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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 106 149
Rank change year-on-year +27 +43 -16
Contract jobs citing Kafka 95 72 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.87% 1.54% 1.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.64% 7.96% 5.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 53 49
10th Percentile £400 £400 £437
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% -15.50% -
75th Percentile £545 £535 £688
90th Percentile £644 £650 £700
England median daily rate £565 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +2.73% -15.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
England median hourly rate £78.70 £28.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +181.07% -64.10% +12.23%

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 649 904 1,098
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.61% 19.30% 19.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 472 609 854
10th Percentile £358 £358 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +3.96%
75th Percentile £546 £600 £600
90th Percentile £625 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £557
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.26% -2.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 30 9
10th Percentile - £13.87 £37.79
25th Percentile £70.00 £37.63 £46.18
Median hourly rate £76.25 £46.18 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.11% -26.11% -3.85%
75th Percentile £91.20 £70.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £95.61 £72.70 £72.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +23.81%

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 29 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 29 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 +21 57 £500 -4.31% 230
Yorkshire +9 30 £550 +14.58% 175
North East - 8 £463 - 51
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 21 (22.11%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.21%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.16%) Confluence
4 2 (2.11%) Jupyter
5 1 (1.05%) Apache
5 1 (1.05%) Camunda
5 1 (1.05%) Mule
5 1 (1.05%) nginx
5 1 (1.05%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 39 (41.05%) AWS
2 22 (23.16%) GCP
3 21 (22.11%) Serverless
4 15 (15.79%) Amazon S3
5 13 (13.68%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (10.53%) GitHub
7 9 (9.47%) Azure
8 8 (8.42%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (6.32%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (6.32%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (6.32%) OpenShift
10 5 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (5.26%) Kong
11 4 (4.21%) Amazon Glacier
11 4 (4.21%) dbt
12 3 (3.16%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (3.16%) Amazon EMR
12 3 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (3.16%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.26%) SSL
2 4 (4.21%) NAS
2 4 (4.21%) SAN
3 3 (3.16%) SMS
4 1 (1.05%) DNS
4 1 (1.05%) Firewall
4 1 (1.05%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (29.47%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (28.42%) MongoDB
2 27 (28.42%) NoSQL
3 20 (21.05%) Relational Database
4 12 (12.63%) Flink
5 10 (10.53%) RDBMS
6 8 (8.42%) Big Data
6 8 (8.42%) BigQuery
6 8 (8.42%) MySQL
6 8 (8.42%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (7.37%) DynamoDB
7 7 (7.37%) Hadoop
8 6 (6.32%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (3.16%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (3.16%) Data Lake
9 3 (3.16%) DocumentDB
9 3 (3.16%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (2.11%) Data Vault
10 2 (2.11%) Metadata
10 2 (2.11%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 27 (28.42%) Jenkins
2 15 (15.79%) GitLab
3 14 (14.74%) JUnit
4 12 (12.63%) Gradle
5 10 (10.53%) Git
5 10 (10.53%) Liquibase
5 10 (10.53%) Mockito
6 9 (9.47%) JIRA
7 7 (7.37%) Maven
7 7 (7.37%) SonarQube
8 6 (6.32%) Artifactory
9 5 (5.26%) gulp
9 5 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (3.16%) Selenium
11 2 (2.11%) Bitbucket
11 2 (2.11%) CircleCI
11 2 (2.11%) HP UFT
11 2 (2.11%) IntelliJ
11 2 (2.11%) NetBeans
11 2 (2.11%) Subversion
General
1 18 (18.95%) Banking
1 18 (18.95%) Finance
1 18 (18.95%) Public Sector
2 17 (17.89%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.53%) Electronics
3 10 (10.53%) Manufacturing
3 10 (10.53%) Marketing
3 10 (10.53%) Telecoms
4 4 (4.21%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.11%) Legal
6 2 (2.11%) Wholesale Banking
7 1 (1.05%) Aviation
7 1 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Front Office
7 1 (1.05%) International Banking
7 1 (1.05%) Military
7 1 (1.05%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (33.68%) Architect
2 23 (24.21%) Developer
3 12 (12.63%) Data Architect
3 12 (12.63%) Java Developer
4 8 (8.42%) Data Engineer
4 8 (8.42%) DBA
4 8 (8.42%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (7.37%) React Developer
5 7 (7.37%) Software Engineer
6 6 (6.32%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (6.32%) Lead
6 6 (6.32%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 6 (6.32%) Senior
7 5 (5.26%) GCP Architect
7 5 (5.26%) GCP Data Architect
7 5 (5.26%) Java Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Java Software Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) AWS Architect
8 4 (4.21%) PostgreSQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (26.32%) Spring Boot
2 22 (23.16%) Spring
3 19 (20.00%) React
4 13 (13.68%) Swagger
5 12 (12.63%) OpenAPI
6 11 (11.58%) Apache Beam
6 11 (11.58%) Spark Streaming
7 9 (9.47%) AngularJS
8 8 (8.42%) JSON
8 8 (8.42%) RabbitMQ
8 8 (8.42%) XML
9 7 (7.37%) Hibernate
9 7 (7.37%) JDBC
9 7 (7.37%) Node.js
10 6 (6.32%) OAuth
10 6 (6.32%) RESTful
11 5 (5.26%) Apache CXF
11 5 (5.26%) Express.js
11 5 (5.26%) JAX-RS
11 5 (5.26%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.42%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.37%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.21%) Clustering
4 3 (3.16%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.16%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.11%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.11%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.05%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.05%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.05%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.05%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.05%) PKI
6 1 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.32%) Unix
2 3 (3.16%) Linux
3 1 (1.05%) CentOS
3 1 (1.05%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (46.32%) CI/CD
2 42 (44.21%) DevOps
3 36 (37.89%) Agile
3 36 (37.89%) Microservices
4 31 (32.63%) Containerisation
4 31 (32.63%) Event-Driven
5 21 (22.11%) Data Pipeline
6 19 (20.00%) Migration
7 18 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (17.89%) Software Engineering
9 15 (15.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 15 (15.79%) Mentoring
9 15 (15.79%) TDD
10 14 (14.74%) Continuous Integration
10 14 (14.74%) Disaster Recovery
11 13 (13.68%) High Availability
12 11 (11.58%) Analytics
13 10 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
13 10 (10.53%) Digital Marketing
13 10 (10.53%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (44.21%) Java
2 27 (28.42%) SQL
3 17 (17.89%) Python
4 14 (14.74%) TypeScript
5 8 (8.42%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.16%) Bash
6 3 (3.16%) Clojure
7 2 (2.11%) ANSI SQL
7 2 (2.11%) Groovy
7 2 (2.11%) Scala
7 2 (2.11%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.05%) C#
8 1 (1.05%) Go
Qualifications
1 28 (29.47%) Security Cleared
2 24 (25.26%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.16%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.11%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.11%) Degree
5 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.05%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.21%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.05%) NCSC
2 1 (1.05%) QA
2 1 (1.05%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (25.26%) Docker
2 6 (6.32%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.05%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.05%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (21.05%) Kubernetes
2 18 (18.95%) Terraform
3 11 (11.58%) Grafana
4 9 (9.47%) Prometheus
5 6 (6.32%) Ansible
6 4 (4.21%) Control-M
7 3 (3.16%) Istio
7 3 (3.16%) Kibana
8 2 (2.11%) Kiali
8 2 (2.11%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.11%) Puppet
9 1 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.05%) Consul
9 1 (1.05%) HAProxy
9 1 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (1.05%) linkerd
9 1 (1.05%) Packer
9 1 (1.05%) Rancher
9 1 (1.05%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (12.63%) Oracle
1 12 (12.63%) Splunk
2 10 (10.53%) SAP
3 7 (7.37%) Confluent
4 6 (6.32%) Google
5 4 (4.21%) AppDynamics
5 4 (4.21%) Cloudera
6 3 (3.16%) Databricks
6 3 (3.16%) IBM
7 2 (2.11%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (2.11%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.11%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.11%) xMatters
8 1 (1.05%) Apple
8 1 (1.05%) Checkmarx
8 1 (1.05%) ESET
8 1 (1.05%) Okta
8 1 (1.05%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.05%) StreamSets
8 1 (1.05%) Virgin Media