 3 (4.92%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (50.82%) Agile
1 31 (50.82%) DevOps
2 18 (29.51%) Design Patterns
3 16 (26.23%) CI/CD
4 14 (22.95%) Disaster Recovery
5 13 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (19.67%) Mentoring
7 11 (18.03%) Database Security
7 11 (18.03%) Microservices
8 10 (16.39%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (16.39%) OO
8 10 (16.39%) TDD
9 8 (13.11%) BDD
9 8 (13.11%) Containerisation
9 8 (13.11%) Event-Driven
9 8 (13.11%) Risk Management
9 8 (13.11%) Test Automation
10 7 (11.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 7 (11.48%) Open Source
10 7 (11.48%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 27 (44.26%) Java
2 13 (21.31%) Scala
3 11 (18.03%) Python
4 9 (14.75%) JavaScript
4 9 (14.75%) SQL
5 7 (11.48%) Groovy
6 6 (9.84%) C#
7 4 (6.56%) Shell Script
8 3 (4.92%) Go
8 3 (4.92%) Ruby
9 2 (3.28%) Perl
10 1 (1.64%) Bash
10 1 (1.64%) R
10 1 (1.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (6.56%) SC Cleared
1 4 (6.56%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.64%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.92%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (1.64%) NIST
2 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 6 (9.84%) Docker
2 3 (4.92%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (3.28%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (14.75%) Ansible
2 7 (11.48%) Kubernetes
3 6 (9.84%) Terraform
4 4 (6.56%) Grafana
4 4 (6.56%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.28%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (26.23%) Oracle
2 13 (21.31%) IBM
3 6 (9.84%) ServiceNow
3 6 (9.84%) Solace
4 5 (8.20%) TSYS
5 3 (4.92%) F5
6 2 (3.28%) Confluent
6 2 (3.28%) Splunk
7 1 (1.64%) Databricks
7 1 (1.64%) New Relic
7 1 (1.64%) Qualys