Kafka Contracts in the North West

Apache Kafka
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 57 98 116
Rank change year-on-year +41 +18 -9
Contract jobs citing Kafka 64 39 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.25% 1.42% 1.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.65% 7.75% 6.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 28 35
10th Percentile £400 £311 £418
25th Percentile £445 £477 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.08% -3.02% -10.42%
75th Percentile £545 £534 £650
90th Percentile £654 £551 £685
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 437 503 592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 22.21% 18.26% 18.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 369 464
10th Percentile £363 £363 £337
25th Percentile £401 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £577
90th Percentile £638 £750 £647
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 18 3
10th Percentile - £37.63 £39.24
25th Percentile £65.25 £45.88 £41.40
Median hourly rate £67.75 £47.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.22% +5.12% +10.80%
75th Percentile £74.69 £71.87 -
90th Percentile £83.13 £75.05 -
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Kafka in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Kafka in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in the North West

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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 Kafka within the North West 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
Manchester +33 48 £500 -6.37% 45
Cheshire +5 14 £406 -7.20% 10
Lancashire - 1 £530 - 11
Kafka
England

Kafka
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.13%) Confluence
3 1 (1.56%) Apache
3 1 (1.56%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 32 (50.00%) AWS
2 18 (28.13%) Serverless
3 8 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (12.50%) GitHub
3 8 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (9.38%) OpenShift
5 5 (7.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (7.81%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (7.81%) Amazon S3
5 5 (7.81%) Azure
5 5 (7.81%) GCP
6 4 (6.25%) Amazon Glacier
6 4 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (3.13%) Apigee
7 2 (3.13%) dbt
7 2 (3.13%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.56%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (1.56%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) DNS
1 1 (1.56%) Firewall
1 1 (1.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (39.06%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (31.25%) Relational Database
3 18 (28.13%) NoSQL
4 16 (25.00%) MongoDB
5 10 (15.63%) Oracle Reports
5 10 (15.63%) RDBMS
6 7 (10.94%) Big Data
6 7 (10.94%) MySQL
7 6 (9.38%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (9.38%) DynamoDB
7 6 (9.38%) Hadoop
8 3 (4.69%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (4.69%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (4.69%) SQL Server
9 2 (3.13%) Data Mining
9 2 (3.13%) Data Vault
10 1 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (1.56%) BigQuery
10 1 (1.56%) Delta Lake
10 1 (1.56%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 24 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 15 (23.44%) JUnit
3 13 (20.31%) GitLab
3 13 (20.31%) Gradle
4 11 (17.19%) Mockito
5 10 (15.63%) Liquibase
6 5 (7.81%) JIRA
7 4 (6.25%) Maven
8 3 (4.69%) Git
8 3 (4.69%) Selenium
9 2 (3.13%) CA Release Automation
9 2 (3.13%) CircleCI
9 2 (3.13%) HP UFT
9 2 (3.13%) IntelliJ
9 2 (3.13%) NetBeans
9 2 (3.13%) Subversion
10 1 (1.56%) gulp
10 1 (1.56%) Postman
10 1 (1.56%) SonarQube
10 1 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (20.31%) Finance
1 13 (20.31%) Public Sector
2 11 (17.19%) Social Skills
3 10 (15.63%) Electronics
3 10 (15.63%) Manufacturing
3 10 (15.63%) Marketing
3 10 (15.63%) Telecoms
4 6 (9.38%) Banking
5 4 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Legal
7 1 (1.56%) Aviation
7 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (23.44%) Developer
2 14 (21.88%) Architect
3 13 (20.31%) Senior
4 11 (17.19%) Java Developer
5 10 (15.63%) DBA
6 9 (14.06%) Software Engineer
7 7 (10.94%) Data Architect
7 7 (10.94%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (9.38%) Java Engineer
8 6 (9.38%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 6 (9.38%) React Developer
8 6 (9.38%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 5 (7.81%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (7.81%) Lead
9 5 (7.81%) Python Engineer
9 5 (7.81%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
10 4 (6.25%) AWS Architect
10 4 (6.25%) AWS Solution Architect
10 4 (6.25%) Data Engineer
10 4 (6.25%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (28.13%) Spring Boot
2 15 (23.44%) Spring
3 14 (21.88%) React
4 12 (18.75%) OpenAPI
4 12 (18.75%) Swagger
5 10 (15.63%) JSON
5 10 (15.63%) XML
6 9 (14.06%) RESTful
7 6 (9.38%) OAuth
8 5 (7.81%) AngularJS
9 4 (6.25%) ActiveMQ
9 4 (6.25%) Apache NiFi
9 4 (6.25%) OAuth2
9 4 (6.25%) OpenID
9 4 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (6.25%) SAML
10 3 (4.69%) Hibernate
10 3 (4.69%) Node.js
11 2 (3.13%) CSS
11 2 (3.13%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.94%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.38%) Public Cloud
3 3 (4.69%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.69%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.13%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.56%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.56%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.13%) Unix
2 1 (1.56%) CentOS
2 1 (1.56%) Linux
2 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (59.38%) CI/CD
2 33 (51.56%) Agile
3 31 (48.44%) Microservices
4 29 (45.31%) DevOps
5 27 (42.19%) Containerisation
6 19 (29.69%) Mentoring
6 19 (29.69%) Software Engineering
7 17 (26.56%) Event-Driven
8 14 (21.88%) Migration
8 14 (21.88%) TDD
9 13 (20.31%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (20.31%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 12 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
11 10 (15.63%) Business Intelligence
11 10 (15.63%) Database Security
11 10 (15.63%) Digital Marketing
11 10 (15.63%) Disaster Recovery
11 10 (15.63%) Programme Management
11 10 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (12.50%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 31 (48.44%) Java
2 19 (29.69%) SQL
3 16 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 15 (23.44%) Python
5 3 (4.69%) Clojure
5 3 (4.69%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.56%) Bash
6 1 (1.56%) C#
6 1 (1.56%) Go
Qualifications
1 21 (32.81%) Security Cleared
2 17 (26.56%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.69%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.13%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.56%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.56%) Degree
5 1 (1.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (21.88%) Terraform
2 13 (20.31%) Kubernetes
3 6 (9.38%) Ansible
3 6 (9.38%) Progress Chef
4 3 (4.69%) Kibana
4 3 (4.69%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.13%) Grafana
5 2 (3.13%) Puppet
6 1 (1.56%) Consul
6 1 (1.56%) Istio
6 1 (1.56%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.56%) linkerd
6 1 (1.56%) Packer
6 1 (1.56%) Rancher
6 1 (1.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (20.31%) Oracle
2 10 (15.63%) SAP
3 4 (6.25%) Splunk
4 3 (4.69%) Cloudera
5 2 (3.13%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (3.13%) Google
5 2 (3.13%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.56%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.56%) Confluent
6 1 (1.56%) Databricks
6 1 (1.56%) New Relic
6 1 (1.56%) Okta
6 1 (1.56%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.56%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.56%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.56%) VMware