Confluent Contract Job Trends in the North West

Confluent
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 138 117 138
Rank change year-on-year -21 +21 +44
Contract jobs citing Confluent 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.16% 0.044% 0.037%
As % of the Vendors category 0.31% 0.097% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £509 - -
25th Percentile £509 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 - -
75th Percentile £541 - -
90th Percentile £548 - -
England median daily rate £519 £611 £740
% change year-on-year -15.17% -17.40% +10.45%

All Vendors
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,270 1,035 1,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 51.67% 45.84% 47.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 861 553 827
10th Percentile £258 £313 £233
25th Percentile £363 £409 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £586 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 55 90
10th Percentile £16.46 £16.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.35 £24.18 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -4.41% +70.00%
75th Percentile £56.69 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £73.77 £55.09
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 West

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

Confluent job vacancy trend in the North West

Confluent
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Confluent
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester -6 4 £528 - 1
Confluent
England

Confluent
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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